If Microsoft was secure, they would not reelase critical patches, or having given name to black tuesday.
Microsoft uses closed source to cover up the bugs and mistakes, and they do not seem to have too much luck doing so. Open Source allows the users to find and fix the problems.
Also be aware, that major parts of Active Directory validation (Kerberos) is based on the Open Source kerberos.
The closed source TCP/IP implementation from Microsoft was so bad, that they dumped it in Windows 2003, and instead replaced it with the Open Source TCP/IP stack from FreeBSD.
Microsoft uses Open Source in their products, why can't their customers ?
Use a threadmill with 2% incline. Or go outside and run. Many many IT people are running these days. It is good execise, gives blood to the brain, more daily energy etc.
And if you run more than about 45 minutes, your body will actually start prioritizing fat over sugar as energy (being afraid the muscles will steal all sugar from the brain). The first 5-10 times you go over the magic point, you will probably feel dizy and very tired. Try to get at least one 10-15 km run in per week, and then 2 times 30-40 minutes to keep in shape.
This is breaking european law. It is personal data (a log file with IP addresses is). So I really hope that Google do not have that sort of data in the US.
I will be reporting this to the danish data privacy agency. I suggest every other euopean reader here also contacts their local data privacy agency, or some EU institutuion.
Basicly, if you trust the included root certs, then you basicly trust that some person who installed the certificate on the site at one point had access to an e-mail address on the domain, or something like that. It guarantees nothing.
Self-signed certificates lets the user decide if he want to trust the site, and the user should be given a warning when the certificate changes, i.e. man-in-the-middle.
I would say self-signed are better. But they MUST match the domain name.
At work we scrapped the commercial product we were running ourself, and switched to Postini/ScanSafe/Google some months ago.
The results are way better than most I have seen. It is way better than ClearSwift MIMESweeper for SMTP, and at a lower yearly cost. It also beats the free software out there.
Only disadvantage: Since we do send outgoing through them as well, we not have any definitive log of delivery. But this can be provided by Postini when needed.
It is not about failure rate, it is about # of accounts created. If more than 10 is created from a single IP address any day, then they could be supervised for correct behaviour (how are they used ? Sendign to each other is typical). If one of them is used to send spam, just de-activate all (or reset their passwords) created the same day from the same IP.
The CAPTCHA makes it more difficult for the script kiddie to create many accounts. But the logic should be in fingerprinting the account instead.
Global warming did not exists before the coal miner strike under Thatcher many years ago. She wanted to give bad reputation to coal and fossil fuels, so that she could build more atomic powerplants. So she gave money to scientists who could help produce FUD about fossil fuels (CO2).
No theory of CO2 and global warming works for more than a 10 year period og our many thousand year history. 2007 was a year that did not fit the CO2 theories just to mention an example. Sunspot activity and global temperature has a very good corellation for at least 400 years.
So please stop saying that CO2 causes global warming.
CO2 is very bad as the particles that comes with burning fossile fuels will give astmathics and other problems for people and animals. So it is by no way good. But please do not blame it for global warming.
I do not understand how evidence cannot be used in the US, it is wrong. I a society of justice, evicence is evidence, and law must be followed. If the evidence is aquired in some illegal way, that that must be punished, but the evidence is still there, and justice must happen.
In the US, it is more important to make sure thar criminals can go away freely, no matter howmuch evidence there is.
This contract of course also would give you full salary for 6 months after you stop working at the place ? Here in Denmark, you need to get compensation for any non-competition clause in the contract. After this happened, most have gone from the contracts.
Go and negotiate the 6 months salary after you stop, or have them delete the thing about you working for them 6 months after you stop.
The biggest danger now is probably from you water tap. There was a program on danish television that showed how Chinese factories use whatever scrap metal they can find to make taps. Lead is added to lower the melting point of the mixture, and it will go into the water. The also leak way too much Nickel (from when they are coated in crome, which is in fact nickel. The cheap models have the coating inside as well). They showed how everything from car parts to whatever scrap metal they could find was used. And the tubes are old tyres.
I think that chinese products is a major danger for the species on this world.
Closed Source is best if you are a software shop trying to make a profit.
Open Source is good if you are a student, or if you are a company that develops software to fulfill business needs, then other companies can join in on the development, adding the features they need.
In Denmark, you can tie consumers to products for a 6 months contract as a maximum. This is something the parlament decided as the the mobile market changes quickly, and consumers can not look further into the future.
Companies can be bound up to 2 years I think.
All phone companies will allow the customer to get the phone unlocked for some fee before conract expiry. This does not free the consumer from the contract. Normally, a phone with or without a contract costs the same during the first 6 months. If you get the contract, then you usually will be able to use the money they subsidize for making calls. i.e. pay DKK 400 month which is around $75, and you have free calls for the first $75 every month. I have not seen any bundled plans higher than this. That is $450 in the period of the contract.
Data is very expensive here, 10 kr pr MB = $1.90/MB. There are flat rate data plans for $95/month for 1GB, or $75 for 500MB.
So I guess they could sell the iPhone and require both voice and data plans, and charge $150/month. But that is still $900 on top of the price. Not sure how many americans would pay $1400-$1500 for an open iPhone.
Things break, make them redundant. Reember to include GPS, and a sat receiver to get weather maps. Knowing about vawes and their sizes might also prove helpful, and femember to make a big keel to keep the boat stable. And waterprof it, so it can go down but will buoy up with the sail pointing in the right direction.
I think in happened around when Erik the Red discovered America a few hundred years before the Columbus.
I hope it is part of american history that it was discovered by the vikings, who named in Wineland. Columbus just made the first step for colinizing and killing the native people of America.
All this Mac address crap is no important for a hacker, he just clones the MAC address of a LAN PC. He can then use another IP address to avoid detection by the PC. That is not anything funny, and something the switch will not react to. It is perfectly normal to use an extra IP address. Or he can plug LAN PC Hacker PC network.
We use VLANs, and many of them. Yes, you can only see traffic from your local segment. And hacking the Cisco switch is no more difficult than hacking everything else.
In big places, they are limited so a few adddresses can manage them. Just spoof this on the uplink port if you get access to the box. And if they use an upstream radius server, this is easy to fake as well. Cisco is only secure as long as the infrastructure is physically protected. Same as for a PC.
We had something related here in Denmark a few years ago. Two police officers put a tracking device in the car of a person suspected on starting forrest fires, but without getting a permission from court. This proved he was guilty, because in Denmark justice is above the individual, so all evidence can be admitted in court.
But, the two policemen also had to go to court, for doing the illegal monitoring. But this was a completely unrelated case.
In Denmark, selling the tracking would also be criminal, because they newer was the car owners.
The easy way is to use a consumer HD camcorder, like the Canon HV-20. The smaller sensor size gives a deeper depth-of-field. The same annoyance that the photos from compact cameras suffer from.
Nope, you sue the bastards for contaminating your crop. Trying to destroy what your family has been trying to breed to perfection for many years. The DNA does not lie. You can see who is behind the attacks.
It is important to note, that in the EU, you have a right to make your products compatible, even if it takes reverse engineering. This right you can not in any way give up in any contract (according to EU law). So if he makes the product in the EU, then he is bound by EU law and can publish the product and even sell it, all he want.
Apart from this, the legal status of EULAs is doubtsome in most of Europe. Some say the EULA is a contract. I ask, where is the signature ? Can I negotiate the contract with my local reseller ? The EULA is probably not valid in many countries. As local lawyers says hyere, as long as it is in english, and not our native language, then it for sure is not legal for individuals. Only companies are supposed to be bound by foreign language contracts (which an EULA might not be considered as).
You did not read the reports out recently on drive reliability.
SCSI vs IDE is no issue. Newer technology drives are better than older drives is a bigger factor. So SATA lasts as long as SCSI. Performance wise for sequential access, a 500GB 7200RPM disk beats a 10000 RPM 72GB or 144 GB SCSI any day. For my laptop, my 160GB 5400 RPM disk is faster than the 7200 RPM 100GB disk.
The advantage of the SCSI disk is native command queuing. So that it can stop on the way from sector A to C and read sector B. But, this is also implemented in SATA-300 drives, so this advantage is also gone from SCSI.
I have been a big SCSI fanboy myself, but the magic has gone. SATA has flown past SCSI.
Educated americans are using SI units like we do in Europe. If you want to deliver for NASA, the military etc, then you MUST deliver everything in SI units.
Imperial units is just a way for the government to keep americans remember that they are part of the english empire.
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If Microsoft was secure, they would not reelase critical patches, or having given name to black tuesday.
Microsoft uses closed source to cover up the bugs and mistakes, and they do not seem to have too much luck doing so. Open Source allows the users to find and fix the problems.
Also be aware, that major parts of Active Directory validation (Kerberos) is based on the Open Source kerberos.
The closed source TCP/IP implementation from Microsoft was so bad, that they dumped it in Windows 2003, and instead replaced it with the Open Source TCP/IP stack from FreeBSD.
Microsoft uses Open Source in their products, why can't their customers ?
I think all the attempted iPhone clones suck. Android included. Android is just another one. Based on Linux instead of BSD like the iPhone.
Use a threadmill with 2% incline. Or go outside and run. Many many IT people are running these days. It is good execise, gives blood to the brain, more daily energy etc.
And if you run more than about 45 minutes, your body will actually start prioritizing fat over sugar as energy (being afraid the muscles will steal all sugar from the brain). The first 5-10 times you go over the magic point, you will probably feel dizy and very tired. Try to get at least one 10-15 km run in per week, and then 2 times 30-40 minutes to keep in shape.
This is breaking european law. It is personal data (a log file with IP addresses is). So I really hope that Google do not have that sort of data in the US.
I will be reporting this to the danish data privacy agency. I suggest every other euopean reader here also contacts their local data privacy agency, or some EU institutuion.
Basicly, if you trust the included root certs, then you basicly trust that some person who installed the certificate on the site at one point had access to an e-mail address on the domain, or something like that. It guarantees nothing.
Self-signed certificates lets the user decide if he want to trust the site, and the user should be given a warning when the certificate changes, i.e. man-in-the-middle.
I would say self-signed are better. But they MUST match the domain name.
At work we scrapped the commercial product we were running ourself, and switched to Postini/ScanSafe/Google some months ago.
The results are way better than most I have seen. It is way better than ClearSwift MIMESweeper for SMTP, and at a lower yearly cost. It also beats the free software out there.
Only disadvantage: Since we do send outgoing through them as well, we not have any definitive log of delivery. But this can be provided by Postini when needed.
It is not about failure rate, it is about # of accounts created. If more than 10 is created from a single IP address any day, then they could be supervised for correct behaviour (how are they used ? Sendign to each other is typical). If one of them is used to send spam, just de-activate all (or reset their passwords) created the same day from the same IP.
The CAPTCHA makes it more difficult for the script kiddie to create many accounts. But the logic should be in fingerprinting the account instead.
Global warming did not exists before the coal miner strike under Thatcher many years ago. She wanted to give bad reputation to coal and fossil fuels, so that she could build more atomic powerplants. So she gave money to scientists who could help produce FUD about fossil fuels (CO2).
No theory of CO2 and global warming works for more than a 10 year period og our many thousand year history. 2007 was a year that did not fit the CO2 theories just to mention an example. Sunspot activity and global temperature has a very good corellation for at least 400 years.
So please stop saying that CO2 causes global warming.
CO2 is very bad as the particles that comes with burning fossile fuels will give astmathics and other problems for people and animals. So it is by no way good. But please do not blame it for global warming.
I do not understand how evidence cannot be used in the US, it is wrong.
I a society of justice, evicence is evidence, and law must be followed. If the evidence is aquired in some illegal way, that that must be punished, but the evidence is still there, and justice must happen.
In the US, it is more important to make sure thar criminals can go away freely, no matter howmuch evidence there is.
This contract of course also would give you full salary for 6 months after you stop working at the place ? Here in Denmark, you need to get compensation for any non-competition clause in the contract. After this happened, most have gone from the contracts.
Go and negotiate the 6 months salary after you stop, or have them delete the thing about you working for them 6 months after you stop.
The biggest danger now is probably from you water tap. There was a program on danish television that showed how Chinese factories use whatever scrap metal they can find to make taps. Lead is added to lower the melting point of the mixture, and it will go into the water. The also leak way too much Nickel (from when they are coated in crome, which is in fact nickel. The cheap models have the coating inside as well). They showed how everything from car parts to whatever scrap metal they could find was used. And the tubes are old tyres.
I think that chinese products is a major danger for the species on this world.
This one is easy.
IBM or whoever will buy a copy for the Open Source projects that needs.
Closed Source is best if you are a software shop trying to make a profit.
Open Source is good if you are a student, or if you are a company that develops software to fulfill business needs, then other companies can join in on the development, adding the features they need.
In Denmark, you can tie consumers to products for a 6 months contract as a maximum. This is something the parlament decided as the the mobile market changes quickly, and consumers can not look further into the future.
Companies can be bound up to 2 years I think.
All phone companies will allow the customer to get the phone unlocked for some fee before conract expiry. This does not free the consumer from the contract. Normally, a phone with or without a contract costs the same during the first 6 months. If you get the contract, then you usually will be able to use the money they subsidize for making calls. i.e. pay DKK 400 month which is around $75, and you have free calls for the first $75 every month. I have not seen any bundled plans higher than this. That is $450 in the period of the contract.
Data is very expensive here, 10 kr pr MB = $1.90/MB. There are flat rate data plans for $95/month for 1GB, or $75 for 500MB.
So I guess they could sell the iPhone and require both voice and data plans, and charge $150/month. But that is still $900 on top of the price. Not sure how many americans would pay $1400-$1500 for an open iPhone.
Things break, make them redundant.
Reember to include GPS, and a sat receiver to get weather maps. Knowing about vawes and their sizes might also prove helpful, and femember to make a big keel to keep the boat stable. And waterprof it, so it can go down but will buoy up with the sail pointing in the right direction.
Any description on how you did this ? Sounds like something we might like to try.
I think in happened around when Erik the Red discovered America a few hundred years before the Columbus.
I hope it is part of american history that it was discovered by the vikings, who named in Wineland. Columbus just made the first step for colinizing and killing the native people of America.
It does not support docking station, but it is a good solid machine, and runs OS-X in addition to Windows and Linux.
But all laptops are made, or at least uses parts made in Asia, so you can not go free of that.
All this Mac address crap is no important for a hacker, he just clones the MAC address of a LAN PC. He can then use another IP address to avoid detection by the PC. That is not anything funny, and something the switch will not react to. It is perfectly normal to use an extra IP address. Or he can plug LAN PC Hacker PC network.
We use VLANs, and many of them. Yes, you can only see traffic from your local segment. And hacking the Cisco switch is no more difficult than hacking everything else.
In big places, they are limited so a few adddresses can manage them. Just spoof this on the uplink port if you get access to the box. And if they use an upstream radius server, this is easy to fake as well. Cisco is only secure as long as the infrastructure is physically protected. Same as for a PC.
We had something related here in Denmark a few years ago. Two police officers put a tracking device in the car of a person suspected on starting forrest fires, but without getting a permission from court.
This proved he was guilty, because in Denmark justice is above the individual, so all evidence can be admitted in court.
But, the two policemen also had to go to court, for doing the illegal monitoring. But this was a completely unrelated case.
In Denmark, selling the tracking would also be criminal, because they newer was the car owners.
The easy way is to use a consumer HD camcorder, like the Canon HV-20.
The smaller sensor size gives a deeper depth-of-field. The same annoyance that the photos from compact cameras suffer from.
Nope, you sue the bastards for contaminating your crop. Trying to destroy what your family has been trying to breed to perfection for many years. The DNA does not lie. You can see who is behind the attacks.
It is important to note, that in the EU, you have a right to make your products compatible, even if it takes reverse engineering. This right you can not in any way give up in any contract (according to EU law). So if he makes the product in the EU, then he is bound by EU law and can publish the product and even sell it, all he want.
Apart from this, the legal status of EULAs is doubtsome in most of Europe. Some say the EULA is a contract. I ask, where is the signature ? Can I negotiate the contract with my local reseller ? The EULA is probably not valid in many countries. As local lawyers says hyere, as long as it is in english, and not our native language, then it for sure is not legal for individuals. Only companies are supposed to be bound by foreign language contracts (which an EULA might not be considered as).
You did not read the reports out recently on drive reliability.
SCSI vs IDE is no issue. Newer technology drives are better than older drives is a bigger factor. So SATA lasts as long as SCSI. Performance wise for sequential access, a 500GB 7200RPM disk beats a 10000 RPM 72GB or 144 GB SCSI any day. For my laptop, my 160GB 5400 RPM disk is faster than the 7200 RPM 100GB disk.
The advantage of the SCSI disk is native command queuing. So that it can stop on the way from sector A to C and read sector B. But, this is also implemented in SATA-300 drives, so this advantage is also gone from SCSI.
I have been a big SCSI fanboy myself, but the magic has gone. SATA has flown past SCSI.
Educated americans are using SI units like we do in Europe.
If you want to deliver for NASA, the military etc, then you MUST deliver everything in SI units.
Imperial units is just a way for the government to keep americans remember that they are part of the english empire.