Miscellaneous items of interest to me

So I don't forget

Unity Linux install instructions UE5 direct download link for linux

RFC for "Address Allocation for Private Internets" RFC for "Special-Use Domain Names"

Vagrant

For kvm images add libvirt.qemu_use_session = false to your Vagrant file. See a discussion here. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Vagrant_2.2_with_QEMU_Session

  config.vm.provider "libvirt" do |libvirt|
      libvirt.storage_pool_name = "ssdvms"
      libvirt.qemu_use_session = false
  end

setup user permissions https://computingforgeeks.com/use-virt-manager-as-non-root-user/

Windows is chatty. This is how I quite it down.

• llmnr Protocol traffic
  • Local Computer Policy
    • Computer Configuration
      • Administrative Templates
        • Network
          • DNS Client Turn off Multicast Name Resolution

ssdp

This is under windows services “SSDP Discovery” Go there and disable the service.

ws-discovery service udp

Disable Net.* services

igmp v2/v3 messages

Description of why they think its a good thing. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc957913.aspx

• As per this article: http://www.windowsreference.com/windows-server-2008/control-multicast-support-and-set-igmp-version-in-windows-server-2008-vista/
• Navigate to the key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters]
• Create a new DWORD 32 value “IGMPLevel” set to 0

6646 port mcafee network agent

This agent sends out periodic scans to identify network devices, WHY?? I do not know, and dont like it.

To disable it untrust the network.

• PC and Home Network Tools
  • My Home Network
    • Distrust network

Also disable the service, the untrusting the network did not work.

Net bios

Service - “TCP/IP NetBIOS helper” Disable it. Follow instructions at the following link. http://marjanrepic.wordpress.com/2011/07/05/disable-netbios-over-tcpip-in-windows-7-ent/ Under advanced settings of tcp/ip on the network adapter select the netbios tab and set it to disabled.

• Some references for this information
  • http://sourcedaddy.com/windows-7/
  • https://community.mcafee.com/message/148736
  • http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/datacenter/disable-windows-server-2008s-pnp-x-and-port-sharing-services-via-group-policy/2864
  • http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/6456/what-is-mdnsresponder.exe-bonjour-and-how-can-i-uninstall-or-remove-it/

Git commands

Git push using SSH

git push --set-upstream git@gitlab.example.com:namespace/nonexistent-project.git master

Git push using HTTPS

git push --set-upstream https://gitlab.example.com/namespace/nonexistent-project.git master