When I worked here I had a Netware 3.12 server that had been up for over 800 days. Unfortunately, the server room was small and someone bumped into the front of it at one point and hit the not-disabled reset button. This reset happened while we were removing an huge, ancient toroidial UPS.
I think the fee of $125 is not proper, the previous $62.50 fee for OS installation should've covered your issue. To any person who calls themselves a System Administrator, "OS installation" minimally consists of the installation of the operating environment and the immediate application of all current patches to the OS and other components (sendmail, bind, apache) that comprise the customer's operating environment.
If CommuniTech is behaving in the manner suggested, then their actions are highly irresponsible. Thanks to DDoS, any compromised system can be a small part of a serious problem on someone else's network.
This infamous footage shows an Air France Airbus A320 -- the world's first commercial fly-by-wire aircraft -- completing (trying to) a fly-by at a
French air show, failing to climb, and crashing into trees. The pilot, Air France's star A320 captain, claimed the flight computer tried to land when he wanted to take off. The French government (which owns almost half of Airbus) concluded it was the pilot's fault and jailed him on 3 counts of manslaughter. Video includes exclusive crash site footage. 1 minute and 12 seconds.
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Now, what's described in this Osprey crash, that's definately a bug. The expected behavior was a reset - is the expected behavior of a reset to change the pitch of the rotor? Then the bug was in the TRAINING procedure that recommended hitting that button.
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An article on cnn.com indicated that pressing the reset button was a normal part of the procedure and that the software's subsequent adjustment of rotor pitch was indeed a bug in the software. I really doubt if aerospace engineering suffers from the same lack of proper specifications that PC developers are faced with, however, they are apparently becoming plagued with the same lack of quality control.
Rah Rah Red Hat. Right. What Red Hat has done, which is the same thing every other surviving tech stock has done in the last 3 months, is cut expenses substantially in order to make their losses appear to be rapidly diminishing with the appearance of "profitability right around the corner". Unfortunately, for most of the companies this cut in expenses is going to show its ass as a subsequent decrease in revenue starting in Q2 or Q3, depending on how far each company can float on previous marketing and R&D expenditures.
A friend and I hacked one of those once and turned it into an RC car. We used a few relays wired to an RC controller taken from a radio shack remote controlled tank to replace the joysticks. It worked great for a long time. Once we once drove it through water so deep that the motors shorted out and smoke poured out of the battery compartment. All of the insulation on the wires running from the battery compartment to the joysticks had fused into one melted mess. And the damn thing STILL worked after we dried it off even though we never bothered to replace the melted wiring.
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Their closed-source and propietory systems extend the time between an exploit being found, and a usable patch being produced. For a classic example, look at the Ping of Death. Linux had a patch out in (exactly) 2 hours, 35 minutes, and 10 seconds. Microsoft took almost a month.
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The Ping of Death was years ago. Some of the linux distros seem to be getting slower and slower at releasing bugfixes against security issues in a rapid manner whereas MS is getting faster and faster.
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First of all, WindowsNT lowers the threshold of using 'complex' systems ment for servers. So 'unskilled' sys admins, managing a NT server, are more likely to be clueless when it comes to security/patches/buqtrack/etc.
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NT systems are a nightmare to administer compared to a linux system. I keep seeing this "lowering the threshold" comment but it's complete BS, administering an NT web server is like a nightmare from hell. It requires two to three times the amount of time and effort to maintain a secure NT web server hosting 400 domains as it does to maintain a secure linux web server hosting 2000 domains.
Mod up the parent, this class of vulnerability is very old news and has indeed been corrected in all but the lamest of shopping carts.
Maybe next we can see an article on the new "format string" type of vulnerabilities?
I didn't see any mention in any of the responses yet of the obvious difference, which would be the inability of postgres or mysql to scale to a distributed environment, since neither support multiphase commit. This is the single feature that separates the high-end database solutions from everything else.
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I forsee that when broadband comes, the telecoms companies will be in the most powerful position. They own the fibre that travels into the consumers home. This gives them the power. ISP's are a temporary phenomenon
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Uh, telcos own the copper that travels into the consumers' home so what is the holdup on this power-play?
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The model didn't really break until people started being allowed on the Internet without an Internet-supporting OS. They never joined the community, just babbled senselessly and joined AOL in droves. It's amazing how well their OS reflects their attitude and behaviour - no services provided, but a client for everything. Take, take, take, give nothing. That's peer-to-peer? Fuck this noise.
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This is pathetic and modded up to +5 to boot. I hate windows as much as (or more than) the next guy but the idea that the connection of a particular OS to the internet has adversely affected it from a non-technical standpoint is absurd. What the hell is an "internet supporting OS"? In addition, I didn't realize it was beneficial to the net for every machine to have every possible internet-related daemon/service running by default. Actually, I thought the exact opposite was true...
The term "micropayment" generally relates to the fact that a merchant cannot perform a credit card charge against any major credit card without incurring at least a ten cent charge (for most mechants its more like fifty cents). This is a serious inhibiting factor towards financial transactions of small amounts, such as the dollar amount that one might equate with the value of a song from www.mp3.com/pixal or similarly low-value content. This is where all of the interest in a micropayment system originates, it would be used for transactions of less than a dollar or two.
If you read to the bottom of the article, you will see that the copyright is 1960.
I cant help but wonder about the safety of the experiment given the amount of knowledge about radiation that has been learned over the last 40 years.
Netware has a compressed file system that works very well. It background compresses files that have not been accessed in x hours/days. When read access to a compressed file is necessary, one of two events occurs. If the file has been read accessed less than y times in z hours/days, the file is uncompressed to a temporary space and deleted a while later. If the file is accessed y times, the file is uncompressed and remains that way until the initial compression criteria is again met. This works extremely well, frequently accessed files are not compressed and the space used by infrequently accessed files is minimized.
The article seems to be one big ad for CCS. The reality is that alt.binaries.sounds.utilities is still loaded with warez and Jammer still posts there. The headway that CCS has made on the issue of software piracy is meager at best.
The reality of the situation is that those involved in the circles the CCS is interested in regularly receive from CCS these demands for money, which the recipients promptly discard.
I canot imagine that they will attempt to identify a song by the filename. I suspect they will introduce some sort of technology that scans the actual file's sonic characteristics in an attempt to identify material. This was discussed on slashdot a few months back.
His logic on the second paragraph makes no sense, but the first question of "If I copy something that I wasn't ever going to pay for any way, and it doesn't cost the owner anything to let me have it, is it really theft ?" is interesting. I have scores of "evaluation" Akai-format sample CDs that I would've never actually purchased. So did the industry incur any loss?
The recording studios brought this on themselves by introducing digital recording systems (such as Protools) into their studios.
As I mentioned in a previous post, audio engineering is not about acccurate sound reproduction, it's about coloring the sound so that it sounds aethetically pleasing. Prior to the advent of digital recordings, 2" analog tape machines were used to record. 2" tape machines color the sound in a particular way, tape naturally compresses the highs. Microphones such as the Neumann U87 (considered one of the best microphones in the world for over a decade) produce a particular frequency response curve that, when coupled with the natural compression and saturation characteristics of analog tape, produced a sound that audio engineers determined was aesthetically pleasing. People grew accustomed to tape's tonal characteristics.
When digital systems entered the picture, a change took place. The same microphones that sounded great on tape sounded completely different when recorded digitally. This is due to the absence of tape's natural compression and saturation characteristics. Studios could not at first determine how to resolve the issue and many of the first digitally-recorded works sounded like crap.
This is where the recording studios screwed the pooch. When record labels released those first few years of harsh-sounding digitally recorded albums, the music consumers were introduced to a new set of tonal characteristics. Harsh and over-trebled recordings became acceptable. Where in the past the warm sound of 2" analog tape was the only accepted sound, suddenly albums sounded vastly different as engineers struggled to compensate for digital's "lack of warmth" (which was caused by using microphones designed to compensate for tape's uneven frequency response). All of the sudden the bar was dropped. Songs no longer had to have this particular sound associated with a $30,000 tape machine. In just a few years, as ADAT increased in popularity, home studios were able to produce albums rivalling big studios. The gap narrows daily.
I do see multiple posters in this thread who seem to think that because a $30,000 tape machine is no longer required to make a good recording that decent quality microphones and preamps are no longer needed either. While the digital audio revolution has really made music consumers accept (or learn to live with?) a wide variety of sound quality in modern recording, the difference between an inexpensive mic (SM58, etc) and preamp (Mackie) and quality mics (Neumann TLM103) and preamps (Great River, Presonus) are still like night and day.
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When patched to the proper SP level, Netware 3.12 is Y2K compliant. Netware 3.2 was the "commercial" release of 3.12+patches.
maru
If you have ever witnessed the drywall installation process, you would completely understand how this could happen. They drywall over ANYTHING.
maru
When I worked here I had a Netware 3.12 server that had been up for over 800 days. Unfortunately, the server room was small and someone bumped into the front of it at one point and hit the not-disabled reset button. This reset happened while we were removing an huge, ancient toroidial UPS.
maru
I think the fee of $125 is not proper, the previous $62.50 fee for OS installation should've covered your issue. To any person who calls themselves a System Administrator, "OS installation" minimally consists of the installation of the operating environment and the immediate application of all current patches to the OS and other components (sendmail, bind, apache) that comprise the customer's operating environment.
If CommuniTech is behaving in the manner suggested, then their actions are highly irresponsible. Thanks to DDoS, any compromised system can be a small part of a serious problem on someone else's network.
maru
http://www.airsafetyonline.com/videos/airfrancea3
This infamous footage shows an Air France Airbus A320 -- the world's first commercial fly-by-wire aircraft -- completing (trying to) a fly-by at a French air show, failing to climb, and crashing into trees. The pilot, Air France's star A320 captain, claimed the flight computer tried to land when he wanted to take off. The French government (which owns almost half of Airbus) concluded it was the pilot's fault and jailed him on 3 counts of manslaughter. Video includes exclusive crash site footage. 1 minute and 12 seconds.
maru
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Now, what's described in this Osprey crash, that's definately a bug. The expected behavior was a reset - is the expected behavior of a reset to change the pitch of the rotor? Then the bug was in the TRAINING procedure that recommended hitting that button.
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An article on cnn.com indicated that pressing the reset button was a normal part of the procedure and that the software's subsequent adjustment of rotor pitch was indeed a bug in the software. I really doubt if aerospace engineering suffers from the same lack of proper specifications that PC developers are faced with, however, they are apparently becoming plagued with the same lack of quality control.
maru
Rah Rah Red Hat. Right. What Red Hat has done, which is the same thing every other surviving tech stock has done in the last 3 months, is cut expenses substantially in order to make their losses appear to be rapidly diminishing with the appearance of "profitability right around the corner". Unfortunately, for most of the companies this cut in expenses is going to show its ass as a subsequent decrease in revenue starting in Q2 or Q3, depending on how far each company can float on previous marketing and R&D expenditures.
maru
A friend and I hacked one of those once and turned it into an RC car. We used a few relays wired to an RC controller taken from a radio shack remote controlled tank to replace the joysticks. It worked great for a long time. Once we once drove it through water so deep that the motors shorted out and smoke poured out of the battery compartment. All of the insulation on the wires running from the battery compartment to the joysticks had fused into one melted mess. And the damn thing STILL worked after we dried it off even though we never bothered to replace the melted wiring.
maru
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Their closed-source and propietory systems extend the time between an exploit being found, and a usable patch being produced. For a classic example, look at the Ping of Death. Linux had a patch out in (exactly) 2 hours, 35 minutes, and 10 seconds. Microsoft took almost a month.
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The Ping of Death was years ago. Some of the linux distros seem to be getting slower and slower at releasing bugfixes against security issues in a rapid manner whereas MS is getting faster and faster.
maru
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First of all, WindowsNT lowers the threshold of using 'complex' systems ment for servers. So 'unskilled' sys admins, managing a NT server, are more likely to be clueless when it comes to security/patches/buqtrack/etc.
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NT systems are a nightmare to administer compared to a linux system. I keep seeing this "lowering the threshold" comment but it's complete BS, administering an NT web server is like a nightmare from hell. It requires two to three times the amount of time and effort to maintain a secure NT web server hosting 400 domains as it does to maintain a secure linux web server hosting 2000 domains.
maru
Typical TTL circuits operate at 5 volts.
maru
Mod up the parent, this class of vulnerability is very old news and has indeed been corrected in all but the lamest of shopping carts.
Maybe next we can see an article on the new "format string" type of vulnerabilities?
maru
I didn't see any mention in any of the responses yet of the obvious difference, which would be the inability of postgres or mysql to scale to a distributed environment, since neither support multiphase commit. This is the single feature that separates the high-end database solutions from everything else.
maru
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It's convenient - all form variables get put into variables of the same name:
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Autovivification of form variables is indeed quite convenient... for writing exploitable scripts.
maru
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I forsee that when broadband comes, the telecoms companies will be in the most powerful position. They own the fibre that travels into the consumers home. This gives them the power. ISP's are a temporary phenomenon
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Uh, telcos own the copper that travels into the consumers' home so what is the holdup on this power-play?
maru
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The model didn't really break until people started being allowed on the Internet without an Internet-supporting OS. They never joined the community, just babbled senselessly and joined AOL in droves. It's amazing how well their OS reflects their attitude and behaviour - no services provided, but a client for everything. Take, take, take, give nothing. That's peer-to-peer? Fuck this noise.
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This is pathetic and modded up to +5 to boot. I hate windows as much as (or more than) the next guy but the idea that the connection of a particular OS to the internet has adversely affected it from a non-technical standpoint is absurd. What the hell is an "internet supporting OS"? In addition, I didn't realize it was beneficial to the net for every machine to have every possible internet-related daemon/service running by default. Actually, I thought the exact opposite was true...
maru
The term "micropayment" generally relates to the fact that a merchant cannot perform a credit card charge against any major credit card without incurring at least a ten cent charge (for most mechants its more like fifty cents). This is a serious inhibiting factor towards financial transactions of small amounts, such as the dollar amount that one might equate with the value of a song from www.mp3.com/pixal or similarly low-value content. This is where all of the interest in a micropayment system originates, it would be used for transactions of less than a dollar or two.
maru
If you read to the bottom of the article, you will see that the copyright is 1960.
I cant help but wonder about the safety of the experiment given the amount of knowledge about radiation that has been learned over the last 40 years.
maru
Netware has a compressed file system that works very well. It background compresses files that have not been accessed in x hours/days. When read access to a compressed file is necessary, one of two events occurs. If the file has been read accessed less than y times in z hours/days, the file is uncompressed to a temporary space and deleted a while later. If the file is accessed y times, the file is uncompressed and remains that way until the initial compression criteria is again met. This works extremely well, frequently accessed files are not compressed and the space used by infrequently accessed files is minimized.
maru
The article seems to be one big ad for CCS. The reality is that alt.binaries.sounds.utilities is still loaded with warez and Jammer still posts there. The headway that CCS has made on the issue of software piracy is meager at best.
maru
The reality of the situation is that those involved in the circles the CCS is interested in regularly receive from CCS these demands for money, which the recipients promptly discard.
maru
I canot imagine that they will attempt to identify a song by the filename. I suspect they will introduce some sort of technology that scans the actual file's sonic characteristics in an attempt to identify material. This was discussed on slashdot a few months back.
maru
His logic on the second paragraph makes no sense, but the first question of "If I copy something that I wasn't ever going to pay for any way, and it doesn't cost the owner anything to let me have it, is it really theft ?" is interesting. I have scores of "evaluation" Akai-format sample CDs that I would've never actually purchased. So did the industry incur any loss?
maru
Very well stated!
The recording studios brought this on themselves by introducing digital recording systems (such as Protools) into their studios.
As I mentioned in a previous post, audio engineering is not about acccurate sound reproduction, it's about coloring the sound so that it sounds aethetically pleasing. Prior to the advent of digital recordings, 2" analog tape machines were used to record. 2" tape machines color the sound in a particular way, tape naturally compresses the highs. Microphones such as the Neumann U87 (considered one of the best microphones in the world for over a decade) produce a particular frequency response curve that, when coupled with the natural compression and saturation characteristics of analog tape, produced a sound that audio engineers determined was aesthetically pleasing. People grew accustomed to tape's tonal characteristics.
When digital systems entered the picture, a change took place. The same microphones that sounded great on tape sounded completely different when recorded digitally. This is due to the absence of tape's natural compression and saturation characteristics. Studios could not at first determine how to resolve the issue and many of the first digitally-recorded works sounded like crap.
This is where the recording studios screwed the pooch. When record labels released those first few years of harsh-sounding digitally recorded albums, the music consumers were introduced to a new set of tonal characteristics. Harsh and over-trebled recordings became acceptable. Where in the past the warm sound of 2" analog tape was the only accepted sound, suddenly albums sounded vastly different as engineers struggled to compensate for digital's "lack of warmth" (which was caused by using microphones designed to compensate for tape's uneven frequency response). All of the sudden the bar was dropped. Songs no longer had to have this particular sound associated with a $30,000 tape machine. In just a few years, as ADAT increased in popularity, home studios were able to produce albums rivalling big studios. The gap narrows daily.
I do see multiple posters in this thread who seem to think that because a $30,000 tape machine is no longer required to make a good recording that decent quality microphones and preamps are no longer needed either. While the digital audio revolution has really made music consumers accept (or learn to live with?) a wide variety of sound quality in modern recording, the difference between an inexpensive mic (SM58, etc) and preamp (Mackie) and quality mics (Neumann TLM103) and preamps (Great River, Presonus) are still like night and day.
maru