MCS works quite well, especially well on Fibre Channel and Brand Name Hardware such as Dells and Compaqs.
I don't want to start a pissing contest, just expressing another data point...
I'd have to disagree.
My employer spent nearly $1/4M trying to set up a fault tolerant email system using MCS...
It was a total disaster...The SMTP service would hang and the Cluster Service would either ignore it, or hang in the process of failover
I spent my first 3 months on site rebuilding that puppy..(Thanks MS!)
MCS works fine if all you're preparing for is a machine that craps out totally or falls off the network, but if you want it to failover when a service hangs, forget it...
We use nothing but Compaq hardware and NT4 and W2k as operating systems.
We have the same problem with our Webserver on a purpose built Compaq "cluster-in-a-box"
...the film was upside down and playing backwards!
This hapened to me many years ago at the first screening of "Alien" in the Republic of Korea...
Somehow, the last reel was wound backwards...
When the third reel started (I think it was third..),
Ripley climbed out of a sleep pod, a huge
explosion coalessed into the Nostromo, and an
escape vehicle flew in reverse and docked...
Naturally, this made no sense, since the last
thing we had seen was Ripley starting to initiate the self-destruct sequence...!
IMHO, the show has really been dead since The Movie...
For me the only interesting storyline was the Alien Invasion/Gov't Conspiracy thread...
That died a bizarro death with The Movie...
Since then the show has just been floundering around, looking for a story to tell, and coming up short...
At least when Millennium died they ended it quickly...
Frank Black didn't spend 3 seasons wandering around looking lost and only vaguely aware that something was happening somewhere...
I have both a Hotmail account and a Yahoo account.
The Hotmail account averages 10 to 20 pieces of Spam per day.
The Yahoo account averages 2 Spams per day.
The funny thing is I don't use the Hotmail account address for anything, I use the Yahoo account for virtually everything.
So. My theory is that Hotmail/MSN allows/encourages spammers to fill their users mailboxes with crap!
There are 2 possible reasons:
1 - Hotmail/MSN actually sells their user lists to spammers.
2 - Hotmail/MSN drives up revenues by selling larger mailboxes to people who get more Spam.
I worked as a Postmaster at a Federal Gov't agency a couple of years ago.
While I was there we did several things to try and determine what kinds of messages were entering our system.
One of the things we did was to queue all incoming messages for a short period so could have a chance to look at them.
What we determined was that over 95% of all the messages we received that were larger than 1 Meg were CRAP of some sort, and definitely NOT business related.
We also tracked the number of messages per day going through the system for several months and found that just before Thanksgiving our numbers would triple and stay that way until Valentines Day...
Report them to their ISP or their upstream provider.
It's worked for me in the past...
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I have been using Snort for about 6 months and several times per week, in a normal week, I end up emailing log exerpts to SysAdmins and Abuse accounts all over The World...
I get a very good response rate, possibly as high as 80%...100% if you consider that the offending activity generally stops shortly after I have reported it...
When I was in the USAF, I DID toggle in diagnostics and loaders on the front panel of my HM-4118...
Built by Hughes Aircraft Corp...
128k of ferrite core memory. Input devices included 4 9-track tape drives, a paper-tape reader and a Teletype 321 terminal...
And output devices were 14 radar consoles and a paper tape punch...
So, YES, I am an old fart, just not an old UNIX fart...:)
I've had Road Runner service since February and have had great connections...Routinely over 200k...
Easily as good as my work connection, which is an OC3 which I share with 7,000 other people...
I'll give up my cable modem when they pry it from my cold dead fingers!
1. I've been using my Visor Deluxe daily for 2 years (this month is my anniversary, I'm so proud!) and have had only 1 OS crash where I had to do a "cold restart".
2. 8 megs of RAM have served me well, better than I ever imagined...After 2 years of daily use I have over 5 megs still available.
3. 3 months ago I bought a VisorPhone and threw away my cell phone. The Visor still fits in the RhinoSkin case I bought for the Visor alone, and still fits in my hip pocket, albeit a little more tightly...
4. I routinely get 2 to 3 months between battery changes. And AAA's are available anywhere, including Ukraine, which is extremely conveinient...
5. Handspring's service has been great. I dropped my Visor on a concrete floor after 6 months of ownership and the screen shattered (hence the RhinoSkin)...Handspring shipped me a replacement Visor Deluxe, overnight, FOR FREE! Think Compaq would do that?
So, I don't see your point. Why should I subject myself to more of Microsoft's BS?
My Handspring is one of the most useful things I own, right next to my Swiss-Army Knife...I don't leave home without either one...
Well, when I bought my VisorPhone a few months ago, I had to choose a service offered on the Handspring website and sign-up with Cingular (Bell South) through Handspring...
I had to commit to 1 year service, if I drop the service within that year, I pay full price for the VisorPhone...
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Last night on ABC, Peter Jennings interviewed an engineer who said that the WTC had enough steel to withstand the impact...
According to him, exposing the steel to 1000F heat for an hour was what finally caused it to fail...
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This commentary is nearly 30 years old and is not addressed to our current situation.
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"They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin
As much as I repect the wisdom of our founding fathers, I respectfully submit that spouting 200 year old quotes about liberty is not helpful or applicable in the least.
Slashdot Mirror
"This campaign is not so much against IE, but for the use of safer and more user-friendly browsers."
Ok, I hate IE as much as anyone else, but safer, to me, means that it won't threaten my life as much as IE.
I really wasn't aware that IE was capable of physical harm...
MCS works quite well, especially well on Fibre Channel and Brand Name Hardware such as Dells and Compaqs.
I don't want to start a pissing contest, just expressing another data point...
I'd have to disagree.
My employer spent nearly $1/4M trying to set up a fault tolerant email system using MCS...
It was a total disaster...The SMTP service would hang and the Cluster Service would either ignore it, or hang in the process of failover
I spent my first 3 months on site rebuilding that puppy..(Thanks MS!)
MCS works fine if all you're preparing for is a machine that craps out totally or falls off the network, but if you want it to failover when a service hangs, forget it...
We use nothing but Compaq hardware and NT4 and W2k as operating systems.
We have the same problem with our Webserver on a purpose built Compaq "cluster-in-a-box"
Fortunately, I'm not responsible for that one...
...the film was upside down and playing backwards!
This hapened to me many years ago at the first screening of "Alien" in the Republic of Korea...
Somehow, the last reel was wound backwards...
When the third reel started (I think it was third..),
Ripley climbed out of a sleep pod, a huge
explosion coalessed into the Nostromo, and an
escape vehicle flew in reverse and docked...
Naturally, this made no sense, since the last
thing we had seen was Ripley starting to
initiate the self-destruct sequence...!
The only way to do this would be to use a decent server-class M/B with 64bit/66MHz PCI bus - which would take the total system cost above 2.5k$.
Over $2.5K?
PriceWatch lists motherboards with those specs for $260US...
Why don't you just tell the world where you work and what you do there and while you are at it where you live.
The clearance is not in effect for my current job...So, nyeah!
Can I get security clearance now so when I graduate I will be all that more attractive to government hiring?
Short answer, NO...
Security Clearances cannot be bought.
To get a clearance you need to be hired for a position that will require a clearance.
Either that or join the Military in a specialty that requires a clearance.
That's how I got mine. TS/SCI...
IMHO, the show has really been dead since The Movie...
For me the only interesting storyline was the Alien Invasion/Gov't Conspiracy thread...
That died a bizarro death with The Movie...
Since then the show has just been floundering around, looking for a story to tell, and coming up short...
At least when Millennium died they ended it quickly...
Frank Black didn't spend 3 seasons wandering around looking lost and only vaguely aware that something was happening somewhere...
Hotmail has a large user base.
And so does Yahoo...
So, why does it appear that Yahoo doesn't have this problem...
More effective Spam-Filtering?
I have both a Hotmail account and a Yahoo account.
The Hotmail account averages 10 to 20 pieces of Spam per day.
The Yahoo account averages 2 Spams per day.
The funny thing is I don't use the Hotmail account address for anything, I use the Yahoo account for virtually everything.
So. My theory is that Hotmail/MSN allows/encourages spammers to fill their users mailboxes with crap!
There are 2 possible reasons:
1 - Hotmail/MSN actually sells their user lists to spammers.
2 - Hotmail/MSN drives up revenues by selling larger mailboxes to people who get more Spam.
I worked as a Postmaster at a Federal Gov't agency a couple of years ago.
While I was there we did several things to try and determine what kinds of messages were entering our system.
One of the things we did was to queue all incoming messages for a short period so could have a chance to look at them.
What we determined was that over 95% of all the messages we received that were larger than 1 Meg were CRAP of some sort, and definitely NOT business related.
We also tracked the number of messages per day going through the system for several months and found that just before Thanksgiving our numbers would triple and stay that way until Valentines Day...
Report them to their ISP or their upstream provider.
It's worked for me in the past...
I have been using Snort for about 6 months and several times per week, in a normal week, I end up emailing log exerpts to SysAdmins and Abuse accounts all over The World...
I get a very good response rate, possibly as high as 80%...100% if you consider that the offending activity generally stops shortly after I have reported it...
Maybe it's the tone you're using...
Ah, well, if you want to go back that far...
:)
When I was in the USAF, I DID toggle in diagnostics and loaders on the front panel of my HM-4118...
Built by Hughes Aircraft Corp...
128k of ferrite core memory. Input devices included 4 9-track tape drives, a paper-tape reader and a Teletype 321 terminal...
And output devices were 14 radar consoles and a paper tape punch...
So, YES, I am an old fart, just not an old UNIX fart...
Maybe I'm becoming one of those old fart geeks.
Sorry, Sonny...I'm a true old fart geek...
I used to "BBS Surf" on my Atari 800, with 48K of RAM, a 188K Floppy drive and a 300 Baud modem..
My modem at work was 75 Baud...
Smokin'!!!
It's obvious it will take some time to build up the inside jokes and self-references, but I thought it was not too bad...
I'm gonna miss "Die Fledermaus" and "American Maid" and all the rest of the Supers...
But "Batmanuel" seems humorous enough...
Hopefully the show will be around long enough to get the chance to develope the way it needs to...
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"Ya know Arthur, when a tomato sprouts from your forehead, it makes ya think!"
Not me!
I've had Road Runner service since February and have had great connections...Routinely over 200k...
Easily as good as my work connection, which is an OC3 which I share with 7,000 other people...
I'll give up my cable modem when they pry it from my cold dead fingers!
Just a few points:
1. I've been using my Visor Deluxe daily for 2 years (this month is my anniversary, I'm so proud!) and have had only 1 OS crash where I had to do a "cold restart".
2. 8 megs of RAM have served me well, better than I ever imagined...After 2 years of daily use I have over 5 megs still available.
3. 3 months ago I bought a VisorPhone and threw away my cell phone. The Visor still fits in the RhinoSkin case I bought for the Visor alone, and still fits in my hip pocket, albeit a little more tightly...
4. I routinely get 2 to 3 months between battery changes. And AAA's are available anywhere, including Ukraine, which is extremely conveinient...
5. Handspring's service has been great. I dropped my Visor on a concrete floor after 6 months of ownership and the screen shattered (hence the RhinoSkin)...Handspring shipped me a replacement Visor Deluxe, overnight, FOR FREE! Think Compaq would do that?
So, I don't see your point. Why should I subject myself to more of Microsoft's BS?
My Handspring is one of the most useful things I own, right next to my Swiss-Army Knife...I don't leave home without either one...
Well, when I bought my VisorPhone a few months ago, I had to choose a service offered on the Handspring website and sign-up with Cingular (Bell South) through Handspring...
I had to commit to 1 year service, if I drop the service within that year, I pay full price for the VisorPhone...
So far, it's been great!
I donated to Red Cross through PayPal...
Here's a great photo that a friend sent me Wednesday: Heroes
Donate to Red Cross via PayPal
Yeah, I'm responding to my own post...
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I just want to expound a bit...
The RP-114 firewalls, NATs, DHCPs and logs accesses, as well as logging and restricting site access for all you concerned parents out there...
Concerned parents on
Got to be at least one...
That's what I've got between my Surfboard and LAN...
Works great and I got it for about $140...
Here's a link to the product page: RP-114 Product Page
Last night on ABC, Peter Jennings interviewed an engineer who said that the WTC had enough steel to withstand the impact...
According to him, exposing the steel to 1000F heat for an hour was what finally caused it to fail...
This commentary is nearly 30 years old and is not addressed to our current situation.
"They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin
As much as I repect the wisdom of our founding fathers, I respectfully submit that spouting 200 year old quotes about liberty is not helpful or applicable in the least.