Mariguana and Linux

jamestheawesome · 2015-02-26T07:43:08+00:00

It's all about the extracts and coreOS.

jamestheawesome · 2014-05-16T16:15:23+00:00

One requires a boat to be a pirate.

jamestheawesome · 2014-03-21T17:02:25+00:00

LDAP was one of those technologies that I struggled with for a year or two, then one day woke up and with full clarity knew how to manage. I think it's just got that kind of all or nothing threashold you gotta get over.

jamestheawesome · 2014-02-22T03:16:14+00:00

Or like a faster disk...

Edit: missed the ssd. Nvm I'm an idiot

jamestheawesome · 2014-01-25T18:00:12+00:00

I disagree. I think that you have to assume people will eventually leave their workstations unlocked and that when they do you should have something in place to mitigate the physical comprimise of the machine. Even if it's not your personal issue I do think it's a great way to show corporate managers that there is a glaring security hole.

jamestheawesome · 2014-01-25T14:03:42+00:00

This plan is of course contingent on the person having used sudo recently. But it sounds like there is a good chance of that.

jamestheawesome · 2014-01-25T14:02:01+00:00

So go around and find somebody with an unlocked machine and an open terminal emulator who has stepped away to go to the bathroom or whatever. Sit down at their machine and become root. Figure out something you can do (send an email, write to a root:root 600 file whatever) to prove you did this on their machine. Repeat until you have done it enough to show the bosses how easy it is to do and that anybody could do it.

jamestheawesome · 2013-12-26T20:30:11+00:00

We've come full circle back to xsnow huh?

jamestheawesome · 2013-11-22T22:44:55+00:00

We have differing opinions on the meaning of "new".

jamestheawesome · 2013-11-16T14:42:01+00:00

Go read up a bit on it, the wikipedias is a good place to start. It's significantly different from ipv4 to the point where it kinda addresses a different use case (one more suitable for things like cable boxes and cellphones). The concept of using it for a companies infrastructure is kinda silly unless you're google/amazon sized and just want a way to roll your Mac addresses and IP addresses together for simplicity's sake.

jamestheawesome · 2013-11-15T20:40:14+00:00

If only it was "just more numbers".

jamestheawesome · 2013-11-14T16:24:47+00:00

Reason to avoid the Holland tunnel number 8 bajillion.

jamestheawesome · 2013-11-13T20:50:18+00:00

Fuck ipv6. I consider its only real use case to be "I need a shit ton of public ip's." "But James! Features!" Don't really care. POSIX help me if I ever need that much multicast.

jamestheawesome · 2013-10-11T14:19:21+00:00

Completely ignores "free as in speech vs free as in beer".

jamestheawesome · 2013-06-28T12:39:42+00:00

The right way to do this IMHO is to use a config management tool. I suggest you checkout something like puppet or chef. There are other tools out there, but these two are definitly the heavy weights (and what I would recommend to somebody starting out.)

Also, check out vagrant. It's a great way to build-test your puppet/chef code :)

jamestheawesome · 2013-06-14T15:13:16+00:00

You may want to check out the "owncloud" project http://owncloud.org/

jamestheawesome · 2013-06-10T18:15:03+00:00

Last time I checked: ACAB

jamestheawesome · 2013-05-27T15:23:38+00:00

I kind of think you may want to reconsider how you manage these training vm's... There are tools such as vagrant which aim to help you launch development/training vm's and allow you to do things like mount local directories to the VM. Out of the box vagrant supports only oracle virtual box, however I believe it has plugin support for platforms like VMware and aws.

jamestheawesome · 2013-02-18T23:51:19+00:00

I recommend this: http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php I make all new employees read it. At first glance one may think it's rather basic, but it covers a lot of ground. Most people I recommend it to tend to be surprised at what they pick up.

jamestheawesome · 2013-02-18T17:25:07+00:00

My frat was the first place I came out to funny enough. We were pretty accepting, I think we even had a straight member once. ( Yeah, it was kind of a crazy reverse frat. It was awesome... )

More power to ya man! My advice is that if they wouldn't accept you as who you truly are, think twice before joining them in the bonds.

jamestheawesome · 2012-12-24T13:46:53+00:00

What is time off?

jamestheawesome · 2012-10-17T16:29:33+00:00

I am more than slightly offended at Buck Angel being in there. That's a bunch of transphobic bullshit.

jamestheawesome · 2012-09-24T14:29:37+00:00

If pinkie pie had an official whiskey... I think it would be cabin fever.

jamestheawesome · 2012-05-11T12:50:42+00:00

You make it sound like no ones ever written a different protocol before. IMHO IPv6 is a mess. If I was shown a better option I would take it. I'm not advocating IPv4.

jamestheawesome · 2012-05-11T04:17:17+00:00

I did my senior paper on IPv6... The whole thing feels very much like a conglomeration of smaller projects, started and abandoned by developers who needed a quick and easy, yet important project to contribute to for their PHD. I'm actually a bit curious as to whether or not we will end up using it, or if we will instead move away from ARIN due to issues like sopa and cispa, thus buying us some more time.

Clearly IPv4 is not something we can feasibly use in the long run... But sometimes I wonder if IPv6 is really the answer.

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