General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. Year of the Linux Desktop! - Hardware & Software

[QUOTE=DrTaxi;51384726]Microsoft [url=http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/microsoft-yes-microsoft-joins-the-linux-foundation/]joins Linux Foundation[/url], ports Windows to Linux: [media]https://twitter.com/dev_console/status/799097696959287296[/media] This fucking year.[/QUOTE] So we have an official Windows-on-Linux runtime now (aka Wine made by MS)?

I've been using Xubuntu on my laptop for a while. Decided to install it on my stationary too. But I get no audio at all now. Even though it says that it is outputting audio via my soundcard and you can see the little bar moving in the Pulse Audio controller. No idea how to fix this since it is seemingly using a driver called CMI8786 which is the one I'm supposed to have for my Xonar DG soundcard. Edit: Actually that isn't a driver, CMI8786 is a chipset. But I still find it odd that it is displaying that it is playing audio. [editline]19th November 2016[/editline] Nevermind, I fixed it. I had to change a setting in the Alsamixer to multi channel. [editline]19th November 2016[/editline] New problem, which seems unfixable, volume control doesn't work. Neat.

Currently been using Kali in a VM for a cyber-security competition, and it's gotten me hooked. Might reformat my WIN10 laptop to dual-boot Kali now.

[QUOTE=DrTaxi;51384726]Microsoft [url=http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/microsoft-yes-microsoft-joins-the-linux-foundation/]joins Linux Foundation[/url], ports Windows to Linux: [media]https://twitter.com/dev_console/status/799097696959287296[/media] This fucking year.[/QUOTE] That is amazing.

I don't get it, what's windows 10 iot core supposed to be useful for if keeps making linux and microsoft software more friendly with eachother?

[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;51397118]It's incredibly finicky as fuck. You need to jump into the alsamixer in terminal and make sure it's not using the front ports. Jump into pulse audio and fix it up there. Source dgx owner its the same shit.[/QUOTE] Yeah I'm not buying another ASUS soundcard, they have so many issues that other brands don't seem to have. There is a way to get volume control with a plugin for ALSA but I can't get it to work.

[QUOTE=Ithon;51398288]I don't get it, what's windows 10 iot core supposed to be useful for if keeps making linux and microsoft software more friendly with eachother?[/QUOTE] It's for people who [I]really really[/I] like Windows.

[img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CwbtqRjXAAAtyIZ.jpg[/img] NES Classic runs on GNU/Linux, apparently. Wonder if we can access a hardware serial port somewhere and homebrew it. [editline].[/editline] Eh, probably not worth it, looking at the hardware.

You could probably literally take it apart and stick a pi in there for virtually the same, and then finaggle with the case a bit.

Someone's already "broken" into the japanese version of it (the famicom classic) [url]http://arstechnica.co.uk/gaming/2016/11/nes-classic-mini-runs-linux/[/url] But hey, the hardware isn't so bad. An Allwinner R16 is actually more than they would have needed if you ask me. Although their emulator might be going for accuracy over performance, knowing nintendo.

[QUOTE=Dominik93;51403054]Someone's already "broken" into the japanese version of it (the famicom classic) [url]http://arstechnica.co.uk/gaming/2016/11/nes-classic-mini-runs-linux/[/url] But hey, the hardware isn't so bad. An Allwinner R16 is actually more than they would have needed if you ask me. Although their emulator might be going for accuracy over performance, knowing nintendo.[/QUOTE] The problem is having only 256MB RAM is pretty limiting. Otherwise the hardware is pretty decent when compared to things like the ODROID and Pi. They're probably going for accuracy [I]and [/I]they also have cool things like CRT shader effects you can apply. [editline].[/editline] Also man, I wish we could get the Famicom Classic here in the US. I always liked the look of the Famicom way better. [editline].[/editline] I wonder, though - since they're using GNU/Linux and not Android, how well do the GPU drivers work in that thing? It has the same GPU as the ODROID C2 and god knows the Mali drivers for ARM GNU/Linux are absolute garbage.

I mean, they aren't garbage in that they don't work well. They're just really feature-barren and they don't really give a damn about what anyone has to say. edit: although actually IIRC they have improved a lot and are one of the main reasons people say to go for the odroid instead of a pi. I tricked myself into getting a pi 3 instead of an odroid so no firsthand experience though.

I have an ODROID C2 and the official Mali drivers are garbage and the ODROID Mali drivers are garbage but at the fault of Mali, not ODROID. Using the Android drivers with Libhybris (or just using Android outright if applicable) is embarrassingly far more effective since the Android GPU drivers actually work. The GNU/Linux drivers *technically* work and are detectable by Chrome for using hardware acceleration, but it can't even handle 720p video in-browser, which is actually worse than the Pi with Epiphany. On Android it handles 4k video no problem.

Um, where do I begin investigating a DoS attacking coming FROM my VPS? My provider just suspended me because apparently I'm DoS attacking someone. Prior to that, I was being DDoS'd for 4 hours non stop.

[QUOTE=PredGD;51430453]Um, where do I begin investigating a DoS attacking coming FROM my VPS? My provider just suspended me because apparently I'm DoS attacking someone. Prior to that, I was being DDoS'd for 4 hours non stop.[/QUOTE] Check if there are any rogue accounts logging in via SSH and disable password login in favour of public key authentication if you can. Not quite a DoS attack but I forgot to delete a test account and got an angry email from Sony (forwarded via the host) saying my IP was banned for 24 hours because someone was trying to bruteforce SOE accounts via my VPS.

[QUOTE=helifreak;51430480]Check if there are any rogue accounts logging in via SSH and disable password login in favour of public key authentication if you can. Not quite a DoS attack but I forgot to delete a test account and got an angry email from Sony (forwarded via the host) saying my IP was banned for 24 hours because someone was trying to bruteforce SOE accounts via my VPS.[/QUOTE] According to last, only I have connected. Not sure if that can be wiped tho? I only see two entries and that is myself connecting today and on the 3rd November. I installed nethogs and saw that nginx was transmitting 50-60MB/s outbound non stop.

[QUOTE=PredGD;51430489]According to last, only I have connected. Not sure if that can be wiped tho? I only see two entries and that is myself connecting today and on the 3rd November. I installed nethogs and saw that nginx was transmitting 50-60MB/s outbound non stop.[/QUOTE] Were you just hosting a static webpage, or is it in any way dynamic? Because I've heard examples of dynamic webpages' modules being used to DDoS via the webserver hosting them. Either that, or your VPS provider is using the "you're DoS'ing someone" as a excuse because they supposedly can't kick you for being a DDoS target.

[QUOTE=Van-man;51430508]Were you just hosting a static webpage, or is it in any way dynamic? Because I've heard examples of dynamic webpages' modules being used to DDoS via the webserver hosting them. Either that, or your VPS provider is using the "you're DoS'ing someone" as a excuse because they supposedly can't kick you for being a DDoS target.[/QUOTE] I've written the pages myself so I assume that means it's all static. Pretty barebones with only HTML and CSS. The only dynamic parts I have must be [URL="https://larsjung.de/h5ai/"]h5ai[/URL] and [URL="https://www.seafile.com/en/home/"]Seafile[/URL].

[QUOTE=PredGD;51430489]According to last, only I have connected. Not sure if that can be wiped tho? I only see two entries and that is myself connecting today and on the 3rd November. I installed nethogs and saw that nginx was transmitting 50-60MB/s outbound non stop.[/QUOTE] No idea if it actually turned out to be an exploit people were using but there was an nginx exploit [URL="https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1532759&p=51182339&viewfull=1#post51182339"]back in October[/URL] that would do that but I can't find any other mentions of it on nginx's security issue page or on Google.

[QUOTE=helifreak;51430551]No idea if it actually turned out to be an exploit people were using but there was an nginx exploit [URL="https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1532759&p=51182339&viewfull=1#post51182339"]back in October[/URL] that would do that but I can't find any other mentions of it on nginx's security issue page or on Google.[/QUOTE] I'm still on 1.6.2 (Debian stable maan), I think I'm in the clear?

Upgraded to Feodra 25. Seems nice so far. I don't know if it's Wayland, or the new GNOME version, or maybe even new display drivers, but so far Steam is a lot more stable on my laptop from my limited testing. For example its icon was always broken and it always left weird artifacts on the top right corner of the screen but that appears to be totally gone now.

I need to upgrade to 25 but I want to try out doing the installation with Kickstart over PXE

[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;51432636]Upgraded to Feodra 25. Seems nice so far. I don't know if it's Wayland, or the new GNOME version, or maybe even new display drivers, but so far Steam is a lot more stable on my laptop from my limited testing. For example its icon was always broken and it always left weird artifacts on the top right corner of the screen but that appears to be totally gone now.[/QUOTE] press alt-f2 and type r. If you're on xorg it'll restart, if on wayland it'll say "nah." also with f2 you can type lg to get a program called looking glass, and you can use it on random programs to see if they're running on wayland or xwayland.

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;51432723]press alt-f2 and type r. If you're on xorg it'll restart, if on wayland it'll say "nah." also with f2 you can type lg to get a program called looking glass, and you can use it on random programs to see if they're running on wayland or xwayland.[/QUOTE] I'm definitely on Wayland because you can just choose the session on login and you can select between GNOME, GNOME Classic, and GNOME on Xorg as a fallback. I made sure to be on Wayland before I logged in. The restart command confirms it's Wayland, but Steam is working under XWayland (or at least I think, it says GType:MetaWindowX11)

[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;51432907]I'm definitely on Wayland because you can just choose the session on login and you can select between GNOME, GNOME Classic, and GNOME on Xorg as a fallback. I made sure to be on Wayland before I logged in. The restart command confirms it's Wayland, but Steam is working under XWayland (or at least I think, it says GType:MetaWindowX11)[/QUOTE] Yeah that's what it means, most standard programs that use recent versions of gtk and qt will work in wayland, but non-standard stuff like steam and even firefox will probably take awhile (firefox prolly won't take long tbh, I think steam might practically be forever.)

In any case Steam appears to work just as well if not better. Even in-home streaming works a charm and that always gives me problems.

Would it be an idea to just reinstall my VPS if I can't figure out why nginx is sending so much data? The second I turn it back on it immediately jumps to sending a ton of data again and I don't know why it's doing it.

[QUOTE=PredGD;51435517]Would it be an idea to just reinstall my VPS if I can't figure out why nginx is sending so much data? The second I turn it back on it immediately jumps to sending a ton of data again and I don't know why it's doing it.[/QUOTE] It's an idea but there isn't much reason to think it will do anything. But, just like "turn it off and back on again" it works surprisingly often.

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;51435561]It's an idea but there isn't much reason to think it will do anything. But, just like "turn it off and back on again" it works surprisingly often.[/QUOTE] Already rebooted the VPS twice, the data sent spikes straight back up as soon as nginx is started.

[QUOTE=PredGD;51435709]Already rebooted the VPS twice, the data sent spikes straight back up as soon as nginx is started.[/QUOTE] Check your sites-available / sites-enabled blocks to see if there's anything there?