Oh for goodness sake, you are as unimaginative as he is incompetent.
Walk up with a laptop and a crossover cable (that is not even really needed these days, most systems will autodetect and compensate) and plug it into the ILOM port.
Let the DHCP server you set up on the laptop assign an address. Check the config/log to see what address is assigned.
Then, log in and give it a fixed address on your separate, and hopefully protected by a password enabled firewall, ILOM network. Hell, you could use windows sharing for this.
" The noticeably homeschooled kids are like visitors from another country who don't understand the etiquette or the language."
Clearly you feel it would be better if they know the "etiquette or the language" of the larger society. They are strangers in their own lands by your viewpoint. You may think you were being circumspect or "fair" in your statements but it quite clear from your writing the contempt you have for those who do not conform to your view of the world.
Personally, I would like to see more people be free thinkers and not bob their heads like lemmings. Maybe we would have a better society if we did.
I am going to presume your use of "your" means "those weirdo's out there" and not me. I am a product of public schools and so is my son. However, my hobbies and job often brings me in contact with strong individualists and I see nothing wrong with them, even though most people like yourself judge them as "weird".
You will be comforted a few of them see you with the same contempt as mindless drones (one of them goes so far as to see you all as a necessary evil to ensure he can continue his work. He would rather you all die. Not a pleasant fellow, for all his intelligence, I don't look forward to working with him. Thankfully it is rare) or lacking independent thought.
Most of them, however, just shrug and go on with their lives. To each his own...
Being weird is not a thought crime in the USA just yet.
And quite frankly, an argument that they would have turned out "better" going to a public school is false at best, a good example of groupthink at worst.
I send my son to a public school, but I am also very careful to ensure they don't grind the life out of him. Mostly that is through making sure he gets the right teacher each year.
I spend most of my "plugged in" time learning new things, doing research for work. It is not Youtube/WoW/Slashdot all the time. Although that is how I spend some free time...
I keep up on the TLA's (I work for IBM after all...) that won't be in print for years. I read the latest for my supported platform and a few others, I read IT management blogs... very informative for what NOT to do!
So, like anything else, it is what you do, not how you do it. I could waste my whole day unplugged, reading the Black Company chronicles for example.
If it was so common from US to China, it would have been nice if they blocked the import of poisoned pet food and Drywall made of industrial waste. (If we are not, it would be the first good use of spying!)
Got give it to the Chinese some credit. When they found milk was tainted, they executed the guy in charge of food safety.
Wish we could do that with a few incompetent bureaucrats here. Or at least they could sit on death row for the rest of their lives.
I have Indian colleagues and they are stunned what it costs to do basic things here in the US. Lunch for him is about 15 Cents US. (I don't know what he makes, but I know he supports an extended family of about 35 people, some of who also work, but if he lost his job they would be forced to move/lose the flats. He brings in %75 of the money)
Other things are luxuries we consider necessities. Gas costs about the same, so very expensive for him, less so for us. A car? Same, but cars are cheaper but still a year's salary. Half a year for us here on average.
The cost of living and expectations are much lower, so they are "well off" even at the salary he makes.
Posse Comitatus is one of those reasons it is easier to respond to foreign crisis vrs local crisis. Much of the foreign aid is provided by the military
While it does not hamper efforts to do some types of domestic disaster relief it does prevent the military from securing their operations themselves as they would be acting as a "police force" inside US borders.
I do not suggest we erode the law to make disaster relief easier. Last thing the US needs is a metaphorical Ceaser crossing the Rubicon to save Rome from a flood.
Real simple, he put the changes into the latest version of his software pkg (Solaris). Added lines to the end of sudoers file that gave him rights to do just about anything, include changing the sudoers audit log. Then he asked us to install the package for him as root. Red flag went up immediately and I cracked open his files and took a GOOD look.
THAT is what killed him, fucking with the audit logs on a DITSCAP/DIACAP DoD audited system. The other stuff would have gotten his hand slapped, maybe moved to another project. As Nixon found out, it is not the crime, it is the cover up... giving himself the ability to edit the audit log showed he intended to cover up what he was doing. (Would not do him any good anyway, we send sudo events to a centralized syslog server that no one but the SA team has access to)
BTW, we have as part of our protocols that all sudo or ssh key enabled scripts are root owned, 700, and go in a specific directory and that directory is scanned to ensure that no one changes the files. They may not call out to user scripts sunless they "su" back to a known user and they may not call in house compiled binaries. All house built binaries must run in userland, not as a privileged account. As you point out, you can't trust their code. My experience is that any code written that requires root to install is crappy code. Yes, Oracle, I am talking about you. Talking UNIX here, not Windows. The requirement for local admin for most Windows code is one of my peeve issues with Windows.
You may think all this is paranoid, and it is. I work for one outsourcer, the devs work for another. IF they fuck up our production machines, we get hit for it, so we damn well make sure they don't do it. No dev has command line access to a production machine, they must run changes to prod systems through the Change control process and Production control. All changes are reviewed. Sounds tedious, but you can throw a lot of offshore resources at the problem considering the fine for failing to meet SLA's up to 5% of the contract value a month.
Above incident predates that time, but now it would be even easier to get a Dev booted off the account if they tried something like that. The Security team remains on the company payroll for now and finding little stunts like yours "proves" their worth.
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You needs better network engineers...
Your network should be as reliable as your systems, if not more so.
I am starting to get shocked by how many people are saying "this or that won't work because X is not reliable"
Oh for goodness sake, you are as unimaginative as he is incompetent.
Walk up with a laptop and a crossover cable (that is not even really needed these days, most systems will autodetect and compensate) and plug it into the ILOM port.
Let the DHCP server you set up on the laptop assign an address. Check the config/log to see what address is assigned.
Then, log in and give it a fixed address on your separate, and hopefully protected by a password enabled firewall, ILOM network.
Hell, you could use windows sharing for this.
Break is over!
Back to the salt mines!
Get a new Solaris guy.
He should know how to DHCP configure the ILOM and not use a serial connection.
ILOM is the way to go, It would be nice if it was standard in all PC's too.
Then that werewolf is going to chew your ass up...
I miss my hp41cv, lost in collage dorms. *cry*
My toaster has a Bagel button.
It confuses me.
" The noticeably homeschooled kids are like visitors from another country who don't understand the etiquette or the language."
Clearly you feel it would be better if they know the "etiquette or the language" of the larger society. They are strangers in their own lands by your viewpoint. You may think you were being circumspect or "fair" in your statements but it quite clear from your writing the contempt you have for those who do not conform to your view of the world.
Personally, I would like to see more people be free thinkers and not bob their heads like lemmings. Maybe we would have a better society if we did.
I am going to presume your use of "your" means "those weirdo's out there" and not me. I am a product of public schools and so is my son. However, my hobbies and job often brings me in contact with strong individualists and I see nothing wrong with them, even though most people like yourself judge them as "weird".
You will be comforted a few of them see you with the same contempt as mindless drones (one of them goes so far as to see you all as a necessary evil to ensure he can continue his work. He would rather you all die. Not a pleasant fellow, for all his intelligence, I don't look forward to working with him. Thankfully it is rare) or lacking independent thought.
Most of them, however, just shrug and go on with their lives. To each his own...
Being weird is not a thought crime in the USA just yet.
And quite frankly, an argument that they would have turned out "better" going to a public school is false at best, a good example of groupthink at worst.
I send my son to a public school, but I am also very careful to ensure they don't grind the life out of him. Mostly that is through making sure he gets the right teacher each year.
And cell phone porn...
the circle is complete.
Who is Anerd and why are you living with them?
You some sort of pervert?!
=)
Um, what?
I spend most of my "plugged in" time learning new things, doing research for work. It is not Youtube/WoW/Slashdot all the time. Although that is how I spend some free time...
I keep up on the TLA's (I work for IBM after all...) that won't be in print for years. I read the latest for my supported platform and a few others, I read IT management blogs... very informative for what NOT to do!
So, like anything else, it is what you do, not how you do it. I could waste my whole day unplugged, reading the Black Company chronicles for example.
Don't be stupid... we still have congressmen.
And speed. A good scp connection using arcfour maxes out at about 22MB per second on most systems I have used.
An unencrypted transfer will hit the theoretical max of ~140mb per second over a 1G connection.
If it was so common from US to China, it would have been nice if they blocked the import of poisoned pet food and Drywall made of industrial waste. (If we are not, it would be the first good use of spying!)
Got give it to the Chinese some credit. When they found milk was tainted, they executed the guy in charge of food safety.
Wish we could do that with a few incompetent bureaucrats here. Or at least they could sit on death row for the rest of their lives.
Who says it is a substandard wage?
I have Indian colleagues and they are stunned what it costs to do basic things here in the US.
Lunch for him is about 15 Cents US. (I don't know what he makes, but I know he supports an extended family of about 35 people, some of who also work, but if he lost his job they would be forced to move/lose the flats. He brings in %75 of the money)
Other things are luxuries we consider necessities. Gas costs about the same, so very expensive for him, less so for us. A car? Same, but cars are cheaper but still a year's salary. Half a year for us here on average.
The cost of living and expectations are much lower, so they are "well off" even at the salary he makes.
They made the meatballs out of DEADBEEF.
Posse Comitatus is one of those reasons it is easier to respond to foreign crisis vrs local crisis. Much of the foreign aid is provided by the military
While it does not hamper efforts to do some types of domestic disaster relief it does prevent the military from securing their operations themselves as they would be acting as a "police force" inside US borders.
I do not suggest we erode the law to make disaster relief easier. Last thing the US needs is a metaphorical Ceaser crossing the Rubicon to save Rome from a flood.
You have Popper backwards.
You can prove a Black Swan exists by finding one. (Finding proof of life on Mars)
You cannot disprove a Black Swan by only finding white ones. (Finding life only on Earth, thus "proving" life does not exist elsewhere)
It's good to be the King?
Don't piss on my leg and tell me it is good for me.
I'm not dead yet....
I think I'll go for a walk!
Yep, he can ride on the NBC car with Keith Olbermann and Jim Cramer.
The rest of the cars get to watch on closed circuit television
The OP is a MOUSE you insensitive clod!
Real simple, he put the changes into the latest version of his software pkg (Solaris). Added lines to the end of sudoers file that gave him rights to do just about anything, include changing the sudoers audit log. Then he asked us to install the package for him as root. Red flag went up immediately and I cracked open his files and took a GOOD look.
THAT is what killed him, fucking with the audit logs on a DITSCAP/DIACAP DoD audited system. The other stuff would have gotten his hand slapped, maybe moved to another project. As Nixon found out, it is not the crime, it is the cover up... giving himself the ability to edit the audit log showed he intended to cover up what he was doing. (Would not do him any good anyway, we send sudo events to a centralized syslog server that no one but the SA team has access to)
BTW, we have as part of our protocols that all sudo or ssh key enabled scripts are root owned, 700, and go in a specific directory and that directory is scanned to ensure that no one changes the files. They may not call out to user scripts sunless they "su" back to a known user and they may not call in house compiled binaries. All house built binaries must run in userland, not as a privileged account.
As you point out, you can't trust their code. My experience is that any code written that requires root to install is crappy code. Yes, Oracle, I am talking about you. Talking UNIX here, not Windows. The requirement for local admin for most Windows code is one of my peeve issues with Windows.
You may think all this is paranoid, and it is. I work for one outsourcer, the devs work for another. IF they fuck up our production machines, we get hit for it, so we damn well make sure they don't do it. No dev has command line access to a production machine, they must run changes to prod systems through the Change control process and Production control. All changes are reviewed. Sounds tedious, but you can throw a lot of offshore resources at the problem considering the fine for failing to meet SLA's up to 5% of the contract value a month.
Above incident predates that time, but now it would be even easier to get a Dev booted off the account if they tried something like that. The Security team remains on the company payroll for now and finding little stunts like yours "proves" their worth.