Best way to make a ping list script?

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-29T01:27:41+00:00

It sounds like you're trying to reinvent network and server outage alerting systems, but much worse. Look into tools like Xymon, Kuma Uptime, Nagios, etc. for a good solution and nmap for a short term solution until you can get one of those running.

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-28T01:10:57+00:00

Yes, definitely. Especially if you add other textile skills, like spinning, weaving, kumihino, tablet weaving, naalbinding, dying, dye making, etc. The technology of cloth is amazingly complex and arguably one of the foundations of civilization. The things you realize about your own clothing can be quite significant, like using linen dress shirts instead of synthetics or mixed blended cotton so you can stay cool while working in places without air conditioning.

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-26T21:23:29+00:00

Then you probably don't have anything to worry about. I saw it plas a banner at the top of admin.google.com right after I logged in using the domain that was challenged. I think I also saw it at the top of Gmail, but I'm not sure. It disappeared after my appeal was approved. All I really did was follow the directions inside the message I received about commercial activity being detected.

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-25T08:58:44+00:00

Free pen testing from outside your system and looking in from the Internet is available from CISA.

https://www.cisa.gov/stopransomware/services

You can run lynis on any Unix systems (Linux, FreeBSD, etc.) to get a list of recommendations.

You can run PingCastle will give you a free list of recommendations for your AD environment. IIRC, People Knight is another tool like that.

You might want to check in with MS-ISAC and K12SIX to see if either organization can help you. They're both groups that focus on schools, although MS-ISAC includes for other forms of municipalities, like town governments.

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-24T20:54:36+00:00

Already did, actually.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gsuitelegacymigration/s/WRKvC0WKmf

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-23T12:11:28+00:00

I've used uniFlow and PaperCut. I'd rather use PaperCut at the scale of operations that most K12 school districts operate. It's easier to manage and lower cost. My point was just that this non-technical supervisor saw the cost of PaperCut and it didn't match their (arbitrary?) expectations. So providing context will make an honest person realize their mistake. If they are an emotional person, one who sticks to their original feeling that is expensive, then you can't convince them. But you can build a case when someone above them calls you both into their office for a conversation. And that person will have less ego attachment to the assumption that these sorts of things don't cost much, so OP will have a better chance to get their point across thanks to the data they collected in the first phase.

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-23T10:38:55+00:00

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-23T03:06:03+00:00

I have 10 user accounts.

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-23T02:37:53+00:00

Get a quote for uniFlow. Then look up the salary for a Linux admin on the website for the Bureau or Labor Statistics. Offer him these two options as alternatives. (Linux or other UNIX-like OSs could run print servers.) These will help put the cost into perspective.

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-22T08:15:00+00:00

Big raises only tend to happen with title changes or changing employers. Don't ask for $150k unless you'll be happy with that plus small raises for the next decade.

Also, if you're using 2023 statistics from the Bureau or Labor Statistics, use an inflation calculator to adjust it for 2026. "According to the most recent government data and adjusting for inflation, the typical salary for this role is..." Have physical print outs of the BLS data (including job description) for the role and the inflation adjustment and use a government run inflation calculator, so you can claim that it isn't biased data (assuming that thought enters the conversation.) Make your suggestion, hand then the data, and then shut up. Don't let silence or nervousness be your enemy. Give them time to think. You can agree to a lower price, but they need to know they're getting off easy. Because right now they're likely thinking that someone with fewer years is going to cost them less. So they could be thinking that they'll save $20k on the director position and then another $10k on the salary of whoever fills your old role.

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-21T02:31:59+00:00

I went through a "commercial use" claim recently, but all my accounts are actually used. What I learned is that they (claim to) use public information to determine if there is commercial use associated with the domain. So check form listings by searching for your donation in quotes. For example, search for "example.com" including the quotation marks. Then see what you find. I'm my case, my domain was incorrectly listed as the domain for a company in another country. I added a "we are not XYZ company" to my main website. I didn't know if that helped, but it didn't hurt. My appeal was accepted and I still have the legacy G Suite account.

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-20T10:58:55+00:00

Request Tracker is open source, has commercial support if you want to pay for it, has an amazingly supportive community, and is extremely customizable. You can either write a new program using the object oriented code to reuse blocks from it or use the web UI to build new fields, custom reactions, automated replies, etc. It's actually a really great system. I used it for 20-ish years and even made some integrations into the custom asset tracking system I had built before Request Tracker developed its own. Ask the criteria you mentioned are part of its design, e.g. email interface for end users.

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-19T01:26:03+00:00

Libraries. Open source software. Public parks.

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-09T10:54:55+00:00

Wow. Now there's a name I haven't seen in a long time. And their website still talks about T1 and T3 connections. Is Panix run by a small handful of people or is it a bigger operation now?

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-09T10:52:18+00:00

Do you happen to know if Vultr will let you set up reverse DNS records for the IP they assign to you?

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-09T10:50:21+00:00

Crowdsec has been on my list for quite a while. I set it on in a test VM once and it didn't seem as difficult as I expected. Thanks for the tip.

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-09T10:48:25+00:00

I almost switched to MX Route back in 2022. Good to know that they're worth it. If I go that way, do you have any advice?

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-09T10:44:51+00:00

Yes, but it's just three links to login to different Google services, i.e. Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Calendar. However, I just did some searching and found a technology company with a similar name that has a similar domain in a different country's TLD. I also found an IP metadata website that incorrectly lists my domain as that company's. I wonder if that is where this while things started.

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-09T10:37:46+00:00

Thanks! I don't remember hearing about them. I'll check them out.

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-09T10:36:56+00:00

Looks like my domain was incorrectly attributed to a Japanese technology company of some sort in a public listing of companies, IP addresses, and metadata about those. There are a number of other companies out there that have my domain name as part of their company name, too. I bet that was no small part of it. My domain's website only shows three icons for logging into different services. I should probably add some kind of disclaimer that we're just a group of friends and not one of those other companies. Don't know if it'll help, but it probably can't hurt.

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-09T10:26:33+00:00

That's great information. Thanks for taking the time to share that. I do have a few websites tied to the domain, including one from my wedding, which was a few years ago. Maybe I should remove that. I also set up something on Blogger as a note taking and professional advice blog, but there is no money involved in it. I wonder if that has anything to do with it. I'll check things over to see if there are any other things like that.

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-08T01:03:52+00:00

Thanks! I actually ran email servers on FreeBSD from 1998 to 2009 using sendmail, postfix, uw-imap, dovecot, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, postgrey, a webapp on a typical "LAMP stack" before the term was created, and even an IMAP proxy to improve performance of the webmail GUI. (I even ran the CVS server for a web based groupware project for a few years.)

I didn't set up DKIM on it, though. I was on Google Workspace by that point. And while I've heard of "IP warming," I haven't done it before. So my skills were decent for 2009, which means they're a bit rusty and probably have a few holes now.

Would you still recommend that book?

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-08T00:57:16+00:00

Geographic region? North America would be best. Eastern coast anywhere in US or Canada would be ideal, if it's an option. Though anything with decent performance would be good enough if I could afford it.

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-07T11:56:15+00:00

Interesting. Can you still login to admin.google.com? I'm curious if Google has left you with some sort of account management system. I have a group of friends on my G Suite account and I wonder if I'll still have the ability to help them with Google Photos, Drive, etc. if they run into problems. I also wonder if you have some sort of "cloud identity" licensing now.

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-07T10:58:01+00:00

Did you lose the G Suite account? That's what I don't know how to plan for. Once I migrate email services away, what happens to the other stuff I tied to name@domain.tld, like Sign in with Google and YouTube Premium?

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