Because in this case, the actions of the person would directly reflect on the actions of the company?
Plantiff: Your Honor, we believe that HP illegally stole our stuff. HP: That's ridiculous. Plantiff: Oh? Like your employee Bruce Perens breaking the DMCA and pirating DVDs live, on stage? HP:.....bloody hell.
I've had a similar idea when it comes to making a log server. If it is only physically possible to write to the log server, then there would be no way someone could erase their tracks.
Why do you think a lot of logservers print to a lineprinter?:-)
Hell, I think the upper levels of the old Orange Book *required* a hardcopy of logentries, in real time.
Unless you want to go to the trouble of making an OS that is 100% read-only
Actually a capital suggestion. Make a bootable CD-ROM that has your OS, drivers, and webserver. Make a ram drive for temp space, if required. Then have it mount a read-only partition, and you're aces.
This is quite common, actually. Something gets buggered up, you reboot. New patch? Update your image, burn a new CD, and you're gone.
Why make it difficult? Make a script in your favourite language; shell, perl, whatever, and name it 'default.ida' or 'root.exe' and plant it properly. The script, when called by Apache as a CGI, will have the IP address as an env variable. Use that to update your filter of choice appropriately.
b) They tend mix business logic and data which is a big no-no as far as three-tier architecture goes
I thought the idea was to do your BL in Stored Proceedures so that you don't need to implement it in client, and thusly allow any interface; web page, windows app, unix app, and so on, to access.
If you're going three-tier, then you do it in objects (et all) that sit between database and clients, anyway.
Yeah. They could NEVER use a sort of trackpad like technology. You know, like the transporters in Star Trek had actual sliders, but the ones in Star Trek: The Next Generation had sliders with no moving parts. And they were pretty sad, because they could never go anywhere, because a slider control with no moving parts is an impossibility.
My usual fix for that particular obsession is the Citybuilder series from Impressions Games. Started with Caesar II, then moved up to Caesar III, Pharoah and the Cleopatra expansion, Zeus and the Poseidon expansion, and eagerly awaiting Emperor, set in ancient China.
A mouse can be just as dangerous as a bomb or bullet. But only in close quarters combat. Grasping the cord, whirl the mouse around your head, then strike your opponent in the face with it. While he is dazed, move behind him, and loop the cord around his neck, making sure that he does not interpose anything between the cord and his neck. Then, pull the cord tight, and wait.
And I'm still waiting for them to realize that they can use the system to also issue speeding tickets.
You entered the 407 ETR at 1600 hours, at, say, the 400 South onramp. Five minutes later, you left the 407 ETR at the Hurontario/Highway 10 offramp. This means you were doing an average speed of 150 KPH, 50 kilometers over the speedlimit.
More to the point, it's called 'I didn't' syndrome.
"I didn't go to Medical School for, what, 8 years, internship, residency, all that crap, just to have some goddamn machine tell me how to do my job."
Which is, of course, silly, because these things aren't doing the Doctor's jobs; they're helping the Doctor's do their jobs. It's just as valid to say that keeping a copy of that lovely Physician's Desk Reference, or Grey's Anatomy, or any form of paper references, is 'telling them how to do their jobs.'
Yeah, I've got your prior art. It's called the Post Office.
Gee, individual packets of unknown data with a sender, a reciever, which is then acted upon by a list of rules, and generally passes through a series of 'stations' and 'hubs' until it gets to it's destination?
Actually, most of the compromised servers were Redhat Linux in the version 6 days ( circa 1998-99) because all services were enabled by default, leaving the system wide open. Of course, inexperienced (stupid wouldn't be polite) admins share the blame.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. 10, 15, 20 years ago, the security advisories were all the same, only the names were different. SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX. Sendmail, CERN httpd, X.
To be fair, though, those games are pretty old. I think I played X-Wing on my 486. heh.:)
Wimp. I played X-wing on a 386/16 laptop with a greyscale VGA monitor, and no sound card.:-)
LucasArts was kind enough to re-release both X-Wing and TiE Fighter with the XvT engine, directX5, 3d accelerated, all that jazz, so it's playable under a pure Win32 environment.
I believe the quote from Dark Knight Returns goes something like "It took several years, and cost a fortune, to synthesize that kryptonite, Clark. Fortunately, I had both."
I find it much easier to install Linux than an old copy of Windows 98.
Isn't that like saying 'I find it much easier to install Windows XP than an old copy of RedHat 5.2?
His experience with being able to get on-line is totally different from mine.
That's because this was three or four years ago, which meant PPP scripts and the like. It was foul. And that has nothing to do with the hardware, other than the fact that you're using a modem in general.
3dFX's SLI technology had two Voodoo2 cards working in tandem, one rendering even scanlines, the other rendering odd scanlines. Hence, Scan Line Interleave.
The tech used in the Voodoo3, 4 and 5, who's name escapes me, would break the screen up into X number of sections and hand each section to a different chip. In theory, you could scale this up to however far you'd like. As I recall, though, the 6500 card, with four chips, (TMI or TDI or somesuch, it was called) required a wallwart and a wall socket.
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Because in this case, the actions of the person would directly reflect on the actions of the company?
Plantiff: Your Honor, we believe that HP illegally stole our stuff.HP: That's ridiculous.
Plantiff: Oh? Like your employee Bruce Perens breaking the DMCA and pirating DVDs live, on stage?
HP:
No, it's a Macross/Robotech reference.
Why do you think a lot of logservers print to a lineprinter? :-)
Hell, I think the upper levels of the old Orange Book *required* a hardcopy of logentries, in real time.
Actually a capital suggestion. Make a bootable CD-ROM that has your OS, drivers, and webserver. Make a ram drive for temp space, if required. Then have it mount a read-only partition, and you're aces.
This is quite common, actually. Something gets buggered up, you reboot. New patch? Update your image, burn a new CD, and you're gone.
Holy CRAP.
Yup, another classic example of 'when all you know how to use is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a nail.
Why make it difficult? Make a script in your favourite language; shell, perl, whatever, and name it 'default.ida' or 'root.exe' and plant it properly. The script, when called by Apache as a CGI, will have the IP address as an env variable. Use that to update your filter of choice appropriately.
I thought the idea was to do your BL in Stored Proceedures so that you don't need to implement it in client, and thusly allow any interface; web page, windows app, unix app, and so on, to access.
If you're going three-tier, then you do it in objects (et all) that sit between database and clients, anyway.
Yeah. They could NEVER use a sort of trackpad like technology. You know, like the transporters in Star Trek had actual sliders, but the ones in Star Trek: The Next Generation had sliders with no moving parts. And they were pretty sad, because they could never go anywhere, because a slider control with no moving parts is an impossibility.
There. Now I just might get an iPod, and by extention, a mac.
Audible.com is the shiznit, and those long commutes are much easier when you've got 18 hours of The Diamond Age or such like to listen to. :-)
My usual fix for that particular obsession is the Citybuilder series from Impressions Games. Started with Caesar II, then moved up to Caesar III, Pharoah and the Cleopatra expansion, Zeus and the Poseidon expansion, and eagerly awaiting Emperor, set in ancient China.
A mouse can be just as dangerous as a bomb or bullet. But only in close quarters combat. Grasping the cord, whirl the mouse around your head, then strike your opponent in the face with it. While he is dazed, move behind him, and loop the cord around his neck, making sure that he does not interpose anything between the cord and his neck. Then, pull the cord tight, and wait.
Where did YOU hear the word 'fnord,' friend citizen? That word is treasonous. Please report for termination.
When they're replacing random (or not so random...) words with either 'smurf' or 'fnord,' THEN it's time to worry.
And I'm still waiting for them to realize that they can use the system to also issue speeding tickets.
More to the point, it's called 'I didn't' syndrome.
"I didn't go to Medical School for, what, 8 years, internship, residency, all that crap, just to have some goddamn machine tell me how to do my job."
Which is, of course, silly, because these things aren't doing the Doctor's jobs; they're helping the Doctor's do their jobs. It's just as valid to say that keeping a copy of that lovely Physician's Desk Reference, or Grey's Anatomy, or any form of paper references, is 'telling them how to do their jobs.'
Yeah, I've got your prior art. It's called the Post Office.
Gee, individual packets of unknown data with a sender, a reciever, which is then acted upon by a list of rules, and generally passes through a series of 'stations' and 'hubs' until it gets to it's destination?
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. 10, 15, 20 years ago, the security advisories were all the same, only the names were different. SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX. Sendmail, CERN httpd, X.
Oooh, dems fightin' words! (runs into the General Store and closes the curtains, peeking out)
Point of order: Exchange 2000 doesn't run it's own LDAP server; it requires Windows 2000 Active Directory to supply LDAP services.
I vaugely remember some older Ask Slashdot's about replacing AD with a different LDAP server.
Wimp. I played X-wing on a 386/16 laptop with a greyscale VGA monitor, and no sound card. :-)
LucasArts was kind enough to re-release both X-Wing and TiE Fighter with the XvT engine, directX5, 3d accelerated, all that jazz, so it's playable under a pure Win32 environment.
Hrm. X-Wing? Better yet, TiE Fighter? LORD were those 'definitive.'
Or the Dark Forces/Jedi Knight series? JK2: Jedi Outcast is an AMAZING game. I love online saber dueling.
I believe the quote from Dark Knight Returns goes something like "It took several years, and cost a fortune, to synthesize that kryptonite, Clark. Fortunately, I had both."
Isn't that like saying 'I find it much easier to install Windows XP than an old copy of RedHat 5.2?
That's because this was three or four years ago, which meant PPP scripts and the like. It was foul. And that has nothing to do with the hardware, other than the fact that you're using a modem in general.
3dFX's SLI technology had two Voodoo2 cards working in tandem, one rendering even scanlines, the other rendering odd scanlines. Hence, Scan Line Interleave.
The tech used in the Voodoo3, 4 and 5, who's name escapes me, would break the screen up into X number of sections and hand each section to a different chip. In theory, you could scale this up to however far you'd like. As I recall, though, the 6500 card, with four chips, (TMI or TDI or somesuch, it was called) required a wallwart and a wall socket.