Absolutly! I see it as my personal goal in any job is to automate myself out of it, then move onto a new/bigger/different environment. I havn't succeeded yet, but I have simplified and stabalized things so a lesser skilled admin could take over and learn some of the deep magics without having to fight fires constantly.
With a nice cocktail of cfengine2, kerberos, ldap, LDAP Account Manager, and sudo I'm getting closer to replacing myself on the server side. Damn Windows boxes won't play along though.
- RustyTaco
they're basically janitorial staff
That's just trolling and entirely unfair.
No it's not, it's completely accurate. Sysadmins are there to unstop the toiler/mailserver when somebody tries to flush too much crap/spam/virus, and mop up the floors/fileshares to keep too much filth from piling up and imparing work. Nobody ever wants to see a sysadmin doing their job, but they'll be quick to complain if they don't.
A sysadmin is an infrastructure support position, needed to keep the place where the real producers of the company work is shape so they can produce for the company. Purely overhead to the company but indespensable non the less.
- RustyTaco: Windows babysitter & proud network janitor.
Dude, get over yourself. It's a 16bit, 48kHz, Stereo recording rig, so 1.5G of recording is like two hours. This isn't a $60k studio with bajillions of knobs and buttons for recording a whole symphony orchestra at once. Being just an SB Live in the system I don't think the 190kB/s data rate is going to out run the flash he clocked at 7MB/s, especially with enough ram in the system to hold a couple minutes of buffer.
And again, this is a simple, relativly small and quiet, two channel recording rig. Audacity is probably overkill for what it needs, but it's got Ardour and other nifty toys in there too.
Not if it's used for useful things, like generating light pulses on a fat fibre pipe feeding a big porn site. Yes, there will be some heat generated, but much less than was absorbed to feed all the intermediate steps.
If you harness the solar energy it's no longer hitting the ground and heating the environment. It's simple conservation of energy, solar really isn't free, current collection techniquies are just so poor and sparsely that you don't notice the chilling of the local environment. What we really need is a nice balance, huge solar arrays sucking up any and all solar energy, right next to a nuke disipating it's waste heat. That way, if you balance it right, the net energy dump into the environment is about the same.
Hmm, thinking about that... I think Phoenix needs a solar panel on every rooftop.:)
With cities layed out in 1 mile square blocks I'm not holding my breath for anybody to start thinking relabeling everything in increments of 1.66 (or whatever the hell the ratio is). Would be nice, but I'm just not seeing it.
- RustyTaco
Nah, it's more of an Aston Kutcher role. Just think of it:
Darl: Dude! Where's my code?
IBM: Where's your code dude?
Darl: DUUDE! Where's my code?!?
IBM: I donno dude, where's your code?
# Devices connected to thin clients are extremely difficult to bind back to the server for enumeration and individual user access. Think users in different rooms want to print to their printer on their desk. Our tools handle that but took months to develop.
Really? I just did a quick lookup in the login script to set the PRINTER environment variable to the right printer depending on the hostname/display (depending on if it was an LTSP terminal or full Linux system). It's a little ugly but dead simple. If you're using CUPS (as you probably should for sanity sake) use lpoptions -d printer instead of export PRINTER=printer.
Uh, know, that was their usually poor approximation that couldn't piss a stream. As I recall they "fixed" the flow and it did make a nice pop and throw the dummy back.
Wow, this is slow on the uptake even for slashdot. This was demonstrated last year at DefCon in August. It works because, as somebody else mentioned, there is no salt on the hash so you can pre-compute massive hash dictionaries. Also, it's a bastardized MS-CHAP which stupidly pads the hash with two constant characters so you can almost instantly cut down the keyspace you need to brute force by a huge margin.
The limiting factor is how fast your attack machine can read your pre-computed dictionaries off the disk.
It's really too bad that nobody else uses MSIs properly. Lots of fugly "InstallSheild" bastardized MSIs and still lots of random custom crap. MS Office's use of MSIs are fairly good, not perfect because you still need a custom tool to make any changes, but at least they provide the tool so you can deploy Office without pulling teeth.
Adobe on the other hand (except for Acrobat) can burn in hell for their stupid bastardized nested install shields, in zip files. I've spent the last couple days trying to get a script, unattended install going for the Adobe Creative Suite. It's something like 5 programs using 6 different installers, I swear. I think I've got the base kludged together using AutoIt to click through the installer (have to use the suite installer instead of the individual app installers which might be scriptable because the app installers don't recognized the license key for the whole suite). Silently installing the patches (since it's imposible to make a pre-patched installer, as I've done with Office) is even more exciting.
That, and they completely gave up or just ran out of energy after the "scream" clip. They didn't even try to spin it their way, the way that better described the situation that clip was cut from. They just gave up and went home, I'm guessing because the staff was so overwhelmingly young and optimistic that they couldn't cope with not wining uncontested.
Actually, I find the opposite. I've found myself being more aware of cover, and keeping an eye on the enemy sneaking around and flanking me, after started paintballing in January. Something about impending pain flying at you at 290 feet/s makes you more cognizant of how to avoid it.
Uh, that's why all modern (and probably old too) unix print systems have filters that know how to print stuff. "lp bar" should be more than sufficient.
Like I said, drug kicking and screaming. The GigE-copper spec requires auto-crossing ports. I havn't seen any of them violate the spec, yet, but I know it's coming.
# a crossover cable (has proven its worth many a time)
Have PC manufacturers not picked up on that little $0.50 godsend that is the auto-crossing port? Ugg, they always having to be dragged kicking and screaming into doing anything that makes the customers life easier.
Bitch at Sanyo for not providing an iSync conduit for their skrewy sync protocol. iSync supports SyncML, which is what most of those phones use. Thus they get support by supporting the standard. If you want to sync a Palm device you need to install the Palm Desktop to get the Palm iSync conduit.
Sprint has never been big on the "let the users do it themselves" mentality, prefering to see more along the lines of "If we don't force our way in the middle how can we charge them for it?" vis a vis "Picture mail" that requires you to go to their little web/wap page to look at pictures and insists that you download single, 15k jpgs in zip files instead of just signing and MMS transport agreement with other carriers. Incomming SMS was the same way until this morning, except that the web app didn't work from Trio 300s.
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Ask and ye shall recieve: http://www.icculus.org/duke3d/
- RustyTaco
Absolutly! I see it as my personal goal in any job is to automate myself out of it, then move onto a new/bigger/different environment. I havn't succeeded yet, but I have simplified and stabalized things so a lesser skilled admin could take over and learn some of the deep magics without having to fight fires constantly.
With a nice cocktail of cfengine2, kerberos, ldap, LDAP Account Manager, and sudo I'm getting closer to replacing myself on the server side. Damn Windows boxes won't play along though.
- RustyTaco
A sysadmin is an infrastructure support position, needed to keep the place where the real producers of the company work is shape so they can produce for the company. Purely overhead to the company but indespensable non the less.
- RustyTaco: Windows babysitter & proud network janitor.
Dude, get over yourself. It's a 16bit, 48kHz, Stereo recording rig, so 1.5G of recording is like two hours. This isn't a $60k studio with bajillions of knobs and buttons for recording a whole symphony orchestra at once. Being just an SB Live in the system I don't think the 190kB/s data rate is going to out run the flash he clocked at 7MB/s, especially with enough ram in the system to hold a couple minutes of buffer.
And again, this is a simple, relativly small and quiet, two channel recording rig. Audacity is probably overkill for what it needs, but it's got Ardour and other nifty toys in there too.
- RustyTaco
Not if it's used for useful things, like generating light pulses on a fat fibre pipe feeding a big porn site. Yes, there will be some heat generated, but much less than was absorbed to feed all the intermediate steps.
- RustyTaco
If you harness the solar energy it's no longer hitting the ground and heating the environment. It's simple conservation of energy, solar really isn't free, current collection techniquies are just so poor and sparsely that you don't notice the chilling of the local environment. What we really need is a nice balance, huge solar arrays sucking up any and all solar energy, right next to a nuke disipating it's waste heat. That way, if you balance it right, the net energy dump into the environment is about the same.
:)
Hmm, thinking about that... I think Phoenix needs a solar panel on every rooftop.
- RustyTaco
With cities layed out in 1 mile square blocks I'm not holding my breath for anybody to start thinking relabeling everything in increments of 1.66 (or whatever the hell the ratio is). Would be nice, but I'm just not seeing it. - RustyTaco
Use the force, motherfucker!
You have a very funny idea of what the internet is and how it works if you really think that you shouldn't be on the internet to access it.
- RustyTaco
Hmm, I like that idea. Sure dialup blows, but it'd get the job done safely. Probably be a bitch to roll out, but not imposible to do in a months time.
- RustyTaco
Nah, it's more of an Aston Kutcher role. Just think of it:
Darl: Dude! Where's my code?
IBM: Where's your code dude?
Darl: DUUDE! Where's my code?!?
IBM: I donno dude, where's your code?
- RustyTaco
- RustyTaco
Uh, know, that was their usually poor approximation that couldn't piss a stream. As I recall they "fixed" the flow and it did make a nice pop and throw the dummy back.
- RustyTaco
When you get busted, we split your warez.
- RustyTaco
Wow, this is slow on the uptake even for slashdot. This was demonstrated last year at DefCon in August. It works because, as somebody else mentioned, there is no salt on the hash so you can pre-compute massive hash dictionaries. Also, it's a bastardized MS-CHAP which stupidly pads the hash with two constant characters so you can almost instantly cut down the keyspace you need to brute force by a huge margin.
The limiting factor is how fast your attack machine can read your pre-computed dictionaries off the disk.
- RustyTaco
It's really too bad that nobody else uses MSIs properly. Lots of fugly "InstallSheild" bastardized MSIs and still lots of random custom crap. MS Office's use of MSIs are fairly good, not perfect because you still need a custom tool to make any changes, but at least they provide the tool so you can deploy Office without pulling teeth.
Adobe on the other hand (except for Acrobat) can burn in hell for their stupid bastardized nested install shields, in zip files. I've spent the last couple days trying to get a script, unattended install going for the Adobe Creative Suite. It's something like 5 programs using 6 different installers, I swear. I think I've got the base kludged together using AutoIt to click through the installer (have to use the suite installer instead of the individual app installers which might be scriptable because the app installers don't recognized the license key for the whole suite). Silently installing the patches (since it's imposible to make a pre-patched installer, as I've done with Office) is even more exciting.
I'm using to install the system, and thank god for it.
- RustyTaco
- RustyTaco
The article forgot to mention the Minibosses. Tisk tisk.
- RustyTaco
That, and they completely gave up or just ran out of energy after the "scream" clip. They didn't even try to spin it their way, the way that better described the situation that clip was cut from. They just gave up and went home, I'm guessing because the staff was so overwhelmingly young and optimistic that they couldn't cope with not wining uncontested.
- RustyTaco
This is southern Arizona, January is lower 70s (F), maybe down to 55 early in the morning.
- RustyTaco
Actually, I find the opposite. I've found myself being more aware of cover, and keeping an eye on the enemy sneaking around and flanking me, after started paintballing in January. Something about impending pain flying at you at 290 feet/s makes you more cognizant of how to avoid it.
- RustyTaco
Uh, that's why all modern (and probably old too) unix print systems have filters that know how to print stuff. "lp bar" should be more than sufficient.
- RustyTaco
Like I said, drug kicking and screaming. The GigE-copper spec requires auto-crossing ports. I havn't seen any of them violate the spec, yet, but I know it's coming.
- RustyTaco
- RustyTaco
Bitch at Sanyo for not providing an iSync conduit for their skrewy sync protocol. iSync supports SyncML, which is what most of those phones use. Thus they get support by supporting the standard. If you want to sync a Palm device you need to install the Palm Desktop to get the Palm iSync conduit.
Sprint has never been big on the "let the users do it themselves" mentality, prefering to see more along the lines of "If we don't force our way in the middle how can we charge them for it?" vis a vis "Picture mail" that requires you to go to their little web/wap page to look at pictures and insists that you download single, 15k jpgs in zip files instead of just signing and MMS transport agreement with other carriers. Incomming SMS was the same way until this morning, except that the web app didn't work from Trio 300s.
- RustyTaco