IT BS thread

Is it the trackpad itself? Or it's behavoir? I know under Linux, the trackpad is completely configureable. Not sure about Windows.

 

By default the trackpoint isn't great. It moves too slowly and requires too much effort. Once you adjust it, though, it's fantastic. Never have to lift your finger. With the three buttons under it you can even use it to scroll.

It may also be that my first laptop was a ThinkPad without a touchpad, so I got used to the trackpoint really quickly. I hate touchpads now.

 

The HP Elitebook also has the Trackpoint. Think they just copied Lenovo, but it does seem to work the same. Two button clickers just below the space bar and another set below the track pad. I too prefer the Trackpoint vs the pad.

850 G3 and 840 G3 are the current models we'll be acquiring. I do like them.. lightweight and thin.

 

We end up with ProBooks instead of EliteBooks, so no trackpoint on ours.

 

Or a keyboard, for that matter.

 

I'd argue that ThinkPads have the best keyboards (at least the higher-end ones, like the T series and up). They're so good that Lenovo has made them for desktops.

 

Almost 20 years since I've built this one, still works. I just need to find a AT to PS2 adapter so I can use my PS2 to USB adapter. Otherwise my keyboard doesn't work until the OS has started.

 

I'm not sure who decided that my model ThinkPad should have a led indicator on the Mute (F1) key, but not the capslock key. Other than that, best laptop keyboard I've used.

 

Mine has no lights at all, but I just have an E545. Bought it open box really cheap a few years ago, bumped the RAM to 8 GB and put a 250 GB SSD into it. I was at around $400 by the time I was done. Does everything I need it to do.

I tend to avoid technology as much as possible when I am not at work, though, so I don't need much.

 

Anyone running ZFS on Linux? Seems like updates take forever to be compatible with current kernel releases. Last ZFS release was 4 months ago.

 

Best quote I've heard in a while...


"IT is the only field where by the time you've made enough money to be successful, you regret every decision you've ever made to get there."

 

Hello IT people,

Been messing with a raspberry pi 3. Right now I have to:

1. hook up an ethernet cable to my router
2. Ssh into pi
3. Run command: sudo ifup wlan1
4. Then I can ssh into via wifi

Is there anyway I can just ssh into it from wifi without having the plug in the ethernet cable first and run the ifup command?

Here is the youtube tutorial I followed. The only thing I did different was use wlan1 because that is the wifi dongle.

https://youtu.be/IrJmO3nPg4M

 

There is always a way! What version of Linux did you install?

 

Raspbian

 

I got it working.

1. sudo nano /etc/networks/interfaces

2. Add: allow-hotplug wlan1

In the interface file under wlan1

 

I'm installing parrot security os on my pi. Have any of you guys used it?

https://youtu.be/Z1YCdhfxwa0

 

Hello IT/ Kali linux people,

Still messing with my pi 3. Loaded kali linux on it, and went through the steps to enable the wifi dongle (tp link TL-WN722N). Got it working, sort of. I can scan and connect to it, but when I disconnect it from my router, I loose it and it dies.

After Googling some stuff, I found this article, link below.

http://www.drchaos.com/enable-ssh-on-kali-linux-enable-ssh-on-kali-linux/

Do I need to go through the steps and enable ssh? Is that why it dies when I disconnect from my router?

Thank ypu.

 

What do you mean by dies? Disconnect it from the router?

 

When I installed kali linux on my raspberry pi 3, I have to plug it in to my wifi router in order to ssh into the pi 3/ linux. After I plug it in to my router, I use fing to find the ip of my pi3 on my wlan. As long as it's plugged into my router I can get a wifi signal from the wifi dongle.

As soon as I unplug it from my wifi router, and try to ssh into the pi, just through wifi, the dongle stops broadcasting a signal and I can't ssh into the pi3/linux.

 

What I'm trying to do with all this stuff.

Building a small raspberry pi, pen testing box. I've had better luck getting things to work on raspbian, but I wanna get it to work on kali linux. Right now, about 90% working on raspbian.

I initially started with a tp-link TL-WN722N wifi dongle, got this cause of the tutorial on youtube, but also cause it supports monitor mode. When I initially installed aircrack-ng I tried to do a scan at school (I asked my professor before trying to scan) and when it went to monitor mode, my ssh session got cut off. Didn't have an ethernet cable so I couldn't run aircrack from the ssh session without loosing connection.

So I got another dongle, TL-WN725N, mainly cause the range on the pi's internal wifi sucks. Both dongles work independently. When I boot up my pi both dongles will fire up and obtain an ip address from my router, but after like maybe 10-15 seconds, one of the signals will shutdown, usually it is wlan2.

My guess is that wlan1 has priority so maybe the pi shuts off or cuts the signal to wlan2?

If I establish an ssh session from the ip address that associated with the TL-WN725N, can I still run the following command, airmon-ng start wlan2 9
and get the TL-WN722N into monitor mode and still have a ssh session through the TL-WN725N

I could have just tried running it, but I re-installed raspbian, so at the moment aircrack isn't on there.





I blacked everything out cause I'm not jedi yet like you folks.