If the data is sensitive, you should be encrypting it anyway before passing it along to a third party that has no business looking at it. If the data isn't sensitive enough to encrypt, why do you care where Google keeps it?
The test I developed is fairly broad. There are some skills which I would think a "Certified Windows Professional" would be able to get correct, like: "Using the telnet command, how would you check to see if a SMTP server is answering requests?" Almost none of the "certified" folks got that one right. I just wanted to see mainly if people knew which port (usually) a SMTP server uses.
I mainly want to see if applicants have any "real" Linux experience. Anyone can write a nice resume, but when things are looking bad, and you need your sysadmin to shine, do they really have the skills needed? If I posted the answers to some of the less linux specific, and actually more windows specific questions, from people with certs, you would be amazed.
I could also care less about certifications. About the only one I respect, are the ones Red Hat has. I like their testing methods; no multiple guess questions, they put you on a real system, with a real problem. Multiple choice tests could never tell you really what someone knows.
I wish I could MOD this up. It was the first post which addressed security with LAMP on the web: mod_security. Good post! Please MOD this up! mod_security will provide an application level firewall, which will help protect against poorly written PHP code. It is a MUST on any server exposed to the net.
I know this is not my wife, since I don't even think she knows that slashdot exists. I do have a 10 month old, and a 5 year old. Anyway, here is my vote for the chair I want:
I used to dream up new L0de Runner boards! That game rocked on the Apple//e. Snack Attack was popular in our coaches office. I still have some of my original 5-1/4" floppies of this stuff, and they still run fine. The disks still hold data just fine, yet my 1 year old AIT tapes, fail often. An elephant never forgets!
There is a suite of tools for linux that allow you to create a SWF file from an AVI file. Have a look at the SWF Tools:
http://www.quiss.org/swftools/
Ensoniq chip in the Apple IIGS drew a lawsuite!
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I was reading about the Apple IIGS, and a lawsuite that even affects modern day MAC's. It has to do with the inclusion of synthesizer chip, and quoting this article:
"The Ensoniq chip in the Apple IIGS was a brilliant move by Apple, but it drew a lawsuit by Apple Records, the Beatles' record label. Apple never again put a synthesizer chip in any computer. Even today, Macintosh does not have hardware synthesizers. Macintosh needs to go around this with software based synthesis. "
Upcoming change to SOA values in.com and.net zones
* From: Matt Larson
* Date: Wed Jan 07 17:49:43 2004
VeriSign Naming and Directory Services will change the serial number format and "minimum" value in the.com and.net zones' SOA records on or shortly after 9 February 2004.
The current serial number format is YYYYMMDDNN. (The zones are generated twice per day, so NN is usually either 00 or 01.) The new format will be the UTC time at the moment of zone generation encoded as the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch. (00:00:00 GMT, 1 January 1970.) For example, a zone published on 9 February 2004 might have serial number "1076370400". The.com and.net zones will still be generated twice per day, but this serial number format change is in preparation for potentially more frequent updates to these zones.
This Perl invocation converts a new-format serial number into a meaningful date:
$ perl -e 'print scalar localtime 1076370400'
At the same time, we will also change the "minimum" value in the.com and.net SOA records from its current value of 86400 seconds (one day) to 900 seconds (15 minutes). This change brings this value in line with the widely implemented negative caching semantics defined in Section 4 of RFC 2308.
There should be no end-user impact resulting from these changes (though it's conceivable that some people have processes that rely on the semantics of the.com/.net serial number.) But because these zones are widely used and closely watched, we want to let the Internet community know about the changes in advance.
Matt -- Matt Larson VeriSign Naming and Directory Servic
This explains my diverse music background..
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Since I do a little of all of these jobs, this would explain my diverse music background. I listen to all of that music, except Brittney. I really do not go for any pop, top-40 type of music, and never really have.
Yes, when I stay up late, the headphones go on, and Primus cranks through. I love the Dead, and any "Jam Band" music, too. Yes, I am sad that Phish is finally calling it quits. What will all the followers do now? Allman Brothers tour?
I listened to the Who on the way into work this morning in my car, before waking up to clasical music on my clock radio, and then switched to NPR for the news. I am an NPR junkie, who cannot stand Fox news. 75% of fox viewers thought Sadaam did 9/11!! Less than 20% of NPR viewers belived that one.
I like most music, except for the top-40, one hit wonders, who will never sell many albums past 3-5 years.
Classic Rock withstands the test of time, as well as clasical, and some headbanger music. Top-40 rarely stays popular.
I use Powerterm on Windows, OSX, and Linux! In fact, I cannot live without it. It does keymapping, which is very useful for my application, and emulates a wide variety of systems. I was tired of messing with termcap files, and Powerterm just plain works. It does SSH, telnet (if you are brave enough), and I use it on my laptop through the modem.
It also does on the fly switching to 132 column mode, for those wide reports that you output to your screen, and a history buffer up to 5MB. Along with a print screen feature, and script recording, it does everything I need it to do, when at the CLI of any host.
I agree. I have a production system running RH 6.2 (that is rock solid), and I'm currently planning a migration, but to what? Should I continue with the $60/yr on the "consumer" level products, or shell out the bucks for Advanced Server, and not worry about another migration for 3 years?
I also have several remote servers that act as a gateway to our main building which will be updated to the latest consumer level version, since they primarily run samba, and maybe a few other apps. That should be an easy migration, but the main one is going to require updating config files for just about every core package.
How about if RH bumbped up the Advanced Server EOL to 5 years, and offered another "middle" option for 3 years at $400/yr per server? The $800 just seems too much for 3 years.
I agree. For the first time, many system configuration files are in one spot, which is a big plus for new users (If you don't like it, you can always use vi, like I still do). Each RH release keeps getting better. I also really enjoy Bluecureve - it melts the gnome2 and kde3 worlds together, in a concise way. Now if we could get the old gtk 1.x apps to look like bluecurve, the user wouldn't notice any difference.
To all those naysayers about RH and Bluecurve: This is still Linux under the hood - dig in, and customize to your hearts content! Isn't that why you are using linux in the first place?
Anyone get this working with WineX or Wine? This is about the only game I wish I could get working. I know about flightgear, but after seeing FS 2002, flightgear just doesn't compare. How about any other FS's working on Linux?
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Well said, my man..
If the data is sensitive, you should be encrypting it anyway before passing it along to a third party that has no business looking at it. If the data isn't sensitive enough to encrypt, why do you care where Google keeps it?
Ayup. Fire up truecrypt, and be done with it.
I have plenty of acorns in my yard, and if someone really wants them, they can come and rake them up for free. :-)
The test I developed is fairly broad. There are some skills which I would think a "Certified Windows Professional" would be able to get correct, like: "Using the telnet command, how would you check to see if a SMTP server is answering requests?" Almost none of the "certified" folks got that one right. I just wanted to see mainly if people knew which port (usually) a SMTP server uses.
I mainly want to see if applicants have any "real" Linux experience. Anyone can write a nice resume, but when things are looking bad, and you need your sysadmin to shine, do they really have the skills needed? If I posted the answers to some of the less linux specific, and actually more windows specific questions, from people with certs, you would be amazed.
I could also care less about certifications. About the only one I respect, are the ones Red Hat has. I like their testing methods; no multiple guess questions, they put you on a real system, with a real problem. Multiple choice tests could never tell you really what someone knows.
I wish I could MOD this up. It was the first post which addressed security with LAMP on the web: mod_security. Good post! Please MOD this up! mod_security will provide an application level firewall, which will help protect against poorly written PHP code. It is a MUST on any server exposed to the net.
Here's an interesting story:
http://rosemaryjacobs.com/rose2.html
been there, and done that! We recently moved a few servers this way. Just be careful, and go slow.
I know this is not my wife, since I don't even think she knows that slashdot exists. I do have a 10 month old, and a 5 year old. Anyway, here is my vote for the chair I want:
http://www.levenger.com/PAGETEMPLATES/PRODUCT/Product.asp?Params=Category=11-833%7CLevel=2-3%7Cpageid=5973%7CLink=Img&cm_re=1.0-_-Products-_-Bomber%20Jacket%20Desk%20Chair%20w/%20Neck%20Support
I used to dream up new L0de Runner boards! That game rocked on the Apple //e. Snack Attack was popular in our coaches office. I still have some of my original 5-1/4" floppies of this stuff, and they still run fine. The disks still hold data just fine, yet my 1 year old AIT tapes, fail often. An elephant never forgets!
"Because every Republican administration needs a Dick Cheney"
Just what we need; an old fart with another Dick Cheney personality in his cabinet.
There is a suite of tools for linux that allow you to create a SWF file from an AVI file. Have a look at the SWF Tools:
http://www.quiss.org/swftools/
I was reading about the Apple IIGS, and a lawsuite that even affects modern day MAC's. It has to do with the inclusion of synthesizer chip, and quoting this article:
s t=1&c=71
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?
"The Ensoniq chip in the Apple IIGS was a brilliant move by Apple, but it drew a lawsuit by Apple Records, the Beatles' record label. Apple never again put a synthesizer chip in any computer. Even today, Macintosh does not have hardware synthesizers. Macintosh needs to go around this with software based synthesis. "
I found this to be quite interesting.
Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones
.com and .net zones' SOA records on
.com and .net zones will still
.com .net SOA records from its current value of 86400 seconds (one day)
.com/.net serial number.) But because these
* From: Matt Larson
* Date: Wed Jan 07 17:49:43 2004
VeriSign Naming and Directory Services will change the serial number
format and "minimum" value in the
or shortly after 9 February 2004.
The current serial number format is YYYYMMDDNN. (The zones are
generated twice per day, so NN is usually either 00 or 01.) The new
format will be the UTC time at the moment of zone generation encoded
as the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch. (00:00:00 GMT, 1
January 1970.) For example, a zone published on 9 February 2004 might
have serial number "1076370400". The
be generated twice per day, but this serial number format change is in
preparation for potentially more frequent updates to these zones.
This Perl invocation converts a new-format serial number into a
meaningful date:
$ perl -e 'print scalar localtime 1076370400'
At the same time, we will also change the "minimum" value in the
and
to 900 seconds (15 minutes). This change brings this value in line
with the widely implemented negative caching semantics defined in
Section 4 of RFC 2308.
There should be no end-user impact resulting from these changes
(though it's conceivable that some people have processes that rely on
the semantics of the
zones are widely used and closely watched, we want to let the Internet
community know about the changes in advance.
Matt
--
Matt Larson
VeriSign Naming and Directory Servic
Since I do a little of all of these jobs, this would explain my diverse music background. I listen to all of that music, except Brittney. I really do not go for any pop, top-40 type of music, and never really have.
Yes, when I stay up late, the headphones go on, and Primus cranks through. I love the Dead, and any "Jam Band" music, too. Yes, I am sad that Phish is finally calling it quits. What will all the followers do now? Allman Brothers tour?
I listened to the Who on the way into work this morning in my car, before waking up to clasical music on my clock radio, and then switched to NPR for the news. I am an NPR junkie, who cannot stand Fox news. 75% of fox viewers thought Sadaam did 9/11!! Less than 20% of NPR viewers belived that one.
I like most music, except for the top-40, one hit wonders, who will never sell many albums past 3-5 years.
Classic Rock withstands the test of time, as well as clasical, and some headbanger music. Top-40 rarely stays popular.
- Bruce
PowerTerm
I use Powerterm on Windows, OSX, and Linux! In fact, I cannot live without it. It does keymapping, which is very useful for my application, and emulates a wide variety of systems. I was tired of messing with termcap files, and Powerterm just plain works. It does SSH, telnet (if you are brave enough), and I use it on my laptop through the modem.
It also does on the fly switching to 132 column mode, for those wide reports that you output to your screen, and a history buffer up to 5MB. Along with a print screen feature, and script recording, it does everything I need it to do, when at the CLI of any host.
Have a look: http://www.ericom.com/pti4linux.asp
I wonder if Ximian D2 will support Fedora Core 1..
Well, I used Mozilla 1.3.1, to d/l some live music, and din't have any trouble. I received the same warning.
I agree. I have a production system running RH 6.2 (that is rock solid), and I'm currently planning a migration, but to what? Should I continue with the $60/yr on the "consumer" level products, or shell out the bucks for Advanced Server, and not worry about another migration for 3 years?
I also have several remote servers that act as a gateway to our main building which will be updated to the latest consumer level version, since they primarily run samba, and maybe a few other apps. That should be an easy migration, but the main one is going to require updating config files for just about every core package.
How about if RH bumbped up the Advanced Server EOL to 5 years, and offered another "middle" option for 3 years at $400/yr per server? The $800 just seems too much for 3 years.
To all those naysayers about RH and Bluecurve: This is still Linux under the hood - dig in, and customize to your hearts content! Isn't that why you are using linux in the first place?
me too.
Does anyone have any information regarding the Linux version of PPTP?
Thanks for the link! This program looks like it's not being developed anymore, since the readme has this for a date:
Id: README,v 1.5 2001/11/13 10:46:20 ppetru Exp $
Maybe I'll contact the author to see what the deal is...
Anyone get this working with WineX or Wine? This is about the only game I wish I could get working. I know about flightgear, but after seeing FS 2002, flightgear just doesn't compare. How about any other FS's working on Linux?
Currently, I'm rebuilding kde and qt from the SRPM's, with: 'rpm --rebuild --target athlon qt*.rpm kd*.rpm' Maybe that will speed things up a bit.