Today, Steve Jobs passed away. This can really be thought of as the end of an era. I’m not going to give you a biography of a man that you probably know better than I do (Wikipedia has a perfectly serviceable one, anyway), but I do not doubt that without him, many of our daily [...]
Steve Jobs was a man who could be horrible one moment, then ingenious the next. He helped revolutionize the "digital living room" meme. He brought Apple back from the brink. He had a company that failed for being too far ahead of its time. His passing is a loss for technology much as Jim Henson's was a loss for humanity.
We have coworkers with cancer now. I was just at a funeral last week for someone who died of cancer as well.
I just had a friend finish treatment for prostate cancer. A friend of the family just had a funeral from cancer. A principal in our district has breast cancer. Cancer. Bastard.
@ChrisS In case you're dying to know what solved my NPS issue, it was ditching the wildcard certificate for a standard SSL cert that does client and server auth.
Microsoft really needs to publish that shit.
I still can't get anyone at MS support to admit that it's a problem, though. I took a shot in the dark on my own and it works fine so far.
@MarkM Still interested if you ran the certs through something like OpenSSL to see if there were any other differences; I think I've seen situations where a wildcard does work.
I haven't yet. We're still testing to make sure that this really solved the problem. Since we have such a diverse group of devices it might take a while. Eventually, I play on getting around to that, though.
my gf's father was diagnosed in jan '09, died in july '10, watched it from day 1 til the last, not a fun sight at all, the best thing to do is to just say 'fuck cancer' and try as much as you can to help fund the research.
@pauska We have a bunch of servers deployed with this same WC and it works fine for https, but it seems to break microsoft's crypto stack when it's used for tls with their authentication stuff like peap
It should be the same IP address as your gateway for the subnet that your domain controller is on.
If you don't know what this means, you should run far away from your computer and hire someone that knows what they are doing. Gateways are an elementary networking principle.
In the office I work for, the situation is as follows:
There are ~20 PCs running Windows 7 (mostly) and Windows XP. No domain.
There are four network-capable Ricoh printers, currently shared over a Windows 2000 Server machine. It will be retired.
There is Lotus Domino running on a virtualized W...
@pauska I've heard that cancer is actually highly funded in research.
It would be very profitable to find the cure, so there is a lot of research funding for it.
Compared to other diseases and maladies.
Someone was discussing that Bill Gates' foundation should fund it more and that was the reply, that Gates doesn't fund it so much because it has a lot already invested.
@BartSilverstrim There's definitely headway being made with life expectancie and things to be done to improve them, it's all a matter of when it's cause and what type.
I know these seems like a silly question, but we do have a fair number of customers who don't know if they have a Mac or Windows.
How would they easily know which they have?
(I don't have a Mac to verify this).
I'm thinking that a Windows PC has a START button in the lower left corner (unless i...
WTH?! Get those quotes up. I even added some into our web server's random quotes to select from.
@shads0: I like the first comment suggesting it's broad and should move to SU. It's code for "This is a moron or he's dealing with morons. Send him to SU."
You wouldn't believe how difficult it is for us to get users to distinguish Windows XP from Windows 7 -- so I don't see the question as so terrible... I feel that pain.
I know it's not easy when dealing with derps remotely, especially if it's derps that are something like ISP clients at home. They expect you to do shit from NCIS and wave your magic wand and just fix it for them (free, of course) when it doesn't work that way at ALL, and you wonder just how the hell they could possibly pay so little attention to the computer they are staring at.
@jscott Agreed - it's a good question worded slightly differently: "What is the easiest way to guide a remote user through a process of determining what OS they have?"
If you repair an OEM version of Windows XP Pro SP3 with a legal/100% legit shrinkwrapped retail copy of Windows XP Pro, which, if any, of the following statements are true?
The resulting O/S will be a retail version with a new retail product id.
You will need to reactivate before you can boot t...
A while back, this mug was gifted to me. Appropriate, really: It has survived long use, both at work and at home. Unfortunately, it is dying:The handle is about to break off. I'm not sure what triggered that since I have other mugs that are three times as old as this one and are still going strong, but there it is. The beginning crack of a crack cascade that'll end up with a handle-free mug. I …
those pretty graphics were CPU intensive. Sad how we wasted cycles back when everyone had one core and MAYBE 2 processors, but now that everyone has 4-8 cores and heavy hitters have 8 or more processors we can't have the pretty anymore.
the fact that they picket around with signs that say "thank god for dead american soldiers" makes me want to torture them in ways never before thought of or possible by man
@voretaq7 They're a bunch of outspoken religious nutters - does anyone actually take them seriously? What they have to say, I mean. Myself, I think they're horrible people. (I couldn't think of a bad enough adjective)
NYS said "There shall be ONE hugely inefficient bureaucracy for the management of all things motorized and vehicular. ONE shall be the number of the DMVs and the number of the DMVs shall be one!"
@BartSilverstrim he IS a sysadmin. we're all special and offensive.
So I didn't do it this last time. And got caught by one of the night-time-have-nothing-better-to-do-cops-so-Imma-roll-around-ticketing-cars-parked-on-the-road-at-1030pm.
So now I have to register is (somewhere) and make sure all the back taxes are paid or whatever
The county that I'm "registered" with now, actually did away with registration, which is why I kept it. But the county I'm currently living in still has it.
And the worst part (for me) is that I'm planning on moving in Jan/Feb
Haha, they do have license exams. I drove around 1 city block when I was 16. No parallel parking, only diagonal parking, and the cop said "well, you were going a little fast but you had control. congrats on your license."
In the defense of the state of MA as it relates to driving, people in PA drive like little tiny pussies when it snows. Driving in MA really makes you hate drivers everywhere else.
Haha, they do certainly encourage you to drive on the shoulder, but that's pretty much only in Boston
And that's because Boston was built in 120000BC before the wheel was invented, so the roads aren't designed for anything wider than two cavemen and an antelope.
@MarkM no, driving in MA has made me loathe driving in MA. Y'all need to learn to drive in New York, where n(cars) > n(people). You learn important life skills like DRIVE PAST THE GODDAMN ACCIDENT YOU CANT HELP THEM THEY'RE DEAD!
Our state police are pussies. They won't shoot the rubberneckers.
I mean here in NY we have a few cute ones, and the one chick in the Camaro interceptor (she SCARES me...), but they're mostly wash-outs from pro football...
Goddamn you @voretaq7 When I give an incomplete but clearly rep-whoring answer, do not provide a real, complete, and detailed answer to the same question.
@Sam Meh; it's only ~$70/y for a typical car. And it's a good excuse for them to make sure you have insurance (most states require; several have no-fault insurance)
(Also, when everyone asks me why I think the FAA really REALLY needs to keep the third-class medical, and why drivers-license-medical for sport pilot scares the everloving fuck out of me - it's because in 14 states there is NO VISION TEST.)
(that "14" number may be wrong, I got it from Newsday, which is not known for its thorough fact-checking)
My driver's ed program had a response time test. It was just a box with two pedals (one for gas and brake each). You started with your foot on gas and when a light came on switch to brake with ~200ms (which should be absolutely no problem for a 16 year old)
@voretaq7 Did you see super-secure-vps-guy's latest comment on my rep whore?
at this point I'm willing to sacrifice availability for confidentiality and integrity. If I were to host locally, I could require a specific CD ROM to be inserted in order to allow the admin to operate. This would greatly improve security. But is there anyone willing to sell me a proxy with DDoS and 24/7 network monitoring? How is that called?
I need to host a sensitive financial software somewhere. Given that I don't have the resource to locally host the software locally, I'm oriented toward a VPS or Dedicated server.
How can I be sure that the hosting company doesn't steal my SSH password with a Man In the Middle or 0day attack?
Is...
I need to host a sensitive financial software somewhere. Given that I don't have the resource to locally host the software locally, I'm oriented toward a VPS or Dedicated server.
How can I be sure that the hosting company doesn't steal my SSH password with a Man In the Middle or 0day attack?
Is...
If you repair an OEM version of Windows XP Pro SP3 with a legal/100% legit shrinkwrapped retail copy of Windows XP Pro, which, if any, of the following statements are true?
The resulting O/S will be a retail version with a new retail product id.
You will need to reactivate before you can boot t...
"Re: backups succeed with exceptions This would seem there are more locked files, or users are keeping the files open during backup and the VSS is failing to open them.
We have added more handling for this as Microsoft made some suggestions on how to handle this.
We recently moved to EC2 and started using amazon's elb for load balancing. We're using CloudFlare for DNS which allows us to use a cname the domain root. However, we occasionally have people tell us that our emails are bouncing with some variation of the following error:
first.last@ourdomain....
@ChrisS That error he's got is an attempt to send to the A record of wherever his CNAME is pointing to, it looks like. I believe MX lookups are supposed to obey CNAMEs, but I might be wrong..
@ShaneMadden Yep, RFC1034 §3.6.2 says that you should have only a CNAME by any give name, so example.com IN CNAME asdf.aws.xyz would be valid as long as it's the only record for that domain. A MX RR lookup should return that CNAME and the resolving server should retry the MX lookup at the new alias.
It would not surprise me terribly if some resolvers do not obey the RFC.
User: "I forgot my password, can you tell me what it is" Me: "No, but I can reset it for you" User: "thats dumb, what kind of it guy are you that you don't know my password?!"
Tell him if you could lookup passwords there would be no guarantee of non-repudiation. Further, if he doesn't know what that means, he has insufficient understanding of your job to express a substantiated opinion.
Possible? Yes.
Likely? No.
What should I make my default gateway for my Domain Controller? Should it be the same as its IP address or something else?
It should be the same IP address as your gateway for the subnet that your domain controller is on.
If you don't know what this means, you should run far away from your computer and hire someone that knows what they are doing. Gateways are an elementary networking principle.
Please for me enumerate a list of the types of servers that are out there, what they do, and what their faults are.
In the office I work for, the situation is as follows:
There are ~20 PCs running Windows 7 (mostly) and Windows XP. No domain.
There are four network-capable Ricoh printers, currently shared over a Windows 2000 Server machine. It will be retired.
There is Lotus Domino running on a virtualized W...
I know these seems like a silly question, but we do have a fair number of customers who don't know if they have a Mac or Windows.
How would they easily know which they have?
(I don't have a Mac to verify this).
I'm thinking that a Windows PC has a START button in the lower left corner (unless i...
I need to host a sensitive financial software somewhere. Given that I don't have the resource to locally host the software locally, I'm oriented toward a VPS or Dedicated server.
How can I be sure that the hosting company doesn't steal my SSH password with a Man In the Middle or 0day attack?
Is...
I know there are expiry times for the dns records. But what are they called? Where re they stored? Are they different for each country?
We recently moved to EC2 and started using amazon's elb for load balancing. We're using CloudFlare for DNS which allows us to use a cname the domain root. However, we occasionally have people tell us that our emails are bouncing with some variation of the following error:
first.last@ourdomain....
