Re:Internet does not work that way
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SPF Design Frozen
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Yes, I have heard of Verisigns dirty tactics. What don't understand is how the root servers can return the DNS, when I change ours constantly, and I don't allow domain transfers to root servers... I allow transfers to specific dns server, so do root servers get a transfer by default? I assumed that if a domain name exists, the dns request is passed onto the authorative dns server... is this incorrect?"
Yes, that is incorrect. The root DNS servers hold the DNS glue records for each registered domain. DNS glue records are the NS records created from the DNS server information you specified when you registered the domain. So, you may be changing A, PTR, and CNAME records all you want, but the DNS glue records for your domain don't change unless you make a change with your domain registrar.
I'm one of those who has access to new technology in my job as a federal contractor and would not say that NIH research in environmental health sciences is pork barrel.... I expect most people would argue with you.
But still... it is "The Government" which even to a programming geek is "Not Sexy".
OK. This, like all sterotypes, is wrong. Not all government agencies are FedLand.
I've been a UNIX sysadmin and programmer for a federal agency for 5.5 years now. When I came onboard we had a big old VMS cluster, 9 DEC Alphas running Tru64 UNIX or VMS, and bunches of NT and Macs in our server room.
Now, we have 20 Linux systems running on Dell PowerEdge servers, including 5 Oracle servers, 4 NetApp filers with one hosting all Oracle data for the Oracle servers, No VAX Cluster, 1 Alpha running Tru64 and it is on the way out the door, 2 Alphas running VMS also on the way out the door, and a bunch of NT/2000/XP servers and a few Macs (video services mostly on the Macs).
It has been a pleasure to roll all the UNIX work we are doing from Tru64 to Linux. Our systems are faster, easier to maintain, quicker to fix when bugs crop up, and much more fun to work with. The last Tru64 Alpha will be retired as soon as we take delivery of the Dell 6450 that will replace it and get SAS and GCG software installed on it.:-)
Some Federal agencies are ferociously conservative concerning IT. Others aren't, and some are open to leading edge tech. You just have to find them.
Until we see that our jobs are about relationships, not machines, we will always be perceived as immature.
This is exactly correct. We tend to focus on the computers, networks, and software we manage and loose sight of what we are there for: To Make The Systems Work For The Users. I was very lucky in my first job as a sysadmin. The very first thing the lead sysadmin taught me is we are in the customer service business. My customers were the members of the software development group using the systems I helped manage. As a sysadmin you ALWAYS have customers who need to get their jobs done. The Sysadmin is there to facilitate getting those jobs done.
What really brought this idea home to me was the realization that system administration is a COST center in most companies and that the sysadmins have to deliver their services as efficiently as possible in order to justify that cost. Running the servers for the software development group at my first job didn't generate one cent of revenue for the company.
Understanding that, and understanding the need to build relationships with your users has helped me tremendously in my career as a system administrator.
--[Lance]
Re:Ssomeone has to say it....
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Virtual Keyboard
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"I need the clickity-clack feedback from my keyboard"
Well, just wait for the arthritis to set in and listen for your knuckles cracking....
I received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science in 1990 from a small, private, liberal arts college, and am now a UNIX systems admin/programmer. I took a variety of CS courses including everything from compiler design to artificial intelligence to theory of programing languages. My success as a sysadmin stems from the broad exposure to CS technologies I received in those classes, but even more so to the disciplined problem solving skills I learned in the CS and other courses I took.
I came out of that school a competent programmer which has helped me tremendously in the systems administration arena. There are a lot of people out there who know enough to push the buttons to make the computer work, but world-class sysadmins are problem solvers first and foremost. I believe the same is true for programmers in general.
Focus on your problem solving skills, especially skills involving the interface between people and computers, that is the domain of the programmer and the systems admin. Making that interface work is a skill that will pay off for you big time!
The miniseries makes a very glaring error during these scenes of the final pitched battle between the Fremen and the Empire's forces. In the book no one, Fremen, Empire, Harkonnen, or other, were able to fly during the battle because of the sandstorm. I almost jumped off my couch at the screen when I saw the first wave of Fremen-manned 'thopters sweeping in on the winds of the storm.
I have no numbers, only anecdotal evidence. I am pagan, and work on a team of 9 sysadmins (mixed UNIX/Linux, Windows, and Mac). During almost all of my time on this team (over 4 years now) we have had 2 pagans, myself and one other person, which has changed over time as people come and go.
In the pagan communities I have regular contact with between 4% and 10% of those folks are IT professionals or hold other jobs requiring good computer skills.
See my other post in the discussion of this article for why I think this is happening.
Namaste,
--[Cyber Bear]
Computers, Religions and Thinking Outside the Box
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Hackers And Mysticism?
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I have felt for a long time that the strong correlation between computer programers/sysadmins and alternative religions has to do with BOTH requiring the ability to think "outside the box" in certain ways.
Understanding computers, how they work and how to program and manage them requires thinking about things most people never approach, much less study or do routinely. The same ability to get outside the box of routine thinking is required when a person begins questioning the religion they were raised in.
I am not at all surprised that many IT professionals are exploring other religions. It is an outgrowth of their natural abilities.
giving your middle initial to the phone company may not be enough. I once got into all kinds of trouble with my then-girlfriend when some *other* girl called and left a message on our answering machine cancelling the lunch date she had with me. The problem was that she had the date with the OTHER L.A. Brown in town, not me. Took me a week to get my girlfriend cooled off.
Computer Pinball can't even come close to the real thing. There is *nothing* like knowing a particular table so well that you can nudge and bump it any way you want without triggering the TILT alarm.
In the past, NC had not been enforcing the mail order taxation aspect of their state taxes.
The recent change NC made was to move the collection of the "use tax" on out of state purchases to the state income tax form. Previously there was a seperate form available for reporting this tax and everyone just ignored it. Now that it is part of the state tax form you are expected to figure the "use tax" on your out of state purchases via mail order or internet and include it on that form. If you do not have exact numbers from receipts, etc., the state provides a table to estimate your use tax based on your gross income, which I consider extremely bogus.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, that is incorrect. The root DNS servers hold the DNS glue records for each registered domain. DNS glue records are the NS records created from the DNS server information you specified when you registered the domain. So, you may be changing A, PTR, and CNAME records all you want, but the DNS glue records for your domain don't change unless you make a change with your domain registrar.
More stereotyping...
I'm one of those who has access to new technology in my job as a federal contractor and would not say that NIH research in environmental health sciences is pork barrel.... I expect most people would argue with you.
--[Cyber Bear]
But still ... it is "The Government" which even to a programming geek is "Not Sexy".
:-)
OK. This, like all sterotypes, is wrong. Not all government agencies are FedLand.
I've been a UNIX sysadmin and programmer for a federal agency for 5.5 years now. When I came onboard we had a big old VMS cluster, 9 DEC Alphas running Tru64 UNIX or VMS, and bunches of NT and Macs in our server room.
Now, we have 20 Linux systems running on Dell PowerEdge servers, including 5 Oracle servers, 4 NetApp filers with one hosting all Oracle data for the Oracle servers, No VAX Cluster, 1 Alpha running Tru64 and it is on the way out the door, 2 Alphas running VMS also on the way out the door, and a bunch of NT/2000/XP servers and a few Macs (video services mostly on the Macs).
It has been a pleasure to roll all the UNIX work we are doing from Tru64 to Linux. Our systems are faster, easier to maintain, quicker to fix when bugs crop up, and much more fun to work with. The last Tru64 Alpha will be retired as soon as we take delivery of the Dell 6450 that will replace it and get SAS and GCG software installed on it.
Some Federal agencies are ferociously conservative concerning IT. Others aren't, and some are open to leading edge tech. You just have to find them.
--[Cyber Bear]
Mark writes:
Until we see that our jobs are about relationships, not machines, we will always be perceived as immature.
This is exactly correct. We tend to focus on the computers, networks, and software we manage and loose sight of what we are there for: To Make The Systems Work For The Users. I was very lucky in my first job as a sysadmin. The very first thing the lead sysadmin taught me is we are in the customer service business. My customers were the members of the software development group using the systems I helped manage. As a sysadmin you ALWAYS have customers who need to get their jobs done. The Sysadmin is there to facilitate getting those jobs done.
What really brought this idea home to me was the realization that system administration is a COST center in most companies and that the sysadmins have to deliver their services as efficiently as possible in order to justify that cost. Running the servers for the software development group at my first job didn't generate one cent of revenue for the company.
Understanding that, and understanding the need to build relationships with your users has helped me tremendously in my career as a system administrator.
--[Lance]
Well, just wait for the arthritis to set in and listen for your knuckles cracking....
Just to throw my two bits into the discussion:
I received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science in 1990 from a small, private, liberal arts college, and am now a UNIX systems admin/programmer. I took a variety of CS courses including everything from compiler design to artificial intelligence to theory of programing languages. My success as a sysadmin stems from the broad exposure to CS technologies I received in those classes, but even more so to the disciplined problem solving skills I learned in the CS and other courses I took.
I came out of that school a competent programmer which has helped me tremendously in the systems administration arena. There are a lot of people out there who know enough to push the buttons to make the computer work, but world-class sysadmins are problem solvers first and foremost. I believe the same is true for programmers in general.
Focus on your problem solving skills, especially skills involving the interface between people and computers, that is the domain of the programmer and the systems admin. Making that interface work is a skill that will pay off for you big time!
The miniseries makes a very glaring error during these scenes of the final pitched battle between the Fremen and the Empire's forces. In the book no one, Fremen, Empire, Harkonnen, or other, were able to fly during the battle because of the sandstorm. I almost jumped off my couch at the screen when I saw the first wave of Fremen-manned 'thopters sweeping in on the winds of the storm.
I have no numbers, only anecdotal evidence. I am pagan, and work on a team of 9 sysadmins (mixed UNIX/Linux, Windows, and Mac). During almost all of my time on this team (over 4 years now) we have had 2 pagans, myself and one other person, which has changed over time as people come and go.
In the pagan communities I have regular contact with between 4% and 10% of those folks are IT professionals or hold other jobs requiring good computer skills.
See my other post in the discussion of this article for why I think this is happening.
Namaste,
--[Cyber Bear]
I have felt for a long time that the strong correlation between computer programers/sysadmins and alternative religions has to do with BOTH requiring the ability to think "outside the box" in certain ways.
Understanding computers, how they work and how to program and manage them requires thinking about things most people never approach, much less study or do routinely. The same ability to get outside the box of routine thinking is required when a person begins questioning the religion they were raised in.
I am not at all surprised that many IT professionals are exploring other religions. It is an outgrowth of their natural abilities.
--[Cyber Bear]
giving your middle initial to the phone company may not be enough. I once got into all kinds of trouble with my then-girlfriend when some *other* girl called and left a message on our answering machine cancelling the lunch date she had with me. The problem was that she had the date with the OTHER L.A. Brown in town, not me. Took me a week to get my girlfriend cooled off.
Computer Pinball can't even come close to the real thing. There is *nothing* like knowing a particular table so well that you can nudge and bump it any way you want without triggering the TILT alarm.
The recent change NC made was to move the collection of the "use tax" on out of state purchases to the state income tax form. Previously there was a seperate form available for reporting this tax and everyone just ignored it. Now that it is part of the state tax form you are expected to figure the "use tax" on your out of state purchases via mail order or internet and include it on that form. If you do not have exact numbers from receipts, etc., the state provides a table to estimate your use tax based on your gross income, which I consider extremely bogus.
"by Anonymous Coward" is definitely right here.
Cripes, more Red Hat bad mouthing. Why don't you put up a real name or shut up.
Red Hat user, and proud of it.