I used to admin (on a retainer, they called when they needed something) the bookkeeping system for a adult store chain. in the early 90's they booked over 2 million net profit per month. In 99 when I stopped, it was less than 300K. Company was sold off and it is now owned by a company whose name you know if I said it, and appears to be making profits again. I dunna know.
As a matter of law, because he is not the owner, he cannot grant permission to search. Since he divulged his access, he and the TSA agent can be prosecuted under the CFAA.
IANAL.
That being said, anyone carrying anything they wish to keep confidential within 200 miles of a boarder, or while not in your own home effectively has no rights at all. Not as a matter of law, but as a simple matter of fact. Not just 4th amendments rights either. The police shoot dead unarmed people at least two times a week on average. As a simple matter of statistics, you are 300 times (times, not percent) more likely to be killed by a police officer than you are by a terrorist.
This is ultimately because the right is deeply ashamed and guilty
I don't think that is correct. My feeling is that the alt-right is more like the cowardly bully looking behind themselves and blathing "Right, guys!?" in an attempt to cast their broken, intolerant, stark terror of change as a strength and mob approved, rather than the pathetic weakness and fear that it is.
No. Do not create a circumstance where a password is default at all in any circumstance. Simply have the device boot up and demand a password to be set as a minimum configuration.
The counter to this is that it makes set up too hard. The counter to that is that they have to configure their wireless password anyway, so it's not like we are demanding a integral reduction without using a calculator or a scratch pad.
They're on the left, not the right. I get a real kick out of asking a liberal if a communist likes a socialist. They have no clue and often think they're buddies.
If your point is that there are stupid or uneducated democrats, I will certainly not attempt to refute you+. If you are implying that there are no Republicans like that, I will refute you. That others fail to understand a point of political classification isn't the issue although I personally find it frustrating. The issue is failing to educate ones self after being told repeatedly "I don't think that word means what you think it means" and rejecting policy based on who articulates it, which party they belong to, and ignoring what the ultimate goal is.
In fact, they should want to kill each other if they really know what each other is.
I think the confusion comes from the fact that Republicans do not like Equal opportunity*, do not like homosexuals, do not like abortion. In fact, there have been murders of abortion clinic employees and most of the clinics resemble a prison stockade to attempt to protect their employees and clients. In fact, there have been mass murders of homosexuals solely because of their preferred sex partners. There have been riots over Equal Opportunity* and college admissions. The persons committing those crimes self identified as Republican Right. Many had KKK materiel found in their possession, and recall that President Trump accepted an endorsement of David Duke. I find it amazing the correlation that can be drawn by looking at a persons friends and their enemies. I look at Mr. Trumps friends, and I find them to be repulsive. I look a Mr. Trump's enemies, and I find I agree with much of their stated thoughts.
The left side is just nuts because they've lied about it too much over the past 30 years. Lied to the point people think fascist/Nazi's are on the right.
This is known as kitchen sinking the dead cat. It's a good rhetorical device to divert a discussion; a tactic long enshrined on both sides of the political isle and about the fourth worst intellectual dishonest circumstance in my list of dishonesty. However, while it is emotionally charged and highly provocative, there are no facts stated. So therefore cannot be refuted or corroborated. IT is factually null and void of discernible meaning. I will therefore leave this dead cat in your kitchen sink to deal with yourself.
Never mind it's the Nationals SOCIALIST party. A party platform that isn't a whole lot different than the Democratic party of today. Well, I think one platform that the socialists had that the Democrats seem to be lacking are mass graves and concentration/reeducation centers. That seems to be the first consideration missing, and there are others. Recall that just because someone else you don't like agrees with something you say is not necessarily an indication it's a bad idea. I will grant it may cause concern and a third look, but a good idea is a good idea. Or, "even a broken clock tells the right time twice a day."
DTS, The alligators don't like it when you drain the swamp.
Draining the swamp is good. I like that. What I don't like is refilling the swamp with basilisks, dragons, and manicores. Look at cabinet appointments. Steve Bannon? Really? A known white supremacists, incredibly outspoken bigot, and proponent of a police state? And kicking the Joint Chiefs out of National Security Briefings? These ideas and positions are hardly consistent with freedom. And that's just one pick. Almost without exception, the picks Mr. Trump has proposed and the Republican Majority are tripping over themselves to approve are all political retreads from policies long ago tried and found to be failures. About the only good thing that can be said for repeating your mistakes is that you know exactly when to flinch. I find that to be a small comfort.
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+Example of stupid Democrats: KIII TV (Corpus Christi, Tx) picture of President Obama supporters with signs quoting MLK, with "D
Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) criticizing Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.).
Or
Kerry's terrible speech were criticized by a number of Democratic lawmakers, including incoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY., as well as Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Ben Cardin D-Md., Chris Coons, D-Del., Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., Chris Murphy, D-Conn., House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., and Reps. Rep. Eliot Engel, D-NY. and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla.
Or
Democrats in New Jersey's Monmouth County have taken issue with a press release made by gubernatorial candidate Assemblyman John Wisniewskiâ(TM)s campaign last week.
do you need more? There are lots more.
'Liberals' are acting like brownshirt fascists sense the election. I see no criticism from their 'side', just excuse making.
I am so tired of Conservatives that do not know what a facisit is or what a communist is, or what a socialist is. Hint: Those are not words you use just because you don't like what someone has to say. Words have power. Words wound. The blatant proof if that is Edi Amin DaDa. Hitler. Stalin. Ceausescu
Your sides willingness to accept blatant criminality from Hillary along with cover from Obama's executive branch, makes you a big fat liar.
Hmm. I don't recall President Obama being investigated for any crimes. I do happen to have lost count of the more than 13 congressional investigations of Secretary and First Lady Clinton. Can't seem to recall any actual convictions, though I do recall the last Bengahzi investigation cost 12.7 million dollars. I don't remember what each of the previous other 12 investigations cost, but I'm sure it wasn't significant. I do recall that there has never, not one, been a conviction. Even in a hyper partisan Republican investigation.
You should wait a year or so before making such outrageous claims,
As my grandmother used to say, "If a shirt is dirty, it's dirty." In other words, if something isn't right, waiting a year or more to criticize it is hardly going to make it any less wrong.
people's memory is bad, but not that bad.
No, some refuse to live on planet consensus reality. For example, President Trump's repeated claims that Mr. Obama was not eligible to be president, repeated claims that his inauguration had the biggest crowds ever, and that there were more than five million fraudulent votes cast in the 2016 election.
Look, I'm happy that you are happy that you "got your guy". I get the fact that if any Democratic party member suggests even the most brilliant idea ever articulated by a human being that Republicans will instantly denounce it as a fraud, a scam, and a crime. I get that. I also get the reverse of that is true. What I'm saying is that it has come to the pass that the US can no longer afford this partisan folly. If we do not stop it, the US will not be the best place in the world to live. And President Trump is going to make that fall happen. It may not be complete, but it started two decades ago, and it's speeding up.
Time to put the adult pants on and get the foolish petty politics out.
your post outlines the problems with partisan political supporters (of all sides)
I'm fairly partizan on my politics, but that doesn't stop me from chewing the arses off of my side even more than I chew tails of the other side. In fact, I'm usually much harsher on those of my side exactly because they are on my side. I expect and demand better behavior from them. I'm disappointed much of them time, but still.
I don't often comment to or about how my co-workers look or don't look. I will break this rule now.
I work with some ladies that are simply DROP DEAD GORGEOUS. Off hand, there are easily two dozen. Of course, all of my co-workers are beautiful people, just not with movie star looks.
And all of them, every last one, is as at least as smart as I am and I think smarter. I'm no slouch but I know a quality mind when I meet one, and everyone, man, woman, or wookie, are top flight minds. Not to say there aren't a few I prefer not to be around because I think they are jerks, but they are SMART jerks.
So if you see ol buss error with a babe in the booth, keep in mind that babe is likely a lot smarter than you are.
One has to wonder whether these attacks have become a corporate tactic
Doubtful. When found out, a sysadmin cannot avoid going to jail by saying "I was just following orders." Make no mistake, actions such as you pose are illegal in several different ways.
That sounds like a *very* narrow problem case on your end
But one with a huge cost of manpower to overcome. It is true that others, with fewer points on the surface, will experience less disruption. It is disruption none the less.
and it doesn't really explain how a valid certificate would violate compliance with your procedures. Without being overly specific It is quite simply easier to leave an expired certificate in place than it is to put in a current one. The expired certificate is documented, the new one would have to run that gamut.
I've noticed as well the number of posts from those whose prose makes me reach for the Nomex undies, not just in technical areas. The urge to respond either with salient points or in kind is one that should be resisted. It doesn't help you, and only lets those posting them "count coup" on you and encourages them.
For some, the keyboard interface to a computer is all the excuse they need to set aside any form of self regulation, empathy, or modicum of civilized behavior. They are indeed damaged human beings, with no real hope of achieving adult maturity, be they ever so aged.
In short, the only thing you can do that is 100 percent effective is to simply ignore them when necessary, respond to them never, and use their self destructive example as a lesson in how not to operate yourself.
It depends on where they are (legal jurisdiction wise). All of them would fall at the very least within the business change management. Add in various legal jurisdictions, and various laws within that jurisdiction, with various requirements of the server clients....
I dont know how it works elsewhere but here in Australia there are a number of jobs (electrical work, plumbing, telecom work and others) that you can't legally do unless you have the right license.
Also called regulatory capture - monopolies enshrined by law. Take HVAC for example - pretty impossible to purchase a unit without a license due to the laws against the use of CFCs - despite the fact that new units don't use Freon, but other gases. No reason not to allow someone without a license to install it, but you can't. The HVAC industry and their lobbyists see to it that the law is not relaxed to reflect the new reality.
Other than that, it depends (at least in the US) on which set of state, county/parish, and local laws you fall under. In some states, you can install your electrical system as long as a licensed master electrician signs off on it. My experience is that you pay them $4,000 USD or so, they come out for the rough in and final inspection (two visits), spend an hour poking around, and if it's not grossly inadequate, sign the ticket.
The real trouble starts when you go to sell the property, if you ever do. I know of a person that burned down his own house once the county started assessing it at over a half a million dollars. He couldn't afford the taxes and couldn't sell it. As there wasn't a mortgage, it wasn't a problem (other than getting a burn permit).
I'm speaking to at scale work, not simply a few thousand servers. Add more orders of magnitude.
What you discuss is absolutely possible. If you have time, or manpower to dedicate to watching every single part of every single tool used. Management is simply not going to pay that salary. And since not every single tool is under constant, close scrutiny, the opportunity for sudden work stoppages is much greater. I simply cited the tools everyone knows.
What you suggest about selecting software - not so much when you work at scale. Think many thousands of people, always with that percentage that simply don't get the news. (There's always someone).
IT was suggested that we start using containers or VMs for maintenance. This is what we've come to. You can no longer depend on tools you own and supervise, you have to lock them up and proactively defend them - from their own makers.
Or is anyone else getting tired of basic internet tools being turned in to monsters? By that I am talking about FireFox deciding to not trust a certificate, you can't select "Yes, I know, give it to me anyway". EG: StartCom's certs - you can't click past, you have to use another browser.
Another example: Java 8 - I maintain servers. Many thousands of them, all over the globe. No, I can't put valid certificates on them. That would violate compliance in the first place, in the second place, we are talking $many^3 servers. But in Java 8, you have to add the IP to an exception list. Yeah, that's a lot to maintain. So we don't use Java 8.
Please guys that write this stuff - you cannot make unilateral decisions on security and not impact workloads. Yes, the average Internet user is an idiot and needs to be protected, but those non-idiots don't have the hours of time needed to get around your unilateral coding decisions.
Unless you are doing some pretty hairy things with your DB, there's really no reason not to move to Postgres for heavy lifting, or other DBs for more trivial workloads.
I can't imagine running Oracle in a Cloud would be a good idea in the first place. Then again, I don't know everything - perhaps there's a valid use case to do so. But really, if your DB is important, I can't see virtulizing it in anything other than a VM meant for only DBs, not a general cloud VM. EG: OK for something like DBaaS, but not to fire up a VM and just go like it's dedicated hardware.
The President does not have the authority to set taxes or spending.. That's the job of Congress... which has been in republican hands for the past six of the last eight years. So which party has the white house isn't really going to make that much difference, since the white house isn't setting that policy. reducing taxes on Billionairs, though - that lands on Congress. Just one thing about POTUS Trump - you and I pay more taxes than he did. I don't have billions. I guess I don't have "a very good brain" like Mr. Trump. I sure didn't pick the right daddy to leave me money, anyway.
Also, I believe the debt is closer to 20 trillion than 50, and also the majority was spent in the administration prior to Mr. Obama's, but wasn't accounted for until after the G. W. Bush administration left office. That's what happens when you go fight two unnecessary wars on the nations credit card - the bill comes due eventually.
You use the phrase "as a hiring manager" frequently, so I will borrow it but only once.
As a hiring manager, I know very well there is very little justice or logic in payscales. PHB's and HR (if that isn't redundant) set the rate. I've seen it for more than two decades without ever seeing a single counter example. YMMV.
I don't have a problem personally if someone declines to tell me what they made. It does, however, cause HR to refuse to schedule an interview if they even bother to pass the resume up to me.
Would this be the same law that sees police shoot unarmed, cooperating people dead without fear of even loosing their jobs let alone be prosecuited or held accountable, or would it be that law that allows for unrestricted disregard for the 4th Amendment and other "rights"?
There are a lot of things we should fix in America first before we try to help everyone else.
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If it weren't for German immigrant scientists (many undocumented, some Nazis) in the US during WWII, you'd be writing that in Japanese and you wouldn't be writing it from your iPhone...
Thing about lending someone a hand? They do tend to reciprocate. Thing about giving someone the back of your hand? They do tend to reciprocate.
And no, those were the model numbers, not the CPU, which was the M68 series.
About the only thing non-redundant was the clock card. Voice of Experience. The power supplies had built in UPS's. Funny thing on the 808X systems, the power switch had "Off", "On", and past "On" was another state, which I forget what it was called. But if you replaced hardware while running, you'd push it up (it was spring loaded) to get it to IPL the new hardware.
I loved it because you could fold up 24 physical processors into 12, 6 or 4 logical with quorum voting. Get a bad CPU? It wouldn't miss a clock cycle, it's just lock it out and keep going. You could also run it completely unfolded.
These days, folks would say "so what?" - but "back in the day", your PC had a single core. It was a big deal. And even today, if you get a Check CPU, the system crashes on a PC.
I do third to final tier support. My ratings from customers and lower tier support is abysmal because most of the time, I have to say "Nope! Can'tWon't do that." Lost a promotion because of the score as well, so it cost me around $15K.
My favorite rant from someone that said I was "stupid" because I can't configure a F5 to act as a master/master SMB share. Oh, I could get them something like SMB with HA, but not for the incremental price (about $4 a month) they were looking for.
I am actively seeking other employment, for several reasons. The biggest is the 24x7x365 insistence of being on call and less than 5 minutes from being able to spring into action and fixing things. Hell, I can't go to the store and buy skittles without breaking that SLA. If they want a 24 hour support staff, they can damned well hire to staff for 3 shifts.
I used to run an OPAC. I kept the front end on a IBM-RS6000 H70, the database on a H-80, and proxies and workers on a HMC with various flavors of hardware.
It served +100 different libraries, and had a unique holdings over 10 million (that means not counting the same holding twice if you had 2 copies (or more) of it.)
Transaction Backups happened every hour and were written to WORM media. Databases were backed up with transaction logs every 4 hours to mag tape then ejected until needed. Complete backups were done once a week by quescesing the database, breaking the RAID 5 + 0, backing up the cold DB while restarting the hot DB. Once the cold backup was complete, the RAID was hot re-synced to the online set.
Disaster recovery was using the cold backup tape (which was a full boot tape, one of the reasons I _like_ RS6000's is you can boot from a backup), then re-running the transaction until it was all current.
Circulation systems did not have RW disks, they booted from a Linux live CD with the OPAC already open.
The run-of-the-mill systems for patrons ran windows. I didn't worry about those as I only ran the Unix/AIX/Linux side but they had image deployment systems. A tech could reimage a machine in under 2 minutes, and I guess they could have remote commanded a re-image, since they did every year anyway.
The system was since pulled down and converted to SaaS with an outside vendor. Seems they didn't want to pay for people and licenses.
And thus it is written - why Microsoft? Because it's cheap and easy to find some stumble bum that can pretend to run your shit. He might even keep it going - at least until it all falls down.
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Has anyone here ever actually paid for porn?
I used to admin (on a retainer, they called when they needed something) the bookkeeping system for a adult store chain. in the early 90's they booked over 2 million net profit per month. In 99 when I stopped, it was less than 300K. Company was sold off and it is now owned by a company whose name you know if I said it, and appears to be making profits again. I dunna know.
As a matter of law, because he is not the owner, he cannot grant permission to search. Since he divulged his access, he and the TSA agent can be prosecuted under the CFAA.
IANAL.
That being said, anyone carrying anything they wish to keep confidential within 200 miles of a boarder, or while not in your own home effectively has no rights at all. Not as a matter of law, but as a simple matter of fact. Not just 4th amendments rights either. The police shoot dead unarmed people at least two times a week on average. As a simple matter of statistics, you are 300 times (times, not percent) more likely to be killed by a police officer than you are by a terrorist.
You people supporting these actions are insane.
I don't think that is correct. My feeling is that the alt-right is more like the cowardly bully looking behind themselves and blathing "Right, guys!?" in an attempt to cast their broken, intolerant, stark terror of change as a strength and mob approved, rather than the pathetic weakness and fear that it is.
No. Do not create a circumstance where a password is default at all in any circumstance. Simply have the device boot up and demand a password to be set as a minimum configuration.
The counter to this is that it makes set up too hard. The counter to that is that they have to configure their wireless password anyway, so it's not like we are demanding a integral reduction without using a calculator or a scratch pad.
If your point is that there are stupid or uneducated democrats, I will certainly not attempt to refute you+. If you are implying that there are no Republicans like that, I will refute you. That others fail to understand a point of political classification isn't the issue although I personally find it frustrating. The issue is failing to educate ones self after being told repeatedly "I don't think that word means what you think it means" and rejecting policy based on who articulates it, which party they belong to, and ignoring what the ultimate goal is.
In fact, they should want to kill each other if they really know what each other is.
I think the confusion comes from the fact that Republicans do not like Equal opportunity*, do not like homosexuals, do not like abortion. In fact, there have been murders of abortion clinic employees and most of the clinics resemble a prison stockade to attempt to protect their employees and clients. In fact, there have been mass murders of homosexuals solely because of their preferred sex partners. There have been riots over Equal Opportunity* and college admissions. The persons committing those crimes self identified as Republican Right. Many had KKK materiel found in their possession, and recall that President Trump accepted an endorsement of David Duke. I find it amazing the correlation that can be drawn by looking at a persons friends and their enemies. I look at Mr. Trumps friends, and I find them to be repulsive. I look a Mr. Trump's enemies, and I find I agree with much of their stated thoughts.
The left side is just nuts because they've lied about it too much over the past 30 years. Lied to the point people think fascist/Nazi's are on the right.
This is known as kitchen sinking the dead cat. It's a good rhetorical device to divert a discussion; a tactic long enshrined on both sides of the political isle and about the fourth worst intellectual dishonest circumstance in my list of dishonesty. However, while it is emotionally charged and highly provocative, there are no facts stated. So therefore cannot be refuted or corroborated. IT is factually null and void of discernible meaning. I will therefore leave this dead cat in your kitchen sink to deal with yourself.
Never mind it's the Nationals SOCIALIST party. A party platform that isn't a whole lot different than the Democratic party of today.
Well, I think one platform that the socialists had that the Democrats seem to be lacking are mass graves and concentration/reeducation centers. That seems to be the first consideration missing, and there are others. Recall that just because someone else you don't like agrees with something you say is not necessarily an indication it's a bad idea. I will grant it may cause concern and a third look, but a good idea is a good idea. Or, "even a broken clock tells the right time twice a day."
DTS, The alligators don't like it when you drain the swamp.
Draining the swamp is good. I like that. What I don't like is refilling the swamp with basilisks, dragons, and manicores. Look at cabinet appointments. Steve Bannon? Really? A known white supremacists, incredibly outspoken bigot, and proponent of a police state? And kicking the Joint Chiefs out of National Security Briefings? These ideas and positions are hardly consistent with freedom. And that's just one pick. Almost without exception, the picks Mr. Trump has proposed and the Republican Majority are tripping over themselves to approve are all political retreads from policies long ago tried and found to be failures. About the only good thing that can be said for repeating your mistakes is that you know exactly when to flinch. I find that to be a small comfort.
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+Example of stupid Democrats: KIII TV (Corpus Christi, Tx) picture of President Obama supporters with signs quoting MLK, with "D
Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) criticizing Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.).
Or
Kerry's terrible speech were criticized by a number of Democratic lawmakers, including incoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY., as well as Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Ben Cardin D-Md., Chris Coons, D-Del., Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., Chris Murphy, D-Conn., House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., and Reps. Rep. Eliot Engel, D-NY. and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla.
Or
Democrats in New Jersey's Monmouth County have taken issue with a press release made by gubernatorial candidate Assemblyman John Wisniewskiâ(TM)s campaign last week.
do you need more? There are lots more.
'Liberals' are acting like brownshirt fascists sense the election. I see no criticism from their 'side', just excuse making.
I am so tired of Conservatives that do not know what a facisit is or what a communist is, or what a socialist is. Hint: Those are not words you use just because you don't like what someone has to say. Words have power. Words wound. The blatant proof if that is Edi Amin DaDa. Hitler. Stalin. Ceausescu
Your sides willingness to accept blatant criminality from Hillary along with cover from Obama's executive branch, makes you a big fat liar.
Hmm. I don't recall President Obama being investigated for any crimes. I do happen to have lost count of the more than 13 congressional investigations of Secretary and First Lady Clinton. Can't seem to recall any actual convictions, though I do recall the last Bengahzi investigation cost 12.7 million dollars. I don't remember what each of the previous other 12 investigations cost, but I'm sure it wasn't significant. I do recall that there has never, not one, been a conviction. Even in a hyper partisan Republican investigation.
You should wait a year or so before making such outrageous claims,
As my grandmother used to say, "If a shirt is dirty, it's dirty." In other words, if something isn't right, waiting a year or more to criticize it is hardly going to make it any less wrong.
people's memory is bad, but not that bad.
No, some refuse to live on planet consensus reality. For example, President Trump's repeated claims that Mr. Obama was not eligible to be president, repeated claims that his inauguration had the biggest crowds ever, and that there were more than five million fraudulent votes cast in the 2016 election.
Look, I'm happy that you are happy that you "got your guy". I get the fact that if any Democratic party member suggests even the most brilliant idea ever articulated by a human being that Republicans will instantly denounce it as a fraud, a scam, and a crime. I get that. I also get the reverse of that is true. What I'm saying is that it has come to the pass that the US can no longer afford this partisan folly. If we do not stop it, the US will not be the best place in the world to live. And President Trump is going to make that fall happen. It may not be complete, but it started two decades ago, and it's speeding up.
Time to put the adult pants on and get the foolish petty politics out.
There's not many companies I hate worse than AT&T and Sony, but there is one. Ticketmaster.
I'm fairly partizan on my politics, but that doesn't stop me from chewing the arses off of my side even more than I chew tails of the other side. In fact, I'm usually much harsher on those of my side exactly because they are on my side. I expect and demand better behavior from them. I'm disappointed much of them time, but still.
I don't often comment to or about how my co-workers look or don't look. I will break this rule now.
I work with some ladies that are simply DROP DEAD GORGEOUS. Off hand, there are easily two dozen. Of course, all of my co-workers are beautiful people, just not with movie star looks.
And all of them, every last one, is as at least as smart as I am and I think smarter. I'm no slouch but I know a quality mind when I meet one, and everyone, man, woman, or wookie, are top flight minds. Not to say there aren't a few I prefer not to be around because I think they are jerks, but they are SMART jerks.
So if you see ol buss error with a babe in the booth, keep in mind that babe is likely a lot smarter than you are.
Doubtful. When found out, a sysadmin cannot avoid going to jail by saying "I was just following orders." Make no mistake, actions such as you pose are illegal in several different ways.
But one with a huge cost of manpower to overcome. It is true that others, with fewer points on the surface, will experience less disruption. It is disruption none the less.
and it doesn't really explain how a valid certificate would violate compliance with your procedures.
Without being overly specific It is quite simply easier to leave an expired certificate in place than it is to put in a current one. The expired certificate is documented, the new one would have to run that gamut.
I've noticed as well the number of posts from those whose prose makes me reach for the Nomex undies, not just in technical areas. The urge to respond either with salient points or in kind is one that should be resisted. It doesn't help you, and only lets those posting them "count coup" on you and encourages them.
For some, the keyboard interface to a computer is all the excuse they need to set aside any form of self regulation, empathy, or modicum of civilized behavior. They are indeed damaged human beings, with no real hope of achieving adult maturity, be they ever so aged.
In short, the only thing you can do that is 100 percent effective is to simply ignore them when necessary, respond to them never, and use their self destructive example as a lesson in how not to operate yourself.
It depends on where they are (legal jurisdiction wise). All of them would fall at the very least within the business change management. Add in various legal jurisdictions, and various laws within that jurisdiction, with various requirements of the server clients ....
Also called regulatory capture - monopolies enshrined by law. Take HVAC for example - pretty impossible to purchase a unit without a license due to the laws against the use of CFCs - despite the fact that new units don't use Freon, but other gases. No reason not to allow someone without a license to install it, but you can't. The HVAC industry and their lobbyists see to it that the law is not relaxed to reflect the new reality. Other than that, it depends (at least in the US) on which set of state, county/parish, and local laws you fall under. In some states, you can install your electrical system as long as a licensed master electrician signs off on it. My experience is that you pay them $4,000 USD or so, they come out for the rough in and final inspection (two visits), spend an hour poking around, and if it's not grossly inadequate, sign the ticket. The real trouble starts when you go to sell the property, if you ever do. I know of a person that burned down his own house once the county started assessing it at over a half a million dollars. He couldn't afford the taxes and couldn't sell it. As there wasn't a mortgage, it wasn't a problem (other than getting a burn permit).
I'm speaking to at scale work, not simply a few thousand servers. Add more orders of magnitude.
What you discuss is absolutely possible. If you have time, or manpower to dedicate to watching every single part of every single tool used. Management is simply not going to pay that salary. And since not every single tool is under constant, close scrutiny, the opportunity for sudden work stoppages is much greater. I simply cited the tools everyone knows.
What you suggest about selecting software - not so much when you work at scale. Think many thousands of people, always with that percentage that simply don't get the news. (There's always someone).
IT was suggested that we start using containers or VMs for maintenance. This is what we've come to. You can no longer depend on tools you own and supervise, you have to lock them up and proactively defend them - from their own makers.
I find that astonishing.
Or is anyone else getting tired of basic internet tools being turned in to monsters? By that I am talking about FireFox deciding to not trust a certificate, you can't select "Yes, I know, give it to me anyway". EG: StartCom's certs - you can't click past, you have to use another browser.
Another example: Java 8 - I maintain servers. Many thousands of them, all over the globe. No, I can't put valid certificates on them. That would violate compliance in the first place, in the second place, we are talking $many^3 servers. But in Java 8, you have to add the IP to an exception list. Yeah, that's a lot to maintain. So we don't use Java 8.
Please guys that write this stuff - you cannot make unilateral decisions on security and not impact workloads. Yes, the average Internet user is an idiot and needs to be protected, but those non-idiots don't have the hours of time needed to get around your unilateral coding decisions.
Unless you are doing some pretty hairy things with your DB, there's really no reason not to move to Postgres for heavy lifting, or other DBs for more trivial workloads.
I can't imagine running Oracle in a Cloud would be a good idea in the first place. Then again, I don't know everything - perhaps there's a valid use case to do so. But really, if your DB is important, I can't see virtulizing it in anything other than a VM meant for only DBs, not a general cloud VM. EG: OK for something like DBaaS, but not to fire up a VM and just go like it's dedicated hardware.
The President does not have the authority to set taxes or spending.. That's the job of Congress... which has been in republican hands for the past six of the last eight years. So which party has the white house isn't really going to make that much difference, since the white house isn't setting that policy. reducing taxes on Billionairs, though - that lands on Congress. Just one thing about POTUS Trump - you and I pay more taxes than he did. I don't have billions. I guess I don't have "a very good brain" like Mr. Trump. I sure didn't pick the right daddy to leave me money, anyway.
Also, I believe the debt is closer to 20 trillion than 50, and also the majority was spent in the administration prior to Mr. Obama's, but wasn't accounted for until after the G. W. Bush administration left office. That's what happens when you go fight two unnecessary wars on the nations credit card - the bill comes due eventually.
Current Debt
As a hiring manager, I know very well there is very little justice or logic in payscales. PHB's and HR (if that isn't redundant) set the rate. I've seen it for more than two decades without ever seeing a single counter example. YMMV. I don't have a problem personally if someone declines to tell me what they made. It does, however, cause HR to refuse to schedule an interview if they even bother to pass the resume up to me.
And you find that comforting. How quaint.
Would this be the same law that sees police shoot unarmed, cooperating people dead without fear of even loosing their jobs let alone be prosecuited or held accountable, or would it be that law that allows for unrestricted disregard for the 4th Amendment and other "rights"?
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If it weren't for German immigrant scientists (many undocumented, some Nazis) in the US during WWII, you'd be writing that in Japanese and you wouldn't be writing it from your iPhone...
Thing about lending someone a hand? They do tend to reciprocate.
Thing about giving someone the back of your hand? They do tend to reciprocate.
Just sayin'.
And no, those were the model numbers, not the CPU, which was the M68 series.
About the only thing non-redundant was the clock card. Voice of Experience. The power supplies had built in UPS's. Funny thing on the 808X systems, the power switch had "Off", "On", and past "On" was another state, which I forget what it was called. But if you replaced hardware while running, you'd push it up (it was spring loaded) to get it to IPL the new hardware.
I loved it because you could fold up 24 physical processors into 12, 6 or 4 logical with quorum voting. Get a bad CPU? It wouldn't miss a clock cycle, it's just lock it out and keep going. You could also run it completely unfolded.
These days, folks would say "so what?" - but "back in the day", your PC had a single core. It was a big deal. And even today, if you get a Check CPU, the system crashes on a PC.
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I don't know what high school that might be, the one I attended a score of 85% was a failing grade.
I do third to final tier support. My ratings from customers and lower tier support is abysmal because most of the time, I have to say "Nope! Can'tWon't do that." Lost a promotion because of the score as well, so it cost me around $15K.
My favorite rant from someone that said I was "stupid" because I can't configure a F5 to act as a master/master SMB share. Oh, I could get them something like SMB with HA, but not for the incremental price (about $4 a month) they were looking for.
I am actively seeking other employment, for several reasons. The biggest is the 24x7x365 insistence of being on call and less than 5 minutes from being able to spring into action and fixing things. Hell, I can't go to the store and buy skittles without breaking that SLA. If they want a 24 hour support staff, they can damned well hire to staff for 3 shifts.
I used to run an OPAC. I kept the front end on a IBM-RS6000 H70, the database on a H-80, and proxies and workers on a HMC with various flavors of hardware.
It served +100 different libraries, and had a unique holdings over 10 million (that means not counting the same holding twice if you had 2 copies (or more) of it.)
Transaction Backups happened every hour and were written to WORM media.
Databases were backed up with transaction logs every 4 hours to mag tape then ejected until needed.
Complete backups were done once a week by quescesing the database, breaking the RAID 5 + 0, backing up the cold DB while restarting the hot DB. Once the cold backup was complete, the RAID was hot re-synced to the online set.
Disaster recovery was using the cold backup tape (which was a full boot tape, one of the reasons I _like_ RS6000's is you can boot from a backup), then re-running the transaction until it was all current.
Circulation systems did not have RW disks, they booted from a Linux live CD with the OPAC already open.
The run-of-the-mill systems for patrons ran windows. I didn't worry about those as I only ran the Unix/AIX/Linux side but they had image deployment systems. A tech could reimage a machine in under 2 minutes, and I guess they could have remote commanded a re-image, since they did every year anyway.
The system was since pulled down and converted to SaaS with an outside vendor. Seems they didn't want to pay for people and licenses.
And thus it is written - why Microsoft? Because it's cheap and easy to find some stumble bum that can pretend to run your shit. He might even keep it going - at least until it all falls down.