Posts made by bsouder

I saw the article too. Unfortunately it reminds me a lot of the pipe dream presentations from the 70's and 80's. I am still waiting for my Jetson's car. The other side of the question is for what purpose. Do they have a way to modify the 800+ degree temps and sulfuric acid air? If they said hey, we are going to experiment with this in case the same thing happens to us. Great - lets look at it. Mars is a lot safer bet, but again to what end.

I would rather use the faster drives as well. Is there a rule of thumb for determining which way to go?

I had thought about that for workstations or servers. What do you do for laptops though. Would partitioning the drive be a good solution then? Leave the OS partition unencrypted, and then encrypt the data partition?

I have playing with it for a while now, but I have generally found it is the sitting around and pulling your hair our that gets you to know it better. All the new commands can be over whelming at first. Learning it depends on your best method of learning personally. Books were helpful but frequently out of date. Online videos and tutorials were nice, when they worked. I also find when you get stuck that stopping, walking away, coming back and reading documentation over can help. Learning to search specific terms and running them to ground helps. Pick a project and practice it a few times. For example, just install Linux all the way through, then do it again and try different settings. Do it many times so you become comfortable with the process and you get used to seeing commands. Don't be worried about having all the commands memorized. If they are important, toss them in a WIKI or a text file for reference. Once you have the basics down, pick a project like setting up a web server. Complete it start to finish and load a page. Make up some content and update the site. Now back up your data. If the web server does not have a database, maybe setup a SQL server. Back up the SQL server. Delete the test database and then restore it. The problem I have after this is all of the debate about a best practices for certain services. What should be on or off by default - etc. It is very difficult to cover everything, and a lot of the documentation does not give you the finer details.

I have a client that is required to have data encryption for their hard drives. We have tried two different packages, and it appears that Windows 8.1 with BITLOCKER will meet the requirements for compliance. However, the problem is when I am doing remote work and I have to reboot the workstation, I have to wait for the user to enter the credentials to unlock the drive before it will boot again. This is obviously a PiA when you are trying to do Windows updates - etc. at night. My understanding is that BITLOCKER will do the same. We have also had a few issues with the drives. In one case, the user had a virus that was locking out the system as soon as they logged in. Having the encryption on the drive made it twice as difficult to fix the issue. I did eventually resolve it with a clean user profile, but days were wasted. The second time we had a system BSOD, but I was able to move the drive to another machine and decrypt the drive to read the data. It would seem a better option would be to only encrypt a data section of the hard drive, and leave the OS unencrypted. What products and strategies are the rest of you using?

I would use someone else. While having things in one place is nice, you should not be forced to move your domain. The update your name servers is the right choice to maintain your domain and DNS other than at your web provider. It is not hard to do, but can be confusing your first time through. You might want to make contact with your domain registrar for help.

I have a new website that may need to scale fairly quickly. The website will have a database for information people are submitting through a secure back end, but other users will be searching the posted information. It is tough to tell how quickly the site will need to expand, so that brought me to my question. Initially I figure we can start out with one web server with both the database and web front end, however, I was not sure how to calculate capacity planning and scaling in such a way that it would be easy to scale as the need arises. Knowing the site will scale, it may make more sense to break the database into another server right away. The next question then becomes tracking web and database server load, and deciding the best way to handle the increased load. Is it multi-front end, and having the database sync from server to server. Would it make sense to increase resources on each server first (CPU, RAM, high output disk). Looking at the cost increase for certain features it almost seems to make sense to break out into multiple boxes much more quickly. This would be my first multi-server environment. The servers will be Linux (Ubuntu), with most likely a MySQL database. Also, any thoughts on scaling MySQL, or is there a better alternative that will scale better?

Well - actually - they know where it was the whole time - they just decided to toast marsh mellows with it. Check this perspective of it out:

Youtube Video

I didn't know it was in the closet.

Gamer Whores - oh wait

Yeah - so often the articles correct answer is often written by people who just screwed around with it until it works. I remember looking at an article on a Wordpress site that had been marked as the correct answer for allowing you to write to the folder for themes and updates. It was for a Linux box and they said to change the folder permissions to 777, worked every time. I was like - you do realize that allows EVERYONE on the web to write to the folder? Don't worry about it - just works. I was like I bet it does. Anyone have any hacking problems? Many solutions out there are hacks at best and you really need to read deeper. Or research on your own at least. Many training videos are dated or do not work at all. Although I have come up with my own solutions with people's suggestions. Just remember to take them with a grain of salt.

See - first thing you should have done was kick it.

@scottalanmiller said:

@ajstringham said:

@psx_defector and @dengelhardt took me to Twin Peaks the other night. I had no idea what it was. For some reason, I was thinking Twin Trees which is a very average pizza place in my hometown. It was not what I was expecting...let's just put it that way.

It's VERY tame compared to most of those places there. I was first taken to the one on 35 in Austin by the VC firm that funded SW early on. @bsouder and I went there with the VC guy, Jared. They keep their beer really, really cold - it's were people who hate beer go to drink beer.

It is no worse than Hooters. Probably tamer.

@scottalanmiller said:

@NetworkNerd said:

I feel it most appropriate to only say Water Closet in a British accent. Any other way you say it just does not do it justice.

We could just call it the loo.

You beat me to it.

@ajstringham said:

@bsouder *Pi

@ajstringham - yeah - that's my PIE. lol - thanks!

WARNING - SEAFOOD JOKE:

http://kodiakak.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/anglerfish-stomach-in-mouth.jpg?w=510

That is cool. I had picked up one of the Raspberry Pie kits to fiddle with. Booted it a few times and then got too busy to even think about it. That looks pretty cool.

@Awkward-Gamer said:

@steve I don't know if I'm saying it wrong - but I'm pronouncing this like Mango (the fruit) and Lassie (the dog)

The rights to Oingo Boingo were already taken. So they went with this.

I use it every where now. Users can still do some dumb stuff from time to time, but it does its job. I have been using them since theey first came out under Sunbelt. They are going to be updating the interface to say Threat Track now since they split off from GFI again.

Depends what project threw up in there this week.