My thinking was that perhaps they didn't have all the keys they required for current certificates, but now after a bit more... persuasion / data collection they have and so having people renew their certs would mean they have renewed access... Easier to dish out known keys than try and retrieve unknown keys.
Fact is - a good SysAdmin can play well anywhere on the pitch. Typically a 'system' comprises of more than one discipline.
Basic time management, inter-personal skills and some grasp of hygiene are pretty much must-haves.
Knowledge of the tools required to perform your duties and save the planet are a gimme, surely, once you are in that position. I am sure a 'nix admin can't avoid other disciplines the same as a wintel admin can't avoid *nix. Difference perhaps is that a decent multi-disciplines admin won't throw their toys out of the pram when they find out they have to interact with 3rd parties. (personally, physically or programmatically - take your pick)
By definition a system is a "complex whole" and should not, in 2014 be defined by OS...unless you are going to be specific about that OS, in which case you are not a sysadmin you are a *nix admin shirly.
Indeed - not only that, but even if you are really good at keeping docs, an intranet log or similar - it still won't be read, understood or appreciated. Later on, with even the best of everyone's interests at heart the worst thing you could ever say is - "I documented this here, and explained it here and asked for feedback here and you said you read it..." Nothing like a few reference facts and common sense to drive a wedge between admins and users.
And the thing is... power management is the ultimate cost, isn't it ? You can't tell a dev, trader or (higher) management to shut their machine down. like you can a 'user' (who we can just policy to shutdown ) but 1000+ rigs running even at trimmings is still $50 / Amp. That shows in finances, bonuses, dolphins and trees.
A very valid question. I haven't bought AMD kit since they fucked me over with socket 939. Basically a lost promise for futurebility. (my word)
I buy only about 500kusd kit a year but now I always avoid AMD and ATI GPU because their DP products simply do not work.
I know they do not work because I am always the last to be asked when we get new trading clients and their screens are flickering. Rip out the AMD GPU and replace with Nvidia. - actually, fuckit: once that far just replace the system for something that works:. Wintelvidia. (my word again) - Power saving, virtualisation, compatibility and multiple displays that actually work in a real environment. not just for a games benchmarks.
Honestly I have tried Cyrix, I really tried with AMD but at the end I have just gone back to intel.
Yup. We bought the last 6 copies we could, from our distro I can't see an alternative .
Being reliant on internet comms is still a pipe dream. Even for companies that would adopt the cloud (non of our clients who are all finance and similar)
I honestly don't know where to go in a post MS in house SBS world. It was a very good product for over a decade. It broke a little bit when outlook licences were not included in 2003. But Outlook & Exchange is what it's all about. I have found no alternative.
It's just like one of those meme fads going round where they ask (perhaps gullible) people about non existent super bowl plays & players.
Or like the classic Dihydrogen Monoxide 'prank'
Ignorance and intelligence is not linear. It is not worthwhile or fair to measure either outside of a properly executed experiment.
A member from an Amazonian Tribe may well find life in NYC a little daunting, perhaps as daunting as you would find life naked in the middle of South America.
People trying to fit in, especially young people trying to fit in WILL answer a question for fear of ridicule if they do not full understand the question. And people do tend to TRY TO FIT IN.
If a word they have never heard of sounds scientific they WILL treat it as such. and trust it for the word.
The US and the UK are rife with people screwing with words to take advantage of people.
We have protected titles, for example. Anybody can call themselves a Nutritionist. But you need to be licensed to call yourself a Dietitian
A Chiropractor fucked my back because I thought he was a type of Physiotherapist. He had xRay machines and everything. But not a licenced or recognised medical practitioner.
Somebody asks you if Astro this or astro that is important - if they don't KNOW the word, they will make a MEAN guess.
I partially agree with you, but for I am unsure if a ne'er-do-well would risk kill somebody in the hope that information that person possessed would then become public. It may help prevent torture, but surely only a fool would believe that he hasn't got access to all the information he stole.
This discussion, for some reason remind me of the Princess Bride:
You only think I guessed wrong! That's what's so funny! I switched glasses when your back was turned! Ha ha! You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is "never get involved in a land war in Asia" - but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line"!
The worry could be that an automated system DIDN'T TEST before rolling out the problem. Or at least didn't seem to wait long enough between staggered rollouts to spot the problem.
The OEM computer market suffers the same blight but at least we can re-image or uninstall. The issue is with phones if we re-image we can no longer have updates, which on an android platform (especially) is silly.
You can tell I'm a n00b - I replied instead of modding up.
I recall a documentary about technology on BBC in the 80's (when the BBC cared about technology) - Wordperfect were touting the fact that they were the first corporation in the world to have a full time call-queue DJ ! The spin they put on it was amazing and all the people interviewed said calling their support was great.
Like MS Office of the now, Wordperfect of the then, had weird odd version numbers for Macs.
Wordstar was thankfully the closest DOS came to Vi;)
I asked a forum dev-mod if he could add an option on a new forum (Oculus Rift) a while back if we could at least have an option to open external links (outside of the current forum) in new tabs with a left click. The majority of the research and tech forums (especially) I frequent have this as an option - it just make sense, somebody posts a reference link and you want to look at it without losing your place in the current thread, indeed if it's a picture or diagram having it load up whilst you continue reading is a bonus. I was shot down - apparently I am lazy for not middle clicking or right clicking on such links, citing that such programming practice is deemed unacceptable behavior as people don't like new tabs or windows. Which struck me as strange.
Middle or right clicking on a tablet is a PITA. Especially if a post or thread contains mostly links to external reference content.
Perhaps the pop and popunder is more a human decision than a logical one, and therefore a target for nefarious manipulation. So the extreme unwanted popunder must exist purely for nefarious purposes, shirly ?
OK pal I'll bite. The story is about Chrome being ALWAYS ON and remembering previous HTTPS websites as trusted and not re-prompting for rights to access devices.
The post I replied to was a semi-sarcastic question about what could go wrong.
My reply was an (imho) funny example of what can go wrong when a system is always listening, unintentionally or otherwise ( a little bit similar to the title, and the post, wouldn't you agree?). And the example of was a damnsight less serious or scary than the possibilities.
So, I'll ask you again - "What does YOUR POST have to do with this story ?"
Slashdot Mirror
^ ffs I should think before I post sometimes. Sorry. Move along.
My thinking was that perhaps they didn't have all the keys they required for current certificates, but now after a bit more... persuasion / data collection they have and so having people renew their certs would mean they have renewed access... Easier to dish out known keys than try and retrieve unknown keys.
How do I become a trusted root certificate authority ?
YES! That's the whole point of this isn't it?
To get everyone to get new certificates so that NSA and GCHQ (etc) has an easy and seamless MITM
Back of the net.
(sadface)
Fact is - a good SysAdmin can play well anywhere on the pitch. Typically a 'system' comprises of more than one discipline.
Basic time management, inter-personal skills and some grasp of hygiene are pretty much must-haves.
Knowledge of the tools required to perform your duties and save the planet are a gimme, surely, once you are in that position. I am sure a 'nix admin can't avoid other disciplines the same as a wintel admin can't avoid *nix. Difference perhaps is that a decent multi-disciplines admin won't throw their toys out of the pram when they find out they have to interact with 3rd parties. (personally, physically or programmatically - take your pick)
By definition a system is a "complex whole" and should not, in 2014 be defined by OS...unless you are going to be specific about that OS, in which case you are not a sysadmin you are a *nix admin shirly.
Indeed - not only that, but even if you are really good at keeping docs, an intranet log or similar - it still won't be read, understood or appreciated. Later on, with even the best of everyone's interests at heart the worst thing you could ever say is - "I documented this here, and explained it here and asked for feedback here and you said you read it..." Nothing like a few reference facts and common sense to drive a wedge between admins and users.
For an inter-OS flame war ? (Again)
True enough - but even AIM missiles don't 'ram' their target - they just get close enough to cause damage and then detonate.
And the thing is... power management is the ultimate cost, isn't it ? You can't tell a dev, trader or (higher) management to shut their machine down. like you can a 'user' (who we can just policy to shutdown ) but 1000+ rigs running even at trimmings is still $50 / Amp. That shows in finances, bonuses, dolphins and trees.
A very valid question. I haven't bought AMD kit since they fucked me over with socket 939. Basically a lost promise for futurebility. (my word)
I buy only about 500kusd kit a year but now I always avoid AMD and ATI GPU because their DP products simply do not work.
I know they do not work because I am always the last to be asked when we get new trading clients and their screens are flickering. Rip out the AMD GPU and replace with Nvidia. - actually, fuckit: once that far just replace the system for something that works:. Wintelvidia. (my word again) - Power saving, virtualisation, compatibility and multiple displays that actually work in a real environment. not just for a games benchmarks.
Honestly I have tried Cyrix, I really tried with AMD but at the end I have just gone back to intel.
Looks like GEM to me :(
Hah! Great link - led me here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
That made me laugh. Then I realised what site I was on.
I too was looking at the avids and thinking what the weight of overall system was, for stopping distance.
Unsure of the the demographic audience but I can see a few upper-class WAGS walking their dogs with these.
Yup. We bought the last 6 copies we could, from our distro I can't see an alternative .
Being reliant on internet comms is still a pipe dream. Even for companies that would adopt the cloud (non of our clients who are all finance and similar)
I honestly don't know where to go in a post MS in house SBS world. It was a very good product for over a decade. It broke a little bit when outlook licences were not included in 2003. But Outlook & Exchange is what it's all about. I have found no alternative.
but we will.
It's just like one of those meme fads going round where they ask (perhaps gullible) people about non existent super bowl plays & players.
Or like the classic Dihydrogen Monoxide 'prank'
Ignorance and intelligence is not linear. It is not worthwhile or fair to measure either outside of a properly executed experiment.
A member from an Amazonian Tribe may well find life in NYC a little daunting, perhaps as daunting as you would find life naked in the middle of South America.
People trying to fit in, especially young people trying to fit in WILL answer a question for fear of ridicule if they do not full understand the question. And people do tend to TRY TO FIT IN.
If a word they have never heard of sounds scientific they WILL treat it as such. and trust it for the word.
The US and the UK are rife with people screwing with words to take advantage of people.
We have protected titles, for example. Anybody can call themselves a Nutritionist. But you need to be licensed to call yourself a Dietitian
A Chiropractor fucked my back because I thought he was a type of Physiotherapist. He had xRay machines and everything. But not a licenced or recognised medical practitioner.
Somebody asks you if Astro this or astro that is important - if they don't KNOW the word, they will make a MEAN guess.
We should remember the RM Nimbus PC-186 - it is also 30 years old this year!
Whilst it was not quite able to run MS Flight Sim 4.0 'properly' it managed to get very good penetration within the UK education sector.
^agreed
I partially agree with you, but for I am unsure if a ne'er-do-well would risk kill somebody in the hope that information that person possessed would then become public. It may help prevent torture, but surely only a fool would believe that he hasn't got access to all the information he stole.
This discussion, for some reason remind me of the Princess Bride:
You only think I guessed wrong! That's what's so funny! I switched glasses when your back was turned! Ha ha! You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is "never get involved in a land war in Asia" - but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line"!
The worry could be that an automated system DIDN'T TEST before rolling out the problem. Or at least didn't seem to wait long enough between staggered rollouts to spot the problem.
Just me or is this happening more frequently ?
^ this in droves.
The OEM computer market suffers the same blight but at least we can re-image or uninstall. The issue is with phones if we re-image we can no longer have updates, which on an android platform (especially) is silly.
You can tell I'm a n00b - I replied instead of modding up.
Their A4 paperwhite displays were kinda neat too, if limited in function.
Wordperfect! (OT trivia ahead!)
;)
I recall a documentary about technology on BBC in the 80's (when the BBC cared about technology) - Wordperfect were touting the fact that they were the first corporation in the world to have a full time call-queue DJ ! The spin they put on it was amazing and all the people interviewed said calling their support was great.
Like MS Office of the now, Wordperfect of the then, had weird odd version numbers for Macs.
Wordstar was thankfully the closest DOS came to Vi
I asked a forum dev-mod if he could add an option on a new forum (Oculus Rift) a while back if we could at least have an option to open external links (outside of the current forum) in new tabs with a left click. The majority of the research and tech forums (especially) I frequent have this as an option - it just make sense, somebody posts a reference link and you want to look at it without losing your place in the current thread, indeed if it's a picture or diagram having it load up whilst you continue reading is a bonus. I was shot down - apparently I am lazy for not middle clicking or right clicking on such links, citing that such programming practice is deemed unacceptable behavior as people don't like new tabs or windows. Which struck me as strange.
Middle or right clicking on a tablet is a PITA. Especially if a post or thread contains mostly links to external reference content.
Perhaps the pop and popunder is more a human decision than a logical one, and therefore a target for nefarious manipulation. So the extreme unwanted popunder must exist purely for nefarious purposes, shirly ?
OK pal I'll bite. The story is about Chrome being ALWAYS ON and remembering previous HTTPS websites as trusted and not re-prompting for rights to access devices.
The post I replied to was a semi-sarcastic question about what could go wrong.
My reply was an (imho) funny example of what can go wrong when a system is always listening, unintentionally or otherwise ( a little bit similar to the title, and the post, wouldn't you agree?). And the example of was a damnsight less serious or scary than the possibilities.
So, I'll ask you again - "What does YOUR POST have to do with this story ?"