First, take a look at the report you received or run (and read):
sudo tripwire --check
If everything is OK, run the following command:
sudo tripwire -m u -Z low -r /var/lib/tripwire/report/hostname-timestamp.twr
Month: January 2017
I keep looking this up so saving for posterity. This is a good way to get memory info in Ubuntu:
sudo lshw -C memoryThis gets all sort of useful info. I needed to get the memory speed since I have too many computers with too many different memory speeds. Doesn’t seem to show that it is ECC memory but I also had to know that. See below for ECC and memory speed.
*-firmware
description: BIOS
vendor: LENOVO
physical id: 0
version: 5JKT50AUS
date: 09/27/2010
size: 64KiB
capacity: 2496KiB
capabilities: pci upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer acpi usb biosbootspecification
*-cache:0
description: L1 cache
physical id: 5
slot: L1-Cache
size: 32KiB
capacity: 32KiB
capabilities: internal write-back unified
configuration: level=1
*-cache:1
description: L2 cache
physical id: 6
slot: L2-Cache
size: 256KiB
capacity: 256KiB
capabilities: internal varies unified
configuration: level=2
*-cache:2 DISABLED
description: L3 cache
physical id: 7
slot: L3-Cache
size: 4MiB
capacity: 4MiB
capabilities: internal unified
configuration: level=3
*-memory
description: System Memory
physical id: 2c
slot: System board or motherboard
size: 14GiB
*-bank:0
description: DIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1066 MHz (0.9 ns)
product: M391B5673EH1-CH9
vendor: Samsung
physical id: 0
serial: FCBB3D85
slot: A1_DIMM0
size: 2GiB
width: 64 bits
clock: 1066MHz (0.9ns)
*-bank:1
description: DIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1066 MHz (0.9 ns)
product: 18JSF51272AZ-1G1D1
vendor: Micron Technology
physical id: 1
serial: D7172936
slot: A1_DIMM1
size: 4GiB
width: 64 bits
clock: 1066MHz (0.9ns)
*-bank:2
description: DIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1066 MHz (0.9 ns)
product: CT51272BA1067.M18F
vendor: Undefined
physical id: 2
serial: 00000000
slot: A1_DIMM2
size: 4GiB
width: 64 bits
clock: 1066MHz (0.9ns)
*-bank:3
description: DIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1066 MHz (0.9 ns)
product: 18JSF51272AZ-1G1D1
vendor: Micron Technology
physical id: 3
serial: 5DC579DE
slot: A1_DIMM3
size: 4GiB
width: 64 bits
clock: 1066MHz (0.9ns)
To get ECC and speed use this:
dmidecode --type memory
...
Handle 0x002C, DMI type 16, 15 bytes
Physical Memory Array
Location: System Board Or Motherboard
Use: System Memory
Error Correction Type: Single-bit ECC
Maximum Capacity: 8 GB
Error Information Handle: 0x002D
Number Of Devices: 4
...
Handle 0x0032, DMI type 17, 28 bytes
Memory Device
Array Handle: 0x002C
Error Information Handle: 0x0033
Total Width: 72 bits
Data Width: 64 bits
Size: 4096 MB
Form Factor: DIMM
Set: None
Locator: A1_DIMM1
Bank Locator: A1_BANK1
Type: DDR3
Type Detail: Synchronous
Speed: 1066 MHz
Manufacturer: Micron Technology
Serial Number: D7172936
Asset Tag: NULL
Part Number: 18JSF51272AZ-1G1D1
Rank: 2
I upgraded the server from 14.04 to 16.04 and slowly discovered everything was not working perfectly with the ZFS functionality. Researching it appears zfsonlinux doesn’t support 16.04 since ZFS is a part of 16.04. However I couldn’t get the Ubuntu version to load and got this error. It gave me the pointer that the old trusty (14.04) version was the issue.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
zfsutils-linux : Depends: zfs-doc (= 0.6.5.6-0ubuntu15) but 0.6.5.7-1~trusty is to be installed
Depends: libnvpair1linux but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libuutil1linux but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libzfs2linux but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libzpool2linux but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: zfs-zed but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
So had to purge the non Ubuntu trusty packages and start over. This will find the old installed zfs packages:
dpkg -l|grep zfs
Then you can purge the packages old trusty (14.04) to remove them:
sudo apt-get purge zfs-doc
Make sure nothing odd is in /etc/apt. Then install the native Ubuntu version with the normal:
sudo apt install zfsutils-linux
This is a very interesting piece from a Russian journalist to his US counterparts.
https://medium.com/@alexey__kovalev/message-to-american-media-from-russia-6e2e76eeae77#.2o2wa34xe
The end of it but the rest is worth a read as well:
You’re always losing
This man owns you. He understands perfectly well that he is the news. You can’t ignore him. You’re always playing by his rules — which he can change at any time without any notice. You can’t — in Putin’s case — campaign to vote him out of office. Your readership is dwindling because ad budgets are shrinking — while his ratings are soaring, and if you want to keep your publication afloat, you’ll have to report on everything that man says as soon as he says it, without any analysis or fact-checking, because 1) his fans will not care if he lies to their faces; 2) while you’re busy picking his lies apart, he’ll spit out another mountain of bullshit and you’ll be buried under it.
I could go on and on, but I think at this point you see where this is heading. See if any of this rings any bells if you covered Trump’s presser or watched it online.
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SR-71 Pilots
From here – the post by the actual SR-71 pilot is a pretty interesting read. It also would make a great alt-band cover.
China, and specifically Shanghai for now, is instituting public credit scores to rank citizens by various factors. The end goal to improve the behavior of people by ranking them publicly. This has to have been in the works for awhile. Did Black Mirror just steal the plot for Nosedive from what China is actually doing?
Quite a few places are reporting it and here’s the NRP version. I read it first in the Economist weeks ago so they should get credit for breaking it really but NPR reminded me. A quote from NPR’s version:
“We want to make Shanghai a global city of excellence,” says Shao Zhiqing, deputy director of Shanghai’s Commission of Economy and Informatization, which oversees the Honest Shanghai app. “Through this app, we hope our residents learn they’ll be rewarded if they’re honest. That will lead to a positive energy in society.”
Shao says Honest Shanghai draws on up to 3,000 items of information collected from nearly 100 government entities to determine an individual’s public credit score.
A good score allows users to collect rewards like discounted airline tickets, and a bad score could one day lead to problems getting loans and getting seats on planes and trains.
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A story about carrots
I heard a great story about carrots today; they’re being so good for the eyesight is just a red herring to distract the Germans from the British competence in radar in WWII being the reason the British were so successful at finding and shooting down Germans.
Here’s the Snope blurb on it:
While carrots are a good source of vitamin A (which is important for healthy eyesight, skin, growth, and resisting infection), eating them won’t improve vision.
The purported link between carrots and markedly acute vision is a matter of lore, not of science. And it’s lore of the deliberately manufactured type.
In World War II, Britain’s air ministry spread the word that a diet of these vegetables helped pilots see Nazi bombers attacking at night. That was a lie intended to cover the real matter of what was underpinning the Royal Air Force’s successes: Airborne Interception Radar, also known as AI. The secret new system pinpointed some enemy bombers before they reached the English Channel.
British Intelligence didn’t want the Germans to find out about the superior new technology helping protect the nation, so they created a rumor to afford a somewhat plausible-sounding explanation for the sudden increase in bombers being shot down. News stories began appearing in the British press about extraordinary personnel manning the defenses, including Flight Lieutenant John Cunningham, an RAF pilot dubbed “Cat’s Eyes” on the basis of his exceptional night vision that allowed him to spot his prey in the dark. Cunningham’s abilities were chalked up to his love of carrots. Further stories claimed RAF pilots were being fed goodly amounts of this root vegetable to foster similar abilities in them.
The disinformation was so persuasive that the English public took to eating carrots to help them find their way during the blackouts.
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Plato was right about democracy
It’s amazing the number of rightist blogs that go into how Plato was right about democracy turning to tyranny discussing such well prior to 2016! They were on to something. Either ironic or they’re libertarian. It really doesn’t matter which side with the current polarization we’re going there.
http://freedomoutpost.com/plato-explains-tyrants-arise/
http://mobile.wnd.com/2015/10/how-tyrants-arise-platos-eerily-accurate-words/
And just for something neutral here’s Wikipedia: