@Dashrender said in Christmas came on Halloween this year...:

that's for work right? I've never seen symmetric at home before.

Nope, that's in my house.

I'll echo what Scott is saying here, don't think of a container in the same context as a virtual machine, they are not the same thing. You don't want to overload a container with multiple services, that will defeat the purpose of using a container. Containers are meant to contain a single service and abstract that service away from the operating system, streamlining the movement of that service between development, QA, staging, and production environments.

So if you have an application you want to deploy into a production environment that requires a MariaDB database and an instance of the actual application running, you would want to deploy a minimum of two containers. One container for the database, and one container for the application. As demand for the application grows you might consider adding additional containerized instances of the application and possibly a load balancer or HA proxy. At that point you would spin up your load balancing container, and any additional instances of the application in separate containers.

The primary use case for containerized workloads is development and automation of large scale distributed systems. You can run services outside of a development environment using docker, rocket, or lxc containers, but you're more than likely not going to see any significant benefit unless you are operating at a larger scale serving a lot of users/endpoints.

If you're a runner these are great: https://www.amazon.com/bseBuds-100m-Isolating-Single-Earphone/dp/B010P3M7YS/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1476761418&sr=8-14&keywords=single+earbud+for+running

Single noise canceling ear bud. It lets you hear the environment around AND enjoy music when out for a run.

Bluetooth adapter for wired headphones: https://www.amazon.com/Jumbl-Bluetooth-Hands-Free-Streaming-Receiver/dp/B00UUDZSKE/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1476761349&sr=8-3&keywords=bluetooth+adapter+headphones

I have one of these that I use sometimes on runs, it works great.

Congratulations!

I have made my contribution, regardless of the futility.

He wouldn't buy his laptop at BestBuy. (This is just a bold assumption, I'll wait for @MattSpeller 's comment for official validation)

If they really distrust their employees THAT much why not just throw monitoring software on the system and reprimand/fire them for not following policy?

Seems like an issue that should be resolved with company policy, not some overly complicated overly engineered IT/IS solution.

"invalid user root"

What does your sshd_config file look like? Is root allowed? Have you restarted the ssh server since you made the last changes to the config file?

Are you monitoring the /var/log/secure file as you are trying to connect? Have you tried connecting to the freepbx IP instead of hostname?

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Are you certain CAPS-LOCK isn't on?
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This will show your Fail2Ban jails and display whether your IP blacklisted.

sudo iptables -L -n

Have you tried stopping Fail2Ban? Anything strange showing up in your Fail2Ban logs?

Up the verbosity when you connect and see if it provides any additional clues.

ssh -vvv user@host

I mean, it isn't like he's using HDDs; everything should still be within warranty on landing right?

@MattSpeller said in Virtualization build:

@DustinB3403 said in Virtualization build:

@MattSpeller said in Virtualization build:

@DustinB3403 said in Virtualization build:

@MattSpeller said in Virtualization build:

@DustinB3403 said in Virtualization build:

@MattSpeller said in Virtualization build:

I fucking wish we could get pricing like that in Canada.

Have a buddy buy it for you and hand ship it up.

border agent: That's a nice server you got there.... be a shame if you had to... pay taxes on it! muahahahaha

Nothing to claim, a buddy gave me this equipment from his personal lab.

"In general, the goods you include in your personal exemption must be for your personal or household use. These goods include souvenirs, gifts that you received from friends or relatives living outside Canada or prizes that you won."

Canada customs gives no fucks about gifts, only charging taxes on everything

https://travel.gc.ca/returning/customs/what-you-can-bring-home-to-canada#conditions

And worst case, why not just have a receipt for $100 for computer equipment.

What's the tax on that?

You seem to be under the impression that customs agents are dumb. You would be incorrect in my experience.

Tax rate here is 13.5% so potentially saving $500 in tax is not worth the risk. They can seriously mess with you.

2630x1.25x1.135= $3731CDN.... sigh.

Edit: checked xe.com, it's $1.30:1 sobs quietly for the death of his online shopping fun times

What if we inserted and secured the servers into one of the big bubble bouncy ball things and delivered it via trebuchet?

@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

My new phrase is going to be "tap the braintrust".

It didn't sound so...wrong... when I said it the first time, ha ha. picks brain up out of the gutter

Rinse it off with a little scotch or bourbon and I'm sure you'll be good-to-go.

I spend enough time in the Linux groups on Spiceworks that I feel pretty confident calling bullshit on the 78% of IT Pros that frequent the community know how to properly save a file and exit VIM.

Google has to have skewed those numbers...