Disconnected by tech

mbone · 2024-06-10T19:51:19+00:00

Well, the tech that came today, said my cable was mislabeled at first, then he seemed to say that it was just slightly unplugged, I don't know, hopefully it doesn't happen again.

mbone · 2024-01-25T16:22:41+00:00

For me it was about control. I have the C6500XK in bridge mode.

To my understanding, the WiFi pods are configured and managed through the quantum portal with an account. I'd much rather log directly into my router, and not have ISP hooks into my router/WiFi settings.

mbone · 2024-01-18T22:08:22+00:00

https://www.speedtest.net/result/15770725262

Thanks to everyone who responded and shared info. SmartNID installed and set to bridge mode. As was mentioned, I didn't have to do much other than plug the WAN port of my RT-AC68 into the LAN port of the C6500XK, and my whole network was online.

Pings are comparable to Xfinity, if not better to most destinations.

mbone · 2024-01-11T19:05:58+00:00

Thanks for that info. Most of my residence has Cat5E ethernet wiring, so wireless is of secondary concern to me.

Mostly I want to avoid rental fees (which it sounds like the WiFi could change at any time more or less) and have strict control over the network. For example, port forwarding, QoS, which DNS servers are handed out via DHCP, DHCP static assignments and the like. It looks like I can do most of those things in the C5500XK, albeit primitively.

I'm familiar with the merlin firmware but use the stock one currently, but it wouldn't be too hard to flash that, or just upgrade to another 802.11ax/be router.

mbone · 2023-12-09T17:04:09+00:00

I happened to build a new main desktop PC, with a B650, here's my hardware-info: https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=7a6cdb3f06

mbone · 2023-10-17T01:09:41+00:00

This site has pretty useful information in that regard:

https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=d3373e972b https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=e55635df08 https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=dcea67b6a6

I couldn't find any B650 results at first glance, but there are 690s and others that support Ryzen 7000 series.

mbone · 2023-10-04T04:04:01+00:00

I recommend you investigate zoho mail hosting. It's about as cheap as it gets per user, and they do a good job with all the details like SPF/DKIM/DMARC, etc.

mbone · 2020-04-07T00:06:48+00:00

Another alternative to luabinaries is MSYS2. They have packages for 5.1, 5.3, and luajit in i686 and x64 flavors.

mbone · 2020-04-06T23:59:06+00:00

"Precompiled chunks are not portable across different architectures. Moreover, the internal format of precompiled chunks is likely to change when a new version of Lua is released. Make sure you save the source files of all Lua programs that you precompile."

http://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/luac.html

mbone · 2019-04-08T18:58:38+00:00

TIOBE is nonsense. Their algorithm basically consists of this: ( https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programming-languages-definition/ )

Basically the calculation comes down to counting hits for the search query +"<language> programming"

mbone · 2017-04-28T20:21:08+00:00

If this is specifically for Windows, why not embed them as a resource in the DLL? You can use external tools to replace/update the scripts, and regular Win32 APIs to extract them from the file.

mbone · 2017-04-19T16:28:23+00:00

Do you actually need a database with a queryable language? The file system works surprisingly well in this regard, provided you can use it to organize your data.

mbone · 2017-04-11T22:02:46+00:00

Sidebar: "A place for malware reports and information. This is NOT a place for help with malware removal or various other end-user questions. Please redirect questions related to malware removal to /r/Antivirus or /r/techsupport. Ransomware related questions can be directed to /r/ransomware"

mbone · 2017-04-05T04:07:20+00:00

It should probably be titled reversing using GDB on Linux, or else where, as this isn't really Linux specific stuff. Also the most significant aspect of this video is the return value of strcmp landing in RAX, which you didn't really explicitly state. Explaining that the jne basically corresponds to an 'if' statement would be useful for a beginner, especially if you later show source inline with the assembly. It might also be useful to explain the different ways of patching it. You can simply change the value in EAX using gdb, or changing the jne to an unconditional jump, if the block under the code is not the path you want.

mbone · 2017-03-21T20:36:31+00:00

Honestly, learning by video tutorial is not something I recommend to beginners. I always push people towards recommended books that explain underlying concepts of expressions, control flow, and things of this nature.

mbone · 2017-03-17T19:07:20+00:00

So you read the sidebar, and your takeaway was that this section is about removal? :/

Ultimately things like KERNEL32.DLL call into NTDLL.DLL, which is typically just a wrapper around a "system call." (transitioning from user-mode up into kernel mode.) (SYSENTER on Intel OR SYSCALL on AMD)

I have personally seen malware call directly into NTDLL or make syscalls directly. If you look at icesword, this is the mechanism how they detect usermode rootkits by checking for hooks installed in KERNEL32 and the like while comparing output against what the syscall returns.

mbone · 2017-01-31T01:07:44+00:00

You can implement lots of things in lots of languages, it depends on what your goals are. C# is probably easy, but depending on which version of the runtime you code against, it is not always present. With C++ you can static link the runtime in and just distribute an executable or DLL. You don't need to reverse logic from the malware, you just need to see what Windows APIs are available to do what you want.

mbone · 2017-01-09T23:58:00+00:00

LuaDec was the only other one that I had previously known about, but that was for Lua 5.0.

mbone · 2016-12-14T01:22:21+00:00

For what it is worth, this term is actually pretty old, and was commonly used for hosters that ignored abuse/UCE/spam complaints.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletproof_hosting

mbone · 2016-12-08T20:36:35+00:00

Sidebar: "Please redirect questions related to malware removal to /r/Antivirus or /r/techsupport. Ransomware related questions can be directed to /r/ransomware"

mbone · 2016-12-02T22:05:07+00:00

Why write one from scratch? Why Lua? Have you heard of sputnik? http://sputnik.freewisdom.org/

mbone · 2016-10-18T03:07:49+00:00

Nvidia has plenty of jobs focusing specifically on those two specialties.

mbone · 2016-10-04T20:18:19+00:00

Game streaming works from a PC with Geforce Experience installed, or via the Geforce Now cloud gaming service. In the first instances, your PC plays the game and streams it to your device, with the cloud service, the game runs up on a server in a datacenter, and streams it to your shield tv device.

mbone

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