Re: [lopsa-tech] Network Issue and Printer Issue

2014-08-29 Thread Mario Obejas
Alternatively, you could put a consumer grade router into bridge mode, let it act as your wireless AP point, and wire it into your HP 7300 ethernet port. Perhaps among the many devices they are taking out you will find one of these, and they may be willing to repurpose a router like this.

Re: [lopsa-tech] "Upgrading" to Windows 7

2014-09-16 Thread Mario Obejas
"Smith, David" writes: >Why are you upgrading to an OS that's already pretty close to end-of-support? I believe you are mistakenly equating Mainstream Support and Extended Support dates. Mainstream Support means new features, and service packs. Extended Support is the big one: no more securi

Re: [lopsa-tech] Data on longevity of powered off disk drives?

2014-12-11 Thread Mario Obejas
Bill Bogstad writes: [snip] > >Unfortunately though, it seems like nothing other then anecdotal data >is available for longevity of offline disk drives. Oh, well... I'll add one more. In classified environments it's quite common to take hard disk drives and put them in a safe, for later use s

Re: [lopsa-tech] What programs do sysadmins write?

2014-12-11 Thread Mario Obejas
Adam Moskowitz wrote: [snip] > Would you please take a few moments to send me a description of the > programs you've written in the last 3 or 6 or 12 months? Specifically, > would you please send me the following: > > * language used > * number of lines > * very brief description (<

Re: [lopsa-tech] Mac hard drive question

2015-02-01 Thread Mario Obejas
Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) writes: >> From: Adam Levin [mailto:levi...@gmail.com] >> >> I have occasionally had to go in and delete backups to free up space. I used >> the command line TM tools, but maybe that corrupted something. > >That should be automatic. When the backup destination gets

Re: [lopsa-tech] Mac hard drive question

2015-02-01 Thread Mario Obejas
- Original Message - > From: "levi...@gmail.com" > To: Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) > Cc: "tech@lists.lopsa.org" > Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 7:16 AM > Subject: Re: [lopsa-tech] Mac hard drive question > > Right, it's only automatic if you dedicate the entire drive. I had not do

Re: [lopsa-tech] Identify illicit behavior

2016-02-19 Thread Mario Obejas
The guy that gave this LISA talk isn't a complete idiot, and even though it was 2010, you might still find some applicable ideas in there: Enterprise-scale Employee Monitoring | USENIX |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | Enterprise-scale Employee Monitoring | USENIXSince June 2009, I have been th

Re: [lopsa-tech] scripting: What do you use if not bash?

2016-05-21 Thread &#x27;Mario Obejas' via LOPSA Tech Discussion list
Yves Dorfsman writes: >A lot of people love to hate bash, and there are good reasons for it, but it >seems that there isn't an obvious replacement for it. > [] >What do *you* use? Do you see any clear winner to replace it on the horizon? bash replaced sh the same way vim replaced vi, for many of