Sorry, people but large shareholders file SEC notices like this all the time, but that does not obligate them to sell. It just allows them the option to sell.
I managed to get a little over 50% spam reduction, and many other bad guy type connections by blocking most of Asia, Russia, and many other of the most notorious spam countries at the firewall level. If you have no good reason to every receive legit traffic from those countries, why let them connect?
You have to be careful about getting the ISP blocks right, but if most of your clients and customers come from a few known countries or especially inside just one country you can really crank down the number of potential targets you have to deal with in the logs.
Yea, people can attack through proxies and spam through proxies, but consider if you just eliminate half the computers in the World that do not need to connect to your servers.
There are lot of posts I see here about how the closed source model makes more money than Red Hats biz modal. I think people are missing the point (the one that Wall Street will ultimately care about). The point always has been, and always will be, future revenue growth.
I believe it is the small companies that in the last 5 years or so have started with CentOS or even other Linux distros, that will be the measure of the success of Red Hat in the years to come.
How many Small to Medium size businesses out there will be future clients of Red Hat?
By contrast, how many small to medium size biz are starting out with windows servers sitting in the corner of their office?
That is where the revenue growth for Red Hat is coming in the next say 5, 10, 20 years.
For example, I run two CentOS servers plus an all linux shop of desktops. Right now I handle all my support myself, but as we grow and I have better things to do with my time, I can very much see buying support in the future from Red Hat. In fact, I have discussed it with my partner (that has limited computer knowledge), in the event I get hit by bus or whatever as an option to keep things going.
I think they are comparing Apples, Oranges, and FRIGEN basket balls.
Red hat is targeting the big corporate server market. Low end commodity web and mail servers, even if they want to go the Red Hat route, will likly pick something like CentOS and or Scientific Linux (Red Hat clone for Universities maintained by the likes of Fermilab and CERN).
Windows is really in competition with Desktop linux land (ubunto, mandriva, fedora) and low end servers. Just check the list of fastest super computers in the World for the number that are running windows server.
I have asked this a couple times before, but I still have not been able to find a good answer.
What happens with passwords in other languages, and more specifically forcing the use of UTF-8 double bit characters? What about using passwords in multiple languages?
Most brute force password cracking at least uses a dictionary to get at the low hanging fruit, why not increase the size of the dictionary? What are there like million words or something like that in the English language (guess) vs millions Chinese?
It would seem just branching out to Spanish, German, or whatever combinations would greatly decrease the success of brute force attacks.
I am sorry, but any idiot sys admin that does the "but my company needs IE6 because of X, Y, or Z for customs software" in the year 2010 should not be allowed to touch computer ever again, and the frigen idiot that keeps them employed should also be fired after being strung up by their balls (insert tits here) for having bought the BS in the first place.
MS software has proven over, and over, and over again to be so insecure that no one is allowed to connect an MS anything to my network. Not even the transient guest. If security is critical to your biz and you are even sort of competent at your job, you will keep Microsoft out of your company and your network.
I keep hearing everyone bitch about how hard it is to do wide scale encryption with so many user computers to configure, but I have found things like ssh port forwarding between offices to be an incredibly easy and secure solution to much of my encryption needs. Yea, it does not solve all the problems, but it is sure makes life as a systems admin much easier than trying to keep track of all the various possible protocols and their potential faults. It is possible to just about encrypt anything with a high level of transparency to the end user.
There are a bunch of guys in the U.S. with their own Russian made scud missiles. I recall a guy bought one a few years ago, and it showed up at the port on the west coast with a fully functional warhead and engine that the seller in Russia failed to disable as promised before shipping.
I can not believe that Google, with all of its vast resources and years online, that a few email accounts getting hacked all of sudden set them off to pull out of China. They are pretending to the press as if this is something special or new on the internet that China is doing, or that these couple of "attacks" from China are too much. Google has got to be just hammered by Chinese attackers, and they make it sound like no other gmail account has ever been hacked. I bet they get thousands of illegally hacked email accounts a day for all kinds of people, from all over the World, by all kinds of means. Hell, I blocked Chinese ISP blocks and cut down on my little server being attacked and spam by about half.
So, what in particular is suddenly special about this one in relation to China?
The state is not allowed, even when exercising a search warrant in a criminal investigation, to simply walk in to an attorney's office and take everything like they do with normal citizens. There are very strict rules that have to be followed in order to protect attorney client privilege (often a third-party attorney is brought in to examin what the police can look at ).
Often the very nature of an attorney's work is such that even the disclosure that a client is a client (domestic abuse cases, general criminal cases, divorce), can be damaging to clients that have nothing to do with a particular investigation. The State would be trampling the rights of innocent third-parties by just randomly seizing and holding attorney documents whenever they like.
Those documents have the potential, especially if contractors are hired to examen drives, to fall in to the wrong hands or be put in a position that they can be admissible in to court. More commonly information that is strictly confidential and directly not admissible to court, gets used to find stuff that is admissible in court.
I taught at an Agricultural U. in China, where the government and University was all but openly encouraging students to take the untested GMO rice home to their rural families to plant. They were experimenting with all kinds of nasty pesticides and other things, and I would not exactly call the development they were doing "scientifically rigorous". The scientific method in China basically means at best copying things from other countries, and at worst just randomly trying things out. I never got the sense the grad students and such even really understood what it was they were doing, and the potential environmental impact or ethics of it was certainly not openly discussed.
When I first read the title, I thought this was some sort of intentional solution targeted at controlling rats in corn fields. They just need to tweak this to be more targeted.
I am serious. I left the United States in my early 20's for good, and all my mental health problems started going away. I am happy, healthy, less stressed, sleeping good, eating proper food, more successful, and most importantly less paranoid about every little frigen thing around me. It has take years however to repair the damage caused by living in the U.S., but I continue to see it in Americans that leave the United States for good all the time vs. those that are just on vacation. They go through a decompression process that progressively that typically takes at least a couple of years for them to "normalize" when they are adults. When kids move out before the teenage years are over, they are well adjusted, happy, more engaged in the World around them.
American culture is really really one of the sickest cultures I have seen anywhere in the World, and most of the damage is done in the teenage years. Any parent that sends their kids to a U.S. school, should be arrested for child abuse.
AN OPEN LETTER TO HOBBYISTS By William Henry Gates III
February 3, 1976
An Open Letter to Hobbyists
To me, the most critical thing in the hobby market right now is the lack of good software courses, books and software itself. Without good software and an owner who understands programming, a hobby computer is wasted. Will quality software be written for the hobby market?
Almost a year ago, Paul Allen and myself, expecting the hobby market to expand, hired Monte Davidoff and developed Altair BASIC. Though the initial work took only two months, the three of us have spent most of the last year documenting, improving and adding features to BASIC. Now we have 4K, 8K, EXTENDED, ROM and DISK BASIC. The value of the computer time we have used exceeds $40,000.
The feedback we have gotten from the hundreds of people who say they are using BASIC has all been positive. Two surprising things are apparent, however, 1) Most of these "users" never bought BASIC (less than 10% of all Altair owners have bought BASIC), and 2) The amount of royalties we have received from sales to hobbyists makes the time spent on Altair BASIC worth less than $2 an hour.
Why is this? As the majority of hobbyists must be aware, most of you steal your software. Hardware must be paid for, but software is something to share. Who cares if the people who worked on it get paid?
Is this fair? One thing you don't do by stealing software is get back at MITS for some problem you may have had. MITS doesn't make money selling software. The royalty paid to us, the manual, the tape and the overhead make it a break-even operation. One thing you do do is prevent good software from being written. Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free? The fact is, no one besides us has invested a lot of money in hobby software. We have written 6800 BASIC, and are writing 8080 APL and 6800 APL, but there is very little incentive to make this software available to hobbyists. Most directly, the thing you do is theft.
What about the guys who re-sell Altair BASIC, aren't they making money on hobby software? Yes, but those who have been reported to us may lose in the end. They are the ones who give hobbyists a bad name, and should be kicked out of any club meeting they show up at.
I would appreciate letters from any one who wants to pay up, or has a suggestion or comment. Just write to me at 1180 Alvarado SE, #114, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87108. Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software.
I had the luxury of downloading the entire series aired, so I could just skip the super gay theme song (also why I changed the channel when it was on TV and never watched).
The series itself is one of my favorites of all the Star Treck series. It has to at least be better than the Next Generation which took all the mystery and danger out of space by exploring the hollow-deck on their luxury liner where everyone is above average. Or how about deep space 9 with the incredibly forced acting and to 'boldly go nowhere' plot. It also put hot chicks back in to Star Treck, and dropped the feminist / everyone is equal after school special crap being pushed through the rest of the series.
I honestly think it was much closer to the original series than any of the others, and most importantly the tradition of the womanizing fly by the seat of his pants kirk alone in a dangerous and unknown universe. Lots of morally ambiguous situations for the captain to debate, such as sleeping with the hot Vulcan first officer or raiding another ship. If you watch it a few times, you will also see how they really went out of their way to stay consistent with the original series story and history, and still make the other unimaginatively dead series make sense.
What if they disclosed them responsibility, and the vendors responsibility evaluated them and came to the conclusion they are no threat. That would be irrelevant disclosure.
Terrorism is not a random event (well, not that random anyway). Otherwise, as Descartes might have us do, we would all walk around in shear existential terror that we might just not exist in the next moment because there is no reason for us to have existed in the previous moment. Which he might right, but life is just to short for that shit.
The last time I looked at notebook in best buy, and the sales kid gave me the spew about optimization I asked what they did. He told me they removed all the advertising crap. Which on some level might be useful, if I did not have a standard wipe all the crap of the drive policy and reinstall before using even new notebooks (i.e. upgrade to my favorite Linux distro).
In best buys defense, I did once buy a total piece of shit HP notebook from them that died a week after the HP warrenty expired ( the bios seems to have self-destructed ). I got suckered in to buying their 3 year "insurance" plan on my way out the door for like $150. I had it declared dead by an HP rep in a foreign country, and they sent me a check for $1300 with no BS. Even better I had bought it on sale for $700, and for some reason they paid me the full price. By the way they quit selling that insurance plan about a month after I bought it. It was obviously a little too good.
Slashdot Mirror
Sorry, people but large shareholders file SEC notices like this all the time, but that does not obligate them to sell. It just allows them the option to sell.
I managed to get a little over 50% spam reduction, and many other bad guy type connections by blocking most of Asia, Russia, and many other of the most notorious spam countries at the firewall level. If you have no good reason to every receive legit traffic from those countries, why let them connect?
You have to be careful about getting the ISP blocks right, but if most of your clients and customers come from a few known countries or especially inside just one country you can really crank down the number of potential targets you have to deal with in the logs.
Yea, people can attack through proxies and spam through proxies, but consider if you just eliminate half the computers in the World that do not need to connect to your servers.
yea, all those ISP's in China I am sure would be happy to issue certificates.
There are lot of posts I see here about how the closed source model makes more money than Red Hats biz modal. I think people are missing the point (the one that Wall Street will ultimately care about). The point always has been, and always will be, future revenue growth.
I believe it is the small companies that in the last 5 years or so have started with CentOS or even other Linux distros, that will be the measure of the success of Red Hat in the years to come.
How many Small to Medium size businesses out there will be future clients of Red Hat?
By contrast, how many small to medium size biz are starting out with windows servers sitting in the corner of their office?
That is where the revenue growth for Red Hat is coming in the next say 5, 10, 20 years.
For example, I run two CentOS servers plus an all linux shop of desktops. Right now I handle all my support myself, but as we grow and I have better things to do with my time, I can very much see buying support in the future from Red Hat. In fact, I have discussed it with my partner (that has limited computer knowledge), in the event I get hit by bus or whatever as an option to keep things going.
I think they are comparing Apples, Oranges, and FRIGEN basket balls.
Red hat is targeting the big corporate server market. Low end commodity web and mail servers, even if they want to go the Red Hat route, will likly pick something like CentOS and or Scientific Linux (Red Hat clone for Universities maintained by the likes of Fermilab and CERN).
Windows is really in competition with Desktop linux land (ubunto, mandriva, fedora) and low end servers. Just check the list of fastest super computers in the World for the number that are running windows server.
Great. So all we need to do is force computer systems to only accept passwords with at least one word in a language like Ojibawa
Miin-aan baash kimini-sij-i-gan bitooyin sij-i-gan-i bukwayszhiigan = blueberry pie
I have asked this a couple times before, but I still have not been able to find a good answer.
What happens with passwords in other languages, and more specifically forcing the use of UTF-8 double bit characters? What about using passwords in multiple languages?
Most brute force password cracking at least uses a dictionary to get at the low hanging fruit, why not increase the size of the dictionary? What are there like million words or something like that in the English language (guess) vs millions Chinese?
It would seem just branching out to Spanish, German, or whatever combinations would greatly decrease the success of brute force attacks.
Stun guns don't kill people, people kill people.
The outbreak of stun guns and pepper spray related crimes is skyrocketing around the World.
Ubuntu, there is your problem.
Not all linux distros are equal, but some are more equal than others.
I am sorry, but any idiot sys admin that does the "but my company needs IE6 because of X, Y, or Z for customs software" in the year 2010 should not be allowed to touch computer ever again, and the frigen idiot that keeps them employed should also be fired after being strung up by their balls (insert tits here) for having bought the BS in the first place.
MS software has proven over, and over, and over again to be so insecure that no one is allowed to connect an MS anything to my network. Not even the transient guest. If security is critical to your biz and you are even sort of competent at your job, you will keep Microsoft out of your company and your network.
I keep hearing everyone bitch about how hard it is to do wide scale encryption with so many user computers to configure, but I have found things like ssh port forwarding between offices to be an incredibly easy and secure solution to much of my encryption needs. Yea, it does not solve all the problems, but it is sure makes life as a systems admin much easier than trying to keep track of all the various possible protocols and their potential faults. It is possible to just about encrypt anything with a high level of transparency to the end user.
There are a bunch of guys in the U.S. with their own Russian made scud missiles. I recall a guy bought one a few years ago, and it showed up at the port on the west coast with a fully functional warhead and engine that the seller in Russia failed to disable as promised before shipping.
I can not believe that Google, with all of its vast resources and years online, that a few email accounts getting hacked all of sudden set them off to pull out of China. They are pretending to the press as if this is something special or new on the internet that China is doing, or that these couple of "attacks" from China are too much. Google has got to be just hammered by Chinese attackers, and they make it sound like no other gmail account has ever been hacked. I bet they get thousands of illegally hacked email accounts a day for all kinds of people, from all over the World, by all kinds of means. Hell, I blocked Chinese ISP blocks and cut down on my little server being attacked and spam by about half.
So, what in particular is suddenly special about this one in relation to China?
The state is not allowed, even when exercising a search warrant in a criminal investigation, to simply walk in to an attorney's office and take everything like they do with normal citizens. There are very strict rules that have to be followed in order to protect attorney client privilege (often a third-party attorney is brought in to examin what the police can look at ).
Often the very nature of an attorney's work is such that even the disclosure that a client is a client (domestic abuse cases, general criminal cases, divorce), can be damaging to clients that have nothing to do with a particular investigation. The State would be trampling the rights of innocent third-parties by just randomly seizing and holding attorney documents whenever they like.
Those documents have the potential, especially if contractors are hired to examen drives, to fall in to the wrong hands or be put in a position that they can be admissible in to court. More commonly information that is strictly confidential and directly not admissible to court, gets used to find stuff that is admissible in court.
I taught at an Agricultural U. in China, where the government and University was all but openly encouraging students to take the untested GMO rice home to their rural families to plant. They were experimenting with all kinds of nasty pesticides and other things, and I would not exactly call the development they were doing "scientifically rigorous". The scientific method in China basically means at best copying things from other countries, and at worst just randomly trying things out. I never got the sense the grad students and such even really understood what it was they were doing, and the potential environmental impact or ethics of it was certainly not openly discussed.
When I first read the title, I thought this was some sort of intentional solution targeted at controlling rats in corn fields. They just need to tweak this to be more targeted.
Who frigen marked this off-topic? It is very much on topic.
I am serious. I left the United States in my early 20's for good, and all my mental health problems started going away. I am happy, healthy, less stressed, sleeping good, eating proper food, more successful, and most importantly less paranoid about every little frigen thing around me. It has take years however to repair the damage caused by living in the U.S., but I continue to see it in Americans that leave the United States for good all the time vs. those that are just on vacation. They go through a decompression process that progressively that typically takes at least a couple of years for them to "normalize" when they are adults. When kids move out before the teenage years are over, they are well adjusted, happy, more engaged in the World around them.
American culture is really really one of the sickest cultures I have seen anywhere in the World, and most of the damage is done in the teenage years. Any parent that sends their kids to a U.S. school, should be arrested for child abuse.
AN OPEN LETTER TO HOBBYISTS
By William Henry Gates III
February 3, 1976
An Open Letter to Hobbyists
To me, the most critical thing in the hobby market right now is the lack of good software courses, books and software itself. Without good software and an owner who understands programming, a hobby computer is wasted. Will quality software be written for the hobby market?
Almost a year ago, Paul Allen and myself, expecting the hobby market to expand, hired Monte Davidoff and developed Altair BASIC. Though the initial work took only two months, the three of us have spent most of the last year documenting, improving and adding features to BASIC. Now we have 4K, 8K, EXTENDED, ROM and DISK BASIC. The value of the computer time we have used exceeds $40,000.
The feedback we have gotten from the hundreds of people who say they are using BASIC has all been positive. Two surprising things are apparent, however, 1) Most of these "users" never bought BASIC (less than 10% of all Altair owners have bought BASIC), and 2) The amount of royalties we have received from sales to hobbyists makes the time spent on Altair BASIC worth less than $2 an hour.
Why is this? As the majority of hobbyists must be aware, most of you steal your software. Hardware must be paid for, but software is something to share. Who cares if the people who worked on it get paid?
Is this fair? One thing you don't do by stealing software is get back at MITS for some problem you may have had. MITS doesn't make money selling software. The royalty paid to us, the manual, the tape and the overhead make it a break-even operation. One thing you do do is prevent good software from being written. Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free? The fact is, no one besides us has invested a lot of money in hobby software. We have written 6800 BASIC, and are writing 8080 APL and 6800 APL, but there is very little incentive to make this software available to hobbyists. Most directly, the thing you do is theft.
What about the guys who re-sell Altair BASIC, aren't they making money on hobby software? Yes, but those who have been reported to us may lose in the end. They are the ones who give hobbyists a bad name, and should be kicked out of any club meeting they show up at.
I would appreciate letters from any one who wants to pay up, or has a suggestion or comment. Just write to me at 1180 Alvarado SE, #114, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87108. Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software.
Bill Gates
General Partner, Micro-Soft
I had the luxury of downloading the entire series aired, so I could just skip the super gay theme song (also why I changed the channel when it was on TV and never watched).
The series itself is one of my favorites of all the Star Treck series. It has to at least be better than the Next Generation which took all the mystery and danger out of space by exploring the hollow-deck on their luxury liner where everyone is above average. Or how about deep space 9 with the incredibly forced acting and to 'boldly go nowhere' plot. It also put hot chicks back in to Star Treck, and dropped the feminist / everyone is equal after school special crap being pushed through the rest of the series.
I honestly think it was much closer to the original series than any of the others, and most importantly the tradition of the womanizing fly by the seat of his pants kirk alone in a dangerous and unknown universe. Lots of morally ambiguous situations for the captain to debate, such as sleeping with the hot Vulcan first officer or raiding another ship. If you watch it a few times, you will also see how they really went out of their way to stay consistent with the original series story and history, and still make the other unimaginatively dead series make sense.
You know there is one more choice.
What if they disclosed them responsibility, and the vendors responsibility evaluated them and came to the conclusion they are no threat. That would be irrelevant disclosure.
If information is voluntarily given to DHS, then no constitutional problems. How Nazi Germany Hitler youth of them.
I think you are confusing the gamblers fallacy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler's_fallacy
Terrorism is not a random event (well, not that random anyway). Otherwise, as Descartes might have us do, we would all walk around in shear existential terror that we might just not exist in the next moment because there is no reason for us to have existed in the previous moment. Which he might right, but life is just to short for that shit.
yea, 75 years in billions of years is frigen very common.
The last time I looked at notebook in best buy, and the sales kid gave me the spew about optimization I asked what they did. He told me they removed all the advertising crap. Which on some level might be useful, if I did not have a standard wipe all the crap of the drive policy and reinstall before using even new notebooks (i.e. upgrade to my favorite Linux distro).
In best buys defense, I did once buy a total piece of shit HP notebook from them that died a week after the HP warrenty expired ( the bios seems to have self-destructed ). I got suckered in to buying their 3 year "insurance" plan on my way out the door for like $150. I had it declared dead by an HP rep in a foreign country, and they sent me a check for $1300 with no BS. Even better I had bought it on sale for $700, and for some reason they paid me the full price. By the way they quit selling that insurance plan about a month after I bought it. It was obviously a little too good.