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It had nothing to do with idiots like these: http://serverfault.com/questions/293217/our-security-auditor-is-an-idiot-how-do-i-give-him-the-information-he-wants

One of the Stack Exchange sites would give you better answers, or at least a set of answers without "frist psot". Take a look at http://serverfault.com/ or even http://askubuntu.com/.

There are plenty of good, quiet PC tower cases with 10 disk slots nowdays, for example the Fractal Design Define XL. Noise should not be a problem this way, if it isn't with your current solution. Migrating your old board into such a spacious case should not be an issue.

Personally, I would try to avoid more than 10 disks for home use because it'll become a hassle replacing the defective ones at some point. With 3TB SATA disks available at the moment, you can get around 24TB with enough redundancy (RAID-5 with 1 spare or RAID-6; "enough" meaning that you don't have to switch it off when 1 disk dies until you can replace it). No redundancy i.e. RAID-0 should be out of the question if you value your data.

To connect and handle the disks, you can look for a SATA RAID controller like the 3ware 9650SE-12ML. It's not cheap - noticeably more expensive than 2-3 additional plain SATA controllers, but easier to handle than software-RAID and bootable (Linux still needs an ugly workaround to boot from software RAID-5). On the other hand, I found it easier to migrate to bigger disks one-by-one using software-RAID than with various (expensive) RAID controllers, but YMMV.

The system administrator Q&A site Server Fault at http://serverfault.com/ is probably a better forum for insight on this sort of thing.

Maybe it was this auditor.

Why is Internet access and Wi-Fi always so terrible at large tech conferences?

Just because you don't notice something doesn't mean it isn't there.

http://serverfault.com/questions/43692/how-much-of-a-performance-hit-for-https-vs-http-for-apache
http://www.semicomplete.com/blog/geekery/ssl-latency.html

I'd also recommend having a Linux box; you can work in a familiar environment, then share out batch scripts you write via Samba -- read-only for binaries dirs that don't mind being unable to write out config files; writeable (but perhaps not listable) for a centralized location for saving off output from your various scripts, and so forth.

There's still a performance hit for SSL. Solutions for that include load balancers with dedicated hardware SSL support. As for what the performance hit is, try this: http://serverfault.com/questions/43692/how-much-of-a-performance-hit-for-https-vs-http-for-apache Re: HTTPS all vs. only on login page - as the recent Facebook session hijacking proved, it's the session cookies in cleartext that are the security problem - it doesn't sniff your password, it steals your session cookies to access your account. HTTPs should be on everything, IMHO. Cheers Leigh

http://serverfault.com/questions/2888/why-is-raid-not-a-backup

I believe, I have expressed a more popular than usual (for my posts) opinion in this.

They're still looking for enough users to commit to open up the beta, but Stack Exchange (the folks behind Stack Overflow, Server Fault and Super User) have a proposal up for an question & answer astronomy site:

http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/51/astronomy

Could you imagine the damage done if said company makes headlines for losing tons of sensitive customer data, and then has a follow-up headline showing their security practices?

Like this?

http://serverfault.com/questions/72767/why-is-internet-access-and-wifi-always-so-terrible-at-large-tech-conferences

Funny, but my company did just mandate blaze orange shirts for all front line IT staff. I can't for the life of me figure out who thought that was a good idea.

Mine comes in Monday.

We can also wear Navy. I think I'm going to get an equal number of pairs of blaze orange and navy pants and alternate them daily.

Personally, I find it extremely condescending. I'm required to design and maintain hundreds of databases, several servers, write apps, troubleshoot network problems, manage million dollar projects, AND do desktop support for 2000 devices with 3 other IT people for $40K/year. And now this. No wonder I've thrown my hands up today and am now posting on slashdot.

Yes, I'm looking for a way out.

http://jobs.stackoverflow.com/

http://jobs.serverfault.com/

Your resume should look like this:

Designed and maintained over 200 databases, including:
* Customer whatsit thinghy, with 8,000 records, 30 fields, and 30 current users
* three
* other
* highlights

Designed, set-up and maintained 7 servers, including:
* Main NAS with 1.5T of data (including back-up to, network connections, ...)
* more
* highlights

Produced a number of web applications, including
* Some
* highlights

Managed projects worth in excess of $2 million, including
* Rollover to Windows 7
* Server upgrade program.
* whatever

Supported over 2000 devices in a small team of 4 staff.

*Don't* go out of your way to mention your salary (unless asked), and if you do mention it, make sure they know that you consider your current salary inadequate.

That's not free secure wireless. That's free wireless OR secure wireless. The open network isn't secure, and the secure network isn't open.

Ah, I understand now. Reading back, that's what TheLink (130905) was asking for too.

The closest thing I can think of would be to have the PSK included in the SSID (PSK=123abc456def, SSID=Password123abc456def).

I know better than to believe everything I read, but according to ctuffli's post on this page, your secure network isn't secure either -- users can still sniff each other's traffic with a little luck and a little math.

You may find the following threads helpful:

http://serverfault.com/questions/4331/crashed-hard-drive-data-retrieval

http://serverfault.com/questions/4482/hard-drive-data-rescue-services

You may find the following threads helpful:

http://serverfault.com/questions/4331/crashed-hard-drive-data-retrieval

http://serverfault.com/questions/4482/hard-drive-data-rescue-services