From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 9 4:44:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 680F637B41E for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 04:44:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA12924; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 07:44:41 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 07:44:41 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Mike Meyer , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lockdown of FreeBSD machine directly on Net Message-ID: <20011109074441.A12854@blackhelicopters.org> References: <15339.46837.837301.883814@guru.mired.org> <003f01c1690f$a5e41a20$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <003f01c1690f$a5e41a20$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>; from tedm@toybox.placo.com on Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 03:14:07AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 03:14:07AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Yearly salaries > for the one knowledgeable network admin holding the bandaid and ductape > servers together are in the 20-30K range. RAID is nonexistent, IDE drives > abound, downtime > is frequent. Ted, Ted, you're giving me flashbacks here! All that therapy, shot to heck... The plus side to that environment is, there's nothing like trying to figure out how to make something work with inadequate equipment, insufficient time, and screaming people to make you very good at solving complex problems very quickly. Of course, those solutions were often worse than the original problem. Sad to say, I think I had more fun back then than I'm having now. -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message