Dropbox saved almost $75 million over two years by building its own tech infrastructure

https://www.geekwire.com/2018/dropbox-saved-almost-75-million-two-years-building-tech-infrastructure/

I'm running Plex as a Ubuntu VM on Hyper-V. It stores no media. Simply network access to a Dell R510 where I keep the media. The Plex VM is running on a different host because I wanted to leverage the all SSD setup. The only data on the Plex VM is the library metadata. Everything else streams over the network. It's absolutely rock solid. Transcodes X265 and X264 rips effortlessly on as many as 4 simultaneous local clients as well as 2 to 3 remote clients for family. The local playback devices are all currently Roku 4s while the remote devices are Roku 3s and Smart TVs with built-in Plex.

@Dashrender The bulk of it yes.

@mlnews Ugh! I'm going back to my abacus.

@JaredBusch said in Marketing Campaign E-mail and Office365 - Check My Logic, Please:

I would need to see the ehaders, but I send email from a postfix relay with a valid return on my Office 365 server to other Office 365 users all the time and nothing is junked.

The only thing I did was to add the WAN IP of the location with the Postfix server as a new connector trusted by IP.

^^^ This ^^^ I did that for postfix and haven't had any spam flagging issues.

I get that the Canadian dollar isn't all that hot right now but...damn! Not quite the $18 bucks.

@kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

"Facebook has moved more than 1.5 billion users out of reach of European privacy law, despite a promise from Mark Zuckerberg to apply the “spirit” of the legislation globally."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/19/facebook-moves-15bn-users-out-of-reach-of-new-european-privacy-law

I'm like totally shocked (said no one).

@guyinpv said in What's the current "standard" for a media server setup these days?:

@NashBrydges said in What's the current "standard" for a media server setup these days?:

You'll want to know what your Plex PC can manage for outputs and determine whether you even want to go down that road. But for the cost of a Roku these days, I'd spring for that and be done with it. Much, much simpler and quieter.

You're suggesting the Roku completely replaces building a Plex box. How is that? I still have to store all my files somewhere and I'm trying to not have to use my main workstation. Is Roku's media management features as good as Plex? Does it scan for meta data and find previews and cover art and all that stuff?

I guess I'm not see how Roku alone is a complete replacement for Plex. I thought Roku just connects to various streaming services? Is it also a media management app like Plex?

No, not at all, it can't. I'm suggesting that if your video card isn't up to snuff, relegate the Plex PC to just Plex Server function and use the Roku as your player.

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@hobbit666 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller No mention of free on the website anymore

So I noticed. and the website is broken with SSL on, too.

Was just on their site a few minutes ago. It is seriously messed up. No SSL on any page, even on the login page.

Well this is a bummer.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/02/cisco-is-buying-duo-security-for-2-35b-in-cash/

There are existing WP plugins that would make this easier. Here is a link that might help.

http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-install-google-analytics-in-wordpress/

Are you looking for something that would resemble a typical production deployment (ie: with all the security features and add-ons enabled like Wordfence) or do you want something that is left open and purposefully vulnerable for your testing purposes?

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

BBC News - Huawei laptop 'backdoor' flaw raises concerns
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47800000

Well this isn't going to help their cause. lol

I installed Odoo a few days ago with plans to go poke around in there but haven't had time to. Not so much just CRM but more of an ERP solution that includes CRM but if all you want is CRM, you can just install that module.

https://www.odoo.com/

It is open source as well.

https://github.com/odoo/odoo

Now you're just arguing for the sake of arguing so I'm not going to participate in this since logic shows clearly that laws from other countries can be applied to citizens of other countries.

Must be a pretty rosy life in that bubble. Lol

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Airbnb guest found hidden surveillance camera by scanning Wi-Fi network

Airbnb initially didn't ban offender despite rule against undisclosed cameras.

"Once the family had unpacked, Andrew Barker, who works in IT security, scanned the house's Wi-Fi network," CNN reported today. "The scan unearthed a camera and subsequently a live feed. From the angle of the video, the family tracked down the camera, concealed in what appeared to be a smoke alarm or carbon monoxide detector."

These stories are becoming more common.

Do you want to learn CentOS or do you want to learn how to manage an application on CentOS? I ask because, as a Linux noob, I found that when I installed Nextcloud on Ubuntu, I didn't learn a lot more about Ubuntu, but I learned how to install and manage Nextcloud.

I'm now at about 15 VMs running various flavors of Linux and each running it's own application.

While I've learned quite a bit by getting these applications setup, I don't know that I learned a ton about CentOS or Fedora or Ubuntu except as related to the installation and maintenance of those apps or websites.

I'm interested as to what will be suggested here to see if I should change my approach.

@guyinpv said in Let's talk security camera options:

Ubiquity, Watchdog, Axis, no battery units.

If your camera's are PoE powered, your switch's power backup would then power your cameras. You'll want to take that into account when sizing your UPS needs.

Looks like that vulnerability is worse than expected.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisco-upgrades-remote-code-execution-flaws-to-critical-severity/

Did you have to change these settings to point to your Let's Encrypt certificate?

# TLS parameters
smtpd_tls_cert_file=/etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
smtpd_tls_key_file=/etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
smtpd_use_tls=yes