I use sshfs file mounts for all office document file sharing and such, not just one time transfers. SSH encryption security, with the ability to open and edit files over the network. No goofing around with samba or windows file sharing. Regardless, some sort of ssh or sftp at least.
Not sure about getting it to work on windows, but there should be some options.
Several of the security companies chiefs in interviews flatly say they don't hire hackers. Why? Because they are lazy workers. Not they do not have talents or experience, but the kind of social background that produces the best of them also produces the worst sorts of employees. It was not about their encounters with the laws.
My predication is that in 3 years time no one will even remember what facebook is. It is not a new concept, and it is not a good buisness modal. When facebook finally crashes and burns in a ball of bankruptcy fire, millions of users are going to be turned off from anything even remotely tagged as "social networking".
Personally, I am still waiting for some sort of big facebook scandal. Say a serial killer, big scam, or a massive virus. Hopefully something that will put it down fast, rather than a slow drip of overblown marketing death that it has already started to be infect with. Most of the users of facebook where not using the internet before the.com bust. This will be their new chance to be schooled in just how not novel the internet really is and how to ignore the new shinny objects on the web.
Hundreds if not thousands of U.K. citizens have already done it.
Among other things, Chile has a corruption free, stable economy, and the government does not fear the people and the people do not fear the goverment. Neighbors leave neighbors alone, unless you go actively looking for friends. So, does the government. Chile is one of the few countries that is not going to debt to monitor every citizen, every second of day. It actually maintains a budget surplus.
Here is an example of the respect the people have for the police. The chief of police was recently killed in a helicopter crash in Panama. More people lined the streets around the country, and left flowers at police stations all over the country, than when the president or other politicians died. Police in Chile are viewed as not only as trust worthy, but almost family on a nation wide basis. They are able to better enforce the laws, because even the criminals view them as objective third-parties. They are not worried the police are going to beat con
The list of reasons is way way too long for why Chile, but try this site for a lot more details:
I think this is something that most pure IT people fail to appreciate about Google's buisness model. They bought their freedom early. They designed their systems around being able to buy the cheapest crappiest whatever on the market, and have it keep on ticking no matter what. In the long run they saved way more money and leverage much more power in terms of market and CPU cycles, simply because they where not getting bent over the barrel by some vendor. That is exactly what facebook is complaining about. Google's bottom line is reflecting that freedom. They are not paying AMD, Intel, or any other company a large percentage of their take. Yea, they have suppliers, but they can tell them to go F themselves. They are Google after all.
Facebook is unsustainable both in terms of infrastructure and buisness. In 2 or 3 years, no one will remember facebook; but I bet we will all still be using Google.
Fuck the CPU. It is the least of the problems with any system server or otherwise today. Go beat the mobo producers, not the CPU producers. Essentially our disks are no faster than they where 3 years ago, or even 5 years ago, but their capacity has gone through the roof (minor catch improvements aside). We have more data to move in to and out of disk. If you can't get it in to the disk any faster or out of the disk any faster, what the hell is the point of a fast processor or more processors?
So, we find ourselves shoving more and more data in ram, caches to caches, because the disks are so friken slow.
Perhaps I am a bit slow and stupid, but is this not like running an encrypted virtual machine or at least could be done in some sort of encrypted virtual machine? Something where the underlying hardware and OS does not know what the processes and data are at the higher level.
I have a fast and simple solution. I take my trusty drill and run the bit through the platter at least once to several times depending on the importance of the drive. Yea, someone could in theory super reconstruct the data, but not without spending hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars more than the data was worth. For that kind of money, I would just give them the data. It is a simple, cheap, quick solution that in all but the most sensitive situations would be sufficient to keep the data from being recovered in 99.9% of all cases.
The thing people forget in all their bs about "just overwrite it with 0 and 1" is that hard drives are often being discarded because they have mechanical problems. The platter is likly still in good shape, just something else has failed that stops it from being mountable. My solution fixes both.
We have been running oil well drills in to the earth, and sucking out all the juice, water, geothermal, whatever for years. No one has questioned seriously if oil well drilling causes earth quakes. Now that we are drilling for geothermal there is this totally myth being pushed all over that geothermal causes earthquakes.
It just so happens that the best geothermal locations also happen to be near the most active seismic locations. Stands to reason that once in a while when drilling there are going to be earthquakes in the area, not that geothermal causes earthquakes.
More accurately, it is representing another's SPECIFIC work or idea as your own.
Only a slight variation from your point, but important clarification I believe. For example, If I give you permission to copy word for word something I wrote and to publish and use it without citing the source, there is no plagiarism.On the other hand, common knowledge within a particular circle (i.e. the readers will recognize the source) is also not plagiarism.
I can not find it now, but I remember encountering an article several years ago in a local Las Vegas newspaper that described how the stealth fighters could be detected easily. In places like Nevada where there are secret military bases all over the place, there are hobby stealth watchers and they had discovered that there are so many cell phones in use all over the world that stealth fighters get lit up like a x-mas tree from the ground based signals emanating from the cell phones. Even amateur stealth watchers could track them flying around the Western United States. It was not long after that article the military officially started dropping all plans for future production related to designs based primarily on right angles and radar.
Anyone familiar with WWII and aviation history knows about this. The U.S. also had a stealth flying wing bomber. The idea was patented in 1910, and by early 30's was being kicked around for stealth usage. Basically stealth aircraft designs where around before radar, or at least developed alongside radar.
I use shfs mounts by ( to make sure it stays mounted even if connection is interrupted) and ssh tunnels for everything else, with preshared keys to a central server / proxy, and rsnapshots for backup on the central server with hot swap drives.
This works on desktops, remote office, and for notebooks. I essentially don't trust my employees or myself to remember to encrypt everything or use "secure" protocals all the time, and so I remove the need to remember from the whole process. I can then focus on securing one system. Great if everything else is secure, but just in case. Very good for notebooks jumping from open wireless to open wireless systems, and also keeping track of employees activity in one location. I can log fairly easily everything they do or don't do (yea, the 2 hour coffee break sticks out like sore thumb in the logs).
Among other things this also has the nice side effect that should say a notebook or desktop be stolen, it will phone home as soon as it is connected to the internet and send detailed information about what it is doing.
Geothermal does not have the pollution problem, does not have visual problem, the problem of messing with birds or whatever, and the latest technology allows them to drill geothermal wells in very low temperatures or dry wells by pumping water in to the earth, rather than needing to find a particular geothermal friendly area. Even if just limited to areas naturally conducive to geothermal, there is likly just as many areas in the World where geothermal can be built (if you include all the places you can not build wind turbines like the middle of a city). Best of all, it is 24 hours, always on energy using the same technology we already use for our oil based society (drills, turbines, etc). It is "shovel ready" and producing energy right now all over the World.
Can anyone give me something that beats all of that in terms of energy to cost (including environmental)?
First, what we are really talking about is the decisions that any particular distro might make in packaging, over what say the grunt KDE developers are deciding.
Second, Linux does not fail or at least is not likly to fail as whole. Distros however can fail, when they make bad choices and loose users. Which is kind of the same effect that would happen to a company of clients voted with their feet. In linux land, they vote with the distro they use and go somewhere else. How many now, especially since it has become increasingly easy for people to build a distro, have died on the vine?
I think the best solution, that still has yet to be fully taken advantage of, is the ability to remaster your own custom distros. I have a server distro, a general office distro, my own personal desktop distro.
Eating ram and processor is not a FUCKING FEATURE!!!!!
I am so fucking sick of the "firefox does not use memory" bullshit. WHAT FUCKING BROWSER ARE THEY RUNNING???
Over two dozen OS on different systems, including at least a dozen linux distros run on the same systems, ranging from 0 ram to 6 gigs in ram (duel cores, single cores, no cores), firefox still consistently creates a fucking black hole in the universe every time it starts. I am talking about every single version that has been released.
Yet, I just loaded seamonkey with the same rendering engine under it and it did not suck up everything like a fucking 747 engine starting.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH FIREFOX?? Are the developers brain damaged?
Does anyone here remember what the goal of Phoenix was back before it was Firefox? It was intended to be a small fast IE killer.
I might point out that anything marked 0.3 would likly not be beta / development level software, and no one would support it or expect it to be supported.
That said, I rarely have I ever had a compatibility problem (they do happen) in open source getting my 0.3 applications to talk with production level stable 1.x and beyond applications. Even if someone did find themselves in such a situation, they are fully and freely allowed to fork their special version in house and maintain it themselves. Good luck trying to do that with a closed source application where the vendor just tell you no more support.
So, this is really an apples and oranges argument.
It has been in the culture for thousands of years, and no one thinks it is wrong. For example, for thousands of years honoring the greatest artist and scholars meant training to copy their work exactly. Chinese just don't get the whole western copyright thing. Especially in a communist / socialist country where all property is officially property of the State. They might be right.
I worked at Chinese University. We had a guy that we called "Mr. Copy". He worked in the English department during the day making photo copies of exams and materials for teachers, audio tapes, whatever. At night he would setup his table in the main plaza and sell the latest pirated DVD movies for less than a $1, including all the screeners that had not been released in the States yet. There where hundreds if not thousands (e.g. 8-10 at the base of my apartment building alone) of these guys just around the one University I was at.
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I use sshfs file mounts for all office document file sharing and such, not just one time transfers. SSH encryption security, with the ability to open and edit files over the network. No goofing around with samba or windows file sharing. Regardless, some sort of ssh or sftp at least.
Not sure about getting it to work on windows, but there should be some options.
yea, those apples did not fall far from the tree.
Yea, so did George Bush's grandfather:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar
You know that was my first thought as a solution when I read that it was stuck. Why can't they have the other one go over and at least push?
Two problems with that came to mind. How far away is the other one? What if we get them both stuck? Call AAA.
Several of the security companies chiefs in interviews flatly say they don't hire hackers. Why? Because they are lazy workers. Not they do not have talents or experience, but the kind of social background that produces the best of them also produces the worst sorts of employees. It was not about their encounters with the laws.
My predication is that in 3 years time no one will even remember what facebook is. It is not a new concept, and it is not a good buisness modal. When facebook finally crashes and burns in a ball of bankruptcy fire, millions of users are going to be turned off from anything even remotely tagged as "social networking".
Personally, I am still waiting for some sort of big facebook scandal. Say a serial killer, big scam, or a massive virus. Hopefully something that will put it down fast, rather than a slow drip of overblown marketing death that it has already started to be infect with. Most of the users of facebook where not using the internet before the .com bust. This will be their new chance to be schooled in just how not novel the internet really is and how to ignore the new shinny objects on the web.
Hundreds if not thousands of U.K. citizens have already done it.
Among other things, Chile has a corruption free, stable economy, and the government does not fear the people and the people do not fear the goverment. Neighbors leave neighbors alone, unless you go actively looking for friends. So, does the government. Chile is one of the few countries that is not going to debt to monitor every citizen, every second of day. It actually maintains a budget surplus.
Here is an example of the respect the people have for the police. The chief of police was recently killed in a helicopter crash in Panama. More people lined the streets around the country, and left flowers at police stations all over the country, than when the president or other politicians died. Police in Chile are viewed as not only as trust worthy, but almost family on a nation wide basis. They are able to better enforce the laws, because even the criminals view them as objective third-parties. They are not worried the police are going to beat con
The list of reasons is way way too long for why Chile, but try this site for a lot more details:
Chile
I think this is something that most pure IT people fail to appreciate about Google's buisness model. They bought their freedom early. They designed their systems around being able to buy the cheapest crappiest whatever on the market, and have it keep on ticking no matter what. In the long run they saved way more money and leverage much more power in terms of market and CPU cycles, simply because they where not getting bent over the barrel by some vendor. That is exactly what facebook is complaining about. Google's bottom line is reflecting that freedom. They are not paying AMD, Intel, or any other company a large percentage of their take. Yea, they have suppliers, but they can tell them to go F themselves. They are Google after all.
Facebook is unsustainable both in terms of infrastructure and buisness. In 2 or 3 years, no one will remember facebook; but I bet we will all still be using Google.
This totally has my vote.
Fuck the CPU. It is the least of the problems with any system server or otherwise today. Go beat the mobo producers, not the CPU producers. Essentially our disks are no faster than they where 3 years ago, or even 5 years ago, but their capacity has gone through the roof (minor catch improvements aside). We have more data to move in to and out of disk. If you can't get it in to the disk any faster or out of the disk any faster, what the hell is the point of a fast processor or more processors?
So, we find ourselves shoving more and more data in ram, caches to caches, because the disks are so friken slow.
Perhaps I am a bit slow and stupid, but is this not like running an encrypted virtual machine or at least could be done in some sort of encrypted virtual machine? Something where the underlying hardware and OS does not know what the processes and data are at the higher level.
I have a fast and simple solution. I take my trusty drill and run the bit through the platter at least once to several times depending on the importance of the drive. Yea, someone could in theory super reconstruct the data, but not without spending hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars more than the data was worth. For that kind of money, I would just give them the data. It is a simple, cheap, quick solution that in all but the most sensitive situations would be sufficient to keep the data from being recovered in 99.9% of all cases.
The thing people forget in all their bs about "just overwrite it with 0 and 1" is that hard drives are often being discarded because they have mechanical problems. The platter is likly still in good shape, just something else has failed that stops it from being mountable. My solution fixes both.
We have been running oil well drills in to the earth, and sucking out all the juice, water, geothermal, whatever for years. No one has questioned seriously if oil well drilling causes earth quakes. Now that we are drilling for geothermal there is this totally myth being pushed all over that geothermal causes earthquakes.
It just so happens that the best geothermal locations also happen to be near the most active seismic locations. Stands to reason that once in a while when drilling there are going to be earthquakes in the area, not that geothermal causes earthquakes.
How is this science, or even logical?
GET A CLUE PEOPLE!!!
More accurately, it is representing another's SPECIFIC work or idea as your own.
Only a slight variation from your point, but important clarification I believe. For example, If I give you permission to copy word for word something I wrote and to publish and use it without citing the source, there is no plagiarism.On the other hand, common knowledge within a particular circle (i.e. the readers will recognize the source) is also not plagiarism.
Not trying to pick a fight, just clarifying.
I can not find it now, but I remember encountering an article several years ago in a local Las Vegas newspaper that described how the stealth fighters could be detected easily. In places like Nevada where there are secret military bases all over the place, there are hobby stealth watchers and they had discovered that there are so many cell phones in use all over the world that stealth fighters get lit up like a x-mas tree from the ground based signals emanating from the cell phones. Even amateur stealth watchers could track them flying around the Western United States. It was not long after that article the military officially started dropping all plans for future production related to designs based primarily on right angles and radar.
Can anyone find the article or info on this?
Anyone familiar with WWII and aviation history knows about this. The U.S. also had a stealth flying wing bomber. The idea was patented in 1910, and by early 30's was being kicked around for stealth usage. Basically stealth aircraft designs where around before radar, or at least developed alongside radar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_wing
I use shfs mounts by ( to make sure it stays mounted even if connection is interrupted) and ssh tunnels for everything else, with preshared keys to a central server / proxy, and rsnapshots for backup on the central server with hot swap drives.
This works on desktops, remote office, and for notebooks. I essentially don't trust my employees or myself to remember to encrypt everything or use "secure" protocals all the time, and so I remove the need to remember from the whole process. I can then focus on securing one system. Great if everything else is secure, but just in case. Very good for notebooks jumping from open wireless to open wireless systems, and also keeping track of employees activity in one location. I can log fairly easily everything they do or don't do (yea, the 2 hour coffee break sticks out like sore thumb in the logs).
Among other things this also has the nice side effect that should say a notebook or desktop be stolen, it will phone home as soon as it is connected to the internet and send detailed information about what it is doing.
Hot Chick: Do me! Do me!
Geek: I don't have a condom
Hot Chick: I don't care. Just do me!!
Geek: O.k.
Yea, logic does suck.
Geothermal does not have the pollution problem, does not have visual problem, the problem of messing with birds or whatever, and the latest technology allows them to drill geothermal wells in very low temperatures or dry wells by pumping water in to the earth, rather than needing to find a particular geothermal friendly area. Even if just limited to areas naturally conducive to geothermal, there is likly just as many areas in the World where geothermal can be built (if you include all the places you can not build wind turbines like the middle of a city). Best of all, it is 24 hours, always on energy using the same technology we already use for our oil based society (drills, turbines, etc). It is "shovel ready" and producing energy right now all over the World.
Can anyone give me something that beats all of that in terms of energy to cost (including environmental)?
First, what we are really talking about is the decisions that any particular distro might make in packaging, over what say the grunt KDE developers are deciding.
Second, Linux does not fail or at least is not likly to fail as whole. Distros however can fail, when they make bad choices and loose users. Which is kind of the same effect that would happen to a company of clients voted with their feet. In linux land, they vote with the distro they use and go somewhere else. How many now, especially since it has become increasingly easy for people to build a distro, have died on the vine?
I think the best solution, that still has yet to be fully taken advantage of, is the ability to remaster your own custom distros. I have a server distro, a general office distro, my own personal desktop distro.
Eating ram and processor is not a FUCKING FEATURE!!!!!
I am so fucking sick of the "firefox does not use memory" bullshit. WHAT FUCKING BROWSER ARE THEY RUNNING???
Over two dozen OS on different systems, including at least a dozen linux distros run on the same systems, ranging from 0 ram to 6 gigs in ram (duel cores, single cores, no cores), firefox still consistently creates a fucking black hole in the universe every time it starts. I am talking about every single version that has been released.
Yet, I just loaded seamonkey with the same rendering engine under it and it did not suck up everything like a fucking 747 engine starting.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH FIREFOX?? Are the developers brain damaged?
Does anyone here remember what the goal of Phoenix was back before it was Firefox? It was intended to be a small fast IE killer.
yea, if we can just convince both sides in a war to let the machines fight it out, we can cure war forever.
Well, until the machines form a union anyway.
Yea, they can then outsource to the small, light, low overhead IT shops in India or China somewhere.
I might point out that anything marked 0.3 would likly not be beta / development level software, and no one would support it or expect it to be supported.
That said, I rarely have I ever had a compatibility problem (they do happen) in open source getting my 0.3 applications to talk with production level stable 1.x and beyond applications. Even if someone did find themselves in such a situation, they are fully and freely allowed to fork their special version in house and maintain it themselves. Good luck trying to do that with a closed source application where the vendor just tell you no more support.
So, this is really an apples and oranges argument.
In China, "copyright" means right to copy.
It has been in the culture for thousands of years, and no one thinks it is wrong. For example, for thousands of years honoring the greatest artist and scholars meant training to copy their work exactly. Chinese just don't get the whole western copyright thing. Especially in a communist / socialist country where all property is officially property of the State. They might be right.
I worked at Chinese University. We had a guy that we called "Mr. Copy". He worked in the English department during the day making photo copies of exams and materials for teachers, audio tapes, whatever. At night he would setup his table in the main plaza and sell the latest pirated DVD movies for less than a $1, including all the screeners that had not been released in the States yet. There where hundreds if not thousands (e.g. 8-10 at the base of my apartment building alone) of these guys just around the one University I was at.
With this release, they also wanted to take free software to the next level. Now anyone can own it.