They submitted 10-20 pages for the Request For Tender (or whatever it's called). That's barely enough to buy half a rack of servers - the technical Aussie term for this would be "taking the f***ing piss".
I wasn't working at your college. My favourite bit was when I rang up one of the departmental admins and his first words were "shit! how did you know?" (He'd just had a server compromised.)
* 'finger' every possible username programmatically. * do a nessus scan on the IT people's servers "just to see" * nmap the college's/16 * attempt an infeasible online crack of an admin's password from a computer you've just logged into. in a lab you swiped your own card to get in.
All of these actions will get you noticed, but not in a good way.
Yes, as a matter of fact, the situation with the Palestinain terroist governments in Israel is just even more biased against Israel than the press was against MMR this week.
This isn't a great example because half the people think that the press is vehemently pro-Israel and the other half think they are clearly biased in favour of the Palestinians. Where as MMR vaccine is unequivocally safe in terms of autism.
I think this was modded flamebait by the same kind of person who wanted to plug their home DSL router into my/16 corporate net. (Connection policy was that you can have any kind of switch/router plugged in, as long as it's made by Cisco and we operate it.) The mod who did this may want to write a big post it note saying "I do not understand the implications of NAT as applied to end-to-end TCP/IP networking" and stick it on their forehead. It will save your colleagues a lot of time.
The ZR-1 Corvette: it has the personality of a lion. It's very strong and fast, can roar very loudly, holds its course extremely well in turns, but not particularly agile in very tight turns in tight spaces. It roars and is really fast, and can stop on a dime.
Never understood this one. If you're driving a ZR-1 or whatever, you can afford not to be looking for dimes on the pavement.
From the URL in the sig:"If you've participated in the above-mentioned hate-mongering of America, you must now -- as a penance -- go and burn Indian flag in front of their embassy or consulate."
FUCK'S SAKE! Just because I criticise the Israeli army for shooting journalists in the West Bank, it doesn't mean that I support Palestinian suicide bombers, does it? NO, OF COURSE IT FUCKING DOESN'T. So I don't like Guantanamo - many other people including the British Attorney General and Barack Obama have criticised it as well - but we didn't ask the Indian navy to shoot up some pirate ships either and leave them all for dead. It may surprise you to know that the Indian government doesn't know what I think about the issue and wouldn't give a flying fuck if they did.
The GP was talking about servers. Talk to a DBA and they'll be demanding I/O throughput, not clock speed. Talk to your mail admin and he'll want the same. There are not very many compute-bound workloads out there, and a lot of the serious ones need clusters anyhow. We used to house one of the top 500 SCs in a machine room so I have a fair idea what I'm talking about. Short of CPU? Buy a rack of dual quad-core DL380s- they're commodity hardware these days. What you will have to worry about is rack space, power and cooling.
Fujitsu still have this quaint cultural thing whereby they respect ALL their employees, not just the high-flyers but also the guy who scrubs their toilet.
I'm a sysadmin, you insensitive clod. The toilet scrubber gets more respect.
Andrew Tanenbaum works at VU Amsterdam, you utterly silly person. Oxford & Cambridge started out as places to train priests, but that doesn't mean they don't get Nobel prizes in science.
"The US's current budget is something like $10 trillion in the red, so we really don't have an extra $1 trillion laying round at the moment." Now see why your statement is completely logical, plausible and yet utterly, utterly wrong?
It also means that there's little to no market for the Chrysler Whale-On-Wheels 2000(tm) or whatever it's called - you can't refuel 'em, you can't park 'em.
The University would be a hosting provider in that situation. I used to read abuse@foo.edu and we really did get DMCA takedown notices, I can assure you.
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Er, in Soviet Amerika, HTML validates you?
They submitted 10-20 pages for the Request For Tender (or whatever it's called). That's barely enough to buy half a rack of servers - the technical Aussie term for this would be "taking the f***ing piss".
Dear Mr. Rudd,
Could I have 4.7bn AUD please? kthxbye.
Look, along with porn, coffee machines have been driving our network tech for some time: Trojan Room Coffee Pot.
in his office.
I wasn't working at your college. My favourite bit was when I rang up one of the departmental admins and his first words were "shit! how did you know?" (He'd just had a server compromised.)
SPAN port on core routers + snort + p0f = POWER!
If you are at college, do NOT:
* 'finger' every possible username programmatically. /16
* do a nessus scan on the IT people's servers "just to see"
* nmap the college's
* attempt an infeasible online crack of an admin's password from a computer you've just logged into. in a lab you swiped your own card to get in.
All of these actions will get you noticed, but not in a good way.
love & kisses, your friendly college sysadmin
This isn't a great example because half the people think that the press is vehemently pro-Israel and the other half think they are clearly biased in favour of the Palestinians. Where as MMR vaccine is unequivocally safe in terms of autism.
I heard that in Haskell integers do not obey the triangle inequality, and ML doesn't support the multiplicative identity.
I think this was modded flamebait by the same kind of person who wanted to plug their home DSL router into my /16 corporate net. (Connection policy was that you can have any kind of switch/router plugged in, as long as it's made by Cisco and we operate it.) The mod who did this may want to write a big post it note saying "I do not understand the implications of NAT as applied to end-to-end TCP/IP networking" and stick it on their forehead. It will save your colleagues a lot of time.
Never understood this one. If you're driving a ZR-1 or whatever, you can afford not to be looking for dimes on the pavement.
FUCK'S SAKE! Just because I criticise the Israeli army for shooting journalists in the West Bank, it doesn't mean that I support Palestinian suicide bombers, does it? NO, OF COURSE IT FUCKING DOESN'T. So I don't like Guantanamo - many other people including the British Attorney General and Barack Obama have criticised it as well - but we didn't ask the Indian navy to shoot up some pirate ships either and leave them all for dead. It may surprise you to know that the Indian government doesn't know what I think about the issue and wouldn't give a flying fuck if they did.
The GP was talking about servers. Talk to a DBA and they'll be demanding I/O throughput, not clock speed. Talk to your mail admin and he'll want the same. There are not very many compute-bound workloads out there, and a lot of the serious ones need clusters anyhow. We used to house one of the top 500 SCs in a machine room so I have a fair idea what I'm talking about. Short of CPU? Buy a rack of dual quad-core DL380s- they're commodity hardware these days. What you will have to worry about is rack space, power and cooling.
If you're referring to Crowther and Woods' original 'Adventure', I am going to cry.
Aye; "wannabe computer companies worry about clock speed. Real computer companies worry about cooling."
$100/hour to install air-gap firewalls on sensitive/classified networks. (Includes rental of scissors.)
I'm a sysadmin, you insensitive clod. The toilet scrubber gets more respect.
Does having an offsite resumé count?
To be fair, they never said 45-degree angle to what.
on the Internet over wireless. Double top trumps to you.
Andrew Tanenbaum works at VU Amsterdam, you utterly silly person. Oxford & Cambridge started out as places to train priests, but that doesn't mean they don't get Nobel prizes in science.
visualising traffic on your internet connection. I wanted to do this at one place but boss said no :(
"The US's current budget is something like $10 trillion in the red, so we really don't have an extra $1 trillion laying round at the moment."
Now see why your statement is completely logical, plausible and yet utterly, utterly wrong?
It also means that there's little to no market for the Chrysler Whale-On-Wheels 2000(tm) or whatever it's called - you can't refuel 'em, you can't park 'em.
The University would be a hosting provider in that situation. I used to read abuse@foo.edu and we really did get DMCA takedown notices, I can assure you.