JohnnyKlunk - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Tools exist (Score 2, Interesting) 209

by JohnnyKlunk on Monday April 27, 2009 @05:57AM (#27727779) Attached to: Cross-Distro Remote Package Administration?

Totally agree, I know this is /. and we hate windows - but it's similar to the way WSUS works - and since the introduction of WSUS I haven't given this question a second thought. You can set up different boxes to get updates on different schedules so the pilot boxes always get them first, then production boxes over a few days in a rolling pattern.

Comment I know this is slashdot..... but XP (Score 5, Interesting) 432

by JohnnyKlunk on Sunday March 29, 2009 @04:31AM (#27377469) Attached to: I typically stick with the same desktop environment

So I know this is slashdot, but mine is XP, I love it and I don't want to change it. I don't want to change desktop environments ever. Desktops should be invisible. I don't care about desktop environments - I care about apps, inermanets and documents. XP does everything I want, I know where everything is, I know how it works and my apps run perfectly (yes, perfectly) on top. So I'm changing... why?

File Systems Best Suited for Archival Storage? 105

Posted by Cliff on Saturday January 06, 2007 @05:23AM from the disk-image-plus-PAR-sets dept.

Amir Ansari asks: "There have been many comparisons between various archival media (hard drive, tape, magneto-optical, CD/DVD, and so on). Of course, the most important characteristics are permanence and portability, but what about the file systems involved? For instance, I routinely archive my data onto an external hard drive: easy to update and mirror, but which file system provides the best combination of reliability, future-proofing, data recovery, and availability across multiple platforms (Linux, OS X, BeOS/Zeta and Windows, in my case)? Open Source best guarantees the future availability of the standard and specification, but are file systems such as ext2 suitable for archival storage? Is journaling important?"

Submission + - Fingerprinting the World's Mail Servers

Submitted by

ttul

on Saturday January 06, 2007 @04:17AM

ttul writes: "This O'Reilly SysAdmin Article describes some work done by mod_perl author Stas Bekman and his colleagues at anti-spam software company MailChannels to fingerprint the world's publicly visible email servers. Interesting results from the survey? Open source options like Sendmail and Postfix are still firmly in the lead after all these years, but commercial services like Postini are catching up fast. The article goes into some detail on how email servers can be fingerprinted despite attempts by sysadmins to cloak their identity."

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