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Comment on GFS - Goodgrief where’s the documentation File System by Bernard

Bernard — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:06:24 +0000

Dear Sir,

        Thanks for putting this online, i was trying to mount gf2 without starting cman, i thought i had a problem with the locking mechanism since lock_nolock was working.

anyway.. thanks again!

Comment on Firefox 3 - security madness by adrian

adrian — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:11:39 +0000

Absolutely. I’m in the same place - awaiting a few plugins before moving to chrome which has nailed the SSL issue _first_ time - a clear, simple message which you can bypass easily.

Comment on Firefox 3 - security madness by mayon

mayon — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:36:47 +0000

I’ve complained about it at several mozilla sites, with no success or even a slight suggestions how to overcome this SSL stupidity. The real problem - I use to visit a lot of sites where my development software is being installed - every day, new build, you know. And then I’m stuck with clicking, like 20 minutes for the whole day. I used to have the RCE addon, but it doesn’t work anymore under Linux, as in 3.6 Mozilla managed to change the screen once again !!! I loved FF before the expansion they did with 3.5 and messed it up with no backwards compatibility like : about:config - disable.ssl.freaking.check=1. I’d soon be forced to leave FF in favor of Chrome, though I have some useful addons, but this is really wasting my time. Some users have convincing me to contact my IT department to use real SSL certificate ? ! Can you imagine that ? Please, give me a chance to shoot myself in the leg, I know what I’m doing. Hellish feature.

Comment on Getting things done - one year on by adrian

adrian — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:39:04 +0000

I also use a wiki
I’ve not thought about using google docs, I do know a wiki works quite nicely - I’m sure google docs can do most of these things too:
- content not style (lists of things to do)
- multi-user editing
- easy to update with minor corrections or amendments
- searchable and works well with links

One thing I do wonder about is the availability of google docs - it doesn’t seem terribly good from what I hear (from several sources). Also if you need to get hold of your router documentation…. FWIW I actually mirror my sysadmin wiki so that even if a site is wiped out or inaccessible we still have a live copy (in addition to backups)

Comment on Getting things done - one year on by Imran Chaudhry

Imran Chaudhry — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:47:27 +0000

Interesting stuff Adrian, I’ve been meaning to read GTD since a colleague bought it last year. I’m a compulsive list-maker, recently I’ve moved all my lists into Google Docs spreadsheets.

One thing I’m interested in is how fellow sysadmins document and note their knowledge - most recipes suggest a wiki (eg. mediawiki). I’d like to use Google Docs as it can be available everywhere but there’s no “wiki” function in it.

Comment on SSL breakage and client verification by adrian

adrian — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:07:32 +0000

That’s my understanding, but I’m certainly no expert

Comment on SSL breakage and client verification by Daniel Pope

Daniel Pope — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:30:46 +0000

Ah, I misunderstood the gist of the bug thread - I read it that the upstream had disabled a little-used feature over security concerns, rather than fixing it. I didn’t realise it can’t be fixed without changing the TLS protocol.

Comment on SSL breakage and client verification by adrian

adrian — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:19:11 +0000

I’m not sure I agree - the problem is that there isn’t an ideal solution ATM:
- either all your SSL connections are at risk of hijacking
- or SSL client-side verification is broken (which is very, very rarely used)

I’d expect it to be the same case on stable, or Ubuntu, or Fedora,…

Comment on SSL breakage and client verification by Daniel Pope

Daniel Pope — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:16:54 +0000

An elegant reminder of one of the reasons not to use Debian unstable.

Comment on Cloning a Linux machine by adrian

adrian — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:27:45 +0000

Thanks - fixed