Well, my first interview is Tuesday, even before my final pay check is due

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco That is a totally different life style to what I was imaging...

So where do they grow their plants if they don't have land to work? Where do they sleep if they don't own or rent? And don't they ever just get an urge to have a big fat juicy steak with a side of shrimp?

The answer to all those queries is "who cares, they're filthy hippies".

hey now, hippies have a use, like human shields.... or fertilizer for feed for beef farms..

Yes, they made my news feeds again today.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hardcoded-password-found-in-cisco-software/

Since Cisco keeps being so popular with the security breaches and vulnerabilities, I figured it's time they get their very own thread.

Well, looks like I will be able to make it, thanks to @DustinB3403!

Dilbert and one of the big topics around here:

Thought I'd drop one of my current projects here. It started as just wanting a way to see what the temperature in a room is without having to have someone go check. (It's another building in a locked room few people have a key for.)

We already have lots of project cases, and also already had a Raspberry Pi. The new $5 Pi would need a network connection of some sort, so figure $10 for the networked PC ($20 if you need a power supply and memory card as well). I splurged at $13 for a combination temperature and humidity sensor. I went ahead and added a door sensor as well, it was $2. I also got a Cobbler Plus GPIO Breakout for $8 and a Perma-Proto board for $6. Total cost for me was $29. If you need a Pi as well figure ~$50 for everything. Compare that to any of the commercial offerings!

I'll post the code I use for everything here, along with references where possible. After all, that's where the real cost of these little things end up being.

It might be good to add a battery backup to it as well, which is quite easy, but I have no real need for that (if the power is out, the temperature isn't going to be getting out of control.) Adafruit makes it really easy.

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Thing learned today: Domain controller must have SMB v1 enabled for a Server 2003 member to join the domain.

I learned that I only have to get inside your LAN in order to steal all the network data.

This is mostly to make things a matter of public record, in addition to a bit of a rant.

Got a call yesterday morning. They can't process credit cards. That office happens to use Intuit/Quickbooks for everything from inventory tracking, to payment processing and accounting. I've been down the road of getting away from Intuit often. Don't know if this will push them past the edge or not.

Ok, spent 2 hours manually doing updates because the automatic ones broke along the way somewhere. Updates complete. Good, we should be up and running. They try to login, and get asked for a code. Ok, check the email address... nothing.

Now I'm calling Intuit support (bad idea, but we're basically not in business at this point.) That's a 3 hour call where I'm told something is wrong with our email server.

Fine, hang up with one unhelpful peon. Go eat lunch (3:30pm at this point, my blood sugar is about to tank.)

Get back into the office around 4:30. Enough time to find something very interesting in the server logs...

2016-10-05 14:01:56 H=lvmailappout12.intuit.com [199.16.139.22]:30939 sender verify fail for <[email protected]>: response to "RCPT TO:<[email protected]>" from mailin.intuit.com [206.108.40.19] was: 550 #5.1.0 Address rejected.
2016-10-06 11:17:10 H=mailout203.intuit.com [206.108.40.17]:49121 X=TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256 CV=no F=<[email protected]> rejected RCPT <[email protected]>: Sender verify failed

Now, I spent way to much time figuring out how to deal with spam, and have gotten it figured out for the most part. So, they are sending a confirmation code out using an address that their own email server does not acknowledge as being valid. Yet it's somehow my fault that the email is not being delivered.

Spent another 2 hours on the phone this morning going over the same stuff. We're working through alternatives, none of which are something the business would normally find acceptable.

This on top of them having me enable SSL2 in the browser. Uhm, these computers have to remain PCI compliant, and they just purposely made them non-compliant.

Malicious company, let it be known.

Getting noticed is easy!

Getting the right kind of notice is very hard!

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/900-000-routers-knocked-offline-in-germany-amid-rumors-of-cyber-attack/

On Facebook, Deutsche Telekom engineers recommended that users unplug their devices, wait for 30 seconds and restart their router. If the equipment fails to connect to the company's network, engineers told users to disconnect their device from the company's network permanently.

To compensate the downtime, Deutsche Telekom is offering free mobile Internet until the technical problem is resolved.

DSL routers all over Germany, and presumably worldwide if anyone else happens to be using the same DSL Modem that got hit by this.

@thwr, hope you're still running!

@travisdh1 Installation note from Oliver

olivierlambertolivierlambert VATES 🪐 FOUNDER & CEO 🦸 Jun 30, 2021, 12:27 PM
@gskger To answer about the availability: in fact, it's already working, but very very very basic for now. I'd like to have something "not ugly" to start, even with not a lot of features, so let's say end of this summer

But if you can't hold until then, it's pretty easy to test:

Create a /opt/xensource/www/xolite.html file
Put that inside:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" class="no-js">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta
name="viewport"
content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no"
/>
<meta name="theme-color" content="#cc584c" />
<title>XoLite</title>
</head>
<body>
<noscript>You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.</noscript>
<div id="root">The application is loading…</div>
<script src="https://lite.xen-orchestra.com/dist/index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
Go in your host IP address <host address>/xolite.html
That's it!

edit: until the XAPI fix is in 8.2 or 8.3, consoles only work with Chrome.

Link to original article: https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/4731/xen-orchestra-lite/5

Found this while watching Lawrence Systems Thursday live stream. Most areas of the interface still say (coming soon), but you can do basic tasks for VMs on the host.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

need more coffee. lol

I think it's about time for a coffee run.

Doing a full backup of the home lab server. Got new SSD drives to double the storage in it. 4x Patriot Burst Elite, not suitable for a production server, but good enough to let me do more things in a lab environment.

@Danp said in Printer Recommendations??:

@jt1001001 said in Printer Recommendations??:

High volume (500 pages/month B&W)

Is that really considered high volume? Personally, I would put that in the low volume category.

I agree, high volume would be more like 500 pages per day.

That said, I've had good luck with Xerox's solid ink printers in the past. ~2 million pages in 2 years with them at a previous job. Xerox ColorQube 8700 or 8900 are the current multifunction models.

@JasGot said in Slack? What is it?:

I am looking at Slack for a customer. I've never used or seen it. I hear about it all the time, and I know many people here use it regularly.

The sole purpose for looking at Slack for this customer is to send appointment reminder vis SMS using Skyetel's "Postcards for Slack" feature.

Has anyone done this? Is it a good option, or should I be looking at other options?

Do they want to start using a dedicated chat app?

If yes, have they evaluated options besides Slack? (RocketChat, etc.)

Slack IS NOT SMS. If they want to send reminders via SMS, just use Postcards. No reason to introduce more complexity than needed.

Edit: That all assumes you have input instead of being told to just do it.

@Pete-S said in Manage domains and DNS for customers?:

Is there a good way to manage domain renewals and DNS settings on behalf of a customer?

Basically handle everything and then invoice the customer. But the customer should still legally own the domain(s).

Generally, have them purchase the domain and add you as an admin user. I've done this with Cloudflare a number of times.

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Coffee and science...

Everyone back up, @RojoLoco is trying science.

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Chatting with Tmobile Home Internet via Twitter about WAN issues. Still better than DSL :).

Have they been able to figure out why wired speed only ever gets ~40Mbps when wireless gets 200+Mbps for you? I'm still trying to get that fixed.

Still better than DLS here as well.

The 3 mbps DSL limit I had was because of distance from a central office.

I'm able to get 60Mbps/5Mbps DSL, but it's also the most expensive in the area.

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Chatting with Tmobile Home Internet via Twitter about WAN issues. Still better than DSL :).

Have they been able to figure out why wired speed only ever gets ~40Mbps when wireless gets 200+Mbps for you? I'm still trying to get that fixed.

Still better than DLS here as well.