1) You need to have a backup strategy first:. The strategy will be elaborated according to your needs and the amount of risk that you are willing to take.
2) Incremental backups should be part of your strategy.
3) You should backup on a second computer to prevent against a single point of failure (e.g. you controller). It is best that this computer is physically hosted at a different site than your production computer to prevent against disasters. If not, you should at least take full images once in a while that you store somewhere else. Again, this all depends on the amount of risk that you are willing to take, no backup solution is 100% proof. A fire at my bank, a fire at my prod site and a fire at my backup site occurring at about the same time would leave me totally screwed.
Well be careful, it could also something like what has happened on the 2010 movie starting to occur, keep on watching maybe this "spot" will propagate to the whole planet then afterward, Jupiter will become our second Sun. Welcome to true global warming !;-))
The other day, I saw some scientist on TV saying that during mission Apollo 11, they installed mirrors on the moon and that he is still using them today by shooting LASER beams at them from the Earth in order to gather data from the reflection (moon distance etc. )
Now some Slashdot reader must have a powerful enough LASER beam around in order to shoot at the moon. Could this good Samaritan please test if those mirrors are really there and report back to us so we can close this case ?
Thanks in advance;-))
The scientist said that none of the conspiracy theorists ever went to see him so he could show them the beam reflecting on those mirrors. I am wondering how many people are aware of those mirrors on the moon...
I would have given parent +1 Insightful. I do not have to fully agree with him. Nevertheless, intelligent beings that refuse to question their way of living by looking at it from a different angle are not so bright in my humble opinion.
The troll mod seems to make Slashdot audience looks like narrow-minded.
> makes ya wonder what the NSA or any other BIGGER > and better funded group would have up their sleeves.
Sometimes they are not that smart. Now, thanks that our "unfunded, tiny group", they will sure invest into this if they haven't already, same principle as a zero day exploit !;-))
We will need a test bed to test the effectiveness of your "random noise generator";-))
I bet that the delay flight switch is a lot more sensitive now after the Challenger explosion 73 seconds after launching. Remember back then we had learned that there was a lot of pressure on NASA staff to launch.
Columbia breaking apart on re-entry in 2003 might also have raised the delay flight switch sensitivity a bit.
> Why would you higher a "Cobol" coder to program Cobol
Because most "web programmers" we know of do not know how to spell. Our COBOL programming interface (terminal based) doesn't have auto-completion or auto-correction features so misspelled words cause errors only when the programmer hits the compile key.
Compiler errors are cryptic and it takes a lot of time to find and fix the misspellings. So even if the logic of the code was flawless (for which we also have doubts), simple spelling errors cost us too much money thus making HIRING web developers a non viable alternative for us.
As early as 2002, I started to half-jokingly tell young co-workers that were asking that they should learn COBOL as a way to insure them a prosperous career.;-) Back then, most schools were removing or had removed COBOL programming from their course list.
I was half-jokingly telling them that by 2015 they should be earning 150-200K a year as a simple COBOL developer;-)))
See this article from last year saying basically the same thing :
This is trivial to do, I do it for security reasons on my LAN, it doesn't matter which DNS you query, computers on my LAN always end up querying my internal DNS server.
Of course this breaks internet standards, it takes for granted that only DNS run on the ports queried while one remote server could actually have another application running on these ports :
for redirport in 53 do $IPTABLES -A FORWARD -i $EXTIF3 -p udp --dport $redirport -m state \ --state NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT $IPTABLES -A PREROUTING -t nat -p udp -i $EXTIF3 -d 0.0.0.0/0 --dport $redirport \ -j DNAT --to $PORTFWIP3:$redirport
Slashdot Mirror
> which fits into the memory used by one of your PC's desktop icons.
I would assume that the source code may fit into 4 KB but that it requires a lot more memory to execute.
"Fitting into the memory used by one of your PC's desktop icons" would thus seem a little overstated...
I did not read the whole article but I did not see any mention of how much memory is required for execution of the code.
Bank answering a phone call:
Good morning, Best Banking, how can I help you ?
Customer:
Huh, I seem to have forgotten my personal PIN number id...
Well DRM was definitely a form of resistance to a movement ... ;-)
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1293953&cid=28604363&art_pos=34
> "back up". The word "backup" is a verb, not a noun.
Actually, it is the other way around according to your link ;-)))
Well that's it ! I am switching to a java based browser where unbounded buffers do not exist ! ;-)))
Well here I go again:
1) You need to have a backup strategy first:. The strategy will be elaborated according to your needs and the amount of risk that you are willing to take.
2) Incremental backups should be part of your strategy.
3) You should backup on a second computer to prevent against a single point of failure (e.g. you controller). It is best that this computer is physically hosted at a different site than your production computer to prevent against disasters. If not, you should at least take full images once in a while that you store somewhere else. Again, this all depends on the amount of risk that you are willing to take, no backup solution is 100% proof. A fire at my bank, a fire at my prod site and a fire at my backup site occurring at about the same time would leave me totally screwed.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1292323&cid=28588177&art_pos=40
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1292323&cid=28588079&art_pos=41
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1277921&cid=28430691&art_pos=76
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1277921&cid=28429713&art_pos=78
Well be careful, it could also something like what has happened on the 2010 movie starting to occur, keep on watching maybe this "spot" will propagate to the whole planet then afterward, Jupiter will become our second Sun. ;-))
Welcome to true global warming !
Well, I guess the plumber who is going to fix it could go on record as one of the highest paid plumber ever !
Actually, it used to be L.A.S.E.R. for "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation".
Thanks for the update ! ;-))
It's is still good to know where the now word "laser" comes from I would assume...
The other day, I saw some scientist on TV saying that during mission Apollo 11, they installed mirrors on the moon and that he is still using them today by shooting LASER beams at them from the Earth in order to gather data from the reflection (moon distance etc. )
Now some Slashdot reader must have a powerful enough LASER beam around in order to shoot at the moon. Could this good Samaritan please test if those mirrors are really there and report back to us so we can close this case ?
Thanks in advance ;-))
The scientist said that none of the conspiracy theorists ever went to see him so he could show them the beam reflecting on those mirrors. I am wondering how many people are aware of those mirrors on the moon...
very possible indeed.
Agreed, same here butI already posted too.
I would have given parent +1 Insightful. I do not have to fully agree with him. Nevertheless, intelligent beings that refuse to question their way of living by looking at it from a different angle are not so bright in my humble opinion.
The troll mod seems to make Slashdot audience looks like narrow-minded.
I haven't seen Tony the Tiger ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_the_Tiger ) for a while on TV.
Maybe he is from that Park and he has just vanished... ;-(
Good question, hard one to google, try a search for "Slashdot suing website" ;-))
> makes ya wonder what the NSA or any other BIGGER
> and better funded group would have up their sleeves.
Sometimes they are not that smart. Now, thanks that our "unfunded, tiny group", they will sure invest into this if they haven't already, same principle as a zero day exploit ! ;-))
We will need a test bed to test the effectiveness of your "random noise generator" ;-))
I bet that the delay flight switch is a lot more sensitive now after the Challenger explosion 73 seconds after launching. Remember back then we had learned that there was a lot of pressure on NASA staff to launch.
Columbia breaking apart on re-entry in 2003 might also have raised the delay flight switch sensitivity a bit.
Well sorry, I did not realize /. was so conservative...
From your own link:
> Other authorities, however, consider ensure and insure
> interchangeable. To please CONSERVATIVES, make the
> distinction.
I will use "ensure" when posting to /. in the future ;-)))
Note that I found numerous sources saying that ensure = insure in the context of my phrase. Even your source mention it... ;-))
Remember that there is several sources to define correct usage, not only your sources...
Again, I'll use "ensure" in the future because it seems more universally accepted so; thanks anyway ;-)))
to insure :
transitive verb
2 : to make certain especially by taking necessary measures and precautions
synonyms ensure, insure, assure, secure
learn other significations of the word ;-))))
You are right as far as I am concerned. We run everything on one big frigging machine with virtual hosts, virtual subnets etc...
In case of any failure, we have another big frigging machine on a fail-over site. It sure makes management easier that way.
Now if we only had money to buy a couple main-frames. Vmware and PCs seem like the poor man's mainframe ;-))
> Why would you higher a "Cobol" coder to program Cobol
Because most "web programmers" we know of do not know how to spell. Our COBOL programming interface (terminal based) doesn't have auto-completion or auto-correction features so misspelled words cause errors only when the programmer hits the compile key.
Compiler errors are cryptic and it takes a lot of time to find and fix the misspellings. So even if the logic of the code was flawless (for which we also have doubts), simple spelling errors cost us too much money thus making HIRING web developers a non viable alternative for us.
As early as 2002, I started to half-jokingly tell young co-workers that were asking that they should learn COBOL as a way to insure them a prosperous career. ;-) Back then, most schools were removing or had removed COBOL programming from their course list.
I was half-jokingly telling them that by 2015 they should be earning 150-200K a year as a simple COBOL developer ;-)))
See this article from last year saying basically the same thing :
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/08/07/231774/cobol-programmer-shortage-starts-to-bite.htm
Note: I am to old to start to learn COBOL, this is stuff for young people... ;-)
I expected you to said that you did not know your own phone number because you never dial it ;-))
O.K. lets settle for this then:
> You have to hop on your laptop and hope someone on
> messenger that you want to give your phone number to is
> online
This is trivial to do, I do it for security reasons on my LAN, it doesn't matter which DNS you query, computers on my LAN always end up querying my internal DNS server.
Of course this breaks internet standards, it takes for granted that only DNS run on the ports queried while one remote server could actually have another application running on these ports :
for redirport in 53
do
$IPTABLES -A FORWARD -i $EXTIF3 -p udp --dport $redirport -m state \
--state NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
$IPTABLES -A PREROUTING -t nat -p udp -i $EXTIF3 -d 0.0.0.0/0 --dport $redirport \
-j DNAT --to $PORTFWIP3:$redirport
$IPTABLES -A FORWARD -i $EXTIF3 -p tcp --dport $redirport -m state \
--state NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
$IPTABLES -A PREROUTING -t nat -p tcp -i $EXTIF3 -d 0.0.0.0/0 --dport $redirport \
-j DNAT --to $PORTFWIP3:$redirport
done
> Those that have the technical knowledge can also set up their own dns
> recursive dns servers on their linux box
Yep, I totally vouch for this as one of the best solution ! ;-)
Here you go:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc666.html