On 2/19/19 8:21 PM, ObNox wrote:
> That's how the world works. Smart people fade away and stupid twats take 
> over. They don't understand anything and they only want "click here" 
> buttons to solve their problems. Throughout my career, I've seen lots of 
> them, looking like monkeys in surgical operating rooms...

At a former employer I shall not name, one of the last things I did was
build a new primary domain nameserver on a Sun Ultra5 that was so
thoroughly hardened nmap's best guesses at its OS were Apple Laserwriter
or ...  I don't remember the other guess any more, actually.  Something
really obscure.  BeOS, maybe.

Then there was, literally, a coup on the board of directors.  (I'm not
kidding.  The plotters took one of the other directors out, got him
drunk, and got him to assign his proxy.)  Overnight we had a new CEO,
CFO, and CTO.  The first order from the new CTO was "Everything not
Windows is gone."  And the first thing his newly appointed head of IT
did was go into Active Directory and lock everything down so hard you
couldn't even create a scratch file on your desktop.


> People like Tom, and like other great guys behind high quality free 
> software, are a rarity to be valued. They understand complexity and 
> craft solutions to make it look easy to solve. Shorewall, in certain 
> setups, brings configuration simplicity to hair pulling complexity 
> situations if they were to be managed "by hand".

Oh, I love the fact that all I need do is invoke a couple of macros and
services like FTP and Jabber *Just Work*.



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