[Edit: This entry was posted in 2006. I no longer consider password expiration to be a useful security measure. Please see my new post on this topic here or here. I've also added some in-line comments below.] Recently, as noted on Slashdot, Gene Spafford, author of Practical Unix and Internet Security and one of…
I’ve spent the last four years working on classes to complete my BSBA and my MBA, and I just realized exactly how much time it had taken. My classes are winding down; last night I turned in my last paper, and next Wednesday is the last night of class. I’ve been feeling a bit melancholy…
When last we left our intrepid Ruby/Rails explorer, he had just completed part I (chapter 5) and had a running toy application. He was preparing to create his first Ruby on Rails application that used mySQL. Of course, this would be the work of but a moment, because mySQL is always trivial to install, never…
Just saw the end of Sun’s quarterly earnings announcements and the announcement that Scott McNealy stepped down as CEO to be replaced by Jon Schwartz.
To say the least, I am stunned at the moment. I never expected to see Scott step down. I’ll have to think on what this means for Sun, but I think it means good things. I think Jon can make changes that Scott couldn’t, because Scott was too emotionally invested, and it would be “against his nature” to do.
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Today the friendly UPS man brought me my copy of Agile Development with Rails, the LOPSA Book of the Month for April. I was interested in this book because, although I haven’t been a professional developer for a very long time, I remain fascinated with new programming languages and (more importantly) new development methodologies. I’ve…
Summary of RFC3315 and related (see bottom of message) RFCs as they relate to DHCPv4.
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Or, at least my comment about using VMWare GSX/VMWare Server and running Solaris X86 (Nevada) under it is: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/eric_boutilier?entry=re_vmware_and_the_frequent Thanks to Eric for the little plug for LOPSA.
I have become a strong follower of David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” methodology for time management. I’ve been using the system for almost six months. I’m now experiencing the discord of having too many inboxes: my primary task list (kept in Outlook, believe it or not) work inbox Help Desk tickets Change Request tickets Microsoft…
[Flowtools | http://www.splintered.net/sw/flow-tools/] [SiLK | http://silktools.sourceforge.net/] [nfsen | http://nfsen.sourceforge.net/] [nfdump | http://nfdump.sourceforge.net/] [ntop | http://www.ntop.org/] [ipacco (not really netflow) | http://ipacco.sourceforge.net/index.php]
Hello all, Anyone out there looking for work, or maybe just a change? Great! I’m hiring a SAGE level 3 or low 4 System Administrator. Check out the job listing at my company’s site: http://www.argonst.com Feel free to mention that you are a member of LOPSA (yes, I actually explained what LOPSA is to our…