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by bdunbar 12y ago
I've read about Windows SUA (and it's predecessors) but have never been sure what problem it solves for me. Got a use case or two?
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by bdunbar 12y ago
I watch Fox News more often than CNN. Which is 'never'. But good try with the stereotyping and the assuming.
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by bdunbar 12y ago
After some thought, my Windows guys will rebel if I have them use Cygwin. But I bet one can run Cygwin in a Windows Docker.
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by bdunbar 12y ago
That was my question to OP.
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by bdunbar 12y ago
I'll give Cygwin another try. I like it. My guys aren't going to want to know about all that just 'click some buttons and get passwords'.
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by bdunbar 12y ago
> small EU countries full of semi-corrupt conservatives Which ones would those be? From an American perspective, they all look like they're full of semi-corrupt liberals ..
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by bdunbar 12y ago
I like Pass. But .. I've got a task to setup a password manager for a team, all of whom are Windows users. But my focus isn't personal passwords for email, or google, but the eleventy-dozen passwords that accumulate around any IT
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by bdunbar 12y ago
> Also, how hard is it to set up/care/feed a basic directory service? Setting one up is pretty easy. The problem comes in when you find yourself depending on it, and then it gets out of whack, or Just Grows and you've got
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by bdunbar 12y ago
Explain?
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by bdunbar 12y ago
I'm not able to spin up an instance to test with this week .. but if my linux hosts -inside- my network can auth to my corporate AD (and they can!) I don't know why an AWS EC2 instance would be different. Add the software, configu
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by bdunbar 12y ago
One can select text in the current cmd window.
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by bdunbar 12y ago
The linked article is now slow to load, for me. But I recall that the fellow who was having issues with the rock crusher was called out as a Seebee. Perhaps he's there as sort of general contractor, working with the locals to build st
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by bdunbar 12y ago
" the local contractor announced that the crusher’s engine, needed to smash rocks, had broken" and "Hauling parts and equipment from the United States and Europe takes time, and then there are negotiations with local contra
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by bdunbar 12y ago
The military is quite good at operations 'other than war'. I was a minor cog in one effort, in 1991: Joint Task Force Sea Angel. Details are searchable, but the upshot is that NGOs (I no longer recall if the term was used then) pr
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by bdunbar 12y ago
I see what you did there, Brother Francis.
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by bdunbar 12y ago
Story on CNN reports the nurse treated the man during his second visit, when they knew he was infected.
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by bdunbar 12y ago
Entertaining! It only lacks the whoosh-rush-boom I recall from turning my Sunfish sharply across the wind.
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by bdunbar 12y ago
A reason why - I'm told - it's easier to teach kids to sail than adults. Kids don't question a counter-intuitive: just teach them 'point the boat close to the wind, do this to the sail, and go.'
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by bdunbar 12y ago
"I see DHCP, DNS and AD (in that order), at least in a windows environment as step one of anything." It gets _messy_ but I think it's worthwhile to write out in biz continuity plan how to function without DHCP, DNS, and AD. T
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by bdunbar 12y ago
> I'm a little surprised Starbucks wouldn't just revert to cash mode? The register - I speculate - is also tracking inventory. Ring up two cappuccinos and a pastry, corporate keeps track and knows what and when to re-order. Get
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by bdunbar 12y ago
"Our Windows guys were still working on restoring the master Active Directory pair " I was a Solaris admin at a previous employer. We ran annual DR exercises, and saw similar issues with the Windows kit. Even with months to prepa
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by bdunbar 12y ago
Who that isn't a soul-sucking corporate behemoth is going to bid on a government project of that scope?
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by bdunbar 12y ago
Little help, please. We have a process that uses s3express (aka using the S3 API) to copy files from local filesystem to S3. S3Proxy would allow the process to copy files to [another_server, atmos, azure] ?
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by bdunbar 12y ago
I'd argue that if one _does_ have neighbors it's in your best interests to at least be on a first-name basis with them.
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by bdunbar 12y ago
> not report his coworker for playing games on her terminal in her free-time). I was enlisted in the Marines, MOS as a programmer (4063), 1989 - 1993. I never really programmed, but spend my time as a small computer support guy. Comput
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by bdunbar 12y ago
Related, a picture I saw a few days ago. A pistol, held by a feminine hand. Caption: My rape whistle goes "bang"
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by bdunbar 12y ago
I've been using for two months as my main editor. It works, hasn't crashed. Still keeping emacs around for org-mode.
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by bdunbar 12y ago
> I can't imagine living 7-8 months without patches. For actually important systems (I'm thinking of things like Banyan VINES), patches would be shipped as soon as possible - but this was reasonable, we were _paying_ for that l
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by bdunbar 12y ago
Standalone, it's 6 o' one, half-dozen of another. We use ansible for configuring servers. Using this to configure our machines would be cake.
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by bdunbar 12y ago
My point, you missed it.

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