I recently had to figure out how much disk I had at work, on all
systems, so that a couple of tape library vendors could calculate
how many slots and how much media to quote to me. (You may recall I
did all this last year. It's long story, but we didn't buy it then.)
I know that I [...]
So, am I the only one who finds that he's more frequently educating vendors' tech support than getting help from them? I just explained to the vendor's highest-level tech how the SATA-backed FC-AL RAID array I bought from them works. This goes along with my “explain to 3rd level Veritas tech how their file [...]
hugeurl.com is the funniest shit I've seen in a while.
The fact that I use tinyurl.com to excess only makes it funnier.
I await an April Fools Cryptogram in which Schneier hugeurls every link that's less than 72 chars.
Speaking of April Fools, it's getting to be planning time again. And I don't think I've mentioned this one, [...]
/dev/vx/dsk/mas/tapelibba
465G 3.2G 458G 1% /mas/tapelibba
/dev/vx/dsk/backup/staging
[...]
VENDORS. HATE. MURDERDEATHKILL.
I feel so slimy, it would b l o w your mind.
Perhaps I'll expand on this with specificity and great quantities of profanity, probably with a dash of blasphemy.
Or perhaps not.
Who knows!
… and it is the worst written piece of crap I've read, ever.
Read all about it in .
(Comments there, thanks.)
If that title didn't make sense, you probably don't care about this
post.
I added most of these comments just now, for the purpose of posting
this here. It's also slightly edited for (identifying) content.
# lame network monitoring
*/5 8-17 * * 1-5 ${HOME}/bin/pingall.sh 2> /dev/null
0 0-7,18-23 * * 1-5 ${HOME}/bin/pingall.sh 2> /dev/null
0 * * * 0,6 ${HOME}/bin/pingall.sh 2> [...]
Note: my own homework in red.
Why isn't there a BOFH lj feed?
I know it must not exist, because I know like fifty of you people on my friends list who'd have it listed if it did…
Does the source site have to produce an RSS version for lj syndication to function? Yes.
Does the Reg have an [...]
This started out as a post about the USPS's new Electronic Postmark, but I realized I needed to explain how it related to my work life in addition to my personal (cryptography) interests. That meant I had to explain a bit more about what I do for a living than I have here before, which [...]
The whole article is relatively short (you may be interested in reading all of Crypto-Gram; it's worth the time). Schneier is a computer security guy (his Applied Cryptography is the Bible of modern cryptography), who's recently been applying the security wisdom that it's easy to learn in the relatively controlled environment of computer networks to [...]