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Hey Forum, I've been an IT Engineer for 10+ years now and I'm trying to do my best to preserve my eyesight. I'm working from home and using the same PC for work and R&R. - I'm using blue light filter glasses - I'm alwaysusing the PC in an illuminated room - Monitors are set to 30% brightness (a bit dark, but manageable) - Night mode also used Despite all of the above, I'm still experiencing itching and burning eyes quite often. I wonder if you guys have any more ideas how to prevent my eyesight.
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Upgrade Path - Ryzen 3600 + 2070 Super
Bert the Derp replied to ChaosBehold's topic in New Builds and Planning
I am in a somewhat similar dilemma, so I'll not create a different topic for my issue, just gonna jump on this and keep it alive. My specs are Ryzen 5 3600 Radeon 6650XT 32GB RAM etc.... My biggest bottleneck is obviously the Ryzen 3600. However, I'm in no condition to spend 270-300$ (that is an average price in the EU for a Ryzen 5 5700X3D), but I'm slowly getting there. So my question is: Should I keep saving up for the 5700X3D and buy it in the summer or Just save up way more (around 550$) and buy an AM5 MOBO, Ryzen 5 7600X and 32GB RAM ? I mean I know the obvious answer(wait more), but I really want to upgrade it now since I'm heavily bottlenecked by the CPU. -
How to preserve our games for future use?
Bert the Derp replied to Bert the Derp's topic in New Builds and Planning
Yee, probably this is going to be the best solution. Now, would you help me make a custom installer application to install my "pirated" (some are just simply CD RIPs) games from the network from an ISO? I don't want it to be just a network folder that I open, double click the ISO and install as usual. I want the comfort that the game stores provide. A simple, one click install solution. Or maybe I'M aiming too high? -
Hey Forum, I'm reading / watching the news about content providers simply removing content from ppl, what they already bought (looking at you Sony ) and since similar things happened to me on Steam too, I was wondering. I'm from the age where we stored the content on physical media. Cassettes, CD, then DVD.... Now, obviously, this is not a solution when a game install requires 150+ GB. I remembered, Linus and his group made something in the past as a local cache for your games to download. That was the "Lan Cache" video. Now, this is super and all and I believe this MIGHT be the solution to my issue. All I want is to preserve my games even is Steam or any other gaming library platform removes it from their store and I want capability to still install it if I want to. Have any of you actually tried it and worked? Were you able to install games that were pulled out from the online store, but were cached on your Lan Cache? Or if you have better ideas, how to keep my games and not to worry about they getting removed, that would be great.
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Sort of related question, but my friend is planing to buy a GPU for Photoshop to use the AI features. Can AMD cards, to be mor exact the RX 580 8GB, use the AI features in Photoshop? Like text removal and other stuff.
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The most dangerous leak in the history of GDPR era ?
Bert the Derp replied to Bert the Derp's topic in Tech News
a; They do share the data between them because the data is controlled by government institution and then delegated access to the schools. The governing ministry was the HUB where the data was stored (on paper. In reality, it was stored by a centralized server build by this company) b; Yes, there is Moodle, but then how can the corruption give hundred millins of dollars to a friend who has a developing company? This was the sole goal, it was always secondary to make the system actually good and useable. -
The most dangerous leak in the history of GDPR era ?
Bert the Derp replied to Bert the Derp's topic in Tech News
You Lads see it right, the data was centralized mostly (there were sub-centers, but). The issue was one of the developing companys members (someone high on the ladder) was sent a malware contained email, he clicked and from then on, the attacked gained controll to the PC. There they found all the project they ever worked on (wasn't much there, lol) and all the access to them. That is how they got the source codes and data. The other lack of security consciousness was when they realized, they did something bad and someone got in the system, all they did was changed the password on the affected PC. Not the servers. Also, any key used to connect to the other databases, were kept and not replaced. So after the infection, they just "re-secured" the afftected PC. Nothing else. BTW I've found my absolute best, favourite file in the source code called: DirtyWords.xml Guess what was the files used for.... BTW2: I work for a developing company too and the level of security here is insane. When I arrived, the system was a mess. Then my boss told me to secure the whole infrastructure. I've did that and while I was studying IT security on a deeper level I realized we even need to rework our workflow and guess what his response was. He told me to set up lessons for all employee (7 at the time) and I must include lessons for HR and himself as well. He sat thru all the lessons with the developers, the HR and also studies my part as SysAdmin. I love how he is putting almost everything after security. Since then we are just slightly bigger (8 members ) but our workflow became something I think many others could copy. Also small things like BYOD is strictly monitored while allowed, 2FA for every system we use, even for some SSH connections. Oh and Linux. Linux everywhere Boss and Project managers use Mac but damned, learning to use a Mac for me was like learning German.... hell x2. What security you guys are proud of that prevents you from making the same mistake as KRÉTA did? -
The most dangerous leak in the history of GDPR era ?
Bert the Derp replied to Bert the Derp's topic in Tech News
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Hey Forum, I want to give a little more echo to the thing happened this week in Hungary which could pose as a HUGE example how NOT TO implement a new software. Now I know this article is not in english (it will appear probably very soon tho), but Google Translate does well as far as I can see it. (find sources and translate https://translate.google.com/?hl=hu&sl=hu&tl=en&op=websites ) TL;DR at the bottom. Background In Hungary, the government have centralized and digitalized the education system in primary and secondary schools. Unified software, school books, curriculum, etc... For this, they made contract with a company to develop the software that can has to be used in every school by every teacher and every student as well. This is where they get their grades, this is where their timetables appear, important messages, notifications, sick leave management, etc... Really everything. This is called "KRÉTA". (Translates to "chalk") The event The developing company was hit by a phishing attack back in September. According to the GDPR in Europe, they required to report this to the local authorities within 15 days. Now it is November and earier this week, the attack was surfaced. After 2 months... The hackers gained access to the source codes of the software (both WebService, Mobile App, Desktop app) and even credentials for the test, staging and LIVE SERVERS ! Now what that means in practice: EVERY student and teacher in Hungary has their personal data leaked and proven to be stolen ! What this means if a sick bastard gets its hand on the data, it can make a similar query like this: female students age between 13-16 lives in X county lives with grand parents or foster parents (which means she is probably orphan) has bad grades I don't think I have to tell you, this is opening doors to some very serious crimes. said the cyber security expert. My thoughts and TL;DR This is a story. A story of a "how not to develop" and "how not to manage IT incidents". The developers knew they were hacked, they knew the data is compromised, they know how sensitive the data is, they just tried to keep quiet about it. Sadly, this company is owned by current government personell friends, thus they will certainly not go to jail or get fined. Only on a symbolic level only. But I hope I can raise attention to this case and "maybe put pressure" on the local authorities to act faster and more strictly. The data of our children are no joke and this must be protected at all cost. Sources https://telex.hu/tech/2022/11/07/kreta-rendszer-e-naplo-kozoktatas-adathalasz-tamadas-adatszivargas-ekreta-informatikai-zrt https://telex.hu/tech/2022/11/09/kreta-rendszer-ekreta-zrt-adathalasz-tamadas-adatszivargas-elhallgatas-naih-vizsgalat-eljaras https://telex.hu/tech/2022/11/11/kreta-adatszivargas-forraskod-ekreta-zrt-fejlesztok-elvandorlas
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Who here can help me with info on wireless display stuff?
Bert the Derp replied to Asthereal's topic in Displays
I would be interested in it as well. I'm planing to build myself the most wireless desktop PC as possible. Wireless mouse, keyboard, headphones and speakers are no issue. But Monitors.... Which adapter you were talking about? -
Here are some hardware I was thinking of using: 1x TOOQ RACK-406N-USB3 1x GIGABYTE B550 Aorus Pro 1x AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G 2x HP 16GB DDR4 838089-B21 1x FSP PPA7004601 700W 80+ Gold 2x LSI SAS 9210-8i 8-port 6Gb/s PCIe RAID SATA Controller card 2x Delock 5.25″ Mobile Rack for 6 x 2.5″ SATA HDD / SSD 12x Samsung 860 PRO 2.5 512GB (for storage) 1x ADATA XPG SX8200 PRO 512GB PCIe (for boot) And as many cooling fans to move the air around as I can What do you think?
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Budget (including currency): 600 USD Country: Hungary Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: A Storage Network Array for a web application to be accessed from around the globe. Possibly it will need extensions in multiple countries. Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): The goal is to brainstorm a little about what kind of SAN can we build with the lowest possible cost, that is still reliable and capable of hosting mostly images for a web application deployed to multiple servers. What I wish to achieve is to have it working with SSDs rather than HDD (it is 2021 after all, duh) with a storage capacity that can be around 1-2 TB. I've build many servers so fat, but not a SAN. That is why I request the forums help. Or do you think SAN is simply not required for this project? Should I go with NAS? I often see Linus doing storage for his company, but those are NASs, aren't they?
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I agree with "they are basically all the same", but as you've said it, the main difference is the packet manager and the packages they use. You even mentioned Arch Linux (big bow before you, for using it). At the end, it all comes down for personal experiences and preferences. And the simplicity of the packet manager.
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Hello Forum, I don't know if you've read it or you are interested at all or something BUT https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/?fbclid=IwAR06rjOBU7YWwo7bWSjl-_hZa-MdL_94UDbq5TQTbGuUXGXgV78pcTv5hvs CentOS Linux as a stable release for RHEL is over. From now it will be a rolling release to test everything before they go live in Red Hat Linux. "This is not a problem", said many people. Except those who use it on production servers like myself. Stability is mandatory and we cannot afford to use a rolling release. And not just me, about 20% of webservers in the world uses CentOS right now. So I raise you a question: Where to go now? What is your recommendation for webservers now? I know it is not a big deal, but I give credit for this forum and your oppinion. Ubuntu LTS Debian openSUSE Leap Something else maybe?
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Your video.. It seemed familiar.