Sounds to me like you ran IIS on a public-facing machine, in which case you deserve everything you got.
Yes, of course, everyone running IIS is completely incompetant. There is no good reason ever to run IIS. Everything you can do in.Net you can just as easily do in PHP or Perl.
I am a Unix guy, I don't run Windows on my personal machines. I don't run Windows on my (primary) work machines. I do, however, know that it is very possible to run a site of reasonable security on IIS.
Unix people (mainly noobs) with militant "you deserve what you get" attitudes are a serious detriment here. Plenty of OSS apps get badly hacked as well. Lately we've seen stats programs, and even freaking ZLIB expose remote code execution vulns.
I'm not saying "don't trust open apps", I'm saying "don't blanket condemn closed apps", especially when someone asks a simple question which deserves a simple answer. Show me where he says "I run IIS".
Yeah, you don't need a MAPI client, but prepare for the slowness. Evolution does a very nice job of interoperating with Exchange 2000 and up, but it relies on Outlook Web Access to do it. Overall, it's about the same speed as accessing an IMAP server.
I have no idea how Kontact does it, but that's as good a guess as any.
Until LCDs are at the point that they can replace my twin, soon to be triplet, Sony 21" CRTs, I'm not interested. I like 2048x1536 monsters. If you look for that in an LCD, you're looking at multiple thousands of dollars each. I got one brand new Sony 21" for $389, and another one from an employer of mine who was liquidating for $250. Even new I could have spent around $600 each, now I can't even get them on Sony's site.
Does no one care about high high resolution with a fast refresh anymore?
If it wasn't for the fact that I've completely tuned my work environment...
I have two desktop machines, one machine running Linux, with 3 monitors, real multi-desktop, not Xinerama. I live by Virtual Desktops. One monitor is for Browsing and many-tabbed Konsoles, one is for Evolution and Kopete (and Konsoles), the third is for a Term-Serv (Rdesktop) session to the other desktop machine, a windows 2k3 server running fullscreen and other rdesktop sessions on other virtual desktops.
This is by far the most efficient setup, even though the monitors are only 17's and the fact that I'm running a "slim" desktop (P4 3.2HT, but only 2 PCI slots plus onboard).
I feel that at any other company, I'd end up using the Company Standard, and not getting any of my work done.
I have to admit, I've never been part of the biggest anything in the world:-) Although I did try to design things to be roughly scalable, I seriously doubt it will get beyond 8 or 10 locations and several hundred users before things change dramatically.
The idea would be to have a very small number, maybe zero, actually be in the Domain Admins group. You can delegate functions based on OU. So you can have Euro admins have control over their servers, but not those in the US, for example. Principally it's similar to delegating certain user control to a manager in a given group. We don't, but you can, give a manager the control to lock/unlock accounts, create accounts in their group, change user info for their group, etc. without giving them access to the whole hog.
It's much more flexible than I gave it credit for initially. I went into AD with the intention of having trees for every locale, and was convinced otherwise by the materials and discussions with training people. There are really some very huge implementations that run one domain worldwide, with delegated control for certain functions, but also those with one huge domain worldwide, all controlled from one room and one bunch of geeks.
I imagine the "flat" thread is in reference to people not using containers to their fullest extent, but if it's in reference to "forests, trees, etc", flat is the answer.
At Microsoft's recommendation, I implemented "one domain, worldwide", no trusts, no trees, literally one domain. Works great, no serious admin overhead. I'm sure you're orders of magnitude larger in terms of numbers of hosts, but with locations in countries, just an OU per nation and break down inside by groups works great.
AD might be the only Microsoft product I've ever really liked, top to bottom. Easy to implement very "simple" solutions which easily scale to hundreds of hosts while maintaining maintainability (uhh).
Gotta agree with you, light years beyond NT4. And I haven't really even messed with 2k3 AD yet.
Dammit, I stand corrected, sort ot. Internap.com is up, true, it's being served out of Atlanta from the looks of things. However, Internap.net is in Seattle (ONLY???) and is down in a browser.
Internap has many datacenters, they are most likely globally load balanced between them, or at least fully redundant. For instance, all indications are that this is confined to Internap Seattle. That won't affect Internap in Boston, or Atlanta or wherever.
Try to get from India to anywhere around the US and see what your latencies are? FLAG is starting to show its age, I think, or at least whatever they're using of it seems to be overburdoned.
I've worked with remote offices in India, even with a 3Mbit link on their end, getting decent latency between us, or them and anywhere in this hemisphere was a challenge.
I completely agree with the original poster. I took both A+ and Network + in beta years ago, neither one took more than 20 minutes. I am very glad I didn't take some course or pay full non-beta price for the tests.
I can't believe the rates some places are charging for courses for these tests. At the time I took them I was working as a tech in a local computer store with some networking out-calls to set up printers and stuff, and those were easily the simplest tests I've ever seen, even then.
The FCC has nothing to do with South Park not saying Fuck. Their advertisers do. Comedy Central is not an "over the air" broadcast network, and as such, the FCC cannot tell them what not to say or fine them for indecency. In the "Shit Episode", they say Shit over 160 times (according to imdb). Comedy Central just made sure all their sponsors wouldn't bail, promised it was a "one time thing" to make a point, and ran the episode.
Comedy Central also shows Bigger, Longer and Uncut , well, uncut, on a regualr basis.
FCC/ONLY/ has authority over Broadcast Mediums, Network TV, Radio, etc. Their are those in Congress who are trying to change that. Stop them.
You're right, for the CPU and heatsink, it's the reverse of what I described. I should have been more specific, my concern would be everything else on the inside of the case. So the CPU and heatsink would be the heatsource and the inside of the metal case, any cards, anything else that's cold metal inside the case would be the glass full of lemonade.
I agree that it's probably the fans that would go first.
I would worry about water condensing more than anything. As long as the drives keep spinning you shouldn't need to worry too much about them freezing and shattering, as in some earlier responses. However, think about the cold glass of lemonade on the patio table in the middle of August. Your CPU will become that patio table and every bit of air around it will be the cold glass of lemonade. I would worry about condensation and oxidation damage. Probably not enough water to explicitly short your stuff, but maybe enough water to cause oxidation in a big way.
Yeah, I know, To be honest, those are about the only two shows I do watch, aside from the late-night cartoons while I'm up hacking at something.
It's just annoying. Of course there's no rule against broadcasters scheduling their broadcasts however they want, so no one is really in a position to complain I guess.
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Sounds to me like you ran IIS on a public-facing machine, in which case you deserve everything you got.
.Net you can just as easily do in PHP or Perl.
Yes, of course, everyone running IIS is completely incompetant. There is no good reason ever to run IIS. Everything you can do in
I am a Unix guy, I don't run Windows on my personal machines. I don't run Windows on my (primary) work machines. I do, however, know that it is very possible to run a site of reasonable security on IIS.
Unix people (mainly noobs) with militant "you deserve what you get" attitudes are a serious detriment here. Plenty of OSS apps get badly hacked as well. Lately we've seen stats programs, and even freaking ZLIB expose remote code execution vulns.
I'm not saying "don't trust open apps", I'm saying "don't blanket condemn closed apps", especially when someone asks a simple question which deserves a simple answer. Show me where he says "I run IIS".
Yeah, that's the art museum. The building to the right is modern art (the angular one).
Yeah, you don't need a MAPI client, but prepare for the slowness. Evolution does a very nice job of interoperating with Exchange 2000 and up, but it relies on Outlook Web Access to do it. Overall, it's about the same speed as accessing an IMAP server.
I have no idea how Kontact does it, but that's as good a guess as any.
Until LCDs are at the point that they can replace my twin, soon to be triplet, Sony 21" CRTs, I'm not interested. I like 2048x1536 monsters. If you look for that in an LCD, you're looking at multiple thousands of dollars each. I got one brand new Sony 21" for $389, and another one from an employer of mine who was liquidating for $250. Even new I could have spent around $600 each, now I can't even get them on Sony's site.
Does no one care about high high resolution with a fast refresh anymore?
That post was not personally injurious to you.
Church of Scientology does this all the time, famously, with Slashdot, but also many many other cases.
Jeep Cherokee, 20 mpg, 90 miles/day commute. Whee.
For 15 days.
fuh2.
It's not mysteriously dark, so that couldn't have been the other site.
And yet, the money has to come from somewhere. Any better ideas?
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If it wasn't for the fact that I've completely tuned my work environment...
I have two desktop machines, one machine running Linux, with 3 monitors, real multi-desktop, not Xinerama. I live by Virtual Desktops. One monitor is for Browsing and many-tabbed Konsoles, one is for Evolution and Kopete (and Konsoles), the third is for a Term-Serv (Rdesktop) session to the other desktop machine, a windows 2k3 server running fullscreen and other rdesktop sessions on other virtual desktops.
This is by far the most efficient setup, even though the monitors are only 17's and the fact that I'm running a "slim" desktop (P4 3.2HT, but only 2 PCI slots plus onboard).
I feel that at any other company, I'd end up using the Company Standard, and not getting any of my work done.
Oh and...
:-) Although I did try to design things to be roughly scalable, I seriously doubt it will get beyond 8 or 10 locations and several hundred users before things change dramatically.
I have to admit, I've never been part of the biggest anything in the world
The idea would be to have a very small number, maybe zero, actually be in the Domain Admins group. You can delegate functions based on OU. So you can have Euro admins have control over their servers, but not those in the US, for example. Principally it's similar to delegating certain user control to a manager in a given group. We don't, but you can, give a manager the control to lock/unlock accounts, create accounts in their group, change user info for their group, etc. without giving them access to the whole hog.
It's much more flexible than I gave it credit for initially. I went into AD with the intention of having trees for every locale, and was convinced otherwise by the materials and discussions with training people. There are really some very huge implementations that run one domain worldwide, with delegated control for certain functions, but also those with one huge domain worldwide, all controlled from one room and one bunch of geeks.
I imagine the "flat" thread is in reference to people not using containers to their fullest extent, but if it's in reference to "forests, trees, etc", flat is the answer.
At Microsoft's recommendation, I implemented "one domain, worldwide", no trusts, no trees, literally one domain. Works great, no serious admin overhead. I'm sure you're orders of magnitude larger in terms of numbers of hosts, but with locations in countries, just an OU per nation and break down inside by groups works great.
AD might be the only Microsoft product I've ever really liked, top to bottom. Easy to implement very "simple" solutions which easily scale to hundreds of hosts while maintaining maintainability (uhh).
Gotta agree with you, light years beyond NT4. And I haven't really even messed with 2k3 AD yet.
Dammit, I stand corrected, sort ot. Internap.com is up, true, it's being served out of Atlanta from the looks of things. However, Internap.net is in Seattle (ONLY???) and is down in a browser.
Tools.
Internap has many datacenters, they are most likely globally load balanced between them, or at least fully redundant. For instance, all indications are that this is confined to Internap Seattle. That won't affect Internap in Boston, or Atlanta or wherever.
Try to get from India to anywhere around the US and see what your latencies are? FLAG is starting to show its age, I think, or at least whatever they're using of it seems to be overburdoned.
I've worked with remote offices in India, even with a 3Mbit link on their end, getting decent latency between us, or them and anywhere in this hemisphere was a challenge.
"Some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets".
/Bickle
I completely agree with the original poster. I took both A+ and Network + in beta years ago, neither one took more than 20 minutes. I am very glad I didn't take some course or pay full non-beta price for the tests.
I can't believe the rates some places are charging for courses for these tests. At the time I took them I was working as a tech in a local computer store with some networking out-calls to set up printers and stuff, and those were easily the simplest tests I've ever seen, even then.
I go on vacation for a *DAY*, and look what happens. I'm sorry, I lost control of the Internet for a second there.
/REALLY/ enjoys spyware, don't worry.
Everything should be back to normal in a minute, no one
The FCC has nothing to do with South Park not saying Fuck. Their advertisers do. Comedy Central is not an "over the air" broadcast network, and as such, the FCC cannot tell them what not to say or fine them for indecency. In the "Shit Episode", they say Shit over 160 times (according to imdb). Comedy Central just made sure all their sponsors wouldn't bail, promised it was a "one time thing" to make a point, and ran the episode.
/ONLY/ has authority over Broadcast Mediums, Network TV, Radio, etc. Their are those in Congress who are trying to change that. Stop them.
Comedy Central also shows Bigger, Longer and Uncut , well, uncut, on a regualr basis.
FCC
You're right, for the CPU and heatsink, it's the reverse of what I described. I should have been more specific, my concern would be everything else on the inside of the case. So the CPU and heatsink would be the heatsource and the inside of the metal case, any cards, anything else that's cold metal inside the case would be the glass full of lemonade.
I agree that it's probably the fans that would go first.
I would worry about water condensing more than anything. As long as the drives keep spinning you shouldn't need to worry too much about them freezing and shattering, as in some earlier responses. However, think about the cold glass of lemonade on the patio table in the middle of August. Your CPU will become that patio table and every bit of air around it will be the cold glass of lemonade. I would worry about condensation and oxidation damage. Probably not enough water to explicitly short your stuff, but maybe enough water to cause oxidation in a big way.
Yeah, I know, To be honest, those are about the only two shows I do watch, aside from the late-night cartoons while I'm up hacking at something.
It's just annoying. Of course there's no rule against broadcasters scheduling their broadcasts however they want, so no one is really in a position to complain I guess.