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by tacoman 11y ago
The LTS to LTS upgrade path usually isn't enabled until a point release anyway. For example, the the 12.04 to 14.04 upgrade wasn't enabled in the software update application until 14.04.1 was released a month or two after the ini
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by tacoman 11y ago
I work for a boring company in Canada that requires significant IT skill and experience. The salaries at this company are decent. In the last ~6 years, I've lost coworkers to Cisco (2 people), Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Yelp. T
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by tacoman 11y ago
The Passport running BB10 is best computerphone I've ever used. Hopefully BlackBerry continues to at least put out security updates until the hardware is close to obsolete.
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by tacoman 11y ago
This is so obviously true, I can't help but think I'm missing something. It's certainly not limited to the US. It's a world wide phenomenon and exists everywhere people aren't living a subsistence existence. Every
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by tacoman 11y ago
I'm anti-cloud. e.g. I run my own mail server and do web hosting for fun. I have a poster of Snowden in my office. But I signed up for Pocket because it does two things very well. It lets me send things to my Kobo e-reader via email
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by tacoman 11y ago
I don't, but this basically sums up how I fell about these types of books. I think the answer though is to practise until it doesn't feel like a that.
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by tacoman 11y ago
Reading vulnerability and exploit analysis is (and always will be) a hobby of mine. Despite being someone that is fairly comfortable in a debugger, familiar with x86 assembly and has spent 2 decades troubleshooting complex software in larg
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by tacoman 11y ago
Yeah, definitely. I have a few memories like this. I can very clearly remember seeing the Easter bunny when I was a kid. Obviously this never happened, but I can describe the scenario and what the human-sized rabbit looked like. Also,
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by tacoman 11y ago
I've been a a sysadmin for about 20 years. I currently work on a large system with about a million paying customers. I think I'm competent technically. Troubleshooting broken stuff is something I gravitate to and I've put a
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by tacoman 12y ago
A family member works for a large chain of car dealerships. They regularly buy vehicles at auction. It's not uncommon that they find trackers on the vehicles. Here's a picture of one he sent me to play with a couple years ago
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by tacoman 12y ago
A friend of mine hired someone to gather data on his cheating wife. A device that looked similar to this was used on her car. $400 for a month of real-time location data. Maybe this has nothing to do with conference this person was atte
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by tacoman 12y ago
I tried to setup a mailing list a few times. What I found out is that even though I live in neighbourhood where most people are white collar and sit at a computer all day long, a lot of people don't use email outside of work. Account
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by tacoman 12y ago
This is incredibly hard to do well and takes a great deal of discipline. Unless you're a Belgacom or Gemalto sysadmin, the consequences of cross-contamination aren't grave. It's easy enough to burn an identity and create a
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by tacoman 12y ago
If I read this right, Canada's largest single export is cars (probably from GM Canada to GM America) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Canada#mediaviewer/... Russia is the Saudi Arabia with snow: http
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by tacoman 12y ago
Thinkpads have this sensor that is meant to protect the hard drive from sudden shock. I bet it could be used for something like that. http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Active_Protection_System
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by tacoman 12y ago
Came here to say this. He's been the closest thing to a rockstar sysadmin for as long as I can remember and even before he taught the world how to use Dtrace.
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by tacoman 12y ago
I read this post a dozen times. As a sysadmin for a sizable ISP in a non-US/UK country, the Belgacom story has haunted me. Is this the first time you've talked about it?
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by tacoman 12y ago
Yup, it is. I use this to control my HTPC. It works very well.
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by tacoman 12y ago
I stumbled upon this PAVP thing in an old Thinkpad just last week. My first thought after reading about it was basically this. Somewhere, some very talented software developers probably spent years working on this obscure, essentially use
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by tacoman 12y ago
I had a Laser computer with the same specs. Even slowed down to 8Mhz, some games that were meant for an XT weren't playable. I popped the cpu out of the socket and I've had it on my key chain since 1995. https://i.img
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by tacoman 12y ago
"This seems like a good moment to reiterate that everything less than TLS 1.2 with an AEAD cipher suite is cryptographically broken." So this means AES-GCM essentially?
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by tacoman 12y ago
Darn. I thought this said "a Quaint Job in France" and I clicked on it. I was disappointed.
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by tacoman 12y ago
This is a good summary of the problems with the x240. http://senk9.wordpress.com/2014/02/21/lenovox220/
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by tacoman 12y ago
This seems high and would seem to amount to an ACK for almost every second downstream packet. Since I pcap ALL THE THINGS, I looked at some Netflix streaming sessions from a 3 different clients over a week. Stream 1: 43MB down, 21KB up St
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by tacoman 12y ago
I'm near sighted. My eyeglass prescription is about -6.5. Using either windows or linux, anything over about 105 dpi is too small and I need to get closer to the monitor than what is acceptable from an ergonomics stand point. If I need
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by tacoman 12y ago
If I knew more about Colin Percival, I'd make a Colin Percival facts web site. e.g. Colin Percival could crash the entire bitcoin economy with the amount of bitcoins he's accidentally mined in his head, while sleeping.
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by tacoman 12y ago
When I do the same exercise, it seems to come down to not much more than hard work. The more skilled and knowledgeable people are those that generally work hard and persevere through difficult challenges.
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by tacoman 12y ago
I'm a techie for life and work for Bigco (probably for life) and I see this sort of thing weekly. A decision comes down that is derided as stupid because "management is clueless" is often not because the people that made th
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by tacoman 12y ago
Ha ha, exactly. I've been there a couple of times and it really made me reflect on what I'd do when I had the time and energy again.
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by tacoman 12y ago
This caused me to reminisce about all the software that I've worked on and used. The vast majority of it is gone and completely irrelevant.

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