spongle

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by spongle 13y ago
Our senior tech guys do the patch Tuesday meeting but a big chunk of our kit is internet facing. If you're offline or behind a (decent content filtering) firewall then the impact is potentially lower or non existent. Impact analysis is
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by spongle 13y ago
It's equivalent to puppet from a conceptual point of view. Puppet is better library-wise but its had longer to mature. Not much in it though.
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by spongle 13y ago
It was a small company (family farm machinery outfit) but their requirement is far more common than a massive software deployment. There are literally millions of servers churning away on trivial jobs in people's offices etc. Powershel
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by spongle 13y ago
It's important because it is the last bastion of simplicity in the UNIX world. It's open, a single cohesive system, is cleanly documented, cleanly engineered and small enough to retain knowledge on. It's the ideal foundation
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by spongle 13y ago
No I wouldn't unfortunately. I would, probably controversially, use Windows Server 2012 on mid-range HP DL or ML series kit. Since Windows 2008 R2 and the scriptability provided with PowerShell and PowerShell DSC have come around, it&#
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by spongle 13y ago
Indeed. HP's Z workstations are pretty good though.
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by spongle 13y ago
According to the logs, quite a few telnet attempts until about 2003 then it tailed off. Connection was up for around 2-3 hours a day. No incoming calls and wardialers as the modem was set not to answer. No statistics on SSH though as it was
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by spongle 13y ago
Probably quite a low percentage however it seems to be used as the proving ground for new tech such as IPv6 and ISC seem heavily into it so it's still really important regardless of market share.
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by spongle 13y ago
I set up a dialup gateway for a company with NetBSD 1.3 in 1998 on a compaq pentium 90 desktop with 32MiB of RAM. I got a call last year (!) from the owner saying it stopped working suddenly. Pulled the disk on it and plugged it into an IDE
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by spongle 13y ago
It was UTF8 so no guarantee about character versus byte size.
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by spongle 13y ago
Like they know what the hell is going on? Most people don't know the difference between Windows and Word. This is just going to confuse them further which is not a great way to win market share.
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by spongle 13y ago
I really don't get this. It doesn't make sense at all. Its like going into McDonalds and finding a Burger King stall inside it. This is going to be an experience as smooth as a 1974 land rover with no tyres on it.
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by spongle 13y ago
Whilst this is a post of derision, I do think people only know the highest level abstraction mankind can accomplish these days. It's embarrassing really. There is elegance in simplicity. Please continue to take the piss out of it :) I
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by spongle 13y ago
Until you bust a tooth :( (this had happened to me twice)
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by spongle 13y ago
Spot on. If I could upvote this a hundred times I would. I had a certain well know recruitment agent basically begging for me to go and work for them a couple of years ago. The agent was completely incapable of understanding why I "wo
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by spongle 13y ago
Probably no privacy laws there ;)
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by spongle 13y ago
Yep we canned it because of that, plus it was unreliable and our code and architectural review scared the shit out of us.
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by spongle 13y ago
Why do people even still use paypal? Fucking infuriates me. It's safer to transfer your money in cash in a transparent bag with "steal me" on it.
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by spongle 13y ago
Indeed. The problem Is that nutters vote nutters in. A big chunk of the UK consists of nutters. Look at the EDL for example. I've lived places where idiots like that are worshipped. Thoroughly depressing.
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by spongle 13y ago
I do have giant projects (which is what I'm referring to) unfortunately.
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by spongle 13y ago
Well I'll have a lot more time on my hands so perhaps it isn't a bad thing. Perhaps the fragmentation it will cause will destroy closed media on the internet as a whole. Nothing bad can come of it.
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by spongle 13y ago
You're definitely not an idiot. I applaud your approach and wish you all the best in the future.
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by spongle 13y ago
Well having been through plenty of formal education, I can assure you the point of education is to make uniformly cut cogs and make teachers and universities money. If you don't turn the same way as everyone else or risk your universit
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by spongle 13y ago
Yes Django developers can get your hourly dose of not responding alert bubbles, HRESULT crashes and upper case menus as well! I spent a couple of hours with visual studio python tooling a couple of months ago and couldn't face it. Its
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by spongle 13y ago
Actually as a solution architect I have to deal with all sides of the problems: people attacking, audit companies, penetration testing companies and software engineers leaving gaping holes. The only people who deliver little value are the p
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by spongle 13y ago
They do that. You just fix 'em. This was a short in the ignition system which caused the entire ignition wiring to burn out. Took out everything electrical nearby as well including lights. Fortunately I had a hand crank in the back so
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by spongle 13y ago
Now the simple has been made incredibly complicated and it's virtually impossible to take a design based on these to production for the amateur!
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by spongle 13y ago
I've had two cars catch fire: 1974 Land Rover Series III, 2006 Fiat Doblo Active. The first was an electrical fire and the second was a diesel leak (diesel burns like fuck when it gets hot). This isn't unique to Tesla! I'd ra
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by spongle 13y ago
That's basically the point of globalisation though isn't it?
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by spongle 13y ago
That's what people portray us social minded Europeans as but realistically, the majority will tell local businesses to get fucked when it comes down to it. Why? Price, poor products and service and "blame it on the customer"

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