New Year’s Challenges – National

The Western world is opposing an aggressor nation, energy producers have economically drubbed the world, our nation’s legislative process is descending into a three or four sided polemic morass. Fundamental goods and services have been put out of reach for many Americans. Within this disturbing and difficult daily coping test we have countless political and notoriety-chasing prophets of our counties demise speaking to a laundry list of their personal hatreds and spewing vitriolic sound bites.

You will also see a collision of church and state reminiscent of the flight to the North American colonies caused by the religious practices then forced on the European and Middle Eastern people. Many times in history the social momentum of a society was redirected , even misdirected, to the detriment of the people in the long run.

What is popularly embraced in the beginning of such cycles, is considered despotic by the end of that politically motivated miscreation. The need for we citizens and our representatives to cooperate and rely upon each other is tested mightily. The time has come again.

It would seem we have a true test coming by way of our inability to blend often disparate individual religious philosophies into a national democratic non-partisan workflow that benefits the masses rather than a few successful lobbyists and PACs.

– Bernard Lambert January 6, 2023

Solar Testing Ongoing

Liars Morality Practice

With 7 panels, 3 charge controllers, and 4 batteries under test.

January 2024 Update:

Summer fire on platform due to battery fire. Possible charge controllers heating the wooden surface they were mounted on. Total destruction of the freestanding system was observed.

The intensity of the fire set the building nine feet away on fire, destroying the data center and it’s contents.

November 8th 2022 Outcome

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Vitriolic Politics

A lot of political bashing going on

There is a lot of political bashing going on. Will it ever end? – Bernard Lambert Sep 26, 2022

Do some of the people you work with espouse false facts to support their views? Do those people rely upon social media for their facts? Do those people debase anyone who offers facts or fails to regurgitate the falsehoods and lies?

What are they REALLY trying to do?

The Takeout on CBS with Major Garrett

The finding is that because the social media linking of these activities follows the clicking through these sites to generate ad income, the more activity (read clicking through) the more the message gets out…however false and misleading.

There was a very interesting show today with the guest Dan Patterson. He works with Major and CBS doing Fact Checking in a big way. He came by it as a technical guy given the job of hunting where all the misinformation and disinformation is coming from…you guessed it; the Internet! Here’s the link to the show:

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/dan-patterson-on-the-takeout-12312021/

On Twitter he is @MajorCBS. See also: @TakeoutPodcast @TheDebriefCBS

The radio/podcast/streaming show comes on at 5PM Eastern Fridays and is repeated any time from CBS or CBSNEWS streams.

Dan Patterson is a CBS News Technologies reporter. On Twitter he is @DanPatterson. He also has written for many many technical, financial, and industry publications.

Today’s show on Disinformation was special as the guys got to drill down into finding from where these outright lies emanate. Dan has gone down all these rabbit holes to follow the “do your own research” links planted in these abundant social media websites.

The finding is that because the social media linking of these activities follows the clicking through these sites to generate ad income, the more activity (read clicking through) the more the message gets out…however false and misleading.

Concurrently there is a disincentive for the website selling the ad click-throughs; more clicks make more money. More controversy or “facts-that-fit-your-mindset” make more clicks. The participants in the media site are followed and recruited by the media peddler while the back end income from clicks is really what the site is peddling.

Pick a topic such as voting fraud and run it into the ground while raising money for yourself and your personal agendas. That’s been done to the point of Insurrection at the Capitol.

Technologists must realize as enablers of the modern tech that they also may bear some social responsibility as well. Good moral judgment must go into all vocation and professional pursuit.

Tech responsibly! Bernard Lambert – January 9, 2022 – @systemwrights

Troubleshooting Remote Syslog and Forwarding

https://systemwrights.org/wordpress/?p=444 Troubleshooting Remote Syslog and Forwarding

Sequence of checkouts that help troubleshoot log forwarding…..

Know the network addresses of the source and destinations. Ping them or traceroute them.

On Each System Do The Following:

Run netstat -tulpn | grep 514 <- insert the port you expect to see here

Run ps ax | grep syslog
or
Run ps ax | grep rsyslog

In either case you should see your syslog is running. Either listening or sending.

IF NOT:

On each system check /etc/rsyslog.conf and any includes found in the /etc/rsyslog.d/ subdirectory. They must include any mod load information so the ports are opened up UDP/TCP or socket. Try this command
rsyslog -d
to get a debug from the syslog daemon. It will show what worked and what did not. The port number and addresses of the source and destination systems should be double checked in these respective system’s configs. TCP port, UDP port, UNIX Socket, config numbers have to match up at both ends.

After Any Reconfiguration:

Hopefully one-at-a-time type changes are made and tests run to see the success of that try. Remember that services need restarted after any change so that it can be picked up and included in the application.

MY FAVORITE GOTCHA TODAY:
In the forward statement

*.*:@[ip|host] sends UDP

and

*.*:@@[ip|host] sends TCP.