I have little doubt it would fail... SBC tries this and they become AOL back in the bad old days
My only concern is if the market can work this out on its own, or will our illustrious leaders in DC decide they have to save us. They saved us last time, when they broke up ATT. Now they have let all the companies gobble each other up to the point where it's just SBC/ATT, Verizon/MCI, Sprint, and BellSouth/Cingular from the old RBOCs and long distance providers. It used to be that it was just ATT for local and long distance, and Sprint and MCI for long distance. I'm so glad they busted up the monopoly so that I would have superior choices for my local (no choices) and long distance service.
I have been waiting for Google to do this since I use Gmail. I was about to put an RSS aggregator, my bookmarks and some other stuff on my server, but I will test this out first to see if it does the trick.
We did, chap! (do British people still say chap?) It's called "American" and we say things like "flashlight" instead of "torch" because a torch has flames instead of a little bulb.;)
I would have to go back in my logs to confirm it, but over the last year, 90% of remote attacks on my servers have come from.kr networks. I was considering blocking entire networks at the router, just to filter out the noise in the logs.
Is it that the systems in.kr are easier to pwn and/or zombify, or is it that the crackers and script kiddies are just more prevalent?
NJ has some of the highest incentives and rebates in the country. http://www.solaraenergy.com/ "Solara has completed the installation of an 88kW PV installation for a school in New Jersey. The project was made possible by the enticing rebate offered by the New Jersey BPU which will cover 60% of the project's cost."
The only need I have had to deal with is migration. e.g. I have a website that requires a certain version of modules or code or whatever. The existing version only works on the existing platform (Apache or IIS). The new version will work on the new platform. In order to migrate with no downtime, I would have to buy another box and setup the new code on it with IIS. Which brings me to my 2nd point.
Using the latest and greatest is the smart choice for 99.9999% of the people.
The latest and greatest IIS costs money just to aquire the software, which as mentioned in my first point, does not count the additional hardware required for migration.
All that said, I've been extremely happy with Win2k3 and II6 relative to Win2k and IIS5. I have encounted very few issues with stability, and I have and will continue to recommend Win2k3 and IIS6 for clients that don't have / won't pay for *nix expertise.
The image of your telephones ringing made me laugh.
I showed my wife your post because we have collections of everything. We have not yet unpacked from moving into a bigger house last year. I actually have about 12 unopened boxes behind me in my home office right now.
I want to sell or give away the stuff I will never use (like the six Dell desktops behind me), but some stuff I just have to keep or even get more of. We collect books, the older the better. I like technical manuals and maps. I also like foreign language stuff. We have a library room, complete with a table from the reading room at the Newark Museum. We also collect vinyl records. We have a Wurlitzer jukebox with 45s. We also started collecting 8 track tapes several years ago, but they are a bit harder to come by.
We also don't generally spend much money on aquiring things since we get them at garage sales or library sales. We got a HUGE collection of books at a library sale because we walked up to the register with a couple of boxes and asked where we could put the stuff we wanted to buy but could not carry around. They indicated a spot off to the side of the register. We then made about 10 trips to the spot with boxes full of books and records. The old librarian was so happy to see someone taking the stuff (especially the reference books), he gave us several boxes for nothing. I think we paid $35 for about 400 books and 100 records.
This is EXACTLY the type of program I was looking for a few months ago. I wanted to provide an interface to MRTG that showed images of the actual devices with interfaces. I'm going to add this one to my MRTG toolkit.
I agree with your your statement, and in fact, this is the way I do it when given the chance.
To play devil's advocate, against both of us, I've been told on several occasions that the cost of rewiring space that has only one data drop per location was too high, and that I must find a solution with what I have. At that point, it was all about using a centralized SNMP management interface and managing the switch ports to be on certain VLANs and subnets.
Now if the original poster had said that they had no budget to wire up additional ports or buy managed switches, and they just wanted a better way to do what they already do, I would webify it. Make the port colors dynamic, enable authentication for access to the pages, and then just make sure enable logging of changes so you can track if a port was mistakenly changed.
I'm guessing that this will have to been done by someone other than the original poster since they are currently using Photoshop for it. I'm not really sure how to get this done with no budget other than to dig in and learn to do it.
On the Middle East front, Dell was actually the server platform of choice for Saddam. A US Marine I worked with recently was baby sitting the boxes for a year after the US military took over Baghdad. He said the data center he was in had about 1000 servers. They were not little 1U either.
At the inbred company I worked for up to last week, the CEO bought the COO (his wife) a brand new MB S500. Lovely car, but that does not look too cool when they are laying people off at headquarters the day he's showing off the new car to the execs.
This bug was found and a work around was provided 6 days later. Is this unreasonable? If a patch were provided a week from now, would that be unreasonable?
I think that full disclosure is good, but giving a reasonable amount of time to patch a flaw is better. If we find out that Tom Ferris provided a patch to Mozilla that they ignored or rejected, then it changes things little, but releasing the vulnerability after 5 days due to a "run-in with Mozilla staff" http://news.com.com/Unpatched+Firefox+flaw+may+exp ose+users/2100-1002_3-5856201.html does not portray Tom Ferris in a good light.
It's still not available to the public, but it's a step in the right direction. I think it's cool that it is being sold as a competitor to superchargers.
We actually had routers with live circuits up in the new offices so all we had to do was shutdown the server and drive it to the new location. It was generally down for 2-4 hours during a move. It averages out because many servers get patched once a month and then rebooted, so their downtime for the year is only about one hour.
I don't have mod points to mod you up, so I will respond instead. The original poster did not indicate what level of mathematics they teach. I think it is important for the discussion.
My first thought when I started reading everyones comments was that they seemed to be missing the point that the first several years of mathematics are almost entirely memorization. Addition and subtraction are conceptual when showing children a bunch of apples and then taking two away. After that, it's memorization. Multiplication is also conceptual in the beginning, but memorization kicks in soon enough. Hell, even trigonometry and geometry have a good bit of memorization, and they are taught in high school.
Free response tests for seeing which students are not understanding which steps in the mathematical procedures are useful for helping individuals learn and address specific shortcomings and should not be ignored, but that should not eliminate the memorization process or, even worse, replace standarized mathematical testing. There is still a place for right and wrong answers in mathematics.
I used to annoy many of my math teachers because I did most of my work in my head. The first time I was called on it was when we were learning long division. I could do it in my head, but the teacher said to show our work. I would scribble the equation and then write the answer. I used to get the same from my trig and calc teachers. They think you are copying the answers from someone if you don't show how you arrived at those answers. I was not always perfect, but I rarely took even half the time to take a test. I got yelled at once for finishing a test before the teacher finished handing it out to the rest of the class. I raised my hand and asked what we were supposed to do when we were done with the test, and she told me we would not be done for a while, so I should just be quiet and get to work. The look on her face when I told her I was done was great. She offered to grade my test in front of the class to embarrass me, so I called her on it and got 95% correct. Strange what we remember from childhood. And I was always at the desk right next to the math teacher for some reason.
When I read the article, I thought, "where did my model-m go?" Luckily I found it. It's nice to know that there is someplace to buy a model-m clone. I don't use it anymore because it is just too loud. My home office is right below my bedroom and there is a stairway connecting the two. It is just too much to ask my wife to endure.
The keyboard I use at home is the split MS one with the small arrow and function keys. I like the action on it but I dislike the smaller arrow keys. It is even a little loud because the rubber bubbles are pretty stiff. There would have to be some sort of padded spring loaded keyboard to get the best of both worlds and I imagine that the company that made it would have to charge $100 for the luxury. Although, if they made a split-ergo model, I might have to buy it.
We locked down desktops and took away admin rights for everyone outside of IT. That process blocked 90-95% of malware because it cannot install via "teh cusdumber". What we still saw getting in, was ActiveX, Java, Javascript, and some Windows vulnerabilities that were on laptops that had not been on the LAN to be patched recently.
MS still has a long way to go with security before I will trust them for any AV or anti-spyware softare.
I have worked full time and as a consultant for large and small companies, and if the company is big enough to hire a full time IT person, they will expect some systems to be up 100%.
My last company was a sales based organization (including the pointy haird CEO) and any downtime for them was unacceptable. We had a year of 99.9% average uptime (8.5 hrs down per year per server) while migrating servers from Windows 2000 to Windows 2003. That includes all security patches and even switching WAN circuit providers. Hell, we even moved branch offices and their servers to new locations and still got numbers that high. This was done without one bit of redundancy, because we had no budget for it.
Hindsight being what it is, I am no longer employed there, because they simply do not care about IT or how hard we worked or SLAs or anything related. When we showed them our timesheets (averaged between 55-60 hrs/week for the year across the department) they thought we were spinning our wheels. The company doubled in size during that year and the IT staff stayed constant.
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My only concern is if the market can work this out on its own, or will our illustrious leaders in DC decide they have to save us. They saved us last time, when they broke up ATT. Now they have let all the companies gobble each other up to the point where it's just SBC/ATT, Verizon/MCI, Sprint, and BellSouth/Cingular from the old RBOCs and long distance providers. It used to be that it was just ATT for local and long distance, and Sprint and MCI for long distance. I'm so glad they busted up the monopoly so that I would have superior choices for my local (no choices) and long distance service.
I'm so glad I have Vonage.
We do that every four years here in the US. We call it "elections". If I may quote The Who, "Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss."
You should put a big "DON'T CLICK THIS LINK" just to see how many people actually click it.
Don't press the Shiny Red Button!
That was so funny, I think I just blew an O-ring.
I have been waiting for Google to do this since I use Gmail. I was about to put an RSS aggregator, my bookmarks and some other stuff on my server, but I will test this out first to see if it does the trick.
We did, chap! (do British people still say chap?) It's called "American" and we say things like "flashlight" instead of "torch" because a torch has flames instead of a little bulb. ;)
WOW. Thanks for that. Takes a big person to take back something they said and admit it.
I would have to go back in my logs to confirm it, but over the last year, 90% of remote attacks on my servers have come from .kr networks. I was considering blocking entire networks at the router, just to filter out the noise in the logs.
.kr are easier to pwn and/or zombify, or is it that the crackers and script kiddies are just more prevalent?
Is it that the systems in
NJ has some of the highest incentives and rebates in the country. http://www.solaraenergy.com/ "Solara has completed the installation of an 88kW PV installation for a school in New Jersey. The project was made possible by the enticing rebate offered by the New Jersey BPU which will cover 60% of the project's cost."
What would be the need?
The only need I have had to deal with is migration. e.g. I have a website that requires a certain version of modules or code or whatever. The existing version only works on the existing platform (Apache or IIS). The new version will work on the new platform. In order to migrate with no downtime, I would have to buy another box and setup the new code on it with IIS. Which brings me to my 2nd point.
Using the latest and greatest is the smart choice for 99.9999% of the people.
The latest and greatest IIS costs money just to aquire the software, which as mentioned in my first point, does not count the additional hardware required for migration.
All that said, I've been extremely happy with Win2k3 and II6 relative to Win2k and IIS5. I have encounted very few issues with stability, and I have and will continue to recommend Win2k3 and IIS6 for clients that don't have / won't pay for *nix expertise.
1. Make the most addicting online game imaginable and make it to Chinese languages only.
2. Turn all Chinese computer game players into mindless zombies that can't do their day jobs as government sponsored crackers.
3. US/EU maintains world domination.
4. ???
5. Profit!!!
The image of your telephones ringing made me laugh.
I showed my wife your post because we have collections of everything. We have not yet unpacked from moving into a bigger house last year. I actually have about 12 unopened boxes behind me in my home office right now.
I want to sell or give away the stuff I will never use (like the six Dell desktops behind me), but some stuff I just have to keep or even get more of. We collect books, the older the better. I like technical manuals and maps. I also like foreign language stuff. We have a library room, complete with a table from the reading room at the Newark Museum. We also collect vinyl records. We have a Wurlitzer jukebox with 45s. We also started collecting 8 track tapes several years ago, but they are a bit harder to come by.
We also don't generally spend much money on aquiring things since we get them at garage sales or library sales. We got a HUGE collection of books at a library sale because we walked up to the register with a couple of boxes and asked where we could put the stuff we wanted to buy but could not carry around. They indicated a spot off to the side of the register. We then made about 10 trips to the spot with boxes full of books and records. The old librarian was so happy to see someone taking the stuff (especially the reference books), he gave us several boxes for nothing. I think we paid $35 for about 400 books and 100 records.
This is EXACTLY the type of program I was looking for a few months ago. I wanted to provide an interface to MRTG that showed images of the actual devices with interfaces. I'm going to add this one to my MRTG toolkit.
I agree with your your statement, and in fact, this is the way I do it when given the chance.
To play devil's advocate, against both of us, I've been told on several occasions that the cost of rewiring space that has only one data drop per location was too high, and that I must find a solution with what I have. At that point, it was all about using a centralized SNMP management interface and managing the switch ports to be on certain VLANs and subnets.
Now if the original poster had said that they had no budget to wire up additional ports or buy managed switches, and they just wanted a better way to do what they already do, I would webify it. Make the port colors dynamic, enable authentication for access to the pages, and then just make sure enable logging of changes so you can track if a port was mistakenly changed.
I'm guessing that this will have to been done by someone other than the original poster since they are currently using Photoshop for it. I'm not really sure how to get this done with no budget other than to dig in and learn to do it.
On the Middle East front, Dell was actually the server platform of choice for Saddam. A US Marine I worked with recently was baby sitting the boxes for a year after the US military took over Baghdad. He said the data center he was in had about 1000 servers. They were not little 1U either.
At the inbred company I worked for up to last week, the CEO bought the COO (his wife) a brand new MB S500. Lovely car, but that does not look too cool when they are laying people off at headquarters the day he's showing off the new car to the execs.
Here it is! http://www.samcci.comics.org/nickfury/n14.htm
Another thing that annoys me about this is the coverage of this flaw seems to indicate that this was unpatched for a while. This one is an example http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11308. Yet the original discovery was 9/4/2005 according to Tom Ferris' website http://www.security-protocols.com/advisory/sp-x17- advisory.txt
p ose+users/2100-1002_3-5856201.html does not portray Tom Ferris in a good light.
This bug was found and a work around was provided 6 days later. Is this unreasonable? If a patch were provided a week from now, would that be unreasonable?
I think that full disclosure is good, but giving a reasonable amount of time to patch a flaw is better. If we find out that Tom Ferris provided a patch to Mozilla that they ignored or rejected, then it changes things little, but releasing the vulnerability after 5 days due to a "run-in with Mozilla staff" http://news.com.com/Unpatched+Firefox+flaw+may+ex
It's still not available to the public, but it's a step in the right direction. I think it's cool that it is being sold as a competitor to superchargers.
Done. Work around complete.
*chuckle*
We actually had routers with live circuits up in the new offices so all we had to do was shutdown the server and drive it to the new location. It was generally down for 2-4 hours during a move. It averages out because many servers get patched once a month and then rebooted, so their downtime for the year is only about one hour.
Exactly my thought. We thought BeOS would live on in smartphones, but it's ghost languishes as Cobalt.
I don't have mod points to mod you up, so I will respond instead. The original poster did not indicate what level of mathematics they teach. I think it is important for the discussion.
My first thought when I started reading everyones comments was that they seemed to be missing the point that the first several years of mathematics are almost entirely memorization. Addition and subtraction are conceptual when showing children a bunch of apples and then taking two away. After that, it's memorization. Multiplication is also conceptual in the beginning, but memorization kicks in soon enough. Hell, even trigonometry and geometry have a good bit of memorization, and they are taught in high school.
Free response tests for seeing which students are not understanding which steps in the mathematical procedures are useful for helping individuals learn and address specific shortcomings and should not be ignored, but that should not eliminate the memorization process or, even worse, replace standarized mathematical testing. There is still a place for right and wrong answers in mathematics.
I used to annoy many of my math teachers because I did most of my work in my head. The first time I was called on it was when we were learning long division. I could do it in my head, but the teacher said to show our work. I would scribble the equation and then write the answer. I used to get the same from my trig and calc teachers. They think you are copying the answers from someone if you don't show how you arrived at those answers. I was not always perfect, but I rarely took even half the time to take a test. I got yelled at once for finishing a test before the teacher finished handing it out to the rest of the class. I raised my hand and asked what we were supposed to do when we were done with the test, and she told me we would not be done for a while, so I should just be quiet and get to work. The look on her face when I told her I was done was great. She offered to grade my test in front of the class to embarrass me, so I called her on it and got 95% correct. Strange what we remember from childhood. And I was always at the desk right next to the math teacher for some reason.
When I read the article, I thought, "where did my model-m go?" Luckily I found it. It's nice to know that there is someplace to buy a model-m clone. I don't use it anymore because it is just too loud. My home office is right below my bedroom and there is a stairway connecting the two. It is just too much to ask my wife to endure.
The keyboard I use at home is the split MS one with the small arrow and function keys. I like the action on it but I dislike the smaller arrow keys. It is even a little loud because the rubber bubbles are pretty stiff. There would have to be some sort of padded spring loaded keyboard to get the best of both worlds and I imagine that the company that made it would have to charge $100 for the luxury. Although, if they made a split-ergo model, I might have to buy it.
MS and AV do not go together.
We locked down desktops and took away admin rights for everyone outside of IT. That process blocked 90-95% of malware because it cannot install via "teh cusdumber". What we still saw getting in, was ActiveX, Java, Javascript, and some Windows vulnerabilities that were on laptops that had not been on the LAN to be patched recently.
MS still has a long way to go with security before I will trust them for any AV or anti-spyware softare.
I have worked full time and as a consultant for large and small companies, and if the company is big enough to hire a full time IT person, they will expect some systems to be up 100%.
My last company was a sales based organization (including the pointy haird CEO) and any downtime for them was unacceptable. We had a year of 99.9% average uptime (8.5 hrs down per year per server) while migrating servers from Windows 2000 to Windows 2003. That includes all security patches and even switching WAN circuit providers. Hell, we even moved branch offices and their servers to new locations and still got numbers that high. This was done without one bit of redundancy, because we had no budget for it.
Hindsight being what it is, I am no longer employed there, because they simply do not care about IT or how hard we worked or SLAs or anything related. When we showed them our timesheets (averaged between 55-60 hrs/week for the year across the department) they thought we were spinning our wheels. The company doubled in size during that year and the IT staff stayed constant.
Sorry, just had to vent there.