 and I'm live almost on time the the incident that stopped me from being on time was the fact that You open something in it. It kind of fizzes a lot. So my beer fizzed on me. Oh Lots of things to talk about here early screening from Santa from Seattle awesome. Oh I should probably change the brand here to do Vlog Thursday and my Lord systems logo It's still the home lab show logo. There we go. Got switch. Excuse me But welcome vlog Thursday number of 355 firewalls firewalls and Cisco flaws Kentucky Friday AI and tech talk there'd be all kinds of stuff all over the place and Let's see. Oh, we someone from Yip salami. I'm just gonna point that out Yip salami is a cool place. I Definitely reading from Ohio. So we got people all the different places people are from looks like there's a lot of Discussion that already kicked off before everything started going And I'm going to turn on my space heater because I'm a little little chilly right now It is uh, it is finally winter. Well winter ish here in Michigan Here I sit watching the network stream. I'm moving through my pf sense ce, uh, which will not be changing. All right and uh The same popular fox shows the cat cancelled Yeah, uh Washed off some more system last stream, but unfortunately my tummy is upset from the medicine mishap. Oh, okay All kinds we have people from Paraguay Oh, I Do I don't know how to say that do buck do Do book do Dubuque. I don't know. I'm not exactly sure Paraguay and uh, the uk Maryland Yes, I don't know. It's uh, it is quite late in the uk. I imagine But let's uh put things in order of what I have in the list firewalls Actually, maybe we'll talk about cisco flaws first cisco flaws. I think might be a good starting point There you go Dubuque Dubuque got it. So where are my blog notes because I thought this was Interesting and some of you may find it interesting Uh switch from open sense to pf sense as open sense had issues with vpn and routing, you know, I I don't know if this needs its own I don't want to sound like i'm just trying to disparage open sense because someone's gonna Well, no matter what someone's gonna accuse me of that Uh, but one of the challenges I've brought up with open sense is the fact that they are still running the Old version of open ssl and this is a problem because it is not supported anymore So if there's a major bug found in open ssl or even minor bugs, but major ones are usually ones you're concerned about That's not going to get fixed and they don't seem to have a roadmap for when they're doing it And you could say but tom it is november 2nd of 2022 or 20. I'm sorry 2023 and pf sense is running on an outdated version of open ssl Yes, but they're in beta with their fix for it So it has a timeline by which it's getting fixed That is one of those things that I'm really It's why there's not many firewalls Actually, I recommend checking out our homelab show. We just did wednesday I did a long explainer for all the collections of open source firewalls out there and talked about them and why Throughout history. I went through like 20 years of firewall history condensed down into about a 25 minutes But there's just so much That firewalls were simple back then and easy and now they're very complicated and security is of the most importance and managing these things is absolutely A big deal like being able to have this set up securely and not worry about You know some type of code problem with these makes it much harder to write a firewall today. Well, it's not that it's become harder It's that the threats have become better And more sophisticated This was not an issue those old firewalls if you fired them up today are definitely going to have tons of security flaws It's just the way the internet has evolved as the attacks have become substantially more complicated and more advanced The defenses also have to match that so a firewall today is a far more complicated device to make secure Then it was because the need was not necessarily there About 20 years ago not like it is today Ooh, someone else has a voodoo IPA Free bst 14 releases do any day. They were they were delayed because of open ssl 3 Yes, there's you know people and this is just some foreshadowing the people at netgate Definitely, I will i'm not in defense of their Dummy move they did I've talked about this enough already like of changing things around with pf sense plus and changing them back But the reason they went to free bsd 14 and people criticized them for this I don't understand I'm like they kind of seen the writing on the wall that there was going to be a The ability to support and one things they mentioned was the problems with the technical debt that's going to come with 13 And because they are code contributors to fixing the open ssl problem They are among the people fixing it They understand the complexity of the problem and a security risk that comes with not fixing open ssl So they moved to bsd 14 and because pf sense only puts the things they need into build the firewall They're very In control of how that firewall gets built and they understand the risk of running something that's not full release It doesn't make pf sense unstable because they're not using the features that may be unstable and free bsd 14 And now they're going to be able to take advantage of the modern open ssl That is under support and not have to deal with as much drama that is going to go on with the 13 version Which is going to take longer to get fixed and get support Upgrade to free bsd 14 doesn't even appear on the open central roadmap. Yeah, that's it not only I know you're going to be able to and I know sam you're more of a bsd person to me, but I believe they're um Is it 13 1? I'm not sure exactly how it's working in bsd They're going to get open ssl 3 But if you look at open census blog they pinned to the open Open ssl 111 to avoid the breakage because that's what their current solution is It's not about avoiding breakage at some point. It's about, you know, do you have the engineering team? That can put together the solution I mean, hey, i'm all for open source firewalls and things like that and I talked about ip fire and open wrt But one of the things I keep bringing it back to is do you have or do those projects have more specifically the engineering teams needed to Make that a modern firewall that has modern security with modern library support underneath So we're not running a bunch of risk and if you're wondering where the risk is with open ssl The specific risk is going to be in your vpns. So if you're not using vpn You may depending on what flaw may be found in the future with open ssl and an unsupported version It may just require you to stop using your vpn But maybe that's a big concern to you or maybe the security of your vpn is a big Big concern and so this is why we have to be very careful about that so The cisco topic though, let's go ahead and bring that up because I think this is a Fun talking point. We'll get to kentucky friday. I that's my off topic Uh thing that we're going to talk about now A couple pieces here to the cisco and let me give everyone a link in case anyone wants to read along I'm going to put it up on the screen here But I also dropped the link And oh, by the way, I have the vlog thursday Uh If there I actually have a couple emails. I didn't pull up just yet, but I'll have I'll read those uh on air Uh in just a moment Um, hey, tom is that syslog bug and true nasty related to the lack of progress reporting and cloud sync tasks Not to my knowledge because this is just syslog when you export it That's another live stream. I did about the true nascale cobia The bug report has got a target to be fixed in the point release But it's only if you're only if you're using an external log server. I happen to use one. That's how I notice the bug So cisco advisories and this is related to firewalls as well because active Active exploitation of cisco ios xc software web management user interface vulnerabilities Now someone can be screaming from the clouds Will you quit exposing management faces to the internet or even to the local Non-managed side of your network where all the users and guests reside. Yes, I agree with that 100 if you're setting things up, right your management interfaces are not exposed Unfortunately, these are there's a lot of these exposed showdan has proven there is a ton of these exposed I wish people didn't expose management interfaces, but that's kind of a different topic. That's just a stop doing that topic I like this cisco though didn't have any problem diving into a lot of the details for what went wrong So there's a lot of information in here, but we didn't really have 100 of it I'm going explanation guidance medication how to check if it's there, etc I thought this was kind of cool by the people at horizon 3 and hey, why not? I'll drop a link to them too for anyone who wants to see it And it really came down to I like this this was easier summarized. Like I said, really deeper dive that you'll find in cisco But this was the deeper dive that came out on or the overview one that came out October 30th of exactly what happened in a very Uh short way. So bad path parsing is what able was what enabled this flaw And it's actually kind of interesting because they found this from Uh a honey pot. So a honey pot was set up to emulate a cisco Someone tried the exploit and then they were able to start reverse engineering what they did And this is one of those really important details So in our previous posts, we theorized an attacker would somehow need to reach web ui Wsma underscore http or web ui Wsma https endpoints the correctest vulnerability is in the first line of the request post The clevering clothing of the web ui wsma bypasses the nginx matches discussed in the previous post and allows Allows us to reach the wmsa service in iosd It is clear now that the proxy ui source header and the Patch intended to prevent the attacker from actinist by setting the default header to value Default header to value global internal for legitimate requests. Now, let me explain that a little bit easier I like that they're very concise here, but let's explain this a little bit It's what they've done is They crafted something that kind of got by nginx, but allowed people this is how I got a cvss I believe the cvss and this was 10 Because it really allowed you to get right to the management agent. So essentially the web services management agent Didn't just accept commands from nginx. It could accept can't commands externally Now why this is important and why this is interesting is if you're thinking about that from programming Programmatic standpoint. So you have this web interface that sits on top and then you've got this web services management agent And it's going to expect commands coming from the system and you're writing this not thinking that this part could be exposed externally That's actually pretty complicated because nginx sits on top and everything else, but someone found a way To bypass nginx and get something into the web service management agent and because They didn't filter it to accept only from a local command. It actually was able to accept a remote command But they weren't expecting this This is where secure coding comes in and this can be very tricky to do because Well, you don't you think of something as an internal service if it's only like listening internally You're like, oh, yeah, they don't have this is not the service is exposing It it only gets information passed through nginx before it gets to here Then it gets handed off to become commands on the back end of the system So this is really just a minor tweak that they had to make But this goes on all over the place. There's so many things has once it's been built How often do people go back and audit it and this is sysco I mean, I'm I'm not throwing shade at sysco when it comes to security because the tallows group they are good They they are not amateurs. They give really good debriefs I think they do a good job on a lot of this and this is their modern equipment But there's still flaws being found in these This brings it back to that earlier firewall discussion of If there was enough Resources put at poking at some of these other firewalls, how well will they stand up? How well will they withstand if they become popular? Or will someone just happen to find one of these flaws within there and be able to find a management agent that accepts A different Command than was expected because they didn't lock it down that well. It's it's an interesting problem to think about because there's a ton of Technical debt here think about having to go and check this now here is the real question of what's going on at sysco Is sysco now going through because I think there was a follow-up cve with some of the sysco IO stuff but more specifically how much of their equipment are they going through and looking at how The internal agents that are expecting commands from other web interface software To then interact with this middleware on the other side that passes the commands How many of them are really locking that down and confirming that this works? This is a really sophisticated attack and this is one of those things attacks Just keep getting more complicated and where there's smoke there's fire So more people are going to try this maybe other people who program things in a similar way will try this This is what just the way attacks keep evolving and why things like firewalls things like not exposing your management ports Becomes more and more important on there. Yeah, it's really interesting That this attack at its complexity level Uh, it just It seemed to go pretty heavy on the internet. It was definitely pretty wild, but really interesting though Hmm Comment on a Boeing cyber attack. I mean, here's the thing. I've said this a lot You're gonna only notice the big companies because they're the only ones worth reporting when they get attacked I I actually tell clients this this is something I tell the sales people to tell clients this I've said this before in in different talks. I've said this before on my youtube channel Your company is probably not too small to get hacked. You're just too small to make the news This is just going on all the time and as someone who manages security for small businesses the reality is if one of the small Law offices that we work for unless they were The lawyer for someone famous in or lawyers for a large company where there was information exploited Nobody cares when a law office gets popped. No one cares when the dental office gets popped But they all get popped so frequently that the news doesn't care. Uh, it's just It's a crazy thing. So I don't really have uh, any particular comments. I don't have any insider knowledge on the Uh lock bit stuff. I do know and this is something I'll share with people. Uh, cloudflare had a bad day How's cloudflare doing these days? This was an interesting the I'll actually pull up because this was discussed over on reddit I have I have friends that work in the area that were able to share some more information with me. I can't make that public Um, but we can talk about what's going on here. We'll share this tab instead over on reddit But uh cloudflare, I didn't see what their status is now Who this has been all this is an all day one here because uh cloudflare dashboard api service issues cloudfair is seeing gradual improvements This has been going on all day here So there's a lot of updates on this and uh, let's find the information we're looking for here because there was there we go so There was a power loss at pdx02 So right here is the information. Uh, this was found on reddit and it takes a lot To knock out a data center now my understanding because I talked to someone who is in the general area if you will and said Yeah powers on here the data center doesn't seem to have all the power That's it takes a lot of well It either takes a lot of things to go wrong for a data center to go wrong or one thing Your power delivery system within the data center now I am still editing all the data center video that I took because I love to talk about this power delivery system and hey, we have some relevant topics here because This power system taking out a data center. Uh, obviously it was a bad news for cloudflare and cloudflare is a redundancy company They have redundancies places, but even with redundancies um, I have a friend who went through Uh, some pretty big, you know, we're they they suffered a large outage Because their cloud multi cloud failover system didn't fail over the way they expected it to This is one of those things It's really hard to test in production because you're kind of scared to do it You're like, can we fail over to another data center on a tuesday just to just to try it out See how things work and it seemed like sometimes it works, but when a data center actually just loses power How's that failover working now and that is a uh That can be a real challenge I didn't see if my friends at def tweeted anymore. I have a lot to do. I um right now. I'm working on a video with That'll be out tomorrow. I think with boomerra And let's see this is they post any more pictures. No, let's open ahead a little more It's the last uh They did they tweeted one more picture of me. I was just so excited to be there This is a big place something that you have to feel an experience. I mean all just the volume of air moving by me Yeah, you're standing in just a air dryer. So yeah, the data surf video is coming along um I have a lot of things going on. So it's taking me time, but hopefully I'll get something out I also am working with them just to double check everything. I don't want to expose anything that may have been on That may have been proprietary information. So this is not a sponsored video with the data center This is just being getting hang out there. Uh, so I told them, you know I would be polite and share the video with them privately first to make sure there's nothing in there that Uh, there's any problem with me sharing. So it's going to be kind of fun Yeah, the power consumption of the data center is huge There is no doubt about that Uh difficult to duplicate lightning strikes. Oh, it's not just lightning strikes It's the way things happen when there's a complete failover With a data center like, you know, a power loss at data centers wild Doesn't happen often, but hey, you know, it's a thing and Actually, I uh a few years ago back when I think it was Sears and kmart after the merger. I have One of their data centers I had several tech friends that were techies for those companies if you didn't know Kmart was based here and man the data center problems they had were really interesting and It came down to something stupid happening where someone knew the power interconnect problem That they were having and it went down and it stopped all credit card transactions everything else when the data center went down they fixed it With a used part That broke three months later and had exactly the same incident now the cost Was incredible to shut down all the credit card processing for a large store. This is a number of years ago And the cost savings of using a used part Were so minimal It was so minimal Everyone's like, why didn't you sort of the new one and no one really had an answer Someone just put some type of used part in the it was something with the power coupling system Uh for the failover and it's like while it was down You could have bought new but you said now we'll just put the used one in and it broke I remember being like the funniest discussion people got fired. Uh, that was the end result of that Uh Yeah, awesome, uh DC's a lot of people like yourself to show us some of the cool stuff inside. Yeah, I'm excited to show that Apparently multiple breakers tripped and failed at pdx o2. Yeah, I think that's in there. Um Our switch gear breakers unreliable You know, the thing is with these data centers what I've really learned is it's There's a lot of not just cutting edge But even how they assemble them is almost like a trade secret because there's not many people that know how to do it So if you're a company and you have a skilled engineering team At building this you don't necessarily let all that information out because um, it's a very competitive market space So I learned a lot more about the data center in a few angles. I just didn't realize existed before Any solution that can help convert asa rules to a neck eight appliance not that I'm aware of it's sometimes just running through and Punching all the rules into a spreadsheet so you can then make a checklist of all the rules you have to create I don't think there's I don't know of any tools to do it, but I will suggest chat gpt So if you actually told chat gpt Hey, here's all these rules. Can you convert them to and it actually probably knows how to make pf sense rules? Well, that might be a way to do it Actually, you know what we should do I've never I haven't uh, can I do this? Well, let's see here We'll go new chat um Let's see here. It's funny because uh, I'm trying to I'm putting this in a chat gpt create eight create a A nap template rule Oh, let's just create a template basic template or pf sense in the in there backup xml format Let's see if it knows pf sense. I'm just asking chat gpt here Wow, it does It's a slightly older version, but you can import older versions In if you didn't know We'll throw the chat you it's building it though. Look at this It's it started some of the template for it. I don't know if this will work because obviously I did this on the fly And uh, that's really clever So I would actually recommend using chat gpt. There's there's my answer for you Let's see here. Oh, I'll read some emails in just a second. Um Uh, what's the frame cd behind me? Uh, that's actually from huntress I don't think I can really um huntress when they Once they broke the 2 million endpoint, uh, they sent all of us early users of huntress That are also big users of huntress. I don't I don't know exact criteria I know there's only like eight or nine people from the earliest days of huntress that got these So me which is funny because me and jason slagall both got them and then our companies merged So we're kind of joking that there's technically one less in some ways But I have one and jason slagall has one for cnwr. So after the merger happened There's one for each of us I don't think there's a way to get tail scale on an asa, but I don't know I just found out bash can be used as a programming language not just as Um, bat files, but fully fledged programming language. Yes, you could do all kinds of fun things Uh craft competing reached about a video about how to turn in video 4090 into 16 cards shared in hyper v Uh, it's not possible consumer cards. That's awesome. He's got the best videos on that Me and jeff talk, uh Regularly, he's great. One of the things jeff said that really makes me laugh is jeff has a new problem jeff has become such the authority on how to parse and share these video cards that when he has a problem He gets cluttered with search results of him with the responses and forums and everything else and videos. So he's now Becomes so authoritative on the source He becomes the reference source Fun stuff My grandma stuck behind a firewall Stuck behind firewall rules when we get out is translate them into something neck heat appliance will understand for my so set my grandma free Yes, yes It's you know, I wrote, uh the gray log rules. I wrote. I told people I'm like, I'm not hiding it. I used Uh chat gpt to write my gray log importers. They work great Uh, the trick with chat gpt is specified in the latest. Yes Sometimes it gives outdated advice, but you can coax it to get more specific. That's absolutely true Uh, how do we get huntress in my home lab? You don't sorry. There's not anything Um, they're not doing home user stuff. It's just too hard Uh, so there's not really any way to get huntress in the home lab. It's definitely it's a business tool Have you messed with, uh, Corel at all if I had to start over, uh, I would try it. I might I would try instead of my unvr. No, I haven't messed with it at all Um, let's read a couple emails though So I always like to I try to answer some of these people Um, oh Here's all kinds of fun ones. Now this one is cool. I actually think this is a neat topic. Uh that someone else had Brought up. So let's go ahead and pull this over I I'm just gonna start to be honest. I was not aware of this before this person sent the email So thank you who sent this uh person who sent the email, which was open wisp I think this is a cool project. Now. I can't speak for the quality of it Whether or not it's a great secure project, but just that it's a project and it's kind of cool. It's Open wisp.org now what this is is a management interface to manage a bunch of uh, Open wrt installations now open wisp. Why wisp? Well, if you're not familiar with the wireless isp market in rural areas It's very popular But the unfortunate part and I've mentioned before that my dad lives in a very rural area of michigan So he's getting internet from a wisp. They don't work on the best margins often And uh, hey, there's some trickiness with that that being said They need some tools to manage things that are very cost effective because the If you look at how spread out people are in some of these rural areas It's hard. My dad pays a lot of money for not very fast internet But it's the only internet you can get the other option is not having internet There's not any in between. Oh, you have dial-up. So dial up or terrible satellite satellite internet's terrible I mean star link is the next best thing Starlink's actually probably cutting into some of the wisp markets But when you have a low dent, you know Largely spread out low density in terms of potential subscribers. You need budget things and I think this is really cool Um, yeah starlink is pretty good like starlink is is better than the I say satellite. I think of like and I don't even know who makes anymore. Is it dishing hues that still makes it I haven't looked at satellite internet in forever starlink is actually pretty good because they put the infrastructure in to make it better Um, but wisp is still going to be pretty popular. You're going to get lower latency on a wisp versus starlink I mean, I say dial-up cellular thing available, but is dial-up still available in areas I really don't know. I I don't know the answer to that question, but I thought this was cool Um, thank you for the emailer who sent this in and uh, I greatly appreciate. I think it's something worth noting here Let's see here Advertisement advertisement. I don't care about those ones Let's bring up the next email You were talking about open wrt in your discussion. Oh, that's the wrong one. That's the email I just read Because they said, hey, did you know about open wisp? I didn't Let's talk about backups. This one actually just came in two hours ago Question regarding xcpng backup any event your host takes a crap You got all your backups going through xo a on a file share Do you need to spin up a host sign into your xo a and pull those backups and drop them on the new host? essentially, yes What if your x what if your xo a is on that host? Can you make a new xo a and just point the backup folder? I will see everything or is it um that Only x ways allowed to see that share if you're screwed. Uh, you can't get x way If so, I'm guessing you should always keep x away separate. I only have one host Fun topic here. So this is actually pretty cool And we'll show you how this works, uh by showing you two different instances of zen orchestra You pull up one and I'll pull up the other. So this is kind of neat. So if we go here view this tabs Backup restore actually no settings remotes So here's my remotes on this particular system. These are the backup locations for xcpng So, uh, this one's called off-site production backups. Can you guess what's there? These are production backups seems kind of obvious And we have a third one here called trunas trinity lab backups This is just where all the lab stuff goes. So everyone and the lab has access to this So this instance of zen orchestra has access to three different ones now simultaneously We have this over here. So we're going to go over to the other one other instance This is a completely separate instance of zen orchestra and we go settings remotes It only has access to one now. What's cool is This is simultaneous. I can now have both of these Accessing it. So not only can they see it if you spin up a new zen orchestra instance They can see it at the same time. So if I were to back something up over here Let me see. What do I have? I can back up. We have a demo Tom lab backup. Yes So here's a delta backup we can run On this on this instance right here. So This was last run on october 31st. Let's go ahead and run it now. Are you sure you want to run? Tom windows 10 backup lab. So yep, let's go ahead and run this This will kick off and run we'll have a task kicking off and Okay, backed up. This is a fast system. So it backs up really fast Started it's now merging the backups because it's a delta. So it's got to do a merge to get rid of the delta extras and purge the last one And then from there it says successful. So we have a successful backup here on november 2nd 2023 Now let's go over to our other system and we're going to go to setting backup restore Hey, look windows 10 lab and if we hit restore There's our backup at november 2nd 2023 so yes, they can actually talk both at the same time, which is pretty cool So the answer to this person's question. Yes, you can do this and yes, they can point But yes, you may want to keep you can keep xo a somewhere else I talked about this as well For I have I have numerous xo a is running Or no, I have numerous versions of xo is an orchestra running at the same time And you can run this even in uh churnass scale right here. Oh, look at update. Let's go ahead and update it but i'm running this in um My churnass scale server. I have an instance as well. So No problem running it in all the places that you want to run it. So hey, I like when there's We're doing it live. I like updating everything Oh, let's see. I see lots of people's got problem with their caps locks paying 85 bucks for uh 85 bucks for yeah, yeah, internet varies a lot in price. That's for sure There's a lot of variation there. Um oddly, let's see what this other question is if this is something I can answer on air Hmm Let's see any chance you could explain how you would back up from a cloud storage note such as azure or azure blob container Back to nastra safe keeping for clients that only that are only cloud based no on-prem etc Can we secure the storage? No data while keeping costs in mind? Yes, you can Um, the video on this would be amazing even azure storage nodes storage nodes seems to Not have an automated option. Um, I don't do enough azure storage So I may have to call in a friend or an expert to to make that video But I can't talk about that one of the things that we were talking about the other day And I seem right here. I'm using trunas core for backups on radius of my prime is decent labs up. Do you think trunas? Uh to trunas makes more sense I think trunas to trunas makes more sense because you can do zfs replication There's the same reason Synology to Synology makes so much sense because if you're using like the butter fs on two Synologies, you can Snapshot the two Synologies back and forth with each other There's a lot of cool automation That you have built in there and same thing with trunas to trunas is uh syncing things together And let me pull this up under data protection This is something I do For example, um This is going to be Well, actually, this is the bad example. Let me find the right example There we go replication. Why am I looking wrong spot? Uh Tom's computer to purple nas and lts videos to purple nas This is a synchronization using block level synchronization. So the replication as it's called in zfs Uh, I have this set to go to another True nas that I have so it's constantly uh, it's called purple nas for anyone wondering because it has a bunch of wd purple drives that I had acquired That were for a project that never happened So I ended up putting a bunch of these um, large spinning drives in there now. It's a slow system It's only a one gig system But I'm fine with that because it's my video backup as long as the videos get backed up. I'm happy. So I always on site Um have a constant replication going to have an extra copy of my videos on another server I see people talking about the backups built into um the Synology nas that's where to answer the person's question that was asking. Let me see if I can pull up my Synology nas And not reveal all all my uh secret information here Pull up the Synology next and Pull up the active backup Surely just to show me the Data storage, you know, hold on We just want to pull up the storage manager Storage analyzer Oh, there we go. Cool. So something I just really like and this goes back to answering the question I I don't know specifically about azure blob because I don't have an azure blob set up, but There's different things you can probably do to back it up. So this is a breakdown Of some of the data that I've got started here. I actually don't I had only temporarily put some of my um, oops There we go Uh information in here in terms of my videos. This is not all my videos I do have someone backed up here because I was doing some testing. It's trickier to get true nas to back up to uh, your Synology, it's just it's not as easy, but active backup for business. Hey, look, we've got um The different pcs I have backed up. So we've got about 470 gigs there All shares active backup google workspaces It's crazy how well this compresses. There's 210 gigs backed up there I'm actually shocked because I have 300 something thousand emails, but they don't all have attachments and it's backing up all those perfectly fine So that's just kind of clever the way this works and uh backs everything up Uh, only 200 it feels so small to say 215 gigs and photos. It doesn't even feel like much anymore It's not it doesn't feel like that much data Um, my current company is backing up four terabytes of stuff to the cloud service over a 3300 domestic broadband. Yeah Uh, I asked azure backup question. So thanks for answering. I just always happen to buy two ds 15 20 pluses To use this backup if I can get some azure storage and on-prem and automated shelf Yeah, so I'm using it to back up my google workspace But we just sold a very large server Very big server to a client because they're a legal firm That has a big need they have a ton because they can law firm here They have a ton of attachments And years worth of data and they want to have on-prem a massive index of all of their emails and Synology is a solution that we sold them on because it works really well if you want to have all your data on-prem Synology doesn't have recurring license fees and it's a nice system to do exactly what you want to do Take all that data from the cloud back it all up and have a local copy of all of it that you can search through Um, because if something happens in your cloud It's like hey, this is a challenge. It's funny because some companies, you know You go to the cloud because it's more practical to keep email in the cloud But your backups can actually then be on-prem on-prem is your off-site cloud backup Your personal cloud backup It's kind of interesting. I think it's pretty cool. Who triggered the honeypot? Oh, this is a demo honeypot. Never mind. I'm doing a video for a tool we use called blumera um So I got I've got more notices than I normally would have for things Greetings from San Antonio. Got to find some barbecue. I love barbecue Travis may or may not know about the project Hey, Tom, will you do the traditional tech tuber or hardware giveaway of awesome server builds? You know, I don't know that takes a lot of sponsorship money. Um, I don't have in case you didn't notice There are very few sponsors on my channel Um Maybe I'm working on that I I it's a love hate relationship you have with sponsors and You have to find the right balance of I want to do what I want to do Sponsors may have opinions and they want you to share certain opinions on there. So Figuring out is hard. Uh, I I could be making so much more with my channel if I Said yes to a lot more sponsors that I don't say yes to I just want to bring it up that I'm trying to keep that at a minimum But if you want to do hardware giveaways it almost requires a lot of sponsorship to do that So I like giving away stuff. I think that's fun I also have a problem with giving away stuff because youtube can have rural problems with that and I don't really want to Yeah, so Is that um Is that by choice lack of sponsors? Yeah, so the reality is You have to ask the question. This is an existential life question. How much money should you make? for all the time and I spend A lot of time, you know doing the youtube thing in addition to all the other research things I do to bring you the youtube thing um sponsors make that easier and Especially I don't have an editor to pay But I am hiring people I just hired some marketing people to help me rebuild my website and things like that So I hired a designer who's working on some new shirt ideas as I ramp up some of those expenses I go well, I kind of got to make more money to maintain my income But I have additional outcome outgoing money So it's a hard balance to figure out because you can certainly push a lot more sponsorship and make a lot more money There's a reason you see a lot of youtubers driving exotic cars Good news. Tom doesn't care about exotic cars. No interest in me So I make a good living at what I do But I also have tried to minimize the amount of ads because most of the time I just want to do what I want to do but blumera is going to be a sponsored video So I do have a sponsored video coming up But if you notice i'm not reading mattress ads or uh food subscription ads I've been trying to really avoid those or shilling vpn companies Savage jerky, you know beef jerky ads are pretty pretty cool I I like beef jerky You have a tesla tom that's fancy. I mean here's the thing That that becomes its own thing and I'm certainly not someone who cares much for It's a whole genre of people who want to just share how much wealth they have Like they they construct their life around all the materially onings they have I've never been into that. So it's really not my style. So yes, a tesla's kind of fancy Um, you know, like I said, I do very well. I've had a good career in tech that paid me well I've invested I even I'm going to be doing an update on the company. I invested in Which is uh fin security. So I'm an investor in that company and things like that So I want to we're going to be talking about that pretty soon I have an investor meeting that I probably won't be attending because I don't always attend them all There's an investor meeting tomorrow with fin security that I see me. I read all the notes And things like that, but yeah, I'm not into I try to minimize as much as I can Um, a lot of things like that. Oh, yes Raid shadow legends. So me and many other of my youtube friends, which are going to include people like Jeff Gehrling, Wendell and Craft computing and uh, the bearded it guy chris from crosstalk solutions You there's a lot of other youtubers that I'm all friends with and we talk We make so many jokes about raid shadow legends. Like there's definitely uh, uh, we were it's As we meet new youtubers, my friend Veronica has just gone full time Uh, you know being a youtuber and it's like herida passage will be you're a full-time youtuber once you get your raid shadow legends offer Well, let's see um Oh, which model three how do you like it? Oh, I love it so I'll I'll wander off topic before we get to kentucky friday. I here in a second. Um my tesla has about 70 000 miles Being a second how many miles are on it? Yeah, that's la hold on a full picture of it up the uh Just so I answer the question So for anyone wondering, um That is what my tesla looks like And it currently has uh, I 70 400 miles on it. So uh, it's a model three It's wrapped and because I like things colorful But uh, that is a that is what a car looks like after it's been wrapped for four years in case anyone's wondering. So Definitely, um, I mean, it's it's not exotic. You're right, but it's it's weird-looking So, yeah, it's definitely kind of fun. Um AMG sound pack for the tesla. No You're really making a build-up for the kentucky friday. I so the kentucky friday. I is going to be Uh, completely to make everyone laugh because this happened and uh, yeah, so this is Oh, this is an exotic tesla. Uh, you know, I think I have here. I'll pull this up This popped up today in my facebook memories and I'll share it with everyone Where'd it go? Here we go. So that is uh A video I did This isn't from 2019 from when I bought it. So yeah, that's what it looks like in the sun It's sorry about the potato resolution Facebook does that Yeah, they only allow sd quality. I don't know why whatever. It's facebook but Yep, that's just my model three now Yeah, facebook if you have a memory in facebook, it definitely has a much lower quality So let's pull up the kentucky friday. I Because i'm sure more people have commented it's posted on my linkedin. So i'm going to pull it up from there So let's see here Basically, I get a lot of bs That want to offer sponsors like raid legends. They they do reach out. They're like, hey, you're you're on youtube So I now get these weird ai ones. These are new. These came up These are these they've come out for a little while, but this one in particular made me laugh a lot because jason slagal's seen it because they We were just talking about he goes. What in the kentucky friday ai is this bs It started laughing Excitement abounds to forge a connection with up-and-coming vloggers are Our company at kentucky fried chicken is enthusiastically exploring a unique opportunity for a mutually beneficial alliance aimed at promotional integration center around our iconic kfc products The core of our vision is to amplify our brand's visibility and shine a spotlight on our line of deodorants Through engaging genuine content and honest appraisals. We are convinced your distinctive voice harmonizes Harmonizes seamlessly with the essence of our brand. It's already even read that with a straight face. I'm sorry It's just great. So this is the kentucky fried ai that I don't even know what to say. It's it made me laugh I give them I give them an a plus in the making tom laugh and jason slagal's saying when the kentucky friday ai is this I mean, this was a sales thing sent to us. I'm like, this is great I kind of want kentucky fried chicken deodorant now. I didn't know I wanted it But if I thought this is a real product and not from some random spammer I would have replied if this was from kentucky fried chicken. This is the sponsorship. I would do But this you can find on my linkedin I should say Find on my linkedin is a pretty rough Thing linkedin sucks at search in case you didn't know But what I'll do is I'll link to the post for those of you that would like the a link to it So somewhere where the hell do you even link to a post in linkedin? I don't know I'll figure that out in a second. Is there a way to create a link? Where is it at? Oh, it's at the top here Hold on uh Copy link to this post Here for anyone who just wants to connect with me on linkedin I don't even know if that URL is going to work or not. Um, because Linkedin is trash at finding things But the answer that's pretty easy Bing the company that owns Bing also owns linkedin. So that's why search is so garbage. That's my that's my guess I mean koc deodorant might still be real. Sure. We'll go with that We'll go with that Shift ctrl alt win l. Yes. I know that's crazy that that works to open linkedin. I don't run windows. So it doesn't work for me Um, but yes If you're on windows, I shift ctrl alt win win key l will launch linkedin. Um, thanks windows Fun stuff Did you see who bought boss dynamics? You you you can use a new keyboard But I don't have a keyboard giveaway for you. I can give you an amazon link to a keyboard if your caps lock is broken Yeah, everyone's now pressing shift ctrl alt win l to uh Open up linkedin. Like I said, I'm running. I'm running linux. So this isn't this isn't a linux problem I don't know this is a problem. Why would you want to launch linkedin like that? I don't know I don't have an answer for that question But yeah, so that's the lead up to the kentucky friday. I I got nothing on that had to use my whole left hand. Yes For sure John Hammond did a video on editing and exploiting sure because I love john Hammond I always look forward to anytime. I see him in person Hold on. I know many of you at least probably know who john Hammond is I got a funny photo of john. I got actually several funny photos of john Hammond But this particular one This one is one of my favorite john Hammond photos Is this right here? I didn't know he did this. So I this is kyle. He's a ceo of huntress Uh, we were in washington dc huntresses at the booth. It was cool to see kyle there and there's john I just love the fact that john sees the moment to photobomb me. It just made me really happy John Hammond's a wonderful person. Why would you want to keep my name for? Uh, Lincoln park in and how would I remove it? I would say you remove it by uninstalling windows. That's the first step in getting rid of it yes, uh but yeah, the john Hammond was uh We were actually we actually ended up hanging out a lot of us did And do I have a picture of him somewhere? I don't know Thought I had one more picture of john hammond at a party There there there is a Ah somewhere No, I don't know where is that now Hold on You see if I can find it. It's gotta be around here somewhere I have a picture of john hammond singing to a goose No, I don't know what I do with that photo. I do have a picture of me and john hammond though I Don't have him somewhere. I posted a picture of him singing to a goose Um, it was it was at an after party. It was actually a lot of fun. But john likes that john's a great guy Definitely subscribe to his channel if you want to dive into a uh Him is a ciphers critic sir. I know if john hammond is ciphers. Yeah, uh, john hammond works for huntress and uh He definitely likes the fact that you know, there's the plan where it's there of john hammond versus uh john hammond john hammond from Jurassic park, but yeah Man, why don't I have that I I'm missing some photos somehow. I think I feel like there's some more photos that are somewhere but Yeah, I don't know I Where's that photo at? I don't I guess it probably doesn't really matter I just get irked when I know something is somewhere and I don't know where that somewhere is right now Maybe someone else took the photo and I'd reshared it. Maybe that's I'm remembering the wrong thing Because I have a picture of the Uh, goots. This is from uh msp geek. So this is the this is the right party. I I I know the right place where I took the photo It's pretty cool having photo on me. Yeah, he's just a lot of fun Anytime I get to see john He's not at all the events I go to when I see huntress, but it's always cool to engage with him when I uh when I'm there gotta catch them all Absolutely Uh Found a connect x3 10 g card on ebay for 28 dollars. Is that a good home lab option for xcp and g2 nas Um, I think those are pretty good. I usually go with the intel ones I mean, I think you can get the connect x ones from melanox for a little cheaper. Um I don't know the melanox support. I would check the forums first I generally just try to go intel because I just know they work Uh, you can buy the intel ones in the sub 100 dollar range, but they're not usually getting all the way down to the $28 You might pay like 60 70 dollars for an intel one, but I know The intel ones work like there's not a question if the intel ones work Uh, how was sofos firewall home edition? um I don't know a lot of people seem to like it. It has some limitations Some people say it's bad. Some people say it's good I would say it's a divisive firewall because People have a lot of pings at it. Now one of the aggravations I have is And this was you know, the talk I did on wednesday with the home lab show The lack of open source firewalls because a lot of people don't want the rug pulled out from under them If you will where a subscription is suddenly required and because a registration is required And this is the same way untangle works now when arista acquired untangle they got rid of the free I don't think they have a free tier anymore with untangle and the same thing with sofos You're registering with sofos. So it's free as long as sofos allows it to be This is kind of a challenge. No, they may allow it to be free for an indefinite amount of time You just don't know and You know, this is kind of the problem I have is like, oh my firewall suddenly I have a crisis I learned this tool and now it's not free anymore. So that is one of the reasons I'm kind of hesitant to try it But I don't think sofos makes a bad firewall product I do know people have a lot of strong opinions of loving it or hating it There doesn't seem to be a lot of in between Crowdstrike are set in the one. So I've never done A one to one comparison Which is really hard to do because there is a demo that a company will give you and then there's the I've been using this product for the last few years and that's where sent in the one falls So I've never like tried to take our entire fleet of systems and swap them over to crowd strike To walk it through a year of usage to give you some in-depth analysis I'm a big fan of sent in the one I can't say definitively that they are better or worse than crowd strike. I can't give you a real Opinion I think they're both good products. Like I don't think either one of them are Like one substantially different the other each one claims to be better than the other, but I don't have any real Solid evidence of that. They both seem to do a decent job on doing endpoint Endpoint detection and response So it's a little harder. I we chose sent in the one. I think it's easier to manage from a Managed service provider standpoint. So I also don't know your situation. Are you an msp trying to set this up on many systems? Or are you an individual at a large enterprise company that is tasked with? Hey, I have all of my, you know systems that are under my management. I don't have like this multi-company problem Uh, I just need to manage all the endpoints and crowd strikes won't give me a deal Crowd strike seems to be willing to work and be flexible in some of that enterprise environments My understanding there's less popular in the msp space because they don't seem to have the same offering for the msp space That they do in the enterprise space versus set in the one We buy it through ninja one and they give us multi-tenancy for managing all of it So set in the one. That's my answer. That's what we chose to use How much of the two dollars do you see? Oh from the donation. So thank you for the donation specifically this one right here I believe I get Minus some fees. So I think the donations They're not broke down extremely well, but I think I get you know, I'm just not an expert at it despite being a youtuber I think the donations come directly to me minus some service fees It's the ad revenue that becomes a split though ad revenue is split, but the Um donations, I believe the majority of it probably like 90. I don't know what a service fee is on youtube for processing it so Yeah, so at least most of it, I think S1 is cheaper for msp and crowd strike. That's what I've heard from many people Is the cli the only way to manage ecl's on unify layer three I don't even know you can manage them from the cli anymore I haven't tried that in a long time You have to manage them through the unify controller because if you try to manage something through the cli When the unify controller pushes an update to that particular switch it's going to overwrite those the free one does uh What you needed to do Uh, sofo 2gm has a 50 ip limit so for sofos Firewall has different limits okay Uh, what is msp msp stands for managed service provider so my Task if you will so Usb launch systems now cnwr handles the msp side of the business the msp side means the manager's rider So we manage close to a hundred different businesses maybe more Um, I I don't have the numbers off the top. I have exactly we have a lot of businesses that Outsource their it to us. So we're a managed service provider for all of those it services You know, I was actually working on something that someone may be interested in I'll pull this up um projects Because i'm going to be redoing a lot of my website And uh, how do we pull this up into a graphic? Where's the view download, you know what I can do it that way Oh, actually hold on. Is there a present option present? I like that so how do we Um Do this and we go present I guess present Um, so part of my brand strategy These are things i'm doing on behind the scenes LTS shares technical expertise with curious people through educational videos and live streams cnwr provides it managed services for smbs and consulting services for enterprise organizations Where does tom lorenz fit? Well, I'm a Part owner of cnwr and i'm the owner of lorenz systems So if you're ever wondering how the split goes this is going to be eventually an explainer video and an explainer page on lorenz systems for people wondering what happened after the merger or how the merger went Um, which is not exactly a merger either. It's called a split merge Why is it called a split merge because lorenz system didn't cease to exist? Um, so that makes it complicated. Uh for those curious what happened and I i'm very open about how we do things how, uh We discuss things so this in case you're wondering Uh in when I say the merger. This is what happened Let's see Ah, here's one of our account managers travis who says it's over a hundred managed clients. So yes um Are you an msp as well or strictly msp? Well, this is a fun topic here because Uh, we we may have an inside joke talking about the extra s and msp is shilling But I know that's not all of them, but there's certainly a lot of people who do that We are different because we have a security team as well. So we're actually managing a lot of this stuff internally We're not officially what you may refer to as an msp, but we are running a lot of internal security Um, matter of fact, I gotta figure out, you know, one of our uh team One of our team members was participating in a ctf and and scored pretty high on the huntress ctf. So Yeah, so there's we we do a lot of different consulting and we have a pretty good security team Matter of fact, if you look up to president of cnwr jason slagle, you'll find that he's has cv e's to his name that he's disclosed He's done bug reports. Uh, he's pretty heavy in the security side of things as well himself. So yes I hear msp and think michigan state police. I agree with that msrp that too Oh, let's see Yeah, um Uh, travis travis handles some of the projects along with the account management for clients. Yes And sam has watched jason jason definitely is someone who knows, uh, quit if it was going on. So Just wait till they hear yeah mssp is the whole Like I said, I'm not into the there's too much little details that people get caught up in all of that. Um We're different like I said because we, uh We did awesome. I mean we scored pretty high at that ctf. I even figured out we're gonna do a press release on it too So Yes, uh jason's a bsd guy as well Um, I do have something that just arrived today So I can talk about it. Well, I was gonna talk about anyways. There's nothing no embargo on it But who knows what this is And well, actually this is the part that you may recognize the best So I have more stuff to review Um, the the this thing weighs a lot more than I expected I mean, this is finding something to bang on it That's metal There's a metal you're hearing right there. That's not a zima board This is a, uh What are these called the r8 r8 6s. All right, let's go let's go, uh Talk about this a little bit more Because you'll find where did this go? It's on reddit. I'll I'll drop a link for anyone's wondering about what's going on here So Patrick from sort of the home has reviewed these boxes before but this is new There is a Uh another system So the companies that started making these mini pcs are now getting into and let me open up in a new tab So you get a closer look at it. Um They're getting more into these right here, uh, they're basically making inexpensive like one new rack mount So while this right here, obviously not rack mount But nice small cool tiny pc with a A lot of port options on it, especially because um, You know, you got your One gig I don't know if these are two and a half gig. They might be two and a half Um, but the bottom ones are 10 gig. So you get 10 gig ports here on the bottom Which is awesome. And then we have this here which has now More port centers. So this is really cool Uh To these come with pre of sense homeland pre installed. No Ooh someone all the way from the check republic. Welcome To sfp plus is nice. Yes Uh plus wi-fi 6. Yeah, they're definitely pretty cool. Um Back to this right here, this is something else are sending me And uh, they're sending me the i3 version, but this is still pretty impressive. This is a nice little box One, you know one u-box that you can run They put all the different compatible s's. They don't load anything on these on board tpm module But these are cool. These are cool little boxes to uh start testing and play with here I think they're pretty slick And i'm looking forward to doing some testing with them. I like the idea of Some of these inexpensive Systems now the good and bad of these expensive inexpensive systems. How reliable are they? Do they come with uh chinese spyware installed? Look, I don't trust any os if they shipped it. So they're always going to be uh Really they're formatted the moment they come in there's usually nothing on them anyways um, but The for these little lightweight compute. I think they're huge for the homelab community Uh, I think when it comes to the homelab Your the homelab community's changed a lot because it used to be hey cool We can get lots of cheap used servers the problem becomes these used Servers have a high wattage straw and that's not necessarily good for the homelab. These have a very low wattage straw So all these new mini pcs coming out. I think are awesome for the homelab one. This doesn't take up much space two This doesn't make as much noise as a large server So it's easy if you're not someone who has a place to put something noisy Maybe you would like that something quiet in your apartment because you're a college student in a dorm And you want to do something that has some 10 gig connectivity some fast testing But uh, you know, you don't want to have something that's raging loud and has a large power draw or a heart A high heat output and all these little basic inexpensive computing systems are pretty Amazing to me that they're coming out that they are would I run them in production systems? That becomes a different question now We we've noticed that there's been some failures among these we're trying to gather some data by loading these up for On heavy loads over time to see what the failure rate is It's not going to be the same quality. There's no way it's going to match the quality you're going to get out of A Dell or an hp server or a Lenovo server But if you can get most of the way there and the big challenge these have is just mostly they use cheap hard drives If you swap the drives to something that's a little bit more like wd Black with this has actually put a wd black NVMe in this one right here Now you have something I feel a lot more confident in I think that's their big lacking is to kind of slow Off-brand drives that go in there that may not perform as well It may not hold up over time, but hey if you got good backups, I think they can be a still viable solution Any recommendations for a conference setup sure eco works to zoom in teams You know, we just don't get a lot of requests for those so I don't have a ton of insight Um onto them as much as we wire up Buildings we don't have a ton of people asking about conference rooms, but I do know We have sold them in the past so if you message the Vlog there's the alarm systems calm It ask about them and I'll remember that you asked about in here and at least look up the ones we've we've helped Like we've done in the past There's but they're very few it's not it's not a specialty for us at all doing any of the conference room setups It's not Not a frequent request we get we'll do a lot of cabling and wiring just not a lot of that specifically Well, this is a lot of the mini systems are passively cooled, but that's where these differ I don't know if you can really you can see it right here I'll see that's close enough. That is a fan. So this is not passively cooled But still really quiet. I mean use your laptop fans essentially that are in these So you're not talking about something that's particularly loud you're still talking about really low dbs and They do have fans. So they are actively cool Yeah, Patrick's reviews are great. He's done a lot of reviews on those Um, what are the specs on this one? I really don't know um Here's the box and uh Here's the top of the box. Let's see if we can get the There you go You wouldn't believe how little information I get on these I should I will when I do the review, maybe I'll pull some screenshots of how weird the communication is to get these things They're like, we're going to send you this and I say Okay, and then it shows up. Well, they actually asked for my address The only extra step was they asked me for my address. There's not like any terms or conditions here There was like I would like to send this thing to you and I say, okay And then get and it shows up like I that's it. That's it. There's no like will you do a review? I would like to send it. I think they're just hoping I do a review. I don't know. It's strange um, I talked about clear os and That's owned by hp now Um, let's sort of download here HP is where things go to die There we go Where is See if we can find the change log on here So clear os seems to still be updated So there's still some uh, this change log at least has a current date on there There's there's so many of the uh, one of the things I covered was just how dead So many of the firewall projects are It's crazy how dead they are Where did that go? Ah, here you go I will you know, let me share something else for you guys if you're wondering how I take notes for things So let me Stop present Share screen window Willow, let me share this window I have a lot of windows open There we go Will that work? Share neat Um, I use a tool right now Called What is this thing called? Zettler Z E T T L R And I bet it looks better if I do it like this. Can I make it bigger? If you ever wonder what notes look like from tom Something like this This is how I build notes for videos and things like that. I do everything in Pretty much uh Text and markdown To make my life easier This makes it extremely portable to wherever it ends up going Uh, so anytime I dive into details of things, this is what it looks like on the back end Uh, like how my blumera review is going the Bly KBM Yes, these are the default passwords for it update scripts Notes for vlog thursday But all that goes into just uh text markdown language for me I like zettler because it's open source I'm a big fan of being able to take my notes and take them wherever I want I've actually switched between different applications On a regular basis because they're all just text files So it's one of the ways I handle data I love everything being text because this Zettlers of contain I actually think that's funny Yeah markdown is quick and easy That's really what it comes down to is being able to handle data And then synchronize it between all the places I want that data to be So zettler runs on all my different computers with syncing So anytime I create a new markdown note It just automatically is synced instantaneously with syncing everywhere. I want it to be So I just drop all my data in here. This is how if I'm doing notes in a meeting if I'm doing time stamps for a video That's what this tab is here um How did I make notes for all these things, you know I just drop them all in here. It's just it's not complicated if you will where I just grab each of these things Also, if I have scripts or anything like that, um, if you look at the Bly KBM You just put it in markdown. Well, that's not it. That's a bloom era. There we go You know, I can put all my bash scripts in there. Here's the upgrade script that they said to use for this I just put it all in here and makes life really simple That's that's always the goal when I'm um doing these is how straightforward and simple can I make this just to make it happen In in managing all your data in markdown notes once you've Stayed I've matter of fact once you don't go down that rabbit hole of trying to stick it in some weird database or any Proprietary software that may monkey with the way you keep your data You can easily switch because I was using a Joplin I just took all the text in markdown text from Joplin because I didn't like a couple Things that Joplin had Joplin's really cool. I think it's still a good project Um, but I like the more pure markdown that zetler does by the way You can take markdown and copy that anywhere. So all the little snippets of code that I have scattered around places to do things I can easily go through and where's one of them I can share that back out. Hold on. Where'd it go? tech notes and scripts Nope, because that's got things in it. You don't need to see so on system I put all my private notes in here too. Do I have this in? Oh, okay, cool. And this one here. Okay, I can share this one um It's just an easy way to put any of your config scripts and make it all look nice So if I need to copy and paste any of this or put this somewhere, it's all right here Someone wrote this whole shutdown script. I thought it was kind of cool I haven't used it, but I thought it was neat, but it's just nice because cool. I can format this all in a nice You know in bash and uh make my make my life easy if I ever need to access it later What do you do for images and diagrams? Once again open source Open existing diagram. Let me find something that looks nice LTS Oh, good. This is one. I think I drew recently. So it should look pretty good Same thing will Stop sharing present share screen Window, where did it go? There it is Um, I've got videos on this tool. This is open source as well. This is um Just uh draw.io. So draw.io is awesome for doing this You can go through here and you know May duplicate something and like uh, uh, hold on me We'll say say this default style. Maybe you want to drag something up to here Hey, look, it'll draw connectors for you They can size those out so they look nice This not hard to do this. I have it all set to auto save. So it actually is saving these as I create them Uh, they can be exported. They can be I can create an animation if I need to So I can do a flow animation Actually because there's a few layered on here. I don't think that's going to work the way I hoped Something else I need to set to make that work. I have to make it less thick But you can do a lot of cool things on these It works well. You can bring in all these different images. They have a lot of different templates all your little Documents this is how I do all the drawings if you notice this is kind of a common theme you may see throughout a lot of my videos Less thick. Yes Yeah draw.io is awesome. I it's just a great tool. It just works really well and it's free How about open source notes for saving images with text? I never really save images with text. Um Not a not a thing. I do there's tools for doing it. Matter of fact, I think Let me confirm this right here. So let me go back over to miscellaneous. I think you can do this so Um Let's check Pretty sure. I I literally just don't do this very often But I think I can paste Copy image Yes, you can paste images in a zetler. Um, so It works So not Not a problem to do that if I need to Uh Vs code just been removed from bps 13 broken electrodes uh Use any dc. I am I don't really have any if you're asking data center infrastructure management tools I don't really manage data centers. Is that the question you're asking? Uh thoughts on raid, I don't use on raid I find on raid to be that thing that people outgrow That would be the way I'd describe it. It you're either a home user and you're really happy with it Or you become a power user and somewhere along the lines you become unhappy with it because you hope it supports more features So I don't really have any I don't have any reason to tell you not to use it But I will comment that it is a Uh Challenge to use and I have a light that's going out. So That's interesting I think I got to replace that light. So I don't know if I'm flickering much, but probably at least a little bit Yeah, I don't really I don't have any data center management tools. We don't mean I mean we manage some software and data centers We don't manage the physical layout of the data center Uh, do you have or use proxmox in the past? Uh proxmox is pretty good. A lot of people like it I've not used it. So I'm not an expert on it. Like I I've used it very sparingly Uh, we see so many someone just contacting me the other day about another broken Well, no not running properly proxmox cluster now the challenge with proxmox is setting it up properly And uh, that's definitely Where most people they just don't set it up right they go. Hey, look it's free And I I walk I walk through a demo, but I didn't take the time to actually build it properly Uh net box is definitely something you should check out for data center stuff. Absolutely We use a net box for diagram rex cabling and uh bonus is ipam 2 yet. Uh net box is great When it'd be possible that uh ubiquity buys neck eight to use them for the os for the sense of firewall ui's are hit and miss No, not a chance I just realized I am behind in times and kb's mission. I assume they're referring to kernel verse or maybe versus keyboard video mouse Oh, yeah, kbm is generally um Uh kernel virtualization The microtik crs 305 is quite hard to get something similar 10 gig sfp plus switch that has the same functionality and not crazy expensive Um, unify makes some pretty inexpensive 10 10 gig sfp plus switches. They're actually pretty good Uh, yes net box has not only an automated api Um, one of the net box is on my list of things I want to set up and one of the reasons why hold on Let's pull this up here There's a lot of integrations with uh xcp and g in that box. I I haven't set it up, but I know they have a lot of integrations uh, they just did another uh Kind of like a code sprint fixing a bunch of issues in it Uh, yeah, six xcp and g does vcenter with plugins as well Net box does have api. So absolutely. There's a lot of cool things you can do there But I need to go get a drink. I think people want me to continue I'll continue the live stream for a little bit longer But I need to go get another drink. I am I am getting thirsty and parched and uh, so I will go address that issue I have a cool spiffy Where is it at somewhere? um Be right back things you guys can enjoy the be right back because I'll be right back if you're still here I'll keep live streaming if everyone disappears in the Uh One minute roughly it takes me to go upstairs and get a drink. Then uh, I'll probably keep live streaming You're right back Didn't take me that long Oh 11 comments It's amazing to me that there's like this many people watching my live stream I think all of you for being here with me. It is uh, keeping me very entertained Uh net box is designed to be the source the truth and actually push your configs out to your network devices however, you can use it to straight documentation too Yeah, automating your documentation is huge in terms of making your Making your life easier. Welcome back thoughts on Linus Um Linus tech tips is great. Linus Torvalds is great. Ly and is refers to something else though um ly and is And we'll pull this up This is actually a tool j from learnings tv is reviewed. It's a great tool So ly and is is an auditing tool to audit and harden for compliance testing for your Linux systems I think it's great. I'm not an expert at it, but definitely um j from learnings tv Who's spent more time with the tool than me? I believe he's got a whole review and tutorial on this particular tool So, uh, yeah, definitely use it So it's lunch time okay, it's uh 9 20 p.m. Eastern standard time. That's the time zone. I'm in so It is it is an evening for tom here Actually, I'm gonna bring up something that someone might find interesting How many let's show some numbers out there. How many unique visitors that I have I had to my forums in the last Seven days, so let's make some guesses before I pull this up Where do these go? Where do these reports go? There we go Uh, what is the unique visitor account? For my forums forums.launchsystems.com. This is a fun Statistics, let me make sure there's nothing in here. I can't just drop and share Yeah, this is all stuff. I can this is all public stuff These are these are some fun stats I love stats And these stats are pulled from web server logs, which makes them more fun 12,000 600, uh thousands You don't have to see my forums. You don't have to be good at being social. Um Because the forums are just it look it's a it's a place of uh tech things You look at the responses in here and everything else that are going on. Um These are all going to be like crowd sec parsing ha proxy logs things like that so there's You know, this is going to be um Someone asked about how to increase i notify limits and i'm responding to them on that it's it's extremely technical So you don't have to be social. It's not about being social my forums are a place of You know where? Other techs are sharing problems and solutions. That's really what my goal is for it. I moderate it to that There's no I don't want any off topic discussions. There's discord for just chatting. I don't want people chatting I want someone who has a problem Presenting their problem and people discussing the solutions to that problem. Uh, because it has a lot of value Now speaking of that This is the numbers for people that want to get an idea just how popular my forum which just shocks me by the way for anyone wondering 41,000 unique visitors Just for a seven day snapshot that I grabbed on this So 41,000 unique in seven days, uh, nonetheless not even a month Oh, how many of those count as uh web scrapers? Good thing you asked I track that so I can actually pull that up for you. Um To give you an idea now there's surges at time Of people versus web trackers and we'll zoom in right here Uh to this page which will actually give you that information by this So if you look at this And I don't know what happened on 10 23. That's what made me start parsing the logs all of a sudden I got popular. I don't really know why more popular than usual where I had 33,000 people show up on a single day. Um, but the crawlers are only about 4000 There's pretty average every about once a month. You see a spike of 12,000, uh crawlers coming through Uh 12,000 page views a day. These aren't unique visitors, but yeah, it's occasionally you'll see surges in popularity I I must have been a solution for someone that that linked me there So the forums have kind of an up and down for page views. So yeah, it's It's really no oddly not pf sense. So you uh, let's go over to the pf sense uh So if we go here and Help me drop it out. I don't want to make sure I don't show I can show all this stuff here. Um Yeah, here we go. So we gotta get to the summary page at the top first hold on Because this is what you can okay, I make sure it's not showing any of the as I have because I'm logged in as an admin right now Um, I can see people's email addresses. Uh, so I make sure I'm not exposing any of those but the pf sense only accounts for Um, 4,000 views of those views only 4,000 is about the pf sense licensing changes. So that's kind of interesting Um, what am I using to do this? So here's the fun part guys this The reason I'm using this Let's talk about this I know my audience my audience uses all kinds of tracking and blocking Absolutely, I'm fine with that. I expect that if you notice I pay for my forums. I pay for the bandwidth I pay for the compute time. I'm the one that uh is buying all that because you notice a lack of ads I'm funding it So I also realize people use ad blockers and all the other fun things that they do so I actually use a tool called go access because It's actually funny This does not match my google statistics because so many of you block google Google does not show the same stats that my web server shows So I always use go access to pull web server logs So I can see who's actually visiting my site because the fact that you visited a site You had to visit the site which means you created a log entry Now, even if I don't really some of you and maybe many of you use a vpn all the time So you actually skew my unique visitors if many of you are using the same vpn because the only way well No, it can identify if you I think I can identify you by your sessions Um, so it knows it was a unique visitor versus someone from a vpn But it's still why I use go access because all of you block google and I'm fine with you blocking goal You don't hear me complaining This stream has stayed steady Starting on an airplane wi-fi to airport to wi-fi to att by j to uber and att Air b and b wi-fi to tail scale exit note. That's awesome That's just funny It's amazing how that works. So that's really cool. Yeah. Oh the request headers is users versus crawlers um Matter of fact inside of here somewhere I it does break down some of the crawlers. I forget where It also breaks down like not found 404s. There's not many 404s The 404s are usually looking for things that just don't exist because it's not a wordpress site There's a ton of things that start hitting for wordpress browser statistics chrome is still the majority of you people I chrome firefox crawlers other referring sites Yeah, I gotta break this down more. I even it might be an old version of go access. I haven't looked to see if I'm on the latest Sorry, you don't like trackers. That's fine That's why I'm using go access because you can block the tracker, but I'm actually Because I'm parsing my own I I manage the server I manage the updates for it. So because I'm managing the server logs. I get it Uh, doesn't edge fit into chrome. No, uh, edge and chrome are separate from each other I mean, they use they're all using the same chromium Engine, so they have a base engine. That's the same but the browser itself still sends a different header on there Where is that information at? huh You know, I'm actually impressed. There's a pretty high number here for Duck.go for people that referred to my site from duck.go. That's cool Where's that at the other information status codes? browser stats Yeah, here we go So you actually have the browser stats broke out here. You have chrome firefox safari edge crawlers But until it's uh, it's still fun I like being able to this is an advantage of running it or so Uh trunas added certificate option in mni-o in app in the latest update. Well, that's really nice of them I was ranting about that the other day of it not being available. So, uh, someone's listening It's definitely a challenge for sure Yes, I self host the forums, um, they're completely managed by me and self hosted by me that's Blessing and a curse. I like it because of all the access I get but you have to maintain it as well. So Maintaining forums has its own challenges, you know, making sure it's up to date making sure there's no security auditing all the users that join every day. There's Um, I I've I've been very strict about doing that myself. I really need to outsource it I'm I'm a little too obsessed with it, but I wanted to be obsessed with it Until I built a big user base I have I mean you I've built enough people visiting my forums and enough logged in people In thousands and thousands of users who have signed up for my forums that I can finally go Okay, I can probably hire an admin and put a process around it Uh for min i o Min i o is the short answer is, um It's an s3 emulation it man it mimics a amazon s3 instance So that's what s that's what min i o is and uh People content have to yes I manage the forums manage the content that goes on there ban people delete people all those things that come with it I'm in my forums twice a day as a process Unless someone messages me because someone did something stupid in my forums and they need to be banned before I get back to my Run of going through the forums Usually best to hire from the community. Absolutely. That's um That's something bigger on my list to do is I've got So many things I want to do I think I need an assistant Pretty soon, so I'm trying to find someone it's going to be better if they're local I mean forums doesn't have to be local to manage my forums But I'm going to need someone local to really help me with Um, I have so many mini PCs. I want to review I don't have time to test them all and I got no problems letting more people test them But I need those people to be kind of local to me to do all the testing the setup Uh and everything else. I don't I make in the videos, but I need someone to assist me on the other side of it So, um, I even figured out. I mean, I'm I'm hiring. How's that? I would love to hire someone is finding the right someone who's interested in doing it. I need someone who's very self motivated like hey Can you test this and throw maybe proxmox and xcp n gns and do it right up? Go like that's the minimal amount of instruction. I want to give and get a report back And I don't mind paying someone I I don't mind um Giving some high school kids some opportunities But I do prefer to pay people Because they take it more serious at that at that point Uh, do you have a figure on hand for total band users from the forums? Not really. There's very few Very few people get banned um There's probably 100 Over four years. Maybe Is there a way you can automate the testing process? Well, someone has to automate plugging this in and reloading operating systems on it That's the challenge and then give me the review information of what they had problems with what drivers didn't work That's why it's harder to automate. It's easy to automate. Well, that easy It can be automated if you're just doing software testing, but when you talk about hardware testing Um, you really have to put it through its paces to do that Now there's a lot of cool automation tools for load testing and reporting like foronix is amazing for that foronix Love it, but it still takes some effort for someone to load xcp and g load a firewall tool Load proxmox and give me the answer to You know what needs to be done You know the people to get banned um Pretty much 99 of what gets banned Is always been spammers just people who post um One person was really an idiot. I I got a I got a share story with you folks This is this person was just dumb. I got an apology from some pretty high ups at the company So a company reached out to me They were nice. I actually met them at an event. They wanted to advertise on my channel And I said fine, you know, cool Uh, we'll talk so I talked about advertising, but I looked at their product. I said I don't really think you're a good fit for my audience They said hey, maybe you mentioned I said, yeah, you got a neat product, but I don't really want us to do a sponsorship with you for reasons I can't understand One of their employees using their company domain email Signed up for my forum. So I'm like, oh, they want to engage with the community. Cool. That's fine I have a lot of businesses that sign up for my forums but what they did instead was Acted like they didn't work there and then continued to post a series of responses as if their product Which is a commercial business product was a solution to a lot of different people's problems Hey, have any of you heard of this? It looks like a really cool product and they would go into kind of a spiel Just looking for some feedback and they posted several posts on my forums I then Perched the person grabbed the screenshots to send it to their marketing person I was talking to who sent back Immediate apology to me and said that person has been reprimanded. I said good. So that was that was one of the dumbest bands I had gotten Jeff Kearling has an excellent process for documenting his process for replicating his tests. Yes I would think the type of person that goes to your forums is either to seek help for a problem or write help Yes, I don't allow anonymous email signups That's what knocks out 99 of the spammers is people wanting to do anonymous email Uh, do you use a default settings for unify mesh? I rarely put unifies in mesh mode I usually turn that off unless I have some specifically Uh specific need for it Reprimanded not fired or executed. They told me they reprimanded the person. They've never done it again My engagement having good conversations with the people that work there I didn't find them to be shady or not nice. I actually just like the conversations I have with them We talk tech. I talked to there's some technical people. I can't remember the name of the product, right? I I not that I would shame them for doing it. Uh, they It seems so uncharacteristic from the people I met that worked there versus that behavior And I met some of the c level people. They were all really nice. I didn't expect this behavior out of the company Um So I thought it was weird and I said look I banned them. They never tried it again I'll just say mistakes were made Uh, I actually called out a sales person that ended up later getting fired before and On me and that company still have me and several companies matter of fact, uh Have good relationships today despite me being very angry at the behavior of a sales person When enable had enable was a subsidiary of solar winds we were using enable when solar winds had their incident and Because solar winds is a company built by acquisition There really wasn't the same level of incident that happened at the enable level that happened at the solar winds level They're actually two separate companies. I knew a lot of the technical people that worked there But a sales person from a competing rmm had contacted me and basically Did a whole fear campaign of you shouldn't be using enabled Didn't you see them in the news solar winds is in the news blah blah blah and I said no, thanks and they were kind of Pushy and then called me a few times and I uh They said something that was basically untrue about solar winds and by the time by the way How do I know it was untrue? I if you if you have followed me long enough You'll know at one time I was on the advisory panel for the enable partner program So I I had a lot of in-depth knowledge on it and I'm like this is demonstratively untrue I'm fine with you throwing shade at a company who does shady things But When you want to be a sales rep and try to push something like that So I call them out put them on blast if you will as as I've heard the term used And I actually got a high level up from that company who I'm still friends with today They reprimanded the person who actually the person eventually ended up not working here anymore You know companies companies do shady things sometimes, but before you throw You know saying this company demonstratively is bad Reach out and engage with them and see what happens. So yeah um Do you ever see yourself using wazoo or doing a video on it tutorials are always good I started looking at it and seeing how it how it is versus splunk or greenlock I think wazoo is pretty neat It's on the long tail of things to do for videos They've reached out so network chuck did a sponsored video with them. I believe and They reached out to me to offer a sponsored video. I didn't say yes because I was like, well, I don't know I don't know if I want to do a sponsored video with them Uh, so I didn't commit to that I try like I said earlier in this show if you weren't here earlier I try to minimize the number of sponsors I have on the channel because they Sponsors want you to do things like they say and it's hard I like to do whatever I want Sometimes, you know, maybe that makes me childish wanting to do whatever I want But I like just to be able to do whatever video I want whenever I want to do it Versus sponsors have like schedules. They want you to keep in the hard things So I I did not say yes to them offering a sponsorship, but the um I don't I don't think that's uh, I didn't not do the video because I don't think it's a good product I think it's pretty cool. I don't necessarily right now today or even in the near future seeing us using it But I don't think it's a bad tool for a lot of people to use especially in the home lab Shady sales reps are the worst for sure. Hard to be trust Uh network truck does a lot of videos. Um, see network truck though It has a lot of sponsored videos too and it's just the it's the deal you make Network truck has to have a way to pay for the way he does things. Um LTT is an example of two lion's tech tips I'm in a unique position of owning a business that does consulting as a way to help fund The fact that I can create videos Um, it's a harder thing to do and not everyone is in that position So I have no fault for people who take ads or sponsors. It's not it anyway me disparaging it It to figure it's all about the model that works for you In terms of how you want to run your business LTT charges quite a bit for their ads. I imagine network truck does as well You know, it costs a lot to run these companies. It costs a lot to run the production. Um, I'm offsetting that cost The uh, mostly like, you know, I I you know part owner cnw are a lot more systems I have different affiliate links people click on sometimes people click on amazon links I get some youtube revenue. Um I have enough revenue sources and a desire to do this and a comfort with the money I make to say this is enough and I do some sponsored videos and they're always clearly marked I've only got a couple of them on my channel, but I have another one that'll be coming out soon So I try to minimize it and do just a few sponsored uh demos But if you're someone who 100 relies on funding an editor and a team Well, you have to do a lot more of them Uh, I find LTT to great for entertainment. Not so much for learning. Yeah, they've kind of They're kind of somewhere in between on that. They they give you a lot of information about products But they're not a tutorial company at all Uh, do what else he does and be like, I'll take your money, but I'll do whatever I want Whatever I want without uh with with your sponsorship That's different because you're just doing an ad read and I might start doing a couple ad reads Uh, it's expensive having someone redo your site and redo branding and hire some graphics I want some more shirts That's going to take some time. Um, yeah I wonder if LTT ever actually used any of the vpns. Um, third. Yeah, shilling. I don't know That's hard to say You should consider Uh, consulting customer old hardware X comms channel giveaways after you sanitize the drives clean up the dead parts Uh, yeah. Well, it's that's tricky I were seeing I I wanted to see how you felt about wazoo not wanting to crash the system to see If there are other uh sim engines It's probably one of the more extensive ones out there that's free. Uh security onion, um, which also integrates wazoo with it So he worked with either the wazoo platform is pretty cool Or if you looked at security onion and then fed it information from wazoo agents for an open source, uh, learning platform And sim stack. I think it's awesome To the ad reads at the end so we can skip them. Yeah. Well, that's a whole thing Uh, when's the neck gate sponsorship? I don't take money from I'm not doing sponsorships or neck gate. So Uh, can be a risk to reputation then you're tied to the sponsor Yeah, I mean that is a challenge if you if you have a if you go Hey, this is brought to you by blah blah blah company and blah blah blah company turns out to be not great Uh, look at look at all the people that advertised for last pass And think about that if you have that as an ad insert like last pass destroyed their own name With some silliness like they didn't they didn't tighten up security. They had an incident and Yeah, they they learned a hard lesson and reputation on that but think about from an advertiser standpoint People who were pushing last pass for a while Like there's some old video that someone did last pass the best place to store your password blah blah blah Long before their security incident now after the security incident you watched that old youtube video You're like, yeah, wow cringe. I remember one last pass was cool Uh in my year for having established a diverse business that allows you to only do what you want, uh, but it's fun to Uh conform to someone else's standards. Yeah, it's always my goal. Uh, what am I? So I don't have um, this has been hard Uh, when it comes to branding and positioning, this is a big discussion. I'm having with the marketing Uh people is how I want to position myself because one of the things that even they find a little strange is the fact that Like my goals aren't revenue driven is much like I have a comfort. I want to maintain in life I need to make x to maintain a lifestyle and by the way a lot of my money goes into investments because I know one day The party's over and tom's an idiot and he's not up with the current times and no one will pay me to do things I I say that's a day that may happen. So I am saving for retirement So I have a lifestyle to maintain a retirement fund In case I turn out to be irrelevant in the future And I just I just said that's going to be a thing that happens Uh, but doing that I I what I refer to is optimized for happiness. That's my Goal all the time is optimized for me doing things that make me happy Which really is computer community impacting engagement is how I measure things like what do I want to do? Community impact and engagement. I want I like to measure, you know, did I help people in the community? Did I teach them something? Can I give more information away for free? What is the mechanism that I need to put in place to make that happen? Those are kind of my thoughts on behind the scenes for how I push content out to my channel um And I've been a long time planner ahead. I've had a wonderful Serendipitous and lucky tech career. I'm not saying I'm not trying to Self-deprecate that I didn't work hard, but I also will say right place right time obviously not California so I didn't make the I didn't become a billionaire in California because I wasn't in the Tech bubble in the right spot. I'm just outside of Detroit here, but right place right time and you know kind of fun uh Got to land at some really good companies got to do some really cool things and continue to do really cool things With really cool companies and that's that's huge in terms of what I want to do like behind the scenes I can't say customer names, but we work with frequently customers that are in that fortune 500 list which is awesome And I get to work on neat projects and then I get to bring that information back to you but at the same time I'm excited to get a relatively inexpensive like it's funny to look at the diversity of my videos to me But I'm doing them based on what I think is fun. I have a data center video, which I'm super excited to finish editing I'm also excited to play with a Inexpensive thing that the homelab people can play with too, which is this little box right here You know relatively speaking compared to the data center. I was at And the data center video I paid for my trip to go out there. I got in my car I made it part of a bigger trip me and my son did but I drove out to Chicago They they offered to like reimburse me for travel. I said no no I actually prefer no money changes hands There's no obligations on either side if no money changes hand So I went to Chicago. Actually my wife just told me how much I spent in Chicago. I'm not happy about that You know how much you know how much museums cost my wife does she let me know She's like, hey, here's the credit card bill and I'm like, well that sucks It turns out Chicago is expensive I just I was me and my son just had a great time there And I didn't think about the money until I got back Oh, let's see Uh, the reason I went to it is because I didn't want to become an outdated. So now I'm in uh, oh the reason I never went it is because I didn't want to become outdated. So I'm an atrack Which is becoming very it like soon the systems will Come over the ethernet some already wireless. Yeah It's fun. It's it, you know, it's just great Um, if you want to be in it or you want to play playing around with it. Yeah Don't look at the receipts true What matters the most is I had a great time Yeah, that's really what I look at is that I had a great time. It's how I really feel about that. Um I think I shared maybe a couple pictures Because uh, this was where was it? It was the last day we're uh there You know It here's here's a fun question here Oh, this is great. So I'll start with this picture Uh, you know, obviously your oscent clue is I'm in Chicago. So you now knowing I'm in Chicago Where were these pictures taken of me and my son? Uh, what what were we in? And this is a, uh Obscure but interesting thing here Bonus if you can even name the name of it more specifically than where I'm at Where I'm at may become kind of obvious by looking at a couple pictures here Um, so Yeah, someone figured it out really quickly German submarine you are you nailed it man. This is a uh Uh, this is the uh, german u-boat. So yes I I was on I was on a captured german u-boat that's in the museum. We did a whole tour of it Man, was it amazing? I this was so cool I was like fascinated by this I was uh, yeah, it was great. So The bulkheads show it Um You the it specifically for anyone wondering And this is just really cool as I'll share it here is the u-505 And if you get a chance if you're in the united states or if you're traveling you'd like to visit this I highly recommend this place. Like this was really cool. This is the museum of science and industry But this is the u-505 german u-boat just really cool really cool. Um, if you want to go there, so I think they have they they had two enigma devices. I believe on this one and one of them has been removed So yeah very, um, it was a neat trip. I I'm a I'm a science nerd through and through. I don't just like tech uh science as a as a genre is my thing if you will so Definitely, um Very cool. So this live stream has gone on for two hours. I love that all of you have hung out with me for this long Uh, I see other people mentioning you zima science. It's great. Is there any last questions? I can answer I'll I'll go for a few more minutes Is there any final questions for the crowd that you haven't got out yet that you want to know? Uh, that I can answer for you in some way or be entertaining in some way, uh Before I wind the slicing down You could spend we spent a lot of time in that museum. There's no doubt about that trying to work out how Our uh old time as yeah, I'm pushing 50. So you're you're pretty close there I keep promising a four-hour stream Yeah, um Where's the neck gate coupon code? Um It's in my other live stream about the license change. I've already forgot it Hold on. Maybe I can remember Maybe I can pull it up for you. Uh Is that the same beer? I've moved on I'm not drinking beer anymore You can see anyone's wondering There we go. Someone has there's the the tack light. That's your discount code if you want to buy a license for neck gate But yeah, I moved on from beer. I don't I don't drink a lot of beer More people saying tack light promises promises Um, yeah, I'm going to do a four hour live stream pretty soon. I'm gonna do it on a saturday though I'm gonna do it in the morning I don't know if I'll do it this saturday or sunday Maybe maybe this sunday. I'll do it So I will um I will do a four hour live stream a four hour and four minutes We're gonna do the 404 live stream or maybe Vlog thursday 404 that's that we'll do on that one too. Um I like that idea But i'll i'll do a live stream coming up is right now. I'm I wake up at 5 a.m. Any morning and now it is 9 50 Uh p.m. So I am winding down Waffles with Tom. I do love waffles By now get the 20 discount for two years. Yes Uh 50 degrees on sunday won't be in front of a screen Uh, you know, I wonder what our weather's gonna be like. So Oh man tomorrow It's gonna be in the fifties this weekend Um, that's nice. We've had snow. So 50 degrees sounds pretty sounds pretty good I wake up at 9 30. Yeah, I'm a 5 a.m. person folks Midwest is warming up I'm looking forward to a gorgeous weekend. I gotta get I gotta get one video. Um for my friends at blumera edited Tomorrow is a meeting day. I have one two three four Five meetings. Well, one of them is internal. So it's not really a meeting. It's me Which they schedule for three o'clock. I kind of want to goof off tomorrow, but whatever. Um Yeah, tomorrow, I have uh one two three four five meetings and uh, Some of it's kind of a training with employees. I don't know if it's really a meeting, but it's something that happens I do participate at cnwr in all the management meetings. So that's part of what I do Um, yeah a day in a life of tom though a lot of just sit at the keyboard and sometimes meetings Uh, it happens. But now that I've you know, what since I merged with cnwr If some people have already noticed I do produce a lot more content I get to produce a lot more videos. So absolutely thrilled about that. I have so many cool things in the queue It's I'm I'm going to Try to wake up very early on saturday and sunday and edit the data center video Uh, that way I can get it out next week And or on the weekend. I have to get approval from them. So it may take them a little time to review it Um, but I want to get that data center video done And pushed out so the even though it's nice out I'm going to try to buckle down and spend time inside just to get this done because I know a lot of people want to see it I want to see it too So there's definitely a lot a lot a lot to talk about there all right Any anything else I think we've talked about enough or wandered off talk it off topic enough So I'm going to wander out of here. Thanks everyone for joining awesome having all of you here See you next time on the Vlog here in my forums or email me at vlog thursday at lord systems.com I've been answering a lot more questions on the air here and sometimes I just reply to people I I can't guarantee a reply. But if the if it's relevant, I will read the question on here Um, but I do reply to some people if it's you know Something easy for me to respond to but my forums definitely a place where uh, as I've talked about here I'm obsessive. I'm in my forums a lot. I love engaging with people there because I do it in a public space And it's a lot more fun. Thanks everyone and have a wonderful day evening or morning whatever it is wherever you are. Thanks