October 2020 - Dr. Bill | The Computer Curmudgeon

DrBill.TV #480 – Video – The Google Chromecast and Clonezilla Edition!

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Dr. Bill demos Google Chromecast with Google TV, and shows us how to engage ‘Developer Mode’ on it, he demos Clonezilla, and discusses Bitwarden, a Lastpass Open Source alternative.

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DrBill.TV #480 – Audio – The Google Chromecast and Clonezilla Edition!

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Clonezilla: Open Source Acronis?

October 26, 2020 Dr. Bill Leave a comment

I love Acronis Backup, and I have used it for years, but this is an Open Source alternative. Check out this information from their web site!

https://clonezilla.org/

“Clonezilla is a partition and disk imaging/cloning program similar to True Image® or Norton Ghost®. It helps you to do system deployment, bare metal backup and recovery. Three types of Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live, Clonezilla lite server, and Clonezilla SE (server edition). Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore. While Clonezilla lite server or SE is for massive deployment, it can clone many (40 plus!) computers simultaneously. Clonezilla saves and restores only used blocks in the hard disk. This increases the clone efficiency. With some high-end hardware in a 42-node cluster, a multicast restoring at rate 8 GB/min was reported.

Features:

Many File systems are supported: (1) ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, reiser4, xfs, jfs, btrfs, f2fs and nilfs2 of GNU/Linux, (2) FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS of MS Windows, (3) HFS+ of Mac OS, (4) UFS of FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD, (5) minix of Minix, and (6) VMFS3 and VMFS5 of VMWare ESX. Therefore you can clone GNU/Linux, MS windows, Intel-based Mac OS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Minix, VMWare ESX and Chrome OS/Chromium OS, no matter it’s 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x86-64) OS. For these file systems, only used blocks in partition are saved and restored by Partclone. For unsupported file system, sector-to-sector copy is done by dd in Clonezilla.
LVM2 (LVM version 1 is not) under GNU/Linux is supported.
Boot loader, including grub (version 1 and version 2) and syslinux, could be reinstalled.
Both MBR and GPT partition formats of hard drive are supported. Clonezilla live also can be booted on a BIOS or uEFI machine.
Unattended mode is supported. Almost all steps can be done via commands and options. You can also use a lot of boot parameters to customize your own imaging and cloning.
One image restoring to multiple local devices is supported.
Image could be encrypted. This is done with ecryptfs, a POSIX-compliant enterprise cryptographic stacked filesystem.
Multicast is supported in Clonezilla SE, which is suitable for massive clone. You can also remotely use it to save or restore a bunch of computers if PXE and Wake-on-LAN are supported in your clients.
Bittorrent (BT) is supported in Clonezilla lite server, which is suitable for massive deployment. The job for BT mode is done by Ezio.
The image file can be on local disk, ssh server, samba server, NFS server or WebDAV server.
AES-256 encryption could be used to secures data access, storage and transfer.
Based on Partclone (default), Partimage (optional), ntfsclone (optional), or dd to image or clone a partition. However, Clonezilla, containing some other programs, can save and restore not only partitions, but also a whole disk.
By using another free software drbl-winroll, which is also developed by us, the hostname, group, and SID of cloned MS windows machine can be automatically changed.

Minimum System Requirements for Clonezilla live:

X86 or x86-64 processor
196 MB of system memory (RAM)
Boot device, e.g. CD/DVD Drive, USB port, PXE, or hard drive”

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An Open Source Version of Lastpass! Bitwarden

October 26, 2020 Dr. Bill Leave a comment

Bitwarden: Open Source Password Management for You and Your Business
The easiest and safest way for individuals and businesses to store, share, and secure sensitive data on any device!

https://bitwarden.com/

Security You Can Trust
Our Bitwarden application seals your private information with end-to-end encryption before it ever leaves your devices.

Open Source Transparency
Our software is open source which means the features and security of our infrastructure can be vetted and improved upon by our global community.

Global Accessibility
Our workforce and solutions are globally distributed and provide multi?platform sensitive data management in nearly 40 different languages.

End-to-End Encryption
Lock your passwords and private information with end-to-end AES-256 bit encryption, salted hashing, and PBKDF2 SHA-256.

Cross-Platform Applications
Secure and share sensitive data within your Bitwarden Vault from any browser, mobile device, or desktop application.

Global Community
Align to the highest security standards with a global community of password security experts and Bitwarden users.

DrBill.TV #479 – Video – The Set Up a Linux USB-Based Network Drive Fileserver Edition!

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How does one set up a Linux Fileserver to share out a USB based Seagate Expansion Drive? Dr. Bill shows you how, and makes some comments along the way! Join him in his quest to eliminate Microsoft from his server rack!

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DrBill.TV #479 – Audio – The Set Up a Linux USB-Based Network Drive Fileserver Edition!

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Use the VPN That I Use! Private Internet Access!

October 7, 2020 Dr. Bill Leave a comment

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DrBill.TV #478 – Video – The Death of Windows and FTP Edition!

October 6, 2020 Dr. Bill Leave a comment

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Dr. Bill finally has content from his Blog! Eric Steven Raymond, known as ‘ESR’ says Windows may go away, replaced with Linux, by Microsoft! The sad death of FTP, coming soon? A free tutorial for Python, and an overview of the Google Chromecast for 2020!

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DrBill.TV #478 – Audio – The Death of Windows and FTP Edition!

October 6, 2020 Dr. Bill Leave a comment

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Google Has a New Chromecast for 2020

October 6, 2020 Dr. Bill Leave a comment

The new Google Chromecast for 2020 has some great new features:

It Debuts Google TV
Supports Android TV apps
4K HDR 60fps, Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos
Google Assistant built-in

I am hoping that when you plug it in to your TV’s USB port for power, it doesn’t go into unreachable mode like the old one! Here’s hoping! The remote has an on/off button, but that seems to turn your SmartTV on and off via HDMI (if your TV supports that.) I am hoping there will be a way to “wake it up” better than my current version.

There is no support for Google’s On-Line Gaming through the web app, called “Stadia,” but support is supposed to be be added in the future, say about the 2021 timeframe.

It sells from about $49.99 at Best Buy, Walmart, etc. and be available in three colors: “snow,” “sunrise,” and “sky.” Google says that it is manufactured from 49% recycled plastics, for all you tree huggers out there!

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