I agree with the idea of metrics, How to make the top 4 meaningful will be
tough.
You want high goals, yet something possible to accomplish.
I think the more important issue is what is in the "etc" 5+ goals.
These are the goals that would make achieving the top 4 simple.
The board should be sett
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>Why hadn't they upgraded or changed, in all that time?
>
>"If it works don't fix it" makes sense for a while. But then you slide
>down the other side of the adoption curve -- especially when it's part
>of your infrastructure or the company rea
Tom Perrine made the following keystrokes:
> The oldest protocol we're running anywhere is IPv4.
> (It had to be said! :-) )
Oh if only that were true...
If you take a look at various "official" reports, you'll see that there
are plenty of things that are still using old Teletype codex.
Ever se
Most professional organizations tend to be recognized by the majority
of the people in the profession and in some cases to many outside the
profession. They may not be members, but they know the name. If you
ask most SysAdmins for their professional organization, they won't know
of one. If you m
For the most part, I agree with Matt. Most of what's below should
be intuitively obvious to the most casual observer, but..
Using your cheat-sheet idea, lots of classes have "open book" tests.
While you don't want this info in the hands of an attacker, it really
shouldn't matter that much if it g
Derek Balling made the following keystrokes:
>In New York, you can't run an auto-repair shop without a license. Just
>FYI.
>
Be careful when looking at Professional, Certified, and Licenced. They
mean very different things, and in some cases are used just to make
them seem legit.
In looking a
There was a comment that we need to do this before someone else does it
for/to us. Who is this someone else? Why would they do this? Are
ther goals/motifs in line with LOPSA or where do they differ? How
far along in this path may they be?
IF they exist, why are we not working with them to c
b developers, App
developers, db, .
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One major flaw in your example is that as a system administrator,
it's not your job to dig through every line of the web application
to see if it is following best practices.
Going back to the medical profession stuff that was used earlier,
it's not just the Doctors that are considered professio
Classic TV is on in the background. Old shows and movies..
so reference frame of mind.
I'm not sure how serious he really is about this story. It makes for
popular press and sells advertising. Playing in the background is
"To Dream the Impossible Dream". It helped sell tickets.
While people a
Changing the focus on the Snowden topci to what should be
the more disturbing piece concerning LOPSA directly. Using
some of the same extremist views and wording to prove the point.
So donning the flame suite that has been in storage since
the days of usenet...
In my opinion, the LOPSA Statem
Bryan Ramirez made the following keystrokes:
>I'm not even old and now I feel old.
>
Oh for the days of not feeling old...
When it comes to accidental disasters, imagine a mainframe console
complex. A couple of periscope tubes, a couple of paper terminals
all sitting on something similar to b
etworks" are very closely tied to "social diseases" in that
the more you get involved the more likely you are going to pick up
an infection.
I can use all the tools, but when it comes to preferences
Prime-Crumudgeon
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Cat Okita made the following keystrokes:
>On Fri, 25 May 2012, rac...@anl.gov wrote:
>> 1. Cool, this is someplace that is prepared, safe, or
>> 2. I wonder what happened that they needed to spend how much time to come
>> up with this?
>> I'd fall into group 2. How bad were things that
I agree with most of what you bring up.
LOPSA may have the expectation they can remove someone from the location,
but any attempt to do so without involving law enforcement is going to cause
some serious issues. If someone other than a police officer attempted to
remove me from somewhere, there w
I'll take the "I don't get it" one step further.
I kind of wonder what sort of signals this puts forth. In most cases
places have policy because something happened, or they are just building
a huge book of policies because they have some lawyer on retainer with
nothing better to do.
If someone w
Tracy Reed made the following keystrokes:
>Overall this is great news. But we've been down this hopeful road with Dell
>at least a couple of times before.
I agree we've been down this road. It scares me when they do it. IF
they are pushing the sources for their devices up so that they can
con
Group discounts make sense. Many .edu sites have computer clubs. Offering
them a discount on group membership may get people to sign up. This
could attract people that have time to put into the cause as well. It
looks good on a resume if you've worked, even donated time, on something
other tha
story and targetted marketing they could get some percentage of
added sales by pointing out related merchandise they wanted to move.
They wanted to give you that feeling of having your one personal
shopper. That they knew you and your tastes. With enough orders
they propbably did.
--Gene
Neither. It's much more like the mice from Douglas Adams.
Nobody really notices when things are going as good. Mice stay
out of the way, hidden in the background. Nobody knows what they really do or
why.
When things break, you can be sure who will get (some of) the blame. Like the
mice
some
da...@lang.hm made the following keystrokes:
>Another Major reason for being opposed to regulation is that the
>definition of the 'right way' to do something varies too much, and it
>morphs over time. Licenseing tests change too slowly for a field in as
>much flux and with so many 'good' ways t
Brent Chapman made the following keystrokes:
>Gene raises valid considerations, but I think they miss the point in this
>particular circumstance.
>
>If you don't want to use SSL, don't publish https://... URLs. If you
>publish https://... URLs, make sure your certs are correct (i.e., that the
an infected machines.
Again, speaking for myself, not my job.
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Paul Graydon made the following keystrokes:
>All staff are required by the policy to lock their workstations anyway
>when they leave their desk. I suspect I'm the only one who actually
>does so. That comes from a habit born out of my first sysadmin job
>where anyone failing to lock their w
One of the big oops moments many years ago was more a lack of
knowledge than an oops at the keyboard.
I had an AIX file server with 4 disk contollers in it. A couple
of disks on each controller.
The typical / /usr ... stuff was on disk 0 controller 0
along with some basic swap space.
disk 0 on
John Broome made the following keystrokes:
>But I'm not sure what the big deal is. Apple is providing an entire
>distribution channel, a deployment and upgrade methodology, etc., etc., why
>*shouldn't* they get a chunk of change for providing that, so that software
>developers don't have to rei
ine what didn't work right
when you pushed the button and magic didn't complete. Smoke but no
rabbit coming out of the hat.
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All this talk of auto plates reminds me of a friend's orignal VW Beatle
with the Illinois vanity plate of "FEATURE".
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r posting in this thread, it was suggested that LOPSA
needs to find things that are not being done by these other
organizations to make it's mark. Kind of like the toy dog finding
it's nitch to be useful. In the dog case, the nitch was to call
in the big dogs as needed. LOPSA really does
I haven't gone searching the archives on this, but I don't recall
ever seeing anything on the list about contacting your legislatigve
people on concerns with any piece of legislation that may impact our
profession BEFORE they go about voting on it. It may be good/bad or
even somewhere in the middl
Matt Lawrence made the following keystrokes:
>I hope everyone has stocked up on 7404s for the weekend!
What, and upgrade my 6AB4's and 12AX7's?
--Gene
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Ross West made the following keystrokes:
>Hmmm, now were did that flame suit go...
>
No need for a flame suit. I think you make a very good point.
Some time ago I was helping someone get through a required
gen-ed algebra class. She had no problem with doing the
actual math, but couldn't remem
Kind of like BC and "Clams got legs".
It takes a huge amount of effort to evolve beyond the status quo.
If you've got something nobody else has got, you are better off
than you were or they are.
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>At a very shop I drew our network diagram on
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