36 is the atomic number of krypton and in binary it is 100100 and 36 UK gallons in a Beer barrel

Andy been dealing with a customer who built a computer incorrectly and having issue with powerline

Jerry also has been have issues with powerline and using DD to clone a laptop and playing btrfs,containers and a new pyhiscal server

Al been play with cloud based marcoine wifi unit

Al Every Day Carry:

The bag Al wants: TImbuk2 Messenger Bag

EDC

Maxpedition Pocket Organizer (Bit like a pencil case) (Pic in show notes)
Small notepad
Biro
Fat / Thin Sharpie (Permanent marker)
LED Lenser P3 Tourch (single AA)
Mechanical Pencil
HP Server Allen Key
USB keys:
* Latest HP SPP (Service Pack For Proliant)
* Ubnuntu Mate Live CD
* Blank 8GB USB Disk
Letheman Skeletool
Belkin Precision Flat head / Phillips Screwdriver
ibuprofen

In my bag

Always Notepad A4/A5
Draytek Screw Driver
1TB 2.5 HD in a removeable USB HD caddy
HP Usb mouse
Cheap CAT5 Cable Tester
1 x 2M straight through cat 5 Cable connected to a 2 meter crossover cable with cat5 coupler. USB serial Connecter with 3 cable now cisco cable which can be used on HP/Cisco switch – DB9 to Cat5, and two type od DB9 either end for older cisco switches and APC UPS.
Roll of velcro.
Al Laptop:  HP ProBook 650 G1 Laptop

Jerry EDC

Philips screwdriver
Needlenose pliers
Leatherman
Socket set (rack rails, etc.)
USB-Serial cable
Cable ties/roll of velcro (usually scrounged off network engineers 🙂
Network cable
Live USB key

Andy EDC

2 bags and Box in the Car

Bag One:
CDs, (Various windows OS, trinity, ubuntu live,)
screwdrivers.
Usb pens (Clean up tools. Ccleaner, JRT, ADW Cleaner, various scripts),
usb hard drive
iso images incase i need to burn a disk/

Bag Two:
Ethernet tester.
RJ45 plugs,
Crimping tool for it.
Mouse

Box in car.
Power supply, keyboard, Switchs, ADSL Router

Andy Software List

Lan Speed Test
Crystal Disk Portable Personal
Revo uninstall
Nirsot
Portable Browers

Jerry Software List

SSH client/Terminal
Git/github
Terraform
Ansible
Rsync

Al Software List

MSTSC / mRemoteNG
Zenmap
Ping / Tracert
Putty (SSH/Telnet Client)
Outlook and Chrome
Password Reset tool 
iPerf

Alister had a issue with a old Dell Server with a disk failing, these are the error Al was getting in the event viewer:

There was an unrecoverable disk media error during the rebuild or recovery operation: Physical Disk 0:1 Controller 0, Connector 0

Sense key: 3 Sense code: 11 Sense qualifier: 0: Physical Disk 0:1

Link to SCSI sense Key Codes

Openmanage is the tool to look at the hardware status of Dell servers, can be installed on Windows, Linux and VMware

Andy ask how to Setup email alert on a NAS if a disk fails

Andy issue with virtual box is fixed updating to latest version and has a question about port forwarding,  Portward.com has some good guide to set-up forwarding (but just avoid the ads on the websites)

Jerry has been getting to grips with his new job and Cloud config AWS

Links about Should I remove exchange onsite after migrating to Office365

Caution: Decommissioning Exchange can have unintended consequences. Before decommissioning your on-premises Exchange organization, we recommend that you contact Microsoft Support

Great email we got from one of our listeners:

Thank you very much for your excellent podcasts.

A few shows ago, I think that Al said something about wanting to improve his writing style. I have not knowingly read any of his writing and I am not sure what the issue is precisely (and I have no expertise in this area). I think that he (like Andy and Jerry too) speaks very clearly and coherently and he is clearly knowledgeable and enthusiastic and so gives his audience a very enjoyable listening experience. My tips for anybody wishing to improve their writing (for what they are worth) are:

1. Try to regularly read examples of the types of writing you admire and enjoy reading.

2. Use spell checking software and perhaps also grammar checking software (though that can sometimes be too pedantic, especially if, like me, you were brought up during the time when grammar was hardly taught at school and so you, like me, know little more than what verbs, nouns, adjectives and adverbs are and so cannot really understand the error messages of the grammar checker).

3. Read a guide to clear writing style. (Try to avoid anything that sounds too pedantic unless you enjoy that.)

4. Avoid trying to be too clever and instead just write as you would speak to your audience. (Some people try to write using business jargon in an attempt to sound good, but it can often just hinder effective communication.)

5. Consider using speech-to-text dictation software if you find that it is the process of typing that is causing the issue.

6. Read back aloud what you have written to see whether it sounds all right. It is often useful to use speech-to-text software to help with this, because it is very easy just to read what we think we have written rather than what we have actually written. For example, in Microsoft Windows, you could try Microsoft Narrator, since it is built in (or download a more fully featured screen reader such as NVDA, which is free and open source software), on an Apple product you can use Voice Over, which is built in, and in GNU/Linux, you can use Orca or Speakup. If you do not like the Default voice, try others.

7. If you have a friend whose writing style you admire and enjoy, you could ask him or her for feedback on your writing.

I hope that this helps. Thank you again for a great podcast.

We finally got to meet at Oggcamp 2015:

Al Has been having fun with a Windows cluster not starting

• http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2009/04/15/windows-2008-failover-cluster-validation-fails-on-validate-scsi-3-persistent-reservation.aspx
• http://blog.patricknielsen.net/2010/06/cluster-disk-with-identifier-has.html

Jerry has a new job and been doing the following Stuff:

• Crash course in AWS
• Terraform – A way of coding an AWS (or other provider) configuration.
• Tweaking vim
  –Nerd Tree
  –Vim plugins
  -Learning keyboard shortcuts(!)
• Got a Mac! The keys are in different places …

Andy been given a Dell poweredge 6650 and playing with freenas

Jon ‘The Nice Guy’ Spriggs, Oggcamp hero tells us about a dd alternative : dcfldd. Jerry agrees it is indeed an improvment over the standard dd command.

Jerry’s rucksack, in case anyone is interested 🙂

Photos from Andy Latest Job:

33 is the atomic number of arsenic

Jerry has a new job and been looking at Sensu, a new monitoring system.
Also, a really good talk by Andy Sykes, on Stop using Nagios let it die peacefully – Talk

Al went to UCDay. Exchange 2016 does not support Exchange 2007 in coexisting deployment and Office 2016 does not connect to mailbox hosted on a exchange 2007 server.

Exchange Pro Podcast – The new Podcast about exchange Al has found about.

Andy has been battling with printers again and ask about LPR and SNMP, HPR episode – Turning an old printer into a network printer.

Andy error message he getting in virtual box:

Failed to open a session for the virtual machine
Failed to load VMMR0.r0 (VERR_LDR_MISMATCH_NATIVE).
Result Code:
E_FAIL (0x80004005)
Component:
Console
Interface:
IConsole {8ab7c520-2442-4b66-8d74-4ff1e195d2b6}

The Admin Admin Logo andy was talking about:

A Listener emails in ask how we recommend getting in the IT industry, Jerry recommends do some freelancing,getting VPS and do some on line training (lynda.com, ITpro.tv and CBT Nuggets). Al recommends picking a topic and researching on Youtube.  Use GSN3 if you want to learn Cisco network,

The picture of the shared comms room was working in:

How to back IOS image on a cisco router using TFTPD32

Al has issue with expanding datastores in vmware (need find link)

Al ask jerry what Tmux is?

Pigeon Racing

32°F is the Freezing point of water

Al has a new small HP 2530p laptop which has decided on Manjaro as his chosen Linux distro
notepadqq is the linux verison of notepad++ for window.
The Command Al ran to fix his issue with the wifi not be enabled at start up:

"echo "blacklist hp_wmi" > /etc/modprobe.d/hp.conf" 

Andy fixed his issue with WordPress by replacing the broken *.php file. Also: dealing with SSD cloning and the strange case of the PC-breaking desk

Jerry is:
• moving into “devops” (whatever that means)
• Has a new client with 12 servers and no control panels(!) on Linode
• Dealing with more server backups
• Looking at gitlab
• Moving Nagios/Centreon into AWS

Andy ask how he can Scheduling task to do thing automatically.

• Windows task scheduling or the AT command.
• The cron job for linux
• Logwatch – Send daily reports of the logs on your Linux server via email
• AutoMySQLBackup – Auto backup your mysql backup daily.
• Jerry’s mysqldump script

Al has been playing with IDS and IPS to proctect a customer network against attacks:

• Intrusion Detection System
• Intrusion Prevention System
• Snort
• Cisco Firepower

• Watch the progress of dd

Using Exchange Server Features to Prevent ‘Reply All’ Email Storms

Radiolab – Darkode – talks about Cryptowall, Russian hackers and DDoS attacks

Cool Youtube Channels:

• “The Scene” 
• Tom Scott’s
• Numberphile 
• Objectivity 
• Colinfurze

Jerry BBC Links:

• Computing in Britain Radio – Podcast/Radio
• The Secret Rules of Modern Living: Algorithms – Marcus Du Sautoy
• Calculating Ada

Number 31 is a prime number, Atomic number of gallium, Andromeda Galaxy and is 11111 in binary.

Al
Has been having fun with godday and net bios names in UC/SAN certs: https://www.digicert.com/internal-names.htm
Generate csr request in exchange 2007

Andy
Issues with invalided Certs due to wrong time, We discuss NTP in EP #013
NTPD in Linux – Use “ntpd -gc /etc/ntp.conf” to update the clock if the skew is very big.
Printer issues – We discuss if it better set a printer with a static IP address or dynamic

WordPress errors – syntax error  

“Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘<‘ in /home/clutec/public_html/wp-includes/taxonomy.php on line 4723″

Jerry

Looking at deploying AWS machines via Ansible

Using Amazon AWS host as WordPress / Hosted database (RDS) in AWS  / S3
– EC2 for serving
– RDS for database
– S3 for storage

Jerry went to a meetup/talk about VPCs – bascially the AWS networking model. Here are the slides

Using IMAPcopy to copy between IMAP mailboxes. Complicated by the fact that the IMAP server uses SSL/TLS, and imapcopy does not support this. Followed this article to use stunnel as a workaround

Removing exchange 2007 get stuck at 100%
Exchange 2016 preview is available 
321 Veeam bakup rule

Regular expressions – mainly day-to-day use with grep
and User Guide