Remember the vote for leader of Iraq that Our government bragged about? The one with the election that we setup to be fair and honest? People voted by dipping their thumb in ink, and then voting for the canditate by pressing their thumb next to the candidate.. No duplicate voting, since its obvious when someone walks in with a purple thumb.. Simple, effective, and fair... And people were told to "Twist" their thumbprint to make sure that the print wasn't readable..
They should just use the term "Social Engineering". Or lying, or one of the dozen other terms that mean the same thing, but really, how is "Pretexting" to get confidential data from a company any different from using social engineering? They pulled a Kevin Mitnick, and that guy went to Jail, and was convicted for doing that!
You would, but would your minimum wage receptionist? How about the custodian that has keys to everywhere? Would they know that someone had called ahead of time? Or would they just assume someone in another department called, and let them in?
The sad part is that the "Negotiations" on where to put the damn thing and fund it have taken 10 years. Imagine how much work could have been done on this already..
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It is one cable. They split the signal out to the single fiber cable using different wavelenghts. (ie, colors) and run 10 wavelengths over the same cable, at 10Gbs each. For simplicity sake, picture it as 10Gb/s with a red laser, 10Gb/s with a Blue laser, 10Gb/s with a green one... and so on.
You Mentioned that the other job is 120 Miles away from your current one. Assuming you live close to work, that is an extra 4 hours a day of Commuting! Much more if you live in a place like the Bay area where the average Highway speed is 35MPH.. If your not willing to relocate, or if the Perl Job is in a more expensive area, it seems like that would be a huge step backwards from having a life outside of work!
I couldn't agree more. Many professional engineers have to take some massive tests to get that "engineer" in their title, along with taking massive responsibility. If you have a bridge that collapses, you blame the head Civil Engineer, becuase his signature is on all the plans and designs. If he fails to live up to the standards of his title, someone dies. I couldn't imagine how I would function with that responsiblity, and so I truly respect "Engineers" with the same level I give doctors. I worked at a dotcom where everyone had the word in the title. I was a network engineer, developers were software engineers, hell, even the secratary was the "Office Engineer". It really pissed me off, and nobody could understand that I was mad that we were trying to get respect for our job titles, without the responsibility it entails..
Multnomah County Elections put together a video on how exactly vote-by-mail in oregon works. Got their Elections office web page and there is a link at the bottom of the page to the video. I'm an Oregonian, and have voted by mail many times, but still found the video of how it works "behind the scenes" facinating.
This has been done in a small town about an hour from me, I think in 1999: Ashland Fiber Network The city got tired of being on the end of Qwest's lists for improvement, cause its small, spread out , and mountainous, and they did it themselves. Strung fiber all over town, you purchase your connection to the internet (and get to choose witch small town ISP to use for your email, support, and outgoing internet, etc) and choose who you want to get your TV from , and even which channels!
300,000 miles is easy for a hummer, as long as you have the diesel version, wich really doesn't like going over 55Mph. The gas engines are crap, as they were dropped into a truck that was made for a diesel, (which has a hell of a lot of torque, and can move that weight in a hurry) so they have to put really, really big nasty gas engines in their place.
what do you call a diesel with 100,000 miles? Almost broken in!
Um, no. That idea is the central idea behind Active Directory and Novell eDirectory. Its much easier to secure one thing, than lots of excel spreadsheets, stickies on monitors, etc..
At my company, we have been working to get everything integrated with Active Directory, so there is only 1 password to manage. Redhat boxes will authenticate against an AD domain now. Just a few more apps to go.
Another solutions is the Microsoft Identity Management server (I think thats its name) that you can actually script password changes. For example, a user does Ctr-alt-Delete and changes their password, then the IM server grabs that, and you script it to connect to your DB, log in as the user, and change password, do the same for web pages, etc. Looks pretty sweet, but we can't afford it.
Will I get a better bandwidth if I take a 512 leased line on 1:2 sharing?
Yes and No. Right now you are setup on a 512K/s line, shared with up to 4 other customers. This means that if Customer A is using 400k/s, and Customer C is using 100k/s, then customers b and c get to share 12k/s. (without getting into the discussion of prioritizing and QOS, I'm way oversimplifying) Or, depending on the setup, each of you might be setup to only get 128k/s when all of you are using your connection. Now, if its the first case, and you have one other customer that is hogging all your traffic, then you will benifit from moving to a 1:2, or even just getting rid of them on the same circuit. However, the only way to be sure that you have 512k/s if you need it is to make sure you have your own connection, and a garuntee from the ISP. (in the US, these are called "Business class" DSL circuits in many areas) It will be MUCH more expensive.
History is such a fun thing to watch being repeated... Just sit back, read the news, and everytime there is the word Terrorist, replace it mentally with "communist" or "japaneese spy" or "Indian." Man, why don't we teach more history in the schools? Honestly...
While most admins (including me) will be disgusted at the "protecting us from ourselves" aspect, as well as taking away free choice, this will really help the schools and libraries with their bandwith consumption. Some of the school and Library admins I know say that Myspace.com now accounts for over 50% of their traffic, with its stupid embedded music/videos.
Since your reply seems to be the only intellegent one out there, I'll post as a reply to yours, lest i get burried under the references to the Terminator series.
Google is building here for 3 reasons:
1)Power. The area is on the Columbia river, which has some very impressive Dams. Very cheap power up there. There is a reason that there used to be 2 Aluminum plants there, the Power is freaking cheap compared to California and elsewhere. Along with the Power comes the proximitiy to water (my stupid guess) the columbia stays pretty cool year round, think water cooling for some of the equipment. Much cheaper than AC, and cold year round.
2)Fiber. Bonneville Power Administration (BPA, Runs all the dams) has run Fiber all over the states of OR and WA to support the Power grid it has put in place. And as long as they were running one fiber, might as well pull 100. Because of the BPA, there is Dark fiber all over Oregon and Washington, especially to rural communities. They have 2 companies managing all that dark fiber for them. In washington, its NoaNet and in Oregon its LS Networks. Then take a look at this map and notice how many oversea fibers come ashore in oregon. Most of Aisa, Hawaii, Austrailia, and Alaska. That makes Oregon a fairly "close" location to many other nations.
3)Brains. The Dalles is 80 miles east of Portland. Portland is crazy for Open source, thats where OSDL are, (including Linus!), several universities, intel has 2 fabs there that hire 15,000 engineers, etc. Lots of smart, educated engineers an hour away..
I have a mail server that runs Sendmail, Virus scan's, listserve stuff, LDAP, and calendaring. My buddies work has an exchange server that offers very comparable feature sets, and about the same size of an organization. We have roughly the same uptime over the course of a year. I think I rebooted a couple of times to install newer Kernels for RHEL3 that had security problems. So we probably had 30 minutes of downtime a year. (mostly at 3am on monday mornings). My buddy has about 30 minutes of downtime also, except he has a 2 server cluster of exchange servers. So both servers go down for a total of 30 minutes a year (at the same time). The exchange servers are very nice rack mount, dual xeon HP servers with 4GB of ram each, and big raid 5 arrays. My server is an 1.5Ghz Dell desktop with 1GB of ram (of which it uses about 300MB) and a 60GB IDE drive. And the only cost for me besides the $800 desktop was the calendaring software. Everything else is opensource.
The population as a whole can not conceptialize the power of correlated data. They see shopping "club cards" and see that they get a better price. They watch "24", and see that the bad guys are caught cause their license plates are pulled up in 5 seconds (all bad guys drive their own vehicles, of course!).. they see stoplight cams taking pictures of license plates as making the streets safer..
We geeks deal with data every day. We understand that patterns can be drawn from it, often very incorrect patterns based off of incomplete data.
The non-geeks cannot comprehend that in the next very few short years, they will get a knock on the door, and the police will say, On Thursday, at 8am, you shopped at the grocery store on 10th street, bought a bunch of bannana's and some milk. 20 minutes later, you were seen driving buy at 3MPH over the speed-limit on this street, which is only 5 minutes from the grocery store. You had better account for exactly what you did during that 15 minutes, because we are placing you under arrest for a crime that was commited in that area at that time. We also see that you have called your nephew 3 times in the last month, who was served 6 months (several years ago) in jail for an assault. And you give money to the ACLU, which makes our job harder.
Why do you think that all 3 systems are pushing "downloaded" games. If you download the new Super Duper Mario Bros 6 from the internet, directly onto your game system, not only do they not have the costs of distribution (trucking, wholesale prices to stores, etc) but you can't take the medium over to a buddy's house. With broadband connections becoming more prevalent, its easy to start downloading a game, have it able to play the first few level's in a few minutes, while the rest of the game is downloading in the background. They get the full $50 bucks that you paid, instead of the $35 they sell it to wal-mart for, (yes, very guestimated numbers here, with the fine details ommited) but you can't borrow it from your buddy, or buy it used from a store..
This must be a European thing, cause that is exactly what it means to us in the US... Our economy is exploding, and the government is doing great, since we only overran the budget this year by something like $400 Billion dollars, and were projected to go over $500 Billion dollars. So, obviously, its time for another tax cut (or new programs) to give back some of the "savings" to us taxpayers. Are you sure your not an american politician?
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Remember the vote for leader of Iraq that Our government bragged about? The one with the election that we setup to be fair and honest? People voted by dipping their thumb in ink, and then voting for the canditate by pressing their thumb next to the candidate.. No duplicate voting, since its obvious when someone walks in with a purple thumb.. Simple, effective, and fair... And people were told to "Twist" their thumbprint to make sure that the print wasn't readable..
They should just use the term "Social Engineering". Or lying, or one of the dozen other terms that mean the same thing, but really, how is "Pretexting" to get confidential data from a company any different from using social engineering? They pulled a Kevin Mitnick, and that guy went to Jail, and was convicted for doing that!
You would, but would your minimum wage receptionist? How about the custodian that has keys to everywhere? Would they know that someone had called ahead of time? Or would they just assume someone in another department called, and let them in?
NASA was trying to cut costs by using off the shelf components. Unfortunately, UPS does not deliver replacement batteries to their current location ;)
The sad part is that the "Negotiations" on where to put the damn thing and fund it have taken 10 years. Imagine how much work could have been done on this already..
It is one cable. They split the signal out to the single fiber cable using different wavelenghts. (ie, colors) and run 10 wavelengths over the same cable, at 10Gbs each. For simplicity sake, picture it as 10Gb/s with a red laser, 10Gb/s with a Blue laser, 10Gb/s with a green one... and so on.
The really scary thing about that FaH page is that there are about 1053 computers per TerraFlop/s running windows...
and only 15 GPU's per TerraFlop..
Damn.. that is really, really impressive!
You Mentioned that the other job is 120 Miles away from your current one. Assuming you live close to work, that is an extra 4 hours a day of Commuting! Much more if you live in a place like the Bay area where the average Highway speed is 35MPH.. If your not willing to relocate, or if the Perl Job is in a more expensive area, it seems like that would be a huge step backwards from having a life outside of work!
I couldn't agree more. Many professional engineers have to take some massive tests to get that "engineer" in their title, along with taking massive responsibility. If you have a bridge that collapses, you blame the head Civil Engineer, becuase his signature is on all the plans and designs. If he fails to live up to the standards of his title, someone dies. I couldn't imagine how I would function with that responsiblity, and so I truly respect "Engineers" with the same level I give doctors. I worked at a dotcom where everyone had the word in the title. I was a network engineer, developers were software engineers, hell, even the secratary was the "Office Engineer". It really pissed me off, and nobody could understand that I was mad that we were trying to get respect for our job titles, without the responsibility it entails..
Multnomah County Elections put together a video on how exactly vote-by-mail in oregon works. Got their Elections office web page and there is a link at the bottom of the page to the video. I'm an Oregonian, and have voted by mail many times, but still found the video of how it works "behind the scenes" facinating.
Web 2.1 is currently in beta.. It will be released "soon"
This has been done in a small town about an hour from me, I think in 1999: Ashland Fiber Network The city got tired of being on the end of Qwest's lists for improvement, cause its small, spread out , and mountainous, and they did it themselves. Strung fiber all over town, you purchase your connection to the internet (and get to choose witch small town ISP to use for your email, support, and outgoing internet, etc) and choose who you want to get your TV from , and even which channels!
Very cheap, and blazing fast!
Perhaps a link to the actual product would be in order?
Vyatta Open Flexible Router
what do you call a diesel with 100,000 miles? Almost broken in!
Um, no. That idea is the central idea behind Active Directory and Novell eDirectory. Its much easier to secure one thing, than lots of excel spreadsheets, stickies on monitors, etc..
At my company, we have been working to get everything integrated with Active Directory, so there is only 1 password to manage. Redhat boxes will authenticate against an AD domain now. Just a few more apps to go.
Another solutions is the Microsoft Identity Management server (I think thats its name) that you can actually script password changes. For example, a user does Ctr-alt-Delete and changes their password, then the IM server grabs that, and you script it to connect to your DB, log in as the user, and change password, do the same for web pages, etc. Looks pretty sweet, but we can't afford it.
Yes and No. Right now you are setup on a 512K/s line, shared with up to 4 other customers. This means that if Customer A is using 400k/s, and Customer C is using 100k/s, then customers b and c get to share 12k/s. (without getting into the discussion of prioritizing and QOS, I'm way oversimplifying) Or, depending on the setup, each of you might be setup to only get 128k/s when all of you are using your connection. Now, if its the first case, and you have one other customer that is hogging all your traffic, then you will benifit from moving to a 1:2, or even just getting rid of them on the same circuit. However, the only way to be sure that you have 512k/s if you need it is to make sure you have your own connection, and a garuntee from the ISP. (in the US, these are called "Business class" DSL circuits in many areas) It will be MUCH more expensive.
History is such a fun thing to watch being repeated... Just sit back, read the news, and everytime there is the word Terrorist, replace it mentally with "communist" or "japaneese spy" or "Indian." Man, why don't we teach more history in the schools? Honestly...
While most admins (including me) will be disgusted at the "protecting us from ourselves" aspect, as well as taking away free choice, this will really help the schools and libraries with their bandwith consumption. Some of the school and Library admins I know say that Myspace.com now accounts for over 50% of their traffic, with its stupid embedded music/videos.
1)Power. The area is on the Columbia river, which has some very impressive Dams. Very cheap power up there. There is a reason that there used to be 2 Aluminum plants there, the Power is freaking cheap compared to California and elsewhere. Along with the Power comes the proximitiy to water (my stupid guess) the columbia stays pretty cool year round, think water cooling for some of the equipment. Much cheaper than AC, and cold year round.
2)Fiber. Bonneville Power Administration (BPA, Runs all the dams) has run Fiber all over the states of OR and WA to support the Power grid it has put in place. And as long as they were running one fiber, might as well pull 100. Because of the BPA, there is Dark fiber all over Oregon and Washington, especially to rural communities. They have 2 companies managing all that dark fiber for them. In washington, its NoaNet and in Oregon its LS Networks. Then take a look at this map and notice how many oversea fibers come ashore in oregon. Most of Aisa, Hawaii, Austrailia, and Alaska. That makes Oregon a fairly "close" location to many other nations.
3)Brains. The Dalles is 80 miles east of Portland. Portland is crazy for Open source, thats where OSDL are, (including Linus!), several universities, intel has 2 fabs there that hire 15,000 engineers, etc. Lots of smart, educated engineers an hour away..
I have a mail server that runs Sendmail, Virus scan's, listserve stuff, LDAP, and calendaring. My buddies work has an exchange server that offers very comparable feature sets, and about the same size of an organization. We have roughly the same uptime over the course of a year. I think I rebooted a couple of times to install newer Kernels for RHEL3 that had security problems. So we probably had 30 minutes of downtime a year. (mostly at 3am on monday mornings). My buddy has about 30 minutes of downtime also, except he has a 2 server cluster of exchange servers. So both servers go down for a total of 30 minutes a year (at the same time). The exchange servers are very nice rack mount, dual xeon HP servers with 4GB of ram each, and big raid 5 arrays. My server is an 1.5Ghz Dell desktop with 1GB of ram (of which it uses about 300MB) and a 60GB IDE drive. And the only cost for me besides the $800 desktop was the calendaring software. Everything else is opensource.
The population as a whole can not conceptialize the power of correlated data. They see shopping "club cards" and see that they get a better price. They watch "24", and see that the bad guys are caught cause their license plates are pulled up in 5 seconds (all bad guys drive their own vehicles, of course!).. they see stoplight cams taking pictures of license plates as making the streets safer..
We geeks deal with data every day. We understand that patterns can be drawn from it, often very incorrect patterns based off of incomplete data.
The non-geeks cannot comprehend that in the next very few short years, they will get a knock on the door, and the police will say, On Thursday, at 8am, you shopped at the grocery store on 10th street, bought a bunch of bannana's and some milk. 20 minutes later, you were seen driving buy at 3MPH over the speed-limit on this street, which is only 5 minutes from the grocery store. You had better account for exactly what you did during that 15 minutes, because we are placing you under arrest for a crime that was commited in that area at that time. We also see that you have called your nephew 3 times in the last month, who was served 6 months (several years ago) in jail for an assault. And you give money to the ACLU, which makes our job harder.
Why do you think that all 3 systems are pushing "downloaded" games. If you download the new Super Duper Mario Bros 6 from the internet, directly onto your game system, not only do they not have the costs of distribution (trucking, wholesale prices to stores, etc) but you can't take the medium over to a buddy's house. With broadband connections becoming more prevalent, its easy to start downloading a game, have it able to play the first few level's in a few minutes, while the rest of the game is downloading in the background. They get the full $50 bucks that you paid, instead of the $35 they sell it to wal-mart for, (yes, very guestimated numbers here, with the fine details ommited) but you can't borrow it from your buddy, or buy it used from a store..
"Wrong thinking" is not the correct words. The words your looking for is ThoughtCrime
Am I the only one who is noticing the trend of NewSpeak being used lately? Maybe not by definition, but definately by purpose.
Hell, I bought a DVD player almost solely for the fact that I didn't have to rewind!
This must be a European thing, cause that is exactly what it means to us in the US... Our economy is exploding, and the government is doing great, since we only overran the budget this year by something like $400 Billion dollars, and were projected to go over $500 Billion dollars. So, obviously, its time for another tax cut (or new programs) to give back some of the "savings" to us taxpayers. Are you sure your not an american politician?