So what do you linux admins use for network accounts? last I heard it was some form of ldapd w/ pam on the clients. Is that still the case? Any user friendliness going on, like a webbased ldap administration page?
@BigHomie for non-admin, yeah, ldap plus sss or pam_ldap/nss_ldap. Ldap (openldap) is integrated with a whole identity management thing. I suggest looking at 389 instead of openldap.
And by "Living the dream" I mean trying to explain to a customer why it was bad that they took a forest root domain and child domains, shipped one of the DCs to one location, one of the DCs to another location, cut all communication between the two and have operated them as independent environments for the last three years.
All while in bed because I was "out sick" today, supposedly.
I know I hate big businesses, but sometimes I hate working with small business too. Company: "I want to do $x with $y" "Sorry, $x doesn't do $y, you'll need to do $w instead"
Big Business:"Oh, ok, no worries, I'll work around it" Small Business: "What? Why not? Make it work! I don't want to $w! Make it work the way I want it to!"
The people from big business are used to working within parameters and dealing with red tape and working in specific workflows, but people in small businesses are used to being in charge
I also had an over-sharer who was from the middle east in his 30s, married to a white woman in her 60's who told me their marriage was just for convenience and they really hated eachother, but that was OK because they had seperate bedrooms but they would still fuck occasionally anyway
Oh and the one rich guy who profited off all the poor people. He was a property developer who used to rock up in his 911 Turbo and would buy 21" LCD monitors (this was 2002 when a 1600x1200 21" LCD was like $3500)
And if their standards are actually anything like what they claim, they would rather reject a bunch of great candidates who might not quite fit the bill than hire someone who is not so great
@MarkHenderson We're still looking for someone to be networking focused. I think the tricky part of that has been that we also need someone with enough windows and linux skills to be able to be on call
My argument for hiring me is to reduce your on-call rotations because I'm in business hours while most of America is after hours or the middle of the night
@ShaneMadden Then you're smoking really good dope.
@ShaneMadden My company has spent nearly a year just looking for a really good network engineer, let alone someone who's good enough with both WINDOWS and LINUX.
@MarkHenderson Enough network focused to own the network infrastructure. I believe for this one it needs to be someone in NYC though - so I guess you'd need to be interested in a big move ;)
@ShaneMadden My wife and I went through that discussions when I interviewed with Fog Creek a few years ago. Got to the final stage, interviewed with Michael Pryor, but lost out because their lead sysadmin went to Twitter so their priorities shifted at the last minute
We were totally up for it then, but we've had a 2nd kid now and bought a bigger house and need to keep our feet planted for the next few years, so maybe I'll check back in 2020
@Magellan Blegh, yeah I'm more Windows than Linux. I can get around in Linux so far as reading /var/log and googling errors and tracing things down like that
But that's about it
I would love to see the look on my boss's face if I told him I was interviewing for a NY job again though
@Magellan He asked me what it would cost for me to stay, and I told him that no amount would keep me from working at FC. Even if he paid equal to them I would still go
And hwen I told him I was staying, I got a nice bump as a thankyou
@Bob I was thinking more of a sub/dom relationship where when Brent Ozar says "suck" I say "how deep?" and then he has me on a chain and I follow him around panting
will they do small stuff? I bought this crappy bike http://www.amazon.com/Takara-Kabuto-Single-Speed-Frame/dp/B0041QF9EQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1401423092&sr=8-1&keywords=bike+kabuto and the tires deflate immediately after pumping air in them and everything is lose because I put it together terrible.
OK so Apple's security questions are fucking stupid
Which of the cars you've owned has been your favorite?
Where was your least favorite job?
I have no idea what I would have written for those things? I've had lots of jobs that I hated
And as for cars, they've all just been cars. And I don't remember when I set the questions so maybe my favourite car has changed in the last 7 years
Did I write down its license plate? Or its model? Or maybe its VIN?
Fuck you Help:
> After resetting your security questions, consider turning on two-step verification. With two-step verification, you don't need security questions to secure your account or verify your identity.
@MarkHenderson habit, I guess. I strongly dislike Windows in general (for technical and ethical reasons) and I guess I just kind of extended that to IIS
@strugee Your reasons I don't see as particularly valid. Now I don't exactly have a boner over Microsoft products - I believe in right tool, right job - but before I pile on the hate bandwagon I make sure I have valid reasons
@MarkHenderson You could say things like "core components such as the terminal interface never get improved because of soap-opera-scale internal politics within the company". It's not quite the same thing, but you end up in the same place.
Which is why you have a new, fresh iteration on the concept of shared component access every 2 to 5 years, each one getting abandoned and supplanted rather than getting updated.
@MarkHenderson that's different because they're concurrently-developed options. You don't have a single company pointing at one and saying YOU DIE, YOU LIVE.
Anyway I'm just saying that Open Source has its own share of problems, if you're gunna go piling on the hate train to any closed source codebase, at least be honest about it in regards to your own preferences
@MarkHenderson the problem isn't the closed-source nature. They could use that to their advantage if the company encouraged it. The problem is that each team has its own fiefdom that it controls, and competes with the other teams. If the office team discovers an issue and needs to make a change to the OS common controls, they can't just push the fix -- they have to find someone on the OS team willing to do it for them.
Rather than going through the trouble, they build their own alternative implementation. So you end up with TWO implementations of the common controls shipped by the same company. But one only is used in Office.
e.g. I probably value the ethics of software more than anybody else in this room, since I buy into rms's stuff. although I'm not as extreme as he is (few are).
you, on the other hand, don't. so I dislike MS on an ethical level whereas you don't.
@strugee There's a reason why Stallman's revolution was stolen by Torvalds. Stallman fought for principles above all. But in the end, open source only makes sense if you can make a business case for it.
The recent SE podcast is quite interesting to listen to - it shows that they are thinking about and have spent time trying to improve the experience for higher rep users
@Iain Just had a nice day, went to the airsoft gun shop, got loads of bits, went home and spent two hours stripping guns down to fit them all, played a bit of 'watch dogs' then, and this may surprise you, saw McBusted who were just amazing
@tombull89 I'm really enjoying watchdogs fwiw. I've turned off all the online play elements mind you, because fuck other people, but for me I'm really enjoying it
@faker has a point about the driving mind you. I'm getting used to it but it could be better.
@NathanC I heard that too. Luckily I pre-purchased mine from Amazon before the price of mainstream games went up by £10/$20 as it seems to have done now.
@NathanC given how much resources watchdogs uses, I can't imagine the bitcoin miner getting much change from their efforts anyway
The ironic thing is that they could probably say up front "you know what, the cost of using our pirated copy of watchdogs is that we're gonna run a bitcoin miner on your system while you pay" and people would probably still go for it.
@ColdT I've used Kroll Ontrack's power tools before now to get data out of a corrupted exchange db. http://www.krollontrack.com/software/powercontrols/.
Not what you'd call cheap but less expensive than "our email's totally fucked".
Who hacked Mt.Gox? The leak contains some clues. A visit to the above-mentioned mirror brings a link to the zip file and a note: “I hated working with you. You deserve everything you get for what you did.”
or that could just be a diversion of attention to the real culprit, who knows
Either way, it's the poster child for why banks aren't maybe quite as bad as people think and why decentralised crypto currency might not be a panacea.
Which - as much I'm definitely a cynic about the viability of bitcoin - is a real slap in the face to the good people involved in it that are trying hard to make it work.
@RobM Banks are very good at keeping people's money safe. That doesn't mean they're perfect. They have to do whatever the government tells them to do, so you have absolutely no privacy, for instance.
oh yes, absolutely. But I think most people would rather their money was a little bit safer than their privacy a little bit more protected from their own govt.
Of course some of them don't realise until they put their life savings into bitcoins on mt gox because they saw a news article about how kewl and rad and cloudy bitcoins are, then go crying to their local finance regulatory authority about losing all their money.
@RobM Most people would, that is true. Of course nothing is safer than bitcoins on your own USB stick right in your own pocket. Assuming, of course, that you know how to secure your computer.
Well yes, but given that an economy is based around the movement of money as well as the simple existence of money, you need the idiots to get on board with your new crypto currency because the smart people who know enough to make their own intelligent calls on the matter are too few in number to keep the currency churning.
@RobM I say they're idiots, because it's Investor 101 that you don't invest more than you're prepared to lose, and even the bitcoin community repeats this warning every damn day.
And I would agree with you. Believe me, I'm not defending the idiots.
But we both know they're out there. Making poor decisions on things they don't understand. Blaming others for the consequences. Getting listened to by politicians because they're too many to ignore. Hell, how many people really understand 'conventional' money? How many people have you heard referring to a loan or other credit they haven't even got yet as "my money" as if it was an entitlement?
It's a problem with any new system. We know this as sysadmins and developers. You can't just design for the best, or even the average person using your system. You need to design for the worst. You need to make allowances for the fact that if everyone hops on board then the average user may well be a halfwit.
The core clients (that I've seen, on PC and Android) are easy enough to use. It's when you give your money to other people for safekeeping that you run into issues.
I found it hilarious that so many people who'd been all "government should have nothing to do with my money" then suddenly went all "government should give my money back to me"
@RobM Thus our advice to treat them all as unsafe. The standing advice given by the community is to not transfer anything into such services unless you're about to make a transaction, and then to empty it out afterward.
To a non technical user that "super happy spyware removal program no honest, really it does, not spyware AT ALL I purple pony promise you.exe" program that comes up first in a google search for "security" is totally indistinguishable from norton antivirus.
@RobM Yep, I know it's gotten worse but to see the exact same area mapped over several years is extremely depressing. I hope it gets better soon, and hope I'm around to see it thrive like it did before my time
> The last neighbor left six months ago, he said, and the single streetlight overhead has not worked for months. “I love the quiet, but if something went wrong, the city isn’t going to come
I am running a couple of Debian 6 (2.6.32) and 7 (3.2) Linux servers and all of them have energy saving settings enabled in their BIOS. Furthermore Linux shows that the CPUs are throttled if the servers are idling.
I wonder if this could cause any harm - could there be e.g. performance impacts b...
