On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 11:47, James Nickerson wrote: > > Sorry I mean CS124 finals, yes, that's right, anyone else in that class > > remember the pain it was on the final exam(which was killer as well)? > > -Kekoa > > Yeah, the exam under Hutchins (if that's who you had) was pretty darn > diabolical. But I enjoyed the heck out of that class. I learned so many > basic things I just wasn't aware of before. That Hutchins really knows his > stuff. I have an enormous respect for him. > I never had any problems with network overloading because I was in the > robust and well-maintained CAEDM lab, hacking away at the SPICE machines for > all my projects.
Last time I took a look at CAEDM they were still doing hackery like juser and weird samba tricks instead of using a windows domain controller (Samba) and a central ldap authentication system. I hope juser has finally died. It was a terribly insecure hack. Later I think they ended up storing user information in an sql database with passwords in plain text. This database server was of course set to trust a number of specific administrator hosts without a password. The problems CS has had are definitely hardware related (disk i/o subsystem -- maybe a weakness in dell's design). They did not exist before that server (and no configuration was changed or different from the server it replaced) and hopefully the new server won't have the problems. I know the admins in both places and can say they are both very well-run networks and systems. Michael > > -James > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
