Previous job: Windows, because it was a company issued laptop. Plus a lot of the company was built around the MS ecosystem.
Current job: Linux, because I got to keep the perfectly decent Dell laptop when I left. I wanted to make sure I purged everything, so it’s running LMDE now. Plus, there’s not much outlook and teams stuff that I have to use.
I blame Daniel
Some surface-level info while I’m waiting for my kids to finish the evening ritual: No need for an extra IP or VPS. You can host them all on the same IP and machine, provided there aren’t any conflicting port assignments.
In the DNS server, you can enter the various subdomains as CNAME pointing to the A record. The server-software is configured with which hostname it should operate as (For example, HTTP/1.1 has a Host-specification in the initial request, so that one server can host multiple domains on the same IP)
It should be noted that mail servers are indicated by an MX-record. And mailservers should also have a TXT record (SPF record) as part of spam prevention - some SMTP servers query this to ensure that your e-mail actually comes from you and not from someone spoofing the domain.
I used to have a zone file that did roughly what you’re trying to do, bit sadly I don’t have it anymore. But as you have DNS up and running, I’m sure you’ll be able to figure out the rest through checking some examples.
I half-baked an example zone file for you. I haven’t tested it, though. It assumes the domain of blargh.com being hosted from an IP of 123.123.123.123:
$TTL 86400
@ IN SOA ns1.blargh.com. admin.blargh.com. (
2024102102 ; Serial (incremented)
3600 ; Refresh
1800 ; Retry
1209600 ; Expire
86400 ; Minimum TTL
)
; Name servers
@ IN NS ns1.blargh.com.
@ IN NS ns2.blargh.com.
; A Records
@ IN A 123.123.123.123
ns1 IN A 123.123.123.123
ns2 IN A 123.123.123.123
; CNAME Records
mail IN CNAME blargh.com.
mastodon IN CNAME blargh.com.
matrix IN CNAME blargh.com.
; MX Records
@ IN MX 10 mail.blargh.com.
; TXT/SPF Record
@ IN TXT "v=spf1 mx ~all"
Oh, and some tips:
I primarily use perl, and while I find its syntax easy to understand, I’ll be the first to admit that its syntax and special use cases thereof does provide a way for some rather exotic symbol-garbage to be valid code.
Normal perl code is simple enough. But abnormal code does happen, sometimes on purpose, sometimes by accident.
I’ll share with you this gem:
Why is this program valid? I was trying to create a syntax error
Yeah, that’s the guy, I think.
“With great claims come great responsibility”
That guy from Spiderman, probably
Go away, Sam Altman
In my book WSL and VM share the same downside in that you’re only abstracting Linux functionality in relation to the hardware.
Linux really shines when it has full access to the actual hardware as opposed to asking it’s environment nicely if it’s allowed to do something.
For example, I routinely need to change my IP address to talk to specific networks and network hosts, but having to step over the virtualisation or interpretation layer to do so is just another step, thus removing the advantage of running linux in the first place.
Sure, VMs and dual booting have their uses, but the same uses can be serviced by an actual linux install while also being infinitely more powerful.
I played around with WSL for a while, but you notice really quickly that it is not the real thing. I’ve used virtual box for some use cases, but that too feels limiting ad all of the hardware you want to fully control is only abstracted.
I would say that unless he has a really good reason why he wouldn’t want to go for dual boot, then he should do just that.
By promoting the distros that have this as a goal, such as Mint.
I would suggest Ubuntu in this category, but… eww…
Pretty much when you posted that, I found this in my dmesg:
[ 715.744332] e1000e 0000:00:1f.6: Interrupt Throttling Rate (ints/sec) set to dynamic conservative mode
[ 715.965683] e1000e 0000:00:1f.6: The NVM Checksum Is Not Valid
[ 716.008541] e1000e: probe of 0000:00:1f.6 failed with error -5
Just for the record, I compared modinfo up against lspci, and the PCI ID matches, so the driver should work. Is it possible to ignore the NVM checksum and try anyway? Because any tool I can find that communicates with the EEPROM on a hardware level is made for msdos.
Derp, I don’t think I ever did a modprobe. Anyway, I did an rmmod as I found out that there’s a newer version out, and I’m currently working on building the new version.
UPDATE: Newer version built, installed, and loaded.
I was thinking along the same lines. Use the online version available via portal.office.com, and use that to convert everything to something more FOSS-friendly.
Not sure if access is free, though.
I actually like that name, but it might be too close to the original for trademark comfort.
I for one really appreciate the effort of supporting non-AT drives despite the initial skepticism.
I’m intrigued. The search results are more akin to how they used to be 25 years ago on the internet that I loved
Https://Search.marginalia.nu is definitely something I’ll be exploring going forward!
The alternative was 5mbit/s VSAT. 4G was a luxury at that time.
I don’t remember how many files, but typically these geophysical recordings clock in at 10-30 GB. What I do remember, though, was the total transfer size: 4TB. It was kind of like a bunch of .segd, and they were stored in this server cluster that was mounted in a shipping container for easy transport and lifting onboard survey ships. Some geophysics processors needed it on the other side of the world. There were nobody physically heading in the same direction as the transfer, so we figured it would just be easier to rsync it over 4G. It took a little over a week to transfer.
Normally when we have transfers of a substantial size going far, we ship it on LTO. For short distance transfers we usually run a fiber, and I have no idea how big the largest transfer job has been that way. Must be in the hundreds of TB. The entire cluster is 1.2PB, bit I can’t recall ever having to transfer everything in one go, as the receiving end usually has a lot less space.
Counterpoint: https://xkcd.com/910/
Also, both hostname and username might fit a company schema that you want to anonymize.
…with blyatjack and hookers!