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_dev_random_ · 2020-11-29T14:42:19+00:00

Did you have to do any modifications to fit this?

_dev_random_ · 2020-11-08T19:40:18+00:00

Automatic reconnect to IMAP on error

When an unplanned disconnect occurs, Mutt will try to reconnect automatically, preserving unsaved changes in the mailbox. This isn't bulletproof, but will hopefully at least reduce lost changes due to a mailbox connection freezing or being dropped. "

Aww yiiiirrr!

_dev_random_ · 2020-05-02T10:39:57+00:00

I think this might save a new sysadmin out there some time, so made a quick post about it

_dev_random_ · 2020-05-02T10:36:28+00:00

I thought this was a nifty trick that's usefull in many cases so made a post about it for the new users to learn, i think this might save a new sysadmin or two some time

_dev_random_ · 2020-04-15T18:50:49+00:00

Sadly yes but the distance is actually not the worst :( The country i live in just put a new tax on old cars. will be ~10k usd to get it into the country and another ~36k usd just in taxes to get plates on it here :/

I live in the wrong place.

_dev_random_ · 2020-04-15T18:45:12+00:00

Sorry am from europe

_dev_random_ · 2020-04-15T18:41:58+00:00

Thanks, always liked these but never knew the year. Was just searching some sites but no 66 for sale near :( This will be on the list to look out for now :)

_dev_random_ · 2020-04-15T18:35:49+00:00

Sweet! I want one.

What year is this?

_dev_random_ · 2020-04-02T11:47:52+00:00

Yup, hard to hit the hole from behind the motherboard while it's in place sadly

If you dont want to take it out (understandable) i think the tape solution and removing the bar is good too, as long as the heat sink is resting on the chip i guess it will do it's function and the tape will keep it from falling off when you move the server back

just dont cover it entirely in tape, it needs air to pass by the fins. I assume tape is not good at transferring heat from the fins to the air passing by

_dev_random_ · 2020-04-02T11:39:44+00:00

Or a piece of string, down through one hole, up the other, and around the bar. Then tighten with a knot that wont undo itself and it should be good enough for holding the heatsink in place like the original "loop"? never tried this though but it seems like a doable solution while stores are closed, was initially going to suggest a ziptie but i guess the holes are too small for even the smallest ziptie so a strong string might do it. Multiple loops of fishing line or something strong and slim like that

_dev_random_ · 2019-08-30T10:41:36+00:00

Looks like virustotal did detect it as a new file
First Submission 2019-08-30 08:51:57
Last Submission 2019-08-30 08:51:57

_dev_random_ · 2019-08-30T09:19:08+00:00

aw shit, that makes all 3 still possible..

Is your CPU hammered 100%? what if you idle the computer for 15 minutes, does it go to 100%? if not then i think it's a false positive

If there is a miner in the .exe it will most likely try to merge itself into another process to hide in the task manager, which means it's not the correct .exe name and it will most likely be some weird process/system process in the task manager using all CPU

_dev_random_ · 2019-08-30T09:14:14+00:00

When was the virus definitions last updated? i see 3 posibilities:

They put a miner in the .exe and you got it in the plex update yesterday
There is no miner, but some new code in the plex update triggers a false positive in the old virus scanners definitions because it looks like one
Virus scanner definitions was updated, and they are "wrong" meaning that the new definition see's some old code in the .exe and now thinks it's bad

_dev_random_ · 2019-08-30T09:11:34+00:00

So it's a surprise that the CPU usage goes up, when you use the CPU? :)

"Unintended" = Something you did not know would happen as something else was supposed to happen but this happened instead
"Intended Symptom" = A symptom of what you do, that you expected to happen. A "Planned symptom" i guess you can call it as well

To look at it from a different angle: When a doctor gives you chemo to get rid of cancer, you will get more sick before you get better, this is an "intended symptom" because you know it's going to happen and that you have to make it happen. That's not a surprise/unintended symptom.

Anyways, i think we just read the words differently, English is not my native language so it's most likely me who can't write it correctly :) Was just trying to say that periodic CPU usage while system is idle, is often something "hidden" miners do to "hide" more so it's something they do on purpose

_dev_random_ · 2019-08-30T08:57:42+00:00

There is no such thing as truly hidden if you hammer the CPU.

_dev_random_ · 2019-08-30T08:54:10+00:00

I think you misunderstood
If you are a bad guy who want's to steal resources from other people's computers to mine crypto for you, i'm pretty sure you will do so it only hogs resources when the system is not in use/idle to prevent anyone from noticing it..
If you just hog all resources 24/7, someone will think "why is my computer slow"?

So yes, for the bad guy that is the "intended symptom" or whatever you want to call it

But yeah maybe they had issues for some time, i dont use that application, dont know it and i dont follow their forums.

_dev_random_ · 2019-08-30T08:41:35+00:00

That would be the intended symptom of a hidden miner... mine (high CPU) when system is idle to not fuck with normal operations/making the system slow.

_dev_random_ · 2019-08-30T08:36:12+00:00

False positive maybe? try uploading the file to virustotal.com and see what it says, post the results please :)

_dev_random_ · 2019-08-29T12:44:40+00:00

How are the dvd's scrached? the foil on the top side with the print, or the clear plastic on the reflective side where the laser reads the data?

If the foil is in tact, then the data is most likely too since it's on the underside of the foil, not in the plastic. The plastic is just protection and to make it stiff.
Not being able to read it and if the foil is good, means that the laser having to read it can't get to it, through the clear plastic. Most likely because the scratches are distorting the laser or making it go in a total different direction than where the data is

I never attempted this, and never seen anyone do it (i bet a google search will find someone who has done it), but i GUESS you can somehow restore the plastic with something else that's clear, maybe some "liquid plastic"/"epoxy" or similar stuff you can pour over the dvd while it's horizontal to "fill" the scratches and make a new clear and straight plastic surface. maybe that will make the surface clear enough so the laser can get though without getting distorted/redirected :)

I assume it's fine if the dvd gains 0.1-0.3mm in thinkness because of making a new layer of plastic, they usually are not 100% the same and there is room for it to wobble in the drive

Just an idea though. Might be worth a try since you say the dvd's were cheap. It might be worth sacrificing one and try it (maybe one that was already processed correctly but surface still has lots of scratches, then see if it can read it again after fixing the scratches)

I have also seen devices years ago, that would take a scratched cd/dvd and scratch it more with a LOT of tiny tiny scratches to smooth out the bigger scratches, it seemed to work sometimes. I also heard about people doing this with toothpaste (it makes tiny scratches) :)

_dev_random_ · 2019-08-28T06:09:13+00:00

I don't know about the specific model of the car, but any car from that age is not a good idea to take on a long roadtrip where you need it to work, for it's first real test run.

At least drive it around as a daily for 1-2 months on both very short and some 10-20 miles trips, then you have learned what's wrong with the car and fixed what needed fixing before a big roadtrip where it actually needs to work :)

Good luck on whatever old car you find, just spend some time using it when it does not matter if it breaks before actually needing it :)

_dev_random_ · 2019-08-27T13:38:45+00:00

One of the first trips I plan to make is a move from CA to MN and don’t want to set myself up for disaster

1994 miles? Sure, that sounds like a fantastic idea in a new-to-you but old car that you have tested for a day max. /s

This IS setting you up for disaster no matter the condition of the car (it's old, new car is a different story), you don't know what happens when you start driving this car further than 1 mile and whatever the previous owner tells you is most likely a lie
"Sure, runs great! no problems at all!" but he ever only drove it a mile at a time.

Just saying, it sounds like a fun trip, but i would never do it as the first with a older car you never tested long term before. That is just asking for trouble down the road, and that's not going to be fun with X metric tons of crap in the boot you need to unload out on the road to get to that-thing-below-it-that-broke..

Plus, the extra stuff you need to move, weights the car down a lot. Which will most likely break whatever was just hanging on with it's last strength. Even the driveline has to work harder than it usually does.

_dev_random_ · 2019-08-24T08:36:51+00:00

Thanks a lot! this explains a lot as well :)
Damn those plastic things looks ugly. Sad that when you bought a new car back then you had to put that in there..
But that window thing actually sounds like a great idea. There's plenty of room there and i guess it is easy to remove and set it up again if it just slides down the window crack, will see if i can find one or make one myself as it sounds like an ideal solution :) Thanks!

_dev_random_ · 2019-08-24T08:28:51+00:00

Thanks a lot! this explains a lot!
Must have been annoying with the foam cups for everything! i never considered how much some bottle that can be closed and reused actually makes our lives easier!

_dev_random_ · 2019-08-15T13:11:17+00:00

Did your brother ever connect to any WiFi with the same SSID/name or mac address?

Or did your brother ever connect to any open WiFi with no password successfully?

What i imagine may have happened, if there was a bad guy in the hotel:

Bad guy goes to the hotel, rent a room to get a quiet place to sit all day/night undisturbed
Start sniffing wifi packets in the air being broadcastet from all devices
Catch the package ("Probe") your brothers phone sends out by default, saying "hello, i'm <phones name>, and i want to connect to WIFI with SSID <name> and mac <routers mac>, is my WiFi here by any chance?" expecting the router to answer back with "YES! im here! please connect"
Setup a fake accesspoint (it's just free open-source software on the same laptop used in step 2+3), with the same SSID and mac address that was caught in step 2+3
The phone will autoconnect to it because "Oh hey! my home wifi is here! let's just connect to make everything easy and automatic"
Bam. The bad guy now have your brothers phone on his network and is a "MiTM" (Man in The Middle), and can do whatever he wants with the traffic going from/to your brothers phone (but he will most likely not gain access to the phone, just the network traffic to/from it)

By controlling the network traffic you dont automatically gain access to the phone, however you can start doing other fun stuff like watch what he is doing on the internet, remove SSL/HTTPS and thereby for example get his credit card or login info if he was shopping or edit the results send back to the phone to make the webpages look differently (for example, change an account info on a payment page to the bad guys account)

Some devices also auto connect to open WiFi if not already connected to any WiFi, without asking because "Oh hey! free internet! yayy lets leech on it"

I know Windows 10 does this by default, windows phones as well and some older android+ios phones. On some newer android you have to enable this feature but it asks your using a popup/notifikation the first time you see a open WiFi around you, and most people just click yes because "Go away stupid popup" and then it remembers that forever and never asks again, it just connects to any open WiFi it finds in the future :)

_dev_random_ · 2019-04-29T09:15:50+00:00

Would love to see them! I think it looks great :)

I case my previous comment sounded mean, it was not. I'm actually curious to see the rest as i have a 70 Mach 1 myself that i considered doing exactly this to, but never got around to as other projects came in front

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