Nice though it would be if it wasn't case, don't assume Linux means ssh keys by default. There are many, many, many even large sites still on classic password authentication.
I mean, my work is part of the third largest broadcast news company in the US, and by default we're doing password authentication for all of it. Unless specific stations implement their own security stuff, this is how our corporate model does it. I personally work around IT when I can (IE when my Chief Engineer has no say in the matter and I can overrule him) because I find them generally useless regardless.
My CE isn't a bad guy by any means, other than he's a bit odd socially, really he's more of a on site transmitter/old broadcast hardware guru who got hired without a formal education back in the day and
happens to hold his position through simply being here longer than literally anyone else. His knowledge is lacking in many things that aren't this station specific, which is fine since he usually defers to me unless he gets the bug up his ass about wanting to include corporate IT because technically they're supposed to be able to help us with stuff.
So yeah had one of those pant shitting moments.
I've been upgrading and migrating a bunch of city governments video archive to a new system because the old one is a decrepit pile of shit.
I was setting my self up FTP access on the old system to move some new videos over that were made during development. Turns out this somehow broke the symbolic link, not realizing this at the time I thought I just single handily nuked 4TB of video. I was getting calls from pissed of city officals about where there video went.
Turns out I just had to restore the file link
I'm gonna sit and do nothing for the rest of the workday I think
You can also use SSH if you deal with installing that initially. If you have physical access to the server you can never turn on RDP.
I admin'd a Windows server before the whole Linux subsystem thing ('08R2), and it was in Dallas so I didn't have physical access.
Now I colocate a Linux box just 15 minutes from where I live, so problem solved on both fronts. It's still a pain to find parking and bio into the building, so I do whatever I can remotely.
I do find it comedic that it is literally multiple times faster to grab an external drive or flash stick and head down to the DC, than to upload shit to it from my home internet connection. Based Comcast.
Thought I had an SLI bridge laying around, nope. I have a CrossFire bridge.
I have a useless GPU running in my computer right now
There's been a server sitting on the side of the road near my apartment for like two weeks now.
It looks like it fell off a truck... then got hit by one, then rained on, snowed on, and rained on a bit more. I actually tried grabbing it a few days ago, not necessarily because I could use it but mostly just to get rid of it. Unfortunately it weighs at least two hundred pounds and I couldn't do more than flip it slightly further out of the roadway. Based on that, I'm guessing it's a storage server, so however many hard drives can fit into a full-length 3U or 4U case.
It's not exactly a minor road it's on - not counting the turn lanes, it's the intersection of an eight-lane divided street and a four-lane road. So now it's become a sort of social experiment - how long does it take for either the government, or an opportunistic scavenger, to take it away? (I did search the county website for "can you fucks clean this shit up already?" but found nothing)
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1755/a9ea9d21-5212-4177-823e-d34ae3be4c99/image.png
Nothing like free web hosting
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1755/e0ca43c7-83c2-4739-9474-60483e40ba75/image.png
Spent the better part of the last hour arguing with my Chief Engineer that SSD raid 1 isn't a fucking adequate solution to proper back-ups, much less a drive failure because SSDs don't fucking work like that.
I'm basically being forced to install 2 SSDs in raid 1 because this fucking guy thinks SSDs are the same as fucking physical spinning disks. I'm half tempted to just fucking set windows to run back-ups off the second SSD and just lie that they're in raid.
Is the issue that he thinks it's a backup, or he wants improved uptime?
one of those is reasonable to me. I could definitely see myself mirroring SSD's.
He wants them mirrored because he thinks that provides boot redundancy if one drive dies. But they're fucking SSDs, same brand, model, purchase lot, etc. So gee great, 2 dead SSDs instead of 1 when the thing fails to boot, what a bargain!
"Everything in Windows is GUI"
*laughs in Exchange/Sharepoint* You can do a lot of common tasks in the GUI, but there is a lot of functionality in MS server products that is Powershell only. Also Enter-PSSession is a blessing.
Why would RAID1 kill both drives instead of just one? If he wants redundancy against the system going offline, RAID1 SSD's makes perfect sense to me.
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I just learned I can bump the resolution on this 1080p monitor to 1440p.
But it's so bad looking
https://i.imgur.com/vdhpfPg.png
You can do that with any monitor with Nvidia DSR or whatever the AMD equivalent is. It's nice for downscaling some games that don't have it built in / have shitty AA, but looks awful in Windows.
Because SSDs have basically a set life span with not as much variance for drive failure as a HDD does...
It's literally fucking stupid to raid 1 SSDs there is zero point. You buy a device that's rated for say 100k write operations and you write the same amount of writes to two drives of the exact same make and model, one goes bad, likely the other is going to go too because you've done the exact same thing to a product with a quantifiable life span of writes.
What? No they don't. SSD's are more reliable, sure. But that doesn't mean they never die unexpectedly.
Yes you do? I own about four SSD's which far exceeded their rated write endurance. Which is the key thing. It's *Rated*. If a drive is rated for 5DWPD for 5 years, it doesn't croak the moment it goes over that. That's what the warranty rates it for.
Which is what the cache, garbage collection, and trim is for. So it writes new data, prepared, to a new blank page. Write amplification is one of things drives get smarter about.
To be fair. I haven't Windows Server'd since 2012? (I think)
I've been doing Linux servers since then and I've had no need to go back.
I stand semi-corrected. I'll have to read the rest of that paper later.
However yeah I suppose the whole point is kinda moot since he's envisioning it as a complete back-up solution and not just that it stays online in the event of a drive failure. His entire idea is that these drives will be mounted into the rear area of the server chassis and not the hot-swap bays anyway so really having to remove the server from the rack just to swap out a bad boot drive to rebuild the array isn't going to be much faster than having to pull the server out of the rack to swap a drive and then do a system restore from a proper back-up.
I suppose really the best solution would be to probably just not use the hot-swap bays instead of trying to cram SSDs into the back of the darn thing... Then having the raid array rebuild to a good drive would be the faster option in terms of keeping it online longer.
Still doesn't hurt to have a backup. Raid 1 won't save the data from a fire
Either I was sent the wrong thing, or I bought the wrong thing.
https://i.imgur.com/jiK3yoo.jpg
Knowing what you wish to protect against is the first thing when it comes to this stuff.
Also why 3-2-1 is key.
So G-mail's spam filter let me down today and uhh well it's interesting.
https://aus.chie.club/i/d09ca343-28a9-45d3-9461-ae7e73d7e848.png
I'm 100% sure Lyft is not even in New Zealand yet and so is the insecure warning so 2 red flags so far.
Let's keep going down the rabbit hole and read the e-mail header.
IP goes to a Hurricane Electric server.
The header contents.
Hi Jordan,
We are excited to hear you are interested in studying at UAB! What questions can we answer for you? I will include some general information below:
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International Student Scholarship: https://www.uab.edu/students/paying-for-college/scholarships/international/uab-international-scholarship
Let me know what questions you have!
Best,
Kristin
Kristin Brymer | International Enrollment Manager
Office of International Admissions
UAB | The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Mervyn H. Sterne Library, Floor 2 | 917 13th Street South
Birmingham, Alabama | 35294 | U.S.A.
Office: 1-205-934-7956 | Email: kbrymer@uab.edu
www.UAB.edu/global | www.UAB.edu/apply
Hello Jordan,
Thank you for your interest in The University of Findlay. We offer various masters level program where you might find your fit. Pelase check the link below for the information.
Please revert back if you have questions and good luck for your exams.
Thank you.
Good Afternoon,
Thank you for your interest in UAB! I will provide you with the graduate level admissions options and requirements below I hope that this helps!
Graduate Direct Entry 3.0 GPA, 80 TOEFL or 6.5 IELTS, GMAT or GRE
(you should check with the individual department that interests you for additional entry criteria)
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More information about the Pathway programs can be found here:
And the pathway application can be found here:
The application for certain direct entry programs can be found here:
Sincerely,
Hi Henry,
Greetings from University of Redlands. You had sent an email about interest in University of Redlands. I’d be more than happy to help you with any questions you have. Since you stated you will have a bachelors degree, are you looking to obtain a second bachelors degree or some other kind of program from Redlands? I look forward to helping you.
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What the CHRIST.
i can't even get a milter to change the Received header and this motherfucker somehow embeds at least three whole ass emails into his headers
Anyone have thoughts on such a unit?
https://www.amazon.com/Synology-Bay-NAS-DiskStation-Diskless/dp/B07CR8RZYY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1548066590&sr=8-1
Company I used to work for has been asking me to setup some backup solutions and this came to mind while using something like Arq for storing local backups on the unit over SMB
Assuming the domain/sender has proper records set up (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) then you can probably find a manned e-mail address to complain at - hopefully it'll get them to fix it so others aren't hit.
Otherwise, you can go up the chain, sending either CAN-SPAM (Since HE is a US company) threats, or just threaten to get the IP listed on SBL/SPAMHAUS.
I'm pretty lucky, I use a private E-mail provider, and they have legally gone after spam companies and operations on behalf of their customers.
I honestly wish more mail providers went after things more aggressively, you can pretty easily dig up the chain that's happening, and ultimately legally threaten anybody in the path that lets it continue, network providers have a responsibility to prevent network abuse (spam, DDoS, etc).
Part of me thinks it's a way to bypass spam filters?
Just a guess though.
https://i.imgur.com/BcjRtMR.png
mmm
SLI
in 2019
HYPERDANSGAME
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