Re: [lopsa-discuss] box.net

2012-01-05 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
I keep meaning to start doing thisor something like it. Guess my new provider doesn't do '+' either Hmmm. On 1/4/2012 8:23 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > You may already know, I use disposable email addresses. So when some retail > store asks me for my email at checkout, I just say the

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Web Hosting in Higher Education

2012-01-23 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
enrollment at your university? How many > fac/staff? 23,863 Not sure now...when I started, I heard it was >9000. Now I hear numbers of 6000+. I know we have half the number of bodies in EST (Enterprise Server Technologies)and there are times where there's only one person aroundand none of us can do everything (t

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Weekly oncall rotations: Which day do you start on?

2012-03-02 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
Historically, we passed the hot phone bag at the end of the weekly staff meeting held at 2pm Tuesday. Later the weekly staff meeting was eliminated, so it was the responsibility of the person starting on call to get the bag from the person before sometime on Tuesday. Later through the magic of

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Weekly oncall rotations: Which day do you start on?

2012-03-05 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
- Original Message - > On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 08:51:03AM -0600, Elijah Wright wrote: > > We use Friday at noon to Monday noon for weekend coverage. > > > > We stopped using weeklong oncall shifts last year and went to daily > > rotation (we use pagerduty to organize this). It's far le

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Candidate Recruiting

2012-03-06 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
YeahI would say "we're seeing the same thing", too. I've copied the posting to lopsa-jobs each time, and my social network sites to try to expand its reach Last few timesbarely get 3 applicants, where only 1 is remotely qualified. And, then if we make an offerthey tell us that

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Candidate Recruiting

2012-03-06 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
he > bottom of the barrel, then they may > select you. The disconnect, I think, is that ads ask for the whole > pie, where they would > accept a quarter, but they're not worded or explained that way. > > bb > > On

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Candidate Recruiting

2012-03-06 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
Oh, I missed that too... I also usually stay away from those jobs except that I wouldn't have the job I have now had I stuck hard to that rule. Since to be a Unix System Administrator in Central IT at Kansas State University, they list being able to get a security clearance as a requirement.

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Candidate Recruiting

2012-03-07 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
> > You can't even judge a person's competence reliably during an > interview, > much less abstract characteristics such as ambition, or personality, > or the > reasons why they made certain career choices in the past. And > certainly > much less if all you have to go on is pre-interview papers,

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Candidate Recruiting

2012-03-07 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
"Remember! That light at the end of the tunnel > Just might be the headlight of an oncoming train!" > > > >>> "Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng." 3/7/2012 2:32 PM >>> > I found out that its the office of affirmative action that says we > can't te

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Weekly oncall rotations: Which day do you start on?

2012-03-08 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
On 03/08/2012 04:50 AM, Aleksandar Ivanisevic wrote: > On 02.03.2012 22:17, da...@lang.hm wrote: >> One thing we did for a while was that we had a phone in the office that >> forwarded to the on-call person. It was the responsibility of the >> outgoing on-call person to change the forwarding (so

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Candidate Recruiting

2012-03-08 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
- Original Message - > > From: discuss-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:discuss- > > boun...@lists.lopsa.org] On Behalf Of Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. > > > > OTOH, I'm told that apparently I bombed my interview and they > > didn't think > I >

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Candidate Recruiting

2012-03-08 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
Did I work for that company? I almost didn'tfirst we'd kept agreeing on when the phone interview would take place...and I would keep reminding them that we're two hours apart. But he kept calling me at 6am for the phone interviews. He had a difficult to understand accent...and felt like I

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Fwd: [SASAG] Bellevue College seeks your input on new bachelor's degree in IT

2012-03-10 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
It probably assumes "System Administration" is a critical skill, so it didn't ask if they should have itor does it? On 03/09/2012 08:21 PM, Paul Graydon wrote: > That's a really bad survey e.g.: ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.lopsa.org https

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Red Hat Enterprise Linux Licensing

2012-03-10 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
On 03/10/2012 12:20 AM, Yves Dorfsman wrote: >> >> Our servers are HP DL580’s and they have 6 CPU’s. The RHEL licensing is >> confusing, can anyone explain it? >> > > > I believe it is confusing on purpose... > The last time I looked into this, this is how RedHat licenses worked ; note > that buy

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Red Hat Enterprise Linux Licensing

2012-03-11 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
We, looked at CentOS once. But, when we first needed to have Linux, it was management that decided on RHEL. And, they wouldn't go for it. We primarily run RHEL to support one group (though they are finally starting to use Solaris ... ) And, they would be in favor of us ditching RHELthey'v

Re: [lopsa-discuss] [LISA] Help a SA Masters student with a brief survey

2012-04-03 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
> > I had a similar issue (nothing but home-grown tools), but forced my > way through > it as best I could. > > - Chris We have a home-grown CM systemthough it would be nice if we could get a new hire to come in and replace it with something better Lawrence ___

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Sys Admin Day activities

2012-04-05 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
Well, we aren't a formal profession yet, though someday we hope to be. And, then we could enforce our code of ethics. Even then, it would require somebody to make a formal complaint that a member had received a gift membership (or amount towards) that is to bias or influence them, and then for

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Sys Admin Day activities

2012-04-09 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
I don't think companies pay for professional memberships unless the employee wants the professional membership first, especially if its one that isn't required for the employee to work in the desired capacity. I know when I registered for LISA, the accountants got hung up on the fact that membe

Re: [lopsa-discuss] how to a handle a black hat SEO site leeching off my site?

2012-04-21 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
gt; > I assume it's some kind of black hat SEO as the site looks machine > generated... > > the reversed images are wierd, i haven't seen that before... > > what can I do? complain to the registrar of the domain? anything > else? > anything effective? or shou

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Do Sysadmins have a half-life?

2012-04-23 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
Continuing education is necessary for any profession (some require it) Hmmmthough I suppose its right. I worked for startup-ish out of collegethough all the other Engineers had Ph.D's, and I didn't That last for 7.5 years. During that time I got no support in continuing educat

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Dropbox vs. Microsoft SkyDrive vs. Google Drive

2012-04-25 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
l, then free webhosting and now paid shared webhosting...to sync files between home and work. -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Senior Unix Systems Administrator For: Enterprise Server Technologies (EST) -- & SafeZone Ally Snail: Computing and Telecommunications Services (CTS) Kan

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Do Sysadmins have a half-life?

2012-05-02 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
Seems, our days of being a professional sysadmin are numbered. Our CIO says his peers are using the hire 50 monkeys approach to not being able to find and afford to pay for 1 qualified individual. So, we can hire 1 qualified person...and the rest of us go look for new jobs. Or we find some mon

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Do Sysadmins have a half-life?

2012-05-02 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
50 monkeys to infinity can produce the complete works of William Shakespeare. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Do Sysadmins have a half-life?

2012-05-02 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
ought FORTRAN 66 was over with. - Original Message - > On May 2, 2012, at 2:38 PM, Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. wrote: > > 50 monkeys to infinity can produce the complete works of William > > Shakespeare. > > We used to say that. > But thanks to the Internet, we know that i

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Do Sysadmins have a half-life?

2012-05-03 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
Yeah...my boss worries about mebecause I'm satisfied with being a sysadmin for the rest of my life. Though I tried the management thing once in a previous/non-profit life. I have enough trouble managing my own time, but to have to manage other people's time. Though I guess being the only tec

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Do Sysadmins have a half-life?

2012-05-03 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
Unfortunately, our university isn't one of those. Though there's always people saying we should be, so we can compete with other universities for people. Especially, if it really is our goal to be one of the top 50 public research univerities by 2025. I don't know what retiree insurance is li

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Second (and LAST) LOPSA Live Candidate Forum

2012-05-18 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
I'm confused...when's the next #lopsa-live? My calendar says May 28th is a Monday and its Memorial Day. - Original Message - > Hi All, > I wanted to let you know that we've scheduled the second LOPSA Live > Candidate Forum for next week. It'll be Thursday, May 28th at 9pm > Eastern, 6

Re: [lopsa-discuss] UPS Woes (208v vs 240v)

2012-08-01 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
Well, that UPS won't work in Germany... A stove circuit is 400V 3 Phase at 16A. Plus its 50Hz. While a typical US stove circuit is 240V 2 Phase at 50A (though depending on the era, a smaller breaker might be found IIRC, mine is a 40A breaker. Also before 1996 3 prong plugs were allowed [in

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Question: Unorthodox applications of version control

2012-10-05 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
I should try that, we save copies of our F5 configs for backups, but sometimes I need to look through them to see what changed and when (now that I'm not the only one making changes on it), though its kind of a mess since its just a big directory of dated files. Plus it would probably be more sp

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Fwd: [TUHS] unix horror stories

2012-10-26 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
Some of those problems continue to live on to this day I have my .login/.profile set term title when I log in...though there are places where its not done or it doesn't work. And, it doesn't reset automatically if you get disconnected. Though normally I still check to make sure I'm on the

[lopsa-discuss] Microsoft FOPE

2013-01-18 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
icrosoft.com/exchange/en-us/forefront-online-protection-for-exchange.aspx FOPE User Guide: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff715254.aspx -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Senior Unix Systems Administrator For: Enterprise Server Technologies (EST) -- & SafeZone Ally Snail: Comput

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Microsoft FOPE

2013-01-18 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
ound spamfiltering has always been so > controversial. > > > > MS FOPE link: > > http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/en-us/forefront-online-protection-for-exchange.aspx > > FOPE User Guide: > > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Microsoft FOPE

2013-01-28 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
oted to forward ALL student email off > campus. > Those of us in central services who had been fighting for adequate > spam-fighting funds to protect student email (20,000 mailboxes > requires a > massive amount of money for a paid spam-service, the freeware stuff > we'd > been using w

Re: [lopsa-discuss] OTY: Ninth Circuit says border searches without suspicion are unconstitional

2013-03-15 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
Actually, the original post got held up for moderation, and after I discarded the messages that were clearly spam ... I got busy with work, so didn't get to deciding if it should be accepted until the next day. But, my recollection was that if its tech-related or pertinent to the list, to allow

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Relentless renewal notices

2013-03-29 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
ilman/listinfo/discuss > > > This list provided by the League of Professional System > > Administrators > > > http://lopsa.org/ > > _______ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-b

Re: [lopsa-discuss] wireless router recommendation

2013-04-10 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
InterestingI was looking at routers myself on the weekend One of the units I looked at was the EnGenius ESR750H ($78.24 on Amazon). It can have 4 SSIDs with separate security profiles. One downside is that it lacks IPv6 support. Though wireless wasn't a factor in my searchsince I

Re: [lopsa-discuss] wireless router recommendation

2013-04-11 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
Administrators > > > http://lopsa.org/ > > ___________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System > Admin

Re: [lopsa-discuss] internal use 'knowledge base' or 'system admin journal' solutions?

2013-05-07 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
> "Openness is the foundation and preservative of friendship... Let me > claim from you at all times your undisguised opinions." - William > Wilberforce > ___________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cg

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Great Interview Questions

2013-05-07 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
__ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System > Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Senior

Re: [lopsa-discuss] nc vs telnet

2013-05-07 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
uot;nc" is the way to go. > > I'm curious "why", other than "This is newer and shinier". > > D > -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Senior Unix Systems Administrator For: Enterprise Server Technologies (EST) -- & SafeZone Ally Snail: Computing

Re: [lopsa-discuss] nc vs telnet

2013-05-09 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
- Original Message - > On Wed, 8 May 2013, Mark McCullough wrote: > > Linux is popular, but it isn't the only OS. Even there, I didn't > > used > > to have it available on the builds I had to work with. [2] > > The feeling I get where I am is that HP-UX and AIX are very much > legacy >

Re: [lopsa-discuss] nc vs telnet

2013-05-09 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
- Original Message - > And on the original topic... Seriously, are you folks > arguing against installing 'telnet' (or 'nc') serious? > Really? If you avoided 'nc' because of some fantasy of > insecurity, did you leave Perl installed? Or Java? Well, its documented that we provide perl on

Re: [lopsa-discuss] newegg

2013-06-19 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
t drop them or bump them or > anything. So while I cannot say definitively whether or not it was > prior to the original delivery, I can say definitely it wasn't > caused by me. > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.lopsa.org > http

Re: [lopsa-discuss] newegg

2013-06-20 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
this case. Though I did eventually cave a while back and use a refurbished warranty replacement in a server, and it has been working fine so far. And, there was a time where all the replacement drives going into our SAN were either refurbs or pulls -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Interesting and funny RMA story

2013-06-23 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
/webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:VH59EeSTs7UJ:netlib.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/pearls/sec0510.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us > > > -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Senior Unix Systems Administrator For: Enterprise Server Technologies (EST) -- & Saf

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Interesting and funny RMA story

2013-06-23 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
elay was down to arranging downtime with the > customer rather than HP. IIRC not long after that we were racking > and > configuring a hot-spare database server for the customer, who > incidentally got through the next Christmas rush without even batting > an > eyelid. :) > > P

[lopsa-discuss] Knowledge lost in time....

2013-06-23 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
uptimes. Though I suspect its to make sure that we don't have high uptimes on any of our systems. -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Senior Unix Systems Administrator For: Enterprise Server Technologies (EST) -- & SafeZone Ally Snail: Computing and Telecommunications Servi

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Knowledge lost in time....

2013-06-24 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
ike to see more posts like > this. > > One question I had was that you were talking about full disks, but > then started talking about being unable to call fork() due to RAM > constraints. That threw me for a bit of a loop-- how did a full disk > completely exhaust your RAM? > >

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Knowledge lost in time....

2013-06-24 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
- Original Message - > > From: discuss-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:discuss- > > boun...@lists.lopsa.org] On Behalf Of Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. > > > > Good thing...I'd hate to end the uptime streak that this server > > hasit had > > bee

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Mark Burgess quote from April 2013 ;login:

2013-07-02 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
R system/organization/policies Meanwhile we still have to keep the CF2 around for the existing systems and to continue to support other groups. In fact, I'm working on backporting some promises from my $home CF3 system to manage a new server I'm setting up at $work. If only ther

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Mark Burgess quote from April 2013 ;login:

2013-07-02 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
It should never have been externally hosted, though for HIPPA reasons > I'm most interested in Chef. Salt looks worth watching, but I > wouldn't > deploy it in production yet. On the other hand, many of the > developers I > know are going nuts over Salt since it's th

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Mark Burgess quote from April 2013 ;login:

2013-07-03 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
- Original Message - > Education, LOPSA keeps coming back to this as a root problem. We ask > ourselves what good is DevOps? We have no clue as a group, because > there's little group consensus on what DevOps means. Can I DevOps a > bunch of Windows 8 clients? Or is DevOps strictly related

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Mark Burgess quote from April 2013 ;login:

2013-07-04 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
ake it ADA compliant. (which annoyed them because its not a public bathroom, and there are currently no employees demanding it...though some of us are just getting by for now...) Just as other remodels are discouraged in other b uildings since it would trigger the need to remove asbestos...inc

Re: [lopsa-discuss] upgrading from CF2 to CF3

2013-07-04 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
e requests. Plus CF3 wouldn't be a one off...) - Original Message - > On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. < > lkc...@ksu.edu > wrote: > > > > If only there was an invisible way to drop CF3 on to policy server > > and all the existin

Re: [lopsa-discuss] upgrading from CF2 to CF3

2013-07-09 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
#x27;d like any > help. > I understand you need to get your $boss on-board first. > Yours truly, > -at -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Senior Unix Systems Administrator For: Enterprise Server Technologies (EST) -- & SafeZone Ally Snail: Computing and Telecommunications

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Mark Burgess quote from April 2013 ;login:

2013-07-11 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
- Original Message - > On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Atom Powers > wrote: > > A good SA knows what information > > s/he needs, what to ask the Google, and usually s/he knows how to > > find the > > information without Google. > > My only counter to that statement, which is addressed

Re: [lopsa-discuss] What's your favourite home-office all-in-one printer

2013-08-06 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
ough it was kind of nice with Ubuntu that it would discover the HP8450 on my network and it had a driver that did everything I needed for itFreeBSD doesn't have an exact match, but it generally works. -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Senior Unix Systems Administrator ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/

Re: [lopsa-discuss] What's your favourite home-office all-in-one printer

2013-08-07 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
- Original Message - > On 2013-08-04 at 20:04 -0400, Tom Limoncelli wrote: > > About 3 months ago I bought an HP Officejet Pro 8600 N911a. I am > > extremely happy with it. > > I have one of these and am mostly happy. Well, "HP OfficeJet Pro > 8600 > Plus" and appears to be the N911g (

Re: [lopsa-discuss] What's your favourite home-office all-in-one printer

2013-08-08 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
If you aren't indecisive as me...and willing to risk open box buys (I've had one good and one bad experience in doing this with printers)I stumbled on MacMall, currently has 4 open box N911g's in stockfor $115.79 http://www.macmall.com/p/HP-Multifunction-Printers/product~dpno~8956728~pdp

Re: [lopsa-discuss] What attracts your attention?

2013-09-09 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
- Original Message - > On 09/09/13 14:59, Dan Ritter wrote: > > What, as an experienced systems administrator, could actually > > attract > > your attention to a job ad? What holds your attention long enough > > for > > you to write a thoughtful cover letter and update your resume? > > >

Re: [lopsa-discuss] What attracts your attention?

2013-09-12 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
- Original Message - > On Sep 10, 2013, at 1:05 AM, Yves Dorfsman wrote: > > > - $ compared to the rest of the industry in this geographical area. > > If you don't mention it, I'll assume you pay less than average. > > As a small K-12 that's about to post for a net/sys admin next week,

Re: [lopsa-discuss] I hate to throw things away, I suppose

2013-09-27 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
lent > experience. > I may have to try them out some daywonder if there's a problem if I do this with O'Reilly books. OTOH, if I'm really going blindI might not need my current library at all. -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P

Re: [lopsa-discuss] where do you keep your PGP/GPG keyring?

2014-02-26 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
tion, for example. I haven't given any thought > to the "I'm completely dead" scenario. > > [3] Presuming that I am aware of the compromise. If my laptop was > compromised, a copy of the keyring was made, and a keystroke > logger installed that captured my passphrase, then I am "attached > by an

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Alternative to Google Voice

2014-02-26 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
fail from a remote location & service (like linode or other vps). It might be as simple as having your router add a keepalive signal to the channel. From Google's perspective, I have heard that GV is a deprecated service - at least the XMPP part - and I think the suggested migration is t

Re: [lopsa-discuss] where do you keep your PGP/GPG keyring?

2014-02-27 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
2014-02-26 17:48, Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Sr. Unix Systems Administrator For: Enterprise Server Technologies (EST) -- & SafeZone Ally ___ Discuss mai

[lopsa-discuss] Retrofitting CM (Re: LOPSAGram - March 2014)

2014-03-12 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
> 05. Technical Services Committee is looking for Volunteers > > 1) Infra Team > The Infra Team is responsible for the ongoing day-to-day operations of > LOPSA's infrastructure. This team does things like set up mailing lists, > email accounts/aliases, set up Apache vhosts, respon

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Password management

2014-04-04 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
trators http://lopsa.org/ [2] -- # "The compassionate have no enemies, the wise have no worries." # - Jing-si Aphorism # http://kso.cc [3] ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/ma

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Storing BackupPC data over NFS

2014-05-12 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
uot; > > (from Smallville Season 6x1: "Zod") > > On why I hate the phrase "that's so lame"... http://bit.ly/Ps3uSS > > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@l

Re: [lopsa-discuss] paid members

2014-05-15 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
>> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@lists.lopsa.org >> https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >> http://lopsa.org/ >> > ___________ > Discuss mailing lis

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Storing BackupPC data over NFS

2014-05-17 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
meRider ~*~ > > "Every world needs its heroes [...] They inspire us to be better than we are. > And they protect from the darkness that's just around the corner." > > (from Smallville Season 6x1: "Zod") > > On why I hate the phrase "that's so

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Home asterisk VOIP provider

2014-06-30 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
tp://bit.ly/Ps3uSS > > > ___________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > -

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Pager rotation for nagios

2014-08-25 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
e worldso it did its own mail delivery (especially important when it used to largely inform us of problems with campus email...) Though its getting hard for me to handle notifications timely/safely -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Sr. Unix Systems Administrator For: Enterprise Ser

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Pager rotation for nagios

2014-08-26 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
On 08/25/14 19:48, Phil Pennock wrote: > On 2014-08-25 at 18:02 -0500, Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. wrote: >> I don't know much about pagerduty, except one group on campus that shares our >> Nagios server is using it. >> >> So, there's perl script to tie into na

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Question on SQL server and SANs

2014-09-18 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
it is the only host using this lun. The host is accessing multiple other > luns (data, os, etc.). Going to talk with the vendor of the SAN today. I > will keep people posted what I find out. > > cheers, > > ski > -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Sr. Unix Syst

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Question on SQL server and SANs - SOLVED (Kind Of)

2014-09-19 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
m LISA '97 Probably time to put together request to see if I'll get to LISA this year... -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Sr. Unix Systems Administrator For: Enterprise Server Technologies (EST) -- & SafeZone Ally ___ Disc

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Seeking Global Charity Focused on Technology in Education

2014-10-08 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
sorship, you can give to various project areas or special focus areas. They have an education one, but its not technology focused. Right now I'm sponsoring a girl in Nepal...at least I think so, I may have missed an update. I used to write to them, but then something would happen and I would nee

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Certificate confusion - Summary

2014-10-10 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
r current proxy servers (which are load balanced behind my F5, but haven't been updated since 2007. But, as we are tossing out all our Sun/Oracle boxes soon, it'll probably end up in an some ubuntu VMs if not directly on the new F5. -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Sr. Unix

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Email list quote

2015-08-16 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
t;> https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss [1] >> This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >> http://lopsa.org/ [2] > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.lopsa.org > http

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Question on autofs on laptops

2015-08-17 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
a.org/ [3] > > -- > > Need CFEngine training? Email train...@verticalsysadmin.com > > ___________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss [2] > This list pro

Re: [lopsa-discuss] "Stupid SysAdmin tricks for $500, Alex"

2011-05-13 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
. I did not know about that. He had done a good job for > everything I had asked him to, and was thorough and careful, so I started to > let him do more important tasks and gave him the root password... This is > years ago when OSes did not protect against this. > -- Who:

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Xoom or iPad tools for sysadmin

2011-05-14 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
rly no (or little) > Apple fanboy or Android cultists :-) > > Which is a better all around sysadmin tool? Droid XOOM or iPad? > Which has a better set of tools that are useful in our field? What > are your favorite tools for these devices? -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0L

Re: [lopsa-discuss] "Stupid SysAdmin tricks for $500, Alex"

2011-05-14 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
x it. Each > machine must be manually logged into single-user mode, and chmod on /etc to > fix the problem. > > AAU > -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Senior Unix Systems Administrator For: Enterprise Server Technologies (EST) -- & SafeZone Ally Snail:

Re: [lopsa-discuss] "Stupid SysAdmin tricks for $500, Alex"

2011-05-14 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
of serial ports and > modems. > > kill 1 > Tells a Unix system to drop into single user mode. In the days before > remote power controls, console servers, etc. the only way out of single user > mode was to be at the physical console and type "reboot" or CTRL-D. >

Re: [lopsa-discuss] "Stupid SysAdmin tricks for $500, Alex"

2011-05-14 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
playing the flushing toilet sound we > configured for certain traps. Then my pager goes off. Senior SA looks > at me with shock on his face, tells me to get started with restoring > from tape and hurries out. -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Senior Unix Systems Administr

Re: [lopsa-discuss] "Stupid SysAdmin tricks for $500, Alex"

2011-05-14 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
, another time an SA's PC got bottedthose admins are still around, and they hate those passwords.) On 5/14/2011 5:48 PM, Simon Lyall wrote: > On Sat, 14 May 2011, Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. wrote: >> We once interviewed a candidate...and he said for special skills that he was >&g

Re: [lopsa-discuss] "Stupid SysAdmin tricks for $500, Alex"

2011-05-15 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
People knew, including some that weren't supposed to...and involved in my hiring, of an impending major change5 weeks after I started the company was acquiredby a Canadian company. 6 month contract turned into 16 months before I was hired, and even then it was a major thing to ha

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Xoom or iPad tools for sysadmin

2011-05-15 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
're out & about on a sunday, no where near your computer, to check a > cluster that should have started working at noon... > -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Senior Unix Systems Administrator For: Enterprise Server Technologies (EST) -- & SafeZone Ally Snail: Comput

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Handling spam finger pointing

2011-05-15 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
anyone knows anyone who handles email at > yahoo or aol, can you contact me off list? Thanks. > > In general - how do people handle being falsely called spammers? What > do you do when you have a onetime spike of email from your users who > give their emails at the various mail provid

Re: [lopsa-discuss] "Stupid SysAdmin tricks for $500, Alex"

2011-05-15 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
e was such a respected person. They then found out that it was actually one of the night janitors that was doing it. Because the professor didn't lock his computer when he wasn't there. On 5/15/2011 4:16 PM, Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. wrote: > Policy is that our desktops lock at 20

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Password prefixes [Was: Re: "Stupid SysAdmin tricks for $500, Alex"]

2011-05-16 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
; I > wonder how many then go on to use that same "secure" password on multiple > systems. > > I was thinking it might be something like what one shop I am familiar with > does: > > "Fred Is Fired" = FIF > -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC -

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Password prefixes [Was: Re: "Stupid SysAdmin tricks for $500, Alex"]

2011-05-16 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
atch?v=a6iW-8xPw3k > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ -- W

Re: [lopsa-discuss] "Stupid SysAdmin tricks for $500, Alex"

2011-05-16 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
a space slips in at the wrong > > place. > > I've gotten into a habit of tab-completing every file and directory, > always. If it doesn't complete, it doesn't exist or it warns me that I > have to be extra careful because i'm using sudo to remove the > direct

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Xoom or iPad tools for sysadmin

2011-05-17 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
Speaking of VPNit was nice that iPhone/iPad had built-in support to talk to our old Cisco VPN. While, Android did not. But, I've been using vpnc to connect. But, now we are being transitioned to a new VPN (Cisco Anyconnect). But, they haven't gotten unlimited licensing for the mobile dev

Re: [lopsa-discuss] I know that this is probably futile, but is there a search engine out there that doesn't SUCK???

2011-05-26 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
t; Google wants to hang crap off to the side that I don't want, and that >> instant thing is now stuck in the ON position. > Instant is easy to disable: > http://www.google.com/preferences > > Tom > -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Senior Unix Systems Adminis

Re: [lopsa-discuss] I know that this is probably futile, but is there a search engine out there that doesn't SUCK???

2011-05-26 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
opy it manually. Darn, not having any luck using google to find out where the cookie is. Other people asking the same question, but the only responses they get are how to delete all of them. - Original Message - > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 09:56, Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. > wrote:

Re: [lopsa-discuss] I know that this is probably futile, but is there a search engine out there that doesn't SUCK???

2011-05-26 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
add the gear icon though. > -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Senior Unix Systems Administrator For: Enterprise Server Technologies (EST) -- & SafeZone Ally Snail: Computing and Telecommunications Services (CTS) Kansas State University, 109 East Stadium, Manhattan, KS 66506-3102 Phone:

Re: [lopsa-discuss] I know that this is probably futile, but is there a search engine out there that doesn't SUCK???

2011-05-26 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
As I said, there is no cog There is a 'search settings' on the top, but there's no Google Instant section the page that goes to. - Original Message - > On 5/26/2011 3:56 AM, Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. wrote: > > I must be missing something, I don't se

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Tape backups for the home server?

2011-07-21 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
I used to do tape backup at homestarted with a QIC-150, later used 250's in it(think I got to where I was doing ~10 each weekend.) then 2GB DATs, then DLT4000, DLT7000 (my C drive was one tape, and then the rest eventually taking 9 more tapes)I looked at LTO1, but never scored a working

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Datacenter move post-mortem

2011-07-25 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
Wow, there's a tool for this? Why didn't I know about thiswonder if I want to get one for my personal collection? - Original Message - > > These are a godsend... :) > http://store.cablesplususa.com/cagenuttool.html > -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Most simple security policy?

2011-07-27 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
Back when I used to look through people's emails to find out what phish they had replied toI'd see that they often used very simple passwords, like initials in alternating case + the year. (password criteria requires 3 of 4 things, uppercase, lowercase, digit or punctuationthough somebo

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