• 2o new server test

    From paulie420@21:2/150 to All on Tuesday, June 28, 2022 11:00:48
    2o finally outgrew the Raspberry Pi 4!
    We're now on a Dell r330 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1280 v5 @ 3.70GHz 64GB RAM running under a ProxMox hypervisor!

    This is just a test; did I get out? beep b00p.
    fsxNet



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  • From Zip@21:1/202 to paulie420 on Tuesday, June 28, 2022 21:09:41
    Hello paulie420!

    On 28 Jun 2022, paulie420 said the following...
    2o finally outgrew the Raspberry Pi 4!
    We're now on a Dell r330 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1280 v5 @ 3.70GHz 64GB RAM running under a ProxMox hypervisor!

    Cool stuff! And quite an upgrade. =)

    This is just a test; did I get out? beep b00p.

    Yep! Got you just fine!

    Best regards
    Zip

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  • From McDoob@21:4/135 to paulie420 on Tuesday, June 28, 2022 15:10:29
    This is just a test; did I get out? beep b00p.

    Boop, b33p. No. Nobody saw this! (o_-)

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  • From ogg@21:2/147 to paulie420 on Tuesday, June 28, 2022 15:26:11
    This is just a test; did I get out? beep b00p.
    fsxNet



    pAULIE42o

    got you here!

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  • From claw@21:1/210 to paulie420 on Wednesday, June 29, 2022 07:58:29
    On 28 Jun 2022, paulie420 said the following...
    This is just a test; did I get out? beep b00p.
    fsxNet


    pAULIE42o

    Got you here! Did you have any issues with PFSense?

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  • From Nigel Reed@21:2/101 to paulie420 on Wednesday, June 29, 2022 13:34:26
    On Tue, 28 Jun 2022 11:00:48 -0700
    "paulie420" <paulie420@21:2/150> wrote:

    2o finally outgrew the Raspberry Pi 4!
    We're now on a Dell r330 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1280 v5 @ 3.70GHz
    64GB RAM running under a ProxMox hypervisor!

    This is just a test; did I get out? beep b00p.
    fsxNet
    Meep m33p!
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to paulie420 on Wednesday, June 29, 2022 07:52:00
    paulie420 wrote to All <=-

    2o finally outgrew the Raspberry Pi 4!
    We're now on a Dell r330 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1280 v5 @ 3.70GHz 64GB RAM running under a ProxMox hypervisor!

    That's quite an upgrade. Congrats! You'll enjoy Proxmox, if you haven't used it before.

    I just moved my BBS from a bare-metal laptop to my Proxmoxbox, and it's running nicely.

    If you haven't seen it, check out http://tteck.github.io/Proxmox/ for some great helper scripts. I've taken most of my homelab apps I had running in a Docker host into their own LXC containers, and am happy with them.


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  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to Zip on Wednesday, June 29, 2022 17:16:05
    2o finally outgrew the Raspberry Pi 4!
    We're now on a Dell r330 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1280 v5 @ 3.70GHz 64 RAM running under a ProxMox hypervisor!

    Cool stuff! And quite an upgrade. =)

    Yea; the server isn't new - but moving 2o over to it is. At any rate, its going OK - a few things are broken, but this setup will be infinitely better when fully complete.

    Yep! Got you just fine!

    Perfect; FTNs look to be moving along just fine.



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  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to poindexter FORTRAN on Wednesday, June 29, 2022 17:19:17
    2o finally outgrew the Raspberry Pi 4!
    We're now on a Dell r330 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1280 v5 @ 3.70GHz 64 RAM running under a ProxMox hypervisor!

    That's quite an upgrade. Congrats! You'll enjoy Proxmox, if you haven't used it before.

    I just moved my BBS from a bare-metal laptop to my Proxmoxbox, and it's running nicely.

    Sweet - yea, the server isn't new but moving 2o to it is. I'm most excited about the ease of backups using ProxMox... heck, even if by hand I can just copy the one .qcow file and thats a good backup. Anyway, I'm st0ked that 2o will be on a easier to maintain platform now.

    If you haven't seen it, check out http://tteck.github.io/Proxmox/ for
    some great helper scripts. I've taken most of my homelab apps I had running in a Docker host into their own LXC containers, and am happy
    with them.

    Thanks for the github suggestion, I'll take a peek... I've done some ProxMox mods, like removing that warning when you load up and switching to the free repositories... I love it.

    It'll be fun to dig in to some more scripts.



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  • From nugax@21:1/167 to paulie420 on Thursday, June 30, 2022 18:48:31
    On 29 Jun 22 17:16:05, paulie420 wrote:
    |03-> Zi> pa> 2o finally outgrew the Raspberry Pi 4!
    |03-> Zi> pa> Were now on a Dell r330 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1280 v5 @ 3.70GHz 64
    |03-> Zi> pa> RAM running under a ProxMox hypervisor!
    |03-> Zi>
    |03-> Zi> Cool stuff! And quite an upgrade. =)
    |03->
    |03-> Yea; the server isnt new - but moving 2o over to it is. At any rate its going OK - a few things are broken but this setup will be infinitely better when fully complete.
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    |03-> Zi> Yep! Got you just fine!
    |03->
    |03-> Perfect; FTNs look to be moving along just fine.
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    FTNs- those are important! I havent logged into my new BBS in a while. I was surprised as how many messsages its supporting! Crazy!!!! This is msg 804 on just this conference!

    Its a lot different when its your baby you created :)



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  • From claw@21:1/210 to nugax on Friday, July 01, 2022 07:52:03


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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to paulie420 on Sunday, July 03, 2022 15:55:19
    On 28 Jun 2022 at 11:00a, paulie420 pondered and said...

    2o finally outgrew the Raspberry Pi 4!
    We're now on a Dell r330 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1280 v5 @ 3.70GHz 64GB RAM running under a ProxMox hypervisor!

    Ooooo very nice :)

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  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to Avon on Sunday, July 03, 2022 13:52:45
    We're now on a Dell r330 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1280 v5 @ 3.70GHz 64 RAM running under a ProxMox hypervisor!

    Ooooo very nice :)

    :P I'm already eyeing the next... but yes, its an upgrade to get multiple services running on one box - and all of the sudden I have a few extra Pi's for things... :P



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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to paulie420 on Monday, July 04, 2022 15:45:21
    On 03 Jul 2022 at 01:52p, paulie420 pondered and said...

    :P I'm already eyeing the next... but yes, its an upgrade to get multiple services running on one box - and all of the sudden I have a few extra Pi's for things... :P

    There's a chap on YouTube who seems to be totally into Pis and I see he's creating mini servers etc. from them... so yeah, I guess the sky if the limit with those suckers :)

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  • From Warpslide@21:3/110.2 to Avon on Monday, July 04, 2022 08:40:44
    *** Quoting Avon from a message to paulie420 ***

    There's a chap on YouTube who seems to be totally into Pis and I see
    he's creating mini servers etc. from them... so yeah, I guess the sky
    if the limit with those suckers :)

    And then this guy who attempted to build a 1.2 Petabyte NAS:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBnomwpF_uY

    It... worked, but wouldn't trust it in production... lol


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  • From vorlon@21:1/195.1 to Warpslide on Monday, July 04, 2022 23:14:04
    Hi Warpslide,

    And then this guy who attempted to build a 1.2 Petabyte NAS:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBnomwpF_uY

    It... worked, but wouldn't trust it in production... lol

    Jeff does a few weird things, with some working quite well and others..... Linus Tech Tips does the same sort of things.

    Either way they are good viewing.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Avon on Monday, July 04, 2022 09:34:00
    Avon wrote to paulie420 <=-

    There's a chap on YouTube who seems to be totally into Pis and I see
    he's creating mini servers etc. from them... so yeah, I guess the sky
    if the limit with those suckers :)

    I've seen ESXi running on a Pi 4; if you had the ability to run LXC
    containers natively you could load up a Pi nicely and keep the services somewhat separate.

    I started running Proxmox and set up a docker host to run containers in, but I've found lots of LXC containers online; instead of adding a level of complication, I can run each service in a container that's visible to
    Proxmox. Admittedly, I don't need orchestration, I just want to run services in a way that minimizes interference with each other.




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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Avon on Tuesday, July 05, 2022 07:38:04
    Re: Re: 2o new server test
    By: Avon to paulie420 on Mon Jul 04 2022 03:45 pm

    There's a chap on YouTube who seems to be totally into Pis and I see he's creating mini servers etc. from them... so yeah, I guess the sky if the limit with those suckers :)

    I just recently put together my first thing with a Raspberry Pi (a music synthesizer with a kit from a group called Zynthian). I think it's pretty cool what you can do with a Raspberry Pi - There seems to be a good following for them now, with people & groups making custom cases & accessories for the Pi.

    I already know what I want to do next for a Pi-based project - There's a kit made by Retroflag for a handheld retro game console, which uses a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4:
    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09NJMV32N/

    The Compute Module 4 is sold separately though, and it seems it's currently sold out everywhere and hard to find (probably due to the recent computer chip shortages), so I'm having to wait.

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  • From claw@21:1/210 to vorlon on Tuesday, July 05, 2022 18:05:08
    On 04 Jul 2022, vorlon said the following...
    Jeff does a few weird things, with some working quite well and
    others..... Linus Tech Tips does the same sort of things.

    Either way they are good viewing.

    \/orlon

    I made a Nextcloud server. I love it! super handy Not the same concept but super useful. Never know when the easiest way to send a file is with web access.

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Warpslide on Wednesday, July 06, 2022 18:06:45
    On 04 Jul 2022 at 08:40a, Warpslide pondered and said...


    There's a chap on YouTube who seems to be totally into Pis and I see he's creating mini servers etc. from them... so yeah, I guess the sky if the limit with those suckers :)

    And then this guy who attempted to build a 1.2 Petabyte NAS:

    Yep that's the chap I was thinking about, I quite like his channel. Was interested in his Starlink experiences.

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  • From tassiebob@21:3/169 to poindexter FORTRAN on Wednesday, July 06, 2022 20:00:59
    I've seen ESXi running on a Pi 4; if you had the ability to run LXC

    I didn't realise there was even an ARM version of ESXi? I guess it makes sense with the rising population of ARM based servers in datacentres.

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  • From deon@21:2/116 to tassiebob on Wednesday, July 06, 2022 20:27:42
    Re: Re: 2o new server test
    By: tassiebob to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed Jul 06 2022 08:00 pm

    I've seen ESXi running on a Pi 4; if you had the ability to run LXC

    I didn't realise there was even an ARM version of ESXi? I guess it makes sense with the rising population of ARM based servers
    in datacentres.

    Yup, it works well.

    I have it on the Pi 4 8G, with 3 VMs, running microk8s, nothing on there really - just seeing if it works.


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  • From 2twisty@21:3/166 to Avon on Wednesday, July 06, 2022 12:28:38
    Yep that's the chap I was thinking about, I quite like his channel. Was interested in his Starlink experiences.

    I want to see more "Red Shirt Jeff" videos.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Nightfox on Wednesday, July 06, 2022 08:08:00
    Nightfox wrote to Avon <=-


    I already know what I want to do next for a Pi-based project - There's
    a kit made by Retroflag for a handheld retro game console, which uses a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09NJMV32N/

    I saw the source code for tildes on Github. I like the idea of setting up an online community on a Raspberry pi, but I'd want to 3d-print a miniature mainframe case for it, though. :)




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  • From vorlon@21:1/195.1 to claw on Friday, July 08, 2022 10:59:01
    Hi Claw,

    Jeff does a few weird things, with some working quite well and others..... Linus Tech Tips does the same sort of things.

    Either way they are good viewing.

    I made a Nextcloud server. I love it! super handy Not the same
    concept but super useful. Never know when the easiest way to send a
    file is with web access.

    Yep. I have one setup here, as I'm aways having to lookup client data.
    Being able to access it on my Phone/Laptop/Admin pc is a real bonus. Plus
    not having to fork out more $$ to dropbox etc, when I already have a
    server in a datacentre.... #-) (Why re-invent the wheel)





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  • From tassiebob@21:3/169 to vorlon on Friday, July 08, 2022 20:34:18
    Yep. I have one setup here, as I'm aways having to lookup client data. Being able to access it on my Phone/Laptop/Admin pc is a real bonus. Plus not having to fork out more $$ to dropbox etc, when I already have a server in a datacentre.... #-) (Why re-invent the wheel)

    +1 :-)

    I was a Dropbox user, but their price hike a few years back was when I parted ways.

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Nightfox on Saturday, July 09, 2022 06:47:42


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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Avon on Friday, July 08, 2022 12:37:45
    Re: Re: RPi
    By: Avon to Nightfox on Sat Jul 09 2022 06:47 am



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  • From vorlon@21:1/195.1 to tassiebob on Saturday, July 09, 2022 11:12:26
    Hi tassiebob,

    Being able to access it on my Phone/Laptop/Admin pc is a real
    bonus. Plus not having to fork out more $$ to dropbox etc, when I already have a server in a datacentre.... #-) (Why re-invent the

    +1 :-)

    I was a Dropbox user, but their price hike a few years back was when I parted ways.

    Just checked there's only 800mb in the dropbox atm (Yeah still got it
    installed atm), verses the 4gb in nextcloud. %-)

    Most of my files there are text files with configuration settings and
    config programs, with a sprinkling of jpeg's and the odd iso file.

    When roaming around town, is why I went that route to make things easy to referance. Dropbox reducing the storage limits and jacking the price up
    was enough to go my own route.



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  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to tassiebob on Friday, July 08, 2022 18:18:14
    I was a Dropbox user, but their price hike a few years back was when I parted ways.

    I've been meaning to make a post; what free [or VERY cheap] cloud service(s) do ya'll use? Dropbox doesn't seem to be a great option anymore...

    I pay for iCloud w/ 2TB of storage, and it has good integration with the OSes I use...

    I have hosted a NextCloud on my own servers before and it seems like a really cool option - I have to test a bit more and see if it has good OS integration.

    I see OneDrive is what Windows is pushing, but I haven't ever used it...

    What do the PPL like??



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  • From deon@21:2/116 to paulie420 on Saturday, July 09, 2022 12:09:16
    Re: Re: Dropbox/Onedrive/CLOUD
    By: paulie420 to tassiebob on Fri Jul 08 2022 06:18 pm

    I have hosted a NextCloud on my own servers before and it seems like a really cool option - I have to test a bit more and see if
    it has good OS integration.

    I see OneDrive is what Windows is pushing, but I haven't ever used it...

    What do the PPL like??

    So I use a mix of NextCloud and Syncthing.

    Syncthing hosts my dev code that I work on, specially when I'm switching between my iMac or my laptop. Its pretty fast are sharing data between my (3) machines that I sometimes switch between, and I've not had any troubles with sync.

    I use Nextcloud for everything else. I did use Nextcloud for my dev code as well, but found it got hung up with some dot files and there was another file it used to trip over. It was also slower in syncing I found - but that may have been older versions.

    But for sharing documents, files with outside folks - giving them a password protected expirying link is useful - except some people dont know how to use it :(


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  • From Tetrazocine@21:3/172 to paulie420 on Saturday, July 09, 2022 15:28:44
    Re: Re: Dropbox/Onedrive/CLOUD
    By: paulie420 to tassiebob on Fri Jul 08 2022 18:18:14

    Hey paulie420, have a look at sync.com as the data is encrypted end to end and at rest (not all cloud providers have encrypted at rest). I got a really good deal with sync when they kicked off many years ago and migrated from Dropbox. I also use Onedrive but only because it's included in my 365 subscription and iCloud but prefer to use Sync.com on both Windows and Mac, they may have a Lunix client by now.

    sync.com seems to be more robust that the others mentioned above... always had some sync issues with files that had odd characters in the file name when using Onedrive.

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  • From tassiebob@21:3/169 to paulie420 on Saturday, July 09, 2022 17:41:32
    I've been meaning to make a post; what free [or VERY cheap] cloud service(s) do ya'll use? Dropbox doesn't seem to be a great option anymore...

    Nextcloud for me - I use it for synchronised file storage (111GB currently), it's a CalDAV/CardDAV server for calendaring and contacts, and I sync my browser bookmarks to it using Floccus.

    I'm fortunate to have access to some datacentre space, so my Nextcloud server lives there, and all of my clients live here at home. If either site "went away" I've still got a copy of my data (and I have normal backups of course).

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  • From tassiebob@21:3/169 to Tetrazocine on Saturday, July 09, 2022 17:48:45
    Hey paulie420, have a look at sync.com as the data is encrypted end to
    end and at rest (not all cloud providers have encrypted at rest). I got

    I used Boxcryptor over Dropbox back when I was a dropbox user, and that had the option of encrypting the filenames as well. Not suggesting that Dropbox were analysing customer metadata, but if they were, Boxcryptor in theory should have put a stop to that.

    But the Dropbox price increase was enough for me to bring my data back home. Similarly, I was lazy enough to use the Google Apps suite for my personal email for a while - until they hiked the price, encouraging me to bring that back home too.

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  • From deon@21:2/116 to tassiebob on Saturday, July 09, 2022 19:23:42
    Re: Re: Dropbox/Onedrive/CLOUD
    By: tassiebob to Tetrazocine on Sat Jul 09 2022 05:48 pm

    But the Dropbox price increase was enough for me to bring my data back home. Similarly, I was lazy enough to use the Google
    Apps suite for my personal email for a while - until they hiked the price, encouraging me to bring that back home too.

    What do you use at home?


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  • From Bob Purdon@21:3/169 to deon on Saturday, July 09, 2022 21:31:06

    09 Jul 22 19:23, you wrote to tassiebob:

    But the Dropbox price increase was enough for me to bring my data
    back home. Similarly, I was lazy enough to use the Google Apps
    suite for my personal email for a while - until they hiked the
    price, encouraging me to bring that back home too.

    What do you use at home?

    In place of Dropbox - I use Nextcloud.

    For email - I went back to the old school way - Postfix for SMTP with some anti-virus strapped onto it and Dovecot for IMAP.

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  • From deon@21:2/116 to Bob Purdon on Saturday, July 09, 2022 23:18:54
    Re: Dropbox/Onedrive/CLOUD
    By: Bob Purdon to deon on Sat Jul 09 2022 09:31 pm

    For email - I went back to the old school way - Postfix for SMTP with some anti-virus strapped onto it and Dovecot for IMAP.

    Ahh, I know it well.

    What do you use for spam? Its always a killer for me.


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  • From boraxman@21:1/101 to paulie420 on Sunday, July 10, 2022 01:20:09
    I've been meaning to make a post; what free [or VERY cheap] cloud service(s) do ya'll use? Dropbox doesn't seem to be a great option anymore...

    I pay for iCloud w/ 2TB of storage, and it has good integration with the OSes I use...

    I have hosted a NextCloud on my own servers before and it seems like a really cool option - I have to test a bit more and see if it has good OS integration.

    I see OneDrive is what Windows is pushing, but I haven't ever used it...

    What do the PPL like??



    pAULIE42o

    I've used OneDrive. An organisation I work for set it up, and I access the shared drive from time to time to file stuff. I use a basic CLI Linux tool to mount the drive, which the name escapes me. Seems to work OK, but is Windows centric, and confusing to set up on Windows with syncing and all that.

    My ISP provides web space, accessible via FTP, which makes it an easy way for me to share files with others, should the need arise. Just upload it there, send them a link.

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  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Paulie420 on Saturday, July 09, 2022 10:08:57

    I have hosted a NextCloud on my own servers before and it seems like a really cool option - I have to test a bit more and see if it has good OS integration.

    I did the same thing while working on expanding my "off the cloud" solution to get away from Google completely when they were going to terminate their legacy free tier.

    I setup a local Exchange server and NextCloud in two different VMs. I still have them configured and do like the features in NextCloud. Since Google decided to not force the legacy free tier to a subscription (if the setup is used for family), I paused my work on it for the time being.

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  • From Cozmo@21:3/135 to paulie420 on Saturday, July 09, 2022 11:55:57
    I see OneDrive is what Windows is pushing, but I haven't ever used it...

    What do the PPL like??

    I use Onedrive and Google Drive. Mostly for photos and some other file types that I like to have backed up. I know its "Google" but they do give you 15GB of storage for free.

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  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to All on Saturday, July 09, 2022 11:21:49
    [tassiebob]
    Nextcloud for me - I use it for synchronised file storage (111GB ta> currently), it's a CalDAV/CardDAV server for calendaring and contacts, ta> and I sync my browser bookmarks to it using Floccus.

    [deon]
    So I use a mix of NextCloud and Syncthing.

    Syncthing hosts my dev code that I work on, specially when I'm switching between my iMac or my laptop. Its pretty fast are sharing data between de> my (3) machines that I sometimes switch between, and I've not had any de> troubles with sync.

    I use Nextcloud for everything else. I did use Nextcloud for my dev code de> as well, but found it got hung up with some dot files and there was de> another file it used to trip over. It was also slower in syncing I found de> - but that may have been older versions.

    [Tetrazocine]
    have a look at sync.com as the data is encrypted end to end and at rest (not all cloud providers have encrypted at rest). I got a really good te> deal with sync when they kicked off many years ago and migrated from te> Dropbox. I also use Onedrive but only because it's included in my 365 te> subscription and iCloud but prefer to use Sync.com on both Windows and te> Mac, they may have a Lunix client by now.

    [Boraxman]
    I've used OneDrive.

    [Weatherman]
    I setup a local Exchange server and NextCloud in two different VMs. I We> still have them configured and do like the features in NextCloud. Since We> Google decided to not force the legacy free tier to a subscription (if We> the setup is used for family), I paused my work on it for the time We> being.

    [Cozmo]
    I use Onedrive and Google Drive. Mostly for photos and some other file Co> types that I like to have backed up. I know its "Google" but they do Co> give you 15GB of storage for free.

    Wow - super awesome replies from everyone. :P Thanks... I *did* like the NextCloud install and I think I should give that another run since its a whole-household solution... Guess I could take it to the next level and point it outward if I needed to. Deon is the 2nd person to suggest Syncthing, for various usecases... I might have to dig into it, too. I've never installed it so I think I'll spin up an install and check it out. Neat that Cozmo uses OneDrive - I guess the only reason I never tried IT is b/c Windows pushes it so much... close-minded; I also think Google Drive [and Google Photos] is a smart choice as its a 'NextCloud on steroids' and easily integrates with any device you need, from anywhere you are.

    This was a great response, thanks all. I'll be trying out some of the options ya'll suggested. :P w00t w00t!



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  • From TassieBob@21:3/169 to deon on Sunday, July 10, 2022 09:08:54

    09 Jul 22 23:18, you wrote to Bob Purdon:

    For email - I went back to the old school way - Postfix for SMTP with
    some anti-virus strapped onto it and Dovecot for IMAP.

    What do you use for spam? Its always a killer for me.

    Pretty sure I've got SpamAssassin on there - it's no where near as good as the Google Mail spam filtering though.


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  • From deon@21:2/116 to TassieBob on Sunday, July 10, 2022 12:19:49
    Re: Dropbox/Onedrive/CLOUD
    By: TassieBob to deon on Sun Jul 10 2022 09:08 am

    What do you use for spam? Its always a killer for me.

    Pretty sure I've got SpamAssassin on there - it's no where near as good as the Google Mail spam filtering though.

    Ahh, bummer, I was hoping that you'd found some secret sauce that I've been looking for.

    There doesnt appear to be good "homelab" spam tools that are a) easy, and b) as good as the mail email players...


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  • From TassieBob@21:3/169 to deon on Sunday, July 10, 2022 12:56:48

    Pretty sure I've got SpamAssassin on there - it's no where near as good
    as the Google Mail spam filtering though.

    Ahh, bummer, I was hoping that you'd found some secret sauce that I've been
    looking for.

    Sadly, no. I wish!

    fwiw, we've moved to Office365 at work, and the Microsoft spam filtering is nowhere near as good as Google's either (but still way better than SpamAssassin).


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  • From vorlon@21:1/195.1 to deon on Sunday, July 10, 2022 19:28:20
    Hi Deon,

    Ahh, bummer, I was hoping that you'd found some secret sauce that I've
    been looking for.

    There doesnt appear to be good "homelab" spam tools that are a) easy,
    and b) as good as the mail email players...

    have a look at efa. https://efa-project.org/

    The only down side is it's still on centos 7, and the move to another os
    hasn't finished yet.



    \/orlon
    aka
    Stephen


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  • From deon@21:2/116 to vorlon on Sunday, July 10, 2022 20:29:25
    Re: Dropbox/Onedrive/CLOUD
    By: vorlon to deon on Sun Jul 10 2022 07:28 pm

    There doesnt appear to be good "homelab" spam tools that are a) easy,
    and b) as good as the mail email players...

    have a look at efa. https://efa-project.org/

    The only down side is it's still on centos 7, and the move to another os hasn't finished yet.

    Do you use it?

    Sounds promising...


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  • From TassieBob@21:3/169 to deon on Sunday, July 10, 2022 20:41:44

    have a look at efa. https://efa-project.org/

    The only down side is it's still on centos 7, and the move to another os
    hasn't finished yet.

    Do you use it?

    Sounds promising...

    Interesting... If deploying it needs a dedicated machine, then I guess the need for CentOS is less of an issue - I'd just build a CentOS VM and be done with it.

    Will be adding this one to the list for when I've got more time :-)


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  • From Warpslide@21:3/110.2 to TassieBob on Sunday, July 10, 2022 08:14:06
    *** Quoting TassieBob from a message to deon ***

    Ahh, bummer, I was hoping that you'd found some secret sauce
    that I've been looking for.

    Sadly, no. I wish!

    fwiw, we've moved to Office365 at work, and the Microsoft spam
    filtering is nowhere near as good as Google's either (but still way
    better than SpamAssassin).

    I'll agree with you there. In a previous job I convinced the Grand Poobah to spring for Proofpoint which we stuck in front of O365, it filtered out almost everything and if a phish happened to make it through your user can push a button in Outlook to "Report Phish" which will then pull it out of everyone's mailbox.

    My current boss sees the value in it but can't justify the added expense (~$3 /user /month) at this time...


    Jay

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to paulie420 on Saturday, July 09, 2022 09:12:00
    paulie420 wrote to tassiebob <=-

    I see OneDrive is what Windows is pushing, but I haven't ever used
    it...

    What do the PPL like??

    If you work for someone with a Microsoft presence and they've enrolled in Microsoft's Home Use Program, Microsoft 365 is pretty good. I have 5
    licenses of Office apps on Mac or Windows, access to the web apps from any other OS, e-mail with full outlook support (tasks/calendars/notes, etc) and 1TB of storage each for all 5 accounts for $69.99/year.

    For my wife and I, that works out to under $3/month.

    Google One is $2.99 for 200gb of storage, and you don't get the apps.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to TassieBob on Sunday, July 10, 2022 06:57:00
    TassieBob wrote to deon <=-

    What do you use for spam? Its always a killer for me.

    Pretty sure I've got SpamAssassin on there - it's no where near as good
    as the Google Mail spam filtering though.

    It's been years since I've run SpamAsassin, but SA + Procmail sanitizer + Bayesian rules were pretty good. Not sure how that combo would hold up under pressure nowadays.




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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to TassieBob on Sunday, July 10, 2022 06:59:00
    TassieBob wrote to deon <=-

    Interesting... If deploying it needs a dedicated machine, then I guess the need for CentOS is less of an issue - I'd just build a CentOS VM
    and be done with it.

    I think the issue is that CentOS in a long-term support form is going away. There'll be a rolling release version meant for testing which would be more difficult to base an app platform on.


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  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Poindexter Fortran on Sunday, July 10, 2022 15:21:44

    If you work for someone with a Microsoft presence and they've enrolled in Microsoft's Home Use Program, Microsoft 365 is pretty good. I have 5 licenses of Office apps on Mac or Windows, access to the web apps from
    any other OS, e-mail with full outlook support (tasks/calendars/notes,
    etc) and 1TB of storage each for all 5 accounts for $69.99/year.

    For my wife and I, that works out to under $3/month.

    Google One is $2.99 for 200gb of storage, and you don't get the apps.

    We have O365 at work which you can use on up to (5) systems. I only have 2 or 3 instances loaded on work devices as I like to keep that stuff separate.

    When Google stopped the unlimited storage for Google Photos, I have our phones backup to my SFTP server every 4 hours to backup all photos/video. That works better for me anyway, as I would much rather have all my content synced home vs at Google.

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  • From vorlon@21:1/195.1 to TassieBob on Monday, July 11, 2022 11:40:03
    Hi Tassiebob,

    have a look at efa. https://efa-project.org/

    Interesting... If deploying it needs a dedicated machine, then I
    guess the need for CentOS is less of an issue - I'd just build a
    CentOS VM and be done with it.

    Yes the install script want's a naked centos install, and then that is
    the only function it does... I have it installed on two VM's....

    On the "to-do/wanted" list is the ability of the web ui, to manage two installs. At the moment it only handles one.




    \/orlon
    aka
    Stephen


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  • From vorlon@21:1/195.1 to deon on Monday, July 11, 2022 11:44:17
    Hi Deon.

    Try efa. http://efa-project.org
    [B
    Do you use it?

    Sounds promising...

    Yes. I do... Two installs. Have it installed on my sydney server as a vm,
    and the backup as a vm on my home server.

    The only downside is seprate web interfaces... A single we ui for two or
    more installs is one the "todo/wanted" list.


    \/orlon
    aka
    Stephen


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  • From deon@21:2/116 to vorlon on Monday, July 11, 2022 23:52:45
    Re: Dropbox/Onedrive/CLOUD
    By: vorlon to deon on Mon Jul 11 2022 11:44 am

    Do you use it?

    Sounds promising...

    Yes. I do... Two installs. Have it installed on my sydney server as a vm, and the backup as a vm on my home server.

    So I went ahead and set it up, and I'll leave it hooked up to one of my domains that gets a lot of spam and see how it fairs.

    The install had a few errors along the way, and the first time web configure failed - but I started it again and it seemed to work the second time.

    Seems I cannot whitelist my IPv6 segment (to outbound relay) - opendkim doesnt like the IPv6 CIDR (or specific address it seems) and fails to start - and brings down incoming mail.

    Ill investigate that further and submit a report.


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  • From vorlon@21:1/195.1 to deon on Tuesday, July 12, 2022 10:31:23
    Hi deon,

    Do you use it?
    Sounds promising...
    Yes. I do... Two installs. Have it installed on my sydney server as
    a vm, and the backup as a vm on my home server.

    So I went ahead and set it up, and I'll leave it hooked up to one of
    my domains that gets a lot of spam and see how it fairs.

    It'll take a little bit to start learning. Just remember like anything it
    will be spot on on some spam, but miss another.

    Clicking on the blue 'i' on the left of the message list will let you see
    all the headers etc, and down the bottom will be options to mark as
    spam/report or release the message. Down there is also "path to message"
    to allow the reading of the message.

    The install had a few errors along the way, and the first time web
    configure failed - but I started it again and it seemed to work the
    second time.

    I haven't done a fresh install since v4 was released.

    Seems I cannot whitelist my IPv6 segment (to outbound relay) -
    opendkim doesnt like the IPv6 CIDR (or specific address it seems) and
    fails to start - and brings down incoming mail.

    Have you loged in as the standard user that was setup when you did the
    install? That will bring up a menu system to allow many of the settings
    to be changed.

    That's under '16) DKIM and DMARC'.. I can't remember what I changed or
    edited for that. #-)





    \/orlon
    aka
    Stephen


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  • From deon@21:2/116 to vorlon on Tuesday, July 12, 2022 12:00:41
    Re: Dropbox/Onedrive/CLOUD
    By: vorlon to deon on Tue Jul 12 2022 10:31 am

    It'll take a little bit to start learning. Just remember like anything it will be spot on on some spam, but miss another.

    Yeah, its an ancient looking UI - but leaving it on overnight (which is when one of my domains gets a heap of spam from *biz domains - it looks like it caught them all.

    One got through "Get a marketing quote" (or something like that) - which I marked as spam, I'll see how that goes, as I get a few of those.

    Be great to setup a honeypot email or two - do you know how to do that? IE: Advertise an email address that spammers pick and use - which automatically results in spam training? (Since no real person ever would use that email.)

    Have you loged in as the standard user that was setup when you did the install? That will bring up a menu system to allow many of the settings
    to be changed.

    That's under '16) DKIM and DMARC'.. I can't remember what I changed or edited for that. #-)

    Yeah, I did that.

    If I put in a IPv6 CIDR, opendkim cannot restart.

    Internally, all my systems get an address from my fd00:368::/48 that I use. So any outgoing mail would come from that CIDR - but it rejects it with no relaying. I have to use the IPv4 address :(


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  • From McDoob@21:4/135 to deon on Monday, July 11, 2022 22:40:48
    You guys still trust "Alphabet" soup?
    I HATED that when I was a child.

    No e-mail is truly safe unless you receive it yourself.
    Just like snail-mail. Why does this need explanation?

    Oh...right...spam...AKA adverts in my letterbox.

    Because that's new? (o_O)

    McDoob
    SysOp, PiBBS

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  • From deon@21:2/116 to McDoob on Tuesday, July 12, 2022 14:15:45
    Re: Dropbox/Onedrive/CLOUD
    By: McDoob to deon on Mon Jul 11 2022 10:40 pm

    You guys still trust "Alphabet" soup?
    I HATED that when I was a child.

    No e-mail is truly safe unless you receive it yourself.
    Just like snail-mail. Why does this need explanation?

    Oh...right...spam...AKA adverts in my letterbox.

    Because that's new? (o_O)

    Not sure what you are saying...


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  • From McDoob@21:4/135 to deon on Tuesday, July 12, 2022 01:34:56
    Not sure what you are saying...

    That makes two of us? XD

    Please disregard. I just cleaned out my letterbox, and my in-box...

    McDoob
    SysOp, PiBBS

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  • From Arelor@21:2/138 to deon on Tuesday, July 12, 2022 03:15:00
    Re: Re: Dropbox/Onedrive/CLOUD
    By: deon to paulie420 on Sat Jul 09 2022 12:09 pm

    Syncthing hosts my dev code that I work on, specially when I'm switching between my

    Why use a general sync solution for software, when you can set up a software repository?

    I have a personal CVS server for code. Not that I code much, but I find it more convenient than just syncing across a regular sync service.


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  • From deon@21:2/116 to Arelor on Tuesday, July 12, 2022 22:46:07
    Re: Re: Dropbox/Onedrive/CLOUD
    By: Arelor to deon on Tue Jul 12 2022 03:15 am

    Syncthing hosts my dev code that I work on, specially when I'm switching between my

    Why use a general sync solution for software, when you can set up a software repository?

    I have a personal CVS server for code. Not that I code much, but I find it more convenient than just syncing across a regular
    sync service.

    I do have one, I use gitlab.

    My syncthing sync more than code - my docker contaier configuration and the container's data.

    I jump between my Mac Mini and Macbook Pro, and all I need to do is stop my containers on the mini, wait a few mins and then start them on my Macbook.

    Actually most of the time is when I travel for work, so that I can keep doing stuff while sitting in a hotel room.


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  • From TassieBob@21:3/169 to deon on Tuesday, July 12, 2022 22:56:44

    Actually most of the time is when I travel for work, so that I can
    keep doing stuff while sitting in a hotel room.

    What is this t.. tra... trave... travel thing you speak of?

    Nearly two and a half years since I've seen the inside of an aircraft, or a hotel in another state :-(

    Only a few years back I pretty much lived in hotels. How things changed (thanks COVID!)


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  • From deon@21:2/116 to TassieBob on Wednesday, July 13, 2022 00:06:27
    Re: Dropbox/Onedrive/CLOUD
    By: TassieBob to deon on Tue Jul 12 2022 10:56 pm

    What is this t.. tra... trave... travel thing you speak of?

    Nearly two and a half years since I've seen the inside of an aircraft, or a hotel in another state :-(

    Yes, it was strange for me, the first trip about 2 months ago.

    I used to travel a fair bit (in and out of Oz), but then it stopped :(


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to McDoob on Tuesday, July 12, 2022 07:34:00
    McDoob wrote to deon <=-

    No e-mail is truly safe unless you receive it yourself.
    Just like snail-mail. Why does this need explanation?

    I remember receiving PGP-armored mail on my home server and retrieving with IMAP behind a firewall. I moved to a web-based mail service when I started consulting and relying on mail, I think I never should have made the change.

    Although, search for me was the killer app with email. I went through a
    nasty divorce and Gmail's search was great at pulling up emails that my ex
    had "conveniently" forgotten that she'd sent. :)



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  • From vorlon@21:1/195.1 to deon on Wednesday, July 13, 2022 11:49:09
    Hi deon,

    Be great to setup a honeypot email or two - do you know how to do
    that? IE: Advertise an email address that spammers pick and use -
    which automatically results in spam training? (Since no real person
    ever would use that email.)

    I've not done it. But there might be a post on the support fourm on how
    to do it. (Just can't remember).

    There's a few things that can be tweeked under the hood.

    ie: /etc/mail/spamassassin/country.cf
    ---cut---
    ifplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::RelayCountry

    header COUNTRY_RELAY_AE X-Relay-Countries =~ /AE/
    describe COUNTRY_RELAY_AE Relayed through United Arab Emirates
    score COUNTRY_RELAY_AE 7.5
    add_header all Relay-Country _COUNTRY_RELAY_AE_

    header COUNTRY_RELAY_AF X-Relay-Countries =~ /AF/
    describe COUNTRY_RELAY_AF Relayed through Afghanistan
    score COUNTRY_RELAY_AF 7.5
    add_header all Relay-Country _COUNTRY_RELAY_AF_
    ---cut---

    spam.lists.conf seams to get overwritten every now and again, so I've got
    a cronjob copying my (Bigger) list back...

    /etc/MailScanner/spam.lists.conf
    ---cut---
    BARRACUDA b.barracudacentral.org
    SPAMCOP bl.spamcop.net
    ABUSEAT cbl.abuseat.org
    SPAMHAUS zen.spamhaus.org
    ---cut---

    If I put in a IPv6 CIDR, opendkim cannot restart.

    Internally, all my systems get an address from my fd00:368::/48 that I
    use. So any outgoing mail would come from that CIDR - but it rejects
    it with no relaying. I have to use the IPv4 address :(

    Perhaps it didn't like the format?

    I've also got a ipset country block running for some places that seam to
    be spam and nothing but spam... SEO spam is one of the worst...

    OVH is a block on sight, along with digital ocean and a few others... #0(



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    aka
    Stephen


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  • From deon@21:2/116 to vorlon on Wednesday, July 13, 2022 14:36:02
    Re: Dropbox/Onedrive/CLOUD
    By: vorlon to deon on Wed Jul 13 2022 11:49 am

    If I put in a IPv6 CIDR, opendkim cannot restart.

    Internally, all my systems get an address from my fd00:368::/48 that I

    Perhaps it didn't like the format?

    Yeah, I even tried a full IPv6 address, ie: fd00:368:: in its full format, and it didnt like it.

    I've logged a problem - but it looks like opendkim hasnt been updated in 4 years :( so not holding my breath.

    This project has given me inspiration to build a docker/kube version of it though. I dont like having another VM, and it really looks like just postfix, spamassin, opendkim and mailscanner - there might be a couple of other utilities in there.

    Together with it, and maybe something like mailu - I might bring all my email back in house...


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