After reading RFC 2849 several times, and lots of googling, my understanding
is that:
* there has only been one version of LDIF, version 1, described in RFC 2849,
written in 2000
* if anything is not ascii (actually, not in "SAFE-STRING"), it has to be
utf-8, *encoded in base64*
* openldap f
Steven Tylock wrote:
>
> But if you had a new office space to move into, and management decided to
> install a new fob based system, what would you choose to put in?
>
Whatever you choose, make sure that:
1) it's not a complete pain to use
2) getting out is always easy
At some point I worked at
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
>
> Okay, here it is. Almost any email directed at the machines is not
> valid. I don't care about stopping spam (because if it was actually
> directed at a legitimate user, it almost certainly would not be spam), I
> care about slowing or stopping the automated attacks. I
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...
What is the point of faceboot over say a personal web page ?
What is the whole "friend" thing
Brad Knowles wrote:
>
> Therein lies the problem. They don't see the 20M+ that is spent every
> year in getting Microsoft Educational licenses as part of the cost of
> Exchange, and even then they still have to pay closer to "normal" rates
> for software licenses, OS licenses, hardware, etc...
Dave Close wrote:
>
> _Capitalism and Freedom_ by Milton Friedman, published in the early
> 1960s, demolished once and for all any reasonable case for licensing of
> anybody. Licensing is nothing more than legalized restraint of trade.
I had never heard of this concept. I just quickly googled, it
I am looking for a new contract, and am looking at system administration,
technical writing and programming positions.
For technical writing and programing, most companies (and governments
agencies) are asking for samples of work. The problem is, all my best and
most extensive work has been do
Joshua Nichols wrote:
> I'd recommend getting approval from previous clients to redact their
> identity and include segments of finished products as part of a case
> study. Most clients are comfortable being referred to in the abstract,
> and if you only include portions of the completed work,
Richard Chycoski wrote:
> Our S-Ox auditors make extensive use of screenshots to document
> compliance. The auditors aren't as interested about what goes on inside
> as they are in the visible results, which in many cases means - what
> showed up on the screen?
>
One thing I have seen done, wh
Pam Ochs wrote:
> I'm looking for wisdom and advice here.
> I'm supporting an application running on Solaris, and it is
> experiencing performance problems during peak use times. I was asked
> to look at the OS and ascertain where the issue might be. If this was
> Windows, I would start by runni
Any reason why we cannot post a resume with our LOPSA account, we have to
create yet another account ?
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Hi,
I'm looking at possibly using rsync.net for production backups for a
customer of mine. Everything I read on their site sounds good but, I'd like
to hear if anybody has any horror story with them, or if people can confirm
that it works as advertised.
I'd like to also hear about alternative
Yves Dorfsman wrote:
> I'm looking at possibly using rsync.net for production backups for a
> customer of mine. Everything I read on their site sounds good but, I'd like
> to hear if anybody has any horror story with them, or if people can confirm
> that it works as advert
Dan Foster wrote:
>
> (On the real exam, I've heard rumors it's graded on a curve so if true,
> you'd essentially be competiting against not straight scoring of 'book
> learning' per se but of the knowledge/experience/skills of those who
> also sits for the exam.)
Why would they do that ?
You kn
Yves Dorfsman wrote:
> Yves Dorfsman wrote:
>> I'm looking at possibly using rsync.net for production backups for a
>> customer of mine. Everything I read on their site sounds good but, I'd like
>> to hear if anybody has any horror story with them, or if people c
da...@lang.hm wrote:
>
> several years ago there was a flurry of unexpected failures when it was
> discovered that the linux kernel had a bug that caused it to crash after
> 497 days of uptime
Bang on !
I never understood the sysadmin pissing contest of 'uptime'.
I have been patching my machi
Adam Moskowitz wrote:
> A friend of mine needs to control the flow of email to/from his adopted
> daughter (who is now 12 years old). Specifically, he needs to be able to
> control mail between her and her birth parents -- partly because of
> problems being caused by the birth parents, and partly t
Richard Chycoski wrote:
>
> Please help Adam's friend with best 'make do' answers that this very
> creative group can come up with - it's a tough situation to be in (I
> know parents who have been in similar situations too) and technology is
> making many things worse while it's making other th
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.
To be fair, most of the discussion was around if, and how technology
Esther Schindler wrote:
>
>
> Anyhow, here's what she's looking for:
>
>> Microsoft demonstrated DirectAccess for its new OS, Windows 7.
>> DirectAccess is a way to give mobile users more convenient access to
>> the network without having to fire up a VPN connection. On the user
>> side, we g
Tracy Reed wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 09:59:50AM -0700, da...@lang.hm spake thusly:
>> one thing to remember is that many (but definantly not all) people on this
>> list are Unix/Linux centric. so the fact that we are not familiar with all
>
> What's the ratio of Unix/Linux system administ
Dave Close wrote:
>
>> Exactly. And it doesn't scale. Even at my small 400-500 person
>> company we have conflicts with names. So, if you have two
>> john.sm...@foo.com, who gets the email? Riddle me that batman...
>
> When snail mail arrives addressed to John Smith, it usually gets to
> the
Lamont Granquist wrote:
> When I was at Amazon it was decided on by you and your manager.
>
> Some people used their initials which was actually remarkably easy to
> remember because it was different from most of the rest of the people.
> One person used the first initial of their first name (si
Hi,
I find myself doing more and more writing in my different contracts. I'm
fairly happy with the documents I produce, and so my do my customers since
they keep coming back, but I'm sure there is space for improvement.
I've just started googling for good books on the subject, but there doesn'
Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
>
> Here is my one point of skepticism: How can "a school" spy on you? A
> school is made of brick and stuff. Whenever somebody does something
> unethical in a school, or Microsoft, or Apple, or Google, or the government,
> people quickly say "Microsoft stole software"
j...@eldertimes.us wrote:
>
> But seriously, yes, we've got a wiki in place. I've used DocBook
> before, and I liked it, but honestly, it's hard enough to get people to
> use the wiki, let alone the simple wiki markup. Throw XML into the mix
> and buy-in from the team goes way down, unfortunatel
Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
>
>
> But if you imagine that you get a different IPv6 address for every
> network that you plug into, which is what you have to imagine to be
> commonplace some years out from now… then there are basically two
> options. (a) whatever service you’re using (for examp
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.tunnelbroker.net/
Tunnelling is great to play and learn about ipv6, but not so much for peer to
peer stuff, b
Phil Pennock wrote:
> 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
Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
>
> But, I just got the idea from startssl.net ... All you need to do is connect
> to a webpage, or any web service for that matter, and they know your client
> IP address. As long as you have *any* way to uniquely identify yourself to
> a web site, the automatic DDNS cou
Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
>
>
>> -as mentioned yesterday, there are protocols out there that use proper
>> authentication over encypted channels to let peers establish a peer to
>> peer
>> connection through a dialogue through servers that work well.
>>
>> What problem are you trying to solve?
>
Matthew Barr wrote:
>
>
> (Any newer advances in antispam resources wouldn't be adverse, either. I
> suspect we've moved away from image scanning, at this point. I'm a fan of
> the zen.spamhaus DNS-RBL. )
Thanks. Been using "sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org" for years, but didn't know about zen.
Is anyb
Robert Hajime Lanning wrote:
>
>
> SIP doesn't really work over NAT. The recommendation in the Asterisk
> community is you have the Asterisk server on a public IP, then the
> clients (soft or hard) can be behind NATs. And all media (RTP) is run
> through the Asterisk server (canreinvite=no), not
NAT is used to let more devices use the internet, than the number of public ip
addresses that available to the organisation.
But I know a few companies that ended up with a class B network, only have a
few thousand internal nodes (< 20 K), but still use NAT for "security
reasons", to hide thei
Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
>
> By comparison to IPv4: you've only got a few external IP addresses, so
> you've got to map many internal addresses to a single external. Hence any
> inbound traffic is destined for an unknown internal machine, and hence p2p
> is essentially impossible.
s/impossible/d
da...@lang.hm wrote:
> far more open than the person dropping the restrictions realizes. You
> may not care about exposing your laptop directly tothe Internet (after
> all, you do so anyway when on the road, so it's already hardened), but
> when you start to expose your printer, tv, game consol
Colm Buckley wrote:
>
>
> It doesn't necessitate any such thing; most organisations will probably
> continue to block all unknown inbound traffic, and rightly so. There's
> nothing about P2P applications which requires an open firewall; what's
> being gained is the ability to have consistent
Robert Brockway wrote:
>
> I'll tell you what does expose internal network topologies - SMTP headers
> and that happens right now whether NAT is in use or not. Any other
> application which records its path through the network in the application
> headers is similarly exposing network topology
da...@lang.hm wrote:
>
> I agree that in many cases NAT is used inappropriatly, but until IP
> address space really is allocated to the end user (or company) rather than
> the ISP, some of these arguments will remain as valid (or invalid) as they
> are today (specificly the argument that it's e
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 fund those? all of them seems to be
>> aliases to an amazon EC2 node!),
>
>
On 10-05-06 08:52 AM, Brian Mathis wrote:
> With your firewall issues you will probably be better served with the
> distributed VCS tools, like Mercurial, Git, etc... They give each
> developer a full copy of the repository, so they won't need to be
> accessing over the network all the time. Howe
It looks as though this message hasn't gone through, so re-sending - sorry if
it ends up being a duplicate.
Original Message
Subject: Re: [lopsa-discuss] Version control system for small group
Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 13:55:24 -0600
From: Yves Dorfsman
To: discuss@lopsa.org
On 10-05-07 02:57 PM, Nick Webb wrote:
> I have a need to host DNS servers outside our primary data center...
> although we have a pretty good data center, we've had a few instances
> where our generator failed and DNS being offline is not so great. We
> could go out to Slicehost, or other VM/VPS
For a site I am working at, we're looking at NAS async replication across
continents (latency > 100 ms). We've just started looking at this, and are
right now looking at IBM SONAS, HP Ibrix, and Isilon.
The idea is:
* a file can be opened for writing on any of the NAS node.
* when a file is o
On 10-05-18 06:14 AM, Doug Hughes wrote:
> Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
>>> From: discuss-boun...@lopsa.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lopsa.org] On
>>> Behalf Of Yves Dorfsman
>>>
>>> For a site I am working at, we're looking at NAS async replication
>>
On 10-05-17 01:14 PM, John Stoffel wrote:
>
> Yves> * when a file is open for writing on one node, it is locked and
> Yves> becomes read only on the other nodes (locking done by the NAS
> Yves> device/filesystem, not the apps).
>
> Key.
Yes.
> Yves> * replication is done as the file gets wri
On 10-05-17 09:58 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
>> From: discuss-boun...@lopsa.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lopsa.org] On
>> Behalf Of Yves Dorfsman
>>
>> For a site I am working at, we're looking at NAS async replication
>> across
>> continents (latency>
Has anybody done, or can point me to a *rational* comparison between those
guys, or even one including commercial products?
Thanks.
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xmpp:y...@zioup.com
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On 10-06-16 11:45 AM, Mark Dennehy wrote:
> Of course, there is the risk that (like I just did in a google
> interview) the interviewee will let the jobhunting stress get to them
> and just blank on something that they do actually know. Jobhunt stress
> isn't the same as job stress - so even s
On 10-06-17 10:39 AM, Josh Smift wrote:
> I don't know much about this: Is contract-for-hire legally very different
> from (a) working somewhere with a probationary period, with an explicit
> review at the end of it; (b) at-will employment in general, in states
> where that's the norm?
>
My experi
On 10-06-17 08:48 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
>> From: Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH [mailto:allb...@ece.cmu.edu]
>>
>> ...now if only they'd offer residential static IP
>
> Agreed. However, I'm able to live with this thanks to dyndns.org (et al)
Not with Verizon, but on dynamic ip... I now pay f
I agree with everybody who says it's work for hire...
But I wouldn't let it go. What they have done is dishonest. I'd write up an
invoice and send it every month, phone, harass them, until they pay.
I've had customers forgetting to pay, and even let it go when it was small
amounts (writing it o
On 10-07-15 07:48 AM, Brodie, Kent wrote:
> My personal theory on this is, the typical type of troubleshooting
> skills that a good sysadmin has, simply cannot be taught. It has to do
> with your personality, how you were raised, your inquisitive nature,
> your willingness to take risks, and so on.
Venturing outside the animal kingdom, I'll say one of the bacteria form the
human gut:
• a lot of people don't realise they exist
• nobody wants to know who they are or what they do
• they are invisible when they do their job correctly
• major problems happens soon after they stop doing their
>
> yes, but if I hire a guy who thinks about these problems on his own
> time, and I feed him (or her) problems that are more interesting that
> what they have at home, I get the benifit of his 'time in the shower'
> I mean, the 'top idea in your head'[1] is generally thought to
> be something tha
On 10-09-15 11:34 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> Do your users use services such as dropbox and google docs etc? Which ones?
This might be relevant to the discussion:
http://www.hackingwork.com/
I haven't read the book (yet), but heard about it on a podcast (CBC I think).
There was a lot of int
On 10-10-02 05:31 PM, Leon Towns-von Stauber wrote:
>
> On Oct 2, 2010, at 4:01 PM, Rob Cherry wrote:
>
>> I fear that my days of Solaris bigotry are very outdated. I can ignore the
>> Linux world no longer. I can also no longer assume that knowing Solaris is
>> enough to fake it for enterprise
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