Short answer: you don't do what you're asking about, and you're probably fucked.
Do your disaster recovery planning in advance: make sure the servers are sufficiently backed up they can be brought up elsewhere at short notice (VMs you can bring up on Amazon are ideal for the purpose) and insurance to cover your workstations.
The time to start thinking about this is about a year ago. I realise there are many circumstances in which doing this is not feasible, but that doesn't make you any less fucked.
AXLE GREASE, Down Under, Tuesday (NTN) — Desperate to stay competitive against iPhone and Android mobile devices, Microsoft has released a two-pound lump of actual cow faeces that they claim constitutes a phone.
Windows RT, in development for several years, strips the mobile device down to its fundamental essence: futility, annoyance, malfunction, inconvenience and a socially unacceptable odour. Confounding analyst expectations, the turd is in fact shined.
US mobile carriers hailed the turd as the perfect physical complement to their world-famous customer service. “This powerful product will promote our growth!” said John Harrobin of Verizon Wireless. “We’re marketing them as edible.”
“We think we can really work the brand equity,” said Steve Ballmer, modelling the optional shoulder-length rubber gloves. “Everyone works with our stuff all day every day. They know who Microsoft is and what we do.”
“How about making our customers actually swallow our bullshit physically?” said John Harrobin. “Windows Mobile 7 was my idea.”
If "cyberwar" was actually a real threat they cared about, they would shift to Linux and thin-client desktops forthwith. Hell, they could get more government money for doing so. "It's for security!" That they are not doing so shows that this is not a real threat, but trumped-up nonsense to try to look like there's a problem. Which they need more money to deal with.
Adapters exist to attach normal monitors to a Mac, but not to attach these monitors to a normal PC - the "adapter" has to power the monitor as well, so cost more than a new monitor would.
It's my 5yo daughter's computer. Flash is pretty much what she uses it for (BBC CBeebies television and games, YouTube, assorted Flash games) and Gnash isn't yet up to the demanding needs of a five year old.
My 5yo daughter has an ancient Mac G4, with Apple Cinema Display (with the funky plug that doesn't fit any known standard, so I can't just reuse the display on a sensible computer), as her very own. She watches television and plays Flash games on it. Mac OS X 10.4, Firefox 3.something, Flash some obsolete version. It's only Flash - the one thing she really uses it for - that keeps me from Ubuntuing it. Failing that, the current upgrade plan is to pay £25 for a 19" LCD and get someone's discarded P4 and she could have a box that runs at twice the speed.
The Debian and Ubuntu PowerPC ports are alive and well. Main lack for modern use is Flash. But I long dual-booted Ubuntu PPC on a G3/G4. A more reliable DVD burner than Mac OS X 10.4, and wider hardware support.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Friday (UNN) — Russian hackers have accepted €800,000 in donations from customers of Nordea, Sweden's largest bank, after a sophisticated "phishing" campaign recruited customers into downloading a Trojan horse program that recorded their account login details.
The Russians had looked up the definition of "hacker" in the Jargon File and been inspired to leverage the creative power of open source Free Software. The first campaign took place in August 2006 and was detected a month later, having affected around 250 Nordea customers.
The emails claimed to be from the Nordea Open Trojan Foundation, telling recipients to install an anti-spam and donation tool. Their computers were then infected by the Trojan HaxDoor.RMS.w32, which installs itself in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 and sends your passwords to its creators, but only after you have read through and accepted the GNU General Public License and checked the README file for known problems. The email also included full source code.
Swedish police traced the attacks to Russia by looking at the contact details, including address and phone number, included in the README. They have filed over 100 bugs on the creators' SourceForge project and joined the mailing lists on the grass-roots marketing and publicity site SpreadHaxDoor.com.
A Nordea spokesman said the attacks have "quietened down" after the initial influx last Autumn. "We are constantly looking at the security of our online banking and many different measures are taken. We are updating our systems behind the scenes. Many already run on enterprise Linux distributions, but we will be moving desktops to Linux as well for more efficient funds transfer with less reverse engineering required, and may recommend that our customers do the same."
The Trojan only affects computers running Windows. "For unsupported platforms, we have an 'honor system' which gives our details so you can send some money in," said a spokesman for the hacker group. "We hope this will help and encourage contributors interested in porting the Trojan to other operating environments."
"When someone reports your allegedly illegal porn to the FBI, of course you take action to keep the FBI from taking down all WMF sites and arresting people."
It turns out the needed action was 0. Larry is trolling for attention again.
It was the rant on his site against Wikipedia as a Web 2.0 startup (rather than, e.g., an educational charity) that really nailed his cogent and sound arguments for me.
"for some reason the guy thinks that most artists were paid an advance under the old recording label model. I wonder how true this was, really?"
What he means is that record company accounting means they will never, ever pay out a royalty cheque. All the money you will ever see from the label is the advance. You will usually get some royalties on publishing.
I just looked,and apparently Wikipedia is indeed part of the conspiracy to destroy his business.
Fucksake. If musicians are this stupid they deserve career opportunities asking if people want fries with that. And I speak as someone with 400kg of vinyl records.
"Further the new boss through it’s surrogates like Electronic Frontier Foundation seems to be waging a cynical PR campaign that equates the unauthorized use of other people’s property (artist’s songs) with freedom."
The EFF? This guy's a lunatic and his career is completely fucked.
Perhaps Wikipedia's part of the conspiracy to destroy his business too.
The Wikimedia browser stats pretty much match the StatCounter ones: 25.36% IE, 24.99% Chrome.
Note that Wikimedia is (a) a top-10 site with a broad general international readership (b) a charity with no direct interest in the question of "which browser wins?" but only in knowing the actual answers, so as to serve the readers.
YESLER WAY, Seattle,, Saturday (MSBBC) — Microsoft today stealth-released its new social network, Bing Minus, automatically adding every person in the world still using Internet Explorer, such as your mother.
The Bing Minus software was distributed Friday morning in an automatic urgent mandatory critical Windows security update. It will also be available on Windows Phone 7 and BlackBerry.
“Social networking is the new primary focus Microsoft is betting the business on,” said CEO Steve Ballmer, defining “the business” as “my job.” “It’s already banned in China!” he proudly declared, although Chinese contacts deny this. Productivity has also increased in offices containing Bing Minus users.
Bloggers and tweeters are already swapping tips on how not to obtain Bing Minus invitations every time you click on anything whatsoever in IE or Windows itself.
“Facebook is definitely quaking in its boots. Who are users going to want to give all their information to, Facebook or Microsoft? I think the choice is obvious.”
Ballmer looks forward to a bright future for Bing Minus. “Whatever happens,” he said, “it’s going to suck less than Buzz.”
Jimmy Wales does not sleep. He waits for your money. Jimmy Wales’ tears cure lack of funding. Too bad he only cries in November and December. There is no chin behind Jimmy Wales’ beard. There is only another “donate” button. Jimmy Wales doesn’t do pushups — he gets your donation. When the Bogeyman goes to sleep every night, he clutches the printout of his Wikipedia donation receipt as he checks his closet for Jimmy Wales. Jimmy Wales does not go hunting donations, because the word “hunting” implies the possibility of failure. Jimmy Wales goes collecting donations. Jimmy Wales sold his soul to the devil for his rugged good looks and unparalleled fundraising ability. When the deal had been done, Jimmy looked the devil lovingly in the eye and got his soul donated back. Jimmy Wales not only gave Objectivists a nice reputation, he got them to donate to his charity out of enlightened self-interest. The Wikimedia Foundation can build a funding drive out of paper clips, rubber bands and soda cans. And does so, every year. If you can see Jimmy Wales, he can see you. If you can’t see Jimmy Wales, you may be only seconds away from donating.
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No, the ACS apparently doesn't need any more money.
Short answer: you don't do what you're asking about, and you're probably fucked.
Do your disaster recovery planning in advance: make sure the servers are sufficiently backed up they can be brought up elsewhere at short notice (VMs you can bring up on Amazon are ideal for the purpose) and insurance to cover your workstations.
The time to start thinking about this is about a year ago. I realise there are many circumstances in which doing this is not feasible, but that doesn't make you any less fucked.
AXLE GREASE, Down Under, Tuesday (NTN) — Desperate to stay competitive against iPhone and Android mobile devices, Microsoft has released a two-pound lump of actual cow faeces that they claim constitutes a phone.
Windows RT, in development for several years, strips the mobile device down to its fundamental essence: futility, annoyance, malfunction, inconvenience and a socially unacceptable odour. Confounding analyst expectations, the turd is in fact shined.
US mobile carriers hailed the turd as the perfect physical complement to their world-famous customer service. “This powerful product will promote our growth!” said John Harrobin of Verizon Wireless. “We’re marketing them as edible.”
“We think we can really work the brand equity,” said Steve Ballmer, modelling the optional shoulder-length rubber gloves. “Everyone works with our stuff all day every day. They know who Microsoft is and what we do.”
“How about making our customers actually swallow our bullshit physically?” said John Harrobin. “Windows Mobile 7 was my idea.”
If "cyberwar" was actually a real threat they cared about, they would shift to Linux and thin-client desktops forthwith. Hell, they could get more government money for doing so. "It's for security!" That they are not doing so shows that this is not a real threat, but trumped-up nonsense to try to look like there's a problem. Which they need more money to deal with.
Adapters exist to attach normal monitors to a Mac, but not to attach these monitors to a normal PC - the "adapter" has to power the monitor as well, so cost more than a new monitor would.
Yeah. It's entirely unclear why anyone would bother with this MorphOS thing.
It's my 5yo daughter's computer. Flash is pretty much what she uses it for (BBC CBeebies television and games, YouTube, assorted Flash games) and Gnash isn't yet up to the demanding needs of a five year old.
My 5yo daughter has an ancient Mac G4, with Apple Cinema Display (with the funky plug that doesn't fit any known standard, so I can't just reuse the display on a sensible computer), as her very own. She watches television and plays Flash games on it. Mac OS X 10.4, Firefox 3.something, Flash some obsolete version. It's only Flash - the one thing she really uses it for - that keeps me from Ubuntuing it. Failing that, the current upgrade plan is to pay £25 for a 19" LCD and get someone's discarded P4 and she could have a box that runs at twice the speed.
The Debian and Ubuntu PowerPC ports are alive and well. Main lack for modern use is Flash. But I long dual-booted Ubuntu PPC on a G3/G4. A more reliable DVD burner than Mac OS X 10.4, and wider hardware support.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Friday (UNN) — Russian hackers have accepted €800,000 in donations from customers of Nordea, Sweden's largest bank, after a sophisticated "phishing" campaign recruited customers into downloading a Trojan horse program that recorded their account login details.
The Russians had looked up the definition of "hacker" in the Jargon File and been inspired to leverage the creative power of open source Free Software. The first campaign took place in August 2006 and was detected a month later, having affected around 250 Nordea customers.
The emails claimed to be from the Nordea Open Trojan Foundation, telling recipients to install an anti-spam and donation tool. Their computers were then infected by the Trojan HaxDoor.RMS.w32, which installs itself in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 and sends your passwords to its creators, but only after you have read through and accepted the GNU General Public License and checked the README file for known problems. The email also included full source code.
Swedish police traced the attacks to Russia by looking at the contact details, including address and phone number, included in the README. They have filed over 100 bugs on the creators' SourceForge project and joined the mailing lists on the grass-roots marketing and publicity site SpreadHaxDoor.com.
A Nordea spokesman said the attacks have "quietened down" after the initial influx last Autumn. "We are constantly looking at the security of our online banking and many different measures are taken. We are updating our systems behind the scenes. Many already run on enterprise Linux distributions, but we will be moving desktops to Linux as well for more efficient funds transfer with less reverse engineering required, and may recommend that our customers do the same."
The Trojan only affects computers running Windows. "For unsupported platforms, we have an 'honor system' which gives our details so you can send some money in," said a spokesman for the hacker group. "We hope this will help and encourage contributors interested in porting the Trojan to other operating environments."
Anyone who quotes Florian Mueller as if he were anything other than a shill at this stage of the game is full of it.
"When someone reports your allegedly illegal porn to the FBI, of course you take action to keep the FBI from taking down all WMF sites and arresting people."
It turns out the needed action was 0. Larry is trolling for attention again.
Do the obvious: beat them at their own game! A superior vision, with an educated, thoughtful and gentle guiding hand, will surely win out.
It's suboptimal, but is it barely usable? If so, then people will use it because it's there.
It was the rant on his site against Wikipedia as a Web 2.0 startup (rather than, e.g., an educational charity) that really nailed his cogent and sound arguments for me.
"for some reason the guy thinks that most artists were paid an advance under the old recording label model. I wonder how true this was, really?"
What he means is that record company accounting means they will never, ever pay out a royalty cheque. All the money you will ever see from the label is the advance. You will usually get some royalties on publishing.
Musicians pirate Cubase and their VSTs all the frickin' time. By piracy theory, Steinberg should have gone bust by now selling dongleware.
I just looked,and apparently Wikipedia is indeed part of the conspiracy to destroy his business.
Fucksake. If musicians are this stupid they deserve career opportunities asking if people want fries with that. And I speak as someone with 400kg of vinyl records.
Good thing no-one ever told her rap was popular.
"Artists For An Ethical Internet". I'm sure the grass there is 100% organic and not artificial in any manner.
"Further the new boss through it’s surrogates like Electronic Frontier Foundation seems to be waging a cynical PR campaign that equates the unauthorized use of other people’s property (artist’s songs) with freedom."
The EFF? This guy's a lunatic and his career is completely fucked.
Perhaps Wikipedia's part of the conspiracy to destroy his business too.
Quite possibly, yes. Those are raw numbers from the Squid caches (a sample of 1 in 1000 hits).
The Wikimedia browser stats pretty much match the StatCounter ones: 25.36% IE, 24.99% Chrome.
Note that Wikimedia is (a) a top-10 site with a broad general international readership (b) a charity with no direct interest in the question of "which browser wins?" but only in knowing the actual answers, so as to serve the readers.
YESLER WAY, Seattle,, Saturday (MSBBC) — Microsoft today stealth-released its new social network, Bing Minus, automatically adding every person in the world still using Internet Explorer, such as your mother.
The Bing Minus software was distributed Friday morning in an automatic urgent mandatory critical Windows security update. It will also be available on Windows Phone 7 and BlackBerry.
“Social networking is the new primary focus Microsoft is betting the business on,” said CEO Steve Ballmer, defining “the business” as “my job.” “It’s already banned in China!” he proudly declared, although Chinese contacts deny this. Productivity has also increased in offices containing Bing Minus users.
Bloggers and tweeters are already swapping tips on how not to obtain Bing Minus invitations every time you click on anything whatsoever in IE or Windows itself.
“Facebook is definitely quaking in its boots. Who are users going to want to give all their information to, Facebook or Microsoft? I think the choice is obvious.”
Ballmer looks forward to a bright future for Bing Minus. “Whatever happens,” he said, “it’s going to suck less than Buzz.”
Jimmy Wales does not sleep. He waits for your money.
Jimmy Wales’ tears cure lack of funding. Too bad he only cries in November and December.
There is no chin behind Jimmy Wales’ beard. There is only another “donate” button.
Jimmy Wales doesn’t do pushups — he gets your donation.
When the Bogeyman goes to sleep every night, he clutches the printout of his Wikipedia donation receipt as he checks his closet for Jimmy Wales.
Jimmy Wales does not go hunting donations, because the word “hunting” implies the possibility of failure. Jimmy Wales goes collecting donations.
Jimmy Wales sold his soul to the devil for his rugged good looks and unparalleled fundraising ability. When the deal had been done, Jimmy looked the devil lovingly in the eye and got his soul donated back.
Jimmy Wales not only gave Objectivists a nice reputation, he got them to donate to his charity out of enlightened self-interest.
The Wikimedia Foundation can build a funding drive out of paper clips, rubber bands and soda cans. And does so, every year.
If you can see Jimmy Wales, he can see you. If you can’t see Jimmy Wales, you may be only seconds away from donating.