You are approaching management of the Linux boxes as if they where windows boxes. That is the event causing you the greatest pain. Basically a Linux box can be divided into 3 groups
Configurations
Data
OS
Configurations: Two types Users Configs: this is kept in their home so no need to worry aboutthat as normal backup takes care of it (exception can be/root) System. System Configs: This is/etc/ and key entries in/var for the most part.
Data: By in large this is also maintained in homes, for that too backup software is the key. Data could also include software that either you made the mistake of building locally without some kind of packaging to repeat, or, that is 3rd party. Scripts and Cron Jobs also fall into this realm along with logs.
OS: That's why they make CD's. You just install. To make sure you get all of the same software, both rpm based, and deb based systems have ways of taking an inventory and replicating the inventory to another box.
There is no concept of registry in a Linux box. (unless you run some of the newer gnomes but that registery is by user so it's in the home.) This means you don't have to have restoreable clones to re-create the box. It's sufficient to have a copy of/etc/ a copy of key data, and either a kickstart file, dpkg list or other tool (Like a wiki plan) to re-build the box.
On the cheap tar and gzip are all the tools needed. More involved. Puppet
Don't tell the people actually doing it. They don't know that the author of this piece says it won't work. So they keep making it work. We don't want to upset them. Ssssh.
Speech recognition and translation is becoming a highly effective and proficient tool for the US military. You see it fit's in your iPod... and... well translates. info here Kinda puts the knosh on this article. Speech recognition as a part of translation is a new application of the tech that is growing by leaps and bounds. 10 years ago we had to do text to text translation, now it's speech to voice. Then you have companies like Voxify,TuVox and others replacing routine call center calls with realistic voice recognition. Far from being a dead animal. It has moved from the realm of fantasy to the realm of direct application.
Does anyone know tf the dinosaur was dead before the ant started eating it, or did it die because the ant was eating it. (must have been one heck of a big ant too.)
Yes nothing like security by obscurity. Quite honestly I'm of the opinion that moving the port is of little use. One scan and they have my ports list one run of telnet against the ports and they know what they ports are. Ok I've delayed them what, 2 minutes? SSH key authentication, (which allows for easier to remember pass phrases for your users) Iptables or host_deny for the worst offenders (I've got 3 IP's banned that comprised 80% of my problem) and that's it. Just don't use 256 bit ssh keys. Go 2048, 1024 at the very least.
Amen, I open ports for stuff that I know, first hand, verified face to face only. This is more like phishing for id10t's than anything else. Besides I like our ISP the only thing they ask for is a check. Otherwise they do what they are supposed to and that keeps us both happy.
If you are running XP and pressed the key just to see what would happen. Raise both hands if you are running 7 OSX and/or Linux and are pressing the key like mad just to rub it in to those who can't.
Thanks to complaints to Xorg. the tried and true ctrl->Alt->bksp to do a hard restart of the X windowing system (like when you just did an update and need to restart X to get the new binaries in play). Has been replaced with left-alt->SysReq->k. Folks it's either leave our keys alone of do it the Ubuntu way and reboot every time something happens.
Oh and why did it get replaced. Seems that WinUsers use ctrl->Alt->bksp to go back one word in one of the office apps..... sheeesh. One more reason to drop Lenovo (other than their poor performance and quality of fit and finish of late. (20 laptops in.... 15 laptops back to repair, in the first 24 hours. Not good, finally RMA's the lot.)
My face found it impossible to reach my palm fast enough. The reason no one else has patented it before is simple "IT'S BLOODY OBVIOUS". Unless of course you're a USPTO examiner.
I mean when your keyboard starts sneezing, and your mouse has the runs, it won't be long until your modem(cable or DSL) is all congested and the packets just won't flow. Finally, a virus for my Linux box!
I've worked for years for a wide variety of companies who, quite often, are Linux on the backend and Windows on the desktops. True to form Developers, Sales Personnel and C level exec's see Linux as a plus, but the Marketing types don't. So often do I see this that I use it to actually tell if a persons role in a company is Marketing.
I'm not using this as an anti-marketing post either. It's just what I see. Linux isn't a marketable term for them. Nor is Windows. It seems that unless the OS is the draw on the product (as in "Now with Windows 7" or "The latest Android based SmartPhone") no one is willing to mention the OS as a marketing point. Fact, yes, marketing point no. In all due honesty it seems that outside of a narrow band of consumer products (laptops/desktops or Android Phones) the underlying OS has little or no value in the marketing of a product. You don't buy an iPhone because it runs OSX you buy it because "There's an app for that".
Honestly. How many of you know what OS your phone/TV/DVR etc run unless it's a DVR you built or an Android phone most wouldn't. Features sell, OS's rarely do. Heck even Jobs was loath to admit that OSX was a Unix for a long time, even so, people expect the OSX environment, but they buy MAC for a lot of reasons, little having to do with the OS itself.
First let me state upfront I'm not arguing against clean air regulation. I am against the method used to supposedly achieve it, not the objective. The reasons that the main manufacturers don't build Diesel-Electric (Exception being VW and Mercedes and their straight Diesels) for the US market, comes down to the following.
1. Emissions: Diesels, as sold in Europe, and non vehicle applications, as of yet, don't pass the emissions standards, especially for particulate, and NO2 emissions.
2. Perception: Americans tend to rely more on what they think they have heard than investigating for facts. When they think of Diesels they think of the smoke belching, trains and buses around the city and the "sounds like it's about to fall apart" rattle of diesel pickups. Diesel engines that are clean and quiet (like VW or Mercedes) don't get noticed. In fact rarely do people even know that they are a diesel.
3. Patent problems: Diesel Electric is the primary mover and shaker behind trains. Has been for decades. They hold the patents on the easy solutions and this presents a problem for development in the US. US manufacturer's love to hold patents.
4. EPA testing methodology,and laws: They are designed for gasoline vehicles. The cost, which industry would bear, to create new regulations and to motivate legislators and bureaucrats to change them is extremely high in the US. Unless you give the vehicle only 3 wheels. Then it gets much cheaper.
Side note, building the vehicle these gentlemen have built would likely be impossible in California. Emissions laws here largely prohibit installing an engine not of the same vintage or type as supplied by the original manufacturer. It's a sticky gray area that could make it very difficult to get the vehicle licensed if you run into the wrong gov official. 5 years ago I had to give up (as in donate to a cause) a nice little car I owned when I moved to CA because, even thought the car was equipped with the full CA emissions package, and could pass smog, it might have been run on gasoline not compliant with CA standards. (Direct quote from what the DMV told me) the cost to remove the CA emissions package and re-install it and get it "certified" was more than the bluebook on the car, so I had to dispose of it. (I couldn't sell it in the state.) So when you ask "Why doesn't the US have...." it's because the law dictates methodology not standards. IMHO.
Just curious, Though I know why he runs screaming from the room when you say ext4. Is his chuckle for ReiserFS a good thing or a bad thing? I'm enough of an aspberger baby to miss out on the subtleties of his reaction.
I've seen this before, though I can't remember where. In that case what was happening was that when you changed or removed the password it would corrupt the password file and lock you out. The first time (no password exists set original) does the following
read the password
hash the password
write the hash to the data file
Now the problem came in that case when you wanted to change/delete the password. It would use a second subroutine to do.
read the old password
get the old password hash and use it to check if the user knows the correct password
get new password (twice and compare)
hash the result of the diff of the first entry and the second entry for the new password
That last step was the killer, seems that someone had declared a global variable and a local variable with the same name. End result one overwrote the others data, and one never knew exactly what the box hashed, nor you could figure out what to key in to the screen to unlock the door. (so to speak.)
With M$ managing to usurp the netbook by redefining the product in it's bloated image (must have a screen over 10 inches etc etc etc.) It would seem that the NetBook manf's have walked away from their market and become nothing more than a small notebook. (Apple doesn't need to introduce a netbook, the 13inch macbook is now a large netbook) Additionally the top end of ARM is around the same power as the Desktop we used just a few years ago, add on some very powerful GPU's and poof.
Enter the smartbook and ARM. Windows is so completely tied to x86 it can barely do 64bit let alone get ported to ARM any time soon. So you are left with two possibles in the SmartBook realm Linux and OSX. Apple won't release OSX as a product separate from Apple built hardware. That puts Debian, Maemo and Android at the top of the heap.(with *buntu on coat tails.) Since Android is the current buzz it's at the forefront for sure. But an ARM based system with 3G connectivity would rock. Sure I won't be doing compiles on it, but what would stop me from coding on it, and compiling remote? The cloud is a natural environment for one of these, E-mail and presentations, No problem. Watch a movie, piece of cake. Any routine use I can think of, one of these is more than enough to do.
Now that several NetBook manfs have abandoned the market they created, why not have someone else step in and take up the slack. I'm up for one.
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You blame it on Snowden..... ;)
It will connect to 365 so that everyone can do power points and spreadsheets. Outlook. com for mail, and not much more.
Some things I'd like to be private. My junk, my wife's body and totally my kids body's. Does he include that?
Configurations
Data
OS
/root) System. System Configs: This is /etc/ and key entries in /var for the most part.
/etc/ a copy of key data, and either a kickstart file, dpkg list or other tool (Like a wiki plan) to re-build the box.
Configurations: Two types Users Configs: this is kept in their home so no need to worry aboutthat as normal backup takes care of it (exception can be
Data: By in large this is also maintained in homes, for that too backup software is the key. Data could also include software that either you made the mistake of building locally without some kind of packaging to repeat, or, that is 3rd party. Scripts and Cron Jobs also fall into this realm along with logs.
OS: That's why they make CD's. You just install. To make sure you get all of the same software, both rpm based, and deb based systems have ways of taking an inventory and replicating the inventory to another box.
There is no concept of registry in a Linux box. (unless you run some of the newer gnomes but that registery is by user so it's in the home.) This means you don't have to have restoreable clones to re-create the box. It's sufficient to have a copy of
On the cheap tar and gzip are all the tools needed. More involved. Puppet
Don't tell the people actually doing it. They don't know that the author of this piece says it won't work. So they keep making it work. We don't want to upset them. Ssssh. ... well translates. info here Kinda puts the knosh on this article. Speech recognition as a part of translation is a new application of the tech that is growing by leaps and bounds. 10 years ago we had to do text to text translation, now it's speech to voice. Then you have companies like Voxify,TuVox and others replacing routine call center calls with realistic voice recognition. Far from being a dead animal. It has moved from the realm of fantasy to the realm of direct application.
Speech recognition and translation is becoming a highly effective and proficient tool for the US military. You see it fit's in your iPod... and
Does anyone know tf the dinosaur was dead before the ant started eating it, or did it die because the ant was eating it. (must have been one heck of a big ant too.)
Yes nothing like security by obscurity. Quite honestly I'm of the opinion that moving the port is of little use. One scan and they have my ports list one run of telnet against the ports and they know what they ports are. Ok I've delayed them what, 2 minutes? SSH key authentication, (which allows for easier to remember pass phrases for your users) Iptables or host_deny for the worst offenders (I've got 3 IP's banned that comprised 80% of my problem) and that's it. Just don't use 256 bit ssh keys. Go 2048, 1024 at the very least.
Amen, I open ports for stuff that I know, first hand, verified face to face only. This is more like phishing for id10t's than anything else. Besides I like our ISP the only thing they ask for is a check. Otherwise they do what they are supposed to and that keeps us both happy.
On all my systems. I should be tax exempt. Period.
Go here. Comes complete with a Panic Button too. http://abernook.com/prod/Panic-Button-Gift-Set.asp?source=froogle
Fry's used to sell them.... (seriously)
If you are running XP and pressed the key just to see what would happen. Raise both hands if you are running 7 OSX and/or Linux and are pressing the key like mad just to rub it in to those who can't.
They'll cripple the feature. AT&T will complain if you use it.
Thanks to complaints to Xorg. the tried and true ctrl->Alt->bksp to do a hard restart of the X windowing system (like when you just did an update and need to restart X to get the new binaries in play). Has been replaced with left-alt->SysReq->k. Folks it's either leave our keys alone of do it the Ubuntu way and reboot every time something happens. Oh and why did it get replaced. Seems that WinUsers use ctrl->Alt->bksp to go back one word in one of the office apps..... sheeesh. One more reason to drop Lenovo (other than their poor performance and quality of fit and finish of late. (20 laptops in.... 15 laptops back to repair, in the first 24 hours. Not good, finally RMA's the lot.)
My face found it impossible to reach my palm fast enough. The reason no one else has patented it before is simple "IT'S BLOODY OBVIOUS". Unless of course you're a USPTO examiner.
A catalog from Edmunds Scientifics A Dream Machine for kids of all ages. http://scientificsonline.com/Default.asp?bhcd2=1260840634
Is ask if they are Republican..... That's a prime indicator of terrorist leanings. Seconded by being a democrat.
I mean when your keyboard starts sneezing, and your mouse has the runs, it won't be long until your modem(cable or DSL) is all congested and the packets just won't flow. Finally, a virus for my Linux box!
I've worked for years for a wide variety of companies who, quite often, are Linux on the backend and Windows on the desktops. True to form Developers, Sales Personnel and C level exec's see Linux as a plus, but the Marketing types don't. So often do I see this that I use it to actually tell if a persons role in a company is Marketing. I'm not using this as an anti-marketing post either. It's just what I see. Linux isn't a marketable term for them. Nor is Windows. It seems that unless the OS is the draw on the product (as in "Now with Windows 7" or "The latest Android based SmartPhone") no one is willing to mention the OS as a marketing point. Fact, yes, marketing point no. In all due honesty it seems that outside of a narrow band of consumer products (laptops/desktops or Android Phones) the underlying OS has little or no value in the marketing of a product. You don't buy an iPhone because it runs OSX you buy it because "There's an app for that". Honestly. How many of you know what OS your phone/TV/DVR etc run unless it's a DVR you built or an Android phone most wouldn't. Features sell, OS's rarely do. Heck even Jobs was loath to admit that OSX was a Unix for a long time, even so, people expect the OSX environment, but they buy MAC for a lot of reasons, little having to do with the OS itself.
1. Thermite. Flame big. Fire good. Drive gone.
2. Give it to Mythbusters. Big boom, problem gone.
3. Murlatic Acid. Etch that puppy!
First let me state upfront I'm not arguing against clean air regulation. I am against the method used to supposedly achieve it, not the objective. The reasons that the main manufacturers don't build Diesel-Electric (Exception being VW and Mercedes and their straight Diesels) for the US market, comes down to the following.
1. Emissions: Diesels, as sold in Europe, and non vehicle applications, as of yet, don't pass the emissions standards, especially for particulate, and NO2 emissions.
2. Perception: Americans tend to rely more on what they think they have heard than investigating for facts. When they think of Diesels they think of the smoke belching, trains and buses around the city and the "sounds like it's about to fall apart" rattle of diesel pickups. Diesel engines that are clean and quiet (like VW or Mercedes) don't get noticed. In fact rarely do people even know that they are a diesel.
3. Patent problems: Diesel Electric is the primary mover and shaker behind trains. Has been for decades. They hold the patents on the easy solutions and this presents a problem for development in the US. US manufacturer's love to hold patents.
4. EPA testing methodology,and laws: They are designed for gasoline vehicles. The cost, which industry would bear, to create new regulations and to motivate legislators and bureaucrats to change them is extremely high in the US. Unless you give the vehicle only 3 wheels. Then it gets much cheaper.
Side note, building the vehicle these gentlemen have built would likely be impossible in California. Emissions laws here largely prohibit installing an engine not of the same vintage or type as supplied by the original manufacturer. It's a sticky gray area that could make it very difficult to get the vehicle licensed if you run into the wrong gov official. 5 years ago I had to give up (as in donate to a cause) a nice little car I owned when I moved to CA because, even thought the car was equipped with the full CA emissions package, and could pass smog, it might have been run on gasoline not compliant with CA standards. (Direct quote from what the DMV told me) the cost to remove the CA emissions package and re-install it and get it "certified" was more than the bluebook on the car, so I had to dispose of it. (I couldn't sell it in the state.) So when you ask "Why doesn't the US have...." it's because the law dictates methodology not standards. IMHO.
Just curious, Though I know why he runs screaming from the room when you say ext4. Is his chuckle for ReiserFS a good thing or a bad thing? I'm enough of an aspberger baby to miss out on the subtleties of his reaction.
Now the problem came in that case when you wanted to change/delete the password. It would use a second subroutine to do.
That last step was the killer, seems that someone had declared a global variable and a local variable with the same name. End result one overwrote the others data, and one never knew exactly what the box hashed, nor you could figure out what to key in to the screen to unlock the door. (so to speak.)
And you could do this with Netscape 3 as well. That even earlier.
With M$ managing to usurp the netbook by redefining the product in it's bloated image (must have a screen over 10 inches etc etc etc.) It would seem that the NetBook manf's have walked away from their market and become nothing more than a small notebook. (Apple doesn't need to introduce a netbook, the 13inch macbook is now a large netbook) Additionally the top end of ARM is around the same power as the Desktop we used just a few years ago, add on some very powerful GPU's and poof.
Enter the smartbook and ARM. Windows is so completely tied to x86 it can barely do 64bit let alone get ported to ARM any time soon. So you are left with two possibles in the SmartBook realm Linux and OSX. Apple won't release OSX as a product separate from Apple built hardware. That puts Debian, Maemo and Android at the top of the heap.(with *buntu on coat tails.) Since Android is the current buzz it's at the forefront for sure. But an ARM based system with 3G connectivity would rock. Sure I won't be doing compiles on it, but what would stop me from coding on it, and compiling remote? The cloud is a natural environment for one of these, E-mail and presentations, No problem. Watch a movie, piece of cake. Any routine use I can think of, one of these is more than enough to do.
Now that several NetBook manfs have abandoned the market they created, why not have someone else step in and take up the slack. I'm up for one.