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2 years ago
in You Thought You Knew Me, but You Didn’t on Technosailor
Now you know as well as I do that Atlanta is the best city in the US. And you'd never attract a gay homeless man here. ;)
2 years ago
in Speedlinking: October 19, 2006 on Technosailor
Ummm...
First security exploit already found. People all a-titter on both Digg *AND* Slashdot. ff & opera fanboys rejoicing, ie proponents making excuses. Grumpy people griping for the fun of it.
This is going to be one interesting ride...
First security exploit already found. People all a-titter on both Digg *AND* Slashdot. ff & opera fanboys rejoicing, ie proponents making excuses. Grumpy people griping for the fun of it.
This is going to be one interesting ride...
2 years ago
in Microsoft Originality on Technosailor
Interesting.
Now, I didn't have the problems with DS everyone else seems to have had with NDS. It was just a fancy LDAP storage infrastructure. I had no trouble with NDS trees local or across both slow and fast links. It was very logically thought out, laid out, and implemented.
Yeah, I liked NDS quite a bit. ;)
Now, I didn't have the problems with DS everyone else seems to have had with NDS. It was just a fancy LDAP storage infrastructure. I had no trouble with NDS trees local or across both slow and fast links. It was very logically thought out, laid out, and implemented.
Yeah, I liked NDS quite a bit. ;)
2 years ago
in Microsoft Originality on Technosailor
Well, Aaron, believe it or not I have a couple of items that MS makes that are quite good.
#1 The Microsoft Keyboard.
I bought my MS Keyboard like in 1992 or 1993, and still use it today. It is simple, elegant, and has pretty much eliminated a burgeoning carpal problem.
#2 The Microsoft Mouse
I have the MS mouse because at 6'5", just about any mouse is dwarfed in my hand. The MS mice, however fit my hand EXTREMELY well for whatever reason, and I can really appreciate the ergonomic engineering that went into the (at the time) unique design of the mouse shape.
#3 Microsoft Windows Mobile 5
I have a Smartphone, and with the wane of Palm products all but inevitable, I find Windows mobile (until iPhone, of course) to be the smartphone OS of choice.
Microsoft may not do very well with innovation and originaliity in their current suite of applications, but their hardware has ALWAYS been one of my favorite features of the MS corporation.
OS: crap
APPS: crap
Hardware: A-OK.
#1 The Microsoft Keyboard.
I bought my MS Keyboard like in 1992 or 1993, and still use it today. It is simple, elegant, and has pretty much eliminated a burgeoning carpal problem.
#2 The Microsoft Mouse
I have the MS mouse because at 6'5", just about any mouse is dwarfed in my hand. The MS mice, however fit my hand EXTREMELY well for whatever reason, and I can really appreciate the ergonomic engineering that went into the (at the time) unique design of the mouse shape.
#3 Microsoft Windows Mobile 5
I have a Smartphone, and with the wane of Palm products all but inevitable, I find Windows mobile (until iPhone, of course) to be the smartphone OS of choice.
Microsoft may not do very well with innovation and originaliity in their current suite of applications, but their hardware has ALWAYS been one of my favorite features of the MS corporation.
OS: crap
APPS: crap
Hardware: A-OK.
2 years ago
in Posting in another man’s blog is like driving another man’s car on Technosailor
It was just really funny to see that pop up in Safari like that. :D
2 years ago
in Posting in another man’s blog is like driving another man’s car on Technosailor
First, I had to click because the shortened RSS link in Safari said "Posting in another mans blog is like driving annother man..."
Outstandingly hilarious.
As one that has been honored to post here in Aaron's stead and as a guest in the past, I can verify what Darren says about Technosailor here. You never ffeel quite comfy, watch what you say a lot more than you would on your own blog, and maybe don't explore topics to the extent you would otherwise.
Still in all, great job Darren.
Outstandingly hilarious.
As one that has been honored to post here in Aaron's stead and as a guest in the past, I can verify what Darren says about Technosailor here. You never ffeel quite comfy, watch what you say a lot more than you would on your own blog, and maybe don't explore topics to the extent you would otherwise.
Still in all, great job Darren.
3 years ago
in Anticipating 15k on Technosailor
That's what I meant. We had something like 25 million uniques today.
3 years ago
in Anticipating 15k on Technosailor
Hey look! I had 15,000 visits while I was posting this!
Just yanking ya. Good luck with that, dude. Congrats!
Just yanking ya. Good luck with that, dude. Congrats!
3 years ago
in Wallpapers or MP3 Player? on Technosailor
Well, I posted a really long answer to Aaron here last night, but I can't see it. What gives?
3 years ago
in Wallpapers or MP3 Player? on Technosailor
Let's see if I can hit all of these. The easy ones first:
Just because I run KDE doesn't mean I can't run both K-whatever and G-whatever apps. For the most part (obvious brain-damaged developers still statically linking against libraries that get replaced faster than yesterday's underwear notwithstanding) you can run Gnome apps on KDE and vice-versa. Now obviously I'm going to use yum whenever possible, but this particular app came as an rpm. I installed it by hand, and it worked just fine.
Remote X...
Here we go.
Aaron: I don't know the environment as well as I'd like, so I'll be making some assumptions here... Let's see how close I come.
The X subsystem is actually kind of backwards to the way we typically look at this stuff. You run the XServer on your machine, and the remote system is the client. That's the actual true description of an X session. How so? The machine you're on needs to run software that provides a location for the remote X machine to connect back to as a client. So, there's a couple scenarios you're probably experiencing.
1) You have a windows box on your end without X Server software and aren't really sure how to proceed.
2) You have a linux box, and you're getting the whole "permission denied" thing, and can't figure where the security is configured.
In case #1, there is a pile of software from the very expensive to the free out there to run an X server on your windows based system. I've used many, and tend to like Esker's SmartTerm X. Xoftware is another, and Cygwin is the free offering. Having one of these on your Windows box is always a good idea if you're working in UNIX. At the very least, Cygwin can foot this bill.
In case #2 you have a situation where you simply haven't enabled access. We'll cover that later.
Once you have an XServer involved, you have to configure thecliennt to know how to reach you. It needs to know how to send a display to you, the server. We do this by exporting our display address. (I'll use private addresses for example)
Solaris: 192.168.1.15
You: 192.168.1.27
while connected to the remote system (via ssh, presumably), you would execute a command telling that system where you are like so:
export DISPLAY=192.168.1.27:0.0
or, if your shell doesn't support that
DISPLAY=192.168.1.27:0.0; export DISPLAY
In doing this, you've told your client "I'm over here". This works on both windows-based and linux-based systems.
Next, there is a security system associated with X sessions. It's very simple, but you still need to execute the command to allow X connections. That security system is called "xhost". Xhost is used to add granular (and massive) rights to a system. It's usage is like so:
xhost [[+-]name ...]
Now, the simple running of the command: xhost + will completely open up your system to any X connection from anywhere on the wire. However, you can also man the command out to see some options, and the addition of users to an ACL and the like. This is all part of the XSecurity subsystem, which also has some pretty detailed man pages.
Finally, once you've run your X server, run the xhost command to allow access, you then SSH to the machine in question (you must tunnel X over SSH...this is pretty clear in SSH's config files). Once on the destination machine, you can type a known X command (like xclock or xterm. This would include any programs you could run under X.
Another way to connect to remote boxes is VNC. VNC is supported on most platforms now, and is an excellent way of doing what you're asking. It's by far the best performance, and you actually see the desktop you're trying to control instead of just the command prompt, and you needing to launch the various programs from thaqt location.
If youhave any more questions, I'd be happy to answer. It's late, and this feels like it was somewhhat hard to follow, but I'm not really feeling well.
Let me know if I can be of more help.
Xhost Man: http://www.netadmintools.com/html/xhost.man.html
Just because I run KDE doesn't mean I can't run both K-whatever and G-whatever apps. For the most part (obvious brain-damaged developers still statically linking against libraries that get replaced faster than yesterday's underwear notwithstanding) you can run Gnome apps on KDE and vice-versa. Now obviously I'm going to use yum whenever possible, but this particular app came as an rpm. I installed it by hand, and it worked just fine.
Remote X...
Here we go.
Aaron: I don't know the environment as well as I'd like, so I'll be making some assumptions here... Let's see how close I come.
The X subsystem is actually kind of backwards to the way we typically look at this stuff. You run the XServer on your machine, and the remote system is the client. That's the actual true description of an X session. How so? The machine you're on needs to run software that provides a location for the remote X machine to connect back to as a client. So, there's a couple scenarios you're probably experiencing.
1) You have a windows box on your end without X Server software and aren't really sure how to proceed.
2) You have a linux box, and you're getting the whole "permission denied" thing, and can't figure where the security is configured.
In case #1, there is a pile of software from the very expensive to the free out there to run an X server on your windows based system. I've used many, and tend to like Esker's SmartTerm X. Xoftware is another, and Cygwin is the free offering. Having one of these on your Windows box is always a good idea if you're working in UNIX. At the very least, Cygwin can foot this bill.
In case #2 you have a situation where you simply haven't enabled access. We'll cover that later.
Once you have an XServer involved, you have to configure thecliennt to know how to reach you. It needs to know how to send a display to you, the server. We do this by exporting our display address. (I'll use private addresses for example)
Solaris: 192.168.1.15
You: 192.168.1.27
while connected to the remote system (via ssh, presumably), you would execute a command telling that system where you are like so:
export DISPLAY=192.168.1.27:0.0
or, if your shell doesn't support that
DISPLAY=192.168.1.27:0.0; export DISPLAY
In doing this, you've told your client "I'm over here". This works on both windows-based and linux-based systems.
Next, there is a security system associated with X sessions. It's very simple, but you still need to execute the command to allow X connections. That security system is called "xhost". Xhost is used to add granular (and massive) rights to a system. It's usage is like so:
xhost [[+-]name ...]
Now, the simple running of the command: xhost + will completely open up your system to any X connection from anywhere on the wire. However, you can also man the command out to see some options, and the addition of users to an ACL and the like. This is all part of the XSecurity subsystem, which also has some pretty detailed man pages.
Finally, once you've run your X server, run the xhost command to allow access, you then SSH to the machine in question (you must tunnel X over SSH...this is pretty clear in SSH's config files). Once on the destination machine, you can type a known X command (like xclock or xterm. This would include any programs you could run under X.
Another way to connect to remote boxes is VNC. VNC is supported on most platforms now, and is an excellent way of doing what you're asking. It's by far the best performance, and you actually see the desktop you're trying to control instead of just the command prompt, and you needing to launch the various programs from thaqt location.
If youhave any more questions, I'd be happy to answer. It's late, and this feels like it was somewhhat hard to follow, but I'm not really feeling well.
Let me know if I can be of more help.
Xhost Man: http://www.netadmintools.com/html/xhost.man.html
3 years ago
in Wallpapers or MP3 Player? on Technosailor
The only thing I'd kind of disagree with is that my desktop at work is a GUI Linux. (FC4+KDE) I use it for everything from Cervasie (CVS frontend) to email to text editing (GVim).
I'm sure the majority of *users* are using it for the age-old Email+Web+Music type stuff, but we career people use the whole OS most of the time.
Of course, the server is a different story.
I'm sure the majority of *users* are using it for the age-old Email+Web+Music type stuff, but we career people use the whole OS most of the time.
Of course, the server is a different story.
3 years ago
in Wallpapers or MP3 Player? on Technosailor
Get the xmms-mp3 plugin, and you're all set.
3 years ago
in Proliferation on Technosailor
And we all know how painful that can be for a man your age...
3 years ago
in I need Work on Technosailor
Well... You know I'd rather have you hangin' at the hizzouse with muh peeps...
Buuut, you've got that whole "thing" about the south...
:)
Buuut, you've got that whole "thing" about the south...
:)
3 years ago
in I need Work on Technosailor
By the way, the info you sent me for my account here doesn't work, and the stuff Wordpress sends me doesn't work either.
Gimme a shout offline, and let's see if we can fix that. I've got a post brewing...
Gimme a shout offline, and let's see if we can fix that. I've got a post brewing...
3 years ago
in I need Work on Technosailor
You should sign up for the DC Sage and the Baltimore SAGE groups.
http://www.dc-sage.org
http://www.oldbaysage.org
They are the DC area Systems Administrator's Guild chapters, and each have mailing lists of moderate to low traffic. There is a continual stream of jobs that come through the lists posted by people "with a clue" (tm).
Also, as much as I know you hate it, you might have to work a regular in addition to or (the horro) in place of Northup.
It's a worker's market right now, Aaron. Go get you some.
http://www.dc-sage.org
http://www.oldbaysage.org
They are the DC area Systems Administrator's Guild chapters, and each have mailing lists of moderate to low traffic. There is a continual stream of jobs that come through the lists posted by people "with a clue" (tm).
Also, as much as I know you hate it, you might have to work a regular in addition to or (the horro) in place of Northup.
It's a worker's market right now, Aaron. Go get you some.
3 years ago
in Friday Poll and Another Migration on Technosailor
So THAT's where your updates went off to. I was juust about to visit to see what was up with the lack of updates (I primarily RSS you through my Safari reader). Glad to see the updates back in my toolbar in the mornings.
3 years ago
in Fred Reed on the Election on Technosailor
>Then sysadmins will slowly become stupider about configuration.
It's already begun.
I've been in on interviews where UNIX guys couldn't do the configurations "by-hand" without the aid of an interface.
It's already begun.
I've been in on interviews where UNIX guys couldn't do the configurations "by-hand" without the aid of an interface.
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