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We’ve all been there when it comes to sysadmin or programming jobs :(

Posted: 31 Oct 2016 03:19 PM PDT

Yup, sad but truth:

I no longer care. I just wanna go home and sleep

And we have “Wisdom of the Ancients” too from XKCD

It is even worst when poster was…. YOU in 2003.

Touch ID Support for sudo in MacOS Terminal for MacBook Pro

Posted: 31 Oct 2016 02:51 PM PDT

Well, that was fast. Touch ID is a fingerprint recognition security feature, designed and released by Apple. It is currently available on the iPhone 5s/6/7 and Macbook pro-2016 editions. Many consider it as a huge security win for the MacBook Pro’s. This sounds amazing feature for command line users.

Say hello to sudo-touchid

sudo-touchid is a fork of sudo with Touch ID support on macOS (powered by the LocalAuthentication framework). Once compiled, it will allow you to authenticate sudo commands with Touch ID in the Terminal on supported Macs (such as the late 2016 MacBook Pros). Since Darwin sources for macOS 10.12 are not available yet, this project is based on sudo sources corresponding to OS X 10.11.6 and obtained from opensource.apple.com.

=> Download and usage information.

Computer Security 101: Pray for it and hope for the best

Posted: 31 Oct 2016 02:43 PM PDT

Please do give your best thoughts and prayers for the servers. Thank you 😉

Hoping nobody hacks your server

(via twitter)

Interns are working hard to fix computer problems on National Cat Day

Posted: 31 Oct 2016 02:34 PM PDT

Here are interns in our office. They are working hard to fix server problems on national cat day 😉

Kittens working on computer

We did receive some additional trouble tickets though. Tom’s TT read as follows,

I haven’t been able to find my mouse since the new intern fixed my computer.

Lmao.

Windows and Linux according to mighty Google

Posted: 31 Oct 2016 02:28 PM PDT

Here is a humorous take on age old Windows vs. Linux fanboy battel:

MS-Windows as per mighty Google

VS

Linux as per mighty Google

How to run commands on Linux Container (LXD) instance at provision launch time

Posted: 31 Oct 2016 02:13 PM PDT

How to automatically mount zfs file system on Linux/Unix/FreeBSD

Posted: 30 Oct 2016 11:45 PM PDT