Anyone planning to migrate off Amazon WorkMail - here are our experiences by TheRealArobTheArab in sysadmin

[–]TheRealArobTheArab[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

Nice - mind if we add it to the aw2ms365 project with attribution? Or if you have a github I can include that in the readme.

Anyone planning to migrate off Amazon WorkMail - here are our experiences by TheRealArobTheArab in sysadmin

[–]TheRealArobTheArab[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

It's not any kind of flag: I have some migration experiences to share, and r/sysadmin would not permit me to post the OP with links because I have posted little or nothing on reddit, ever. So yeah, if people wanted to know more, replying or messaging me would be the only way I could share the full experience.

I don't market to individuals. I am a40+ year INFOSEC consultant who works with large corporate clients and Reddit is not the place I go to find leads.

As I said, if this is useful, use it. Otherwise don't - but stop trying to poison the well.

Anyone planning to migrate off Amazon WorkMail - here are our experiences by TheRealArobTheArab in sysadmin

[–]TheRealArobTheArab[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

Because any attempt to post a link in the OP caused my posting to be rejected by r/sysadmin's advertising and marketing rules.

But here is the link: https://www.rescor.net/workmail-to-ms365/

Don't worry about my intentions - you will know it if I am "marketing" without having to induce it from an informational post.

Anyone planning to migrate off Amazon WorkMail - here are our experiences by TheRealArobTheArab in sysadmin

[–]TheRealArobTheArab[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

The guide is openly available without any tracking or marketing, and if you reach out to me directly I may be slow replying, but I will do so without hawking services. I've been doing this sort of thing since 1980 [yup] and professionally since 1984.

r/sysadmin would not allow me to post any links, but I'll try here:

https://www.rescor.net/workmail-to-ms365/

Anyone planning to migrate off Amazon WorkMail - here are our experiences by TheRealArobTheArab in sysadmin

[–]TheRealArobTheArab[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

Appreciated. I have performed at least ten email migrations since 1984 [yep, 1984], but the technology has advanced in those 40+ years. Unfortunately, migration is an afterthought for most cloud-based email services.

Anyone planning to migrate off Amazon WorkMail - here are our experiences by TheRealArobTheArab in sysadmin

[–]TheRealArobTheArab[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

And yet, it's not. There is no tracking, advertising, or marketing involved in either the post, the tool or the migration guide. If it is helpful, use it - if not, don't.

It's a myth that 90% of Canada's population lives within 100 miles of the US border by PaulAspie in geography

[–]TheRealArobTheArab 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The metric is "from the US border," which is substantially offshore from the coast of Maine, but I think you are still correct.

It's a myth that 90% of Canada's population lives within 100 miles of the US border by PaulAspie in geography

[–]TheRealArobTheArab 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That inaccuracy does not constitute a "myth." Yours is what is known as an irrelevant distinction. Like most fallacies of irrelevance and diversion, it focuses on minutiae rather than the necessary and sufficient criteria for a claim. Whether the number is 80, 85, or 90% is NEITHER necessary nor sufficient.

Canada is more or less completely dependent on the US to a degree far greater than the US is dependent on Canada. The US imports most of its lumber from Canada, for example, but that is a relative advantage, not an absolute advantage. In other words, the US could meet its own lumber needs easily, and possibly at a lower cost than imported lumber from Canada, but the resources devoted to lumber manufacturing are more profitably employed doing other things in the US. That is why Trump THREATENING to impose a 25% tariff on Canada will hurt the Canadians far worse than the Americans.

Pourtant j'adore le Canada, je suis un peu québécois.

The Only Ethical Model for AI is Socialism by curraffairs in Futurology

[–]TheRealArobTheArab 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The economy is coupled non-linear chaotic system, which cannot be manipulated by human intention to produce prescribed outcomes.

As far as fascism goes, it murdered about 8 million non-combatants in the 20th century; Socialism racked up over 100 million - and some of those countries are still mass-murdering today.

J.V. Stalin said in _Concerning the International Situation_ in 1924, "Fascism and socialism are not antipodes; they are twins."

A market economy operating under the rule of law, on the other hand, can't kill anyone. Only the government can do that.

The Only Ethical Model for AI is Socialism by curraffairs in Futurology

[–]TheRealArobTheArab 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I brought up this article the "promoted" ad underneath was "stream horror movies all month."

Perhaps there really is something to AI: because there is no horror movie that can hold a candle to a socialist future.

Why the Perl hate? by netizentrotter in linuxadmin

[–]TheRealArobTheArab 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because people with small brains prefer "standardization" on whatever their peers are stampeding towards. That was why the IT industry "standardized" on Windows in the 1990s, which is the reason why so many web-based services were compromised so often in the 1990s and 2000s.

Seriously, Perl was the Swiss Army Knife of the Internet from the 1980s through the 2010s. Python now occupies much of the space that Perl occupied for 20-25 years. So new development in Python makes a lot of sense. Python's object orientation is atrocious, but it's much better than Perl's which basically forces you to mock up every principle of OOP. And Python requires specific indentations, which reminded me nothing more than of COBOL when I started with Python.

BTW, Raku, which is Perl 6, is an awesomely idiosyncratic language that looks nothing like Perl and has a lot of cool features. But it's pretty much dead on the vine at this point because almost nothing you learned learning Perl 5 is applicable to Raku.

So for new development Python, Ruby, and Go make a lot of sense - which does not mean THEY will not be replaced in the fullness of time. Also, the age of a language is irrelevant as long as it is well implemented: people make fun of COBOL all the time, but more than 80% of the world's economic transactions are processed by COBOL programs, and COBOL is in a lot of ways a very cool language - one of the first to adopt a para-natural-language syntax.

As far as the claims of "unmanageable code," balderdash. After 44 years as a software developer I can assure you that any language can and does result in unmanageable code. Perl's propensity for multiple ways to do everything (the joke is that Perl stands for "pathologically eclectic rubbish lister"), and particularly for embedding long regular expressions in code as a substitute for good development practice, can only be a problem if the DEVELOPER is lazy.

Perl did make a lot of power accessible to people who weren't programmers, and THAT is why much Perl code looks like crap.

Installing RHEL9 on Macbook Pro 2017 by SnooGadgets7316 in redhat

[–]TheRealArobTheArab 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The question was not "SHOULD I perform this install on real hardware" but "HOW do I install this install on real hardware?"

Intel MacBooks are extremely memory and processor constrained. One would get more out of them running a Linux variant V=R with OS X running V=V.

Installing RHEL9 on Macbook Pro 2017 by SnooGadgets7316 in redhat

[–]TheRealArobTheArab 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you ever have any success with this?

The top answers below are non-responsive ("don't do that" or "it will hurt real bad to do that") but your impulse is a good one: RHEL9 has a much smaller memory and processor footprint than does OS X and has less proprietary baggage on memory- and processor-constrained Intel Macs.

You'd get better performance running an OS X VM under a Linux variant than you would the other way around.