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> On 05/11/12 23:10, Julian Hall wrote: >> Just as an aside, I am hoping in February to start on an MSc in >> Computer Forensics.. hopefully if I'm successful I will be able to >> give input to the subject not limited to my personal knowledge and >> prior employment :) >> >> Julian >> > > Best of luck, that should be a really fascinating course. Please don't > feel that you should (or anyone else, for that matter) not contribute > purely because you don't feel that you're not 'qualified' yet - your > personal knowledge and prior employment are just as valid a source of > information as any other experience the rest of us may have! Indeed, > it's the best source we each rely on. There are an awful lot of highly > qualified and decorated 'experts' out there who couldn't find their ass > with both hands and a flashlight (my military friend is an endless fount > of awesome slang). > > Some of the most incisive and game-changing insights ever to drop in my > lap before have historically been from decidedly non-expert people who > have come into a situation with no pre-conceptions and their fresh > viewpoint immediately lit on exactly the issue I'd just skipped straight > over. I once spent several hours exhaustively analysing nmap and tcpdump > outputs because I was convinced I had - via a nagios alert - an > unauthorised IP accessing home network resources. Eventually my > (technically illiterate) friend volunteered that he'd left his linux PC > at home on whilst coming to visit for the weekend because he had a very > slow bittorrent transfer finishing, and might that be something to do > with it? I remembered at that point I'd hacked him up a cronjob to > re-establish an openvpn connection to me every 3 hours in case it > dropped, and because his landlord had just changed ISPs, the incoming IP > wasn't one I recognised. Of course, by this point, I'd wasted most of a > Friday evening's drinking time, trashed half of my network setup and > pulled out most of my hair. Oops...* > > This is purely a matter of curiosity, nothing else: Julian, your mails > tend to arrive out-of-sync with everyone else?s. Do you have your > machine set to a non-GMT timezone, or perhaps you are reading offline in > batch mode and then relaying through your own mailserver or something? > Just interested, nothing more. > > Cheers > > > *I suspect I come across as very full of myself sometimes - trust me, I > have made a *lot* of mistakes, and done my best to learn from them. If > anyone is interested in more anecdotes from my personal Files of Fail, I > have, umm, probably an unlimited supply for you to laugh at. Most stupid > thing I have ever done? Well, when I was probably old enough to know > better, I failed to distinguish between a crashed debug session I had > backgrounded with 'bg' (i.e., job 1) with init (process 1). When I ran > "jobs" and saw zombied process 1, I 'fixed' it with "sudo kill -9 1"... > Obviously I nuked init instead of my job #1 and took down the entire > box. Is it a good or bad sign when members who only really use linux or computers at home start to understand the above :) a note to any new members / linux users, you can learn a lot from the list, yes its very technical at times, but worth sticking around on the list. Which was a 32 socket Oracle DB server handling patient records for > Kings College Hospital in London, during business hours. The SPs (IBM > talk: service processors) freaked out and dropped the fibre channels to > the SAN, corrupting multiple target LUNs and requiring a 48 hour rebuild > and restore from tape backup, which we had to get from Iron Mountain on > courier delivery at god only knows what cost. The entire IT department > pulled all nighters for the weekend to fix that 'little' mistake (think: > horrific transaction backlogs for things like clinic planning). I still > occasionally send mental thanks to my old boss from that gig for not > actually just literally killing me on the spot. I gave her a bottle of > Ardbeg and was demoted to 1st line (windows) phone support for 6 weeks > to atone for that sin and I have NEVER issued "kill -9" without thinking > at least 3 times first ever since :) > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq