Comment Windows has been using BSD code for over a decade. (Score 1) 248
Signing their key is the least Microsoft can do for using large parts of the FeeBSD TCP/IP stack in Windows.
https://lwn.net/Articles/245805/
Comment hardly cause for concern (Score 5, Insightful) 295
It'd be bigger news if he quit for another company, while Microsoft is on the decline it's going to be a very slow death spread across
a decade or two. They've still got considerable assets which will take a long time to bleed out.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=msft+balance+sheet&annual
Comment Openshift PaaS (Score 2) 75
Try out Red Hat's Openshift, it has node.js and a bunch of other applications. Best part is it's free, so if you don't like it no reason to scale it up and pay.
http://www.openshift.com/
Comment Linkedin, good for unsolicited sales pings (Score 1) 164
I've gotten quite a bit more unsolicited vendor contact which I can almost surely pinpoint to linkedin.
Aggressive sales folk have figured out most companies email addresses are first letter of first name, last name.
If yours fits in under the normal kerberos/(open)LDAP limitations.. yep, you can ascertain my work email.
I usually get a few a day, and digging through to the HTML link to unsubscribe seems to do nothing to fight
the overwhelming wave of incoming bothers. Most of these solicitations seem to be auto-scraped and generated,
for example any simple review of my profile would see I'm not interested in Microsoft solutions.. or they are not relevant
to my job function, seemingly to only generated by a keyword or two.
Comment Re:My theory (Score 1) 1010
There hasn't been a damn thing in the last several years worth upgrading for. Gamers and developers aside, there has been nothing at all interesting happening in the PC world.
I'm still on a 2.0ghz C2D laptop and had no intention of upgrading anytime soon.
The introduction of consumer SATA disks with perpendicular recording has gone a long way in providing much larger capacity, though I tend to agree with this statement otherwise.
ZFS Hits an Important Milestone, Version 0.6.1 Released 99
sfcrazy writes "ZFS on Linux has reached what Brian Behlendorf calls an important milestone with the official 0.6.1 release. Version 0.6.1 not only brings the usual bug fixes but also introduces a new property called 'snapdev.' Brian explains, 'The snapdev property was introduced to control the visibility of zvol snapshot devices and may be set to either visible or hidden. When set to hidden, which is the default, zvol snapshot devices will not be created under /dev/. To gain access to these devices the property must be set to visible. This behavior is analogous to the existing snapdir property.'"
Comment Re:ZFS boot support (Score 1) 58
stable and installer supported ZFS boot support for the / volume.
It's definitely stable (running 9.1-RELEASE here in a few places) but not in the installer until later.
Setting up a ZFS / install now isn't too difficult but does require using a livecd.
There is a great thread covering it from many angles here, including HD encryption.
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=31662
One thing I did here was go upwards of 50-60G for root, I find the 10g or 20g in the
examples isn't sufficient for keeping full
Comment Less managers and supervisors? Good. (Score 1) 586
The already bureaucracy-laden world of Corporate America would be much more efficient with less middle-management in most place I've seen.
Comment show us (Score 5, Interesting) 268
Show us your cards, it doesn't matter now Mr. Ballmer.
Comment nice wiring behind the CTO, FTA (Score 1) 183
The wiring job behind the AV CTO is quite embarassing.. what's going on there?
https://www.nytimes.com/images/2013/01/01/technology/01security-web/01security-web-articleLarge.jpg
Comment Working Great (Score 5, Informative) 149
I've been using 9.1-RELEASE since SVN was tagged 2012-12-04 on both my home and work desktop. ZFS root is awesome, and userland is pretty much the latest bleeding edge upstream, I've had absolutely no issues running a full-fledged XFCE-4.10, Firefox ESR 10.x with Flash, 3D accel, everything desktop.
I've used freebsd-update to go from both 9.1-RC3 and 9.0-RELEASE to 9.1-RELEASE also switching to pkgng.
I'd recommend folks to look at the following guides if they want to use ZFS root or create a nice, full-featured desktop OS.
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=31662 (ZFS ROOT)
https://cooltrainer.org/2012/01/02/a-freebsd-9-desktop-how-to (good desktop guide)
Great job BSD devs, keep it up.
Comment Re:no love for mutt? (Score 1) 464
While mutt and alpine run circles around GUI clients, I use both mutt (via ssh) and thunderbird (via IMAP). The latter sits hidden (FireTray) serving as a glorified biff most of the time, but when you receive mail from business people, it's usually an image embedded in a Word document, or at the very least a pdf. This is where mutt fails.
You can easily tie external program views for attachments, for example when I receive vendor quotes (always in
== snip ==
# set mailcap_path = ~/.mutt/mailcap
text/html; lynx -display_charset=utf-8 -dump %s; nametemplate=%s.html; copiousoutput
# PDF wth evince
application/pdf; evince %s;
# spreadsheets
application/vnd.ms-excel; oocalc %s;
application/vnd.openxml; oocalc %s;
application/excel; oocalc %s;
application/msexcel; oocalc %s;
application/x-excel; oocalc %s;
application/x-msexcel; oocalc %s;
application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet; oocalc %s;
# slide decks
application/powerpoint; ooimpress %s;
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint; ooimpress %s;
application/x-mspowerpoint; ooimpress %s;
application/mspowerpoint; ooimpress %s;
application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation; ooimpress %s;
application/ppt; ooimpress %s;
application/pptx; ooimpress %s;
== snip ==
Comment mutt (Score 1) 464
I'm still using mutt here, and vim as my editor plus offlineimap + notmuch (for indexing/searching).
Once you learn the hotkeys it's much more efficient than any GUI MUA, and the notmuch indexing
functionality is worth it's weight in gold to me. I tend to get several hundred emails a day, the bulk of
which are neatly filed into IMAP folders inside offlineimap and nicely indexed by notmuch.
mutt itself is endlessly configurable, for people who are intent on sending HTML email
there are numerous ways to dump it back to TXT (which all email should be in). Say NO to HTML email, people.
http://notmuchmail.org/
http://offlineimap.org/
http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2011/01/how_to_use_Notmuch_with_Mutt/
Comment Re:Lucky (Score 1) 660
You could. Get some skills, maybe a few certifications. Apply for every possible job that looks remotely interesting.
It's your career- take charge of it. Nobody else will.
Nice sentiment, but it's rarely that easy. Take where I live, for example: Southern Indiana. Tech jobs are practically nonexistent, regardless of how much education I have, and the companies around here that have anything to do with tech simply aren't hiring for anything more advanced than tech support monkey, if they're hiring at all. Why is that? It's anyone's guess, but I have a theory:
The folks who have the (few) jobs above tech-support monkey are firmly entrenched in whatever company they work for, and aren't moving up, down, or sideways. They'll be doing that job with that company until they retire or die, which may or may not be their fault, the companies they work for aren't exactly overflowing with tech-based initiatives anyway. But that means if you start working under them, upward mobility is nonexistent.
So you take the only tech related job you can find, some low-level help desk gig, and make just enough to scrape by. Or, if you're lucky, enough to live on and be reasonably comfortable (i.e. can pay all your bills on time). And after a time you want to move up in the tech world. Only you can't move up in your current company because your boss and everyone in the chain of command down to you is 20 years from retirement; you can't go to another local company because they have all of their positions filled, permanently (nobody's going anywhere unless they retire, die, or get fired); you can get certifications (at your own expense, natch. the company isn't going to pay for them, especially if they're not directly related to your current job), but without some kind of actual job to put them to use, they're not going to do much good other than personal improvement; or you could move to where the jobs are, which would be great if you could afford to do that, companies these days aren't going to relocate you unless you're exceptional (and most of us, contrary to what we might think, are not), and since you're spending most of the money you make on living expenses and repaying student loans/certification expenses, good luck saving up enough money to both move to a new city and survive for longer than a month while you try to get a job, which is bad enough if you're a single person. Married and/or have kids? Forget about it. You'll have to save up for years before you have enough resources to move, and by that time your skills from your certs and education will have withered if you haven't been using them, and with your low-level support desk job, they probably will have.
So, what do you do?
Work for yourself, leverage the finer points of capitalism and charge less than those jokers. It's easier than you think, if you know helpdesk type stuff start with that and build up. If the opportunity isn't there with some established entity become an established entity.
Comment Re:Falsified Logs! (Score 1) 83
FTA, looks like it was a Microsoft Windows infrastructure, all the vectors were Windows servers.
