Re: [lopsa-discuss] CISSP?

2009-08-22 Thread Shrdlu
I'm replying at random, and not to any specific person. The CISSP carries a certain weight, unjust or not, in security circles. There are some contracts that require it. It certainly makes customers feel more comfortable. IFF you are a known person in the security arena (i.e. Steven Christey of

Re: [lopsa-discuss] CISSP?

2009-08-22 Thread Shrdlu
unix_fan wrote: [snippy] > Ob CISSP: Since I'm dealing with Enterprise Security and Federal > agency mandates, I deal with a lot of people with CISSP on their > signature lines. I've genrally resisted the siren song of certs for > most of my career, but I'm thinking the CISSP is not something to

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Handling files on a fileserver left by users who have resigned

2009-10-21 Thread Shrdlu
Junhao wrote: [snip] > My workplace does not have a policy to handle this situation, so I am > wondering how everyone handles this age-old problem. Any advice? > > I can only think of these 2 methods: > 1) create local users to replace the AD user. >There no confusion about the person who gen

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Frappr?

2009-12-14 Thread Shrdlu
Stephen P. Schaefer wrote: > ...Frappr is now asking for $24.95 > to keep the site available to me for another year, or allowing me to > download the present data gratis... Dang. I had to turn into a pretzel just to get off the mailing list, and you they want money from. Good thing they didn't a

Re: [lopsa-discuss] high density wireless

2010-01-12 Thread Shrdlu
da...@lang.hm wrote: > When attending confrences in past years I have been frustrated at the > quality/reliability of the wireless access. In many cases it's been clear > that the person setting things up did not understand the effects of many > computers in a small area.. > > Well, I now have

Re: [lopsa-discuss] How to improve documentation habits (UNCLASSIFIED)

2010-03-17 Thread Shrdlu
Johnson, Jonathon W Mr CTR USA TRADOC USA wrote: > As yet, I've not found a good way to convert the Word stuff yet. Copying > and pasting is turning into a disaster since quite a bit of these documents > are either step by step ordered lists or have many screenshots and/or tables > involved. > >

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Some thoughts on Inetleectual Property

2010-07-03 Thread Shrdlu
John BORIS wrote: > Brian, > He had "Copyright by John Doe" but copyright or design I think he really > wants the recognition but is just isn't sure how to handle this. Brian is correct. He's given you the very best answer, and you should communicate this to your young friend. He needs to drop

[lopsa-discuss] Cpanel/mailman help

2010-07-12 Thread Shrdlu
So, just to remind me of how much fun working and deadlines are, I am involved in a sudden emergency have to move everything from here to there RIGHT NOW. Uh-huh. Please, please, PLEASE, don't tell me how I can get all these answers if only I go join/ask on other lists. There are people here wh

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Cpanel/mailman help

2010-07-13 Thread Shrdlu
For the sake of anyone else who is wondering how to accomplish all this, I'm replying to myself with the answers. Shrdlu wrote: > The restore function for cpanel (which happily restored all the files in > a subdirectory, rather than in their component places, and what good is >

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Recommendations for Network training for a new manager

2010-08-21 Thread Shrdlu
On 8/21/2010 8:23 PM, Joe McDonagh wrote: > On 08/19/2010 05:20 PM, Damion Alexander wrote: >> I just added the networking group (better stated: person) to my newly >> formed group of Sys Admins. I am pretty savvy with Systems, but I can >> only play a network person on TV. >> Could someone poin

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Recommendations for Network training for a new manager

2010-08-22 Thread Shrdlu
On 8/22/2010 12:00 PM, nmedb...@museverte.net wrote: > Valid points by all that suggested letting the network guy be the > network guy and just focus on managing. > > One counter-point I offer is that if no one else in the group knows > enough about networking to cover for that network person at a

[lopsa-discuss] Replacement for Labrea

2009-01-08 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
Okay, I'm ready to ramp up to annoyed with the attempts against my mailservers. I recall some time ago that Labrea was popular, however, it seems to have disappeared. In fact, the mailing list at sourceforge is nothing but pornographic spam (I realize I just lost part of my audience, who are no

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Replacement for Labrea

2009-01-09 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: Okay, I'll try again. I guess I'm asking this question wrong. For the kind folk that replied privately, I am uninterested in outsourcing anything, especially my mail servers. > My current approach is to kill -9 sendmail on the machines until the > automat

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Replacement for Labrea

2009-01-09 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
Ed wrote: > [LIST ADMIN] reply is not going back to the list - requires "reply > all" & Cc: to To: swap I prefer it just fine the way it is. I suspect I am not alone in this. [snip reply] I appreciate your reply, but I don't want to run just obsd; I just want to discourage the automated scans

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Project prioritization tool?

2009-02-04 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
Jim Hickstein wrote: > When I last evaluated this (admittedly over 10 years ago), we chose > something that we decided was better for us than MS Project, and I > used it quite a lot. ... ooo, what was that name? (Josh, Hal, Luke: > any of you guys remember it? It had a native Mac client, I remem

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Project prioritization tool?

2009-02-05 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > Hmmm... I'm not positive on the above link, but if no one comes up with > the answer, I'll ask my fellow sufferer in that endeavor the question. > It was some nice stuff, whatever it was. I did, and his reply was that it was all locally developed

Re: [lopsa-discuss] facebook

2009-02-07 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
Yves Dorfsman wrote: > I've seen of couple of messages on the lopsa mailing lists saying > "check my facebook page" or something similar. I follow the link, and > it page asks me to "join" in order to be able to see the page... Personally, it reminds me a bit of the gmail craze, when people were

Re: [lopsa-discuss] facebook

2009-02-09 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
C.M. Connelly wrote: > "ES" == Etaoin Shrdlu > > ES> Reddit isn't really the same thing, though. Besides, > ES> almost everyone I know is on Twitter. I don't know too > ES> many folk that are on reddit, or care much about > ES

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Professional standards.

2009-04-13 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
Luke S Crawford wrote: > da...@lang.hm: >>also, if whatever standard is created would mean that a large portion of >>the senior people in the field are not 'qualified' (and for most >>proposals, would never have become qualified), that standard starts off in >>a _very_ bad position. > I think