I thought they worked around all the security issues by just writing all their data on 800 bpi 1/2" tape. Seriously, the only people who have those things anymore are the IRS and the FAA.
We just hate corporations, not RedHat in particular, until of course we go to work for some startup and get granted some valuable stock options. Then we loooove corporations, at least until our options vest and we can start flaming corporations again.
What are you, a man or a mouse? It's Redhat's trademark, they can do whatever the hell thay want. It's a free country, get off your ass and start your own distro, eveybody else has.
Really, you ought to know all this stuff as part of your job if you are a sysadmin or a developer, just like a police detective knows all the easy ways to commit crimes.
Sooner or later you are going to work with some dumb ass and it will be your responsibility to (tactfully) demonstrate all the security holes they have introduced in their code.
Standlaone so-called "security experts" are all useless poseurs. Twice now I have encountered "ethical hackers" in the job, hired by high-up muckety mucks, who told me "we like totally 0wned you systems d00d" and then refused to disclose to me what they had done. My logs said nothing, nobody took any action, and as far as I could tell it was all bullshit.(I owned all the servers, routers, and firewalls, so I should have known.)
I've only encountered one "security expert" who could ever actually demonstrate a non-obvious exploit to me, and that was in the Solaris 2.5 days.
"Ethical hacking" is core competency of any experienced system administrator. I'm amazed that there are so many senior sysadmins out there who don't or can't lock down their systems, or think that security is some kind of separate thing from system administration. I'd never hire any of them.
There is so much RFI in my neighborhood I can barely operate on HF anymore. Back my grandpappy's day you'd stick your tongue in a light socket and suck in all the clear sweet sixty-hertz you wanted, now it's nothing but S7 plasma TVs and light dimmers. This country is going to hell in a handbasket.
Insensitive elitist FOSS-heads! I'm an Okie from Muskogee (well all my relatives are, I had the misfortune to be born elsewhere while my dad was away in the military. Now, like all great Okies like Tom Joad and Merle Haggard, I live in California.)
We ain't as stupid as y'all think. Just last week I figured out how to configure a Solaris DHCP server. My grandpappy warn't no monkey!
It was Wal-Mart, the only retail company in the World big enough to kick Microsoft's ass down the street like a leaf in the wind, that did the Linspire thing, right?
Wal-Mart will go to any means to sell a computer $0.99 cheaper than the guy down the street. They will lead a FOSS retail revolution, if the right distro can be pulled together.
Like laws and sausages, retail computer marketing is not pretty.
We Yanks have a similar thing going over here, the "line-item" veto. Executive branch would be able to veto specific parts of bills. It's eather a godsend or the End of Democracy, depending on who's President at the time.
I thought the Lords were out of the picture anyway, except as a Court of Appeals.
But as I understand it the "industry" actively campaigned for the.xxx domain. It would be interesting to see who and what kind of ICANN-like process would be used to vet membership, in the case of, say, two sites called "savemejesus.xxx": One could be a bonafide religious site, trying to save sinners from pr0n, the other a bonafide pr0n site. Which would be fair use?
It would make it easy for parents and ISPs to block the whole domain, and have the advantage that it would actually be harder for govenments to block, since top level domain name resolution would be impossible to quash completely. You could even distribute specialized browsers with some kind of undernet-like protocol built in to bypass regular DNS resolution.
Wasn't it the Kenyan government that did a cost-benefit analysis and found the $100 computer was cost-effective as a replacement for textbooks? This seems to be sound reasoning if the numbers are correct.
Yes, in much of the world, "give a man a fish and he will trade it for guns or drugs, teach a man to fish and his boat will be stolen by the first guy you gave the fish to." I don't think Kenya fits into that category.
No, it's difficult to find reliable free distros that will support the features of higher-end woes. I still subscribe to the Poweredge Linux list and it is full of tales of woe from people trying to use free distros, mostly due to RAID controlelr problems.
OTOH, Dells with supported (RHEL and SUSE) distros seem to be OK, and DL380s (The Cheap Server of the Gods) seems to be even better, although I had a heck of a time a few months ago tring to get the serial port and LOM to work together during boot. (Mostly that was incompetent HP support. Eventually we figrued out the magic BIOS settings to get it to work.)
So realible hardware is out there but it seems to be going hand in hand with the pay-for-support distros nowadays.
I've worked on quite a few contracts where I was part of a massive 3 ring circus to collect Java metrics, so we could make pie charts for PHBs to show their PHBs. Of course the coders with half a brain already knew where their bottlenecks were. Glad to see all my efforts are being taken so seriously.
Believe me we're getting a good laugh over here over this Muhammad cartoon thing.
And there was the summer a couple of years ago when the weather got about as warm in France as it does in Dallas 40 weeks out of every year, and hundreds died.
European firefighters do have cool-looking helmets though.
Back in the VMS days I had a user who filed all his read email in the trash. You exited the VMS mail client a-la binmail - ^Q/"quit" exited without emptying the trash and ^X/"exit" exited and empltied the trash (or vice versa, whatever.)
This dumbass usually exited with ^Q but about once per quarter would accidentally exit with ^X and I woudl have to restore his Trash from tape. He did this OVER AND OVER again as long as I worked there.
Come on folks, an Apple Xserve RAID costs less than $1 per GB, by way of example.
While attaching huge binaries may not seem reasonable to us ubergeeks, it is perfectly reasonable for non-expert users to expect this, and $10 per user is less hassle than arguing about space limits, and even easier than expllaining over and over again to the typical dummy or two in every organization that can't save their mail.
You can always reject large binary attachments in real-time, both sending and receiving, that keeps them from emailing the NBA plyoffs to each other.
Worse yet, so-called Sarbanes-Oxley experts are running around telling everyone that they need to save all email, forever. It's inexplicable that modern MUAs can't just automatically deal with this kind of thing. Maybe there are a few than can, but most of the world is a whore to Outlook.
We evaluated several rackfuls of HP blades in my previous contract. Each rackful came with redundant 12KW 48VDC power supplies (Don't get your wedding ring caught in THOSE power cables.) (We're talking some serious interlocking thus.)
Anyway, even with only 10 or 20 blades in each rack the increased density led to such increased power consumption that there wasn't anyplace we could put the racks such that the existing ventilation system could deal with it.
They're retrofitting the whole room with APCC InfraStruXure(TM) stuff now so they can direct BTUs and power exactly where they need it. The point being that it's density not total power that constrains you. Modern switching power supplies are pretty efficient. Moving all the equipment to DC only bottlenecks the system somewhere else.
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I thought they worked around all the security issues by just writing all their data on 800 bpi 1/2" tape. Seriously, the only people who have those things anymore are the IRS and the FAA.
Why should I pay for this data
http://usgovinfo.about.com/b/a/217091.htm
when I get get it for free, then?
"The Lion and the Lamb shall lie down together, but the lamb won't get much sleep."
We just hate corporations, not RedHat in particular, until of course we go to work for some startup and get granted some valuable stock options. Then we loooove corporations, at least until our options vest and we can start flaming corporations again.
What are you, a man or a mouse? It's Redhat's trademark, they can do whatever the hell thay want. It's a free country, get off your ass and start your own distro, eveybody else has.
Really, you ought to know all this stuff as part of your job if you are a sysadmin or a developer, just like a police detective knows all the easy ways to commit crimes.
Sooner or later you are going to work with some dumb ass and it will be your responsibility to (tactfully) demonstrate all the security holes they have introduced in their code.
Standlaone so-called "security experts" are all useless poseurs. Twice now I have encountered "ethical hackers" in the job, hired by high-up muckety mucks, who told me "we like totally 0wned you systems d00d" and then refused to disclose to me what they had done. My logs said nothing, nobody took any action, and as far as I could tell it was all bullshit.(I owned all the servers, routers, and firewalls, so I should have known.)
I've only encountered one "security expert" who could ever actually demonstrate a non-obvious exploit to me, and that was in the Solaris 2.5 days.
"Ethical hacking" is core competency of any experienced system administrator. I'm amazed that there are so many senior sysadmins out there who don't or can't lock down their systems, or think that security is some kind of separate thing from system administration. I'd never hire any of them.
I can pick one of those puppies up for about $9K used:
http://www.anysystem.com/sunen10e12ra.html
"Here's a nickel, kid, get yourself a better computer."
-Dilbert
Really it all boils down to one question. I don't see any problem here.
- I wouldn't mind if my sister married an ATM, for example, it would be really easy to beat him at poker and I'd have all the cash I wanted.
- And what's the problem with "Dog Poop Girl"? She needed the humiliation.
- And what's wrong with organizing mass demonstrations by IM? Already happens everywhere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_neologisms_on _The_Simpsons
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/linus/le2.jpg
... like EVERYONE I KNOW.
OMFG, he dresses just like
Although everyone knows you NEVER wear white socks with the Birkenstocks after Labor Day.
http://ask.yahoo.com/20020913.html
There is so much RFI in my neighborhood I can barely operate on HF anymore. Back my grandpappy's day you'd stick your tongue in a light socket and suck in all the clear sweet sixty-hertz you wanted, now it's nothing but S7 plasma TVs and light dimmers. This country is going to hell in a handbasket.
What do the religious autorities have to say about this? If I put pig genes in a cow, does it make the cow treyf?
I think they are putting worm genes in pork. Now the answer to that one is easy.
Insensitive elitist FOSS-heads! I'm an Okie from Muskogee (well all my relatives are, I had the misfortune to be born elsewhere while my dad was away in the military. Now, like all great Okies like Tom Joad and Merle Haggard, I live in California.)
We ain't as stupid as y'all think. Just last week I figured out how to configure a Solaris DHCP server. My grandpappy warn't no monkey!
It was Wal-Mart, the only retail company in the World big enough to kick Microsoft's ass down the street like a leaf in the wind, that did the Linspire thing, right?
Wal-Mart will go to any means to sell a computer $0.99 cheaper than the guy down the street. They will lead a FOSS retail revolution, if the right distro can be pulled together.
Like laws and sausages, retail computer marketing is not pretty.
Really, why the hell not?
We Yanks have a similar thing going over here, the "line-item" veto. Executive branch would be able to veto specific parts of bills. It's eather a godsend or the End of Democracy, depending on who's President at the time.
I thought the Lords were out of the picture anyway, except as a Court of Appeals.
I mean, hell, here's 10TB of data that I'm currently backing up to tape.
Do you want me to package it as a J2EE WAR file? Fine!
... er, arms?
.xxx domain. It would be interesting to see who and what kind of ICANN-like process would be used to vet membership, in the case of, say, two sites called "savemejesus.xxx": One could be a bonafide religious site, trying to save sinners from pr0n, the other a bonafide pr0n site. Which would be fair use?
Good points, all, in the parent.
But as I understand it the "industry" actively campaigned for the
It would make it easy for parents and ISPs to block the whole domain, and have the advantage that it would actually be harder for govenments to block, since top level domain name resolution would be impossible to quash completely. You could even distribute specialized browsers with some kind of undernet-like protocol built in to bypass regular DNS resolution.
Wasn't it the Kenyan government that did a cost-benefit analysis and found the $100 computer was cost-effective as a replacement for textbooks? This seems to be sound reasoning if the numbers are correct.
Yes, in much of the world, "give a man a fish and he will trade it for guns or drugs, teach a man to fish and his boat will be stolen by the first guy you gave the fish to." I don't think Kenya fits into that category.
No, it's difficult to find reliable free distros that will support the features of higher-end woes. I still subscribe to the Poweredge Linux list and it is full of tales of woe from people trying to use free distros, mostly due to RAID controlelr problems.
OTOH, Dells with supported (RHEL and SUSE) distros seem to be OK, and DL380s (The Cheap Server of the Gods) seems to be even better, although I had a heck of a time a few months ago tring to get the serial port and LOM to work together during boot. (Mostly that was incompetent HP support. Eventually we figrued out the magic BIOS settings to get it to work.)
So realible hardware is out there but it seems to be going hand in hand with the pay-for-support distros nowadays.
I've worked on quite a few contracts where I was part of a massive 3 ring circus to collect Java metrics, so we could make pie charts for PHBs to show their PHBs. Of course the coders with half a brain already knew where their bottlenecks were. Glad to see all my efforts are being taken so seriously.
Believe me we're getting a good laugh over here over this Muhammad cartoon thing.
And there was the summer a couple of years ago when the weather got about as warm in France as it does in Dallas 40 weeks out of every year, and hundreds died.
European firefighters do have cool-looking helmets though.
Back in the VMS days I had a user who filed all his read email in the trash. You exited the VMS mail client a-la binmail - ^Q/"quit" exited without emptying the trash and ^X/"exit" exited and empltied the trash (or vice versa, whatever.)
This dumbass usually exited with ^Q but about once per quarter would accidentally exit with ^X and I woudl have to restore his Trash from tape. He did this OVER AND OVER again as long as I worked there.
My rhetorical point: RAID is cheap.
If your lawyers want to to keep all email forever, buy a tape drive.
List for XServe raid: 7TB, $13K. 3.5TB, $8,5K.
Come on folks, an Apple Xserve RAID costs less than $1 per GB, by way of example.
While attaching huge binaries may not seem reasonable to us ubergeeks, it is perfectly reasonable for non-expert users to expect this, and $10 per user is less hassle than arguing about space limits, and even easier than expllaining over and over again to the typical dummy or two in every organization that can't save their mail.
You can always reject large binary attachments in real-time, both sending and receiving, that keeps them from emailing the NBA plyoffs to each other.
Worse yet, so-called Sarbanes-Oxley experts are running around telling everyone that they need to save all email, forever. It's inexplicable that modern MUAs can't just automatically deal with this kind of thing. Maybe there are a few than can, but most of the world is a whore to Outlook.
We evaluated several rackfuls of HP blades in my previous contract. Each rackful came with redundant 12KW 48VDC power supplies (Don't get your wedding ring caught in THOSE power cables.) (We're talking some serious interlocking thus.)
Anyway, even with only 10 or 20 blades in each rack the increased density led to such increased power consumption that there wasn't anyplace we could put the racks such that the existing ventilation system could deal with it.
They're retrofitting the whole room with APCC InfraStruXure(TM) stuff now so they can direct BTUs and power exactly where they need it. The point being that it's density not total power that constrains you. Modern switching power supplies are pretty efficient. Moving all the equipment to DC only bottlenecks the system somewhere else.