{"id":63,"date":"2009-03-10T10:10:21","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T17:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/?p=63"},"modified":"2012-11-11T18:43:47","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T01:43:47","slug":"unplug-the-plug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"unplug the plug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>that&#8217;s the only really safe thing to do &#8211; when you&#8217;re in trouble, or you got a worm\/trojan\/virus\/hacker etc (or, more recent, the conficker-virus, about 5M victims)<\/p>\n<p>as long as you&#8217;re unplugged, you can do ALL the troubleshooting, pinging, DNSing etc that you want to do, mostly without messing things up more than they are already<\/p>\n<p>most admins are somehow helpless without any network, but for that case you carry a few different Boot-CD\/DVD with you (with various OS, just in case one won&#8217;t boot because of some BIOS compability issue etc)<\/p>\n<p>unfortunately the whole activation\/serial number issue is keeping admins from doing their work &#8211; being online is dangerous with an unpatched system, but to fully run the system you need to activate, but to do that you gotta be online &#8230; don&#8217;t you just learn to love linux?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>that&#8217;s the only really safe thing to do &#8211; when you&#8217;re in trouble, or you got a worm\/trojan\/virus\/hacker etc (or, more recent, the conficker-virus, about 5M victims) as long as you&#8217;re unplugged, you can do ALL the troubleshooting, pinging, DNSing etc that you want to do, mostly without messing things up more than they are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}