It would be nice if OpenSSH could query an LDAP server for the sshPublicKey field directly. There's a patch that does it, but as far as I know it's not integrated into the main ssh code base that ships with general Linux distributions. Supporting that and then having people use the SSHFP record with secure DNS would be nice additions to SSH best practices.
I skimmed the source articles and I'm confused as to the premise of this discussion that it makes any sense to move from Samsung to Intel for ARM fabrication. Intel may have some foundry business but I would think if Apple were looking at an alternate foundry they would be considering options like TSMC or UMC, not Intel. Although doing some Googling to check my facts on this comment since I've been out of the semiconductor world for a long time does reveal that apparently Apple did consider TSMC. But that still leaves plenty of third party foundries.
My school also had those rules regarding carrying a pager being grounds for explusion. While I wasn't thrilled with the rules at the time, I nevertheless followed them. I did actually own a pager my senior year (couldn't afford a cell phone), but I didn't bring it to school.
I found it all kind of ridiculous, but my solution was to graduate 2 years early, not to fuck with the administration. Didn't seem worth the time or energy.
I am more of a UNIX admin so I don't claim to be an expert on remote Windows management, but I believe the tool you're looking for is Microsoft PowerShell which allows remote WMI scripting. I've seen some pretty impressive demos of infrastructure automation using WMI and PowerShell.
For power cycling and the like, I'd go with the hardware remote management tools (iLo, DRAC, and the like).
A quick Google turned up a few Microsoft articles on PowerShell and WMI. (Article 1, Article 2)
The Washington Monument is a big tall pointy thing that doesn't particularly bear resemblance to Greek mythology. Are you referring to the Lincoln Memorial? That is a bit "Zeus like" but the subject is Abraham Lincoln, not George Washington.
Or perhaps there is a monument of George Washington on a throne somewhere in the District. There's a ton of monuments here; who could keep track of them all?
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Ah yes, thanks, Global War is what I was thinking of. I knew Tradewars was probably wrong and right after I submitted my comment I remembered that Tradewars was that space commerce game.
So yeah, Global War. Haven't played that game since, well, BBS days. I was always more of a fan of Baron Realms Elite though...gosh..that brings back memories.
I never saw the original game web site, so I'm not sure exactly what it looked like. But as long as you don't use the name RISK and you don't copy, word for word, their rules out of the physical cardboard box that the game comes in (ie. don't infringe their copyright), then I don't see why you couldn't put this back online.
After all, what was that game - Tradewars? - that was exactly like RISK but I don't think anyone ever made an issue out of it.
I always thought Desqview (and Desqview/X) was pretty cool. Even though I've been a Windows user since '87/'88 I did play with Desqview/X and thought the idea of having an X server built into your PC GUI was a pretty neat idea. Even if I didn't totally understand what X was at the time.
I haven't looked into these identity management systems in great detail, but from browsing around I find sxip.com / sxip.org to be more interesting than i-names.
I think you're refering to "at will" employment. And that has nothing to do with Federally-mandated breaks. Perhaps there might be an issue if you're an independent subcontractor, but in that case this whole discussion wouldn't really apply to you.
Also I'm not sure why you consider "at will" employment to be inherently evil. Almost everyone's employment is at will, baring very high level executive management and subcontractors.
Eh- camera phones for corporate espionage? If you're an insider I think it's far likelier you'd e-mail/ftp/IM/whatever the source documents out of the company than try to James Bond it on to microfilm.
As far as the CIA not allowing cell phones, I think that has about 1% to do with camera phones which have been available for about 5 minutes (and which nobody who works for the CIA is cool enough to actually have) and about 99% to do with the fact that cell phones can be tampered with and turned into always-on transmitters.
Also, FYI, George Bush (Sr) was the Director of Central Intelligence which, I'd imagine, is why they named the building after him.
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wouldn't you have to know what it was to be first? I mean, I could understand walking past a big line and joining it even if you don't know what it's for. but to be first you'd presumably have to get there early and know the event was happening. unless he just bribes people to get their spot or something.
Well the/. story exerpt is kind of alarmist but I think the more relevant quote from the paper is
"However, the theoretical analysis shows that the cost of the relation collection step cannot be significantly reduced, regardless of the cost of the matrix step. We thus conclude that the practical security of RSA for commonly used modulus sizes is not significantly affected..."
(typos probably mine)
Uh....no probably not. SGI has a pretty limited product line - I'm not up on all their servers but it used to be if you wanted a low end to moderate server you'd get an Origin 200. Otherwise you get an Origin 2000 in whatever configuration makes sense. Today the scenario is basically the same but change in Origin 3x00 instead of 2000.
SUN has their product line more gradiated - so where on a SUN you would get perhaps a 3800 or a 4800 or a 6800 or an SF12k or an SF15k - probably for all of those apps you would get some kind of O2K or O3K system from SGI..
So..uh..it's kind of different.
Veritas has certain capabilities that are nice I suppose, but frankly I use DiskSuite exclusively (which by the way has been included with Solaris since at least 2.6 or 7 on one of the supplemental CDs). Anyway if you are building a big SUN file server then OK maybe VxFS can give you things like in a SAN or especially if you are using the Vertais NetBackup product to do your backups. Fine.
But for me - #1 I don't want to pay $$ for Veritas (not just initial aquisition but also maint.) and I don't want added complexity. In my servers there are no local data but I do want root and swap mirrored for reliability reasons (pretty neat to have 200 GB of swap...mirrored...) But anyway - for those purposes I like to stick to just SUN because then it's one finger to point, whatever. Plus I know in my Solaris upgrade instructions it will (hopefully??) take into account the SUN product and give me instructions whereas with Veritas then again you have the integration issues.
Not that Veritas is bad software or that it's not cross-supported by SUN. It's fine. But computers (esp big ones) have enough issues - I like to try to keep the complexity to a dull roar..
That's my two cents...
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OK, this is just stupid. Everyone ranting on and on. Am I the only person who actually has paid maint. costs for Solaris machines here?! I have no idea what that crazy pricing on the SUN web site is but no one is going to pay that. Where I work we have quite a few (several hundred) SUN machines and while our maint. contract is in the six figures per year (ie. NOT free) we are certainly not paying $200,000 per system or whatever odd numbers are quoted on their web site.
I know it may be something you don't know if you're 16 and you're only familiar with "Dude you're getting a Dell" but for some reason (I'm sure those with marketing backgrounds can elaborate more than anyone wants) companies feel the need to put list prices that are out of the ball park. I guess so their customers feel they're getting a great discount or who knows. Anyway if you go to the SUN online store and you think that's what people really pay for those systems no wonder you're having a conniption. Of course not.
For real people who use real SUN machines to accomplish real work are not paying any attention to that web page. The media and the license are covered by the annual support agreement and it will just show up in the mail (well obviously only if you have support but again if you're a real SUN customer you do). I have no idea what functionality is even available in Solaris 9 that I would want...I got a card in the mail the other day but nothing really jumped out at me...although if they can fix that screwed up LDAP server product they have and make it easy to configure and install that would be enough for me.
But really Solaris 9 pricing is a non-starter....unless I guess you buy a used E3000 on ebay and put it in your bedroom or something but I don't think any of SUN's marketing or saless are really too worked up about that.
And as for running LINUX on a 24 processor SPARC box? What the Hell are you talking about?! No one does that. Sorry to rain on your open source parade they don't.
I'm not saying LINUX doesn't matter but nobody doing real computing on SUN's is having wet dreams about LINUX because it's such a super 31337 operating system...now the fact that the Intel CPUs are substantially faster than the SPARC ones - that's what's driving LINUX adoption where I work. People just want their jobs to get done faster....that is all they care about. The tools they are using costs hundreds of thousands of dollars per year in license fees, the fact that the OS is free is a non-issue...it's all about the speed advantage of the Intel chips...
Actually it's better than that, from an accounting perspective this will SAVE US companies $millions. The reason is that if you work for a company that has a regular Paid Time Off policy (ie. counts sick days and vacation days as the same thing) then when you call in sick (or do the responsible thing and just take the day off in advance) then you get paid out of the PTO kitty. But this has already been filled up by the company (those hours you accrue each pay period). So from their perspective they don't have to pay you for that day (well not out of the salary bucket). So actually you could make the argument that this will be a boon for the US economy.
Or you could see all this accounting pseudo-science as silly, like I do.
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It would be nice if OpenSSH could query an LDAP server for the sshPublicKey field directly. There's a patch that does it, but as far as I know it's not integrated into the main ssh code base that ships with general Linux distributions. Supporting that and then having people use the SSHFP record with secure DNS would be nice additions to SSH best practices.
I skimmed the source articles and I'm confused as to the premise of this discussion that it makes any sense to move from Samsung to Intel for ARM fabrication. Intel may have some foundry business but I would think if Apple were looking at an alternate foundry they would be considering options like TSMC or UMC, not Intel. Although doing some Googling to check my facts on this comment since I've been out of the semiconductor world for a long time does reveal that apparently Apple did consider TSMC. But that still leaves plenty of third party foundries.
I found it all kind of ridiculous, but my solution was to graduate 2 years early, not to fuck with the administration. Didn't seem worth the time or energy.
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A better idea would be to create a duplicate A record, not a CNAME. CNAMEs are really meant for something else.
Although in practice, lots of people do use CNAMEs for the purpose you are suggesting.
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I am more of a UNIX admin so I don't claim to be an expert on remote Windows management, but I believe the tool you're looking for is Microsoft PowerShell which allows remote WMI scripting. I've seen some pretty impressive demos of infrastructure automation using WMI and PowerShell.
For power cycling and the like, I'd go with the hardware remote management tools (iLo, DRAC, and the like).
A quick Google turned up a few Microsoft articles on PowerShell and WMI. (Article 1, Article 2)
The Washington Monument is a big tall pointy thing that doesn't particularly bear resemblance to Greek mythology. Are you referring to the Lincoln Memorial? That is a bit "Zeus like" but the subject is Abraham Lincoln, not George Washington. Or perhaps there is a monument of George Washington on a throne somewhere in the District. There's a ton of monuments here; who could keep track of them all? -m
So yeah, Global War. Haven't played that game since, well, BBS days. I was always more of a fan of Baron Realms Elite though...gosh..that brings back memories.
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After all, what was that game - Tradewars? - that was exactly like RISK but I don't think anyone ever made an issue out of it.
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Eh, I think Kleiner, Perkins is probably a little more of a "household name" than Seqoia but whatever.
They're a top tier VC in Silicon Valley. More info is on their web site.
I always thought Desqview (and Desqview/X) was pretty cool. Even though I've been a Windows user since '87/'88 I did play with Desqview/X and thought the idea of having an X server built into your PC GUI was a pretty neat idea. Even if I didn't totally understand what X was at the time.
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Is there a story here? What is the point of this post? -m
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Also I'm not sure why you consider "at will" employment to be inherently evil. Almost everyone's employment is at will, baring very high level executive management and subcontractors.
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Not really an unbelievable markup
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Eh- camera phones for corporate espionage? If you're an insider I think it's far likelier you'd e-mail/ftp/IM/whatever the source documents out of the company than try to James Bond it on to microfilm. As far as the CIA not allowing cell phones, I think that has about 1% to do with camera phones which have been available for about 5 minutes (and which nobody who works for the CIA is cool enough to actually have) and about 99% to do with the fact that cell phones can be tampered with and turned into always-on transmitters. Also, FYI, George Bush (Sr) was the Director of Central Intelligence which, I'd imagine, is why they named the building after him. -m
I haven't read that William Gibson book, but Being John Malkovich was also along those lines. -m
wouldn't you have to know what it was to be first? I mean, I could understand walking past a big line and joining it even if you don't know what it's for. but to be first you'd presumably have to get there early and know the event was happening. unless he just bribes people to get their spot or something.
I thought God was a Sergeant Major -m
Well the /. story exerpt is kind of alarmist but I think the more relevant quote from the paper is
"However, the theoretical analysis shows that the cost of the relation collection step cannot be significantly reduced, regardless of the cost of the matrix step. We thus conclude that the practical security of RSA for commonly used modulus sizes is not significantly affected..."
(typos probably mine)
Uh....no probably not. SGI has a pretty limited product line - I'm not up on all their servers but it used to be if you wanted a low end to moderate server you'd get an Origin 200. Otherwise you get an Origin 2000 in whatever configuration makes sense. Today the scenario is basically the same but change in Origin 3x00 instead of 2000. SUN has their product line more gradiated - so where on a SUN you would get perhaps a 3800 or a 4800 or a 6800 or an SF12k or an SF15k - probably for all of those apps you would get some kind of O2K or O3K system from SGI.. So..uh..it's kind of different.
Veritas has certain capabilities that are nice I suppose, but frankly I use DiskSuite exclusively (which by the way has been included with Solaris since at least 2.6 or 7 on one of the supplemental CDs). Anyway if you are building a big SUN file server then OK maybe VxFS can give you things like in a SAN or especially if you are using the Vertais NetBackup product to do your backups. Fine.
But for me - #1 I don't want to pay $$ for Veritas (not just initial aquisition but also maint.) and I don't want added complexity. In my servers there are no local data but I do want root and swap mirrored for reliability reasons (pretty neat to have 200 GB of swap...mirrored...) But anyway - for those purposes I like to stick to just SUN because then it's one finger to point, whatever. Plus I know in my Solaris upgrade instructions it will (hopefully??) take into account the SUN product and give me instructions whereas with Veritas then again you have the integration issues.
Not that Veritas is bad software or that it's not cross-supported by SUN. It's fine. But computers (esp big ones) have enough issues - I like to try to keep the complexity to a dull roar..
That's my two cents...
OK, this is just stupid. Everyone ranting on and on. Am I the only person who actually has paid maint. costs for Solaris machines here?! I have no idea what that crazy pricing on the SUN web site is but no one is going to pay that. Where I work we have quite a few (several hundred) SUN machines and while our maint. contract is in the six figures per year (ie. NOT free) we are certainly not paying $200,000 per system or whatever odd numbers are quoted on their web site.
I know it may be something you don't know if you're 16 and you're only familiar with "Dude you're getting a Dell" but for some reason (I'm sure those with marketing backgrounds can elaborate more than anyone wants) companies feel the need to put list prices that are out of the ball park. I guess so their customers feel they're getting a great discount or who knows. Anyway if you go to the SUN online store and you think that's what people really pay for those systems no wonder you're having a conniption. Of course not.
For real people who use real SUN machines to accomplish real work are not paying any attention to that web page. The media and the license are covered by the annual support agreement and it will just show up in the mail (well obviously only if you have support but again if you're a real SUN customer you do). I have no idea what functionality is even available in Solaris 9 that I would want...I got a card in the mail the other day but nothing really jumped out at me...although if they can fix that screwed up LDAP server product they have and make it easy to configure and install that would be enough for me.
But really Solaris 9 pricing is a non-starter....unless I guess you buy a used E3000 on ebay and put it in your bedroom or something but I don't think any of SUN's marketing or saless are really too worked up about that.
And as for running LINUX on a 24 processor SPARC box? What the Hell are you talking about?! No one does that. Sorry to rain on your open source parade they don't.
I'm not saying LINUX doesn't matter but nobody doing real computing on SUN's is having wet dreams about LINUX because it's such a super 31337 operating system...now the fact that the Intel CPUs are substantially faster than the SPARC ones - that's what's driving LINUX adoption where I work. People just want their jobs to get done faster....that is all they care about. The tools they are using costs hundreds of thousands of dollars per year in license fees, the fact that the OS is free is a non-issue...it's all about the speed advantage of the Intel chips...
OK rant over
Actually it's better than that, from an accounting perspective this will SAVE US companies $millions. The reason is that if you work for a company that has a regular Paid Time Off policy (ie. counts sick days and vacation days as the same thing) then when you call in sick (or do the responsible thing and just take the day off in advance) then you get paid out of the PTO kitty. But this has already been filled up by the company (those hours you accrue each pay period). So from their perspective they don't have to pay you for that day (well not out of the salary bucket). So actually you could make the argument that this will be a boon for the US economy.
Or you could see all this accounting pseudo-science as silly, like I do.