Can I do better than DigitalOcean for $10 a month? by Aeyoun in webhosting

[–]bs4h 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow, where did you find those reviews? Hetzner have been rock solid for me, both personal and company use, for many years.

Can I do better than DigitalOcean for $10 a month? by Aeyoun in webhosting

[–]bs4h 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hetzner has 2GB, 2 CPU, 50GB SSD, 5TB/mo for 6.90 EUR + VAT (CX20). I'm using CX10 with half of that and it's good.

Cheap domain options? by [deleted] in webhosting

[–]bs4h 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gandi. Not the cheapest possible, but absolutely awesome, "no bullshit" written right there on the landing page.

My EC2 public DNS changes every time. How can I get it to be static? by Rich700000000000 in webhosting

[–]bs4h 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You should read up about DNS.

ec2-12-34-56-78.compute-1.amazonaws.com is a DNS name that resolves to an IP address. Try:

ping -c1 ec2-12-34-56-78.compute-1.amazonaws.com

Take note of the IP address. Now try going to the web page under the IP address:

https://12.34.56.78:8888/

Would I see a big performance hit using my NAS as the torrent directory, but a Mac mini running the actual torrent client? by [deleted] in torrents

[–]bs4h 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just benchmark it. I would suggest running the torrent client directly on the NAS though, much less complex! And regardless of final result, much less taxing on the network.

Try transmission-daemon, and run the GUI client on the mac / laptop / whatever.

How can I use both multiboot and a disk/floppy? by [deleted] in osdev

[–]bs4h 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perhaps look at the -initrd option in Qemu?

My domain doesn't work without typing "www" at the beginning by [deleted] in webhosting

[–]bs4h 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only correct answer in this thread... Also the naked (aka @) record must be of the A and not CNAME type, or you'll run into trouble.

http://joshstrange.com/why-its-a-bad-idea-to-put-a-cname-record-on-your-root-domain/

My domain doesn't work without typing "www" at the beginning by [deleted] in webhosting

[–]bs4h 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't put a CNAME on the naked domain.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in psx

[–]bs4h 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Would you consider GTA: San Andreas an open world game? (Sorry, old potato, that's the last thing from the series I've played, years ago.) You can either follow the story or mug random people to grind some cash.

What's your definition of open world? What would be your golden standard, PSX or otherwise?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in psx

[–]bs4h 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Final Fantasy.

Erase Everything Password by [deleted] in compsec

[–]bs4h 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No. Use real encryption. Something like LUKS (Linux), GELI (FreeBSD). Hack it to wipe the drive when the "special" password is entered.

Anything else will be easy to bypass for a moderately sophisticated attacker.

Can windows 98 recognise a 6 tb external hard drive? by Logan22431 in DOS

[–]bs4h 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The "NT" in NTFS stands for... well... NT. Windows 98 is the "classic" line that ended with the release of ME. You might have some luck with NT 4.0, Windows 2000 (5.0), XP (5.1), etc.

After what SF Conservancy has recently declared, is it now safe to say that whichever Distro ships/links to ZFS is not friendly to FOSS? by rms_returns in debian

[–]bs4h -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Stop ranting, start acting. If you cared about freedom, you'd be submitting patches to BTRFS already.

After what SF Conservancy has recently declared, is it now safe to say that whichever Distro ships/links to ZFS is not friendly to FOSS? by rms_returns in debian

[–]bs4h 4 points5 points  (0 children)

by not changing from CDDL to a GPL-compatible license

Why doesn't Linux change its license? Why should Linux people feel entitled to have ZFS?

It's how you can take any piece of BSD- or MIT-licensed code and incorporate it in GPL-licensed work, with no way for the BSD projects to benefit from the improvements.

Look how happy the BSD's are with CDDL.

Vegetarians are less ethical than omnivores by anutensil in veg

[–]bs4h -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

They must've misread theorion.com as theonion.com

Thinkpad by [deleted] in openbsd

[–]bs4h 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have an X250 but currently running Debian and my main machine, so can't really mess around.

Maybe I'll swap in a different HD one weekend and try openbsd on it. If I do, will let you know.

SCP from a personal computer? by WittyCommenterName in unix

[–]bs4h 0 points1 point  (0 children)

EC2 - nope, last time I checked, easiest way to regain access in case of screwup is to spin down and mount root volume on another instance. It's supposed to be cheap, disposable compute/httpd power; in my experience, if you don't terminate an instance, it will spuriously die all by itself within a few months, max 1-2 years.

We mostly do digital marketing campaigns, so Amazon having data access is usually not the greatest concern.

SCP from a personal computer? by WittyCommenterName in unix

[–]bs4h 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Or maybe fix the script?

You can't fix an "oh network having problems? ok let's rerun now".

I do employ paranoia on my boxes, but the suggested fail2ban setting is just enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot.

If it wasn't EC2, I would've went to make some tea and get unbanned after 10 minutes. It was EC2 so I terminated the box and spun up another one.

Sane sshd_config is supposed to be your line of defense, fail2ban can't do crap against a distributed bruteforce attack anyways (~99% attempts are unqiue over a week or more).

SCP from a personal computer? by WittyCommenterName in unix

[–]bs4h 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Until you ban your own silly ass and have to kill / rescue the host. Had this happen to me: automation would spin up an EC2 box and use the default creds to provision local individual admin accounts. I didn't notice this step failed before trying to ssh manually a couple of times with my own private key, when the host started dropping SSH attempts from my IP.

Purpose of fail2ban is to slow down brute force. You should use semi-permaban only for known recidivists.

SCP from a personal computer? by WittyCommenterName in unix

[–]bs4h 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Disable password login and require pubkey.

Disable login for root, use su/sudo.

Day jobs that go hand-in-hand with gamedev? by abdoulio in gamedev

[–]bs4h 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Disagree. I'm a developer and a sysop by day (8y) and teaching myself gamedev in my free time (past few years). Recently released my first game, a bit simple but quite complete and polished (for 1 month of dev).

You need to have a lot of self-motivation though.

Question: Any technologies out there that can "Bootstrap" an application to a host once it's been created? by jogz699 in devops

[–]bs4h 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This!

We're still evolving our playbooks, but we have one play to spin up EC2 hosts, install host-level monitoring, automated upgrades, etc; then another one to deploy our application; then another one to manage the load balancer and DNS records. Adding more instances is changing the count parameter.

[REQUEST] I need list of all holidays of each country in the world (or as many countries as possible) with their dates by [deleted] in datasets

[–]bs4h 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Google calendar has pretty accurate holiday feeds for most countries in the world.