Not long ago, the UAC was responsible for opening a gateway to Hell. And now Microsoft is trying to foist the UAC on the entire world. Yep, we're goin' ta hell fer sure now. Well, no, it's more like we're goin' ta BUY hell fer sure now.
They really ARE trying to enact this insanity into law.
I'm all for it. Maybe then the cost of running a VoIP phone center in India will be high enough to bring some jobs back to the U.S. As a bonus, I'll no longer have to tolerate the heavy accents and awkwardly-constructed english that make is difficult to understand them when they say, "Uhh... may I place you on hold for two minutes while I research your question?"
Given that file checksums are used to provide a reasonable guarantee of authenticity, if you use someone else's copy of the checksum, you also need a reasonable guarantee of that third party's integrity for the checksum to have any value. There used to be a warning that came with PGP about this very thing: keys are worthless unless you can trust the source of the key.
That said, there is no information about their underwriters on the KnownGood website. Until an explicit, verifiable guarantee of not only KG's integrity but the integrity of their database and the checksums it contains is provided, I won't trust them in the slightest. For that matter, who could underwrite them to provide these guarantees? Lloyds of London?
Microsoft's Critical Update Notification program, available at windowsupdate, gets added to Scheduled Tasks and does exactly what Oilchange, AutoUpdate, etc. do, but just for critical Windows updates.
About a month back, on an IRC channel I frequent, we (the ops of said channels) discovered someone had been joining the channel multiple times each day, using a different nick and ident each time. This person never said anything, even when directly contacted (private message, notice, DCC, etc.), and remained in the channel until we kicked them for lurking.
Before anyone gets on about paranoia, allow me to explain...
Normally a series of joins from the same subnet isn't a big deal, it happens fairly often, like with a new regular who nick-hops, when a university's internet link lights up, or shortly after some new regional ISP goes live. But this one was different. There were no repeat nick/ident combinations. There was a pattern to the nicks and idents used--a compiled list of all nicks and idents used showed what appeared to be nicks and idents constructed from a common list of name-parts, sometimes nicks were coincidentally later reused as idents and vice-versa. All the joins from the subnet over a period of more than four weeks showed the exact same behaviour: complete lack of non-automatic response. All joins came from the same/24 subnet. Put all that together and it sets off some fairly big alarm bells.
We've since banned that subnet from the channel, but it gives me pause to think that maybe that series of lurkings was part of the initial content-gathering process required for a search engine such as ChatScan.
A single drive alone may not perform well, but at that size and capacity, you could group them together and make a mutli-GB RAID 5 in an enclosure no bigger than a single HH 3.5" hard drive, put a SCSI (or even IDE) front end on it an you've got a hard drive with incredible latency, throughput, AND data reliability. Got a bad sector? Just open the casing and replace one of the cartridges.
The only prohibitive factor being the cost. I doubt anyone would pay $5k for a 9GB drive.
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Not long ago, the UAC was responsible for opening a gateway to Hell. And now Microsoft is trying to foist the UAC on the entire world. Yep, we're goin' ta hell fer sure now. Well, no, it's more like we're goin' ta BUY hell fer sure now.
They really ARE trying to enact this insanity into law.
I'm all for it. Maybe then the cost of running a VoIP phone center in India will be high enough to bring some jobs back to the U.S. As a bonus, I'll no longer have to tolerate the heavy accents and awkwardly-constructed english that make is difficult to understand them when they say, "Uhh... may I place you on hold for two minutes while I research your question?"
everybody starts with a default amount of respect.
No. Everyone starts with basic courtesy and a chance to prove themselves. Respect is only gained after said proof is provided.
5 out of 8 Australian states and territories are bigger than Texas.
Yes, but, like Canada, everyone in Australia lives along the edges. There are millions of square km of Australia devoid of humans.
Given that file checksums are used to provide a reasonable guarantee of authenticity, if you use someone else's copy of the checksum, you also need a reasonable guarantee of that third party's integrity for the checksum to have any value. There used to be a warning that came with PGP about this very thing: keys are worthless unless you can trust the source of the key.
That said, there is no information about their underwriters on the KnownGood website. Until an explicit, verifiable guarantee of not only KG's integrity but the integrity of their database and the checksums it contains is provided, I won't trust them in the slightest. For that matter, who could underwrite them to provide these guarantees? Lloyds of London?
The light signals are out of band from each other.
Microsoft's Critical Update Notification program, available at windowsupdate, gets added to Scheduled Tasks and does exactly what Oilchange, AutoUpdate, etc. do, but just for critical Windows updates.
About a month back, on an IRC channel I frequent, we (the ops of said channels) discovered someone had been joining the channel multiple times each day, using a different nick and ident each time. This person never said anything, even when directly contacted (private message, notice, DCC, etc.), and remained in the channel until we kicked them for lurking.
/24 subnet. Put all that together and it sets off some fairly big alarm bells.
Before anyone gets on about paranoia, allow me to explain...
Normally a series of joins from the same subnet isn't a big deal, it happens fairly often, like with a new regular who nick-hops, when a university's internet link lights up, or shortly after some new regional ISP goes live. But this one was different. There were no repeat nick/ident combinations. There was a pattern to the nicks and idents used--a compiled list of all nicks and idents used showed what appeared to be nicks and idents constructed from a common list of name-parts, sometimes nicks were coincidentally later reused as idents and vice-versa. All the joins from the subnet over a period of more than four weeks showed the exact same behaviour: complete lack of non-automatic response. All joins came from the same
We've since banned that subnet from the channel, but it gives me pause to think that maybe that series of lurkings was part of the initial content-gathering process required for a search engine such as ChatScan.
A single drive alone may not perform well, but at that size and capacity, you could group them together and make a mutli-GB RAID 5 in an enclosure no bigger than a single HH 3.5" hard drive, put a SCSI (or even IDE) front end on it an you've got a hard drive with incredible latency, throughput, AND data reliability. Got a bad sector? Just open the casing and replace one of the cartridges.
The only prohibitive factor being the cost. I doubt anyone would pay $5k for a 9GB drive.