Linux

If you create a cloud virtual machine and run it for anything more than a few minutes, it quickly becomes apparent how much nefarious activity goes on. You will get hit with brute force attacks on all of the known ports (and some unknown ones) pretty much continuously from the first minute. I don’t know that there is much that cloud hosts can do about this. They have known IP ranges and I would assume that attackers constantly troll those known ranges.

I wrote a tutorial on installing Nextcloud in the Hetzner Cloud that was just published on the Hetzner Community. Nextcloud is an interesting solution if you want to host your own file sharing space. Combined with the solid prices on Linux hosting at Hetzner, you can get a pretty capable solution for personal or small business for just a few Euro a month. The process is pretty simple since Nextcloud has a Snap package.

I just saw that RedHat is changing the way they are running the CentOS project. I’m not a fan of this and it seems like a money grab. I’ve used CentOS where I needed the equivalent of RHEL but didn’t need support (e.g. experimentation, testing, etc.) I do have a RHEL Developer Subscription, so I could use the real McCoy for some of this testing, but it just isn’t as convenient in some cases.

I’m helping a friend on a project in Windows. To be able to login to the system he had setup, I needed to use RDP. It’s been at least a few years since I’ve used RDP much so I did some research on what clients might be out there for Linux. My research pretty much stopped at the Ubuntu apps grid. By default, Ubuntu 20.04 comes with Remmina. Since it was already installed, I gave it a try.