Re: [Discuss] MIT usernames (was Re: KVM, virt-manager, and CentOS7)

2017-02-09 Thread Bill Horne
Sent from my iPad > On Feb 9, 2017, at 2:07 PM, Rich Braun wrote: > > Do you have a favorite email address, past or present? Yes: bho...@lynx.dac.neu.edu. I used it for about 15 years after I graduated, until Northeastern retired the Lynx system. Bill Horne

Re: [Discuss] KVM, virt-manager, and CentOS7

2017-02-09 Thread John Abreau
On 2/9/17, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: > Actually, 62^8, [a-zA-Z0-9]{8} Nope. By convention, email addresses are not case sensitive. Making them case sensitive would break user expectations and create enormous amounts of pointless frustration. -- John Abreau / Executive

[Discuss] Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, February 15, 2017 - Linux Backups

2017-02-09 Thread Jerry Feldman
When: February 15, 2017 7PM (6:30PM for Q) Topic: Linux Backups Moderator: Brian DeLacey Location: MIT Building E-51, Room 325 Note: Room change - next door to previous room. Summary: Managing Encrypted Linux Backups Abstract: Three tiny tutorials: rsync, duplicity, and boxbackup.

Re: [Discuss] KVM, virt-manager, and CentOS7

2017-02-09 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 10:27:05AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > Dan Ritter writes: > > > On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 10:24:54AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > >> Eric Chadbourne writes: > >> > >> > Off topic, warl...@mit.edu, is the best email ever.

Re: [Discuss] KVM, virt-manager, and CentOS7

2017-02-09 Thread Derek Atkins
Dan Ritter writes: > On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 10:24:54AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: >> Eric Chadbourne writes: >> >> > Off topic, warl...@mit.edu, is the best email ever. >> >> Thanks. I've had it since 1989. > > MIT trivia: once you have a

Re: [Discuss] KVM, virt-manager, and CentOS7

2017-02-09 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, On Thu, February 9, 2017 11:40 am, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: > Here's the problem with all this. > > 8 characters for a name. Yes, in a hypothetical sense you have > 2.183401056×10^14 possible passwords if you use 8 ascii alpha/numeric > characters with no punctuation characters, but the

Re: [Discuss] KVM, virt-manager, and CentOS7

2017-02-09 Thread markw
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 11:40:28AM -0500, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: >> Here's the problem with all this. >> >> 8 characters for a name. Yes, in a hypothetical sense you have >> 2.183401056×10^14 possible passwords if you use 8 ascii alpha/numeric >> characters with no punctuation characters,

Re: [Discuss] KVM, virt-manager, and CentOS7

2017-02-09 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 11:40:28AM -0500, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: > Here's the problem with all this. > > 8 characters for a name. Yes, in a hypothetical sense you have > 2.183401056×10^14 possible passwords if you use 8 ascii alpha/numeric > characters with no punctuation characters, but the

Re: [Discuss] KVM, virt-manager, and CentOS7

2017-02-09 Thread markw
Here's the problem with all this. 8 characters for a name. Yes, in a hypothetical sense you have 2.183401056×10^14 possible passwords if you use 8 ascii alpha/numeric characters with no punctuation characters, but the vast majority of that space are random strings not suitable for nicknames or

[Discuss] MIT usernames (was Re: KVM, virt-manager, and CentOS7)

2017-02-09 Thread Rich Braun
Not quite sure how a discussion of KVM veered off into MIT auth procedures, but it did give me a bit of nostalgia. My shortest (and first) email address was rkb@ai (DNS became the new-new thing a couple years later). Then for a decade or so I was ri...@mit.edu until my Athena sponsor headed off

Re: [Discuss] MIT usernames (was Re: KVM, virt-manager, and CentOS7)

2017-02-09 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 11:07:11AM -0800, Rich Braun wrote: > My shortest (and first) email address was rkb@ai (DNS became the new-new thing > a couple years later). Then for a decade or so I was ri...@mit.edu until my > Athena sponsor headed off to the corporate world. Another fond memory of