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In this episode we answer your questions then explain that latest vulnerability in Linux! -- During The Show -- 00:50 Steve's Week iSCSI targets 01:50 Charlie asks about Liquid Sensor 12V Liquid Level Sensor Switch Relay Module (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003118991336.html) Very DIY 05:20 Contact Sensors and Home Assistant Feedback - The Linux Trucker Moved to ESPHome ESPHome (https://esphome.io/) vs Tasmota (https://tasmota.github.io/docs/) Nextion Screens (https://nextion.tech/) Tasmotizer (https://github.com/tasmota/tasmotizer) 11:15 Experience from a Data Center - Ronald Rack ATS (https://www.apc.com/shop/us/en/products/RACK-ATS-230V-16A-C20-IN-8-C13-1-C19-OUT/P-AP4423) iLO = Energy Vampire Flashable Smart Plugs (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B09JZDSLNC/?tag=minddripmedia-20) 17:40 Containers & Home Assistant questions - Tyler Docker vs Podman Containerized UniFi Controller Home Assistant Core and Supervisor Home Assistant Backup/Migration Code Ready Containers (https://developers.redhat.com/products/

In addition to answering your questions, this week Noah and Steve give you some tips and tricks to getting started with a home lab! -- During The Show -- IOT, Wikis etc - Shawn David Hunt (http://www.davidhunt.ie/) HC-SR04 (https://cloudfree.shop/product/ultrasonic-distance-sensor-hc-sr04/) ESP 8266 (https://cloudfree.shop/product/esp8266-wifi-dev-board/) D1 Mini (https://cloudfree.shop/product/wemos-d1-mini-esp8266/) Aqara Leak Sensor (https://cloudfree.shop/product/aqara-water-sensor/) Home Depot Leak Detector (https://www.homedepot.com/p/MOEN-Smart-Leak-Detectors-3-Pack-920-005/313196961) Honeywell Water Sensor (https://www.filtersfast.com/p-Honeywell-WHLDT1000-Water-Leak-Detector.asp) Citadel (https://www.citadel.org/) Zimbra (https://www.zimbra.com/) Nextcloud (https://nextcloud.com/) WikiJS (https://js.wiki/) Confluence (https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/guides/get-started/confluence-overview) Photo Duplicate App - Jeremy PhotoRec (https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec) Photo Prism (http

This week we talk storage! The more we dig into this the deeper the hole goes. We start with an introduction and and overview but this one is likely to be a two or even three part series! -- During The Show -- 01:57 Electrical Questions & Switch Recommendation? - Charliebrownau Internet/Location Requirements Power Self Sufficiency CT Clamp+ESP32 Cloud Free Shop (Cloudfree.shop) My Local Bytes (www.mylocalbytes.com) Aussie Ebay Links https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/152105203797? https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/274257143520? https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/353481397070? Switch recommendations HP Switches 2000 series better than 1000 Serial (Console) and/or telnet/SSH access Canadian NAS Server 15:19 Matrix Homeserver question - Russell Bots to check out https://gitlab.com/Sleuth56/Matrix-Community-Manager https://gitlab.com/Sleuth56/imageofthehour https://matrix.org/bots/ https://t2bot.io/ 17:00 TruNas questions - Brad ZFS Send 19:45 Lutron Caseta pt 2 - Andy Caseta System No neutral wire Pico Remotes 21:49 tiny Asked Do

Do you work in open source? Do you sell open source? This week Noah and Steve dig into the objections they hear when they recommend free and open source solutions. -- During The Show -- 01:00 Steve's House Energy Use Home Automation CloudFree.shop (https://cloudfree.shop/) Kill A WATT (http://www.p3international.com/products/P4400.html) 06:55 Grub2 and LUKS Feedback - Ninja Tech Arch Wiki Link (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB#LUKS2) 07:51 Email Servers - Veritanuda Using a hosted email provider through your own email server Mail provider still has the email Encryption provides privacy 16:05 Cinnamon Feedback - aplatypus Cinnamon might be closest to MS Windows 18:22 Smart Switches - Andy SmartBridge Pro Hub Model L-BDGPR02 Home Assistant Lutron Caseta Integration (https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/lutron_caseta/) GuruMitts PyLutron Script (https://github.com/gurumitts/pylutron-caseta/) Does require Internet for setup 22:44 Used Server for Storage - Patryk Lab Gopher (https://ca.labgopher.com/) P

This week we tried to migrate our Matrix instance to our own data center, it didn't go well. We discuss our mistakes and what our next steps are. Your calls, your emails we cover it all in this episode! -- During The Show -- 00:55 Steve's Weekend Client Prep 02:23 Caller Tony Client received a police call Transparent Proxy Managed Switches DNS Resolver/Forwarder Firewall Rules Squid Proxy Dragon's Tail 11:20 VLAN questions - Tyler TP Link G105E (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00N0OHEMA/?tag=minddripmedia-20) HP OfficeConnect Switch (https://www.ebay.com/itm/373794096000?epid=9030355100&hash=item5707dd4380:g:htwAAOSwhlZhk9rb) Multiple Network Cards Managed Switch Cisco HP 1920 Series Stacking 17:30 Light Automation - John All smart bulbs have a failsafe Shelly 1 (https://shelly.cloud/products/shelly-1-smart-home-automation-relay/) Smart Assistant Smart stuff at the switch GE Enbrighten Zwave Plus (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B07226MG2T/?tag=minddripmedia-20) UltraPro Switch (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B07B3LXZJ9/?tag=mi

In this episode we talk with Bitwarden to learn more about this open source password manager. -- During The Show -- 01:00 Linux For Non Technical & Business Partner Question - Eric Linux Mint (https://linuxmint.com/) - Steve Kubuntu (https://kubuntu.org/) - Noah Flaws can be covered 5 Ds that cause a failure 10:00 How to decide when to use managed services - Doug Email Servers Documentation 17:57 Turn Off T450 Keyboard Backlight - Wayne Check UEFI Check Power Settings 19:17 Incident Response? - Jeremy Each Indecent/Play Book is Different Malware Process What do you need to set up from scratch Prioritize most likely incidents first 24:20 Kiosk and sharing information questions - Kevin Firefox Kiosk Mode Libre Kiosk (https://gitlab.com/altispeed/kiosk) Burn After Reading Me (https://www.burnafterreading.me/) One Time Secret (https://onetimesecret.com/) 26:00 Zerotier+NextCloud=deGoogle? - Mike Zero Tier Next Cloud Start on DO 28:55 News https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-foundation-launches-open-source-softwa

Improve your work environment by knowing yourself. How do you convince a customer or co-worker that their idea is a bad one? Google Analytics gets another blow from the Austrian government, SUSE announces Liberty Linux a RHEL clone. You're calls, your questions, it's a packed episode! -- During The Show -- 01:44 Caller James Script for USB storage USE UDEV not Script 06:08 Collabora Online - Roger Nextcloud + Collabora (https://nextcloud.com/collaboraonline/) 07:08 Follow up Thunderbolt 3 Gen 2 Dock w/ X1 Carbon Gen - Zac Never needed a larger power adapter at Altispeed 08:55 Syncing Google Calendar to Nextcloud - Tony Easier to sync phone to Nextcloud Dynamic DNS 13:19 Using Coax Cable Useful? - Jon BNC Connectors + STI Video MoCA (https://mocalliance.org/index.php) Try a different brand of Ethernet over Coax 18:00 10GBE Nic using M.2 Slot - Charlie Innodisk EGPL-T101 NIC (Marvell AQtio chipset) (https://www.innodisk.com/en/products/embedded-peripheral/communication/egpl-t101) Product Store: USD$166 (https:

You filled this hour with questions, we spent the hour answering them. From VLANS to point to point radios, this episode has something for everyone. -- During The Show -- 02:27 Response to VPN - Charlie IVPN (www.ivpn.net) No "private mobile provider" 05:54 Why Default to VPNs - Ray Constant VPN Connection ISPs harvest your data VPN companies are motivated to protect your privacy Threat Modeling Deep Packet Inspection/ Man in the Middle 14:28 Wireguardian - Dennis Wireguardian (https://wireguardian.io/) 16:40 LUKS, EFI and Dual Boot - Josh Boot Partition must be un-encrypted? Evil maid attack 20:50 Remote Control Electric Motor - Jimmy Frequency Spectrum LORA, MQTT 29:35 User Responds to Spreadsheets - Paul CryptPad.fr Lots of "native apps" are just "wrapped web apps" Only Office backend 32:46 Another User Responds to Spreadsheets - Erik Zoho (https://www.zoho.com) 34:10 Vlans, WiFi, Baby Cam, Virtualization Unifi APs Unifi Setup Multiple APs for performance Axis WiFi Camera Synology Disk Station + Surveillan

Moxie steps down as Signal CEO, Snapcraft gets a rework, and a developer courrupts NPM libraries Colors and Faker breaking thousands of apps. The crew of Altispeed joins this episode to answer questions and participate in the tech round table! -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/268) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the disc

The team from Altispeed Technologies join Noah this episode to tell the story of how Altispeed Technologies was born, where it is today, and where the team is headed! 01:15 Altispeed Today Help Desk - Issac Installation and Support - Kenny & Peter Backend R&D - Richard & Simon Administration - Sarah & Jess 02:28 Epoch 1 02:30 Origins of Altispeed 02:40 Why Open Source 05:50 Professional Development Program 07:50 RHEL 5.0 & Red Hat 11:15 Dec 2009 Altispeed is Born 12:25 Noah does everything 13:50 Altispeed Mission Statement 14:55 Philippians 2-4 15:08 Matthew 20-28 17:00 Epoch 2 17:20 Altispeed's First Hire 18:38 The 3 Hiring Questions Do they get what we are trying to do? Do they want to do what we are trying to do? Do they have the capacity to do it? Value People and Relationships above all else 19:40 Buck Stops with Me 20:00 Employees are a mixed blessing 21:42 Epoch 3 Remote Services & Support Podcast Starts A Complete Disaster Success is standing on a pile of failures 26:18 Epoch 4 Covid 19 Hits 28:50 Goi

An entire show packed with your questions! Noah and Steve spend the hour answering your calls, your emails, and your questions! -- During The Show -- 00:30 Caller Chaz Next Cloud Mobile Access Check DNS Android App might have a bug 07:40 Naelr from Jitsi Collaborative spreadsheet editing Nextcloud + OnlyOffice (https://nextcloud.com/blog/how-to-install-onlyoffice-in-nextcloud-hub-and-new-integration-feature/) 12:00 Steve's House Automation Projection Room Automation URC MX450 Remote (https://www.urc-automation.com/product/mx-450/) URC MRF350 Base Station (https://www.urc-automation.com/product/mrf-350/) URC Network Interface (https://www.urc-automation.com/product/mrx-10/) URC MX990 Remote (https://www.urc-automation.com/product/mx-990/) Flirc USB IR Reciver (https://flirc.tv/more/flirc-usb) 20:18 Linus's Linux Challenge Does perception match reality? Games have issues on all platforms Response to what was said Bug reports were higher quality from Linux users 28:20 User replies to user RE: Screen Rotation - A

Noah and Steve discuss the open source model and the potential consequences when companies that rely on FOSS solutions don't support them. -- During The Show -- 00:55 - Migrating Installation to Raid? - Andrew What performance are you looking for? Do not use motherboard raid Can not use DD or similar 08:15 - Church Networking - Michael Port Forwarding DNS Route Hairpin NAT Domain Override 11:09 - Surveillance & Home Assistant - Zac ONVIF ZIGBEE/ZWave 16:30 - Ubuntu Web Remix - Kelly Ubuntu Web Remix (https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-web-remix/19394) 17:55 - Seamonkey Browser? - Eric Seamonkey Browser (https://www.seamonkey-project.org/) Vivaldi for a chrome based browser Edge Browser 22:45 Pick of the Week - Audio Book Shelf Self Hostable Audio Book Server Audio Book Shelf (https://www.audiobookshelf.org/) 25:45 Gadget of the Week - Blackmagic Design Web Presenter HD (https://www.adorama.com/bmbwebptrhd.html?adlclid=4b4a55f6dc781d05ee6a343de6ae0e6f&msclkid=4b4a55f6dc781d05ee6a343de6ae0e6f) 27:30 80% of T

Merry Christmas! This hour we dig into our favorite gifts for Christmas and Steve and Noah dig further into the Altispeed data center project! -- During The Show -- 01:16 Drive Migration - Andrew Clonezilla Boot partitions LVM DD won't work 04:30 Hairpin NAT - Michael Hairpin NAT DNS solution Gifts for Geeks 07:44 The Methodology 10:25 Graphics Tablet $60 (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32890458229.html) 11:48 75 Watt Dual Type-C Charger $70 (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B07M97XGNZ/?tag=minddripmedia-20) 13:00 12v DC POE Injector $130 (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KKBDQ1B/?tag=minddripmedia-20) 14:49 Gator Frameworks $140 (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BMUCRRQ/?tag=minddripmedia-20) 15:50 SMSL Amplifier $145 (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B071JN7GXN/?tag=minddripmedia-20) 16:50 UEI DL479 $163 (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TLNT8WZ/?tag=minddripmedia-20) 17:19 Klein Scout Pro 3 $170 (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BDBB983/?tag=minddripmedia-20) 17:58 UpLift Sit Stand Desk $600 (https://www.upliftdesk.com/uplift-v2-standing-d

-- During The Show -- 00:45 Steve's OpenSuse Experience Splash Screen Kernel Panic 03:10 Caller Ed Best VM server Proxmox (https://www.proxmox.com/en/) Libvirt (https://libvirt.org/) + Cockpit (https://cockpit-project.org/) Ovirt (https://www.ovirt.org/) 08:08 Sleuth Asked Is there software to send and receive audio over the network that work on phones and Linux machines? My usecase is I want to listen to podcasts from antennapod on my computer and to monitor jitsi and mumble from my phone. Alsa Mixer IceCast (https://icecast.org/) 09:58 TwoBit Asked Still using the Google Glass? Yes 10:43 Docker Server - Mathieu TLS/HTTPS is more than a cert HAProxy (https://www.haproxy.org/)/Nginx Reverse Proxy Check documentation for the project Security is more than closing ports LetsEncrypt (https://letsencrypt.org/) 19:25 Archiving Emails? - Jose Download an archive + Thunderbird 23:26 SIP Questions - Andrew 3CX SBC (https://www.3cx.com/docs/3cx-tunnel-session-border-controller/) Upgrade Router to PFSense/OPNSense 28:10

This episode we focus on your feedback. Steve describes automating his Christmas tree. We give you some tips for getting started with Home Assistant. A new version of Firefox has been released with new privacy sandboxing features, and as always your calls go to the front of the line. -- During The Show -- 01:00 Steve's Automation Automating Steve's Christmas Tree What IOT is allowed in Steve's House 07:00 Open Source Alternative to Planning Center? - Dustin Must have a label cutter Zebra printer (https://www.barcodesinc.com/zebra/part-zd6a042-d01f00ez.htm?msclkid=c3b5f1dfa4bd150d5b74906fa17b8c94) Citizen Printers (https://www.citizen-systems.com/us/products/printer/mobile/cmp-30ii/) 11:15 Charlie Suggestions for Pi Audio - Charlie BEHRINGER Audio Interface (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EK1OTZC/?tag=minddripmedia-20) XTUGA E22 2i2 USB (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0965D1G6N/?tag=minddripmedia-20) YOUSHARES USB Audio Interface (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0983BLFZ7/?tag=minddripmedia-20) Audio Interface LVY USB Audio

In this episode Noah and Steve discuss migrating moving into a datacenter. Amazon Linux 3 is based off of Fedora, a new GPD Pocket 3 is out and is an IT sysadmin's dream, a privacy respecting voice assistant, join us for a packed show! -- During The Show -- 01:41 Fedora Feedback & Tumbleweed Challenge - Bhikhu Get Fedora (getfedora.org) Get OpenSuse Tumbleweed (https://get.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/) Fedora is not unstable What should we look for in OpenSuse Tumbleweed? - Write In! Underlying distribution seems matter less now days What is the primary use of OpenSuse Tumbleweed? - Write In! Linux Delta (http://www.linuxdelta.com/) 09:20 RE: Key Mapping - Matt Key-Mapper Github (https://github.com/sezanzeb/key-mapper) 10:54 User Provides Script to Check HTTPS - Cory Click To Expand ``` #!/usr/bin/env python3 #based on https://stackoverflow.com/a/52575489 from urllib.request import Request, urlopen, ssl, socket from urllib.error import URLError, HTTPError import json from dateutil import parser for site in {

Matthew Miller joins us this hour to discuss Fedora 35, Steve and Noah discuss their experience, we answer your questions plus our picks! -- During The Show -- 01:00 SSH Over Restricted Networks - DJ Respect WiFi terms of service OpenVPN Wireguard Gravitational Teleport (https://github.com/gravitational/teleport) 07:18 Server OS for Home Lab - Brett Nothing wrong with Ubuntu Alma Linux + DKMS for ZFS 09:45 VOIP For Business? - Terry Asterisk (https://www.asterisk.org/) AsteriskNOW/FreePBX (https://www.asterisk.org/downloads/asterisknow/) 3CX (https://www.3cx.com/) 13:45 Matthew Miller Interview Matthew Miller - Fedora Project Lead Fedora 35 Delay Gnome 41 New Remote Desktop Client Mobile Settings Panel Fedora Kinoite Kiosk mode WirePlumber/PipeWire Community Response to F35 Most Exciting things in F35 First Foundation F36 Plans F37 ARMv7 Support Removal Gnome Keyring? Making Hotkeys? - Jeremy G Dedoimedo Blog Post (https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/linux-keyboard-custom-remap.html) XEV + Xmode map Set no pa

-- During The Show -- Ian Tien joins us to discuss Mattermost, an open-source, self-hostable online chat service with file sharing, search, and integrations. -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/259) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.

Jack Aboutboul joins us this hour to talk about Alma Linux, a Red Hat Linux clone that is now doing what the former CentOS did prior to it becoming CentOS Stream. -- During The Show -- 00:54 Caller Mommy 01:15 Write in about Ticking/Asset Managment 01:50 Convert Docker file to Podman file? - Charlie Docker Files are OCI Compliant 03:08 Caller James Feedback: Use thermal wire strippers for small gauge wires Q: Monitor for older people in the country A: Apple Watch "Series 3 or later with Cellular" 06:40 Podcast Aggregator - Mike Pod Get (http://podget.sourceforge.net/) FTP JellyFin (https://jellyfin.org/) Plex (Plex.tv) 09:25 Purchasing CDs from Amazon - Hank CD's bought as gifts on Amazon don't allow MP3 downloads 10:44 Open Source Engineering? - Ateriath Interview in the works 13:24 Interview Jack Aboutboul Community Manager for Alma Linux Cloud Linux Reaction to CentOS changes How did Alma Linux come into existence? Alma Linux OS Foundation How does Alma Linux serve the community differently? Who is the tar

Researchers at the University of Cambridge discovered a bug that affects most computer code compilers. Fedora 35 is out, Matrix is now offering a bridging service for $5/mo. We tackle your questions, plus our picks! -- During The Show -- 01:00 Steve's House Steve's Home Automation Disaster Zigbee 07:42 Questions about the Industry - Jackson Direction of the IT industry Cloud/User Devices Managed Hosted Services Start at the "Edge" move to the "Center" 15:44 Open Source Security Keys? - Matthew SoloKey (https://solokeys.com/) NitroKey (https://www.nitrokey.com/) OnlyKey (https://onlykey.io/) 1832 TwoBit Asks: SDR to find wireless mic interferance RTL-SDR (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0129EBDS2/?tag=minddripmedia-20) 19:55 How to Learn Servers & Networking? - Cody Setup a Virtual Host Spin up Virtual Machines File Server Setup a Wiki Put the database and Wiki in different VLans TP Link Switch that supports VLans (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00N0OHEMA/?tag=minddripmedia-20) GNS3 (https://www.gns3.com/software/downloa