Re: Google employment opportunity
Maybe they have smart *engineers*, but the recruiters are, well, there you go . -- Original message -- From: Frank Hale [EMAIL PROTECTED] OMG a Google employee was dumb enough to spam an entire mailing list to get to one person. WOW, I thought they hired really smart people. On 10/12/07, David Mack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Theo, My name is David Mack, and I am a recruiter for the Google.com engineering team, a dynamic, challenging and fun group, which is responsible for our Google website, from start to finish. While doing a search for a specific skill set, I found your contact information on-line and I wanted to contact you to see if you may be interested in learning more about opportunities with us. You seem like you might be a great fit here at Google. We have a number of exciting projects going on throughout the company in a number of different locations. Just wanted to see if you might be interested in exploring some? If you're open to that type of conversation, please feel free to circle back with me. Thank you and I hope to hear from you soon! All the best, David Mack Technical Recruiter/Sourcer Google Staffing 650-253-7919 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Oldest Server you run
Ha ha ha, this is amusing seeing some of the replies. Here's my home firewall; not the oldest mentioned but still in the upper percentiles. Digital (remember that brand) P2-166 32 megs RAM 3 gig hard drive 3 NICs; one internal, 2 generic cheapie PCI cards No xwindows; runs like a charm I used to have OBSD running on a Compaq 486, 66mhz, 20 megs RAM, 300 meg hard drive. That was several versions ago, though; don't remember which one. Now the thing just sits in a corner of the junk pile in the basement. -- Original message -- From: Falk Husemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello List! We're trying to put an old server to good use again and would like to know what's exactly the oldest machine running OpenBSD? As machine we defined something with processor, ram, network, hard disk and a connection to the internet. So no Newton or toaster (at least not if there's no disk being toasted). Thank you in advance, Falk
Re: Why no compiler on prod system
-- Original message -- From: Stephan A. Rickauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tomas wrote: Yes it's too late, but why to let a hacker to compile his exploits on your system and to go compromising other PCs (from your DMZ or from internet, it doesn't matter). If a hacker is on your system, he'll also manage to install the compiler himself before using it. Stephan It's still a valid concern. If someone's going to try to break into your system and do nefarious deeds, you should be trying to make them work for it as much as possible. Physical security standards recommending not leaving toolboxes outside your backdoor so that a thief won't take your crowbar and pry your deadbolt lock out of the door jam. If the bastard's going to break in through the back door, at least make him bring his own tools with him. PG
Re: Windows to copy open bsd
-- Original message -- From: Eric Pancer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Who the fuck are you to trust? you're just a warm and fuzzy kind of guy, aren't you?
Re: Sys-Admin vs Network Admin
I think it depends on the size of the environment. Large corporate environments will naturally tend to segment and break up into discrete groups (operating systems groups, networking groups, security groups) In smaller environments, it's more natural that admins would need to know something about everything. $.02 PG -- Original message -- From: Deanna Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] Qwerty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would it be fair to say that a Systems Administrator and a Network Administrator are no longer two seperate entities but have become one and the same. Don't the two dabble more and more into each other's business. I'd say certainly not; in fact the trend seems to be in the opposite direction. I've worked for quite a few big companies in the USA and the most disturbing trend I've seen is the compartmentalization of operations into discrete groups that rarely communicate and are often at odds with one another. The most annoying of these, to me, is the security team. As if security hasn't always been one of the system administrator's core functions. I even wrote a bit of a rant about it, for my company's blog, just last night. I have a feeling it won't be approved for posting. ;) http://deanna.freeshell.org/blog.txt if you're interested. Sorry for the OT. -- deanna
Re: openbsd and the money
-- Original message -- From: Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think I've got the solution, at last. We'll set up a webpage where people can submit all their excellent, wacky, off-the-wall, and tired ideas and suggestions for raising money ... and each submission will cost the submitter a pittance, only a couple of hundred dollars. Part of that will pay for the poor fool that will have to sift through the endless submissions. On the upshot, the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects will have tapped into a virtually limitless revenue stream. Oh, and by we, I mean, of course, that somebody else will set it up. Wait, damn. Does this mean I owe money to the project now, too? - R. Yes, cough it up, $200. (yuk yuk yuk)
Re: UPEK Fingerprint-Reader (ThinkPad Notebooks)
-- Original message -- From: Karsten McMinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 3/19/06, Theo de Raadt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In that sense I am happy too. I don't accept the compromise of vendor lock-in, so I am totally thrilled with whatever devices manage to we get to work. I abhor vendor driver and documentation runarounds as much as the next bloke, but with the advent of my recent purchase of a z60t thinkpad thinking I'd have at least a working atheros, auich i810 driver, I quickly learned otherwise. I'm kicking myself for not dropping the extra cash for an x40 now. Yup, adding a linux distro to the boot list is a compromise I have to make for the time being. So shoot me. I've already been doing work on gathering information on the current unsupport hardware on newer lenovo thinkpad laptops. Is there any current efforts underway on newer lenovo thinkpads already? Oops, that's a good heads up. I was considering getting an R51. Is that going to have an unsupported wireless NIC? Paul
Re: A great article ( found on the OpenBSD site)
Sounds like a bold and daring idea, but one should be aware that they might find themselves unemployed if they practice such a philosophy at most companies. PG quote: My experience is that if something has to be done, just do it - don't ask! They will thank you later, he said. Yeah, an interesting quote, all right. It's obvious that his corporate culture is very different from the one where i work. I did exactly that for a few years (not exclusively with OpenBSD, but with a mixture of what i consider good operating systems). I saved the company money and set up a stable, secure infrastructure. They found out and told me to replace all of it with new hardware and a single standardized operating system. They'll thank You later? Not a chance. -
