Good thing those boxes are running kernel 2.4 cuz the newer distro now have the ability to encrypt the partitions so your solution wouldn't work there.
Bad idea of not knowing what it does as you already know. Just run a packet sniffer on it's traffic and see if you can figure out what kind of data it's dealing with.
I too heard about this story. It's an old Novell server that's been locked away for years and forgotten until one day when they were doing the server inventory.
Apparently it never been rebooted and never lost a single packet. Let's see if Windows can beat that!
Comcast already been hammered by the FCC in terms of their discriminatory practices. Comcast is NOT going to be hit by a class action lawsuit for the 250GB cap because they already disclosed it as required by the FCC. Now, if Comcast decides to throttle high usage users and is NOT disclosed in their terms of service agreement yes they will get hammered again by the FCC.
Right now Comcast does offer business class service for those who need unlimited bandwidth so it's not like you don't have options.
What I find this so ironic the folks at the patent office didn't occur to them they're using the SAME keyboard for 20+ years and it's right in FRONT of them?!?!?!
That's crazy. Seems the more practical approach is build a solar array in space! This way you always have sunshine 24/7 with no worries of bad weather. More importantly land on earth can be left alone.
The only concern I have about the space solar array is the method of transferring the energy towards earth's receiving stations using microwaves in megawatt power range. This would certainly cook some peeps if they ever misaligned the energy beam. I guess this will dispel the "spontaneous combustion theory."
It reminds me the movie of "Six Days" by Arnold Schwarzenegger where they can record your memories via the optic nerve and implant it into a clone of yourself. Freaky stuff.
I wouldn't be too sure about that. He did a good job of running the network without issues. Just he got paranoid about his job.
Just they won't hire him as the main network guy but will use him for experience long as the company keeps good record of the routers and passwords that is accessible by other network admins and audit those passwords every month.
Given that the configurations on the routers weren't saved,
Now I haven't seen explicit confirmation that the configs were tftp'able, but unless Childs is some sort of rainman of router configurations there is no way that even he could have managed more than a small handful of them without keeping the configurations stored somewhere - there is just too much configuration info not to keep the configs stored somewhere.
He may have stored them either on a USB flash drive or if he is smart some tftp server somewhere on the net encrypted of course.
Enterprise Cicso router is very complicated piece of equipment so it is essential to have a copy of the configuration file somewhere as backup.
Hell, even the cheapo Linksys router got a nice backup feature.
My Debian based router uses OpenVPN that uses certificates for authentication. It can also use a RADIUS server to verify the actual user.
Since it's just few users I don't bother with the RADIUS server and each user have his / her own certificate that is unique. So if the person is no longer around I can just disable that certificate in the router. In corporate world nothing should be deleted so least I can show in my router that the certificate is indeed disabled as opposed to simply delete it.
Problem with certs and anything that impacts their servers aren't quick to apply the patch no matter how critical it is. The patches have to be tested, re-tested and tested again to be sure it won't have a adverse impact on their service to the customers.
Some are quick to apply the patches in a day while others will take weeks or even months depending on the size of their infrastructure and size of the staff to test the patches.
Switching phone companies is your choice but I think they wanted to make sure the patch would work normally for most of their customers. There is no such thing is 100% reliability of anything, it doesn't exist.
CL been around for years and makes me wonder if the servers are still running in some garage somewhere?
You think by now they would mature the site with better policies and practices but lately it's being used for alot of illegal activities and scams due to lack of police control.
I don't take CL seriously anymore, I just browse through some stuff just for kicks.
Ok, that makes sense and pretty much figured it's not that simple or safe to do it.
I have seen large UPS systems that use standard car or marine batteries and the single inverter is a monster in size. It required large amounts of cooling to keep it from blowing up. It always made me nervous to stand close to it.
When I installed my satellite dish I installed a 8 foot copper rod into the ground and bonded it. Most home satellite installs don't do this and not even grounded at all.
It's rare when a lightning hits the dish but when it happens all of that juice is gonna go straight to the receiver and then the tv along with everything else connected to it and hopefully it won't arc across the room towards you.
I don't ever give out my credit card info to sites like that. I've donated money to Linux distro sites via paypal so this sort of thing doesn't happen.
I'm sure the bank will take care of those fraudsters.
P.S. Wachovia reported nearly $9B loss last quarter so things are little bleak at the moment.
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I have heard about this site and it looks darn easy to use:
http://www.crashplan.com/
They support Win, MacOS and Linux
If you have a "buddy" to store your backups then it'll be free otherwise to store stuff on their servers they charge a fee for it.
Darkk
Problem is spammers are using HUMANS to do the dirty work for them. They basically employ thousands of poor Chinese folks as cheap labor.
So CAPTCHA doesn't work anymore.
Some companies do that. Especially the old mainframes that produced so much heat they were using them as heaters!
They figured why vent the heat outside when they can pipe them into the areas of the building when it's needed and save money on heating bills.
Any way I look at heat as exhaust from servers is a waste of money so they need to make a goal of reducing the excess heat generation.
Which is one of the reasons when I buy processors for home I look at the TDP and pay more that gives off less heat.
Good thing those boxes are running kernel 2.4 cuz the newer distro now have the ability to encrypt the partitions so your solution wouldn't work there.
Bad idea of not knowing what it does as you already know. Just run a packet sniffer on it's traffic and see if you can figure out what kind of data it's dealing with.
I too heard about this story. It's an old Novell server that's been locked away for years and forgotten until one day when they were doing the server inventory.
Apparently it never been rebooted and never lost a single packet. Let's see if Windows can beat that!
$20 more a month for business class? I'm paying $33 for 6mb service. Last I checked on Comcast's website they wanted $99 a month for business service.
So all I have to do is speak with QA rep and he'll give me the discount?
Comcast already been hammered by the FCC in terms of their discriminatory practices. Comcast is NOT going to be hit by a class action lawsuit for the 250GB cap because they already disclosed it as required by the FCC. Now, if Comcast decides to throttle high usage users and is NOT disclosed in their terms of service agreement yes they will get hammered again by the FCC.
Right now Comcast does offer business class service for those who need unlimited bandwidth so it's not like you don't have options.
I oughta patent the "Prt Scr" keystroke.
Stupid tards at the patent office.
What I find this so ironic the folks at the patent office didn't occur to them they're using the SAME keyboard for 20+ years and it's right in FRONT of them?!?!?!
Kinda late for April fool's
That's crazy. Seems the more practical approach is build a solar array in space! This way you always have sunshine 24/7 with no worries of bad weather. More importantly land on earth can be left alone.
The only concern I have about the space solar array is the method of transferring the energy towards earth's receiving stations using microwaves in megawatt power range. This would certainly cook some peeps if they ever misaligned the energy beam. I guess this will dispel the "spontaneous combustion theory."
It reminds me the movie of "Six Days" by Arnold Schwarzenegger where they can record your memories via the optic nerve and implant it into a clone of yourself. Freaky stuff.
Yes I read it but anything is possible these days.
I wouldn't be too sure about that. He did a good job of running the network without issues. Just he got paranoid about his job.
Just they won't hire him as the main network guy but will use him for experience long as the company keeps good record of the routers and passwords that is accessible by other network admins and audit those passwords every month.
Better yet, I've seen users use Post-It notes to write down passwords and guess where they stick it on?
Given that the configurations on the routers weren't saved,
Now I haven't seen explicit confirmation that the configs were tftp'able, but unless Childs is some sort of rainman of router configurations there is no way that even he could have managed more than a small handful of them without keeping the configurations stored somewhere - there is just too much configuration info not to keep the configs stored somewhere.
He may have stored them either on a USB flash drive or if he is smart some tftp server somewhere on the net encrypted of course.
Enterprise Cicso router is very complicated piece of equipment so it is essential to have a copy of the configuration file somewhere as backup.
Hell, even the cheapo Linksys router got a nice backup feature.
My Debian based router uses OpenVPN that uses certificates for authentication. It can also use a RADIUS server to verify the actual user.
Since it's just few users I don't bother with the RADIUS server and each user have his / her own certificate that is unique. So if the person is no longer around I can just disable that certificate in the router. In corporate world nothing should be deleted so least I can show in my router that the certificate is indeed disabled as opposed to simply delete it.
Problem with certs and anything that impacts their servers aren't quick to apply the patch no matter how critical it is. The patches have to be tested, re-tested and tested again to be sure it won't have a adverse impact on their service to the customers.
Some are quick to apply the patches in a day while others will take weeks or even months depending on the size of their infrastructure and size of the staff to test the patches.
Switching phone companies is your choice but I think they wanted to make sure the patch would work normally for most of their customers. There is no such thing is 100% reliability of anything, it doesn't exist.
CL been around for years and makes me wonder if the servers are still running in some garage somewhere?
You think by now they would mature the site with better policies and practices but lately it's being used for alot of illegal activities and scams due to lack of police control.
I don't take CL seriously anymore, I just browse through some stuff just for kicks.
Ok, that makes sense and pretty much figured it's not that simple or safe to do it.
I have seen large UPS systems that use standard car or marine batteries and the single inverter is a monster in size. It required large amounts of cooling to keep it from blowing up. It always made me nervous to stand close to it.
Thanks for the insight.
When I installed my satellite dish I installed a 8 foot copper rod into the ground and bonded it. Most home satellite installs don't do this and not even grounded at all.
It's rare when a lightning hits the dish but when it happens all of that juice is gonna go straight to the receiver and then the tv along with everything else connected to it and hopefully it won't arc across the room towards you.
I'm sure the wife wouldn't be to happy.
Only 2%?
Man, the other 98% of the hackers are slackin!!
I don't ever give out my credit card info to sites like that. I've donated money to Linux distro sites via paypal so this sort of thing doesn't happen.
I'm sure the bank will take care of those fraudsters.
P.S. Wachovia reported nearly $9B loss last quarter so things are little bleak at the moment.
I wonder if this is a standard practice in Florida home having varisters system installed in the electrical panel?
It's not.
I guess anything is not required by code they won't do it.
I've shipped my data with UPS many times and they've never lost anything.
Yet.....