So I'm the guy who runs it at Google.:)
That number as far as clients was something we stated quite a while ago. It's a much larger number now.
You can certainly scale Puppet up more. You just won't be running the one server.
What we do is have a dedicated Puppet CA server, and then geographic masters in each major location.
a) Turn on encrypted swap, which encrypts your hibernate file from safe sleep. b) Turn on FileVault, which provides an encrypted home directory.
Note too that FileVault in 10.5 employs a far more robust backing storage system than in 10.4. Apple have switched the format from sparseimages (which themselves were improved for reliability in 10.4) to sparsebundles, which are incredibly resistant to corruption.
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I've been converted to the TextMate religion as well.
It's easy to use at a beginner level, and ultimately extensible for power users.
I've even started using it for Objective-C instead of XCode... some of the tab-completing snippets in the ObjC bundle have done wonders for my productivity...
they did investigate the myth that a human could give birth to (iirc) an octopus. it turned out that the human stomach is too harsh of an environment for nearly all animals
Babies live in the stomach!?!?!?!
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Exactly right, the two things that are a problem for me deploying Firefox in my institution:
1) No auto-update service. 2) Random-directory-per-user preference location.
Sure, I have scripts that can work out the directory most of the time, but I shouldn't have to jump through these kinds of hoops.
the standard chroot methods for openssh work under OS X, and if you build the binaries yourself, you don't need all the Frameworks that the Apple version requires.
The problem with chrooting on 10.4 now is that Apple's network home mounting method borks if you have/./ in the path, so you have to do static mappings.
Setting up ANY directory service is complicated. It has to be, or you're not designing it properly I reckon.
OpenLDAP is not difficult to manage or install. It may have shitty command line syntax, but anyone doing anything repetitive can easily script around that.
Somehow I don't see Howard having the same kind of humanitarian crisis of conscience that Fraser did...
I believe the relevant point the poster was making was that while CSIRO are well respected by Australians, the Federal Government does not hold them in such high esteem.
So nothing like cron what-so-ever. Another great piece of Timothy's fact checking.
Before you jump the gun:
netstrek@computer: ~ $ cat/etc/crontab # The periodic and atrun jobs have moved to launchd jobs # See/System/Library/LaunchDaemons # # minute hour mday month wday who command
The primary purpose of BT is to save bandwidth for the uploader. Some people may provide alternate access methods, but strongly request that people use BT to keep the bandwidth costs down. I would recommend that you change the "that is only available via torrent" policy to "where preferred access is via torrent". Otherwise, you are punishing third parties for no particular reason.
I see your point, but in cases like that, if it's even vaguely relevant to the operations of my campus, we offer the original host a mirror, as often people haven't got an Australian mirror, and appreciate that more anyway.
I block BitTorrent for all my lab machines on campus.
We spent a few months monitoring torrent traffic to have a look at what exactly it was being used for.
Less than 0.5% of traffic involved legal and/or appropriate downloads.
I'm not particularly happy about having to do this, but the reality is that torrents are almost entirely used for dodgy downloads.
We have signs up about it, if students have something they wish to download that is only available via torrent, the computing staff will do it for them.
One mistake people make in LDAP is to make it look like an organization chart-- big mistake. Use your attributes to create context and you'll be fine. Just keep your entry small.
Give the man a cigar!
screw this dividing everything up in branches... attributes are the way to do this.
The US is not at war, I don't know why intelligent people continue to say this.
Because to deny the reality of the current conflict in Iraq is to commit yourself to the same kind of narrow minded world view that GWB exhibited in declaring the war over?
And man, how could you forget The War On Drugs? The War On Terror? The War on Poverty? Oh wait, that last one never happened...
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So I'm the guy who runs it at Google. :)
That number as far as clients was something we stated quite a while ago. It's a much larger number now.
You can certainly scale Puppet up more. You just won't be running the one server.
What we do is have a dedicated Puppet CA server, and then geographic masters in each major location.
Actually you should look at a newer generation of config management than cfengine. Try Puppet: http://reductivelabs.com/products/puppet/
Yep. I've had one response that was so rude and dismissive, it certainly wasn't written by lackeys :)
So this is why you:
a) Turn on encrypted swap, which encrypts your hibernate file from safe sleep.
b) Turn on FileVault, which provides an encrypted home directory.
Note too that FileVault in 10.5 employs a far more robust backing storage system than in 10.4. Apple have switched the format from sparseimages (which themselves were improved for reliability in 10.4) to sparsebundles, which are incredibly resistant to corruption.
I've been converted to the TextMate religion as well. It's easy to use at a beginner level, and ultimately extensible for power users. I've even started using it for Objective-C instead of XCode... some of the tab-completing snippets in the ObjC bundle have done wonders for my productivity...
What's wrong with a kid learning ruby and using irb?
//e....
The equivalents exist for a bunch of other languages that are more useful than BASIC was on my Apple
Babies live in the stomach!?!?!?!
Exactly right, the two things that are a problem for me deploying Firefox in my institution:
1) No auto-update service.
2) Random-directory-per-user preference location.
Sure, I have scripts that can work out the directory most of the time, but I shouldn't have to jump through these kinds of hoops.
the standard chroot methods for openssh work under OS X, and if you build the binaries yourself, you don't need all the Frameworks that the Apple version requires.
/./ in the path, so you have to do static mappings.
:)
The problem with chrooting on 10.4 now is that Apple's network home mounting method borks if you have
small world Durandal.
(dhaveconfig/netsrek)
doing that now...
Sure, it's complicated, but it's not freakin' quantum mechanics or like trying to outsmart Saul Kripke or something.
Yeah, the OpenLDAP documentation sucks. Get a good book.
Or maybe just get Mac OS X Server. SSO out of the box with OpenLDAP and Samba...
exactly.
I'm seeing a lot of uninformed crap here.
Setting up ANY directory service is complicated. It has to be, or you're not designing it properly I reckon.
OpenLDAP is not difficult to manage or install. It may have shitty command line syntax, but anyone doing anything repetitive can easily script around that.
Somehow I don't see Howard having the same kind of humanitarian crisis of conscience that Fraser did...
I believe the relevant point the poster was making was that while CSIRO are well respected by Australians, the Federal Government does not hold them in such high esteem.
ah shit. and here I was thinking Tiger was all fucked up. thanks! Who said the intarweb was full of fuck-sticks? They're wrong!
bollocks.
How can you claim something is "nothing like cron" when it replaces the functionality of cron?
Before you jump the gun:
So yes, it is a cron replacement.
man mdfind
happy happy happy happy joy joy.
Yes. That's what I said. :)
ditto works fine, and asr/hdiutil give you more functionality than a straight copy can.
Yes. it should have been there to begin with... but Apple have been trying to wean everyone off resource forks.
Nothing stopped you doing it before.
ditto
asr
rsyncx
psync
All those things let you cron backups of your home directory, and the first two come with the OS...
The metadata is stored in a directory.
:)
If the user(s) have write access to the sharepoint, the metadata each user creates by virtue of indexing will be shared amongst users.
if not, the metadata gets stored locally.
Not true client/server, but it's similar to the old way Sherlock did it, just fast.
and here I was planning to reorganise my company based upon the word of someone called Lord Dimwit Flathead who posted on Slashdot... :(
The primary purpose of BT is to save bandwidth for the uploader. Some people may provide alternate access methods, but strongly request that people use BT to keep the bandwidth costs down. I would recommend that you change the "that is only available via torrent" policy to "where preferred access is via torrent". Otherwise, you are punishing third parties for no particular reason.
I see your point, but in cases like that, if it's even vaguely relevant to the operations of my campus, we offer the original host a mirror, as often people haven't got an Australian mirror, and appreciate that more anyway.
I can't believe people are moderating that as flamebait.
In the tiny world of Linux zealots and Slashdot denizens, BitTorrent is used for a lot of legal purposes.
In the wider community, especially that of university students, it's mainly a tool for dodgy downloads.
(let the flames begin...)
I block BitTorrent for all my lab machines on campus.
We spent a few months monitoring torrent traffic to have a look at what exactly it was being used for.
Less than 0.5% of traffic involved legal and/or appropriate downloads.
I'm not particularly happy about having to do this, but the reality is that torrents are almost entirely used for dodgy downloads.
We have signs up about it, if students have something they wish to download that is only available via torrent, the computing staff will do it for them.
One mistake people make in LDAP is to make it look like an organization chart-- big mistake. Use your attributes to create context and you'll be fine. Just keep your entry small.
Give the man a cigar!
screw this dividing everything up in branches... attributes are the way to do this.
The US is not at war, I don't know why intelligent people continue to say this.
Because to deny the reality of the current conflict in Iraq is to commit yourself to the same kind of narrow minded world view that GWB exhibited in declaring the war over?
And man, how could you forget The War On Drugs? The War On Terror? The War on Poverty? Oh wait, that last one never happened...