Here’s one of the many reasons why I stick to simple, replicable, and quickly restorable setups. When you don't have control over your data or rely solely on a specific service, everything could go wrong in an instant.
Is there any text-based, ideally distributed monitoring software out there? I want a TUI that shows me (e.g. with green/red highlights) the reachability of hosts (simple ping checks) while I'm doing network maintenance. Like a really simple, curses based nagios? It would probably look like a bloomberg terminal.. (I know this wouldn't be too hard to implement.. but I can't really believe it's not already out there...) #linux#TUI#monitoring#network#networking#sysadmin#software#curses
I'll even make Rat Pancakes to encourage them to attend.
Backers of all levels get four books, the release party, and the (unfortunate) video of me doing the Happy Dance. Plus whatever stretch goals get unlocked in the remaining days.
Microsoft’s new Copilot+ feature will record everything you are doing on your computer for some reason, but it will only work on new Arm hardware for now. Plus Apple’s weird iOS bug that restored deleted files and photos, and sharing files over the Internet from a NAS on your LAN.
Just encountered the #EDIFACT standard while in touch with our logistics firm. Why the hell is this nothing readable and yet another useless standard that could've been implemented in #protobuf#json or something modern....
And the best part is everyone uses a subset or has some customizarions which forces us to implement it again and again
#sysadmin
Un démon plantait à peu près tous les jours. Je mets en place un script qui teste s'il est toujours là et le démarre sinon, et, depuis, le démon ne plante plus (là, trois jours d'uptime). #Alpine
#sysadmin#cybersécuritay
Un type se connecte en IMAP sur TLS au serveur, depuis une machine en Chine, et se déconnecte avec l'alerte TLS "bad certificate".
C'est un certificat CAcert. S'il ne te plait pas, tu dégages !
Why Windows 10 might be gaining users at Windows 11’s expense, an old DHCP option is a potential risk for VPN users, we should probably say “renting” rather than “buying”domains, and avoiding tracking when using IPv6.
Hm, so because I am so eager to understand things I know have the task to explain #NeighborDiscoveryProtocol of #IPv6 tomorrow.
From what I understand, I can think of multicast of like topics in MQTT:
One sender and whoever is interested can read from it. New hosts are subscribed to it when they go online.
By setting certain flags in #ICMPv6 their are messages for routers and neighbors. One for request and a matching respond (called solicitation and advertisement).
Now I would love to have a #SysAdmin confirm my understanding.
Coworker wrote a very useful in-house utility that they named "ATH." I of course made a joke about the next version needing to be called "ATDT." Half the team didn't get it. We work in telecom. I feel old. #sysadmin#bofh
Putting today's events on the scale, it seems balanced:
Client 1: "The setup you provided on FreeBSD and dedicated hosting outperforms an expensive public Cloud. I'm very satisfied!"
Client 2: "To simplify DevOps, I want to use low-cost, low-quality external service and decommission our servers. Infrastructure costs are too high." (Four physical servers on a low-cost provider with consultancy for management).