I've got one that I had at my old job as a conversation piece. It had one hole from my Marlin 366SS (30-30) and one from my Glock 22 (40 cal). It was a nice conversation piece. Now I need to add a 9MM, 44mag, and.223 to it and I'll be caught up. I'm ignoring the various shotguns I own for the moment.
I had to clean up a mess of a netadm's after he made a similar mistake with recursive chmod. For whatever reason while working on his own files in his own home directory he elected to su to root to recursively change permissions. He ran chmod 640 -R.* from his home dir. Reading through root's bash history I see from his subsequent commands that he never even realized he fscked up. Since it didn't run all the way through/home and beyond I can decude that he ctrl-c'd it. He then removed the period, ran it again, and went on about his personal business as root of course. While that jacked up chmod command was running it recursively changed the permissions on 371 customers' home directories. This caused all their websites to give 403 errors (world can't read the files or execute on the pertinent directories). Procmail got REALLY pissy about the permissions on the contents of ~/mail/. SquirrelMail also had numerous failing functions but I forget what exactly they were. It took me a good many hours to write a couple of scripts to identify and change permissions on the files and directories that needed it from the list of affected home dirs. That day I oh so wanted to change root's passwd and only allow it to be issued to those that had a valid reason to need it. I was livid. He never noticed he screwed up. No one heard about it until a customer happened to mention it to a family member of mine the next day (the school's website wouldn't load). They called me and I looked into it. I was pissed when I figured out what happened. I graphically explained to those that wouldn't otherwise know j ust exactly what his beginner mistake could have caused had it not been canceled. I also explained what his beginner mistake would have done had he used a slightly different permission setting. Oh was I ever pissed. I'm not so pissed that he did it because we all make mistake, even stupid ones years after we should know better. It's the fact that he didn't realize he made the mistake that pisses me off to no ends. Grrrr.......
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I have given UML a try a number of times (I need it right now too!) but I've never figured it out. If anyone happens to have a link to a good HOWTO, whitepaper or guide I'd love to have it. I'm sure others would too.
True, but if you're driving from your home to your job at the local 7-11 and you get in an accident between home and work, 7-11 isn't responsible. Sure it's because of them you're driving to work but then again it's not. You're driving to work because you want to exchange your services for their money. If you didn't want their money you wouldn't go.
Another guy with a nice selection. How could I forget one of my favorite hobbies? I don't get any gun mags to speak of, other than catalogs for cheaperthandirt.com and a few others. I need to put a few of these on my list.
Fine collection. It's hard for people like us to keep up with all the various fields we want to keep up with, don't you think? Wood-working, flying, tech stuff, science, politics, cooking, health, world news, investing, etc... I could spend all week reading everything I can get my hands on and still never keep up. The good news is I'm one of those people that can glance at an article (briefly skim it) or hear it on the news/radio in the background and recall enough down the road to make do. At the least I'll remember enough to be able to search for the nitty gritty details on the 'Net and find what I forgot quickly. Too bad more of these pubs didn't come on audio CD.:-)
I read Sysadmin Mag. Frankly I find a number of useful things in it. I wish the monthly magazine was about twice as thick. They are very good at using a theme for the major articles in a given magazine. I like that. Their Q&A is useful tool. They tend to lean a lot towards Solaris which I'd rather they not. Still I find a lot of good information inside it's covers. One thing that I absolutely love about them is the fact that they make the entire history of the magazine available on CD-ROM for an acceptable fee (half for previous purchasers). I love that about them. They include the Perl Journal on the CD too. It's all in HTML form. Very nice. I wish all mags (about books) came that way.
I don't really read other mags. I don't have that much time. If I did have the time I'd read the WSJ (Wall Street Journal). That would help me with my investing.
I recognize that title. I've seen it before on Amazon. I bought Dude, Where's My Country back when it first came out and more recently Against All Enemies. I'll have to add it to my wishlist for my next big book buying spree. Thanks!
Yeah, it is needed for SSL. You're right about that. FTP too. Still HTTP works flawlessly. I wish more protocols transfered the target URL like HTTP. That is a helluva lot of SSL sites. I wonder if this place was one of those annoying as hell search engine/domain typo/squatter company. If it's 400,000 unused domains then I don't have any sympathy for them.
I have to wonder what kind of a jacked up web-hosting solution uses 400,000 different IP addresses? That's freaking absurd. You can host 400,000 websites on 1 IP address. You don't need an IP per website. I'm trying to recall the various ARIN agreements from the last time I bought a/19. It seems like it asks for the number of devices in a subnet. You'd be lieing if you said 400,000 when you really had just one. I agree this case isn't clear on facts as of yet. It's a scary precident if it gets that far. I hope it doesn't.
Since it's really hard to find now that Cisco bought Abacus I thought I should provide a link. I'm glad Craig put up the sentry family of tools again. I loved portsentry. I do wish it had a few more features. Perhaps I'll add them myself someday.
You think security through obscrutiny is bad? I used to work with some folks that thought security through obsolesence was the key. In a way I can see their point. After all, their DB software was older than most of the script kiddies attacking it. LOL
The Clam is a great tool. Ignore the folks that are whining about it. I use it on multiple production mail servers and haven't seen a single virus get through since I installed it. Granted it's always a good idea to have more than one AV tool check your mail and you should have an end-to-end solution on all boxes. Still Clam is a damn fine tool.
If you want a text only version of what's up on your interface then go with IPTraf. It's ncurses-based. I think that'll do what you want. I used to leave it up on my Linux firewall/router so I could see what I was pulling down at any given moment.
Actually... we have both cable TV, cable Internet access, and DSL. Our local telco is also our cable TV provider. They offer DSL in the towns in which they have a telco presence and cable modems in town in which they only have a cable TV presence. They offer long-range Ethernet to folks in the country. Wireless is also a possibility in the future. As an ISP they also happen to have first rate spam and AV filtering on email. Of course I'm a little biased. I happen to work for them, keeping their server farm up and running.:-)
I recall hearing something (or perhaps I read it) about Carnegie Mellon Unv a number of years back (2000 or 2001 perhaps?) about CMY declaring that all the airwaves above their campus are their sole property and can not be legally interfered with by anyone on or off campus. Basically they wanted to ensure that their wireless network had no competition. I'm thinking it was CMU. I haven't been able to find anything about it though in a few minutes of Googling. The FCC's ruling would mean that CMU could no longer declare unlicensed spectrum to be their own for their own exclusive use (or licensing depending on how you look at it). I see this ruling possibly applying to students in a dorm that want to have an AP in their room. The school says no because they are offering their own wireless access. The FCC ruling would say that's a no no. Interesting ruling no matter how you look at it.
I personally want both. I don't know why publishers don't put both in their tech books. I own hundreds upon hundreds of tech books with topics ranging from security and networking to programming and systems management. I have close to four dozen hard-bound Cisco Press books. I love my Perl CD Bookshelf for the simple fact that I can flip through and search dozens of pages without cluttering up my already horrific desktop (dead tree desktop). However when I have a topic I really need to read up on I put down the mouse, push back the keyboard, put up my feet, put on some Frank or Louis, crack open a cold one and open up a good dead tree. I stare at a computer screen too much as it is. I wish all my books came with HTML or PDF digital versions. That would be wonderful.
The fact that inspectors found parts actually reinforces Saddam's (evil mad psycho guy) assertions that they dismantled all their long-range missiles. If they had complete missiles then that's one thing. If they've chop-shopped them for parts and shipped them off to other countries then they've complied with the UN resolution. IIRC we haven't even found functional SCUDs in Iraq yet. This whole thing is really curious. I wish I could see into the future 30 years and see what was written in the history books on this. Did Saddam really have WMD, plans, or a program in place to build them? Did Glory Boy Bush attack for the helluva it? I wish I knew what was going to be written. At this point it's almost a guessing game.
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I've got one that I had at my old job as a conversation piece. It had one hole from my Marlin 366SS (30-30) and one from my Glock 22 (40 cal). It was a nice conversation piece. Now I need to add a 9MM, 44mag, and .223 to it and I'll be caught up. I'm ignoring the various shotguns I own for the moment.
I had to clean up a mess of a netadm's after he made a similar mistake with recursive chmod. For whatever reason while working on his own files in his own home directory he elected to su to root to recursively change permissions. He ran chmod 640 -R .* from his home dir. Reading through root's bash history I see from his subsequent commands that he never even realized he fscked up. Since it didn't run all the way through /home and beyond I can decude that he ctrl-c'd it. He then removed the period, ran it again, and went on about his personal business as root of course. While that jacked up chmod command was running it recursively changed the permissions on 371 customers' home directories. This caused all their websites to give 403 errors (world can't read the files or execute on the pertinent directories). Procmail got REALLY pissy about the permissions on the contents of ~/mail/. SquirrelMail also had numerous failing functions but I forget what exactly they were. It took me a good many hours to write a couple of scripts to identify and change permissions on the files and directories that needed it from the list of affected home dirs. That day I oh so wanted to change root's passwd and only allow it to be issued to those that had a valid reason to need it. I was livid. He never noticed he screwed up. No one heard about it until a customer happened to mention it to a family member of mine the next day (the school's website wouldn't load). They called me and I looked into it. I was pissed when I figured out what happened. I graphically explained to those that wouldn't otherwise know j ust exactly what his beginner mistake could have caused had it not been canceled. I also explained what his beginner mistake would have done had he used a slightly different permission setting. Oh was I ever pissed. I'm not so pissed that he did it because we all make mistake, even stupid ones years after we should know better. It's the fact that he didn't realize he made the mistake that pisses me off to no ends. Grrrr.......
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RFC? We (they) don't need no stinkin' RFC!
I have given UML a try a number of times (I need it right now too!) but I've never figured it out. If anyone happens to have a link to a good HOWTO, whitepaper or guide I'd love to have it. I'm sure others would too.
True, but if you're driving from your home to your job at the local 7-11 and you get in an accident between home and work, 7-11 isn't responsible. Sure it's because of them you're driving to work but then again it's not. You're driving to work because you want to exchange your services for their money. If you didn't want their money you wouldn't go.
Another guy with a nice selection. How could I forget one of my favorite hobbies? I don't get any gun mags to speak of, other than catalogs for cheaperthandirt.com and a few others. I need to put a few of these on my list.
Fine collection. It's hard for people like us to keep up with all the various fields we want to keep up with, don't you think? Wood-working, flying, tech stuff, science, politics, cooking, health, world news, investing, etc... I could spend all week reading everything I can get my hands on and still never keep up. The good news is I'm one of those people that can glance at an article (briefly skim it) or hear it on the news/radio in the background and recall enough down the road to make do. At the least I'll remember enough to be able to search for the nitty gritty details on the 'Net and find what I forgot quickly. Too bad more of these pubs didn't come on audio CD. :-)
It's on my list of things to become. I'd like to learn on my Grandpa's Apache before he sells it.
I wrote about it kind of late. Nice mag.
I used to sub to it. It's been a while. I really liked it though. Lots of fun and good info to boot.
I don't really read other mags. I don't have that much time. If I did have the time I'd read the WSJ (Wall Street Journal). That would help me with my investing.
I recognize that title. I've seen it before on Amazon. I bought Dude, Where's My Country back when it first came out and more recently Against All Enemies. I'll have to add it to my wishlist for my next big book buying spree. Thanks!
Yeah, it is needed for SSL. You're right about that. FTP too. Still HTTP works flawlessly. I wish more protocols transfered the target URL like HTTP. That is a helluva lot of SSL sites. I wonder if this place was one of those annoying as hell search engine/domain typo/squatter company. If it's 400,000 unused domains then I don't have any sympathy for them.
I have to wonder what kind of a jacked up web-hosting solution uses 400,000 different IP addresses? That's freaking absurd. You can host 400,000 websites on 1 IP address. You don't need an IP per website. I'm trying to recall the various ARIN agreements from the last time I bought a /19. It seems like it asks for the number of devices in a subnet. You'd be lieing if you said 400,000 when you really had just one. I agree this case isn't clear on facts as of yet. It's a scary precident if it gets that far. I hope it doesn't.
Could you by chance provide a book title, Amazon, or B&N link? I couldn't find the book. Thanks
Err, I said Abacus. I meant Psionic. My bad.
Since it's really hard to find now that Cisco bought Abacus I thought I should provide a link. I'm glad Craig put up the sentry family of tools again. I loved portsentry. I do wish it had a few more features. Perhaps I'll add them myself someday.
You think security through obscrutiny is bad? I used to work with some folks that thought security through obsolesence was the key. In a way I can see their point. After all, their DB software was older than most of the script kiddies attacking it. LOL
The Clam is a great tool. Ignore the folks that are whining about it. I use it on multiple production mail servers and haven't seen a single virus get through since I installed it. Granted it's always a good idea to have more than one AV tool check your mail and you should have an end-to-end solution on all boxes. Still Clam is a damn fine tool.
If you want a text only version of what's up on your interface then go with IPTraf. It's ncurses-based. I think that'll do what you want. I used to leave it up on my Linux firewall/router so I could see what I was pulling down at any given moment.
Actually... we have both cable TV, cable Internet access, and DSL. Our local telco is also our cable TV provider. They offer DSL in the towns in which they have a telco presence and cable modems in town in which they only have a cable TV presence. They offer long-range Ethernet to folks in the country. Wireless is also a possibility in the future. As an ISP they also happen to have first rate spam and AV filtering on email. Of course I'm a little biased. I happen to work for them, keeping their server farm up and running. :-)
I recall hearing something (or perhaps I read it) about Carnegie Mellon Unv a number of years back (2000 or 2001 perhaps?) about CMY declaring that all the airwaves above their campus are their sole property and can not be legally interfered with by anyone on or off campus. Basically they wanted to ensure that their wireless network had no competition. I'm thinking it was CMU. I haven't been able to find anything about it though in a few minutes of Googling. The FCC's ruling would mean that CMU could no longer declare unlicensed spectrum to be their own for their own exclusive use (or licensing depending on how you look at it). I see this ruling possibly applying to students in a dorm that want to have an AP in their room. The school says no because they are offering their own wireless access. The FCC ruling would say that's a no no. Interesting ruling no matter how you look at it.
I personally want both. I don't know why publishers don't put both in their tech books. I own hundreds upon hundreds of tech books with topics ranging from security and networking to programming and systems management. I have close to four dozen hard-bound Cisco Press books. I love my Perl CD Bookshelf for the simple fact that I can flip through and search dozens of pages without cluttering up my already horrific desktop (dead tree desktop). However when I have a topic I really need to read up on I put down the mouse, push back the keyboard, put up my feet, put on some Frank or Louis, crack open a cold one and open up a good dead tree. I stare at a computer screen too much as it is. I wish all my books came with HTML or PDF digital versions. That would be wonderful.
The fact that inspectors found parts actually reinforces Saddam's (evil mad psycho guy) assertions that they dismantled all their long-range missiles. If they had complete missiles then that's one thing. If they've chop-shopped them for parts and shipped them off to other countries then they've complied with the UN resolution. IIRC we haven't even found functional SCUDs in Iraq yet. This whole thing is really curious. I wish I could see into the future 30 years and see what was written in the history books on this. Did Saddam really have WMD, plans, or a program in place to build them? Did Glory Boy Bush attack for the helluva it? I wish I knew what was going to be written. At this point it's almost a guessing game.