A thought about competition between Red Hat Enterprise and CentOS
Roughly speaking, I can think of two different market segments thatmight be attracted to Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
- the people who need official support and certification, whether forthe base operating system or for some commercial package like Oracleor SAP.
- the people who merely want to put a box in a corner and forget aboutit for three to five years.
Red Hat's pricing for RHEL is clearly pitched at the former market, notthe latter, quite possibly because Red Hat has determined that theycannot charge enough to
Some notes on Solaris 10 U4 x86 as an iSCSI target
The latest release of Solaris 10 (S10U4 or 8/07 depending on how youlike to label it) has a built in iSCSI target implementation, and ZFSeven has integration with it so that it is easy to export space fromZFS pools. I've been poking it a bit, resulting in some things I wantto note down for my own later reference.
- Solaris 10 iSCSI target stuff is handled with the
iscsitadmcommand,which is helpfully only one letter away from the
Thinking through salts for passwords
No one who's sane stores actual plaintext passwords; instead theyhash the password in some way and store the result, throwing away thepassword itself as fast as possible. There are three ways you can dothis:
- you can hash just the password.
- you can hash some global value plus the password.
- you can hash some per-user value (a 'salt') plus the password.
If you hash just the password, anyone who can somehow gain access toyour password hashes can immediately run them through
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投入了很多的努力和很大的熱情,做了一些事,結果是無喜無悲,只有渴睡。
過去的幾個星期,身體像一盞漸次熄滅的燈,意志也如是。
撐到這最後一天,沒有高興,沒有失望,沒有自己的感覺,也沒有必要猜想
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如果你們有一個像我那樣的媽媽,用地盤佬式的粗口與鵝頸橋打小人三姑六婆式的惡毒來咀咒了我27年。
啐!其他的,全是雞毛蒜皮。
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