Posts by Crazy Operations Guy

Re: Belgacom

The British Military Sat-Comm system is called SkyNet (at least some of those birds are still orbiting)

Re: Compensation for correctly filtered

"So only those without the filter get to annoy the ISP or read what the government doesn't like. But that doesn't matter, because we've already established that they are all deviants that need kept an eye on."

how do you know they won;t be filtered too? The ISPs could easily have a basic filter that everyone is subject to and then the smut filter that you can opt out of. If someone notices their traffic going through the filter, they could just lie and say that is how the network is blocked; everything goes through that particular piece of equipment.

"UNIX-compatible OS"

Oh god you're killing me!

I have a whole stack of HP-UX and zOS binaries that whenever I try to run on Linux will dump like it just ate a plateful of curry made with spoiled chicken and washed down with a gallon of water from a Mexican village.

Re: Idiots on the mailing list

If he is tired of idiots on the mailing list, then why not just set up a white-list for who can send to it? A lot of projects do this where only a small group is allowed to post to the mailing list but anyone can subscribe to it, in this case, limit the people who can post to it to just the kernel devs themselves and maybe one or two exceptions. And if these idiots are kernel devs, what is he doing letting people like that do such critical work?

But what do I know? I'm just a 'Masturbating Monkey'. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/706950

Of course its the same story with the Google toolbar and the Bing Bar, so it all evens out.

And what would they do with the data? You could find all the SMTP servers, but you don't know what domains it serves or even if its just an exit server for someone's email system with the entrance being hosted by a third party.

You could do a reverse look-up on the IP address that respond, but you'll only end up with their external host-names so service providers' server wouldn't match what they host. The easier thing to do would be to just query DNS with a big list of domains and setting the type to MX.

Could very well be something in the treatment the wood got when it was first manufactured 70 years ago by forced labor, the chemicals going into them weren't selected for minimization of health risks...

That's what I've always thought. Its daft to think that "Viewing child pornography will cause you to go molest a kid" is just as daft as "Viewing pornography causes people to rape each-other"

Re: Time to dig out the Sextant

Ships are required to carry a mechanical clock, which is accurate enough for navigation in open water without nearby landmarks, the atomic clocks are only used by the other idiot-instruments.

Re: The CO2 problem interests me

Ohio-class SSBN/SSGN submarines use a combination of CO2 scrubbers and electrolyzed oxygen from the sea-water (Although a lot of that is diverted to the missiles, the crew still get some). There are also emergency compressed air tanks to last for quite a while so a rescue can be effected if the sub loses power (Happens more often than you'd think, just ask the crew of the Kursk)

The Ohio-class is over-kill for its mission, but that's what you get from Cold-war era paranoia matched with the ungodly budget of the US government. To be fair, a lot of technology used for the life support was originally researched for the space program (or maybe it was the other way around)

No fishiness

The Yakuzu, sorry, Japanese Government just wanted to get rid of the competition

Re: Not very impressed

Repairing a robot is far cheaper than repairing a human being.

Plus this is Bellevue, the home of Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Jeff Bezos, Howard Shultz, and pretty much every other rich guy in the Seattle area; their police funding is through the roof.

Re: "As you may know, sysadmins need removable media to do their job," Alexander said

"Except when the network card is broken. Or disconnected. Or misconfigured. Or Boot from LAN is disabled, etc. etc."

In any of those situations, all you;d need is a screw driver, the keyboard or a network cable.

Parsing Error

Exception detected near line 3:

Object 'DeviantArt' cannot be of type 'innocent'

Re: Wait

The aircraft still has emergency beacons, the ELT is just more accurate than the others. A typical passenger aircraft will have 3 small beacons: 1 in the nose section, another right between the wings, just under the deck plating and one in the tail assembly, some of the bigger planes have more or attached as optional components depending on purpose of the craft.

Re: Can I register .bastards?

the co.ck registrar is quite keen on that kind of thing and will deny you registration immediately and keep the registration fee for wasting their time.

Re: "... as smart as a somewhat-challenged four-year-old child."

Or my users...

Re: Techie Problem

How is that going to fix anything?

Re: The world turns

> eDirectory knock(s/ed) spots off AD years ago quite literally. AD has always been just about good enough for pretty small set ups.

That is why you set up multiple AD servers and use sites properly

> The KCC bollocks annoys me intensely and it doesn't usually work properly without assistance and the speed of convergence is dreadful unless you force it along (yes I do know what I am doing wrt star and fully meshed topologies). It's frankly crap and unnecessary.

The hell are you talking about? Active Directory has no concepts of topologies.

> I see no evidence of multi in and outbound sync, different speeds for different attributes and a woeful lack of built in object types

Stop using Server 2000 and join us in the present

> You have to DNS federate everything.

Your point?

> As for the sheer number of naming attributes for a user object - it's arse.

You know you don't have to use them. They are there for the convenience of developers and admins and provides a handy place to keep user info

>The PDC emulator and the other FSMO things are awful hangovers from the old days.

If you don't use them, they don't do anything. They are there in case you have old systems or Linux boxes that need a PDC. Why are you so opposed to backward compatibility?

> Why the hell do you need a Schema Master thing anyway in this day and age

So you have a server with an 'authoritative' copy of the schema, that the point of it. Anything that is clustered / distributed require such a role

>and why the blazes do you have to register a .DLL to even see the bloody thing in a GUI?

Because you are still using XP, upgrade to an OS that isn't 10 yeas old.

>I'm bored of this - I can't even be bothered to get excited about whinging about AD any more. Yes, its popular but it's still shit.

Wahhh

"In Windows 8 you don't have a thing that prevents you installing from "Unknown sources".

Yes it does, Actual Windows 8 apps have to either come from the Windows App Store or a System Center server configured by the system Administrator to side-load company apps. Even then with regular programs you still get the UAC prompt showing who signed the code, etc.

Re: I hope they don't break it

Its also how I look up the address of places I've worked at previously because very few of them have a proper "Contact Us" page.

Re: Trusting ANYTHING plugging into a USB port....

Just snip the Data(-) and Data(+) wires on the USB Cable, I had an old USB cable that was broken, so I only wired the Power wires back on and my phone charges without problem. Nothing can get in wvia the power lines, so I suppose all my phones are no immune to this.

Re: Adult app

I saw a macro someone had made that used an Excel spreadsheet as a photo viewer by making all the cells 1px by 1px with no borders, it would then color in each of the cells to actually print out the image. Just give it some porn and there you go...

Re: "it is very rare not to have Notepad on a Windows system"

Impossible to not have it unless someone has been monkeying around in the Windows folder.

Re: Which way do we point the dish?

An object that size would have either bounced off of our atmosphere or burnt up before it hit anything , resulting in no danger to us earthlings.

Re: eh?

Amazon rents out CDN services as part of AWS, that is where people are getting that idea...

Re: Single unit power? Think bigger....

Having a bunch of smaller units ends up being a lot more reliable in the long run (Eggs, Basket, etc). Especially when you want to patch something (Taking down only 2-3 VMs is a lot better than 16 or more)

Re: I can only WISH we had this show

There was a short-lived version made for North America, but it was terrible and it never made it passed the pilot broadcast.

Re: Not surprising Apache hacked?

It was determined that it wasn't cPanel as mentioned in the article. As for how they got it in, I would assume they downloaded source for all three, compiled and are copying/replacing the binaries to infect the victims.

Re: Only in San Francisco!

The plastic bag idiots managed to get that passed in Seattle too. Now we are forced to either carry around or buy those stupid $4 re-usable bags (which some places won't accept if the aren't theirs)