nfsilkey - Slashdot User

Comment 5.3.1 + pecl mcd and apc! Re:Current PHP? (Score 1) 148

by nfsilkey on Thursday April 22, 2010 @11:34AM (#31940244) Attached to: Red Hat Releases RHEL 6 Public Beta 1

fuzz:Packages silkey$ pwd /Volumes/RHEL_6.0 i386 Di/Packages

fuzz:Packages silkey$ ls -1 php*
php-5.3.1-7.el6.i686.rpm
php-cli-5.3.1-7.el6.i686.rpm
php-common-5.3.1-7.el6.i686.rpm
php-gd-5.3.1-7.el6.i686.rpm
php-ldap-5.3.1-7.el6.i686.rpm
php-mcrypt-5.3.1-7.el6.i686.rpm
php-mysql-5.3.1-7.el6.i686.rpm
php-odbc-5.3.1-7.el6.i686.rpm
php-pdo-5.3.1-7.el6.i686.rpm
php-pear-1.9.0-1.el6.noarch.rpm
php-pecl-apc-3.1.3p1-1.1.el6.i686.rpm
php-pecl-memcache-3.0.4-3.1.el6.i686.rpm
php-pgsql-5.3.1-7.el6.i686.rpm
php-soap-5.3.1-7.el6.i686.rpm
php-xml-5.3.1-7.el6.i686.rpm
php-xmlrpc-5.3.1-7.el6.i686.rpm

Comment centos tracker! WAS Re:Direct download links (Score 2, Interesting) 148

by nfsilkey on Thursday April 22, 2010 @07:36AM (#31937262) Attached to: Red Hat Releases RHEL 6 Public Beta 1

Erm, why not try a more legit-smelling tracker? ;)

The CentOS project is serving the beta ISOs from their tracker, but Ill be damned if I can find the .torrent files served via CentOS. $random_blog_guy is serving some which link you up to the CentOS tracker.

http://www.karan.org/stuff/rhel6-i386-beta-dvd.torrent
http://www.karan.org/stuff/rhel6-ppc64-beta-dvd.torrent
http://www.karan.org/stuff/rhel6-x86_64-beta-dvd.torrent
http://torrent.centos.org:6969/

Sums check out. Waaaay faster than the smoldering ftp.redhat heap that were all machine-gunning. ;)

Comment $employer is on the target list of pushdo drones (Score 2, Informative) 64

by nfsilkey on Tuesday February 02, 2010 @11:11AM (#30995464) Attached to: Botnet Targets Web Sites With Junk SSL Connections

According to our graphs, our targeted frontend is taking the drone's trashy SSL requests like a champ (reverse-proxies are humming as expected, no inordinate load, etc).

You too can see if you are on the hitlist: http://www.shadowserver.org/wiki/pmwiki.php/Calendar/20100129

Comment I dont see Ubuntu on the Zino as an option at Dell (Score 1) 321

by nfsilkey on Saturday November 14, 2009 @02:37PM (#30099454) Attached to: Time To Ditch Cable For Internet TV?

I clicked through the DIY offering ($229), and I was only offered Vista or Windows 7. Ubuntu was _not_ on the list. Not that I care (would wipe the Zino once unboxed), but its worth nothing that these do not appear to be shipping from Dell with Ubuntu as a pre-installed option. I didnt check the other systems, but Im sure all us GNU/Linux users would opt for the low-end, no-frills offering if we wanted to build an open-source HTPC, etc.

FWIW ...

Comment version control system + build/deploy engine (Score 1) 244

by nfsilkey on Tuesday October 20, 2009 @08:10PM (#29816889) Attached to: How Do You Manage Dev/Test/Production Environments?

We do this for many many Drupal sites on many horizontal web nodes via bzr + ant. By 'sites' I mean no multi-site; each 'site' gets its own Drupal instance. By 'Drupal instance', I mean the 'Drupal instance' is an ant-powered deploy from a branch in bzr comprised of vendor branches (core + modules) merged in plus customizations by our shop. Each environment gets a branch, and we merge code upstream (dev -> tst -> prd).

The only thing 'shared' across the infrastructure is the web services and frameworks on the webapp nodes. Ant is great at auto-magic MySQL db provisioning, Drush calls to pound the schema, APC cache flushes, Memcached bops, etc. Also I would throw myself off a bridge if I had to manage all the complex merges across our branches and dealing with updating the vendor branches.

Others here also made the comment wrt code up, content down. Live it, love it; SERIOUSLY! Refresh often, and give your devs anonymized slices of the db for them to keep on a laptop they will undoubtedly leave in a cab. Were currently bending ant to perform the downstream refreshes + sanitizes. Looks very promising.

Also if youre not able to bastardize ant to do what you want it to do, look at ant-contrib to further extend the tool.

http://bazaar-vcs.org/en/
http://ant.apache.org/
http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/

Slightly OT: The J2EE guys at $employer prefer a maven+ant+svn approach. YMMV.

Have fun. These are very interesting toys to play with, tbh.

Comment Re:Basic functionality (Score 1) 135

by nfsilkey on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @09:13AM (#27584987) Attached to: Android 1.5 SDK Is Released

K9Mail has fixed the Content-Type bug you speak of:

http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/issues/detail?id=94

Dont think its fixed in Mail-proper:

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1763

Comment Re:Faggots (Score 3, Informative) 120

by nfsilkey on Friday March 20, 2009 @09:36AM (#27267375) Attached to: Streaming March Madness On Linux?

I know Mac users are about as likely as Linux users to watch basketball, but with the recent increased popularity of Macs, wouldn't that be a selling point for open formats? I can't imagine OSX has a good Silverlight implementation. I couldn't even find evidence of Moonlight being ported over.

Wrong. Im a Mac user and I watched about 5 hours of tournament coverage last night (Go Horns!) over the intartubes via http://mmod.ncaa.com/video. Silverlight 2 worked like a champ in Firefox 3.0.7 atop OS X 10.5.6. It was pretty slick, and the quality of the stream was fantastic. Blew through over a gigabyte of transfer per hour of streaming. And I watched over the air on my couch. It was great.

Once Silverlight showed up with OS X support several months back, both initial installation and subsequent upgrades 'just freakin worked'.

But I likely wouldnt have had such a good night if I still pimped Ubuntu on a portable ... :/

Comment Wont someone think of the coal/carbon? srslyplz (Score 4, Insightful) 302

by nfsilkey on Tuesday February 17, 2009 @01:16PM (#26889051) Attached to: How Do I Put Unused Servers To Work?

If you dont have a pressing need, why bother powering them up? Theres a reason $job pulled them from the colo. Im sure they are hungry heat-factories. Keep that green in your wallet when its time to pay the monthly power utility bill and just dont power them up.

And if youre not going to spin them up, punt them to someone who needs/wants them while they still have some value before Moore renders them useless ...

Comment Re:DHCP lease logs (Score 1) 419

by nfsilkey on Wednesday August 06, 2008 @09:53AM (#24495729) Attached to: Tufts Tells Judge, We Can't Tie IP To MAC Addresses

So they used the same excuse twice - log rotation - RIAAs new enemy.

Sadly, thats what things have come to in higher-ed IT regarding subpoenas and legal issues: log as little as possible ... so that theres little to offer up to those who come asking. Srsly.

MS Word Zero-Day Exploit Found 396

Posted by Zonk on Friday May 19, 2006 @02:37PM from the don't-do-any-work-today dept.

subbers writes "A zero-day flaw in Microsoft Word program is being used in an active exploit by sophisticated hackers in China and Taiwan, according to warnings from anti-virus researchers. The exploit arrives as an ordinary Microsoft Word document attachment to an e-mail and drops a backdoor with rootkit features when the document is opened and the previously unknown vulnerability is triggered. From the article: 'The e-mail was written to look like an internal e-mail, including signature. It was addressed by name to the intended victim and not detected by the anti-virus software.'"

CNN Sits Down With Linus Torvalds 264

Posted by Zonk on Friday May 19, 2006 @10:49AM from the penguin-wrangler dept.

just_another_sean writes "Calling him 'reclusive' and the 'leader of the Open Source Revolution' CNN has an interview with Linus Torvalds. From the article: "I actually only work with a few handfuls so I tend to directly interact with maybe 10 - 20 people and they in turn interact with other people. So depending on how you count, if you count just the core people, 20 -50 people. If you count everybody who's involved; five thousand people -- and you can really put the number anywhere in between... Almost, pretty much all, real work is done over e-mail so it doesn't matter where people are."

Lenovo Banned by U.S. State Department 474

Posted by Zonk on Friday May 19, 2006 @10:16AM from the somebody's-watching-me dept.

chrplace writes "The BBC is reporting that the Chinese-made Lenovo PCs are not allowed inside secure US networks." From the article: "Assistant Secretary of State Richard Griffin said the department would also alter its procurement process to ensure US information security was guaranteed. His comments came after Rep Frank Wolf expressed national security concerns. The company Lenovo insisted such concerns were unwarranted and said the computers posed no security risk."

Dell to Use AMD Chips in its Servers 227

Posted by Zonk on Thursday May 18, 2006 @05:35PM from the dogs-and-cats-living-together dept.

garfangle writes "Dell has decided to include AMD's Opteron processor in its product line of servers. This is the first time Dell has used AMD chips within its own Dell branded products (excluding the recently acquired Alienware computers)." From the News.com article: "The deal appears to be confined to servers at this point. The news came along with the release of Dell's earnings results, which were in line with the disappointing warning the company provided last week. Revenue was $14.2 billion, up 6 percent from last year, but net income slid 18 percent to $762 million. Several times during the last few years, Dell CEO Kevin Rollins has hinted that the company was right around the corner from introducing products based on AMD's chips."

Google in Trouble for Suggesting Illegal Software 370

Posted by Zonk on Thursday May 18, 2006 @02:18PM from the we-should-start-a-google-lawsuits-topic dept.

JehCt writes "Google is being sued over the 'suggest' feature built into its latest toolbar. InfoWorld reports: 'ServersCheck, a small company that makes network monitoring software,' is complaining that, 'If ServersCheck is entered, Google generates suggested search terms such as serverscheck crack, serverscheck pro crack and serverscheck keygen which lead to pirated software.' In an apparent public relations blunder, Google claimed to have no way of filtering suggestions. However, Google can and does filter because the toolbar won't provide suggestions for keywords like 'porn'."

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