Re: [nlug] Whooiee! Backblaze's disk drive reliability report is out

This is a good feature IF you have software that is actively monitoring the SMART data of your drives, sending out alerts/emails AND someone is paying attention to those alerts/emails. I believe that most people are lazy and won't actually install software to monitor their drive health, so buying

Re: [nlug] does anyone on this list not use Windows at all?

I use Windows, Mac OS and Linux, every day. I still use Windows for my primary work desktop OS, but I have a Macbook Pro at work and another at home. Most of our important servers at work run on Linux, as does one of my servers at home. Different OS' are good for different reasons. I don't

Re: [nlug] backups vs archives?

Thumbs up for Relax and Recover (REAR). I just got this installed on a couple of our physical services (most are virtual). You can do a 100% bare metal recovery with REAR and that is something that has always me nervous about our physical servers. The backup target can be a number of different

Re: [nlug] Who wants a free Mac?

One more point of interest, because of their age and firmware limitations, these systems can only run Mac OS up to 10.7.5 (which is really old and I wouldn't recommend running such an old OS, which is why we loaded Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on them.) Chris On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Curt Lundgren

Re: [nlug] Who wants a free Mac?

It's yours! When do you want to pick it up? On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Chuck Payne <terror...@gmail.com> wrote: > I like one, it would help when I go Linux Fest as most of my equipment > is donated to me anyway. > > On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 11:24 AM, Chris McQu

Re: [nlug] Who wants a free Mac?

Watkins College 2298 Rosa L Parks Blvd Nashville, TN 37228 Email me or Curt and we'll coordinate a pickup time On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 10:23 AM, Michael L wrote: > I'd be interested in a Mac Pro please. Where do I need to show up? > > On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 9:52

Re: [nlug] RPi, Mythbuntu, TV control center / recorder?

If you want to use a Raspberry Pi, OpenElec might be a good place to start. It is a Kodi-based disto which supports various PVR clients. Chris Sent from my iPhone On May 13, 2016, at 3:45 PM, Michael L wrote: Hello NLUG, Since I work in video production, being able

Re: [nlug] dd usage or maybe something else

like being tied to Microsoft. Can anyone tell me what > purpose these multiple RPi's serve because I've been thinking I should buy > one or two just to find out. > M > > On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Chris McQuistion <cmcquist...@watkins.edu> > wrote: > >&g

Re: [nlug] dd usage or maybe something else

There are higher-end SD cards that supposedly include wear leveling. Those would be the cards designed for HD cameras and such. You could go that route or you could just image your system and make periodic backups. If the card goes bad, replace it with another $10 SD card, restored from backup,

Re: [nlug] VMUG vBeers Next Tues Night

I haven't been to a VMUG meeting in quite a while but you had me at BEER. Chris McQuistion Director of Information Technology Currey Ingram Academy 615-507-3175 On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 10:21 PM, Vincent Brown < vincent.anthony.br...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd like to extend an i

Re: [nlug] Bootable antivirus recommendations

YUMI is a USB boot drive creator with several bootable antivirus programs that you can put on it. I've used it many times in the past when I had a machine that I suspected was infected. Chris McQuistion Director of Information Technology Currey Ingram Academy 615-507-3175 On Mon, Sep 12, 2016

Re: [nlug] Re: home labs on the cheap

That's a pretty sweet price. How do you like that Dell workstation for ESXi? Chris McQuistion Director of Information Technology Currey Ingram Academy 615-507-3175 On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 10:43 PM, Vincent Brown < vincent.anthony.br...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm putting a home lab togeth

Re: [nlug] [via Meetup] Has anyone tried this?

I set it up back at Watkins and tried it out. It was pretty neat. It worked exactly as advertised, though it took me a little while to figure it all out. Chris McQuistion Director of Information Technology Currey Ingram Academy 615-507-3175 On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 7:54 PM, NLUG.org <n

[nlug] Fwd: Now Available! NEW Veeam Agent for Linux

. Chris McQuistion Director of Information Technology Currey Ingram Academy 615-507-3175 -- Forwarded message -- From: Veeam Team <veeam_t...@veeam.com> Date: Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 11:02 AM Subject: Now Available! NEW Veeam Agent for Linux To: cmcquist...@watkins.edu NEW

Re: [nlug] Re: NLUG Installfest - Saturday, Dec 3rd

I'm looking forward to coming to the installfest on Saturday. Haven't seen most of you in a long time and I miss Watkins! (Watkins has the best Network Administrator, you know Chris McQuistion Director of Information Technology Currey Ingram Academy 615-507-3175 On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 12:45

Re: [nlug] SIP phone, anyone?

ME ME ME! *Chris McQuistion* Director of Information Technology Currey Ingram Academy 6544 Murray Lane, Brentwood, TN, 37027 *o* 615.507.3175 *c* 615.525.5877 www.curreyingram.org On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 11:55 AM, Curt Lundgren <verif...@gmail.com> wrote: > Watkins ha

Re: [nlug] Memory tester

If the system isn't booting right now, then you probably have a damaged motherboard or RAM. Really, you're going to need a known-good motherboard and known-good RAM to test and see which one (or both) is bad. On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Tilghman Lesher wrote: > Yes,

Re: [nlug] URGENT: Need Cisco phone engineer

Oh yeah. I’ve done a lot of work with Magic Apple. I hadn’t thought about them. *Chris McQuistion *(Sent from my iPhone) Director of Information Technology Currey Ingram Academy 6544 Murray Lane, Brentwood, TN, 37027 *o* 615.507.3175 *c *615.525.5877 www.curreyingram.org On Dec 9

[nlug] URGENT: Need Cisco phone engineer

My friend has a critical outage with his Cisco phone system and needs a Cisco phone engineer ASAP. Can anyone recommend an individual or company that can help immediately? Thanks, Chris Sent from my iPhone -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [nlug] DD-WRT problems

Maybe make sure your router is using WPA/WPA2 and TKIP/AES and then try again. On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 5:08 PM, John F. Eldredge wrote: > On 10/21/2017 5:00 PM, John F. Eldredge wrote: > >> I purchased some WiFi-controlled light switches recently, and have spent >> several

Re: [nlug] DD-WRT problems

DD-WRT has the option of setting the WiFi mode to "WPA/WPA2" and "TKIP/AES" Set it to those settings for best compatibility. On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 6:35 PM, John F. Eldredge <jfeldre...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/21/2017 6:23 PM, Chris McQuistion wrote: > > M

Re: [nlug] useful command o' the day

can avoid vendor lock-in. And if > something goes south I can still migrate to anything which provides JBOD. > > > >> On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 8:00 AM, Chris McQuistion >> wrote: >> and if you "watch cat /proc/mdstat", you can watch the progress as your RAID >

Re: [nlug] DVD (image) burner for Mac?

You can use Disk Utility on macOS to burn images to CD/DVD On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 11:51 AM Michael L wrote: > Hello, does anybody know of a free useful DVD copying burning program for > Mac? > > I use image burn on Windows all the time, what works for Mac? I can of > course Google it, just

Re: [nlug] useful command o' the day

Always a good point. There is NO REPLACEMENT for proper backups! *Chris McQuistion* Director of Information Technology Currey Ingram Academy 6544 Murray Lane, Brentwood, TN, 37027 *o* 615.507.3175 *c* 615.525.5877 www.curreyingram.org On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 9:14 AM Tilghman Lesher

Re: [nlug] [NLUG] Got an old managed switch?

Dave, if you want a 12 port Cisco Catalyst 100 Mbit switch, let me know. I don't know the first thing about configuring a Cisco switch for port mirroring but I do know it is possible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af4d_fAkwAY *Chris McQuistion* Director of Information Technology Currey

Re: [nlug] [NLUG] Got an old managed switch?

I’ve got one or two old, old Cisco Catalyst switches that I would gladly give you. They’re 100BaseT and I have no idea how they are configured or what the current password is. I did a hardware reset of one of them the other day just to get into it. *Chris McQuistion *(Sent from my iPhone

Re: [nlug] command reference from the dark side

I'm a Windows Powershell neophyte but I recently realized that I could run "ls" in Powershell and it just brought a smile to my face. I'm constantly finding myself accidentally running "ls" or some other Linux command in a Windows Command Prompt window. Powershell isn't bash, but at least "ls"

Re: [nlug] Knock Knock Someone home?

Clonezilla is my go-to Open Source backup software for doing bare-metal imaging for the situation you're describing. *Chris McQuistion* Director of Information Technology Currey Ingram Academy 6544 Murray Lane, Brentwood, TN, 37027 *o* 615.507.3175 *c* 615.525.5877 www.curreyingram.org

[nlug] Linux Distro recommendation for public kiosk

Does anyone have a recommendation for a pre-built, easy to deploy Linux OS designed for installation on some public computers to just give them a web browser and not much else? Preferably, something that doesn't keep cookies and will just let people refresh the session would be good. I've done

[nlug] CentOS "yum" problem

I've inherited some CentOS 7 systems and two of them are giving me this baffling problem. I'm trying to install some software and install updates and I keep getting the following error when I'm trying to do a "yum remove packagename" operation. It seems to just get stuck on this message and stay

Re: [nlug] CentOS "yum" problem

at 10:00 PM John R. Dennison wrote: > On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 09:43:41PM -0600, Chris McQuistion wrote: > > > > "Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum." > > This is merely an indication that someone or something ran a manual > rpm operation that updated the d

Re: [nlug] Linux Distro recommendation for public kiosk

Michael, 4M Linux just looks like a standard distro. Is there some easy way to turn it into "Kiosk" mode? On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 6:58 PM Michael L wrote: > How about 4M Linux? > > On Sun, Feb 24, 2019, 17:59 Chris McQuistion wrote: > >> Does anyone have a recommen

Re: [nlug] Linux Distro recommendation for public kiosk

an Seattle area) > > > On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 6:24 PM Chris McQuistion < > chris.mcquist...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Michael, 4M Linux just looks like a standard distro. Is there some easy >> way to turn it into "Kiosk" mode? >> >> On Sun, Feb 24, 2

Re: [nlug] Linux Distro recommendation for public kiosk

I’ve done > with the Desktop distro, I liked what I saw. > > > > *From:* nlug-talk@googlegroups.com *On > Behalf Of *Chris McQuistion > *Sent:* Sunday, February 24, 2019 6:00 PM > *To:* nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* [nlug] Linux Distro recommendation for publ

Re: [nlug] Linux Distro recommendation for public kiosk

, I > would definitely caution him against proceeding with using it unless he’s > cool with not updating individual instances of it. > > > > *From:* nlug-talk@googlegroups.com *On > Behalf Of *Chris McQuistion > *Sent:* Sunday, February 24, 2019 8:08 PM > *To:* nlug-talk@goog

Re: [nlug] Linux Distro recommendation for public kiosk

g it out > for (homeless shelter use). > > > > *From:* nlug-talk@googlegroups.com *On > Behalf Of *Chris McQuistion > *Sent:* Sunday, February 24, 2019 6:55 PM > *To:* nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* Re: [nlug] Linux Distro recommendation for public kiosk > > > > I t

[nlug] Recommended backup software for full system imaging (online)?

I've inherited an Ubuntu 9.10 server that can't really be updated or messed with too much but there are no backups of this system. I'd like to get some sort of regular backup running a full system image to a NAS. My usual go-to software for this is Veeam Agent for Linux, but it's requirements

Re: [nlug] Plex Ditches Plugins

I use LibreElec and have been a big fan. Might be worth checking out. Chris Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 21, 2019, at 2:20 AM, Paul Boniol wrote: > > I've been using Plex on a Linux media server for years now. It has been > pretty good for playing my recorded movies and TV shows across my

Re: [nlug] [OffTopic] Finding the IP address of a SMB share

You can run run an nmap scan over the VPN tunnel. I do this all the time. All you need to know is the remote subnet, like 192.168.1.0/24 and if the VPN tunnel allows traffic to that subnet, you can scan it and look for servers with open ports to start narrowing things down. Sent from my

Re: [nlug] Sluggish performance under Windows

It the sluggishness caused by the CPU? You’d be able to see CPU usage in Task Manager. Could it be I/O issues causes by hard drive activity or a slow hard drive? You can see that in Resource Manager. Chris Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 17, 2020, at 8:04 AM, j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: > > 

Re: [nlug] network congestion

Late to the show but I saw issues this morning with some customers but it was clearly only affecting certain routes on certain ISPs. One customer for instance has a fiber (Level3?) and Comcast connection. The fiber connection was losing packets and having high latency to 9.9.9.9 between 7 and

Re: [nlug] two factor authentication for outbound email

This just has to do with securing SMTP communication. If you’re a Microsoft email user (or Google), they are making progressively more difficult/impossible to send email over unencrypted communication or using plain authentication even over secure port 465/587. If you’re using web based email

Re: [nlug] Debian as CentOS replacement?

You may take a look at Amazon Lightsail for hosting. It is basically a slimmed down and much easier to understand version of Amazon EC2 with flat pricing that includes everything in the bundle. We are running LOADS of servers on Lightsail. It ends up costing us less than EC2 and the simplicity

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