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@jaredbusch Oh no way lol, thats great!

@wrcombs said in Changing Lana number:

@scottalanmiller said in Changing Lana number:

@plainfool said in Changing Lana number:

@wrcombs

As far a I know post win7 there is no other way to do it other than how you are at the moment.

fun days ahead when all those xp machines are retired!

If they are ever retired, lol.

Well they have been around this long. . . Why not another decade with no support? LOL

Exactly. At this point, there is no trigger coming down the pike to push people off of them. If you are okay with them today, you'll be okay with them in twenty years.

@wrcombs said in desktop.ini:

@dbeato said in desktop.ini:

Every folder in a user profile has an .ini file as far as I have known Windows.

I just never saw desktop.ini before so I was curious.

I understand, sometimes it can become corrupt and a reboot usually fixes them.

@wrcombs said in Windows Firewall:

@scottalanmiller said in Windows Firewall:

@wrcombs said in Windows Firewall:

@scottalanmiller said in Windows Firewall:

@dustinb3403 said in Windows Firewall:

@wrcombs said in Windows Firewall:

The topic of Windows Firewall came up again today when a site had turned it on
When I asked "Shouldnt there be a way to write rules in the windows firewall so that we could just keep it on?"
He replied: "look into that, and see what you can find. It would have been better for the vendor to add that to their image they give us to boot the POS but if you can find a way to do it we can try it that way."

That's a win in my book, now setup wireshark and see what the hell is being used!

Or just look at netstat and know instantly.

Ran netstat in CMD as admin.
Do I use the Foreign address or the IP address?

Do netstat -a -b

You only care about listening ports.

Okay Thanks.

You bet.

@jaredbusch said in PCI compliance scan fail:

You have something answering on port 80 turn it off

It's literally that simple. Both turn off whatever is talking on 80, and block 80 on the firewall, too.

They used to have a Linux driver page but took it down.

That makes a bit more sense 🙂

@bnrstnr said in Centos 7 Minimal Install:

Is there ever a reason to go with one of the other security policies for centOS?

Depends where you work, usually this is set for government standards for example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Information_Processing_Standards

So theoretically if you work for the Government agency they will require you to choose certain protocols, and those profiles will make your life easier.

@wrcombs said in WSL Windows SubSystem for Linux:

Sooo basically its still just Windows server but with a lossely added Ubuntu layer that cant do anything?

Id agree running a VM would make more sense at that point.

Yup. It's a bit of a joke. It makes Windows users feel like they are getting Linux even when there is no Linux there at all and nothing usefully to be done with it. It also doesn't perform up to par, not that you would expect it to. It's a really bad idea. Maybe it is a precursor to something useful, but I'm not holding my breath.

https://i.imgur.com/nj3PBpF.png

This is missing a few: Protected access for admin over all files & PC's, Visuals (graphs) , Easy to use interface.

Here is what I have so far for important features outside of the standard. Do you guys see anything that is more important than another?

Anything I'm missing completely?

This list is not complied by priority, however it needs to be ( my Boss asked me to make a list) so any / all input would be greatly appreciated.

That's awesome. Glad that it is working!

@scottalanmiller said in Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?:

Has this project been supplanted by the Fedora on the old desktop project?

Yes sir

@wrcombs said in Unifi Controller in Oracle Virtual Box Problems:

@dustinb3403 said in Unifi Controller in Oracle Virtual Box Problems:

@wrcombs said in Unifi Controller in Oracle Virtual Box Problems:

@dustinb3403 said in Unifi Controller in Oracle Virtual Box Problems:

@wrcombs said in Unifi Controller in Oracle Virtual Box Problems:

@dustinb3403 said in Unifi Controller in Oracle Virtual Box Problems:

The guide you're following tells you to create /etc/apt/sources.list.d/100-ubnt.list

So do a sudo touch /etc/apt/sources.list.d/100-ubnt.list and then put in the 3 records, save the file and go from there.

okay, its still doing the same thing. how do you "put in the 3 records" treat me like i dont know what im doing (Cause i really dont)

Are you connected to this VM via PUTTY? If so do sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/100-ubnt.list then you can copy the records directly into the file.

ctrl + o to save the file and then ctrl + x to exit the file.

No idea. I litterally opened Oracle Virtual box and started my Controller.

OK...

type in ip addr find the IP address and then use putty to connect to this VM. Once your logged into the VM as "williamcombs" proceed with editing the file using nano.

https://i.imgur.com/ggtgCQDs.png

Delete every record in the file, you've messed it up. Go to the start of each line and do ctrl + k that'll remove the records.

@gjacobse said in Windows XP secuirty problem:

@wrcombs said in Windows XP secuirty problem:

@scottalanmiller not a matter of wanting windows, but trying to figure out why it wouldnt let it connect..

@scottalanmiller said in Windows XP secuirty problem:

@wrcombs said in Windows XP secuirty problem:

@scottalanmiller not a matter of wanting windows, but trying to figure out why it wouldnt let it connect..

Meh, put Linux on and get that to connect.

Nothing wrong with trying to figure things out - because with IT you never know what you will run into. -

Investing in technical knowledge that is well past its prime doesn't make a lot of sense though. Literally the answer to running into XP in the wild is update it to Windows 10 or a Linux distribution if that is viable.

@dustinb3403 I did what you said to do, then i realized i missed a step, cause i couldn't find the file he told me to, cause it wasn't exactly the same as he put into the post.
then i installed, and ran that command, just booted my VM.

I visited someone's home tonight that had two Unifi APs, one at either side of the house. Though one half the house had horrible connections. Turns out the second AP had no power. Reset connections, tada! AP back online and wifi is awesome!

@dafyre im doing the network+, so far so good. Really indepth and they explain it pretty well too.

@Francesco-Provino said in Salt Minion Problems:

@StrongBad said in Salt Minion Problems:

vi is a killer, one wrong key press and anything might happen.

Vim is as precise as a scalpel, don't blame it :D.

Disclaimer: I'm a vi-lover/addicted.

vi doesn't kill files, admins kill files.

@wirestyle22 said in Deleting unneeded partition in windows 10:

I have yet to run into something that gparted couldn't kill

Yeah, pretty much parted can do anything.