DBAN covers just about any data wiping requirement, and it's free.

@Obsolesce said in Anyone have a decent 3D printer?:

@gjacobse said in Anyone have a decent 3D printer?:

Holy crap - yea,.. that's a burnt print.

I have an Ender 3 Pro and it does a decent job of things... As long as, as with anything, you pay attention to a number of factors. Sadly I don't have photos of some of the prints I've done, and the photos I do have are ones I can't release.

Filament, speed, flow, temp and bed adhesion are may factors to deal with. I haven't been able to print ABS as it just peels right off. I do decent with PLA and TPU...

There is a lot that I don't know how to do and don't know if I want to try,.. but I've learned a bit also.

Here is a file I printed for a friend:

I thought since they had a decent 3D printer (Makerbot Replicator+) it would have turned out to be a least usable. I'm not sure how they let come out like that. It was printed in PLA, but I don't really care what's used, so long as what prints out is usable. I've never 3D printed anything, so I don't really know a whole lot about it, but given they have what seems like a decent printer and they operate a printing service, I thought it'd have at least turned out a bit better than it did.

Makerbot Replicator+ is a good printer, it's just that it will never get the attention it needs for good prints at a public library. At least if it's anything like the public libraries around here that offer a printing service.

@Obsolesce said in Anyone have a decent 3D printer?:

I'm wondering if anyone have a decent 3D printer that works decent for precise printing and knows how to use it so it doesn't look like it was printing during an earthquake.

I attempted to print something for free using a local library, but when I picked it up, seen that it was just totally butchered.

Here's what it's supposed to look like, the .stl file:

And here's what I got from the library:

As you can see, just totally butchered.

If anyone might be able to help me out, I'd like to see what it'd take to get something like this or similar printed and sent. There's another design I'm testing atm.

Your first problem was going to the local library, where I guarantee they don't have anyone who understands the machines they got with the grant money.

Find a local maker space, or just shell out the $100 for a small one of your own. (Micro Center)

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

AMD Genoa announced...

https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/11/10/amd-genoa-epyc-server-cpus-take-the-heavyweight-title/

AMD, turning it up to 11!

No kidding. Too bad these are so big I'll never need one of my own. But hopefully the datacenters see these rolling in soon.

Some of the press releases have confirmed the big providers already have them in use, so yes, they're already being deployed.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

AMD Genoa announced...

https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/11/10/amd-genoa-epyc-server-cpus-take-the-heavyweight-title/

AMD, turning it up to 11!

@gjacobse said in iOS and/or Windows WiFi heat mapping:

@travisdh1 said in iOS and/or Windows WiFi heat mapping:

Also Ubiquiti WiFiman.

Used to use WiFi Analyzer, but dropped it when it went add supported.

What are you using now?

Ubiquiti WiFiman

@Sawyer said in Raspberry Pi Zero W Bought for Testing:

I ordered Raspberry Pi zero W from https://robu.in/product/raspberry-pi-zero-w-with-raspberry-pi-zero-w-accessories-kit/.
What exactly does the NOOBS Software do?

NOOBS sets up your choice of OS for you. It's not needed, but is handy if you don't have another computer to setup an OS.

Also, if you have these sorts of questions in the future, just make a new thread.

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Death scrolling ML, been a while since I've had a chance to post here. How is everyone doing?

I got a new job around 6 months ago. I'm now a network engineer, and like the job/coworkers/manager.

@Pete-S said in Windows 11 versus 10:

@JaredBusch said in Windows 11 versus 10:

@Pete-S said in Windows 11 versus 10:

Or is it just the usual make-a-new-version-so-we-can-market-and-sell-upgrades?

You know they haven’t sold windows upgrades for years now right?

Sure but I didn't mean that. New OS often requires new hardware which means a new oem license for MS and also new opportunities to sell M365 and other services. I'm sure they have this down to a science.

There are artificial hardware requirements they threw in with Windows 11. The big one being "require" TPM2.0.

Doesn't actually USE any of the features added in 2.0 compared to 1.2, of course.

Also Ubiquiti WiFiman.

Used to use WiFi Analyzer, but dropped it when it went add supported.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

For almost two years, Microsoft officials botched a key Windows defense, an unexplained lapse that left customers open to a malware infection technique that has been especially effective in recent months.

Microsoft officials have steadfastly asserted that Windows Update will automatically add new software drivers to a blocklist designed to thwart a well-known trick in the malware infection playbook. The malware technique—known as BYOVD, short for "bring your own vulnerable driver"—makes it easy for an attacker with administrative control to bypass Windows kernel protections. Rather than writing an exploit from scratch, the attacker simply installs any one of dozens of third-party drivers with known vulnerabilities. Then the attacker exploits those vulnerabilities to gain instant access to some of the most fortified regions of Windows.

It turns out, however, that Windows was not properly downloading and applying updates to the driver blocklist, leaving users vulnerable to new BYOVD attacks.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/10/how-a-microsoft-blunder-opened-millions-of-pcs-to-potent-malware-attacks/

OK that's definitely bad that they don't block it - but since you're an admin - why do you even care? the article says that the attacker is starting as a local admin.

Installers are typically local admins.

let me ask this another way.
Yes - it's bad that MS isn't blocking something they said they would.

But does that make the situation any worse than it would really be if they did?

the attacker already has local admin - why would they need to install a driver that has vulnerabilities when they already have full local admin control - what advantage do they get they didn't already have?

Because they’re mostly things like automated installs. It’s not like someone is sitting at the keyboard as a bad actor. It’s an email with an attachment for a doc that when Sally opens it installs a valid signed driver that is vulnerable.

Exactly. Automated or confused users OR, don't forget, confused DEVELOPERS. It's not hard to get legit software, especially closed source, to think that MS signed drivers are safe (as that's the whole idea of the system is that everyone can trust them because MS is vouching for them) and trigger that they be installed, bypassing the expected security system.

I've seen that done by developers way to often.

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

We're visiting my brother-in-law for the first time, they're in central Minnesota.

not exactly a great time to go there...

No, but better than Novermber or December!

We're visiting my brother-in-law for the first time, they're in central Minnesota.

Was a long, rough day at work. The next project hits tomorrow, and even my boss was having trouble figuring out what is going on.

@Dashrender said in Is this a fake job?:

so fake interviews by who? head hunters?

I've been to a few over the years.

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerB Haven't had that much bad luck with them as switches goes and they have lasted more than Dell and HP for us.

When other people have bought TP-Link kit, it's been pretty good.
At work (pre-merger) we had some things that APs, switch etc, they seemed to keep going.
Opposite story at home I've had, i think I'm up to, 3 DOA modem routers, and one that was dieing a slow death. IMO, I have bad luck with TP-Link, so I've stopped buying their stuff.

Other people don't seem to have the issue.

Any of their home gear (routers, modems, etc) is generally trash.

Switches and enterprise gear is much better.

I've heard good things about their Omada products as well, but haven't used any yet myself.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Pains me to say - I may be going 'consumer grade' for a router as I now find that my 16port switch is lost as well.

This is due to cost and turn around.

You can still find 16 port switches for reasonable cost, they're just harder to find. I recently got a 16 port PoE TPLink switch from Amazon that wasn't overpriced or impossible to actually get.

Why would you consider consumer grade routers? At the very least, you can get ER-X from MicroCenter. There are a few other quality options around that are better than consumer c*** now as well.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Sigh
Device burn-out saga continues,… the ERL went down this morning. It now sings when powered.

One more device to replace…..

How's the power quality in your area? I've had to buy the fancy online (power always comes from the battery) types of UPSs before because the incoming power was so dirty.

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft Finally Deprecated WINS:

There was a time in the 1990s when Microsoft was taking a bet that WINS would be better than DNS, at least on the LAN. This proved to not be true and Microsoft officially made DNS their main mechanism with the release of Windows 2000 (NT 5) in 2000. That's 22 years ago. But for 22 years WINS has still been included and developed for Windows Server.

For those that haven't paid attention to the fine print, with the release of Windows Server 2022 (which we are deploying regularly) WINS is still included, of course, but they have announced that development has ceased and you can be sure that sometime, probably not in the next version of Windows, that WINS will no longer be included with it.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/removed-deprecated-features-windows-server-2022

If you rely on WINS for anything, it is time to figure out where and start phasing it out now before it becomes painful.

But WINS was always painful.

Just avoid additional pain.