| 2008/12/10-16 [Computer/HW/CPU, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:52220 Activity:moderate | 12/9 Another idea for the CSUA that lets you spend money and maybe get some
cool toys. Instead of buying a beefy server (like say, a massive server
with 20 386DX processors), buy a few cheap machines (like the ones
mentioned below) that have good disks and work on failover / load
balancing. A netscaler or other piece of hardware is complete overkill,
but maybe hacking an OpenBSD box could do the trick. The idea is that
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| 2007/7/17 [Computer/SW/Languages/C_Cplusplus] UID:47312 Activity:nil | 7/13 CSUA Life Roster
1 point each for: key:
significant other (out of county rule applies) G
car (Chevy Novas do count) C
housing (dorms DO NOT count) H
own computer running reasonable multi-tasking OS U
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| 2007/7/13-16 [Computer/Networking] UID:47279 Activity:nil | 7/13 I'm thinking about getting a Soekris 4501 to replace my the P2-400
that is currently acting as my home firewall. Has anyone used a
Soekris system for this purpose? If so, how well does it work? Also,
if there are any alternatives (similar power/form factor), I would
appreciate links to those as well. tia.
\_ John got me to use a WRAP box similar to Soekris. I use this one:
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| 2006/8/16-18 [Computer/SW/OS/FreeBSD] UID:44024 Activity:nil | 8/16 Greatest piece of software ever written is 4.3 BSD:
http://tinyurl.com/go7lv (informationweek.com)
\_ Windows is run by more computers than all other OS combined.
\_ that only makes it common, not great.
\_ If it wasn't great people wouldn't use it. They'd use 4.3
BSD.
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| 2006/3/25-26 [Computer/SW/OS/FreeBSD] UID:42421 Activity:very high | 3/24 Wow! FreeBSD sure is stable! After seeing soda's amazing uptime
record, I sure want to go replace my Linux boxes with FreeBSD!
Please do not delete this, or burn down Linus' house because I have
blasphemed the holy FreeBSD. I'd love to see a genuine discussion with
examples from both sides comparing the stability of *modern* FreeBSD
and Linux machines running on x86 hardware. -dans
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| 2012/8/26-11/7 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:54465 Activity:nil | 8/26 Poll: how many of you pub/priv key users: 1) use private keys that
are not password protected 2) password protect your private keys
but don't use ssh-agent 3) use ssh-agent:
1) .
2) ..
3) ...
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| 2012/9/24-11/7 [Computer/SW/Languages, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:54484 Activity:nil | 9/24 How come changing my shell using ldapmodify (chsh doesn't work) doesn't
work either? ldapsearch and getent show the new shell but I still get
the old shell on login.
\_ Scratch that, it magically took my new shell now. WTF?
\_ probably nscd(8)
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| 2012/7/18-8/19 [Health/Men, Computer/SW/Security] UID:54438 Activity:nil | 7/18 "Largest penis record holder arouses security suspicions at airport"
http://www.csua.org/u/x2f (in.news.yahoo.com)
\_ I often have that same problem.
\_ I think the headline writer had some fun with that one.
\_ One time when I glanced over a Yahoo News headline "U.S. busts
largest-ever identity theft ring" all I saw was "U.S. busts
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| 2012/5/8-6/4 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:54383 Activity:nil | 5/8 Hello everyone! This is Josh Hawn, CSUA Tech VP for Spring 2012.
About 2 weeks ago, someone brought to my attention that our script
to periodically merge /etc/motd.public into /etc/motd wasn't
running. When I looked into it, the cron daemon was running, but
there hadn't been any root activity in the log since April 7th. I
looked into it for a while, but got lost in other things I was
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| 2012/4/23-6/1 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:54360 Activity:nil | 4/19 My Firefox 3.6.28 pops up a Software Update box that reads "Your
version of Firefox will soon be vulnerable to online attacks." Are
they planning to turn off some security feature in my version of
Firefox?
\_ Not as such, no, but they're no longer developing this version,
so if a 3.6.x-targeted hack shows up, you're not going to get
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