# vos move user.janeane afs-1.iastate.edu/vicepa afs-7.iastate.edu/vicepe
That's me moving my wife's homedir volume
from one server to another while
she's using it AND she never even notices
it -- everything keeps working perfectly
even while it is in transit.
We claim a method where we use web bugs to track your path across the web, predict your preferences and simply express items to arrive at your door as you arrive at the predicted web page.
We claim a method where we purchase all companies therefore allowing us to simply keep your paycheck as payment.
Since there are already almost 700 posts this one will never see Wired, but I know my wife sneaks a peek at my posts -- hi dear! -- so here's some hints:
< $300 Dinner with Geena Davis, smart, pretty, and she can get that f$&#ing raccoon off the roof for good!
$300-$1500 keeping the house at a decent warm temperature this winter despite taking an an*l-plunging from our friends at OPEC
For not that much more than a 2nd phone line
(which we dropped) getting 640Kb/256Kb rocks.
We've only had a couple of outages, and only
one that was long enough I had to call --
getting through the layers of the clueless,
semi-clued, and partially-clued, to the clueful
level is somewhat annoying though!
Getting my line qualified was trivial (type
in phone# on web site) as
was doing the 'installation' (plug things in).
<aside>
Why doesn't the most Wired Univ list
ever cover off-campus pipe size (per student)?
</aside>
Regardless of how much you have (and we have
an OC3) the best solution is not to say
you can't use tool X -- that's a pointless
cat-n-mouse circe -- if you use too much
bandwidth here you get your bandwidth
drastically limited at the border router.
It's a simple matter of fairness.
And, of course, if you do something that
attracts packs of rabid laywers, that was
your choice, and you pay the piper.
It was nothing special.
It was definitely not non-obvious.
On the checkout page where we asked
all the standard stuff was an extra
checkbox "remember this so I don't have to
enter it again".
If that was checked they got an
entry in the DB (Berkeley DB from sleepycat.com)
and a random# cookie that was
the key to their entry.
Optionally, you could bookmark a uniquely-mangled
URL if you didn't have cookie support or didn't
like cookies.
Then we found out (at that time) that
people were *way* too skittish about
credit cards and the 'net and we quit
remembering that bit, so we had to
ask for it.
I did essentially this for a client in
'94 (as I have mentioned here before).
Then we thought better of it and decided NOT
to store the credit card number.
It's a real shame this didn't catch on better,
we've found it invaluable.
We're still very happy with Ingres as our DB, FWIW.These days our primary interface is the web, of course.
We've got about 40K users, lots of machines,
printers, lists, filesystems, etc, all managed
more-or-less without sysadmins (we do have 1
sysadmin, but she has other things to do --
mostly bug me for enhancements it seems:)
Are you an instructor and want a maillist of
your students (kept up to date with adds/drops
for you)? Point, click, done. Want a file space
'locker', to go with that? point, click, done. Need to charge some printing to your department or to your U-Bill? You got it: point, click, done.
I have always wanted to add a button
[Random LART] though -- I figure
it would be a real timesaver for some of
our users:)
Moira is a system management system consisting of thin clients (command line, curses, X, web, etc) a middleware server and a relational DB under it all. We've been using it here since 1990 so it was obviously disclosed before 1991. Look in ftp://athena-dist.mit.edu/pub/ATHENA/moira for papers, source, etc.
I found the 4 places in MIT's KDC where I
needed to create an 'exit' (principal create,
update, delete, passwd-change). At these
points I call out to an external program
(I wanted to modify the KDC itself as little
as possible). The external program encrypts
a command like
createprincipalpassword
and sends it to a daemon running on the Win2K
Domain controller. This daemon does a lookup
to our X.500 server to get the 'name/addr/etc'
stuff and then uses Win2K calls to add the user
into Win2K AD.
The user is prohibited from changing their Win2K
password, they must either change it in Unix,
or on a SSL-web page -- both of these update Kerberos which
reflects the change back into Win2K -- also they
can use a 'win2k kpasswd client' too (but that
could be improved).
So, clearly you just become the First Church of Cryptology, hold a 'service' every Sunday morning (no doubt at 2am on #cryptochurch:) and voila' no property taxes...
My actual numbers are at home, but here's a rough reconstruction of 12 of those 15 years (the last 3 have been in an F150 4x4 which is even more costly per mile):
$28,000 Car + Financing (T-bird Turbo) $ 7,200 Insurance (12 years) $ 8,000 Gas (120Kmi @ 18mpg @ $1.20 avg) $ 6,000 Maint, repairs (goodyear eagles are not cheap) $ 1,200 Registration $ 1,800 Tickets, Parking, and Legal:( ------- $52,200 / 120,000 = 44c/mile
I've kept accurate records for about 15 years, and my actual costs are just under 50c/mile (the car, maint, ins, gas, etc). I'm sure this would be considerably higher in Calif.
So, 240 miles/day would cost you about $30K/yr.
(and your sanity)
Me? I live in Iowa, make $75K+/yr, get 6 weeks vacation, have a 15 minute commute (on foot), and bought my house for $104K ('95).
Sure, it's not the most exciting place on earth, but about the only crime is the drunken college idiots.
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# vos move user.janeane afs-1.iastate.edu /vicepa afs-7.iastate.edu /vicepe
That's me moving my wife's homedir volume from one server to another while she's using it AND she never even notices it -- everything keeps working perfectly even while it is in transit.
That rocks.
It hasn't work so far (DMCA, COPA, COPPA, etc, etc), what makes you think it is suddenly going to start working?
Sometimes I don't think we are any smarter than slow-boiled frogs...
We claim a method where we purchase all companies therefore allowing us to simply keep your paycheck as payment.
One obvious counter example is Lloyd Bentsen's now famous: "You're no Jack Kennedy." skewering of Dan Quayle.
Heh, try being on the school board...
OK, so it'll be socks and sweaters again... :)
For not that much more than a 2nd phone line (which we dropped) getting 640Kb/256Kb rocks.
We've only had a couple of outages, and only one that was long enough I had to call -- getting through the layers of the clueless, semi-clued, and partially-clued, to the clueful level is somewhat annoying though!
Getting my line qualified was trivial (type in phone# on web site) as was doing the 'installation' (plug things in).
I have a 7 year old, our library has no filtering software -- bully for them!
First of all, unlike some people, I'm not just ditching my kid at the library, I'm sitting next to him.
Second, I suspect his interest in something like that would be just about equal to his interest in a treatise on quantum chromodynamics.
<aside>
Why doesn't the most Wired Univ list ever cover off-campus pipe size (per student)?
</aside>
Regardless of how much you have (and we have an OC3) the best solution is not to say you can't use tool X -- that's a pointless cat-n-mouse circe -- if you use too much bandwidth here you get your bandwidth drastically limited at the border router.
It's a simple matter of fairness.
And, of course, if you do something that attracts packs of rabid laywers, that was your choice, and you pay the piper.
On the checkout page where we asked all the standard stuff was an extra checkbox "remember this so I don't have to enter it again". If that was checked they got an entry in the DB (Berkeley DB from sleepycat.com) and a random# cookie that was the key to their entry.
Optionally, you could bookmark a uniquely-mangled URL if you didn't have cookie support or didn't like cookies.
Then we found out (at that time) that people were *way* too skittish about credit cards and the 'net and we quit remembering that bit, so we had to ask for it.
So at that point, it became 'click-cc#-click'.
I did essentially this for a client in '94 (as I have mentioned here before). Then we thought better of it and decided NOT to store the credit card number.
We've got about 40K users, lots of machines, printers, lists, filesystems, etc, all managed more-or-less without sysadmins (we do have 1 sysadmin, but she has other things to do -- mostly bug me for enhancements it seems :)
Are you an instructor and want a maillist of your students (kept up to date with adds/drops for you)? Point, click, done. Want a file space 'locker', to go with that? point, click, done. Need to charge some printing to your department or to your U-Bill? You got it: point, click, done.
I have always wanted to add a button [Random LART] though -- I figure it would be a real timesaver for some of our users :)
I found the 4 places in MIT's KDC where I needed to create an 'exit' (principal create, update, delete, passwd-change). At these points I call out to an external program (I wanted to modify the KDC itself as little as possible). The external program encrypts a command like
createprincipalpassword
and sends it to a daemon running on the Win2K Domain controller. This daemon does a lookup to our X.500 server to get the 'name/addr/etc' stuff and then uses Win2K calls to add the user into Win2K AD.
The user is prohibited from changing their Win2K password, they must either change it in Unix, or on a SSL-web page -- both of these update Kerberos which reflects the change back into Win2K -- also they can use a 'win2k kpasswd client' too (but that could be improved).
Which will just force the spammers offshore to some 3rd world hell hole like the Peoples Republic of Spamistan.
# telnet pooh.cc.iastate.edu ... ]
Trying 129.186.140.1...
Connected to pooh.cc.iastate.edu.
Escape character is '^]'.
[ Trying KERBEROS4
[ Kerberos V4 accepts you ]
[ Kerberos V4 challenge successful ]
Using encryption for Input and Output
Here's what we do:
lpr+krb -> lpd -> filter printer
|
user Heh, what a concept! Using instant messaging to send instant messages to users!
What Would Jesus Download?
$28,000 Car + Financing (T-bird Turbo) :(
$ 7,200 Insurance (12 years)
$ 8,000 Gas (120Kmi @ 18mpg @ $1.20 avg)
$ 6,000 Maint, repairs (goodyear eagles are not cheap)
$ 1,200 Registration
$ 1,800 Tickets, Parking, and Legal
-------
$52,200 / 120,000 = 44c/mile
So, 240 miles/day would cost you about $30K/yr.
(and your sanity)
Me? I live in Iowa, make $75K+/yr, get 6 weeks vacation, have a 15 minute commute (on foot), and bought my house for $104K ('95).
Sure, it's not the most exciting place on earth, but about the only crime is the drunken college idiots.