Oh, zfs! I remember it corrupting all my file systems while I was a university student. Maybe it was the Linux implementation, I don't know, but I'm never touching that fs again.
Also my NAS corrupted its file system more recently and guess which fs it was?
I have been running ZFS for ~5 years now across ~40 servers. Never failed once.
I even had one particular server with 8 drives in a RAIDZ2 lose a drive while two others started failing. I replaced them all successfully. Less than 12 hours later two additional drives failed and a third started acting flakey. I replaced them all successfully. No data loss. I'll trust AUFS when I see it handle weird hardware BS like that.
This "BrianFagioli" character is associated with several of the recent submissions. Does he benefit in some way from this publicity that Slashdot is giving this "BetaNews" site?
This is Slashdot. No one actually reads the articles.
I thought it was just a repackaged derivative of SpamAssassin.
Yeah, that's basically it in a nutshell.
Nothing you can't rapidly duplicate with a Debian install and a few salt or puppet scripts. I tested it against the previous Haraka install with spamassassin, dspam, clamav, and their 'karma' plugin, and the accuracy of the Barracuda sucked in comparison.
I'm not impressed with Barracuda. A client made a decision to buy a Barracuda against my recommendations. I installed it and couldn't find DMARC settings anywhere. It turns out they support validating inbound DMARC, but they won't sign anything outbound. I had to set up an external Haraka mail server that blindly accepted all mail from the IP of their Barracuda, signed it, and attempted to deliver it. It's such a pile of garbage.
On another note, if you send a ~45 MB attachment to the device, apparently it clogs up and refuses to deliver. Other mail will go through without problems, but you have to call their tech support to 'force' it through.
Barracuda is a terrible, over-priced, barely-functional product.
This is pretty low on my list of wants. Lots of other shit way more important. How about a universal translator? That would be cool. Maybe if everyone could understand each other there would be less war, maybe? Eh
You obviously haven't read The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy:
“Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.”
I was going on a trip to DC and needed a ride from the airport to the place I was staying. I pre-loaded Uber about a week before I left, put in a credit card number, and thought I had everything set up. But the app wouldn't let me pre-save an address. So I had to write it down to type in to my phone later. Strike one.
The morning I was leaving, I got an e-mail from Uber that my credit card wasn't 'supported' and I'd have to enter a new one. What the hell? I used it twice on the way down. It works fine. (And I used it throughout my entire trip with no problems.) Put in a second credit card number before boarding. Strike two.
Got in to IAD, fired up the Uber app and it said there were errors submitting my ride request. Trying to continue typing in 13 degree weather sucked. Strike three.
I put my hand back in my glove, raised my arm and said "Taxi". The regular Taxi had no problems with my 'request', or my original card.
Purge all confidential data from your account, reset your password to something like "1lovespam" and post the username and password randomly around the internet until someone takes it over and starts spamming.
No, that's not it. Running overbudget is more of a customer problem and is usually caused by customer changes in the middle of construction.
Exactly. It's a customer problem. You originally wanted the walls of the control room painted white. We haven't even started building the control room yet, let alone purchased the paint and you are changing the requirement to 'grey'? That'll obviously cost you 1.6 million in additional fees.
Have you never worked in contracting before?
Roofers quoted me $2,500 to re-shingle my house two years ago. They started the process, then found 4 sheets of OSB that were slightly water damaged and needed to be replaced. So one of them drove to Home Depot and bought 6 sheets of OSB. Total cost for everything with the 4 sheets of OSB (and the 2 'spares')? $8,700.
So, we've decided to manually build the Borg, is that it? What about when the software decides that being able to be shut down is a bug, and auto patches that, then decides we're bugs too...
Are we creating Skynet, or the Borg, or some evil lovechild of the pair of them?
If they patch the system to not have a shutdown command, I don't think they'd be able to rapidly patch against a nice sharp axe, or a.45.
Yes it has been on that list... and it was found over a decade ago in a product called Linux (please see reference of potato web server: http://totl.net/Spud/ )
The question is: how long was he able to run the scam before getting busted - could he have folded up shop and skipped town before catching the heat?
Not that I'm advocating the behavior, but getting a business license in Washington State costs something like $500. Probably cheaper than paying for porn sites for years.
Geese actually work better for security. They're cheaper to feed and dar more vicious and territorial. Plus you can use their down to line your pillows.
We actually have geese. I can attest to this. They make a *racket* when the slightest thing is out of place. Someone creeps on to your property? *HONK* *SCREECH* *HONK*
Someone drives past your property? *HONK* *SCREECH*
You walk out your front door to go to work? *HONK*, etc...
A crow flies over?
Your bedroom window is ajar and you cough in the middle of the night?
The wind changes direction?
Yeah. Geese are good watchdogs, they just don't know what they're supposed to be watching for...
The back server room could be in the back, facilities in the middle, glass doors behind the secure door. Air conditioning on the roof with countermeasures.
It's farm country. I just need to find countermeasures for chickens and the occasional cow.
Just buy a container and convert it. Steel floor, walls, roof, doors. Paint it distinctive colors, (maybe a rainbow) and should someone try to swipe it, it will stick out like a sore thumb.
I've never been in a shipping container. How easy is it to mount lighting, or wire up a few network jacks? Did you basically 'frame in' an office inside the container?
Before you do anything - dig a big hole and put one of those giant concrete septic tanks in it. For extra special paranoia, punch a hole in one side, put a metal door in it and then fill out a trench filled with sand so you have an escape tunnel.
A separate structure will require power and HVAC and unless you fancy running through the cold when you need to pee it'll require plumbing too.
It's a farm. I'll just open the door and go. (kidding)
I do have the option to hook another bathroom to our septic system, but I'm not too worried about it. It would be about a 60-second walk back to the house, and while it's always raining in the northwest, it's usually only below freezing for a few weeks out of the year. Maybe I'll get an umbrella.
HVAC is a tricky beast. You have to control both temperature and humidity. You can hack together temperature control with cheap window units but if you want humidity control so you're not wet in the summer and sick (because of the dryness) in the winter you'll need real (expensive) HVAC.
I'm one of those people that rarely gets cold. As a kid I regularly wore sandals during the winter. Heat on the other hand sucks. Anything above ~65ish and I'm miserable. I figure the small collection of servers would be enough to keep it warm. They are currently in a closet off the bedroom, and the bedroom is currently ~65ish while it's ~30 outside.
Power is a fiddly beast too. You're not just running an outlet here, you're feeding a subpanel.
You're not erecting a shed here. You're in to at least a few tens of thousands of dollars.
Anything over 12v DC and I get nervous. I'm basically capable of replacing a 110 outlet or a light fixture, but I've been nailed a few times by what my electrician called a 'shared neutral' (I could be mis-remembering. No power to the outlet because I turned the breaker off, then my wife flipped a switch in another room and I got nailed. The 3-light power tester thing still said the outlet was dead). Regardless, I'll have an electrician hook all that up. I'd rather pay for it in cash than pay for it with my life.;)
Just how generous is your new employer?
Surprisingly. I told them my target wage. They asked "why so low". I replied that they were taking a risk on hiring me--especially for a remote position, but that I knew my stuff and would bring in a lot of money during my 6-month 'probation'. I told them once probation was over I would re-negotiate. When they sent over their offer, it was nearly double.
2) A nice desk, with a surface that breathes; you don't want glass or something else that will make you sweat when you make solid contact with it.
Never thought of that one. Hmm.... My last desk was some piece of junk from Walmart for $100. It worked pretty well but was too small. I 'upgraded' to a glass table-top, but I've only had it for the last few months (during the winter) and I haven't had to deal with temperatures above 65 in the office. Any recommendations?
4) A *great* keyboard, if you will be typing.
Already have a DasKeyboard.;)
5) a fast, quality computer. You won't regret it.
Have to work with a corp-issued Apple device. It'll be nice to be on BSD, but it'll suck having to get used to the new keystrokes and/or find ways and tools to make it more 'normal'.
6) Depending on how distractable you are and who else is around, and at what distances, you might want to consider soundproofing. This provides both privacy and prevents others from being irritated with your own noises.
That's the whole point of building an office outdoors. My current option is to stay indoors in the only available space I have: bedroom. Paper-thin walls between it and the rest of the house.
Yeah, if you don't know what your needs are, how do you even know you have needs?
Do you have a packing crate to use as a chair/table? Done.
Now when you figure out why that is an unpleasant office, you'll already know what things you need! You'll never have to ask anybody.
By that logic, don't use industry best-practices. Set your password to 1234 until you get hacked and realize you should have been using SSH keys.
There are a lot of smarter minds out there that have already gone through the trials and tribulations of a home office--or even an at-work office that could advise things I would never have considered.
I can see you easily conflate things that are not alike.
Ducks don't have hair. They have feathers.
Trump isn't Hitler. Get back to me when he's shoveling Jews, Muslims, or whatever into ovens.
For the same reason why when the cops asked if they could 'borrow' our ambulance to serve a high-risk search warrant because they wanted to catch the suspect unaware...the suspects will start shooting real ambulances.
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my 75 TB worth of RAID-Z2 and RAID-Z3 storage pools
My God! It's full of porn!
Oh, zfs! I remember it corrupting all my file systems while I was a university student. Maybe it was the Linux implementation, I don't know, but I'm never touching that fs again. Also my NAS corrupted its file system more recently and guess which fs it was?
I have been running ZFS for ~5 years now across ~40 servers. Never failed once.
I even had one particular server with 8 drives in a RAIDZ2 lose a drive while two others started failing. I replaced them all successfully. Less than 12 hours later two additional drives failed and a third started acting flakey. I replaced them all successfully. No data loss. I'll trust AUFS when I see it handle weird hardware BS like that.
Apple is Upgrading Millions of iOS Devices To a New Modern File System Today
Sweet. Maybe I'll purchase some Apple crap now...
a new file system -- called the Apple File System (APFS)
Wait. I thought you said a 'modern file system'. You know....like ZFS.
This "BrianFagioli" character is associated with several of the recent submissions. Does he benefit in some way from this publicity that Slashdot is giving this "BetaNews" site?
This is Slashdot. No one actually reads the articles.
I thought it was just a repackaged derivative of SpamAssassin.
Yeah, that's basically it in a nutshell.
Nothing you can't rapidly duplicate with a Debian install and a few salt or puppet scripts. I tested it against the previous Haraka install with spamassassin, dspam, clamav, and their 'karma' plugin, and the accuracy of the Barracuda sucked in comparison.
I'm not impressed with Barracuda. A client made a decision to buy a Barracuda against my recommendations. I installed it and couldn't find DMARC settings anywhere. It turns out they support validating inbound DMARC, but they won't sign anything outbound. I had to set up an external Haraka mail server that blindly accepted all mail from the IP of their Barracuda, signed it, and attempted to deliver it. It's such a pile of garbage.
On another note, if you send a ~45 MB attachment to the device, apparently it clogs up and refuses to deliver. Other mail will go through without problems, but you have to call their tech support to 'force' it through.
Barracuda is a terrible, over-priced, barely-functional product.
This is pretty low on my list of wants. Lots of other shit way more important. How about a universal translator? That would be cool. Maybe if everyone could understand each other there would be less war, maybe? Eh
You obviously haven't read The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy:
“Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.”
I was going on a trip to DC and needed a ride from the airport to the place I was staying. I pre-loaded Uber about a week before I left, put in a credit card number, and thought I had everything set up. But the app wouldn't let me pre-save an address. So I had to write it down to type in to my phone later. Strike one.
The morning I was leaving, I got an e-mail from Uber that my credit card wasn't 'supported' and I'd have to enter a new one. What the hell? I used it twice on the way down. It works fine. (And I used it throughout my entire trip with no problems.) Put in a second credit card number before boarding. Strike two.
Got in to IAD, fired up the Uber app and it said there were errors submitting my ride request. Trying to continue typing in 13 degree weather sucked. Strike three.
I put my hand back in my glove, raised my arm and said "Taxi". The regular Taxi had no problems with my 'request', or my original card.
Next time I go to DC I'll try Lyft instead.
Purge all confidential data from your account, reset your password to something like "1lovespam" and post the username and password randomly around the internet until someone takes it over and starts spamming.
Yahoo will delete it down for you.
No, that's not it. Running overbudget is more of a customer problem and is usually caused by customer changes in the middle of construction.
Exactly. It's a customer problem. You originally wanted the walls of the control room painted white. We haven't even started building the control room yet, let alone purchased the paint and you are changing the requirement to 'grey'? That'll obviously cost you 1.6 million in additional fees.
Have you never worked in contracting before?
Roofers quoted me $2,500 to re-shingle my house two years ago. They started the process, then found 4 sheets of OSB that were slightly water damaged and needed to be replaced. So one of them drove to Home Depot and bought 6 sheets of OSB. Total cost for everything with the 4 sheets of OSB (and the 2 'spares')? $8,700.
The EU rules they are officially members of DVD Regions 1 through 5, but not 6.
So, we've decided to manually build the Borg, is that it? What about when the software decides that being able to be shut down is a bug, and auto patches that, then decides we're bugs too...
Are we creating Skynet, or the Borg, or some evil lovechild of the pair of them?
If they patch the system to not have a shutdown command, I don't think they'd be able to rapidly patch against a nice sharp axe, or a .45.
Yes it has been on that list... and it was found over a decade ago in a product called Linux (please see reference of potato web server: http://totl.net/Spud/ )
This is the coolest thing I ever heard of.
The question is: how long was he able to run the scam before getting busted - could he have folded up shop and skipped town before catching the heat?
Not that I'm advocating the behavior, but getting a business license in Washington State costs something like $500. Probably cheaper than paying for porn sites for years.
Geese actually work better for security. They're cheaper to feed and dar more vicious and territorial. Plus you can use their down to line your pillows.
We actually have geese. I can attest to this. They make a *racket* when the slightest thing is out of place. Someone creeps on to your property? *HONK* *SCREECH* *HONK*
Someone drives past your property? *HONK* *SCREECH*
You walk out your front door to go to work? *HONK*, etc...
A crow flies over?
Your bedroom window is ajar and you cough in the middle of the night?
The wind changes direction?
Yeah. Geese are good watchdogs, they just don't know what they're supposed to be watching for...
The back server room could be in the back, facilities in the middle, glass doors behind the secure door. Air conditioning on the roof with countermeasures.
It's farm country. I just need to find countermeasures for chickens and the occasional cow.
Just buy a container and convert it. Steel floor, walls, roof, doors. Paint it distinctive colors, (maybe a rainbow) and should someone try to swipe it, it will stick out like a sore thumb.
I've never been in a shipping container. How easy is it to mount lighting, or wire up a few network jacks? Did you basically 'frame in' an office inside the container?
Before you do anything - dig a big hole and put one of those giant concrete septic tanks in it. For extra special paranoia, punch a hole in one side, put a metal door in it and then fill out a trench filled with sand so you have an escape tunnel.
It's cruel to tempt libertarians this way...
A separate structure will require power and HVAC and unless you fancy running through the cold when you need to pee it'll require plumbing too.
It's a farm. I'll just open the door and go. (kidding)
I do have the option to hook another bathroom to our septic system, but I'm not too worried about it. It would be about a 60-second walk back to the house, and while it's always raining in the northwest, it's usually only below freezing for a few weeks out of the year. Maybe I'll get an umbrella.
HVAC is a tricky beast. You have to control both temperature and humidity. You can hack together temperature control with cheap window units but if you want humidity control so you're not wet in the summer and sick (because of the dryness) in the winter you'll need real (expensive) HVAC.
I'm one of those people that rarely gets cold. As a kid I regularly wore sandals during the winter. Heat on the other hand sucks. Anything above ~65ish and I'm miserable. I figure the small collection of servers would be enough to keep it warm. They are currently in a closet off the bedroom, and the bedroom is currently ~65ish while it's ~30 outside.
Power is a fiddly beast too. You're not just running an outlet here, you're feeding a subpanel.
You're not erecting a shed here. You're in to at least a few tens of thousands of dollars.
Anything over 12v DC and I get nervous. I'm basically capable of replacing a 110 outlet or a light fixture, but I've been nailed a few times by what my electrician called a 'shared neutral' (I could be mis-remembering. No power to the outlet because I turned the breaker off, then my wife flipped a switch in another room and I got nailed. The 3-light power tester thing still said the outlet was dead). Regardless, I'll have an electrician hook all that up. I'd rather pay for it in cash than pay for it with my life. ;)
Just how generous is your new employer?
Surprisingly. I told them my target wage. They asked "why so low". I replied that they were taking a risk on hiring me--especially for a remote position, but that I knew my stuff and would bring in a lot of money during my 6-month 'probation'. I told them once probation was over I would re-negotiate. When they sent over their offer, it was nearly double.
9. Keep the fucking kids and wife away, else all 8 points above are moot.
That's the whole point of building an office outside instead of camping at a small desk in the bedroom...
2) A nice desk, with a surface that breathes; you don't want glass or something else that will make you sweat when you make solid contact with it.
Never thought of that one. Hmm.... My last desk was some piece of junk from Walmart for $100. It worked pretty well but was too small. I 'upgraded' to a glass table-top, but I've only had it for the last few months (during the winter) and I haven't had to deal with temperatures above 65 in the office. Any recommendations?
4) A *great* keyboard, if you will be typing.
Already have a DasKeyboard. ;)
5) a fast, quality computer. You won't regret it.
Have to work with a corp-issued Apple device. It'll be nice to be on BSD, but it'll suck having to get used to the new keystrokes and/or find ways and tools to make it more 'normal'.
6) Depending on how distractable you are and who else is around, and at what distances, you might want to consider soundproofing. This provides both privacy and prevents others from being irritated with your own noises.
That's the whole point of building an office outdoors. My current option is to stay indoors in the only available space I have: bedroom. Paper-thin walls between it and the rest of the house.
Good advice. Thanks!
Yeah, if you don't know what your needs are, how do you even know you have needs?
Do you have a packing crate to use as a chair/table? Done.
Now when you figure out why that is an unpleasant office, you'll already know what things you need! You'll never have to ask anybody.
By that logic, don't use industry best-practices. Set your password to 1234 until you get hacked and realize you should have been using SSH keys.
There are a lot of smarter minds out there that have already gone through the trials and tribulations of a home office--or even an at-work office that could advise things I would never have considered.
I can see you easily conflate things that are not alike. Ducks don't have hair. They have feathers. Trump isn't Hitler. Get back to me when he's shoveling Jews, Muslims, or whatever into ovens.
Yahoo!, desperate to pull out of their inverted -8 G dive into the asphalt, pitches bullshit idea about advertising.
Don't do that.
For the same reason why when the cops asked if they could 'borrow' our ambulance to serve a high-risk search warrant because they wanted to catch the suspect unaware...the suspects will start shooting real ambulances.