Re: [lopsa-discuss] Chrome Download Creepiness anyone?

2009-12-12 Thread Matt Simmons
Even if it ran with my local privileges, that isn't something that I would want/expect my browser to be able to do. Ed, I take it you hadn't changed any of the default security settings to prevent such an occurrence, right? I'm also at a loss as to how it automatically executed. --Matt On Sat,

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Chrome Download Creepiness anyone?

2009-12-15 Thread Matt Simmons
I'll bite. It's maybe not the fact that browsers CAN do that, since, as someone above (maybe you?) said, they are programs. They can exec(). It's that the browser would be programmed to do that. It takes the opposite tack of browser sandboxing that seems to be better from a security standpoint, as

Re: [lopsa-discuss] high density wireless

2010-01-12 Thread Matt Simmons
m...microwaved hu-man. All the better reason not to sit close to the AP, I suppose. On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Chuong Dao wrote: > I've setup a fairly large wireless system. The event was at a conference for > about 10K of people. I the test setup went well at my work location. It di

Re: [lopsa-discuss] virtualizing XP under Linux and remote IE testing

2010-01-21 Thread Matt Simmons
The single biggest weakness that I've seen for VirtualBox is its inability to resize disk images after creation. This leads to creating additional virtual disks to present to the guest. If you're hoping to resize the Windows filesystem to utilize this space, make sure to use "dynamic disks": http:

Re: [lopsa-discuss] virtualizing XP under Linux and remote IEtesting

2010-01-21 Thread Matt Simmons
I'd probably go USB boot in that case. PXE is just another subsystem to break and fail other things. Incidentally, if you've got a Dell system, you can install the OpenManage VIB in ESXi to gain access to the underlying RAID system - http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=e

Re: [lopsa-discuss] If you only had 5 minutes to secure a server ...

2010-02-01 Thread Matt Simmons
Before the exercise, I would become very familiar with this page: http://support.zenwalk.org/viewforum.php?f=48&sid=3320c271ca1cdb2240993243573a5787 Several of these are possible to do concurrently, which will be important in a team environment. 1a) Log into the console as root and touch /etc/nol

[lopsa-discuss] SysAdmin Event Calendar

2010-05-23 Thread Matt Simmons
s project, both positive and negative. Thanks in advance! All the best, --Matt Simmons PS - Please feel free to tell other groups about this. The more people who know, the more effective it will be -- LITTLE GIRL: But which cookie will you eat FIRST? COOKIE MONSTER: Me think you have misconception o

Re: [lopsa-discuss] What do you ask when hiring a network admin?

2010-06-16 Thread Matt Simmons
A friend of mine just came back from a sysadmin interview at a large nationwide insurance company. They asked the "TCP handshake" question, and unfortunately he's not much of a networking guy, so he said "I didn't memorize that. If I needed to know it, I'd look it up". Which would, at least to me,

[lopsa-discuss] LOPSA in Pittsburgh?

2010-08-15 Thread Matt Simmons
There is subsection of the site reddit.com which is devoted to system administration (http://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin). A recent post asked about LOPSA in Pittsburgh: http://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/d1e2c/lopsa_in_pittsburgh/ I thought that this list might be a good place to see if anyo

Re: [lopsa-discuss] What do you ask when hiring a network admin?

2010-08-28 Thread Matt Simmons
Ugh. They got the handshake wrong. It's SYN SYN/ACK ACK On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Esther Schindler wrote: > Remember way back when I asked for input on this article on behalf of my > freelancer Lisa Nadile? > > The article is FINALLY published (please don't ask about the reasons for the

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Reccomended Book/Resources on HDD/RAID Recovery

2010-09-20 Thread Matt Simmons
There's a point in time where it ceases to be "heroic recovery" and starts to become "forensics". It's going to be hard to find a single resource, just because so many of the details are going to be hardware specific. You can probably find great documentation on how to recover from failed hardware

Re: [lopsa-discuss] cheap colo suggestion

2010-09-25 Thread Matt Simmons
I'll second the suggestion for prgmr.com - I host www.standalone-sysadmin.com there, and I've been very happy with all of my dealings with Luke et al. I've got a special kind of love for a company who's slogan is "We don't assume you are stupid." and who, on occasion, won't take new customers beca

Re: [lopsa-discuss] SGE now called OGE, no longer free

2010-09-28 Thread Matt Simmons
Oracle Jr On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Matt Lawrence wrote: > On Mon, 27 Sep 2010, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > >> What's next? >> >> Mysql? > > To be renamed MyOracle? > > -- Matt > It's not what I know that counts. > It's what I can remember in time to use. > _