my new boss asked me some questions, such as "how old are you" and "what are you hobbies I don't think that your boss was being chummy trying to get to know you and then decided you were a juvenile delinquent, but was already had already decided to remove you and was just trolling for ammo.
What nonsense. All you guys demonstrate that you may have acquired tech skills, but are briutally lacking social skills. You don't live and work in a vacuum, these your colleagues are human beeings. Trying to get to know you.
My personal impression from your writing is that you folks run around playing perfect smartass most of the time. "Oh, we are so much younger and sharper than you old farts there. We are just l33t". You bet.
And now you whine on slashdot why people don't like you. Pathetic.
First of all, I did complete high school. By attending home school I was able to complete it earlier then most people get the chance to.
At the age of what ? 14 or so ?
So Mommy taught you reading. That's fine, actually, but it's not school, regardless how you call it.
Then you passed a somewhat wortless exam (we all know that a US high school diploma (more precisely, the ownership of it) only says "this guy is not a totally hopeless loser". The rest is in the grades and subjects. Anbd in more advanced qualifications.
And of course, you never saw a college, not to mention university, from the inside.
And now you play games with us by using creative mathematics with "experience" years ? Gosh, grow up.
The company I work for wouldn't even consider you for an apprentice position.
For those of not familiar, essentially OpenMail is the *only* e-mail platform out there, besides Exchange that will support a whole slew of Microsoft Outlook features - something necessary in the enterprise
I hate Microsoft as much as the next *nix guy, but this makes sense to me. If you're going to push a single account/password strategy, you need to implement it yourself first.
Of course this makes sense - nobody doubts that. About as much sense as it makes that you disarm someone before you kill him.
The Point is, we do not want Micro$oft to force us all into a single account/password strategy. It should sometimes be remembered that issuing passports is a government privilege.
The problem with paypal ist that they try to be (and too many people want them to be) too much. In your case you want them to be a trade insurance. Well, they aren't, but they don't tell you clearly.
If somebody scams you and he got your money, your money is gone. Period. This doesn't get different just because you were scammed at ebay.
If you want an insurance for the risk of getting scammed at ebay, well, you better buy one. Prepare to pay premium fees, though.
This, along with having to re-explain everything to new auditors, makes switching a very difficult process.
Now that's an euphemism! Adjusting the right mix of bribery and threats for your new auditors to make sure they overlook what they are supposed to overlook is indeed a itchy process.
And KPMG is indeed good at 'overlooking' things, as a few recent scandals have amply evidenced...
Neither (most of) the DoI nor the American public deserve to be treated this way.
Why ? If you read the article and the numerous other reports linked on the indiantrust site you'll see the whole department for decades now is stonewalling any attempt to even get information on the whereabouts of that money.
Sorry, that's not a few folk's wrongdoing; that's a full blown buerocrat's conspiration to cover each other's precious ass and further corrution and incompetence in the process.
The whole department is involved. Let them suffer.
Bull. You always had one - it just wasn't on paper. And it probably had a lot more paragraphs than you think - resulting from standards established by legislation as well as court decisions.
says the average salary of the striking teachers is $56k/year + benefits, only a little less than I make as an electrical engineer in the midwest.
What a Joke. Have you compared cost of living between Midwest and a New York suburb ? Plus, most of these people are seasoned experts having years of experience, while you are.... well, let's be silent on that.
That isn't solidarity, it's larcency, a natural consequence of communism
In the place I live teachers are as well or better paid than engineers that work for the state. And that's one of the things that is really good here. People that handle our chiuldren should be damned well better experts than people who just handle our computers....
Point is, that if it takes 2RLX processors to make 1 equivalent of another type, it screws your rarions around a bit dosen't it?
Well - yes an no.
When the purpose of this is amassing computing power, you're probably better off with well equipped 1U machines. Dell and Compaq both sell dual PIIIs in 1U-Chassis with substantially more computing power than any HP blade has to offer.
IMO the purpose of ultra dense machines is having well seperated servers in a hosting or multi-funtional environment. Here you often don't actually care for raw computing power.
And, FWIW, even if your equation holds true, and 1 Intel was worth two transmetas, RLX would still beat HP in terms of punch/Unit at a ratio of roughly 3:1.
Concentration-wise they just play in different leagues. (HP plays in the nicetry league - or so it seems:-)
2) Make it absolutely legal to defend my property (servers, IP address space, etc) through any means available (NULL routing, reverse hacking, packet amplifiers, RBL, etc...)
You obviously missed the point. Sun and RedHat are just as reckless at releasing insecure software as Microsoft.
If they do this practice should change. FWIW, the Article did not suggest them to be as reckless or insecure on purose as M$. It only mentioned them having the same number of reported bugs. OTOH the classical Unix security model is woefully inadequate and at some point will be considered outdated.
Perhaps even moreso in the case of RedHat as they are just blindly redistributing stuff others wrote and have no input in the design
No, I don't. If Red Hat started to distribute GnomeOutlook some day, they deserved to be sued to Hell and back.
Red Hat's product is selling decisions. "This we take, that we don't". So maybe writing code isn't their business, but selecting code is. And therefore they should be held responsible, at least by their paying customers.
One problem adminstrators of Educational and nonprofit organizations often face is that they don't get help from law enforcement as long as they can't prove or argue damages. Law enforcements these days only seems to care for businesses and Goverment institutions.
A good Example here is the DOSed University. Universities or others that run a free community service (like IRC servers) get virtually zero help when their system (or even their whole networks) get blasted off the net by some DOS script kiddy, while OTOH armies of FBI agents start running when Yahoo or Amazon is in trouble.
Law enforcement should
- consider gangs of electronic vandals (like IRC war clans) organized crime and prosecute them accordingly
- consider attacks and damage against public and community institutions a heavily aggravating element during sentencing (so the yahoo hacker will have to serve less or equal time as the guy who DOSes a university IRC or some poor.org's Web Site).
- allocate prosectution resources in a way that they can give equal priority to the finding of a script kiddy regardless if he DOSes Boeing or the Younameit Community College Web Site.
f. (who thinks that script kiddies who 'packet' IRC servers (and such, whole Networks) for such childish reasons as to take over a competing clan's channel are one of the lowest forms of life, somwhere between the cholera germ and the common spammer).
Do you honestly think Tacitus would have said "corrupter"? Well, he would have said it in latin at least.
Certainly. He actually did (say it in latin).
If the English translation isn't up to your expectations, feel free to submit (and explain) a correction. Since I'm not an English native speaker, I happen to make mistakes every now and then.
Legislation that aims to punish companies for writing insecure software would harm almost every company that writes any software that is aimed at being used in a server/multi-user environment since security is an absolute that most non-trivial software does not reach.
Nobody's gonna be perfect.
The Objective is not to punish accidentally inescure systems.
The Objective is to punish verndors that are purposefully or recklessly insecure. The way to do that - as they do it in any other field - ist to establish and maintain a set of "state of the art" security practices. Deviation from these would shift the burden of proof to the vendor.
Frankly, I would absolutely love a law on the books that says "any email program may never ever interpret, receive, display or send anything but character strings of ISO approved character sets, structured by line breaks." (= Plain Text). If you do otherweise, you are fully liable for any and all kind of damage that results from this difference.
They need ridiculous 13U to house 16 blade servers - that's like 1.2 Severs per U.
Have a look at the RLX beasts linked in the article. Those have 24 blades in a 3 U case - that's a whopping 8 Servers per U. Now, that's "ultra density".
The HP stuff ist just... sortof... like... ahem... dense...
Remember what the president of CARE Australia said in Canada 2-3 years ago about CARE Canada?
"Were sick and tired of Canada using their NGO's for all their intelligence work because those of us who arent involved in spying end up paying the price
... but a sentence earlier you criticize MSF for saying something similar to their Greek section. The Greek section was excluded for using the MSF name in activities not in accordance to MSF guidelines (namely to run a government program to support one side in a war) - so what do you complain ?
the problem with that witty finsk is that he appaprently was forced to endure a few real bad CS classes back in Helsinki.
He's wrong, of course. Whatever works in Linux works because at some point somebody did some serious thinking before starting to spew out code. Planning data structures. Maybe even read about how others tackled the problem.
Thats called Design. In a few areas Linux serously lacks design. and it shows.
... the biggest crooks work for the government, not against it. Similarily, as Brecht once noted, bank robbery is strictly amateur stuff. Professionals run banks.
And you use other peoples resources without permission. Sucker.
Ever heard of proxy logs ? Of network analying tools ? Do you even know who runs that particular proxy server ?
A company I worked for deployed its first web proxy without logs, without restrictions on the CONNECT method, and accessible to everyone. Heck, we would'nt have cared for the occasional stranger coming along. But within a week or so an incredible number of cretins hat discovered that machine, and we were swamped in abuse reports. Not to even mention Bandwidth issues. None of these suckers was a customer of ours - only externals strolling in abd taking what wan't theirs.
Why can't people stop (ab)using other people's stuff ? Things like that make wish back the old times, when you would call up the guy's sysadmin and the pisser would loose his job, his account at university or something.
A few months ago i had a test machine from a major web cache vendor sitting in a test network. (the machine was just part of the environment, not the item tested). Well, it turned out we left the proxy port open to the world. No big deal, really... but our test results were obtained by sniffing the LAN, often for long hours, even over night. Apparently, after some time the cache turned up in obscure 'open proxy lists'. And people started using it, for don't ask me what - from the logs I've seen, mostly japanese porn. And I 've had a few gigabytes of tcpdump trace data, with all these http requests in it; probably including all those porn passwords and whatnot.
The funny thing is - the proxy had 'test system' spelled all across its DNS name, so people should have known better. Apparently noone bothered.
- they don't take responsibility. No compensation for people who sufferered sever data losses. Wow what kind of moron is iTunes on a server? Doesn't that eat a lot of CPU cylces.
You misinterpreted my typo. I was talking of severe data loss. It really doesnt matter if the affected machine is a server or not.
This problem only came to light today, and they have a fix out the same day.
No. Apple lies:
- they have not even admitted failure. Instead they engage in Microsoftian doublespeak talking about an "issue". Instead, they should write: "due to a defect in our software installer... "
- they don't take responsibility. No compensation for people who sufferered sever data losses.
Posting a patch isn't always enough.
You just don't wipe people's hard drives. Never. Having an installer that is even capable of such is a sign of faulty design. They are to blame.
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What nonsense. All you guys demonstrate that you may have acquired tech skills, but are briutally lacking social skills. You don't live and work in a vacuum, these your colleagues are human beeings. Trying to get to know you.
My personal impression from your writing is that you folks run around playing perfect smartass most of the time. "Oh, we are so much younger and sharper than you old farts there. We are just l33t". You bet.
And now you whine on slashdot why people don't like you. Pathetic.
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So Mommy taught you reading. That's fine, actually, but it's not school, regardless how you call it.
Then you passed a somewhat wortless exam (we all know that a US high school diploma (more precisely, the ownership of it) only says "this guy is not a totally hopeless loser". The rest is in the grades and subjects. Anbd in more advanced qualifications.
And of course, you never saw a college, not to mention university, from the inside.
And now you play games with us by using creative mathematics with "experience" years ? Gosh, grow up.
The company I work for wouldn't even consider you for an apprentice position.
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'nuff said. f.
The Point is, we do not want Micro$oft to force us all into a single account/password strategy. It should sometimes be remembered that issuing passports is a government privilege.
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... a very old Usenet corollary of Murphy's Law:
"A spelling flame will contain at least one spelling error itself."
The problem with paypal ist that they try to be (and too many people want them to be) too much. In your case you want them to be a trade insurance. Well, they aren't, but they don't tell you clearly.
If somebody scams you and he got your money, your money is gone. Period. This doesn't get different just because you were scammed at ebay.
If you want an insurance for the risk of getting scammed at ebay, well, you better buy one. Prepare to pay premium fees, though.
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And KPMG is indeed good at 'overlooking' things, as a few recent scandals have amply evidenced...
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Sorry, that's not a few folk's wrongdoing; that's a full blown buerocrat's conspiration to cover each other's precious ass and further corrution and incompetence in the process.
The whole department is involved. Let them suffer.
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When the purpose of this is amassing computing power, you're probably better off with well equipped 1U machines. Dell and Compaq both sell dual PIIIs in 1U-Chassis with substantially more computing power than any HP blade has to offer.
IMO the purpose of ultra dense machines is having well seperated servers in a hosting or multi-funtional environment. Here you often don't actually care for raw computing power.
And, FWIW, even if your equation holds true, and 1 Intel was worth two transmetas, RLX would still beat HP in terms of punch/Unit at a ratio of roughly 3:1.
Concentration-wise they just play in different leagues. (HP plays in the nicetry league - or so it seems
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You forgot shotguns...
Red Hat's product is selling decisions. "This we take, that we don't". So maybe writing code isn't their business, but selecting code is. And therefore they should be held responsible, at least by their paying customers.
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One problem adminstrators of Educational and nonprofit organizations often face is that they don't get help from law enforcement as long as they can't prove or argue damages. Law enforcements these days only seems to care for businesses and Goverment institutions.
.org's Web Site).
A good Example here is the DOSed University. Universities or others that run a free community service (like IRC servers) get virtually zero help when their system (or even their whole networks) get blasted off the net by some DOS script kiddy, while OTOH armies of FBI agents start running when Yahoo or Amazon is in trouble.
Law enforcement should
- consider gangs of electronic vandals (like IRC war clans) organized crime and prosecute them accordingly
- consider attacks and damage against public and community institutions a heavily aggravating element during sentencing (so the yahoo hacker will have to serve less or equal time as the guy who DOSes a university IRC or some poor
- allocate prosectution resources in a way that they can give equal priority to the finding of a script kiddy regardless if he DOSes Boeing or the Younameit Community College Web Site.
f. (who thinks that script kiddies who 'packet' IRC servers (and such, whole Networks) for such childish reasons as to take over a competing clan's channel are one of the lowest forms of life, somwhere between the cholera germ and the common spammer).
Certainly. He actually did (say it in latin).
If the English translation isn't up to your expectations, feel free to submit (and explain) a correction. Since I'm not an English native speaker, I happen to make mistakes every now and then.
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The Objective is not to punish accidentally inescure systems.
The Objective is to punish verndors that are purposefully or recklessly insecure. The way to do that - as they do it in any other field - ist to establish and maintain a set of "state of the art" security practices. Deviation from these would shift the burden of proof to the vendor.
Frankly, I would absolutely love a law on the books that says "any email program may never ever interpret, receive, display or send anything but character strings of ISO approved character sets, structured by line breaks." (= Plain Text). If you do otherweise, you are fully liable for any and all kind of damage that results from this difference.
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This product looks like dead in the water.
... sortof... like... ahem... dense...
They need ridiculous 13U to house 16 blade servers - that's like 1.2 Severs per U.
Have a look at the RLX beasts linked in the article. Those have 24 blades in a 3 U case - that's a whopping 8 Servers per U. Now, that's "ultra density".
The HP stuff ist just
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Oh well...
the problem with that witty finsk is that he appaprently was forced to endure a few real bad CS classes back in Helsinki.
He's wrong, of course. Whatever works in Linux works because at some point somebody did some serious thinking before starting to spew out code. Planning data structures. Maybe even read about how others tackled the problem.
Thats called Design. In a few areas Linux serously lacks design. and it shows.
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... the biggest crooks work for the government, not against it. Similarily, as Brecht once noted, bank robbery is strictly amateur stuff. Professionals run banks.
Oh well...
And you use other peoples resources without permission. Sucker.
Ever heard of proxy logs ? Of network analying tools ? Do you even know who runs that particular proxy server ?
A company I worked for deployed its first web proxy without logs, without restrictions on the CONNECT method, and accessible to everyone. Heck, we would'nt have cared for the occasional stranger coming along. But within a week or so an incredible number of cretins hat discovered that machine, and we were swamped in abuse reports. Not to even mention Bandwidth issues. None of these suckers was a customer of ours - only externals strolling in abd taking what wan't theirs.
Why can't people stop (ab)using other people's stuff ? Things like that make wish back the old times, when you would call up the guy's sysadmin and the pisser would loose his job, his account at university or something.
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I dont't think most people bother.
... but our test results were obtained by sniffing the LAN, often for long hours, even over night. Apparently, after some time the cache turned up in obscure 'open proxy lists'. And people started using it, for don't ask me what - from the logs I've seen, mostly japanese porn. And I 've had a few gigabytes of tcpdump trace data, with all these http requests in it; probably including all those porn passwords and whatnot.
A few months ago i had a test machine from a major web cache vendor sitting in a test network. (the machine was just part of the environment, not the item tested). Well, it turned out we left the proxy port open to the world. No big deal, really
The funny thing is - the proxy had 'test system' spelled all across its DNS name, so people should have known better. Apparently noone bothered.
Essentially, people don't care.
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I checked all the photos... not a single booth babe. Not even one! Only boring gadgets.
Phil, let me put it bluntly: You suck.
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- they have not even admitted failure. Instead they engage in Microsoftian doublespeak talking about an "issue". Instead, they should write: "due to a defect in our software installer
- they don't take responsibility. No compensation for people who sufferered sever data losses.
Posting a patch isn't always enough.
You just don't wipe people's hard drives. Never. Having an installer that is even capable of such is a sign of faulty design. They are to blame.
f.