I'm just thinking about running my money into blue-chips at the moment. Mining in Australia is very strong, but I might have left it too late, should have started 3-4 years ago
Friend of mine invests in blue-chips with franked dividends, every time he gets his dividends he just buys more of them. He's got a pretty healthy portfolio. But he's also 20 years closer to retirement than I am
Is there any non-dumb way to diagram out services with tons of interdependencies
My diagram is basically a spiderweb, I tried using a switch in the middle to represent something interconnected, but it's hard to express who talks to who that way
honestly though, we're not going to have time to tackle an email migration this year anyway. I'm trying to cram a storage filer onto the books for next year.
@Andrew Code is like a poem; it has to follow certain structural requirements, and yet out of that structure can come art. But code is art that does something. - that is the biggest load of shit I've ever read in my life
Code is not like a poem. Code is like a car crash and if you don't die in the process, then you've done better than others.
Code is nothing like art. And stating that it's 'art that does something' is not art. Art has no function. As soon as it has function, I believe it ceases to be art.
@Adrian As I recall from our investigation into Microsoft Live it will handle integration into a local AD environment. Plus, I have a fleeting memory they're going to start throwing in their Office/Sharepoint bits (called 360) as well.
@Adrian I concur. A few years ago we pawned off our student email environment on them. Mailboxes for ~40k students cried out, and then were suddenly silenced when the migration finished. I've been hearing lots of good things about it.
Mind you they don't shit me nearly as much as Safari, which bitches and moans when you try to set your homepage to google. "You can search from the sidebar you know!" "Yeah, sure, but can I access the shortcuts to Reader and News from the sidebar? no? Fuck off then"
@ScottPack Yeah I know. Just so used to middle-clicking when I'm at work
Of course, we probably would get shot down on Office 365 since it's a Microsoft product. Not that MS products are bad, but if we start using ANY MS product, management believes that staff will immediately revolt and demand Windows 7 on all the workstations.
@MarkHenderson Until hardware refresh happened, a few years ago, the Security Office was an entirely Mac shop. Coming from a Linux/Unix background, it was nice. Having to manage an Xserve? Fuck that.
@ScottPack Better than FireBird. Their default out of the box password is "masterkey", but they only have 8 bits of significance, so it's "masterke". Its even in the official manual.
My boss doesn't really grasp much of the Enterprise-management stuff. It's a battle to push anything through that would really improve things beyond the status quo
@ScottPack better than the first piece of software I was sent to maintain. Password field was char(8), all plain text, and they did a stringreplace to remove '*' and '?' out of the input, as they were wildcards that were used in by the database engine
@MarkHenderson I may or may not know of a major enterprise SIS system that, when set to auth against LDAP, would let you log in to any account with the password ' '.
Funny Fact: Attempting to authenticate against LDAP with a username and NULL password results in the server saying, "Hey, I see you're using a NULL password. You must really be trying to do an anonymous bind. Sure, no problem. You've bound as Anonymous!" This is less than ideal when authentication subsystems don't properly check return values.
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I also now remember mistakenly running something like rm .* in /etc with root a couple weeks ago. It worked fine then so I ignored it. Is there anything I can do to fix this? Did I really screw up?
I have a linux server (Debian squeeze) set up. It's primary focus is to run LAMP. I also use it for stuff like mumble (voice chat) and minecraft servers.
In the beginning everything was running fine. Then things started to happen. Stuff like java failing to run without headerless mode, and compl...
@ScottPack Hans was on one of those "Murder Mystery 48 Hours" shows here in the states. I watched with my GF. She actually asked me if that was how my work/life was.
@jscott Oh, sounds pretty much guaranteed. But I would consider having this roll over to 6+ hours, still being offline, and then firing the guy a good outcome. Just get the backups off him first. Might be a day or two of downtime, but thats better than letting this guy totally fuck you business
I might not be fired for losing customer data, or for running mincraft + mumble on a production machine hosting customer data, but I would probably be fired for losing customer data because of running minecraft/mumble
When the machine is back up it would be a very good idea to reconsider hosting business services alongside personal ones (MC & mumble). If you ran the rm command the other week then isn't it likely the site has had issues since then... ? Also this seems like more than just apache has been affected due to your mumble issue above. Sounds like the rm was run in the /etc and not /etc/httpd so who knows what else might be broken... Backups or new build time! — foocode5 mins ago
@jscott I installed OSX for the first time in a long time about a month ago, so I asked my local Apple guy if I should do 10.6 or 10.7. His response, "Install 10.6. They didn't really add anything useful in 10.7 and it has enough bugs to show that it's not ready for prime time yet."
@ScottPack It removes the notion of resolution. The display is fine... but my computers need to be workhorses... When I'm working onsite, things get dusty, banged around, etc. The new model feels flimsy.
I thought Summer of Love meant we needed to be helpful and not snide with users. I hope all you people feel shame for snickering about the idiot who wiped out his /etc/. Tsk.
@ewwhite On the plus side, at least you're carrying around a 30lbs 1U system as a laptop.
Facts first:
mdadm --examine /dev/sd[abcd]3 |egrep 'dev|Update|Role|State|Chunk Size'
/dev/sda3:
Update Time : Thu Jul 19 22:42:40 2012
State : active
Chunk Size : 64K
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
this 0 8 3 0 active sync /dev...
Is there one, or several, "best practices" documents which cover in clear simple language how to share data among a non-technical support staff and non-technical end-users at various organizations?
Our situation: we have some technical staff well versed in crypto, PKI, key use, and key manageme...
@ScottPack Well, for example, we don't expect our users to know what PKI is, but we do expect them to check the certificate hash when they log on to a server we manage for the government
I don't expect them to know why they must report certificate errors, only that they must
@MarkHenderson We struggled with that guy's problem for a very long time, until we got approval to buy, and start selling, the commercial PGP. We still have to train users, but we don't have to expect them to be able to pass 4th year CS courses to do it anymore.
But if they ignore a cert error for this particular server, well, then its on their head
Not that we'd ever know that they ignored it
Not if it was a MITM attack
@ChrisS I have a friend who as a sys admin, received a batch of cards from a single vendor and the cards only had one MAC address in the entire palette. The vendor said that the cards did not get mixed in to the retail distribution correctly so that there were duplicates, since the order was a direct drop from the factory. Before the cards went to retail distribution, they were supposed to get mixed together to spread the dupes around. So for a given vendor, MAC addressees aren't unique, much less across vendors. — Jarrod Roberson12 hours ago
The moment I hear a story start with "I have a friend..." my BS meter goes off the chart
This guy may very well be relating a story his friend told him, but it loses all credibility because his friend was probably using hyperbole or trying to cover his ass for his mistake or something
Also, much less across vendors is a load of shit as well, as each vendor has their own prefix and if you used someone elses prefix I'm pretty sure they would send someone over to your house to kick the shit out of your dog
I've never done any work with setting up massive networks, but I've certainly done 200+ computer networks and the thought of a duplicate mac never even entered my mind
Expected manufacturing defect. The company (I think Gateway but that could easily be wrong) said that it was not an uncommon for whatever system set the MAC to, for whatever reason, to not increment the MAC when moving to the next unit.
I've just been reading up about IOS5. All looks very exciting.
However, I can't figure out when Apple are going to release it. It says "Coming this fall", but to me, that means absolutally nothing.
When is "Fall"? What is "Fall"? Can someone please translate that into a Gregorian Calendar date ...
They told us that normally it was no big deal because, as that dude said, the systems got spread out and any duplicates were unlikely to show up on the same segment. We were, however, buying large swathes of machines that came from the same batch.
btw calling it "fall" totally fucks up the fact that all the other seasons have 6 letters. autumn fits perfectly, but nooooooooooo you have to go fuck it up
And as a result you can't have any of those blocks that have a different letter for each season on one side and you just rotate each block every 3 months to spell the next season
@ScottPack Already had lunch; I just get worked up over some pet hates of mine
"Fall" is one, doing worldwide releases based on intangible periods (like seasons) is another, and naming releases with names instead of numbers is a third
Apple do all three, so fuck you Apple. Mind you it seems everyone does the name-instead-of-number thing. And Microsoft can't make their mind up.
Sock drawer's an awful place to backup that kind of sensitive data, Joel. Back it up to my NAS server at home instead. RAID6 for redundant storage, Truecrypt volume encryption to keep his data secure, multiple redundant internet connections (that I borrow from my neighbors), really everything you could want to keep such important data safe, accessible and protected. I also recommend using it to backup passwords and financial data, should he have any of those he might want secured. :D
Went for a run at 6am - not really sure it's comething I'll be incorporating into my routine. Everyone tells me how good it feels to go for a run before work. Nope, I feel exactly how I'd expect to feel after getting up at 5:50am and going for a run!
@Dan My personal experience is that a good batch of exercise on the weekend or a half-hour session after work twice a week has all of the up-sides and none of the down-sides of a 6am run.
@Ladadadada I much prefer evening / weekend running, but I'm having real issues fitting it in. 5km runs aren't too bad, but it's still a good 45+ mins out of your day (From getting off my arse, to being showered changed and ready to carry on whatever). Likewise, 10km runs are well over an hour once you take into account warmup/cooldown and shower etc
Eh? they NEED very few moving parts but actually have quite a few, besides one of the moving parts is HUGE and has foot-long razor-sharp fan blades at the front
If the engine flames out it can start burning on the outside, especially with the covers removed. Now if he hit something in there that perforated a fuel tube the whole thing can start spraying burning fuel everywhere. If this happens in the air, it's often ok because the plane is still moving, but stationary it will have more heat and flames on the same spot
@Dan yes, the flame in the combustion chamber dies, but there is no guarantee you don't have anything else sparking. So now air and fuel is being pumped through the combustion chamber without being ignited, so you get a mist of fuel. Now if there is a source of ignition outside the engine or behind the combustion chamber (caused by the damage of the guy going in) you might get the same result as spraying a can of hairspray into a lighter
anyone remember, a couple years ago there was a bunch of news about software on the server side that can live convert flash to html5 to deal with iOS devices? remember what it was called / search for? f'ing cant find it
@LucasKauffman I can see the possibility but I'm not really sure if the chances. The guy shouldn't have caused the engine any major problems as they're very much designed to contain damage
@KennyRasschaert on our side yes, but there are stil lsmall ones on the other side of the mountains, they're hoping there wont come any wind so they can safely put those out
In my flagging summary under the statistics, there is 1 flag listed as being disputed with the footnote
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Reiserfs works well everywhere. I use it even for /boot (with flags)
Facts first:
mdadm --examine /dev/sd[abcd]3 |egrep 'dev|Update|Role|State|Chunk Size'
/dev/sda3:
Update Time : Thu Jul 19 22:42:40 2012
State : active
Chunk Size : 64K
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
this 0 8 3 0 active sync /dev...
I want to do ls | grep sometheng and cd to the one thing that is ls-ed. Tryed with | and searched, but nothing found. Is it using xargs?
I've just been reading up about IOS5. All looks very exciting.
However, I can't figure out when Apple are going to release it. It says "Coming this fall", but to me, that means absolutally nothing.
When is "Fall"? What is "Fall"? Can someone please translate that into a Gregorian Calendar date ...
