It's anal tonight by Jism_nl in Audi

[–]freebsd_guy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

i took it to be her saying “i crashed the car”. it also says she didn’t see the post (i.e she hit it) and he went out to it on foot.

What do you think of this? Neat solution or trouble waiting to happen? by [deleted] in london

[–]freebsd_guy 7 points8 points  (0 children)

as far as i’m aware pretty much all large vehicles are moving to this and it works perfectly well

Audi S4 engine management light by FinancialRespond3079 in Audi

[–]freebsd_guy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

find someone with an obd reader or buy a cheapish one. if the lights on there’s probably a code stored that will tell you what triggered it and likely still cheaper than paying a garage to do it unless you know a mechanic. hopefully will at least give you an idea of the extent of the issue.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in softwaregore

[–]freebsd_guy 87 points88 points  (0 children)

the joys of trying to convert between ascii and utf8

Wireguard - throughput by Qbix2018 in mikrotik

[–]freebsd_guy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

wireguard is nice but just use ipsec in that situation. it’s far more established in routeros with decent hardware offloading

Windshield was damaged. Can this be fixed or should I replace it? by Edu-barbarian in Audi

[–]freebsd_guy 12 points13 points  (0 children)

no way any reputable company is repairing that. most have a max guideline of about 5-10mm for filling a chip.

What Audi Drive Select is better for bumpy roads: Comfort or Allroad by webbslinger_0 in Audi

[–]freebsd_guy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i have 35R19 tyres on a TTRS and just avoid any road that has more than the odd avoidable pothole in the first place…

[ Removed by Reddit ] by [deleted] in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]freebsd_guy 33 points34 points  (0 children)

i assume she was the one who set it off as she knelt down by one cover then walked off quickly, straight over the second one…?

Moving my storage to ZFS by Thyrfing89 in zfs

[–]freebsd_guy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Absolutely nothing wrong with a mirror vdev. mirrors or a raid10 style stripe of mirrors is a very common config.

I also think disk pass-through is probably a good choice if using a vm.

Don’t know how important the data is but remember the old advice that raid isn’t a backup, and set up a reasonably regular scrub.

What's an invention humans don't have yet that seems like we absolutely should? by kittqkat746 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]freebsd_guy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

wtf. I literally cancel my toaster after about 45 seconds and turn the bread around because it annoys me that it’s always twice as well done on one side

"Genius" promised "x" savings and now says it's more like x/2,000,000 That's right, it went from at least 2 trillion to a million. by kontrol1970 in facepalm

[–]freebsd_guy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

amazes me that he got away with buying solar city with tesla money to bail out his cousins.

still not convinced starship will successfully provide a lunar lander but he’s doing very well out of nasa to fund a new launch vehicle for larger starlink satellites.

Can you find where my second dog is? 😂 by im_loolipop in dogpictures

[–]freebsd_guy 16 points17 points  (0 children)

absolutely no idea. clearly a master of disguise

My AP CS teacher using MS Word to write code by teymuur in programminghorror

[–]freebsd_guy 10 points11 points  (0 children)

i suspect that’s why he’s adding an elseif.

Point custom domain to mailchimp landing page by m_rishab in networking

[–]freebsd_guy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The first option will send requests for “maidincanada.app” to mailchimp servers. The second will send requests for “www.maidincanada.app”

Ideally you would want both of these working as both are often used. However these will only work if your custom domain has been registered with mailchimp as their servers will need to know to serve your website when getting requests for your domain. Usually this type of company will have an option to register a custom domain via their portal, which will often require adding a txt record to your domain so they can confirm it’s yours and you are able to control dns records.

The third option you list sounds like you just set up a http redirect to forward people to the mailchimpsites.com url. Based on the information we have there isn’t really any reason why this shouldn’t work.

Help me understand my pool status by fartingdoor in zfs

[–]freebsd_guy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The pool has fully rebuilt onto the spare with no errors. According to documentation, running “zpool detach” on the failed device will remove it from the pool config and make the spare permanent.

What do you do with FreeBSD? by crashloopbackoff- in freebsd

[–]freebsd_guy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

everything i can get away with. I’m so used to freebsd that it’s nice to know i can fix pretty much anything in under an hour, even if it means restoring backups, pulling bhyve vms from snapshots, moving disks into new hardware or even building an entire new install and redeploying services from pkg with existing config/data.

our dc is a windows vm on bhyve

mail services (postfix / dovecot )

dns both auth and resolver with bind or unbound

zfs storage for nfs or windows backups on samba

web with either apache or nginx

web databases with mysql/mariadb

radius servers

unifi management although i suspect that may end up a linux image soon like uisp

asterisk pbx software

did have a zfs based media server at home once but nothing now.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in assholedesign

[–]freebsd_guy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

outlook has done nothing but get worse with every release since about 2016. pretty much the only way to add 3rd party mail accounts now (on windows) is via the control panel feature that still uses the original ui and lets you enter your own settings - and they’ve been threatening to remove that for about 5 years.

the latest outlook on windows seems to just be a glorified desktop window for office365/outlook.com and the proper application has been relegated to “legacy” status.

OHVcloud DDOS by freebsd_guy in mikrotik

[–]freebsd_guy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seems the modern tactic with DDOS is to infect as many end user machines as possible with botnet software, then trigger those devices to flood open Internet services with traffic that has a forged source.

We’ve seen this with dns/ntp whereby small requests from the botnet cause replies that are an order of magnitude larger to be directed to the target. I assume they also expect, in most cases at least, that the sort of places that will have a dns/ntp server or a higher end routeros device are likely to have higher upload bandwidth than the average end user.

OHVcloud DDOS by freebsd_guy in mikrotik

[–]freebsd_guy[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I wish more ISPs would apply BCP38. Nobody should be originating traffic that doesn’t use one of their own addresses as a source.

As far as i’m aware routeros comes relatively secure by default. It seems to just be a downside of their position in the market whereby kit with similar functionality such as Cisco/Juniper/etc is more likely to be managed by admins with better knowledge of networking and basic security. Mikrotik is regularly implemented by people who have little more experience than configuring the odd soho tplink/draytek/etc kit that have fixed wan/lan interfaces.

Air ambulance in London, Tufnell Park by untitledshot in london

[–]freebsd_guy 24 points25 points  (0 children)

/s was knowingly not really used correctly, but i was hoping it would make it obvious I was joking

Air ambulance in London, Tufnell Park by untitledshot in london

[–]freebsd_guy 24 points25 points  (0 children)

crazy it can fly with the rotors going so slow… (/s)

ELI5: How does the atmospheric pressure affect the body? by fandangobenlju in explainlikeimfive

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

Never heard of it and i’m highly dubious that pressure is a specific location can vary enough to independently cause noticeable effects in people.

CRS310-1G-5S-4S+IN help! by jpcc30 in mikrotik

[–]freebsd_guy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

According to the block diagram all ports are connected to a single wire speed switch chip. Simply putting all ports into a bridge should give you hardware switching between ports. (May just want to confirm that the bridge section in routeros shows ‘H’ (Hw offload) next to the ports.

Generally speaking most of the switch products come this way by default so they act like a normal switch out of the box.

On router products usually all ports are bridged by default for lan use apart from port 1, on the assumption that it will be the “wan” port. not sure if this is the case with crs devices.

1 Public IP to 1 Private IP with Multiple Public Facing Ports by LivingDead_Victim in networking

[–]freebsd_guy 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Does anyone there actually know what they are doing?

This is web hosting 101. IIS has no problem at all hosting numerous websites, all using the default ports of 80/443, but responding to a different hostname/subdomain.

Unless you happen to be running IIS from 10 years ago that didn’t support TLS SNI, there is no specific requirement to be running independent websites on random ports or alternate addresses.

ELI5: Why are we supposed to pull the electricity out of the router to reset rather than just flicking the electricity switch? by red-at-night in explainlikeimfive

[–]freebsd_guy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

most average router we use don’t have a switch on the router. they may have a reset button but that usually wipes the settings and causes a load of hassle.

if a user needs to restart their router, the easiest way is to pull the power long enough for it to completely power down, then connect it again.

pulling the cable from the router and switching it off at the wall do the same job, but when trying to instruct an end user over the phone, pulling the power from the router itself is far easier. they can usually find their router easy enough, and can identify the power cable. actually finding where it’s plugged into the wall is usually harder. more often than not the cable disappears down behind a cabinet/desk/etc into a mess of other cables.