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by mryan 13y ago
Probably best not to try this on any systems you care about if the command is completely unknown. killall on Solaris might have some unintended consequences.
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by mryan 13y ago
The Ministry of Defence has issued a D notice preventing the UK media from 'publish[ing] information that may "jeopardise both national security and possibly UK personnel"'. http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl
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by mryan 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote, Amsterdam, London Syadmin as a Service Do you want the best when it comes to scaling, resilience and reliability, but don't have a full-time Ops person on the team? Why not rent one? I work with startups and web agenc
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by mryan 13y ago
It confuses me too. If there was an affiliate link to Earn1k and he spent the whole post talking about it then I can see it being considered spammy. I wonder if the DN mods would be so quick to ban the post if he had mentioned the name of a
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by mryan 13y ago
> That's feedback was really the only reason why chose to impose this requirement for the beta. I'm not sure how accurate this quotation is, but Henry Ford may have said: "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said fas
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by mryan 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote, Amsterdam, London Syadmin as a Service Do you want the best when it comes to scaling, resilience and reliability, but don't have a full-time Ops person on the team? Why not rent one? I work with startups and web agenc
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by mryan 13y ago
Lately? ec2-xx-xx-xx-xx.compute-1.amazonaws.com In the past I've gone through Futurama, LoTR, The Simpsons, Saturn's moons and musicians.
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by mryan 13y ago
This was posted two weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5503256 I'm hoping this is a breakdown in comms between team members rather than deliberate spamming of the same question.
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by mryan 13y ago
> So how do you measure $productivity_cost accurately? With great difficulty :) You're right, and I think your question helps strengthen my point - the cost of office space is just one factor.
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by mryan 13y ago
I like the idea of building a bridge to other DNS providers - it seems like less work in the long run, for a much more reliable service. Using CloudFormation to manage your Route 53 records will achieve most of the goals of this solution, a
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by mryan 13y ago
In that case it would appear to be unavoidable. However, when comparing the costs between offices I think it is important to take lost productivity in to account. When looking at $cost_of_office_with_private_space versus $cost_of_open_plan_
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by mryan 13y ago
Anything containing the substring "admin" is banned. Which is a PITA when you want to set up a Twitter account for a sysadmin book/service...
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by mryan 13y ago
Why? To me it suggests this is an very early release of a software package using semantic versioning. Nothing suspicious about a developer who understands semantic versioning and is releasing early and often. http://semver.org/
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by mryan 14y ago
The "Who's Hiring" threads are posted on the first of the month.
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by mryan 14y ago
Yes, they are supposed to be taken seriously. Lazy sysadmins are the best sysadmins - I'm sure the same is true of programmers. Note that "lazy" does not mean "does not want to work". As per the linked article, in this context it means: "Th
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by mryan 14y ago
> The Contest is void in Cuba, Quebec, Saudi Arabia and Syria > and where prohibited by law. Individuals and entities > restricted by applicable export controls and sanctions > programs are ineligible to participate in the
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by mryan 14y ago
> ... pretty much a cultural centric representation of the action of saving valuable information for later retrieval. Surely one could make the same arguments about bank safes and paper folders, to a certain extent?
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by mryan 14y ago
Seconded. I stopped reading after a few paras because the revolving background gave me a headache.
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by mryan 14y ago
That would be great. Security Groups work across accounts, so Heroku (or whoever) could let you provide your account ID and Security Group name, then authorise access from this group.
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by mryan 14y ago
I like to know exactly why I'm updating my database before I apply any patches. I doubt they could have been sufficiently light on the details, while still giving admins enough information to decide whether or not to upgrade. "Apply this pa
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by mryan 14y ago
It certainly seems feasible with the use of VPC and Security Groups. At the very least I think they should offer an option that only you to restrict access so only your dynos have access to the postgres port.
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by mryan 14y ago
nawitus, I can't reply to your other comment, which is probably a good thing :-) You are taking me literally, when you shouldn't - I was being flippant. Of course it is unlikely we will ever make the technology that can take the dust that,
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by mryan 14y ago
alphaoverlord understands the point I was making. Both of these things are impossible, at the current level of tech. One or both of them might become possible through the use of sufficiently advanced technology. > On the other hand, it'
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by mryan 14y ago
> ... is not so large that the original brain can't be reconstructed either by scanning it while still frozen or by repairing it with nano-bots. You might as well argue that nano-bots will be able to reanimate a body that has decomposed
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by mryan 14y ago
Sure, that's a valid point. I suppose the best time to do it would be while arranging the in-person/phone interview. The interviewers will (hopefully!) be told what time the interview is, so this information could be forwarded at the same t
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by mryan 14y ago
How about having this discussion in the preliminary emails? Take the card too, but let them know in advance so it is less of a surprise at interview time.
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by mryan 14y ago
Targeting the public sector is great advice - http://www.jobs.ac.uk/ is dedicated to jobs at UK universities, hopefully that helps in your search. If you take freelance jobs from oDesk/PeoplePerHour et cetera, you might be able to perform
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by mryan 14y ago
> it's slightly offensive to see that being demanded. Interesting - I don't see this as an offensive request at all. As I see it... the company is looking for a new employee who best matches their ideal description. A cover letter merel
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by mryan 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote, Amsterdam, London Syadmin as a Service Just because you don't have a full-time Ops person on the team, it doesn't mean you don't deserve the best when it comes to scaling, resilience and reliability. I work with start
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by mryan 14y ago
Good idea. This would be easy to sell as a package too - "For only $X, I will prepare a detailed feedback report on your site, and provide Y hours of training tailored to your needs".

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