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After reading the linked article, I am thinking of writing a bash script called 'lookBusy' that makes a machine look as though it is doing vital work. This can
by lotsofmangos 12y ago
After reading the linked article, I am thinking of writing a bash script called 'lookBusy' that makes a machine look as though it is doing vital work.
This can then can be run on any machines that are idling but important, to reduce the chance of idiots appropriating them.
- click170 12y agoYou need to put more effort into being lazy. Google, my good man, Google. Those scripts already exist, all you have to do is download and run them.
- Karunamon 12y agoIs that more or less effort?
- lotsofmangos 12y agoMuch less fun.
- lotsofmangos 12y agoI know, but it will then look like someone else's idea of vital work. It is much better to make a bespoke one for each instance.
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- yourad_io 12y agoOr, you know, have a super-critical "zone" which is accessible by people of the highest clearance in the company. The One And Only Private Key Holding Server would be super-critical. Also, back ups. There's hardly any new lessons here - if anything at all.
- myhf 12y agohexdump -C /dev/random | grep --color '\W\(\w\)\(\w\)\W*\(\w\)\(\w\)\W*\4\3\W*\2\1'
- dexen 12y agoLooks great! On Linux, /dev/urandom gives better results. Incidentally, this resembles jwz's homepage quite a bit: http://www.jwz.org/ http://www.jwz.org/