You can save your stuff in/dev/null quite fast too!
I know! It is friggin crazy fast. I've been using it for backups for years. Even with terrabytes of data I've never managed to fill it up or slow it down!
Walker, Richer Quinn Incorporated IT Operations 1500 Dexter Avenue North Seattle WA US 98109 150.215.214.130 Windows Server 2003 Microsoft-IIS/6.0 31-Jul-2010
Attachmate Corp. 1233 West Loop South Suite 1800 Houston TX US 77027 149.82.9.36 Windows Server 2003 Microsoft-IIS/6.0 25-Feb-2010
So they bailed out the banks and are now supposed to be afraid when BoA and Merrill Lynch threaten to leave? Good riddance. As for google, microsoft, et al. How many real jobs do they have there or is it just a post office box for tax benefits? The threats really may be empty if the reason these companies are there are in fact low European tax rates, not just low overall tax rates. If those companies really want to be an asset instead of a leach why don't they offer to make 0% or low interest loans to Ireland instead of threatening to take their ball and go home? It isn't like Google has no free cash flow. Are they afraid that the loans won't be repaid if there are low corporate taxes? Make them put their money where their mouth is or send them a farewell card.
Oh don't kid yourself - they lost out on several orders including one that was over 50 desktops and a 2U server while this was going on. I have also had several clients switch to HP workstations over the last 2 years due to similar complaints and better pricing.
That said, I can forgive and forget, and they do generally make great servers. As others have said, Dell isn't really unique here - other companies are just as bad if not worse. Ever tried calling HP tech support? Most of the time you get a foreign call center that has had no training whatsoever.
While I was upset with Dell I do have to do my job, and not ever dealing with them is not really an option when you work in the real world. Many businesses order strictly from one supplier, and that means I have to work with Dell, HP, etc. whether I like their business practices or not.
This isn't just capacitors. I almost stopped doing business with dell completely after a client came to me with a clearly failed nvidia chip on a model that had the warranty extended for just that problem. They had called dell during the warranty period and were told it was an issue with the OS and they needed to reinstall. They trusted dell. They reinstalled. They updated their firmware. The computer lasted another few months with the problem getting progressively worse until there was no video at all. I tested the system and determined definitively that it was the nvidia chip and asked dell to replace the board. I was given the runaround being told how do I know and its out of warranty. I pointed out that the warranty had been extended and my customer had called them during that timeline and was given bad information by their support team. They fought it and fought it and fought it some more until I called the rep that I do large orders with for corporate clients, and apologized to him that I would not be ordering anymore servers etc. from him. I explained the situation and was called back by dell corporate the next day offering to swap the bad board for a refurbished one. It solved the problem, but it really shouldn't have to go that far. I love using dell servers, but having experiences like that do not make me want to use their products.
It seems that the answer that that problem would be to a) allow read write on a file-by-file basis based on a signed "declaration" by the program that specifies what files the program needs, or b) fool the program by pulling copies of the originals into the sandbox so it thinks it is writing to them and runs happily while not interfering with the rest of the OS (isn't that the entire point of a sandbox?)
3 letters for you: SAN
If you can't fit your storage into the case you ordered the wrong server or need dedicated storage.
Use the right tool for the right job. Memory slots are for memory. Servers have extra memory slots because they often need more. *gasp* what a concept.
no more legacy code? What's that progman.exe in your windows system folder then? Ok, ok - it doesn't work after xp sp2, but that is only because it was disabled.
I don't understand what the age of a horse has to do with gifts from Aunt Mildred.... Is she sending me a horse? If it is from Amazon shouldn't it be a monkey or something?
You don't patent phrases. Trademarks have different rules. That said, I doubt this will be enforceable, so even if they did get it I imagine they would lose it pretty quickly.
Yay - text! I was quite thrilled with the technology at the time. Gopher and BBS systems actually made a 1200 baud modem seem useful. For you youngsters that don't know what we're talking about see here. Now get off my lawn.
Yep. It used to work acceptably well. As in the CPU use was justified. It wouldn't catch everything but it also wouldn't require a dedicated box just to handle email and filesystem scanning. That said, it is hardly sufficient these days and I haven't used it in years. We run active scanning on client machines and lock them down with group policy, then they roll back to disk images on reboot. We block problematic file extensions from email (with the exception of pdfs and documents) and run everything through a dedicated mailserver that scans everything coming in and going out. We also scan all external media when it is mounted (we keep usb etc as mounting read only which also helps to keep things from moving around if we were to get an infection). Periodic scans are run on network drives and periodic checks are done on client machines by booting with external media. Router and NAS are monitored for unusual activity and sysadmins are alerted if it is detected. We don't have virus problems.
well kind of... that plugin fails in that it requires you to add in each domain you want to use ssl for. I would recommend force-tls for firefox and KB SSL enforcer for chrome (the second is not completely secure due to chrome's design, but hoping that will be fixed soon).
Or you could just force tls/ssl on sites that support it and render firesheep useless. Because you know, being alerted that your information just got stolen is much better than using proper security in the first place.... or not.
I think that would get them dropped pretty quick as there are quite a few CDNs out there to choose from. Cotendo isn't the only CDN looking into page optimization though. This is being blown horribly out of proportion. Could they: yes. Have they had the ability for at least a decade: yes. There is a big difference though between running an apache module that optimizes code automatically and running a script that inserts ads without a paying customer's permission.
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That's nothing! In Bahrain there are roads in the water!
Ecuador.... the country you were looking for is Ecuador, as they already offered asylum.
sure there is, use rel="nofollow" if you don't want to share link love.
You can save your stuff in /dev/null quite fast too!
I know! It is friggin crazy fast. I've been using it for backups for years. Even with terrabytes of data I've never managed to fill it up or slow it down!
There is a reason for that according to netcraft:
Walker, Richer Quinn Incorporated IT Operations 1500 Dexter Avenue North Seattle WA US 98109 150.215.214.130 Windows Server 2003 Microsoft-IIS/6.0 31-Jul-2010
Attachmate Corp. 1233 West Loop South Suite 1800 Houston TX US 77027 149.82.9.36 Windows Server 2003 Microsoft-IIS/6.0 25-Feb-2010
Having seen some oracle code developed in India I would hardly consider "better" to mean "acceptable" and certainly not "good".
So they bailed out the banks and are now supposed to be afraid when BoA and Merrill Lynch threaten to leave? Good riddance. As for google, microsoft, et al. How many real jobs do they have there or is it just a post office box for tax benefits? The threats really may be empty if the reason these companies are there are in fact low European tax rates, not just low overall tax rates. If those companies really want to be an asset instead of a leach why don't they offer to make 0% or low interest loans to Ireland instead of threatening to take their ball and go home? It isn't like Google has no free cash flow. Are they afraid that the loans won't be repaid if there are low corporate taxes? Make them put their money where their mouth is or send them a farewell card.
Oh don't kid yourself - they lost out on several orders including one that was over 50 desktops and a 2U server while this was going on. I have also had several clients switch to HP workstations over the last 2 years due to similar complaints and better pricing.
That said, I can forgive and forget, and they do generally make great servers. As others have said, Dell isn't really unique here - other companies are just as bad if not worse. Ever tried calling HP tech support? Most of the time you get a foreign call center that has had no training whatsoever.
While I was upset with Dell I do have to do my job, and not ever dealing with them is not really an option when you work in the real world. Many businesses order strictly from one supplier, and that means I have to work with Dell, HP, etc. whether I like their business practices or not.
This isn't just capacitors. I almost stopped doing business with dell completely after a client came to me with a clearly failed nvidia chip on a model that had the warranty extended for just that problem. They had called dell during the warranty period and were told it was an issue with the OS and they needed to reinstall. They trusted dell. They reinstalled. They updated their firmware. The computer lasted another few months with the problem getting progressively worse until there was no video at all. I tested the system and determined definitively that it was the nvidia chip and asked dell to replace the board. I was given the runaround being told how do I know and its out of warranty. I pointed out that the warranty had been extended and my customer had called them during that timeline and was given bad information by their support team. They fought it and fought it and fought it some more until I called the rep that I do large orders with for corporate clients, and apologized to him that I would not be ordering anymore servers etc. from him. I explained the situation and was called back by dell corporate the next day offering to swap the bad board for a refurbished one. It solved the problem, but it really shouldn't have to go that far. I love using dell servers, but having experiences like that do not make me want to use their products.
It seems that the answer that that problem would be to a) allow read write on a file-by-file basis based on a signed "declaration" by the program that specifies what files the program needs, or b) fool the program by pulling copies of the originals into the sandbox so it thinks it is writing to them and runs happily while not interfering with the rest of the OS (isn't that the entire point of a sandbox?)
whew. glad I'm not the only one with that problem.
3 letters for you: SAN
If you can't fit your storage into the case you ordered the wrong server or need dedicated storage.
Use the right tool for the right job. Memory slots are for memory. Servers have extra memory slots because they often need more.
*gasp* what a concept.
no more legacy code? What's that progman.exe in your windows system folder then? Ok, ok - it doesn't work after xp sp2, but that is only because it was disabled.
Yeah, they'll use the shape of your ears instead!
I actually had that exact same idea, but for open street maps. Why not put these things on cars, bikes, etc. to render open source 3d maps?
It either wasn't sodium, or you were doing it wrong. Example here.
I don't understand what the age of a horse has to do with gifts from Aunt Mildred.... Is she sending me a horse? If it is from Amazon shouldn't it be a monkey or something?
You don't patent phrases. Trademarks have different rules. That said, I doubt this will be enforceable, so even if they did get it I imagine they would lose it pretty quickly.
Yay - text! I was quite thrilled with the technology at the time. Gopher and BBS systems actually made a 1200 baud modem seem useful. For you youngsters that don't know what we're talking about see here. Now get off my lawn.
Yep. It used to work acceptably well. As in the CPU use was justified. It wouldn't catch everything but it also wouldn't require a dedicated box just to handle email and filesystem scanning. That said, it is hardly sufficient these days and I haven't used it in years. We run active scanning on client machines and lock them down with group policy, then they roll back to disk images on reboot. We block problematic file extensions from email (with the exception of pdfs and documents) and run everything through a dedicated mailserver that scans everything coming in and going out. We also scan all external media when it is mounted (we keep usb etc as mounting read only which also helps to keep things from moving around if we were to get an infection). Periodic scans are run on network drives and periodic checks are done on client machines by booting with external media. Router and NAS are monitored for unusual activity and sysadmins are alerted if it is detected. We don't have virus problems.
well kind of... that plugin fails in that it requires you to add in each domain you want to use ssl for. I would recommend force-tls for firefox and KB SSL enforcer for chrome (the second is not completely secure due to chrome's design, but hoping that will be fixed soon).
Or you could just force tls/ssl on sites that support it and render firesheep useless. Because you know, being alerted that your information just got stolen is much better than using proper security in the first place.... or not.
or better yet be replaced by the non-blocking version that has been around for awhile now...
I think that would get them dropped pretty quick as there are quite a few CDNs out there to choose from. Cotendo isn't the only CDN looking into page optimization though. This is being blown horribly out of proportion. Could they: yes. Have they had the ability for at least a decade: yes. There is a big difference though between running an apache module that optimizes code automatically and running a script that inserts ads without a paying customer's permission.
And here's the scary part about that.