currently running around 70% at my work domain - and that's not counting the fact I don't process email for non-existant users. When I do it's more like 85%.
For all this stuff. An OLAP cube is just one way of implementing the DW. As a previous post mentions Ralph Kimball is *the* guy here and his books are very readable.
oh great, so now I have to register ANOTHER domain to keep company going.
$30 here, $30 there, have thet any idea how much all this cruft is costing us, AND making for the registrars btw. Its a license to print money - outrageous...
I've got a script that goes off and gets the latest engine once a month.
ClamAV have the same issues - just not driven by timescale, but by features/bug fixes.
For me this is a good idea as it forces the end user to spend a little time administrating the sytem IF you haven't got their Enterprise Manager tool that will do it for you...
About 6 months ago I was on the phone to some marketing company who were doing a survey on Yukon and whether or not I was contemplating deploying it.
I said no because:
1) it was too tighly integrated into AD/ windows server and we didn't any of that. 2) I didn't trust it, and wouldn't till it had been in the field for at least a year.
I think they got alot of responses like 2) (going by the marketers comments) and they prob decided to wait till the new windows server is out (2006??) and deploy on the new Trusted Computing Base thing they are wittering on about.
Perhaps could be bolted into civil airlines so the common language problem is mitigated.
Lookin at the recent Risks digests this seems to be a common problem with everyone having to speak english and British Airways pilots have to 'translate' in the middle..
There was earlier article that compared *nix and Windows programmers...
*nix programmers write programs for other programs to use (hence command line arguements that are easy to parse/create etc). Ie they do the guts first, then bolt on an interface later.
windows programmers write programs for users. ie they write the interface first, then the guts.
Would be interesting to see how the Mac guys concentrate their efforts.
Guess we'll see - linking it to MS's DRM (if the second article quoted is to be believed) is a bad move. I guess we'll see which article is the more accurate, a quick search fails to find any more info..
They haven't - but in buying into MS' Media player and it's DRM technology you can only 'receive' the content on PC running Media Player 9 - ie MS-Windows only.
Like choosing a TV broadcast solution that will only work on one company's TVs.
All this argument does is increase the mono culture.
I don't want an internet with 100% (or even 90%) of the same thing attached to it. This leads to massive risks - eg virus/trojan attacks.
I'm arguing the case for choice of content receiver.
Sure some things needs push to get going, for example DAB radio; no content so no radio's, the BBC decided to start broadcasting in DAB to stimulate the market.
But once the market is there you shouldn't only broadcast for a single supplier, or that supplier should licence its technology to others - eg PAL. Yes you can only recieve the BBC on analogue TVs that use the PAL encoding system. BUT I can buy my PAL TV from many suppliers who pay a small fee to the creators of the PAL standard. Same for the DAB radio's - no single vendor lock-in.
This my my issue - vendor lock-in and a vendor who won't licence to other users at that, or provide solutions for other platforms.
Again if Ford started producing petrol that ONLY worked in there cars and owned 100% of the petrol stations, you wouldn't be able to use a Toyota very well.
I can choose to watch the BBC or ITV/Ch4/5 or indeed sky.
If I choose to run a mac, then content providers shouldn't stop me from getting my content. Ok so maybe '*nix' is a bit special, but i can still get Real Media on it. I can't get Media player (with DRM) to stream to my Mac (I can with *nix!)).
It about choice, the content delivery system shouldn't lock me into buying my TV from Panasonic, not should an internet based system lock me into MS-Windows.
And no the BBC isn't 100% MS (http://support.bbc.co.uk for an example), but it's moving that way, possible being forced that way as more and more of the software they need is Windows only...
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currently running around 70% at my work domain - and that's not counting the fact I don't process email for non-existant users. When I do it's more like 85%.
Oh I wish I only 1/3 of my email spam..
RSA-Security, who make those little keyfob things where the password is a number that changes once a minute.....
Of course there's no adjenda here..;-)
For all this stuff. An OLAP cube is just one way of implementing the DW. As a previous post mentions Ralph Kimball is *the* guy here and his books are very readable.
patch often,
install appropriate AV software if needed,
backup,
keep sensistive data on more secure machines/areas.
oh great, so now I have to register ANOTHER domain to keep company going.
$30 here, $30 there, have thet any idea how much all this cruft is costing us, AND making for the registrars btw. Its a license to print money - outrageous...
Depends on how you update.
I've got a script that goes off and gets the latest engine once a month.
ClamAV have the same issues - just not driven by timescale, but by features/bug fixes.
For me this is a good idea as it forces the end user to spend a little time administrating the sytem IF you haven't got their Enterprise Manager tool that will do it for you...
Maybe the virus writers are getting older, going to university and the lectures on software engineering and code reuse are hitting home??? :-)
like I said - lart stick
e rm =LART
http://developer.syndetic.org/query_jargon.pl?t
Can I have his email so I can sell him a lart stick?
So it must be true...
sigh
--
Martin
About 6 months ago I was on the phone to some marketing company who were doing a survey on Yukon and whether or not I was contemplating deploying it.
I said no because:
1) it was too tighly integrated into AD/ windows server and we didn't any of that.
2) I didn't trust it, and wouldn't till it had been in the field for at least a year.
I think they got alot of responses like 2) (going by the marketers comments) and they prob decided to wait till the new windows server is out (2006??) and deploy on the new Trusted Computing Base thing they are wittering on about.
He's the man on this one.
Check his web site for things like this...
http://www.useit.com/
and what the heck is wrong with asking on the proper channels like nanog, then getting hit by millions of sales droids???? :-)
hurray -
:-)
now just got to get the Russians/(insert small poor airline of choice) to carry all this stuff
Perhaps could be bolted into civil airlines so the common language problem is mitigated.
Lookin at the recent Risks digests this seems to be a common problem with everyone having to speak english and British Airways pilots have to 'translate' in the middle..
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/23.25.html#subj3
on my mailgateway, as they both can miss the odd one.
I tend to find Clam updates faster, but Sophos's updates need less corrections..
I glue them together with MailScanner (www.mailscanner.info) which also allows men to pop in SpamAssassin to the mix.
On the desktop I use Norton's AV solution so give me a third layer of defence..
Belt and braces.....
with nothing to back up his claims.
Usual - no story here move along - journalism.
Where's a coroboration of Balmers's claims?
I think the article must have been written by a certain Mr Gilligan ex-of-BBC:-)
There was earlier article that compared *nix and Windows programmers...
*nix programmers write programs for other programs to use (hence command line arguements that are easy to parse/create etc). Ie they do the guts first, then bolt on an interface later.
windows programmers write programs for users. ie they write the interface first, then the guts.
Would be interesting to see how the Mac guys concentrate their efforts.
Guess we'll see - linking it to MS's DRM (if the second article quoted is to be believed) is a bad move. I guess we'll see which article is the more accurate, a quick search fails to find any more info..
Oh and another thing, don't even think of getting any of this content onto your iPod - Microsoft only media players will do.
Exactly my point - it's only making the Microsoft monoculture issue worse.
:-)
They picked a Ford that will only run on Ford petrol, not a Ford that will run on BP, Shell, Sainsburys.... petrol.
IMHO they didn't pick a better product, they just picked the "easiest" product to pick, and bought into this whole DRM pack of dross.
DRM has it's own issues, that I shall leave as an excercise for the reader to investigate
They haven't - but in buying into MS' Media player and it's DRM technology you can only 'receive' the content on PC running Media Player 9 - ie MS-Windows only.
Like choosing a TV broadcast solution that will only work on one company's TVs.
All this argument does is increase the mono culture.
I don't want an internet with 100% (or even 90%) of the same thing attached to it. This leads to massive risks - eg virus/trojan attacks.
I'm arguing the case for choice of content receiver.
Sure some things needs push to get going, for example DAB radio; no content so no radio's, the BBC decided to start broadcasting in DAB to stimulate the market.
But once the market is there you shouldn't only broadcast for a single supplier, or that supplier should licence its technology to others - eg PAL. Yes you can only recieve the BBC on analogue TVs that use the PAL encoding system. BUT I can buy my PAL TV from many suppliers who pay a small fee to the creators of the PAL standard. Same for the DAB radio's - no single vendor lock-in.
This my my issue - vendor lock-in and a vendor who won't licence to other users at that, or provide solutions for other platforms.
Again if Ford started producing petrol that ONLY worked in there cars and owned 100% of the petrol stations, you wouldn't be able to use a Toyota very well.
It's called choice...
I can choose to watch the BBC or ITV/Ch4/5 or indeed sky.
If I choose to run a mac, then content providers shouldn't stop me from getting my content. Ok so maybe '*nix' is a bit special, but i can still get Real Media on it. I can't get Media player (with DRM) to stream to my Mac (I can with *nix!)).
It about choice, the content delivery system shouldn't lock me into buying my TV from Panasonic, not should an internet based system lock me into MS-Windows.
And no the BBC isn't 100% MS (http://support.bbc.co.uk for an example), but it's moving that way, possible being forced that way as more and more of the software they need is Windows only...
Like I said - non news..
watchdog et al..