[tech] Content Management for UCC

[Duncan Sargeant]

Adrian Chadd wrote on Thu December 23, at 11:04 +0800:
> Make a decision - to maintain or to not maintain.
> 
> Having a machine /off/ until you want to use is going to have you bitten
> in the ass. At least by having it /on/ its counted as Yet Another Machine
> To Keep Patched.
> 
> Case in point: a run of 'xploited-turned-spammeh machines on campus about
> three months ago were, in all cases, windows 98 machines that had been off
> for about a year. They were turned on and pwned very, very quickly.

Hey, they should be so lucky that they even powered up again :-)

> Its much easier to justify it in UCC terms then - "can I be assed mantaining
> more than three pieces of shit pentium 1s?" If noone says "yes" then turn
> it off. :)

Also, bear in mind that if you turn them off, at some point someone will
stumble across this dead machine, strip it for parts, which will go into
3 different projects which will bring joy to their creators for a week,
then distraction will strike, projects forgotten, the machine will never
rise again.

Actually, that's probably worth it.

,dunc