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Noah J. Chelliah
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Mar 2, 2022 • 56min
Episode 275: Home Labs Tips
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
HC-SR04
ESP 8266
D1 Mini
Aqara Leak Sensor
Home Depot Leak Detector
Honeywell Water Sensor
Citadel
Zimbra
Nextcloud
WikiJS
Confluence
Photo Duplicate App - Jeremy
PhotoRec
Photo Prism
Tech Mint Dedupe Files in Linux
User Responds to Nextcloud on Ep 266 - Ashley
Cert Issue
LAN access with Cisco VPN and docker - ?
Need more information
Call In!
QNAP Follow up - Brad
Will take a look at ZFS Send
Installing TrueNAS on a Qnap
Pick of the Week
Swaks
Swiss Army Knife for SMTP, ESMTP and LMTP
SMTP Extensions
Written and maintained by John Jetmore
Gadget of the Week
Aria-net.org
How federation works
Bifrost bridge
JMP.chat
NewsWire
Ubuntu 20.04 released
Alma Linux for PowerPC
Gnome Release
Linux Mint Release
Torvalds Worried
ReiserFS in the Linux Kernel
Github Open Source Security
Test Sigma
Red Hat Joins Magma Core
Home Lab Set Up
What are you trying to achieve?
Syncthing
Seafile
Next Cloud
Backups
SpiderOak
Ice Drive
Encryption Threat Modeling
Offline Data
Noah's Backup Strategy
Start with data storage
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Feb 23, 2022 • 54min
Episode 274: Introduction to Storage
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 you know you have an open source solution that will let you cast youtube videos to a TV. I love being able to queue videos and controlling them from my phone but do not like using the non free software that is used by roku and other set top boxes thanks for the great content
RPI Cast
22:30 News Wire
Trademark Infringement
Open Source Security Tool
Open Source FPGA
Vizio GPL Infringement
Openwall Security
Neil McGovern Stepping Down
Gnome Executive Director Stepping Down
Akamai Aquires Linode
Akamai
Linode Press Release
Linode Blog
Qualys Finds Snap Vulnerability Blog
Qualys Finds Snap Vulnerability CVE
24:40 Intro to Storage
Storage Media
Hard Disk
SATA SSD
M.2 SSD
M.2 NVMe
AHCI vs NVMe
Tape
Storage Interfaces
SATA
PCIe
DMA (Direct Memory Access)
Disks Lie
Security Concerns
53:00 Announcements
Community Night
6 PM Central March 4
Open Tech Will Save Us
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Feb 16, 2022 • 1h 6min
Episode 273: Objections to Open Source
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
Kill A WATT
06:55 Grub2 and LUKS Feedback - Ninja Tech
Arch Wiki Link
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
GuruMitts PyLutron Script
Does require Internet for setup
22:44 Used Server for Storage - Patryk
Lab Gopher
Part Picker
Canada Computers
Newegg Canada
Server Monkey
Unix Surplus
32:01 Unifi Switch Flex Mini - Roger
Managed Switch for trouble shooting
Old way is a HUB
33:06 Linux News Wire
EU Pays for Open Source Bugs
Credit Karma & Open Source
Ford Open Source CAD Files
DIY Mini Raspberry Pi Zero 2 Laptop Liliputing
DIY Mini Raspberry Pi Zero 2 Laptop TomsHardware
Healthy Pi
Healthy Pi Crowdsupply
Mutant v1
Google Drive Alternative
Plasma 5.24.0 KDE.org
Plasma 5.24 Pointiest Stick
Kali Release
Lumina Desktop
34:42 Objections to Open Source
Radio Station is using open source
Dell XPS with Ubuntu
Open Broadcast Studio (OBS)
Magewell & IP Camera Capture
Open IAS Score Board
ScaleEngine
Companies looking to contribute upstream
Big shift in the industry
Push back #1 "If it's free it's not any good"
Used as a base for enterprise offering
Relate to other open source software they know
Push back #2 "Who makes this software? What company owns it?"
A group of companies fund development
How many code commits and by who/how many people?
Push back #3 "Industry Standard is X, I'm used to X and Y looks different"
Watch out for auditors, put in forethought
Cyber Insurance Questions
"Use it for 30 Days"
Push back #4 "Why do I care if I have the source code? I'm not a programmer"
Other people can contribute
You can directly interface with developers
Push back #5 "Who supports this thing if you're not around"
Lots of people out there
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Feb 9, 2022 • 57min
Episode 272: Migrating Matrix with 12K Users
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
HP OfficeConnect Switch
Multiple Network Cards
Managed Switch
Cisco
HP 1920 Series
Stacking
17:30 Light Automation - John
All smart bulbs have a failsafe
Shelly 1
Smart Assistant
Smart stuff at the switch
GE Enbrighten Zwave Plus
UltraPro Switch
Lutron Switches
Inovelli
24:46 User recommends software - Brett
DerbyNet
Pinewood Derby Software
Real Time stats, Live instant replay, and more!
27:03 RHCE Questions - MHJ
RHCE is hard
Skills Based
RHCSA is required before you can be called a RHCE
Class is not required, but will help you a lot
VTC Class
36:50 Tim Asked
The guy with MoCA adapters that fail... He has to be sure that any splitters along the way are compatible (will pass the right frequencies). Also, if the cable is connected to CATV, he may need an in-line filter that will prevent his in-house MoCA signalling from propagating up the line to the cable company or the neighbors if the neighborhood infrastructure is old enough.
37:20 sunjam Asked
Curious about custom local domain name resolution. Setup avahi for hostname.local on my pi, but curious about adding services to *.home in addition to .local
Pseudo TLD
Reserved Pseudo Domains
mDNS
39:21 CubicleNate Asked
I want to know where to get low(er) cost used rack mountable storage solutions. What interfaces are used between them? I have a raid 10 btrfs array I want to grow.
eSATA Enclosure
InfiniBand
42:19 Caller George
Digitize VHS C tapes
Janacane Converter
VHS player with built in converter to DVD
46:48 Linux News Wire
Slackware 15 Announcement
Slackware 15 The Register
Tiny Core Linux 13
Peppermint 11 Release
Trisquel 10 Release
Openmandriva 4.3 Released
Libre Office 73 Community
AMD Linux Client Hiring
RISC V Investment from Intel
Intel Invests Billion into RISC V
3dfx Glide Coming to Linux
Local Privilege Escalation
12 Year Old Local Privilege Escalation on Linux
Sama Code Execution Bug
Argo CD High Severity Flaw
Google Open Source Story
Oracle Linux in Windows Store
Github Sponsor Only Repos
48:39 MDM Data Migration
Linux Delta Matrix Server
Digital Ocean Bill was doubling
12,000+ Users
Data Migration took 4+ days
Ansible and Containers
Postgres issues
Learned a lot
What is your baseline?
Possible Solutions
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Feb 2, 2022 • 55min
Episode 271: Better Passwords with Bitwarden
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 - Steve
Kubuntu - 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
Burn After Reading Me
One Time Secret
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-software-development-linux-git-certification/
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/ac632c504d0b881d7cfb44e3fdde3ec30eb548d9/Makefile#L6
https://news.unm.edu/news/unm-doctoral-candidate-develops-open-source-gpu-capable-fluid-dynamics-code
https://github.com/leon-ai/leon-cli/releases/tag/v1.0.1
https://www.pcgamer.com/linux-users-running-intel-arc-gpus-will-benefit-from-fps-boosting-resizable-bar/
https://www.pcgamer.com/valves-tweaking-linux-drivers-to-squeeze-more-battery-life-out-of-the-steam-deck-on-steamos-30/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2022/01/31/linux-gaming-gets-a-big-boost-from-a-12-year-old-ubuntu-developer/
https://venturebeat.com/2022/01/27/sonatype-which-secures-the-use-of-open-source-software-lays-groundwork-for-ipo/
https://www.greenqueen.com.hk/integriculture-7-million-open-source-raise/
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/farciennes-belgium-launches-oss-digital-public-services
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/open-source-finnish-childhood-education
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/open-source-software-deployed-french-middle-schools
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/open-source-be-norm-german-public-procurement
31:05 Bitwarden Interview
What sets Bitwarden apart
Zero Knowledge Encryption
Why Open Source?
Why use a password manager
2 Factor Authentication (2FA)
Bitwarden Authenticator
Recovery Code
User Compromise
Bitwarden Commercial Offering
Bitwarden Send
Work and Personal Passwords
Where is Bitwarden Headed?
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Jan 26, 2022 • 54min
Episode 270: Soft Skills & Cupcakes
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
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
Try a different brand of Ethernet over Coax
18:00 10GBE Nic using M.2 Slot - Charlie
Innodisk EGPL-T101 NIC (Marvell AQtio chipset)
Product Store: USD$166
19:20 Soft Skills - Jeremy
You have to know yourself first
People are emotionally attached to ideas because they are invested
Mission Statements
Ask questions
Cupcake Model
Steve's Feedback
"Being Handled" Reactions
38:38 Pick of the Week
Static Site Generator for Docs
MKDocs
MKDocs
Contribute to Mind Drip Media
41:00 Gadget of the Week
Unihertz Titain Pocket
Blackberry Ripoff
LineageOS Available
Unihertz Jelly 2
Tiny
LineageOS Available
44:44 Google Analytics Illegal
Tutanota Blog Post
Doesn't Matter if data is being shared, only that it can be
Good Potential
50:06 Suse Liberty Linux
Register Article
Why another RHEL Clone?
53:00 Announcements
Grand Forks LUG
Minddripmedia Site
Community Night
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Jan 19, 2022 • 54min
Episode 269: Networking Madness
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
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
34:10 Vlans, WiFi, Baby Cam, Virtualization
Unifi APs
Unifi Setup
Multiple APs for performance
Axis WiFi Camera
Synology Disk Station + Surveillance Station
Zone Minder/Motion Eye OS
Raspberrypi Zero 2 + Webcam
PineCube
Value in running Open Source at home
LibVirt
Cockpit
Ovirt
RHV
Red Hat Value Add
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Jan 12, 2022 • 59min
Episode 268: Tech Roundtable
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!
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Jan 9, 2022 • 2h 34min
Episode 267: The Altispeed Origin Story
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 Going forward decisions
30:15 How to serve better
30:46 Peter & Kenny Join the Disscusion
31:00 Kenny's Take
34:30 RpiSurv
37:15 FOSS Polish
39:02 ANS Outreach & Service
41:55 Noah can work "on" not "for" Altispeed
43:43 Noah's dedication to ANS & the community
44:50 Ask Noah Show Studio
48:30 Epoch 5
The Future of Altispeed
49:28 People stay when they can directly impact the work they do
50:22 How to serve clients going forward
52:32 More than a show tag line
58:16 Tony from Jitsi Asks
How do you control what you support?
Virtualize
Define things up front
Altispeed rejects "monkey hands jobs"
One place to call has value
Being the "middle man" allows you to introduce FOSS alternatives
1:14:36 Today people ask "what can technology do for me" not "what can I do with technology"
1:16:40 How Altispeed does cloud better
1:19:35 Radio likes to be self sufficient
1:20:22 Build Modular Solutions
1:22:55 Plans for 2022
1:24:05 Software is more than a tool
1:24:44 Learn from others
Dave Ramsey - Podcast
Franklin Covey - 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Book
Rabbi Daniel Lapin - Thou Shalt Prosper Book
1:27:48 Reducing friction and setting boundaries
Altispeed Tools
1:29:52 Element/Matrix
Channels
Reply Chains
Reactions
Federation
Spaces
1:40:02 SeaFile
Beautiful UI
Able to be White Labeled
1:42:24 Nextcloud
Deck
Gets better over time
1:44:30 OSTicket
Lacking Solid Mobile App
Open API
1:48:08 Simple Help
Proprietary
Intuitive UI
Unstable on Macs
Self Hosted
Extra tools that reduce friction
Audience Questions
1:50:52 Kpovoc Asks
I’d be curious to know how often your clients have problems that might be easier solved by a custom written software vs finding an applicable existing FOSS solution?
Many times combining/modifying open source solutions works best
1:54:30 Tony Asks
I'd be interested in knowing if you charge customers extra if they want to make changes to an already working solution. Would that be a charge to not have them abuse your time/technician time?
Managed Service Contracts
Hourly Service
What is your most popular service?
Access Controls and Cameras
Networking
1:57:42 AtypicalKernel Asks
How do you deal with clients who don't communicate their needs clearly?
Discovery Process
R&D Phase
Presentation
Execute
Circle back to Discovery
Project Planning recommendations
Follow up
How do you deal with a client who blames the solution rather than acknowledging their own mistakes and/or short comings?
Teach the user
Help them understand the limitations of their technology
2:09:30 Tony Asks
Are you able to share how you price a solution/support contract?
Price hourly
Contract Services are locked down
What access control systems do you typically deploy?
Axis A1001 Door Controller
Powerful integrations
HID Readers
Proxy III
Adams Rite door strikes
Completely Modular
Understand your threat vector
HID SEOS
Why Noah like HID products
2:19:50 Kpovoc Asks
Do clients pay for the discovery process?
No, never
Discovery benefits Altispeed not the client
2:21:25 Tony Asks
How do you deal with a customer who comes to you asking you if you can provide a solution for something you've never done? Do you tackle it even if it is a one of?
We love learning new technology
Noah loves getting to see behind the scenes
Altispeed specializes in this
Tony clarifies his previous question
We try to move to a open source solution
We still take on proprietary software to reduce friction and server the customer well
2:25:14 jutana Asks
You mentioned virtualization desktops , are you then using thin clients to access or low end PCs, also how do you deal with multimonitor support (SPICE?) and or USB peripherals? How are you dealing with standardizations on physical machines, imaging or other?
RDP in lightweight Windows 10
Moving away from this
Thinlinx
Continuing to explore
Focus is more on the back end VM
2:29:15 Tony Asks
Do you guys host email yourselves?
Not currently
Mail in a Box
2:30:31 toadrocksboat Asked
Do you provide critical 24/7 after hours support? How do you balance that with such a lean team?
Absolutely
Open Source Tooling helps us do that
Mentioned in the show
Cable Comb
Volumio
Rivindale
Axia LiveWire
Ink Scape
Kden Live
Gourmet
Virsh
Cockpit
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Jan 5, 2022 • 57min
Episode 266: Ringing In The New Year
An entire show packed with your questions! Noah and Steve spend the hour answering your calls, your emails, and your questions!
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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
12:00 Steve's House Automation
Projection Room Automation
URC MX450 Remote
URC MRF350 Base Station
URC Network Interface
URC MX990 Remote
Flirc USB IR Reciver
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 - Agustin
iio-sensor-proxy
KDED_Rotation module
Screen Rotator Project
30:56 Life360 Alternative? - Dennis
Elf on a Shelf
OwnTracks
Life 360 Selling Location Data
Life 360 disclosed a partnership with the CDC to track "mobility trends"
36:00 Laptop Recommendations? - Jeremy
Thinkpad T14 vs X1 Carbon
Change UEFI Setting to Linux
39:55 Caller - John
Self Hosting Success
Wireguard Youtube tutorial
41:10 Caller - George
WiFi Issues
Antenna Direction
WiFi Extenders
Ethernet over Power
Invest in good APs
50:29 Caller - James
Looping Bash Scripts
email the script in
Special Announcements
Feedback on the Lumina Desktop
ANS is switching to Mumble
https://minddripmedia.com/mumble/
Grand Forks LUG
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