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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Official CMS Migration Progress Thread - September 2017

« Last post by wraith808 on February 02, 2016, 10:52 AM »

definitely an issue we have to figure out.

one of the nice things about the new cms is that on cms pages we now have a sidebar showing recent posts on the FORUM that are related to that page. So software pages now show the most recent posts about the program from the forum section for that program.

-mouser (February 02, 2016, 10:32 AM)

I've seen some sites where blog posts posted create a forum thread for that post- their forum is the commenting system for the blog.  That might be a way to consolidate the conversation.

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General Software Discussion / Re: A new browser by Avira

« Last post by wraith808 on February 01, 2016, 03:53 PM »

Finally, the company whose software breaks the Windows boot process releases another piece of software.

-Tuxman (February 01, 2016, 12:13 PM)

-rgdot (February 01, 2016, 01:02 PM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Copy Being Discontinued as of May 1, 2016

« Last post by wraith808 on February 01, 2016, 03:08 PM »

That's a lot of... what's the term for it? Corporate speak?

-Deozaan (February 01, 2016, 02:26 PM)

My thoughts too.  They want to continue forward with no doubts about their future while screwing a whole lot of people that depended on their service.  So... that.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Copy Being Discontinued as of May 1, 2016

« Last post by wraith808 on February 01, 2016, 01:26 PM »

The site is back up, now... with a blog post.

from https://blog.barracu...-from-gm-of-storage/

A message from Rod Mathews, VP & GM, Storage Business, regarding the Copy/CudaDrive EOL

Hi,

At Barracuda we have always strived to make great products that deliver ease of use and affordability. We are constantly evaluating our product portfolio in the context of our overall strategic goals. With that in mind, we have begun a process to focus our resources on our most strategic initiatives and to drive more innovation and faster growth within those products.

As such, we have made the difficult decision to discontinue our Copy and CudaDrive services. We certainly do not take this lightly, and we appreciate the millions of customers who have used the service, as well as the hard work and dedication of our product team over the past 4+ years.


While this is a big change, the path forward is an exciting one, as the CudaDrive engineering team will be joining forces with the Barracuda Backup team to accelerate the key initiatives for that product line. There is a huge amount of opportunity in Backup, Data Protection and Business Continuity features in the cloud, and adding the talented people from the CudaDrive team will allow us to more quickly and efficiently deploy new features and satisfy market and customer demands. The combined teams are a very impressive group, and we will be able to deliver much more to our backup customers and partners going forward.

We will continue to work hard to support our users through this transition, and have put together a detailed plan to ensure that we take care of all of our partners and customers in the manner for which Barracuda is known.

If you have any questions regarding this decision or Barracuda’s strategy moving forward, please feel free to reach out to me directly at [email protected].

Sincerely,

Rod Mathews

VP & GM, Storage Business

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General Software Discussion / Copy Being Discontinued as of May 1, 2016

« Last post by wraith808 on February 01, 2016, 12:34 PM »

Copy, the dropbox also ran by barracuda networks, is being discontinued on May 1, 2016.

More information should be able to be found at https://techlib.barr...OPY/Copy+End-of-Life, but it is under heavy load, so not loading for me currently, so I have no further details right now, but there is a topic on reddit: https://www.reddit.c..._being_discontinued/

The largest bonus of Copy was that they had a native Linux client.  Other choices for refugees on Linux appear to be SpiderOak, Owncloud, Dropbox, and InSync.

Copied from the site:
We are announcing today that the Copy and CudaDrive services will be discontinued on May 1, 2016.
Copy and CudaDrive have provided easy-to-use cloud file services and sharing functionality to millions of users the past 4+ years. However, as our business focus has shifted, we had to make the difficult decision to discontinue the Copy and CudaDrive services and allocate those resources elsewhere. For more information on this decision, please view the blog post from Rod Mathews, our GM of Storage.
We know this comes as disappointing news to our users, but rest assured that we will do everything we can to take care of each of you in the manner for which Barracuda is known. We have created a step by step guide that walks you through the process of moving your data to a local hard drive or another cloud storage solution.
If you are on a paid subscription for either Copy or CudaDrive, please keep an eye out in the coming days for an email with more detailed information on your options. For additional information, please visit our FAQ page.
Thank you to everyone for your support.
All the best,
The Copy & CudaDrive Team

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General Software Discussion / Re: looking for a way to simplify crediting stock providers when using DeviantART

« Last post by wraith808 on February 01, 2016, 11:20 AM »

Another that I use:  https://unsplash.com/

And there's also: http://deathtothestockphoto.com/, but I don't personally find that as useful.

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General Software Discussion / Re: looking for a way to simplify crediting stock providers when using DeviantART

« Last post by wraith808 on February 01, 2016, 07:54 AM »

It seems like it could even be a coding snack to get the appropriate credit.

https://www.devianta...ers/http/v1/20151202

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Developer's Corner / More Git

« Last post by wraith808 on January 31, 2016, 08:54 PM »

I have a lot of projects for personal use- development and non-development work (writing and such).  I've tried multiple projects in one repo, and one repo per project.  I've seen a lot of different arguments for either, and a lot of them on both sides have referred to my pain points - shared libraries, repo overload, etc.  I was also looking at this stackoverflow question, and it brought up more questions than answers.

I was just wondering as a lot of people use Git around here, what are your personal preferences and why?  And no, I'm not looking at this point to transfer to another VCS.  I settled on Git a while ago, so that decision is made.

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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016 Release: Text Overlay Tool

« Last post by wraith808 on January 31, 2016, 08:47 PM »

Could we have drag 'n drop by any chance?

-cranioscopical (January 23, 2016, 10:23 PM)

Done   Download from the same link, and let me know if there are any issues!

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Living Room / Re: Thinking of switching to WP8 from Android

« Last post by wraith808 on January 31, 2016, 11:15 AM »

That's what I was thinking of doing- writing my own apps to supplement the lack.  Too much work, however.

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Living Room / Re: Thinking of switching to WP8 from Android

« Last post by wraith808 on January 29, 2016, 12:49 PM »

And here we are...

-eleman (January 29, 2016, 12:40 PM)

Clickbait?  Nothing new... no new news.  Just an opinion article...

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Developer's Corner / Re: Kerberos and VMs and NLB

« Last post by wraith808 on January 29, 2016, 10:35 AM »

Thanks for that SJ!  I'll check that on Monday- I'd not heard any of that before.  I'll also check the 401 - I think it was just a plain 401 still, which has been the problem from the beginning- no context.  I was able to get past all of the others with that setup... but it's been a pain without context.  The wireshark even returned just a 401, but I was able to get it from the Event logs.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Kerberos and VMs and NLB

« Last post by wraith808 on January 28, 2016, 10:27 PM »

StackOverflow mentions:
in IIS > 7, I had to add "useAppPoolCredentials = true" to the application's configuration in order to have everything work as expected. Without that configuration element, all authentication was broken.

The situation described at the link has an image indicating the problem...which on first glance matches with your description. Perhaps the suggestion above could be of any help?

-Shades (January 28, 2016, 06:54 PM)

I've already done that.  My setup on the app server side instructions that I created:

Setup of Web Application for use with Kerberos

• Add App Pool Account to the Administrators group
• Set up app pools. Use a service account that has an SPN set to be able to decrypt the Kerberos ticket.
• Turn on 32-bit application support in app pool
• Copy files. Make sure that file location has Read and Read & Execute (not sure if it actually needs List Folder Contents- I doubt it).  Give App pool accounts full access.
• Set up sites
• a. Turn off Anonymous Access if it is on.
• b. Turn on Windows Authentication
• c. Use Negotiate 1 - not the new Negotiate 2
• d. Do not need to turn off Kernel Mode Authentication
• e. Go into Config Editor
• e1. Open webserver/security/authentication/windows auth
• e2. set useAppPoolIdentity=True
• e3. Make sure that Enabled=True
• e4. Make sure that there is only one provider.

A lot of that is to remove red herrings from the mix rather than needed.  As I said, it works.  Just not reliably through the NLB, and I know nothing about the interaction of NLB with Kerberos, and can't find anything specifically in that regard.  I also don't know about the interactions of hypervisor and VMware, and that was one of the areas the neteng talked about, also.  But after reading books on kerberos and staying up many nights on that point, I'm not really looking to try to become an expert on hypervisor vs. vmware or NLB- so that becomes the point- trusting him that they have little to do with kerberos when everything else is set up correctly.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Kerberos and VMs and NLB

« Last post by wraith808 on January 28, 2016, 02:43 PM »

For each service, I have two VMs clustered- one in a Colo, and one Local.  I have one user that I'm using on the web service for that particular cluster.  I have an SPN setup for HTTP that contains the name of each machine and the user.  I access the machine through the clustername, and it goes to one server or another.

So for later reference, we have machine A, machine B (in the colo), cluster AB spanning the machines, and user C.  I connect to the test endpoint, and everything is fine.

I replicate that- let's say Machine X, machine Y (in the colo), cluster XY, and user Z.  I connect to the test endpoint and everything is fine.

So I have a client, that connects to cluster AB, that then connects to cluster XY to use its service.

I irregularly get 401s.  When it connects, it's fine... on the second hop, I can see that it's the client, and have it's credentials.  But sometimes... it  just fails for no reason.  I look in the logs, and there's a 401 there.  This never happens when I connect direct to the machines.

Our network guy said he thinks it's an interaction of VMware VMs with Hypervisor VMs... but I had to call BS on that.  There's no rhyme nor reason in the machines that it's connecting to creating a pattern (I added a key to pass through the machines so I can see the exact path it's taking, and there's just no pattern).

I think it's passing the kerberos ticket through the NLB... but he said that it just passes it along, so it's only passing what it's sent.  The other part of this is we made another endpoint just to test authorization, because it seems like if we're getting a 401, then we always get a 401, but if that first hop works, it will work from then on (we have affinity set, so the path stays the same through multiple calls), but that started failing today.  The other dev got a 201... then when he called the real endpoint, got a 401. (All of this is on the second hop- the first hop always works)

I know more about Kerberos than I wanted to know now after looking at this for a couple of months.  And I think we finally have the code right.  But the netops says that there is no way that NLB is causing this issue.

Have you ever seen NLB cause issues with kerberos tickets?

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Developer's Corner / Kerberos and VMs and NLB

« Last post by wraith808 on January 28, 2016, 11:23 AM »

Anyone know quite a bit about Kerberos and VMs and NLB that I can bounce some stuff off of?  I'll post it here... but didn't want to go through formulating the post if there wasn't a sufficient mindshare to even have a hope of getting an answer 

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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016 Release: Text Overlay Tool

« Last post by wraith808 on January 24, 2016, 10:02 AM »

I'll take a look to see.  Shouldn't be too hard to implement...

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by wraith808 on January 24, 2016, 10:02 AM »

Can't get to link.  At least, not without disabling ad blockers.

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Living Room / Re: What other forums do you participate in?

« Last post by wraith808 on January 24, 2016, 10:01 AM »

I participate on BoardGameGeek and RPG StackExchange.  I've given up on regularly visiting any others- it turns into a real time-suck.

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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016 Release: Text Overlay Tool

« Last post by wraith808 on January 22, 2016, 09:49 PM »

Updated.  The same link should give the updated version.  All you have to do is put the file name you want to open on the command line.  If it exists, it will open it.  If the file name has spaces in it, enclose it in double  quotes ("").

Let me know if you have any issues.

-wraith808 (January 22, 2016, 09:39 PM)

thanks for the quick update, it works well!

-lanux128 (January 22, 2016, 09:44 PM)

No problem!  Glad it works for you!

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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016 Release: Text Overlay Tool

« Last post by wraith808 on January 22, 2016, 09:39 PM »

Updated.  The same link should give the updated version.  All you have to do is put the file name you want to open on the command line.  If it exists, it will open it.  If the file name has spaces in it, enclose it in double  quotes ("").

Let me know if you have any issues.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Brave: A new browser with built-in adblock and payment solutions

« Last post by wraith808 on January 22, 2016, 09:17 PM »

Do you know what browser base it's based on?  Or if it even is?  I want to say firefox because of a lot of the verbiage, but I'm not sure.

-wraith808 (January 22, 2016, 07:32 PM)

Based on the source code, I am under the impression that it's not just a fork of Chrome or Firefox. You may be getting Firefox vibes because the Brave founder/president/CEO, Brendan Eich, was formerly the CEO of Firefox or Mozilla or something.

-Deozaan (January 22, 2016, 08:12 PM)

Nope... as I said, I was getting it from the verbiage.  I didn't look into who anyone was or anything, it was just idle wondering when I saw some of the verbiage and the use of httpsanywhere.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Dice analyzer machine project

« Last post by wraith808 on January 22, 2016, 09:12 PM »

now that is cool.

-mouser (January 22, 2016, 09:02 PM)

Yeah... I was on the kickstarter.  They were so cool, that I ordered more after.  I think he's out of stock on them now, however, and not planning a reprint.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Dice analyzer machine project

« Last post by wraith808 on January 22, 2016, 07:41 PM »

I guess the reason that I was showing you those is to give you a challenge... with the multiple sides being the same

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General Software Discussion / Re: Brave: A new browser with built-in adblock and payment solutions

« Last post by wraith808 on January 22, 2016, 07:32 PM »

Do you know what browser base it's based on?  Or if it even is?  I want to say firefox because of a lot of the verbiage, but I'm not sure.

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by wraith808 on January 22, 2016, 07:30 PM »

Looks interesting... thanks!