[Tech] Lisa 2005 - Day 4

LISA 2005 Trip Log: 12/06/2005
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Day 4 - Tutorial T7, T12

Breakfast

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T7 - Over the Edge System Administration
by David N. Blank-Edelman
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goal: learn to think outside of the box to solve SA related problems and new approaches to SA concepts.

OUT OF THE BOX: Due to 'inetd' any program can be a network program (i.e. iostat).

IDEA: Use laptops to monitor UPSes.

IDEA: Laptops for DR purposes (put all documentation and whatever is needed on DVD and laptop and ship to a secure site).

Brutal File Manager - DOOM style interface to delete/manage files.

WWW::Mechanize::Shell - cli interface via perl to web pages

IDEA: GrokItBot as a tool to query systems...hook the bot from a system to IRC

DBD::AnyData - turns any data into db queries

SexChart - illustration of out of the box ways to represent interdependencies between things.

Website for status for downtime.

Rendevous at a trusted host:
ssh -R 4321:localhost:80 trustedmachine
ssh -L 80:localhost:4321 trustedmachine


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Lunch - light pasta salad and Mahi-Mahi
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sat in the sun.

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T12 - Solaris 10 Security Feature Workshop
by Peter Galvin
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Research FLAR w/ master + differential updates;
Master - base OS + EIS patch set
--->diff 1 - VxVM/VxFS pkgs installed but not configured


T7 links:
Rory Blyth - Neopoleon.com
monotone: distributed version control
Welcome to the home of the Brutal File Manager
Peek-a-Boo Overview
psDooM: DooM for Sys A's
URLToys/.flux Homepage!
MaLinux
SourceForge.net: AVFS: A Virtual Filesystem
Gmail Filesystem
lesspipe, an addon for the browser less
Infobot Homepage
Ofnibot
Flooterbuck Infobot - A modular infobot
B L O O T B O T . H O M E
Suttree » GrokItBot
Alice Hill’s Real Tech News - Independent Tech » Must Read: 122 Ways to Speed Up Windows XP
Peep: The Network Auralizer
AAJM
nilsimsa
XML.com: Working with Bayesian Categorizers
the sexchart archive
Code
Sitemap for The Treehouse - Trygve Lode's official site with movie trailers, music videos, mp3 files, and more
cvoid - big giant television
LAFFEY: spinner
Disk Space Problems (Perl for System Administration)
http://www.otterbook.com/materials/lisa02nph2-src.txt
Developments of the Honeyd Virtual Honeypot
Sys Admin > Spam Supplement 2004
http://smtptrapd.inodes.org/
PORTKNOCKING - A system for stealthy authentication across closed ports. : ABOUT : summary
portknocking
sexpathchar.tgz
rsyncBackup
duplicity: Main
rsnapshot
Welcome to Dirvish
BackupPC: Open Source Backup to disk
murk
Unison File Synchronizer
Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Rsync
Holy Shmoly! :: Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Rsync
Distributed Internet Backup System
Magic Mirror Backup(tm)
312's Home Page
Advanced OpenSSH
autossh
fsh -- Fast remote command execution
Punching holes into firewalls
Anti-Proxy - infoAnarchy Wiki
SSHKeychain - About
How MUD's Work, MUD Design
DoxPara Research

T12 links:
Home at OpenSolaris.org
blogs.sun.com


I had some documents I needed to sign and fax and I had a bit of hilarity tonight. First, the Town and Country Resort business center is terrible (and horribly expensive). The computers were down, they do not have a networked printer and printing was $1/page and faxing was $10/3 pages. I decided against it, so I called the local Kinkos. Kinkos must have been undergoing some kind of regional DoS, virus attack, or system upgrade because all self-serve computers within a relatively close distance of the resort were down. They could print my document, but it would be a 5-10 wait as they are backed up and this is their busiest time of year. Screw that.

Tonight more BoFs and Quest for Food II - the Hunger.

BoFs:
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Mac OSX


Logging and Logfile Analysis

Beer and Ice Cream Social

Invigorating hallway discussion on a wide topic of subjects, Security, 55808 packets, science, science history, mathematics, Active Directory vs LDAP, the finer points of good beers, ales, lagers and beverages of all types.

News:

Sun Microsystems has announced that it will be open sourcing SPARC.