The specifications you list cite a maximum temperature of 43 degrees Celsius.
Now the maximum temperature for the majority of Australian households in summer rarely if ever reaches or exceeds that. There is a large amount of the continent where the temperature exceeds that - however its very sparsely populated (you are looking at the central deserts after all) and has minimal infrastructure anyway.
For the majority of the population (i.e. major population centres on the coast) it's quite reasonable.
Many years ago I went to a presentation on Disaster Recovery. One of the classic stories told was of an accounting firm that kept their backups on-site in a fire proof safe (the best they could afford). One day there was a fire. The safe was perfectly intact, and showed no signs of any damage that would have resulted in the contents being damaged.
Unfortunately the Fire Department Standard Operating Procedure was that every fire was suspicious until proven otherwise, and the site was declared a crime scene. Consequently the Business was denied access to the site for several weeks until the situation was resolved and the remaining building could be made safe.
By that stage enough of their customers had moved to another accountancy firm and they were unable to survive with the remaining customers despite being able to completely rebuild their IT infrastructure.
I'd suggest in your example you may want to consider some form of removable media (5 GB will easily fit on a dual-layer DVD) and keep the backups in a secure safe at another family members house in case of disaster. With backups that size you could make several copies and keep them at multiple locations. Alternatively, encrypt the backups and keep a copy at work.
I'll admit I haven't seen much of Objective C (apart from on OSX) - while C++ is pretty much available on anything and anywhere.
However I'd also recommend having a look at C#.
If you are not allergic to Microsoft products it's got a lot to recommend it:
Good frameworks
Available on Windows, OSX & Linux
Cross-platform tools like Xamarin (which as an interesting ecosystem for cross-platform mobile apps)
The beauty of Open Source is that when issues like this are discovered, they are dealt with.
With a closed source product you basically have to trust the vendor to get it right, and to patch defects in a timely manner.
OpenSSL is a classic demonstration of one of the truths of computer programming - namely that good cryptography is HARD.
I just wish that the big players who use this in their products would support the developers - and make it a better outcome for all of us who rely on this product.
Does anyone have any scenarios where BD-Java enables a useful feature?
I have to admit for all the blue ray disks I have, the included menus and bumf just makes it a less pleasant experience.
I don't know who builds in the code for these 'features' - but it makes it very difficult to justify buying legitimate media when the studios seem to put all their crapware in the way.
It's probably better to let the situation run on a bit longer before people start criticising Open Source.
Nobody is going to discard OpenSSL due to this - the majority of people are patching systems and reminding people that security is important (a side benefit of this incident)
The next step will be when someone puts up the money for a proper code review of the OpenSSL codebase and fixes up any other issues that may exist.
It's reasonable to say that there are more people and organisations able to resolve this issue than if it were a closed source proprietary solution.
Does anyone have any contacts at Samsung (email addresses, phone numbers, etc.) that can address this issue?
I just got back from looking at a Galaxy Note 3 (thinking form upgrading from by S2).
Now I'm not sure - will probably just go buy a Nexus.
I can't think of a single valid reason for this level of functionality to be available in a device that's sold commercially. I've never heard of any enterprise management tools that can use such functions, and their undisclosed existance is a real worry.
The biggest laugh about this is that Samsung Australia is currently trying to get the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1, Galaxy Note 2 and S3 onto the Australian Government Endorsed Product List (http://www.asd.gov.au/infosec/epl/index.php ) - I don't like their chances now.
Many businesses like to get their presence out there.
I'd suggest having an auction (with a sensible starting price) to name the tower, so that when it's on maps, and people talk about it they get the name for a set period (e.g. 10 years).
Also, this is a 'big' deal, so a communications plan to get the work out (and add value to the naming rights) would help push its value.
Having something about the 'Google Emergency Communications Tower' or some such stuff in the press would get eyeballs.
The developing world chant always gets sympathy, but what about the potential benefit in schools ?
I can remember in school the problem getting accessed (more students than microscopes) and with these schools could give them to students.
Not only are they useful in class, but potentially they might get students interested in looking a the wider world!
It would also potentially drive someone to mass market them - laser cut them in school and fix in the lense (or worst case outsource the manufacturing to China)
The reasons you mention are perfectly good and valid to implement a trusted root certificate.
BUT you still need to advise parents and students as to what you are doing; and
Ensure that you have policies and controls that ensure that everyone knows what you are doing, and how it will not be used for other purposes (e.g. sniffing credit card details from student purchases, etc.);
I have (packed away somewhere safe) a copy of 'Radio and Hobbies' magazine that was published in Australia early last century.
In it there was an article touting a radio receiver that you fixed to the running board of your car. The article stated that while it was not practial to use while the vehicle was in motion, it explained that it was expected that laws would be passed prohibiting 'radioing' (sic) while driving as it was a distraction and would promote unsafe driving.
If you look at the range of devices currently built into most cars and look back over time it's safe to say that many people have adapted to the increasing number of information sources available to the driver and can capably prioritise their actions.
The morons that insist on texting while driving are probably just the same ones who previously shaved or put on their makeup while behind the wheel. The real problem is not the technology, but the idiots using it.
These people will still do dumb things irrespective of the law - why punish those that are using the technology safely?
If you have it in your collection, watch WarGames again.
The opening sequence has a missile operator discussing the quality of the sensemilia his girlfriend was growing with the other. And the bonus easter egg for those of you that do is the sign in the corridor:-)
The suggesting that the numbers would be better if the drives were burnt in is laughable.
Burning in a drive is basically when you connect it up, and run a program to exercise the drive for a set period to make it fail. The idea is that it's better that a drive dies during the burn in process than when in use and theres actual data stored on it. Its a great idea when you want to keep your services availability figures up but won't make the drives themselves any more reliable.
It will however skew the numbers so that drives die much quicker, and will probably have people saying it's now not fair because the drives were pushed to fail.
The ABC have a contact page at http://www.abc.net.au/tv/abctv... where you can ask them why there is no mention of this story on their site - despite the BBC article being shown on national TV in Australia
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Now the maximum temperature for the majority of Australian households in summer rarely if ever reaches or exceeds that. There is a large amount of the continent where the temperature exceeds that - however its very sparsely populated (you are looking at the central deserts after all) and has minimal infrastructure anyway.
For the majority of the population (i.e. major population centres on the coast) it's quite reasonable.
Unfortunately the Fire Department Standard Operating Procedure was that every fire was suspicious until proven otherwise, and the site was declared a crime scene. Consequently the Business was denied access to the site for several weeks until the situation was resolved and the remaining building could be made safe.
By that stage enough of their customers had moved to another accountancy firm and they were unable to survive with the remaining customers despite being able to completely rebuild their IT infrastructure.
I'd suggest in your example you may want to consider some form of removable media (5 GB will easily fit on a dual-layer DVD) and keep the backups in a secure safe at another family members house in case of disaster. With backups that size you could make several copies and keep them at multiple locations. Alternatively, encrypt the backups and keep a copy at work.
If you are not allergic to Microsoft products it's got a lot to recommend it:
Good frameworks
Available on Windows, OSX & Linux
Cross-platform tools like Xamarin (which as an interesting ecosystem for cross-platform mobile apps)
That's not how Slashdot is supposed to work :-)
Looks like Larry Niven was closer to the truth than he new.
With a closed source product you basically have to trust the vendor to get it right, and to patch defects in a timely manner.
OpenSSL is a classic demonstration of one of the truths of computer programming - namely that good cryptography is HARD.
I just wish that the big players who use this in their products would support the developers - and make it a better outcome for all of us who rely on this product.
Having a family member recently ill with a chest infection, and completely unable to speak (but able to email, SMS, etc.) - its a great idea.
Nice business model :-(
The FAQ posted on their web site makes mention to the Intel TPM chip.
I have to admit for all the blue ray disks I have, the included menus and bumf just makes it a less pleasant experience.
I don't know who builds in the code for these 'features' - but it makes it very difficult to justify buying legitimate media when the studios seem to put all their crapware in the way.
Can't sustain fusion, so let's use the nice shiny laser to zap things and pretend its science :-)
Imagine if they could back-port this work to their current range of x86 blade servers !
Have you contacted any media organisations about selling the rights to film and publish this?
It might be a good way to get further funding for this work.
Nobody is going to discard OpenSSL due to this - the majority of people are patching systems and reminding people that security is important (a side benefit of this incident)
The next step will be when someone puts up the money for a proper code review of the OpenSSL codebase and fixes up any other issues that may exist.
It's reasonable to say that there are more people and organisations able to resolve this issue than if it were a closed source proprietary solution.
Can anyone offer advice on these? Are they just something diferent, or are they significantly better than OpenSSL?
I just got back from looking at a Galaxy Note 3 (thinking form upgrading from by S2).
Now I'm not sure - will probably just go buy a Nexus.
I can't think of a single valid reason for this level of functionality to be available in a device that's sold commercially. I've never heard of any enterprise management tools that can use such functions, and their undisclosed existance is a real worry.
The biggest laugh about this is that Samsung Australia is currently trying to get the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1, Galaxy Note 2 and S3 onto the Australian Government Endorsed Product List (http://www.asd.gov.au/infosec/epl/index.php ) - I don't like their chances now.
I'd suggest having an auction (with a sensible starting price) to name the tower, so that when it's on maps, and people talk about it they get the name for a set period (e.g. 10 years).
Also, this is a 'big' deal, so a communications plan to get the work out (and add value to the naming rights) would help push its value.
Having something about the 'Google Emergency Communications Tower' or some such stuff in the press would get eyeballs.
I can remember in school the problem getting accessed (more students than microscopes) and with these schools could give them to students.
Not only are they useful in class, but potentially they might get students interested in looking a the wider world!
It would also potentially drive someone to mass market them - laser cut them in school and fix in the lense (or worst case outsource the manufacturing to China)
BUT you still need to advise parents and students as to what you are doing; and
Ensure that you have policies and controls that ensure that everyone knows what you are doing, and how it will not be used for other purposes (e.g. sniffing credit card details from student purchases, etc.);
Without that the job is only half done.
Some people don't know how to let go (or think about where they will get another risc pc to replace the one they are using).
In it there was an article touting a radio receiver that you fixed to the running board of your car. The article stated that while it was not practial to use while the vehicle was in motion, it explained that it was expected that laws would be passed prohibiting 'radioing' (sic) while driving as it was a distraction and would promote unsafe driving.
If you look at the range of devices currently built into most cars and look back over time it's safe to say that many people have adapted to the increasing number of information sources available to the driver and can capably prioritise their actions.
The morons that insist on texting while driving are probably just the same ones who previously shaved or put on their makeup while behind the wheel. The real problem is not the technology, but the idiots using it.
These people will still do dumb things irrespective of the law - why punish those that are using the technology safely?
You have a team from Ericsson (as in SONY Ericsson). It's not like any business worth its salt would seek advice regarding security from Sony.
You also have authors from AT&T - who have probably been passing customer data on since the days of Teletypes and morse code.
Section 7 (Privacy Concerns) is blank - you have to ask why (too hard, or not a concern).
The opening sequence has a missile operator discussing the quality of the sensemilia his girlfriend was growing with the other. And the bonus easter egg for those of you that do is the sign in the corridor :-)
Burning in a drive is basically when you connect it up, and run a program to exercise the drive for a set period to make it fail. The idea is that it's better that a drive dies during the burn in process than when in use and theres actual data stored on it. Its a great idea when you want to keep your services availability figures up but won't make the drives themselves any more reliable.
It will however skew the numbers so that drives die much quicker, and will probably have people saying it's now not fair because the drives were pushed to fail.
The ABC have a contact page at http://www.abc.net.au/tv/abctv... where you can ask them why there is no mention of this story on their site - despite the BBC article being shown on national TV in Australia