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[Sysadmin] Improper Wireshark use has restarted the editor wars.
Seidkona
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Below is a compilation of links we've found to be helpful for Sys Admins (capitalized because we're important, like a towel):
AntiVirus/AntiMalware Tools:
Networking Tools:
Miscellaneous Tools:
Printer Configuration tools:
Ransomware/Cryptoware information sheet
Stress Relief Tools:
...more to come
last updated 5.25.2017
AntiVirus/AntiMalware Tools:
- Malwarebytes
- Sophos Virus Removal Tool (Sophos product not required; free)
- Online Virus Check Upload a file and it'll check it for you. It also checks URL's which is super handy.
- Trend Micro - Hahahaha. Yeah, just kidding.
Networking Tools:
- Advanced IP Scanner
- Cisco Network Assistant - GUI for Cisco Products
- Royal TS - RDP Management Tool
- Terminals - RDP Management Tool
- Zenmap (Nmap)
- Internet appliance based on a PI to blackhole internet ads on your network.
- User Profile Wizard - used to easily migrate computers from one Domain to another.
- DNS Benchmark
Miscellaneous Tools:
- APC Power Estimator - estimates your power needs based on devices, which you can specify
- Dependency Walker - scans modules and builds a hierarchical dependency tree
- Greenshot -- Screenshot + utilies
- HJSplit -- Split/Join files
- Jing - Screenshot + utilities
- Notepad++ -- Enhanced Notepad (e.g., color coding)
- WinDirStat -- File space analysis
- HTAccess Redirect Generator -- Generate Redirects
- Hostsman Manage Multiple Hosts files from one utility.
- PC Decrapifier inventories all the bloatware (HP/Dell Utilities, etc) on a PC based on user-driven feedback and recommendations and removes them sans-uninstallers. Great for cleaning useless shit off out-of-the-box PCs.
- Recuva undelete software that restores deleted files, as well as files on damaged or freshly formatted drives. Paid corporate licensing but free for personal use wink wink nudge nudge.
- NirSoft has utilities to do nearly anything you want to do from sniffing passwords out of FTP/HTTP/SMTP traffic on your network to editing Outlook NK2 Autocomplete files to retrieving your Windows/Office product key to a nice viewer for BSOD minidump files.
- Screen Connect Free Use this to create a free tech support portal for yourself for personal use.
- VM for learning Puppet
- MobaXterm Super handy terminal program. Has local Cygwin shell and can spin up a lot of servers. Get it.
- Check to see if it's Thursday. It may or may not be.
Printer Configuration tools:
Ransomware/Cryptoware information sheet
Stress Relief Tools:
...more to come
last updated 5.25.2017
Mostly just huntin' monsters.
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I already said mongo.
"Yeah, X configuration on our network is preventing that specific, granular thing you're trying to accomplish this one time." -me
"Well, just turn the whole thing off." -developers.
No, fuck you. Explain what the fuck you're trying to do so I can find a less stupid way to do it.
This is a clickable link to my Steam Profile.
Get out of my face with that shit
Edit: and my other co-worker who I know is also Liberal is smiling and nodding because it's his boss.
Yeah, no. I am not going to be an asshole but I am also not going to respond in the affirmative to shitty politics.
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I'm not going to engage on who to vote for for President, but I will engage on something like the effect of the minimum wage on jobs.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Apparently my boss forgot all about my disdain for him and had a lunch meeting with them again because he's so hard dicked for making an iphone app and now he wants me to talk to him again. I have no idea how to tell my boss that I don't really have much professional respect for the guy and I don't really want to talk to him.
I'd say that he has said things about cybersecurity that are factually untrue, that you'd take his advice with a grain of salt, and that if he builds an iPhone app you should have it independently audited.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Day 1. Google: how 2 Vsphere.
That is how 99% of admins end up with the stuff they run.
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I suspect he's going to throw his hands up in the air and go "he's a friend of a college and he's been in business for 25 years he knows what he's doing"
He now shuts up when I am around.
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We have another cluster of the same PC's running our image of Windows 7 which are not crapping out, but their cluster of 500+ PC's with the image are doing so at an alarming rate and are getting replaced at the rate of 12 per day.
Isn't vmware's kernel at least partially pirated from linux?
I get so annoyed with that shit, especially from users. Like, okay, sure, maybe you don't like running a linux desktop. That's fine, I'm open to the idea that people have preferences. It's fine. But don't talk about shit you know nothing about.
And a VMware admin? Okay, so I take it he's never touched the CLI? Or would he need help spelling that?
I have a user who calls me every week for help, and she called me last week to tell me, "Hey just letting you know, I fixed my own problem this week by googling it, and I thought you'd be proud of me."
And I was, and I told her as much. And then I told her not to get too carried away with that googling shit or she might run me out of a job. She laughed.
I didn't.
I mean, there is/was a gpl violation lawsuit of them pirating part of the linux kernel.
Eventually they just "wrote" their own so they didn't have to share the changes.
I mean some of it is theirs but I am sure not all of it.
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Ubiquiti and Mikrotik have been in hot water for this shit too.
A lot of them think GPL gives them full access to any derivative stuff that is born from their licenses, or built upon the license which is often times not true. Something like linux though, there are plenty of kernels that are *nix compatible that could be dropped in that aren't GPL too. So they likely just took a BSD kernel and said fuck y'all we're not Open Sourcing our VM stuff.
They probably didn't touch the kernel's code anyways (at least not in a meaningful way to the kernel outside of their proprietary stuff)
*invokes the warrior spirit of RMS*
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BSD is the better license
change my mind
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that's your savior
hth
BSD is pretty great though.
And BusyBox is responsible for making a lot of shit work.
That's much more than McAfee could even dream about in 2018.
GPL and LGPL have their purpose just as BSD does.
My savior is the darkness in my soul.
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But man his people skills make even me frustrated.
At least RMS doesn't have control of the kernel.
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He's not in charge of anything. He's still actively developing it, but he's not alone and he doesn't get final say, he has to argue with other smarter people.
The lead dev for systemd has way more control now over Linux's destiny than anyone else does, not to mention how much control RHEL and Debian have over everything. Shit, the whole world blew up when Debian adopted systemd, that was just the sign of the end times.
And the lead dev for systemd is a way bigger jerk than Torvalds is, to the point that even Torvalds has called him out for it.
If it ever came down to it, I'd say the biggest difference between a user who Google's the answer, and the sysadmin who Google's the answer; is the sysadmin knows which results are the ones that will help and which will make the problem worse.
The amount of scary misleading information out there is unbelievable.
No, wait, scratch that, Adam from Observium. Definitely the biggest asshole out there.
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Manage all your servers via telnet using one of those old ibm dummy terminals from the 70s.
McAfee is too busy doing drugs and fucking whales.