Do you live in one of those states in the US where - in case the company crashes and lot's of debt is left - they can take everything from the company-owners, except their house and everything that's inside ?;-)
I've read a lot of responses to this thread along the lines of "I backdoor because customers forget their passwords." So what!?
Just setup the windoze-trashcan so that it automatically deletes everything without asking and wait for crying lusers/PHBs to beg you to restore that file they accidentially deleted.
Same with "TEMP"-folders on network-drives.
Fact is: people do stupid things, and it's good to have a way of "booting into single-user mode without password" alike in your software.
Or offer them a backdoor when you sell them the software - lay out the consequences of what could happen with one, and without.
I don't know too many people who would run oracle on windows espcially for large operations where oracle really shines.
My company runs the intranet portal on the Portal-Server, on a NT4 BOX. We have about 2000 employees.
At the beginning, they had such huge problems, that it almost wouldn't run and they escalated the issue up to Oracle HQ (we're an important company for Oracle).
Now, it runs more or less, but don't ask about TCO;-)
The reason some people run it on Windoze is, that they don't know anything else and thus have a Windozw-only infrastructure. This is OK, as long as you can pay for it....
Because the data is being sent from and to the same server, there's no chance that the email won't be delivered. So, you know that (barring a major server or internet breakdown) your data will be there waiting for you at the other end - no need to carry around any media at all.
Only, if you transmit via https. And if you are the only user of your webmail-service. Because the admin can still read your mail on the webmail server.
It can even be made practically secure - just zip up your files and attach a password to the transmitted zip file.
This is a joke, not encryption. I hope you are not entrusted any sensitive or valuable data.
You don't like photos in job-applications (uh - discrimniation luring) or the religion, but you want to have credit-reports of your employees ?
I can understand employers perfectly who want to know absolutely everything about their staff (like, remember you surfing the squid-logs before it got sanctioned ?), but if no limits are imposed (laws ?), they're not going to stop at any point.
Next thing is to scrutinize your genes and require a thorough, yearly medical checkup to be able to fire you one month before you get really sick.
(or they're age-old and do not really apply to the Ultra-SPARC III-problem)
SPARC64GP are either rack-mountable servers (starts at 1U for V100 or 120-like machines) and scales upto 200 CPUs for a system that fills two racks...
Running OpenBSD on anything but a single blade 1000/2000/ the upcoming jalapeno-workstations or a small server is - IMHO - completely nuts.
Have you thought of leaving the country ?
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Kevin, what I've asked myself: after all those years in jail - haven't you thought of leaving the country ?
Just calling it quits an moving somewhere else ?
I've only loosely followed your case (and the related civil liberties problems in the USA) since I first heard of it in c.a. 1997, but judging from todays "status quo", I can say that it hasn't improved at all.
I can't boot my laptop with the RC2 and RC3 floppies, because it claims it cannot find said module. The install hangs at this point. (in a late stage of probing, after having found the network-card etc.)
It's not gonna happen (sadly enough) until there a free, open and viable competitor to Exchange. Maybe three years down the road, but who knows what MS has cooked up for then.
Looked at SamsungContact ?. It's HP's OpenMail, further developed.
In Germany, we have a train-system called " Transrapid". As of today, besides a prototype track it's only being deployed in China.
But the original design-idea dates back to 1934, when Hermann Kemper received a patent on "magnetic levitation of trains". He already envisioned sub-ocean trains in vacuum-tubes, back in the 1930s !
I can't find the text of the patent anywhere, but I read this in a magazine some time ago.
>Wouldn't an entire year without crops have a seriously fucked up effect on our food supply?
Define 'ours'. If you mean the US, and for only one year, then no. Prices would go up, but more because of a perceived threat than a real one (much like gas prices go up within hours of something happening in the middle east.) The US stockpiles, and let rots generally, a tremendous amount of food. Our exports and handouts would most certainly be affected.
Don't be too sure of that. The world's crop-surplus is very low actually.
You and us in Europe will definitely feel a crop-failure.
I've heard numbers that if every single inhabitant of China (PRoC, that is) wanted to eat one more fried chicken per year (if he could afford...), there wouldn't be enough crop to feed these.
The projected climate-change (which I also consider imminent) will have unforeseeable political and social consequences.
I always considered (and still do) this region-encoding similar to the Volksempfänger we (Germany, then "Deutsches Reich", for the interested student) had from c.a. 1933 to 1945.
These where radios that were only able to receive German radio-stations. No shortwave, no BBC nothing else.
Granted, this was for obvious political reasons (and there were cinema-"commercials" educating the people not to listen to foreign radio-stations), but the possibility is there, still today.
When will they limit the distribution of books ? When will a German book-shop be raided because he sells a US-bestseller not yet translated into German ?
Think this is "impossible" ? Then think of Harry Potter and all the craze it created.
Why would I want to run Solaris x86 over Linux or BSD? I have used Solaris on Sun boxen but never have touched it on the x86.
One Word: NFS-Server
OK, two words, actually. But from what I've heard, getting the locking-issues right on Linux is a PITA. On FreeBSD, rpc_lockd is marked as broken anyway. So there's honest at least.
About the only one of those three that MS-Windos has over linux would be the ability to switch display modes quickly.
Which is very useful on a Laptop, where the LC-Display can actually only show one resolution and interpolates the rest (with mixed success).
When did you switch the resolution on your Laptop last time ?
The ability to switch resolutions was useful some years ago, when you had only, say, 2 MB VRAM and either wanted 32 bpp or 1280x1024.
Nowadays, PDAs are aproaching that limit...
I did say "_if_ you have the time"... My old P200MMX has got some heat-problems which are only visible after some hours of make world. I haven't tried, but I guess a simple memtest86 wouldn't do here. And if you buy @ebay, this whole article is useless, because you can't even touch the box until UPS or whoever has sent it to you. So, yes, I assume he has some time on hand to actually test it.
If you have the time, try running the SETI@home-client for 24h - and then install FreeBSD, make world, compile KDE3, mozilla and OpenOffice from ports. (>6 GB disk-space needed, though)
SETI will bring the CPU to the limit. If it's overclocked and/or badly cooled or otherwise unstable, you'll see that quickly.
The rest will stress-test your IO-capabilities;-)
If it survives all that, then it looks like you can trust the system quite a bit.
I guess, the end result will be that one day, to keep your PC secure you'll have to give-up administrator rights.
Your Windoze-PC, that is....
Think of your colo-provider - once you've got the root-password, they also dismiss any liability for damages from your acts.
I'm sure, the various critics of the antitrust trial of the DoJ and the states can name some reasons why this is good for the consumer....
:-)
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You mean like this one ?
When I had it demoed to me at a show, it had an extreme smell of snake oil (which probably every device like this has and always will), but IMHO it could be worse. In fact, it looks quite solid - just don't think it is a solution for every problem.
First, look for a really quiet case+powersupply. Noisecontrol here in Germany seems to make reasonable ones. Surely, you can get a supplier in US or elsewhere for their stuff.
Search ebay and those "opinion-sites" for some weeks to get a feeling of what is good and what is bad.
Never buy the cheapest.
Even if you totally discard it as a Web-Search-Engine, the FTP-Search is still one of the best.
It was hidden as ftpsearch.lycos.com for some time, but now it seems to have come "home".
BTW: the last time their OS was visible through the firewall, it was FreeBSD...
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Do you live in one of those states in the US where - in case the company crashes and lot's of debt is left - they can take everything from the company-owners, except their house and everything that's inside ? ;-)
Go figure...
Just setup the windoze-trashcan so that it automatically deletes everything without asking and wait for crying lusers/PHBs to beg you to restore that file they accidentially deleted.
Same with "TEMP"-folders on network-drives.
Fact is: people do stupid things, and it's good to have a way of "booting into single-user mode without password" alike in your software.
Or offer them a backdoor when you sell them the software - lay out the consequences of what could happen with one, and without.
That's OK, too.
My company runs the intranet portal on the Portal-Server, on a NT4 BOX. We have about 2000 employees. ;-)
At the beginning, they had such huge problems, that it almost wouldn't run and they escalated the issue up to Oracle HQ (we're an important company for Oracle).
Now, it runs more or less, but don't ask about TCO
The reason some people run it on Windoze is, that they don't know anything else and thus have a Windozw-only infrastructure. This is OK, as long as you can pay for it....
Only, if you transmit via https. And if you are the only user of your webmail-service. Because the admin can still read your mail on the webmail server.
It can even be made practically secure - just zip up your files and attach a password to the transmitted zip file.
This is a joke, not encryption. I hope you are not entrusted any sensitive or valuable data.
I'm sure he needs more time to look at pr0n, so that's why he actually built the LCD.
You don't understand this - these are no PCs you can run Windows on.
Go and do some research.
I can understand employers perfectly who want to know absolutely everything about their staff (like, remember you surfing the squid-logs before it got sanctioned ?), but if no limits are imposed (laws ?), they're not going to stop at any point.
Next thing is to scrutinize your genes and require a thorough, yearly medical checkup to be able to fire you one month before you get really sick.
Indeed.
Are their any SPARC64GP desktop boxes?
No, to the best of my knowledge.
(or they're age-old and do not really apply to the Ultra-SPARC III-problem)
SPARC64GP are either rack-mountable servers (starts at 1U for V100 or 120-like machines) and scales upto 200 CPUs for a system that fills two racks...
Running OpenBSD on anything but a single blade 1000/2000/ the upcoming jalapeno-workstations or a small server is - IMHO - completely nuts.
Kevin, what I've asked myself: after all those years in jail - haven't you thought of leaving the country ?
Just calling it quits an moving somewhere else ?
I've only loosely followed your case (and the related civil liberties problems in the USA) since I first heard of it in c.a. 1997, but judging from todays "status quo", I can say that it hasn't improved at all.
Hi,
I can't boot my laptop with the RC2 and RC3 floppies, because it claims it cannot find said module.
The install hangs at this point.
(in a late stage of probing, after having found the network-card etc.)
4.7 runs OK.
Looked at SamsungContact ?. It's HP's OpenMail, further developed.
EOL for IE or so ;-)
St. Petersburg Times" has more info on the incident, if you must.
But the original design-idea dates back to 1934, when Hermann Kemper received a patent on "magnetic levitation of trains". He already envisioned sub-ocean trains in vacuum-tubes, back in the 1930s !
I can't find the text of the patent anywhere, but I read this in a magazine some time ago.
Define 'ours'. If you mean the US, and for only one year, then no. Prices would go up, but more because of a perceived threat than a real one (much like gas prices go up within hours of something happening in the middle east.) The US stockpiles, and let rots generally, a tremendous amount of food. Our exports and handouts would most certainly be affected.
Don't be too sure of that. The world's crop-surplus is very low actually. You and us in Europe will definitely feel a crop-failure. I've heard numbers that if every single inhabitant of China (PRoC, that is) wanted to eat one more fried chicken per year (if he could afford...), there wouldn't be enough crop to feed these.
The projected climate-change (which I also consider imminent) will have unforeseeable political and social consequences.
If it really happens: Pray !
Rainer
These where radios that were only able to receive German radio-stations. No shortwave, no BBC nothing else.
Granted, this was for obvious political reasons (and there were cinema-"commercials" educating the people not to listen to foreign radio-stations), but the possibility is there, still today.
When will they limit the distribution of books ?
When will a German book-shop be raided because he sells a US-bestseller not yet translated into German ?
Think this is "impossible" ? Then think of Harry Potter and all the craze it created.
One Word: NFS-Server
OK, two words, actually. But from what I've heard, getting the locking-issues right on Linux is a PITA.
On FreeBSD, rpc_lockd is marked as broken anyway. So there's honest at least.
Which is very useful on a Laptop, where the LC-Display can actually only show one resolution and interpolates the rest (with mixed success).
When did you switch the resolution on your Laptop last time ?
The ability to switch resolutions was useful some years ago, when you had only, say, 2 MB VRAM and either wanted 32 bpp or 1280x1024.
Nowadays, PDAs are aproaching that limit...
Well,
don't blame me for other people's points...
I did say "_if_ you have the time"...
My old P200MMX has got some heat-problems which are only visible after some hours of make world.
I haven't tried, but I guess a simple memtest86 wouldn't do here.
And if you buy @ebay, this whole article is useless, because you can't even touch the box until UPS or whoever has sent it to you.
So, yes, I assume he has some time on hand to actually test it.
If you have the time, try running the SETI@home-client for 24h - and then install FreeBSD, make world, compile KDE3, mozilla and OpenOffice from ports.
;-)
(>6 GB disk-space needed, though)
SETI will bring the CPU to the limit. If it's overclocked and/or badly cooled or otherwise unstable, you'll see that quickly.
The rest will stress-test your IO-capabilities
If it survives all that, then it looks like you can trust the system quite a bit.
Rainer
Your Windoze-PC, that is....
Think of your colo-provider - once you've got the root-password, they also dismiss any liability for damages from your acts.
I'm sure, the various critics of the antitrust trial of the DoJ and the states can name some reasons why this is good for the consumer....
:-)
When I had it demoed to me at a show, it had an extreme smell of snake oil (which probably every device like this has and always will), but IMHO it could be worse.
In fact, it looks quite solid - just don't think it is a solution for every problem.
Noisecontrol here in Germany seems to make reasonable ones. Surely, you can get a supplier in US or elsewhere for their stuff.
Search ebay and those "opinion-sites" for some weeks to get a feeling of what is good and what is bad.
Never buy the cheapest.
It was hidden as ftpsearch.lycos.com for some time, but now it seems to have come "home".
BTW: the last time their OS was visible through the firewall, it was FreeBSD...
Anyone remember archie ?
Doesn't Shuttle build barebone-systems in mini-aluminium cases ?
If Shuttle had a website that worked without JavaScript, I'd give a better link...