32°F is the Freezing point of water

Al has a new small HP 2530p laptop which has decided on Manjaro as his chosen Linux distro
notepadqq is the linux verison of notepad++ for window.
The Command Al ran to fix his issue with the wifi not be enabled at start up:

"echo "blacklist hp_wmi" > /etc/modprobe.d/hp.conf" 

Andy fixed his issue with WordPress by replacing the broken *.php file. Also: dealing with SSD cloning and the strange case of the PC-breaking desk

Jerry is:
• moving into “devops” (whatever that means)
• Has a new client with 12 servers and no control panels(!) on Linode
• Dealing with more server backups
• Looking at gitlab
• Moving Nagios/Centreon into AWS

Andy ask how he can Scheduling task to do thing automatically.

• Windows task scheduling or the AT command.
• The cron job for linux
• Logwatch – Send daily reports of the logs on your Linux server via email
• AutoMySQLBackup – Auto backup your mysql backup daily.
• Jerry’s mysqldump script

Al has been playing with IDS and IPS to proctect a customer network against attacks:

• Intrusion Detection System
• Intrusion Prevention System
• Snort
• Cisco Firepower

• Watch the progress of dd

Using Exchange Server Features to Prevent ‘Reply All’ Email Storms

Radiolab – Darkode – talks about Cryptowall, Russian hackers and DDoS attacks

Cool Youtube Channels:

• “The Scene” 
• Tom Scott’s
• Numberphile 
• Objectivity 
• Colinfurze

Jerry BBC Links:

• Computing in Britain Radio – Podcast/Radio
• The Secret Rules of Modern Living: Algorithms – Marcus Du Sautoy
• Calculating Ada

Number 31 is a prime number, Atomic number of gallium, Andromeda Galaxy and is 11111 in binary.

Al
Has been having fun with godday and net bios names in UC/SAN certs: https://www.digicert.com/internal-names.htm
Generate csr request in exchange 2007

Andy
Issues with invalided Certs due to wrong time, We discuss NTP in EP #013
NTPD in Linux – Use “ntpd -gc /etc/ntp.conf” to update the clock if the skew is very big.
Printer issues – We discuss if it better set a printer with a static IP address or dynamic

WordPress errors – syntax error  

“Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘<‘ in /home/clutec/public_html/wp-includes/taxonomy.php on line 4723″

Jerry

Looking at deploying AWS machines via Ansible

Using Amazon AWS host as WordPress / Hosted database (RDS) in AWS  / S3
– EC2 for serving
– RDS for database
– S3 for storage

Jerry went to a meetup/talk about VPCs – bascially the AWS networking model. Here are the slides

Using IMAPcopy to copy between IMAP mailboxes. Complicated by the fact that the IMAP server uses SSL/TLS, and imapcopy does not support this. Followed this article to use stunnel as a workaround

Removing exchange 2007 get stuck at 100%
Exchange 2016 preview is available 
321 Veeam bakup rule

Regular expressions – mainly day-to-day use with grep
and User Guide