redsavagefiero

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by redsavagefiero 8y ago
Worked supporting 2 of the 13 core internet root NS and the major TLDS and it's safe to say you can't escape DNS surveillance.
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by redsavagefiero 8y ago
I've seen this so many times in self-rolled auditing kludges that it has become kind of a running joke. I'm now surprised if anyone does anything more sophisticated than sym encryption of master credentials used to guard secrets w
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by redsavagefiero 8y ago
Texas is a long, uncomfortable haul in general. The year I did this crossing was 1994. Witnessed racism, religion gone wrong and malicious violence in more than one local personality jumping on for a town to town hop. New Orleans coach was
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by redsavagefiero 8y ago
Public ground/rail transport in the US is not for the faint hearted. Spoken as a travel veteran in three decades of cross country trips via Greyhound and Amtrak. TIPS: * Don't cross Texas in a Greyhound. * Don't go to New O
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by redsavagefiero 8y ago
A lot of people are overlooking the ultimate consumers of this data or being the usual SV shills. This data and all PHI/PII can be resold to insurance packaged in slightly different ways. Have fun with your 20th century issues in the 2
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by redsavagefiero 8y ago
Loved SuSE forever..well at least since 1998.
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by redsavagefiero 8y ago
Try 6.1 noob :)
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by redsavagefiero 8y ago
Actually 10% of the sysadmins make the other 90% look pretty good in this respect. I've woken many mornings at 4 am without an immediate rationale to realize a moment later that there could be a problem and it could be mine. The SA min
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by redsavagefiero 8y ago
Well there is configuration driving your logic...if your logic is supple the configuration is not that important.
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by redsavagefiero 8y ago
This is pretty classic amateur hour. He basically says 'I now know docker and everything looks like a container! Look at how productive I can be by discarding this set piece environment with out of fashion, slow and deliberate provisio
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by redsavagefiero 8y ago
Still using LXC where it makes sense and never felt the call of Docker...or Kubernetes or any of this developer popularized opaque tooling over sophisticated meddling with my systems.
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by redsavagefiero 8y ago
Self signed internal CA for private use all day + mandatory client certs. Internal approved CA for business. Never see a need to change this. This Lets encrypt stuff is faddish to me.
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by redsavagefiero 8y ago
When I was born it was still possible to learn your trade (engineer, programmer) without too much onus if you didn't attend college. Without college now your options are strictly limited. This is one of the reasons why we have a real p
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by redsavagefiero 8y ago
I have't looked at it rcently but the last time I checked systemd was the 'nice to have' that was mandatory for some of the software I associate with a fully fuctional desktop which is not just a WM, DE (or not) and basic app
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by redsavagefiero 8y ago
Doesn't sound like performance was your end goal unless it was to demonstrate that your understanding of the unix tools could produce a solution slower than a custom built solution in the language of champions.
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by redsavagefiero 8y ago
I was going to be the long haired *nix geek here but I have no hair and the world is moving on. I can't pick bones with python for data science/analysis and personal convenience. _However_ as a principal engineer if someone was to
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by redsavagefiero 8y ago
I always want a nice high performance vehicle with luxury features as long as I can drive. Pub transport is not an option for anything but work and cars are one of the last pleasures in the gen X life.
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by redsavagefiero 8y ago
In my world your case is the corner case. Don't think I want to deal with multiple terabytes of data as it's provenance is questionable and this data services industries that the human population did without until about ten/f
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by redsavagefiero 8y ago
Would you mind posting your awk write-only monstrosity?
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by redsavagefiero 8y ago
This is something I've noticed in the last 8-10 years. The rise of the python/js/java paradigm everywhere. Some of the associated LDIF (json) I enjoy much more than XML and flat files but the misapplication of tools is becomi
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by redsavagefiero 8y ago
A systemd conceptually is quite a good idea. However systemd is not that systemd. Much rather go with rc.conf + script approach, disable all systemd services, lock selinux against systemd socket activations and run a purpose controlled envi
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by redsavagefiero 8y ago
At 50, I have noticeable fast and slow periods. But when everything is firing correctly the correlations and ability to quickly see the forest for the trees is better than at any other time in my life. People are also more interesting and I
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by redsavagefiero 8y ago
Good. We don't have to worry about node.js, apache whatsit and Google go-away v1.0 being our goto technologies in a critical space. That's progress. Stick a rest/rpc interface on the outputs and ctl and attach a wireless dong
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by redsavagefiero 8y ago
Never liked Chrome, but I liked Google as an idea once upon a time.
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by redsavagefiero 8y ago
Back in the 90s and early 2000s there was a good market for desktop apps based mainly on glue languages and an RDB + interface. Most of these were utter crap. From looking at this offering and other (P|S)aaS nothing has changed except the v
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by redsavagefiero 8y ago
A little bit of know how goes a long way towards process improvement. When you have what process improvement looks like forced down your throat, mostly contrary to common sense, is when you know you work in enterprise software.