dpina

Very inventive, congratulations on your project! I forwarded your website to my wife as she's very much a DYI person and she was impressed. Keep up the good work, would like to see more projects like this.

Good to see another sysadmin input on this thread. Any bits that you would advise us younger (not that much, 30 yrs old) sysadmins about what to expect from the future?

After finishing the article I still don't understand what were the reasons to scorn Tux. Maybe OP should have given an example of a good mascot for the readers to get the point.

I'm still quite happy with Tux though, it's a sober mascot that's very simple/minimal, and is easily recognizable.

Also, wipe clean the existing server after the Postmortem. Even if fairly sure that the server can be cleaned it's never safe to re-use a box which was compromised.

It wasn't there, at least not by default. We use google for Work gmail and no one in the company saw the button.

This appears to be correct based on everyone of my age sharing the same problems, but the article doesn't give any reasons on why it happens. Would be good to get some more information on causes as this is a rather very interesting topic. Any HN readers have good sources?

Oh I see. Assumed it was like mysql/mariadb where secure_installation by default asks to remove access from outside.

It also implies frontend server includes the DB, typically a sysadmin would de-couple it so this shows lack of experience.

> Update 2: Earlier this afternoon, Chris Vickery confirmed that the three IP addresses that were disclosing user information have been secured. The issue wasn't a hack, but a misconfigured MongoDB installation.

> The source of the configuration error isn't clear, as neither the ISP nor Sanrio has answered questions on the matter.

A MongoDB database open to the outside world on a public IP address?

Just spent some time sending my scripts to this site for it to analyse and see what it does. I can see that while it wasn't be able to tell me of more efficient code to achieve my goal (wasn't really hopping for that), it did spot 1) one liners where some commands are not needed, 2) variables which are not used, 3) where I should use double quotes to prevent word splitting and 4) lines where my ssh was eating up my stdin.

What a great sanity check for the days when I'm writing something on my own without a second pair of eyes to proof-read it.

Most people don't usually get two car loans just because that's what other people do or because it seems smart/cool. They do it because both people living in the same household need a personal car to get to work. Granted that maybe they could leave their white collar high paying jobs, find some other job at the groceries store in the street and trash the car loan. But the salary difference doesn't pay off. Also, for a lot of people public transportation doesn't pay off either.

As for a mortgage, as others have explained in this thread, it could be a smart debt given the right conditions. For example, if I had a bank loan to buy a house with the similar value to the one I currently rent, I would be paying a smaller amount of money to the bank than what currently is being transferred to my landlord monthly. I could live forever without a mortgage, but in 30 years time would find that I had spent a lot more then if I did.

It's not all 'several loans = bad money management vs no loans = good money management' sadly.