- 40 GbE to the "new" (in process of being set up and deployed) NAS

  - 10 GbE to the "old" (being phased out) NAS (was: 40 GbE)

  - 40 GbE to my workstation

  - 10 GbE to the "other machine" on my desk

  - n x 10 GbE to the cluster of ESXi servers

  - 10 GbE to other misc. servers in the rack

  - Multiple 10 GbE and 1 GbE links to the PTP GrandMasters and NTP servers

  - Plus all the various PoE devices (APs, VoIP phones, etc.) and miscellaneous other hosts (NTP appliances, DRACs, PDUs, NetBotz, etc.) at 1 GbE and/or 100 Mbps

Highly recommend the ICX 6610 in particular. The only other Brocade (Ethernet) switches I've personally managed are the "access layer" FCX switches (in an old position 10+ years ago).

They aren't exactly in widespread usage yet, though.

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(ETA: And apparently there are even 100 and 1000 Mbps variants now too [0] -- with lower maximum distances, of course.)

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_over_twisted_pair#S...

Now, as a motorcyclist who has been hit head-on more than once by drivers who swore "I didn't even see him!" -- with the last crash leaving me with multiple broken bones and an inability to walk for several months -- you better believe I now have both a pulsating headlamp and a nice set of loud ass pipes (they're even called "Street Cannons")! on my bike.

I've also lost a non-zero number of friends due to folks who swore they didn't see them.

It's now been eight years since I've gotten hit... so I really am sorry if my headlight or pipes bother you as I pass by but, well, I have loved ones I'd like to see again so I hope you'll forgive me.

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Anyways, there's a toll-free number on your card. Call it and explain the situation to them. They'll likely re-issue your card and call it a day, unless the specific transactions trigger some sort of "red flag" (although, if that were the case, the fraud department would likely have noticed before you did and already took action).

There are certain types of questions that aren't really appropriate for an "Ask HN". This is one of them.

Still, I'd rather use GitLab ober GitHub.

> This bug was patched by Microsoft in June 2022 ...

> The occupants of a vehicle that is the subject of a police stop may record the encounter if the occupants are not interfering with lawful police actions.

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On a side note, I encourage everyone to carefully read the actual bill.

There's a lot of intelligent people here on HN but it seems that many of those commenting can't quite comprehend plain English (not as well as I would have expected, at least).

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[0]: https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2R/laws/0376.htm

These used to be big, expensive, standalone devices (I'd occasionally use one in a previous job). Nowadays, there are portable, handheld units specifically for identifying where a break has occurred and the same, basic functionality is often even built into the gear used at either end of connections (e.g., even the "enterprise" switches -- from Brocade and Cisco -- that I use at home).

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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_time-domain_reflectome...

> Just WTF were those Microsoft guys smoking when they designed this shit?

Obviously, things have changed since then, but there was a time that not everyone had 24/7 always-on access to the Internet. Really, that's only a recent thing. How do you think programming took place -- across a generation or two -- before then?

In my case, it was 1999 before I was able to get an Internet connection that wasn't dial-up Internet -- but I lived in a small, rural town in the midwest, not in a major city. I was the first person in our area (perhaps a 30 mile radius) to have an "oh-my-$deity-this is-so-amazingly-fast" 768k/128k DSL line (besides the two guys who ran my ISP) as I knew them and they asked if I would, effectively, be a "beta tester" to make sure things were working as they 2were supposed to be before they started offering the service to customers.

So, yeah, before then it was possible to program without a Internet connection. That was the "default", normal situation, in fact. We had (dead-tree) books, for example, and could telephone other people, there was FIDOnet ("before Internet"), Usenet ("after Internet"), e-mail and mailing lists and, eventually, even the web (from 1991 on, of course). Plenty of programming happened without Internet access before then (in fact, all of it did, basically).

Of course, some programming is more complicated nowadays, when you need a library for every little thing you do, so I suppose programming without an Internet connection might not be possible if you need to download a library for for .. loops or something.

(By the way, when I was in high school, I'd write code on paper (whatever program I was working on at the time) while sitting in class. When I'd get home after school, then I could type it in on the computer.)

Of course, if you are one of those "programmers" who have to stop and Google something afte every five lines of code, well, it's probably not possible.

How convenient.

Honestly, I'm kinda surprised by the lack of comments advocating against doing this.

Yes, you're right. unix_chkpwd doesn't handle any of that and, in fact, was never intended to handle any of that -- and that's the entire point!

The entire design of PAM is, well, to have separate "modules" that are "pluggable" depending on how you need to handle "authentication" -- LDAP, OTP, Yubikeys, etc.

That is, the pam_unix module (which uses unix_chkpwd) is used when you enter in your (local user account's) password. If you're using something else -- LDAP or NIS or whatever -- for user accounts (i.e., your "passwd" database) there are separate (PAM) modules for that!

> Also, I still think it has to be a network service, ...

No, it really doesn't and, besides, there are other alternatives that would be much better to use instead of a network socket (such as a local UNIX socket, for one).

I really try not to make such remarks here on HN, but in this case it does seem that you have a fundamental misunderstanding of just how this stuff works (which is almost certainly why you're comment has been so downvoted).

My understanding is this is also possible with GNSS receivers which can use satellites on more than one system or on more than one frequency band (e.g., the GPS L1 and L5 signals) at the same time, as this allows any atmospheric issues to be taken into account when making positioning calculations.

I don't know if any of the cheap, commonly available "multi-GNSS" receivers actually make such adjustments / corrections or if one would need to "upgrade" to one of the (much more expensive, naturally) "RTK-capable" receivers.

(My interest is primarily in timing so I mostly stick with GPS-only units which support fixed position mode, so I haven't bothered to keep up with the newer stuff, such as RTK.)

You can and you should, in my opinion.

However, you really want to use "etckeeper" [0] to do that (as opposed to "maintaining" /etc as a git repo, manually, yourself).

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ETA:

Seriously, look over etckeeper's README file [1] and/or man page [2]. Next, go read a couple articles or blog posts that describe "How-To store /etc in a git repository on debian linux" [3]. Then, if you're a sado-masochist, go ahead and actually try it that way for a while. Finally, install etckeeper, spend two minutes setting it up (if your packaging tool didn't do that for you automatically), and almost instantly regain your sanity!

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[0]: http://etckeeper.branchable.com

[1]: http://etckeeper.branchable.com/README/

[2]: https://man.archlinux.org/man/etckeeper.8

[3]: http://hyperprog.com/howto/etc-git.html