@IRJ said in List Comparison Tool:

I have two very large lists of IPs and I would like to compare the differences between the list. I usually use Notepad ++ Compare for this type of thing, but I believe it only compares line to line.

I also tried using conditional format in excel, but I am not sure if the results are accurate.

Just one command:
diff <(sort list1 | uniq) <(sort list2 | uniq).

For 95% of tasks involving text manipulation (from the easiest like this to mid-complexity), the standard unix tools can do everything in a very quick and concise way.
The other 4.95% (very complex, special stuff) can be handled by Python (but also ruby or perl).
The last 0,05% is HPC/realtime/weird (C, Ada, erlang?).

But please, don't use a giant piece of bloatware just to compare strings .

@RojoLoco sort | uniq

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Drinking:

@Francesco-Provino said in What Are You Drinking:

@matteo-nunziati said in What Are You Drinking:

ok this has been a beer evening. but IPA wasn't available anyway I've found a quite good local beer.

still a bit drunken (yes 1 beer = going drunk a bit)... helped my wife with cats and daughter. now going to start the fourth and last book of shadowmarch by tad williams.

...or miserably fall asleep.

I also just need a 0,40 also to go "very friendly".

And I've to make a confession: I don't drink coffee. At all. Nor any drink with sugar.

Ouch.

I drink loads of coffee, but not with sugar. I avoid sugar drinks, but don't avoid coffee. That's is the one Americanism with coffee that I struggle to give up. I just don't like my coffee sweet.

In Italy, anybody drink coffee. A tipical way to invite someone to go out together is "let's have a coffee".

@matteo-nunziati said in What Are You Drinking:

ok this has been a beer evening. but IPA wasn't available anyway I've found a quite good local beer.

still a bit drunken (yes 1 beer = going drunk a bit)... helped my wife with cats and daughter. now going to start the fourth and last book of shadowmarch by tad williams.

...or miserably fall asleep.

I also just need a 0,40 also to go "very friendly".

And I've to make a confession: I don't drink coffee. At all. Nor any drink with sugar.

Ouch.

@scottalanmiller said in Lenovo T470s vs X1 Carbon:

@Francesco-Provino said in Lenovo T470s vs X1 Carbon:

@scottalanmiller said in Lenovo T470s vs X1 Carbon:

@Francesco-Provino said in Lenovo T470s vs X1 Carbon:

@scottalanmiller said in Lenovo T470s vs X1 Carbon:

@stacksofplates said in Lenovo T470s vs X1 Carbon:

Why is Photoshop always the scapegoat?

Photoshop will run on Ubuntu, too. I have no idea why people pay for Photoshop, it's nice but not that nice.

WHAT? When?? Please don't say wine or windows virtualization. If you ever work with Photoshop or Lightroom, you'll know these aren't viable alternatives. The Adobe suite has such a superior handling of raw files that this feature only completely blows away the alternatives, IMHO.

What's wrong with Wine?

Both Photoshop and Lightroom aren't working good on Wine… just that. All the speed of the modern Photoshop and Lightroom comes from the CPU and GPU optimizations.

Hmmm... that's too bad.

How does Darkroom compare to Lightroom?

They are not in the same league; they don't even play the same game… it's like windows software raid vs mdadm.

As you know, I'm a big OSS and Linux fan and I use them in any possibile scenario.

But for photo editing the Adobe tool are a completely different league; I also used to edit my D300's raw with ufraw, Darkroom and Gimp for three years, when I had an XPS 15 with Linux.

When I switch to the macbook 15 I decide to give a try to Lightroom and… wow, my photo editing skill has a giant leap in less than a week! Not only the output quality was so much better, but I spend a fraction of time in the editing.

IMHO there is really no comparison between the Adobe suite vs Darkroom/ufraw ecc for raw files editing. I hate Adobe as a company because they completely ignore the Linux world, but they made great stuff.

@frodooftheshire said in Lenovo T470s vs X1 Carbon:

Looking at potentially getting a new laptop. Looking at the T470s & X1 Carbon. Right now I utilize an X230 w/docking station.

I'm leaning more towards the T470s because of the integrated ethernet. At the same time as time goes on we'll see ethernet disappear from more and more notebooks and at least the X1 Carbon has an actual ethernet adapter (doesn't use USB to ethernet) and it has much better battery life.

The other major question is the dock - T470s supports the traditional docking solutions, while the X1 only supports USB C docks - will the USB C dock charge the laptop as well as a traditional dock? I've seen reports that some people with other laptop models w/USB C docks are having charging issues.

Thoughts?

IMHO USB C docking is the future, go with the X1! I think I'll do the same, maybe for Linux compatibility.

@scottalanmiller said in Lenovo T470s vs X1 Carbon:

@Francesco-Provino said in Lenovo T470s vs X1 Carbon:

@scottalanmiller said in Lenovo T470s vs X1 Carbon:

@stacksofplates said in Lenovo T470s vs X1 Carbon:

Why is Photoshop always the scapegoat?

Photoshop will run on Ubuntu, too. I have no idea why people pay for Photoshop, it's nice but not that nice.

WHAT? When?? Please don't say wine or windows virtualization. If you ever work with Photoshop or Lightroom, you'll know these aren't viable alternatives. The Adobe suite has such a superior handling of raw files that this feature only completely blows away the alternatives, IMHO.

What's wrong with Wine?

Both Photoshop and Lightroom aren't working good on Wine… just that. All the speed of the modern Photoshop and Lightroom comes from the CPU and GPU optimizations.

@scottalanmiller said in Lenovo T470s vs X1 Carbon:

@stacksofplates said in Lenovo T470s vs X1 Carbon:

Why is Photoshop always the scapegoat?

Photoshop will run on Ubuntu, too. I have no idea why people pay for Photoshop, it's nice but not that nice.

WHAT? When?? Please don't say wine or windows virtualization. If you ever work with Photoshop or Lightroom, you'll know these aren't viable alternatives. The Adobe suite has such a superior handling of raw files that this feature only completely blows away the alternatives, IMHO.

@matteo-nunziati said in What Are You Drinking:

hell... wtf do you drink guys?!

water no one?! I think my alcohol is something like 1 beer in a quarter... (but what a beer...)

I think we're the "Healthy Italian" community, I drink one or two beers at max in a month .

Not every months .

I really think all that ransomware stuff only matter if a SOHO (or worst) windows place with bad configuration is in place.

Just one simple scenario that cannot be affected by the ransomware I've seen as of today: the smallest physical server you can imagine (2 cores, 4Gb ram), with a Centos VM on top of Xen (remote exploits of Xen are VERY rare and immediately patched), using rsnapshot that PULL the data to the local storage of the Centos VM.

The Centos VM can be made completely unaccessible from the network in ANY way, totally disabling ssh and blocking every connection with SELINUX, iptables and tcp wrapper all together.
The same for the Xen dom0 (usually is Centos, too), so the only way to interact with the backup VM will be to console-login the physical server, then console-login to the VM from "xl console"…

If you know a ransomware that can deal with physical access, Xen, Centos and at least two long random password (Xen AND Centos VM), please tell me so.
All this stuff is free software, not a fancy or expensive anti-ransomware solution, just solid design and good software.

@openit said in Offsite Backup copy to Bank Locker suggestions.:

@Francesco-Provino said in Offsite Backup copy to Bank Locker suggestions.:

@openit said in Offsite Backup copy to Bank Locker suggestions.:

Hello all,

In process of setting up Offsite Backup, I am thinking of doing to full backups twice in a month (lets say) to External hard drives and moving them to bank locker. How's the idea ?

Following are the reasons I am thinking of above process :

1. I want to make sure that offsite copy is not touchable in any case. If I chose to set it up on remote location and use VPN to connect over Internet and do offsite backups on schedule, still it may vulnerable to Ransomware kind of virus if something missed security thing or new vector of attack, right ? so don't want to take chance.

2. Chosen external hard drive, because it's cheap and don't need much equipment, maintenance like Tape one, on the top of that offsite backup is not for longer duration, so it will be okay with external drives, right ? may use 3 external drives to rotate, so at least two versions of backup will in hand (may be older but at least )

3. Now I want to discuss how to backup ? one thing is I need to full backup, which could be around 5TB.

• Now need to chose the method, and I don't want to copy and paste the data, because, there will be some errors like long path name which could miss the files, so may be third party software or in-built Windows Backup software will be fine ?
• Secondly, password or encryption for the backup, because it's going to out of office premises.

4. Why this location : We don't have any offsite location or branch near reachable and may not able to choose Authorized person's home. So bank locker comes to my mind.

Really appreciate your suggestions !!

My suggestion is a cloud, single-purpose instance that just "pull" the backup and throw it to S3/Glacier. You can apply a vault lock policy to the Glacier bucket so it's not deletable or changeable in any way, from your own super-admin account also
I think it could be superior to redundant and vaulted tape copies, maybe just slower in case of disaster recovery.

I am not sure about how this cloud can be safe guarded from Ransomware if network got infected from where Cloud pulls the data, maybe some versioning or vault as you said above, I just wonder if it's blocking deletion/changes how it's going to allow to make backup ?

I have thought of Cloud, but the Bandwidth (Upload = 10Mbps) with around 5TB data makes me to leave this option.

The private network of an instance in, say, EC2 is very unlikely to be "infected" because only you can put machines on it and of course the backup instance would only grab the backup, maybe compress it and send to S3. You can really lockdown this VM so it can just use the 2-3 commands it needs to do this job, and only use a certain IP range, with certain users, SELINUX etc.

The vault policies are "write once read many", so of course you can backup your data to the bucket and after the first writing you can't modify the data in ANY way.

We have ~2Tb of data and I've no problem in backup everything to the cloud with a 4Mbps link!

@openit said in Offsite Backup copy to Bank Locker suggestions.:

Hello all,

In process of setting up Offsite Backup, I am thinking of doing to full backups twice in a month (lets say) to External hard drives and moving them to bank locker. How's the idea ?

Following are the reasons I am thinking of above process :

1. I want to make sure that offsite copy is not touchable in any case. If I chose to set it up on remote location and use VPN to connect over Internet and do offsite backups on schedule, still it may vulnerable to Ransomware kind of virus if something missed security thing or new vector of attack, right ? so don't want to take chance.

2. Chosen external hard drive, because it's cheap and don't need much equipment, maintenance like Tape one, on the top of that offsite backup is not for longer duration, so it will be okay with external drives, right ? may use 3 external drives to rotate, so at least two versions of backup will in hand (may be older but at least )

3. Now I want to discuss how to backup ? one thing is I need to full backup, which could be around 5TB.

• Now need to chose the method, and I don't want to copy and paste the data, because, there will be some errors like long path name which could miss the files, so may be third party software or in-built Windows Backup software will be fine ?
• Secondly, password or encryption for the backup, because it's going to out of office premises.

4. Why this location : We don't have any offsite location or branch near reachable and may not able to choose Authorized person's home. So bank locker comes to my mind.

Really appreciate your suggestions !!

My suggestion is a cloud, single-purpose instance that just "pull" the backup and throw it to S3/Glacier. You can apply a vault lock policy to the Glacier bucket so it's not deletable or changeable in any way, from your own super-admin account also
I think it could be superior to redundant and vaulted tape copies, maybe just slower in case of disaster recovery.

@NerdyDad said in SELinux with KVM?:

Going to have me a Centos 7 host here soon and am planning out my deployment.

I am going to deploy KVM of course. Question is, do you install SELinux with KVM? ClamAV?

Not sure what you mean with "SELinux with KVM"; are you talking about Svirt?
I can't imagine any relation between KVM and ClamAV…

@matteo-nunziati said in A recommendation for Buffalo NASes (or at least their support):

ok, not involved with buffalo, just a customer of theirs. but this is my story.

a couple of years ago I wasn't aware of Buffalo as a NAS vendor. I've found their appliances in the current company.
Today , back from my citrix event I've received a mail from the NAS daily check: SMART has detected "6 bad sectors" in one of the 4 3TB disks. <- they sell populated units in Italy.

Now the NAS is still covered by the default 3-year warranty, so I've called the tech support. Yes, I'm in Italy and they provide phone support localized in my language in the 9x5 timeframe. This is great, ok, but what about L1 support... everyone knows it: "hey did you check the power plug? oh, it is plugged...err.. sorry I've to ask L2 for this."

No! As with other enterprise grade companies, Buffalo L1 is really skilled people, I've asked them for other issues and always L1 solved them, being them replica issues, firmware issues etc...

OK, back in topic. I call them...
me: my daily SMART check mailed me about 6 bad sectors in 1 of the 4 disks: disk is still working and raid is not degraded but I would like to have a feedback (I actually wanted them to replace the drive).

buffalo: please give me your S/N... ok you buyed a populated NAS and it is still under warranty period. I suggest to replace the drive ASAP before it will deteriorate. Please, send back the info I will ask you by e-mail and we will send a new HDD in 24 hours. you have 15 days to return the broken one.

Honestly, I'm not aware of a vendor in the SMB/ROBO/SOHO italian market, which:

• covers every NAS with a 3+2 year warranty
• sells you populated units covering HDD damages
• has a support center close to you, in your country, givin 9x5 support to both resellers and end users
• provides 24h replacement at vendor expense (including the returned unit)
• does this even for small 2-bay units!

they HW is not so great and the SW quite old and clumsy, but this kind of support/service is great for vendor standards in my country and always lets me think about buying a new one.

well... at least when you can't afford a SAM-SD of course

Glad to hear that! Not so many IT companies have good support in Italy…
Nonetheless, I will always prefer a Linux box (with LXD or KVM if it's more powerful) on a commodity x86 like a basic HP/Dell or supermicro also.

Much more powerful, expandable, and durable.
I use commercial NAS only with occasional customers…

I've tried several platform including chrome OS, but I think I'll stick to a macbook (12, maybe) for now… Chrome OS is nice, supposing you'll always have some kind of connectivity; today I need a Windows VM to recover a peculiar windows-centric issue, and I have to virtualize it on my machine because internet from Telecom Italia (the national provider) went down in the whole Sicily :D.

Oh, also the cellular network was down for at least 2 hours.

@mlnews WAT

@mlnews said in KDE Plasma 5.10 Adds Spring Loading Feature, Video:

Youtube Video

This is a tweak of a very old feature in folder view of kde 4, nothing really new IMHO.

@scottalanmiller fedora 25 with kde is not bad, either.

Just symlink it in one of your PATH folder.

Kvm is a great choice to run Windows on Linux, on par with Xen, maybe a little better.