On 2009-02-05 at 18:56 -0500, Nicholas Tang wrote:
> P.S. I appreciate all of the feedback so far; no one seems to have
> nailed it or found the solution yet, but I've seen a lot of
> interesting tools because of it and gotten some interesting ideas. I
> suspect we'll have to roll our own to real
On 2009-02-09 at 15:40 +, Jonathan wrote:
> I work for a UK university and we need to set up some infrastructure to
> allow staff to send/receive PGP/GPG signed e-mails.
So, the infrastructure is really "local PGP keyserver if you're feeling
generous" and "some kind of trusted introducer to ge
On 2009-02-09 at 13:48 -0800, Phil Pennock wrote:
> There are two or three ports of interest. 11371 for HKP retrievals,
> standardised and used by clients. 11380 is the standard
> peering/reconciliation mesh port for SKS.
Typo, sorry. 11370 is the typical peering / reconciliation por
On 2009-03-03 at 23:45 -0600, Brad Knowles wrote:
> What do you do then?
Avoid directly trashing your bosses's bosses in public, work on your
LinkedIn profile and hope that if !...@#$ happens you can get work
elsewhere with someone both clueful and sufficiently confident in their
clue that they wo
On 2009-08-14 at 21:15 -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> There is, it's unsurprisingly called "wait". If you want to wait only
> for some, you can save pids of backgrounded commands (they go into $!)
> and wait on a list of pids; by default it waits on all backgrounded
> jobs.
Beware
On 2009-08-18 at 11:32 -0700, Ski Kacoroski wrote:
> At $work we purchased a new mail server (Scalix) and need to migrate
> from our old mail server (CommunigatePro). We have 2500 accounts with
> the largest account about 4.2GB/53000 messages. Our problem is that in
> testing several of the imap
On 2009-09-30 at 12:07 -0600, Yves Dorfsman wrote:
> -talk to the kid about what impact her talking to her birth parents can have
> on me, and on my ability to keep her (if the police finds out, they might
> remove you from me)
Be careful here, the supposition is that the child has sufficient
em
On 2009-10-01 at 18:50 -0400, Esther Filderman wrote:
> Folks, this is a list about systems administration not parenting
> skills. While I'm sure your ideas on how to handle this sensitive
> topic may be helpful I'd like to encourage you to move it off-list.
Technology does not exist in a social
On 2009-10-07 at 13:34 -0700, Atom Powers wrote:
> Some things I've tried that don't work:
> SFTP - people have trouble working with remote files
Which SFTP? Secure FTP, or SSH-based remote file management?
If the latter, have you looked at the GPL'd client WinSCP, with the code
derived from Pu
On 2009-11-30 at 21:20 -0500, Tom Limoncelli wrote:
> I have a file called rc-addition that contains:
>
>
> # BEGIN project
> a
> bunch
> of
> lines
> # END project
>
>
> I want to append it to the end of /etc/rc.machine but if there is already a
> "# BEGIN project" / "# END project" it should
On 2009-11-30 at 23:20 -0500, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> Agreed, but I took it as presented. Also, at one point I noticed that
> some Linux distributions didn't install ed by default; I don't know if
> this is still true.
See, now you're just trying to make me cry.
More seriously:
SU
On 2010-04-06 at 22:19 -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> I can't assume option (a) because Intel's video conference system isn't
> probably going to match Adobe's and Microsoft's and Apple's and Google's and
> RedHat's and so on. So there's got to be some really awesome DDNS solution.
> I am famil
On 2010-04-06 at 22:11 -0600, Yves Dorfsman wrote:
> Phil Pennock wrote:
> >
> >> For that matter . anybody know how to get an IPv6 address, if your ISP
> >> doesn't simply give them out?
> >
> > Hurricane Electric give out free tunnels: http://www.t
On 2010-04-07 at 07:42 -0700, Atom Powers wrote:
> If the big regional and global carriers aren't supporting IPv6 yet, it
> doesn't really matter if your ISP does, it's still going to have to be
> tunneled somewhere.
Enough of the global carriers, and outside the USA the regional
carriers, carry I
On 2010-04-07 at 14:44 -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> So, the only issue with typical DDNS, such as MS and Bind, is the complexity
> of setup. They can easily do it for DHCP clients on a LAN, assuming you're
> running your own DHCP server, and you're on your own LAN, but not so easy if
> requir
On 2010-04-18 at 11:42 -0600, Yves Dorfsman wrote:
> addresses on the public internet. I only used one, so I turned that off, and
> pointed to a public stun server (who fund those? all of them seems to be
> aliases to an amazon EC2 node!),
stun.l.google.com
I'm fairly sure that's not an Amazon
On 2010-04-19 at 07:25 -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> At present, the printer and toaster are safe from the Internet because they
> are not reachable from the internet. There's not a lot of reason for the
> toaster to support IPv6, but even if it does, there's nothing forcing it to
> take an in
On 2010-04-19 at 19:19 -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> LOL!!
>
> You almost made me spray beer out my nose. :-)
At the toasters, or at the idea of vendors having decent IPv6 support in
equipment when they can barely get IPv4 support working well?
-Phil
On 2010-04-20 at 23:12 -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> If you're behind a firewall, which blocks inbound unknown connections,
> And I'm behind a firewall, which blocks inbound unknown connections,
>
> Then how do you propose you and I can communicate p2p? It's only possible
> via techniques suc
On 2010-04-21 at 10:39 -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> This is particularly interesting, because IPv6 doesn't bring much to the
> table over IPv4, except in the area of enabling p2p communications.
Publicly routed IP addresses, as many as you want. Wonderful when you
hit things like Kerberos
On 2010-04-21 at 19:37 -0600, Yves Dorfsman wrote:
> Phil Pennock wrote:
> > On 2010-04-18 at 11:42 -0600, Yves Dorfsman wrote:
> >> addresses on the public internet. I only used one, so I turned that off,
> >> and
> >> pointed to a public stun server (who
On 2010-04-27 at 13:13 -0500, Jeremy Charles wrote:
> I want to target cities that act as the major telecom/transit hubs. I
> have a decent feel for where these are in the USA, but I haven't the
> first clue on how to figure that out for that part of the world. For
> example, Amsterdam is the onl
On 2010-05-25 at 07:31 -0400, Joe McDonagh wrote:
> I just finished integrating puppet with nagios so that nagios configs
> are automagically built by puppet. It's a little different than what
> you're saying but cool nonetheless. If I include an apache class, an
> apache service checks gets setup
On 2010-05-25 at 11:10 -0400, Nick Silkey wrote:
> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Phil Pennock
> wrote:
> > So, if service Foo gets droped from your puppet configs somehow, through
> > misconfiguration, your monitoring will stop and the service can go down
> > with
On 2010-06-16 at 11:45 +0200, Aleksandar Ivanisevic wrote:
> Incidentally, thats the first question you will be asked in a Google
> phone screen. Not the technical screen, the answer is so simple they've
> put it in their recruiting drones' scripts ;)
A couple of notes on this; note that anythin
On 2010-06-24 at 22:40 +0200, Aleksandar Ivanisevic wrote:
> On 6/24/10 5:55 , Jan L. Peterson wrote:
> > Your observations don't jive with mine. When I first interviewed with
> > Google (about five years ago), I was very impressed by the types of
>
> Hmmm, where was your interview? Mine was in D
On 2010-06-24 at 14:41 -0700, Tracy Reed wrote:
> advice people say this. Which makes me wonder: Why does anyone request
> references if the applicant has made sure they are all pre-cooked?
Often, verifying that the person was indeed employed there is a good
step, given that people have been known
On 2010-07-03 at 21:47 -0700, Shrdlu wrote:
> If you're getting a paycheck, the copyright
> isn't yours (other than by prior, WRITTEN, agreement, and that's oh, so
> very rare).
> The school took nothing away. He had no right to place a copyright on
> work he did not
On 2010-07-04 at 19:22 -0400, Brian Mathis wrote:
> Nowhere in this discussion has it been said that there was an initial
> verbal agreement of any kind to get paid for the work. The only
> mention of payment was as part of doing updates.
The very first email said:
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On 2010-07-09 at 20:52 -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> And I think this is typical for enterprise IT.
> You take your laptop to Starbuck's to download the package via SFTP which
> your customer sent you, because outbound SFTP is blocked by the firewall.
>
> I personal
On 2010-08-31 at 16:40 -0400, Cat Okita wrote:
> Further, while I'm not particularly a fan of outsourcing, that's exactly
> what folk are doing with cloud services like Gmail, iTunes, iMac, yada,
> yada -- with the crucial difference that you're just SOL if they decide to
> give up and go away. T
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