Kind of off topic but we have a picture of my father, Jack Harker, walking on water in front of the sculpture. He was manager of "The Labs" and was working with manufacturing to introduce their first Winchester disk drive. The technology was not moving successfully from the lab to the shop. There were some tremendous technical problems in mass producing the drives. Manufacturing gave a very aggressive schedule for solving the problems. My father replied that if they could meet the schedule, he would walk on water.

Manufacturing meet the schedule and the disk drives were delivered. My father had a plywood platform built and painted dark placed just under the surface of the reflecting pool. True to his word, there he was walking on water with the sculpture in the background.

A picture I did not understand fully until after his death.

Jack Harker, one of the fathers of the disk drive industry, a manager's manager, a great dad.

Interesting things to monitor are I/O rates and read/write latency. More esoteric things might be stats about most active files and directories or percentage of recently accessed data -vs- inactive data. But these are more analysis than monitoring. What other parameters would a sysadmin want to look at?

RLH

At least you know what you are.

Women talk about it as a women's issue because women get the vast majority of the death and rape threats many of which have personal details and need to be taken seriously..

If we treat this as a war, we will be fighting, killing and destroying for 30 years changing little. Most of the death and destruction will happen to the civilian population. We need to treat this as a battle for the hearts and minds of the Muslim world. We have to change attitudes and how they treat each other. Break the cycle of tit for tat, I kill you because you killed my father/brother. This will take a generation or more.

Pre-disclosure and a quarantine period is useful for both infrastructure security bugs like xen and widely deployed security bugs like bash and openssl.

In the case of an infrastructure bug the quarantine period allows the service providers a chance to patch and restart their services before their customers become vulnerable.

In the case of a widely deployed security bug it give the OS/software vendors the chance to investigate the bug. Create patches and test/verify their patches and pre-stage them so when the bug is disclosed publicly sites that do automatic updates are already patched.

I think the two week window used by xen is a good window balancing giving time for people to fix the problem but limiting the time between discovery and public knowledge/exploit.

We used to have crapware preinstalled on Windoze PCs.
Now we get google crapps preinstalled on our smartphones.

Is that why men spend so much time explaining how it is the woman's problem and why women are wrong when the subject comes up on slashdot?

Hum... Afraid that women will cut into your male dominated world? I doubt women game in a "man cave". But maybe in a "woman's lair". I know that both of my college age daughters actively play games most every day.

And why does playing Candy Crush make you any less of a gamer than some blood drenched single shooter game?

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area so the risk of a major quake that will disrupt power, water and roads is very real. I have 12 one gallon bottles of water in their boxes bought when they were on sale for a buck a piece. I store it in my basement next to the outside door so I can probably get to them even if the house has major structural issues.

Water is important. You can live for a week or more without food. But no water will do you in after a few days. In a major earthquake, it is very likely that the water system will fail. Broken pipes, lack of power, contaminated supply, etc.

Food is probably not a big issue. You probably have 4 or 5 days of food in your kitchen. Those cans in the back of the cupboard, soup mix, rice, beans or other dry goods. It may not be very appetizing, but it is food.

In America we are lucky. In the event of a major earthquake or other natural disaster, the rest of the country will rally. Food, water, tents, bedding will be brought in in a matter of days. You just have to plan for the first 96 hours.

The importance of offsite backups for personal data or data for a small company can not be stressed enough. In a major quake fire is a very real danger. Natural gas lines break and a spark can start a fire.

Offsite backups do not need to be fancy. I have two 1 TB USB drives I use for backup. I copy all of my data to one drive and then take it to my parents house. I then do backups to the second drive. Every month or so, I swap the two drives. If the drive in my house gets destroyed I only loose a month of data, not all of my data. You could also backup to the cloud but I would rather not have the cloud provider grubbing through my personal data.

The two USB drives solution is low-tech and low-cost. You just have to remember to swap the two drives every now and then.

Why Law Enforcement in California pushed for the law was that there is a real problem with violent smartphone robberies. The victim steps away from her friends to talk on her smartphone. The thief hits her from the back so she falls forward grabbing her phone and runs. She would not see who the thief was. This is an every weekend occurrence in San Francisco and the San Francisco Police don't like this. A kill switch would make smartphone theft less profitable.

Looks like they have started selling email addresses. I just got email from multiple spam runs for my email addresses from:
    netfirms.com
    joker.com
    sys-con.com
    mixonline.com
    livedesignonline.com

Spam does not bother me so much. But the first two email addresses do. They are my domain registrars. So they have my account information and could change my domain registration. Time to change some passwords.

RLH

This is a great idea. Getting people to think about opening their homes in times of a disaster before the disaster happens. Sort of like the organ donation sticker on your drivers license.

Having a database of people who are willing to open their homes in a disaster and what their parameters for guests are would be invaluable. I am a single older man so I would be willing to have other single older men stay with me as well as a family or a couple. What Airbnb is proposing is using their tools to help disaster relief agencies create a database of places for people to stay. Probably of limited use the night of the disaster, but useful for the next two weeks.

This is an interesting step forward for disaster relief agencies learning how to use social media. Airbnb is willing to help this happen. While it is good PR for Airbnb, it is also a great way for them to give back to the community.

Are you a software developer? How many women programmers are on your team? What, no women on your team? Or if they are on your team they are QA or documentation people? It is not because they are not qualified. It is because most development teams are toxic to women.

I am a sysadmin and most of the female sysadmins I have known have left the field. It is not because they can't take it. They can and dish it out as well. They just get tired of the "boy's club" attitude of their male coworkers. They kept waiting for the boys to grow into men, but then realized they probably won't.

It takes a real MAN to own up to the fact that this harassment of women is insidious and pervasive in the tech/geek communities. But the boys will just continue to try and explain why it is the women's problem, not theirs.