Not to evangelize too much, but but I love my barracuda box. It's conceptually a linux box with spamassasin and some bayes stuff with a web interface. But its great, no per user licensing, active directory integration etc. (The AD stuff lets it tell if an email address exists in your organization or not before forwarding the message. If not, it just hangs up on the sender.)
It isn't 100%, at least the way I have it set up because we don't want false positives ever, and my users are far too dumb to navigate the quarantine box. Anyway, overall in my experience it has been a nice box. Oh yeah, and the reseller I used set us up with a try-before-you-buy type thing, probably others will do that too.
Network admin at a medium credit union here, we also use the barracuda system. Wonderful little box btw. Some statistics for the 8 months the system has been active:
Which works out to 74.9% spam. One thing that throws these statistics for a loop is, we use an external traffic filter (IPS unit). That box knocks down most virus laden emails, as well as a lot of types of phishing/419 type stuff. Incredibly, our perimeter defense has killed 15366 email based virii/scams/etc this month alone! Worm and other virus activity barely register 800 hits.
That yields something like ~91% security events in one month are from email! That's a pretty scary set of statistics. Sounds like time for a new RFC eh?
I work at a credit union, and we use OS/2 ATMs. They tried to foist a windows ATM on us, but couldnt get it to work because the tech was too dumb to tell the difference between a D911 (BiSync) and a D912 (LAN). Quite humorous, I played dumb till after he decided to install the OS2 version and then i pointed out to him it was a D912.
Funny side note though, on all our ATMs, the terminal driver (computer) has its own display on the backside of the unit along with a mouse and keyboard. Of course, we arent using the graphics capabilities because our terminal processor is hmm...slightly older than time.
So useful facts to be noted from experience:
1) Diebold techs do not know their rectums from a serial card. (Ive had to carefully hold their hands through IP setup and assigning the correct host:port combo to attach to the terminal processor)
2) Ive never seen an OS2 atm crash, nor have I ever seen it fail to boot the TCS (Terminal control software).
3) Windows driven ATMs have to the stupidist idea ive ever heard of, but cant really use linux...(see point one about said sub-sentient techs.)
4) I fear a world with diebold designed and serviced windows based voting devices. the havoc...the horror....
We have a phone closet and a computer room with a similar configuration (4 full racks, 2 UPS etc). We use a 12kBtu split system in our phone room, and are installing a pair of 24kBtu units in our main computer room. You can get a lot of types of them, the cheapest and easiest hang on the wall. They use a couple of pipes running outside or to the roof to the condensers. The condensers themselves are really small (compared to a single package unit). The systems we are putting in our computer room are about 6 grand apeice.
In your situation, you just run the piping through the plenem to an outside wall. You can toss the condensers just about anywhere (tho you probably want to make sure there is room to fence in the slab so some smartass cant just walk up and turn off your AC.
Ok, so I anonymizered myself and left them a love note right...check out the response page:
Thank you for your Feedback You will be hearing from us soon.
tell me THAT isn't creepy. I read that and it just hit me as 'You will be hearing from our lawyers soon'. You gotta love SCO. If larry flynt can get paralyzed for bringing pr0n to the masses, maybe these fucks can get it in the head for bringing barratry to the masses.
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Dunno about microcode.c, but it's pretty much common knowledge that Alan Cox wrote the SMP code using hardware loaned/donated by Caldera.
I think the sco-vs-ibm article at the OSF mentions that. It also points out that Unixware maxes at I think 8 CPUs. Currently linux maxes at 32. In fact, Intel just recently did a 32 CPU test that scored nicely. Story at news.com
When i was studying for my license, I discovered that some obscene percentage of pilots are acrophobic. (Afraid of heights) I myself have unbelievable vertigo in high buildings and what not but I love to fly. I'd love to hear of a study to find out why that is. Does flying or a love of flying cause acrophobia? Or do acrophobics love to fly because they have control over their doom? Weird stuff eh?
Well, flight training school for a cessna is 3500 bucks. Flight training for a turbofan aircraft (usually done in 737s) is orders of magnitude more. I read some where it was 300 bucks a MINUTE for turbofan time. Can guarantee that's accurate, but i would say around 100,000 is what it would cost to train from scratch a turbofan qualified pilot. Still, a drop in the bucket versus multiple millions of dollars, and the kind of hate needed to do this.
My dad is an EE and has a few patents to his name, and we got into a discussion about the patent system. (He thinks its the screwiest thing on the planet too) But he explained how it works and I was ready to bomb it off the face of the earth. Not only do they NOT have a guy whose job it is to shred the stupid patents that come in. The patent engineers' performance ratings are based on how many patents they APPROVE!!! Additionally the salaries there are dick, so anybody with 1mw of brainwaves is going to find a real job.
The end result? An office of monkeys that stamp 'APPROVED' on anything that crosses their desk. Investigating a patent application, or doing ANYTHING other than just approving it on sight would lower their performance review.
I love America, but some days its pretty disgraceful to be American. (Like oh...every day Dubya opens his fucking mouth!!)
You say that like its bad! I sez fuggit, let darwin figure it out. Make drugs legal, people too stupid to live will waltz into 7-11, pick up a half pound of crack for 2 bucks and be dead by morning. Population controls right there, hell we can probably clear all of the losers (note, only the LOSERS. Not people who are legitimately in need. Those people are presumably smart enough to not OD on crack, even if it IS sold at 7-11) on welfare with this in on fell swoop!!
(And yes, i'm joking...sorta. I wouldn't cry to see the stupidist 10% of our population choke on a crack rock.:)
Oh yeah...uh, natalie portman naked and petrified pouring hot grits down your pants with every crack rock purchase for a limited time only. What a marketing campaign! ------
Haven't you ever heard the golden rule? Sure it's been repeated recently in a DISNEY FLICK, but it's still true.
He who has the gold makes the rules.
It's still very true these days. Thats why the mickeysoft trial feels like such a joke. What stops bill from promising handy campaign contributions to friends of judges in the matter in exchange for rulings that favor mickeysoft. It's so bloody unfair it stinks.
Wouldn't it just be handy if it were possible to outlaw all the various mechanisms that lobbyists and stuff use to buy off politicians? If anyone wants to know why so much of the US suffers from a state of political apathy, that crap is why. Why bother voting, some rich bastard will just purchase the appropriate laws to support their vewpoint. (DMCA anyone?)
I don't see the problem with the richest people paying the most taxes. Granted, I think the stepping percentages are a little insane, I'm paying 40% or so now, at the beginning of the year I paid around 25%!! Maybe finland has it right, maybe socialism is the way to go:) ------
I doubt the "monopoly" such as it is, in browsers is profitable. They didn't charge anybody I know for IE.
Well see, owning the browsers is mindbogglingly profitable. See, m$ own the browser, there for m$ own HTML. Mickysoft got where they are by 'embracing and extending' open standards. First you take over the browsers, then you start introducing IE specific nomenclature in javascript and HTML tags. Then you deploy front page to automagically insert IE specific tags for people without them even KNOWING it. Then you make IIS to use IE specific functions. PRESTO, now you own the market for web servers. and *THAT* is where the money is folks.
Now granted, mickeysoft isnt the first to try this, netscape started it. Mickeysoft finished it. While I dont feel sorry for netscape (their browser sucks!!!!) I do hope m$ dies horribly and takes their miserable software with them. ------
hell yes Im tired of that crap. Every time you hit a search engine, regardless of what you type, 99% of the hits returned are pr0n sites. AUGH!!
This is of course be cause the pr0n site operators are out there not to sell pr0n, but to get hits and they go to incredible lenghts to do so. crap like putting meta tags on their pages with the entire dictionary as keywords for search engines, or just in plain text but same color as background. Absolutely maddening.
I absolutly would LOVE to see all pr0n forced onto.xxx or.sex TLD by LAW, and search engines/browsers to have a nice little check box: 'dont see pr0n' or so. Like the guy said, fi i WANT pr0n, i know where to find it: www.search.xxx or so hehe, but when im at work searching for some new VPN box i do NOT want 50 thousand porn sites showing up in my search!
Too bad such a law is only possible in a fantasy world =( In reality politicians are too busy writing vague laws to that will allow them to censor ANYTHING, or draconian IP laws to write a law that does real people any good...bleah anyway, my $0.02 or so ------
Actually, Ive found that a simple shell script can automate this process: kill -9 `ps axe |grep wife | cut -b 0-6` works charmed, at least under AIX. =) ------
I think there was some stuff on here a while back about the energy comission being paid kickbacks by the oil companies to discredit/ignore cold fusion stuff. I dunno if anyone ever determined if that was true or just more conspiracy theory stuff. Sounds irritatingly plausible tho... ------
The artwork in the books varies maddeningly, but the writing is really great. Preludes & Nocturnes (the first book) was kinda crummy, but hey thats why its called BOOK ONE. Check out the kindly ones (book 9) and see if it doesnt make your skin crawl =) IMHO best artwork is Mike Zulli's (sic?) work on The Wake (book 10). That stuff is beautiful! In any case, the series is really great stuff, and gaiman is a fantastic author. Did anyone catch the brief interview with Gaiman on www.thegia.com? They were mostly asking him about his collaboration with Yoshitka Amano (Of final fantasy 6 arstistic acclaim, at least in the US) on dream hunters. Go grab a copy of that if you're still fixated on poor artwork and dialogue of the 'comic books'. Anyways, that's my $0.02 ------
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Not to evangelize too much, but but I love my barracuda box. It's conceptually a linux box with spamassasin and some bayes stuff with a web interface. But its great, no per user licensing, active directory integration etc. (The AD stuff lets it tell if an email address exists in your organization or not before forwarding the message. If not, it just hangs up on the sender.)
It isn't 100%, at least the way I have it set up because we don't want false positives ever, and my users are far too dumb to navigate the quarantine box. Anyway, overall in my experience it has been a nice box. Oh yeah, and the reseller I used set us up with a try-before-you-buy type thing, probably others will do that too.
Network admin at a medium credit union here, we also use the barracuda system. Wonderful little box btw. Some statistics for the 8 months the system has been active:
Blocked 267,219
Blocked: Virus 298
Quarantined 20,993
Allowed: Tagged 6,364
Allowed 98,868
Total Received 393,742
Which works out to 74.9% spam. One thing that throws these statistics for a loop is, we use an external traffic filter (IPS unit). That box knocks down most virus laden emails, as well as a lot of types of phishing/419 type stuff. Incredibly, our perimeter defense has killed 15366 email based virii/scams/etc this month alone! Worm and other virus activity barely register 800 hits.
That yields something like ~91% security events in one month are from email! That's a pretty scary set of statistics. Sounds like time for a new RFC eh?
I work at a credit union, and we use OS/2 ATMs. They tried to foist a windows ATM on us, but couldnt get it to work because the tech was too dumb to tell the difference between a D911 (BiSync) and a D912 (LAN). Quite humorous, I played dumb till after he decided to install the OS2 version and then i pointed out to him it was a D912.
Funny side note though, on all our ATMs, the terminal driver (computer) has its own display on the backside of the unit along with a mouse and keyboard. Of course, we arent using the graphics capabilities because our terminal processor is hmm...slightly older than time.
So useful facts to be noted from experience:
1) Diebold techs do not know their rectums from a serial card. (Ive had to carefully hold their hands through IP setup and assigning the correct host:port combo to attach to the terminal processor)
2) Ive never seen an OS2 atm crash, nor have I ever seen it fail to boot the TCS (Terminal control software).
3) Windows driven ATMs have to the stupidist idea ive ever heard of, but cant really use linux...(see point one about said sub-sentient techs.)
4) I fear a world with diebold designed and serviced windows based voting devices. the havoc...the horror....
Whats the difference between a lawyer and a hooker?
a hooker will stop fucking you after you're dead.
We have a phone closet and a computer room with a similar configuration (4 full racks, 2 UPS etc). We use a 12kBtu split system in our phone room, and are installing a pair of 24kBtu units in our main computer room. You can get a lot of types of them, the cheapest and easiest hang on the wall. They use a couple of pipes running outside or to the roof to the condensers. The condensers themselves are really small (compared to a single package unit). The systems we are putting in our computer room are about 6 grand apeice.
In your situation, you just run the piping through the plenem to an outside wall. You can toss the condensers just about anywhere (tho you probably want to make sure there is room to fence in the slab so some smartass cant just walk up and turn off your AC.
Ok, so I anonymizered myself and left them a love note right...check out the response page:
Thank you for your Feedback
You will be hearing from us soon.
tell me THAT isn't creepy. I read that and it just hit me as 'You will be hearing from our lawyers soon'. You gotta love SCO. If larry flynt can get paralyzed for bringing pr0n to the masses, maybe these fucks can get it in the head for bringing barratry to the masses.
Dunno about microcode.c, but it's pretty much common knowledge that Alan Cox wrote the SMP code using hardware loaned/donated by Caldera.
I think the sco-vs-ibm article at the OSF mentions that. It also points out that Unixware maxes at I think 8 CPUs. Currently linux maxes at 32. In fact, Intel just recently did a 32 CPU test that scored nicely. Story at news.com
When i was studying for my license, I discovered that some obscene percentage of pilots are acrophobic. (Afraid of heights) I myself have unbelievable vertigo in high buildings and what not but I love to fly. I'd love to hear of a study to find out why that is. Does flying or a love of flying cause acrophobia? Or do acrophobics love to fly because they have control over their doom? Weird stuff eh?
Well, flight training school for a cessna is 3500 bucks. Flight training for a turbofan aircraft (usually done in 737s) is orders of magnitude more. I read some where it was 300 bucks a MINUTE for turbofan time. Can guarantee that's accurate, but i would say around 100,000 is what it would cost to train from scratch a turbofan qualified pilot. Still, a drop in the bucket versus multiple millions of dollars, and the kind of hate needed to do this.
all said, i hope the fucker and his money burn
My dad is an EE and has a few patents to his name, and we got into a discussion about the patent system. (He thinks its the screwiest thing on the planet too) But he explained how it works and I was ready to bomb it off the face of the earth. Not only do they NOT have a guy whose job it is to shred the stupid patents that come in. The patent engineers' performance ratings are based on how many patents they APPROVE!!! Additionally the salaries there are dick, so anybody with 1mw of brainwaves is going to find a real job.
The end result? An office of monkeys that stamp 'APPROVED' on anything that crosses their desk. Investigating a patent application, or doing ANYTHING other than just approving it on sight would lower their performance review.
I love America, but some days its pretty disgraceful to be American. (Like oh...every day Dubya opens his fucking mouth!!)
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You say that like its bad! I sez fuggit, let darwin figure it out. Make drugs legal, people too stupid to live will waltz into 7-11, pick up a half pound of crack for 2 bucks and be dead by morning. Population controls right there, hell we can probably clear all of the losers (note, only the LOSERS. Not people who are legitimately in need. Those people are presumably smart enough to not OD on crack, even if it IS sold at 7-11) on welfare with this in on fell swoop!!
:)
(And yes, i'm joking...sorta. I wouldn't cry to see the stupidist 10% of our population choke on a crack rock.
Oh yeah...uh, natalie portman naked and petrified pouring hot grits down your pants with every crack rock purchase for a limited time only. What a marketing campaign!
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Haven't you ever heard the golden rule? Sure it's been repeated recently in a DISNEY FLICK, but it's still true.
:)
He who has the gold makes the rules.
It's still very true these days. Thats why the mickeysoft trial feels like such a joke. What stops bill from promising handy campaign contributions to friends of judges in the matter in exchange for rulings that favor mickeysoft. It's so bloody unfair it stinks.
Wouldn't it just be handy if it were possible to outlaw all the various mechanisms that lobbyists and stuff use to buy off politicians? If anyone wants to know why so much of the US suffers from a state of political apathy, that crap is why. Why bother voting, some rich bastard will just purchase the appropriate laws to support their vewpoint. (DMCA anyone?)
I don't see the problem with the richest people paying the most taxes. Granted, I think the stepping percentages are a little insane, I'm paying 40% or so now, at the beginning of the year I paid around 25%!! Maybe finland has it right, maybe socialism is the way to go
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Well see, owning the browsers is mindbogglingly profitable. See, m$ own the browser, there for m$ own HTML. Mickysoft got where they are by 'embracing and extending' open standards. First you take over the browsers, then you start introducing IE specific nomenclature in javascript and HTML tags. Then you deploy front page to automagically insert IE specific tags for people without them even KNOWING it. Then you make IIS to use IE specific functions. PRESTO, now you own the market for web servers. and *THAT* is where the money is folks.
Now granted, mickeysoft isnt the first to try this, netscape started it. Mickeysoft finished it. While I dont feel sorry for netscape (their browser sucks!!!!) I do hope m$ dies horribly and takes their miserable software with them.
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This is of course be cause the pr0n site operators are out there not to sell pr0n, but to get hits and they go to incredible lenghts to do so. crap like putting meta tags on their pages with the entire dictionary as keywords for search engines, or just in plain text but same color as background. Absolutely maddening.
I absolutly would LOVE to see all pr0n forced onto .xxx or .sex TLD by LAW, and search engines/browsers to have a nice little check box: 'dont see pr0n' or so. Like the guy said, fi i WANT pr0n, i know where to find it: www.search.xxx or so hehe, but when im at work searching for some new VPN box i do NOT want 50 thousand porn sites showing up in my search!
Too bad such a law is only possible in a fantasy world =(
In reality politicians are too busy writing vague laws to that will allow them to censor ANYTHING, or draconian IP laws to write a law that does real people any good...bleah anyway, my $0.02 or so
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Actually, Ive found that a simple shell script can automate this process: kill -9 `ps axe |grep wife | cut -b 0-6` works charmed, at least under AIX. =)
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I think there was some stuff on here a while back about the energy comission being paid kickbacks by the oil companies to discredit/ignore cold fusion stuff. I dunno if anyone ever determined if that was true or just more conspiracy theory stuff. Sounds irritatingly plausible tho...
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The artwork in the books varies maddeningly, but the writing is really great. Preludes & Nocturnes (the first book) was kinda crummy, but hey thats why its called BOOK ONE. Check out the kindly ones (book 9) and see if it doesnt make your skin crawl =) IMHO best artwork is Mike Zulli's (sic?) work on The Wake (book 10). That stuff is beautiful! In any case, the series is really great stuff, and gaiman is a fantastic author. Did anyone catch the brief interview with Gaiman on www.thegia.com? They were mostly asking him about his collaboration with Yoshitka Amano (Of final fantasy 6 arstistic acclaim, at least in the US) on dream hunters. Go grab a copy of that if you're still fixated on poor artwork and dialogue of the 'comic books'. Anyways, that's my $0.02
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