and how would you use another service.....most national based Post Offices have no available competition to the public...businesses maybe, Joe Public very rare.
Like I said gotta try hard to loose 90% of email, but there is nothing in the RFC's about guarantees, just you must try hard!
Lets remember way back when this happened all the time shall we.....and we used to say to the users.....
"there is no guarantee of email delivery" (and optionally "Get over it")
Remember this folks, no where in the RFC's is there anything that states email will get delivered....
Just because all us sys-admins do such a great job, most of the time it does get there, people forget the dark ages of the internet when this would happen all the time.
OK 90% email loss is really really bad, and it use to be more like 5% loss (at worst), but people need to remember email isn't guaranteed.
Of course, alot of people/ISPs do this already (not at the internet level but within their network), trouble is when one of the links go down, the 'failover' route gets it's own traffic and the traffic from the broken route. AND there's not enough bandwidth over this route to handle both sets of traffic.
Happened to me many many times...as a customer of lots of different ISPs.
You need to push to get Data protection legislation (similar to that used in the UK/EU) to be made a Federal Law. Some states are looking into this, but basically as the law in the US stands people holding information on you (either electronic or paper) have no legal rights to look after this information in a proper way.
IMHO until this gets fixed you're with luck on any redress.
unless there's something in the staff policy about 'not' visiting sites people might deem offensive/doing non work on computers etc etc there's not alot the managers can do.
Also pop in the managers usage as well - as someone else pointed out.
Amongst other stuff, getting a laptop etc through customs via Fed-Ex etc is a nightmare. Usually takes at least 3 days to clear - I had thsi problem trying to ship a new laptop to a Senior Exec who lives in Iowa (we're based in the UK).
At the time (9 months ago) it would have been easier for me to travel with the thing, drop off at his house and return on the red-eye.
I'd pack the items well (using your usual laptop case) in the middle of your normal luggage (and make sure you have a good backup before hand!).
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and how would you use another service.....most national based Post Offices have no available competition to the public...businesses maybe, Joe Public very rare.
Like I said gotta try hard to loose 90% of email, but there is nothing in the RFC's about guarantees, just you must try hard!
Lets remember way back when this happened all the time shall we.....and we used to say to the users.....
"there is no guarantee of email delivery" (and optionally "Get over it")
Remember this folks, no where in the RFC's is there anything that states email will get delivered....
Just because all us sys-admins do such a great job, most of the time it does get there, people forget the dark ages of the internet when this would happen all the time.
OK 90% email loss is really really bad, and it use to be more like 5% loss (at worst), but people need to remember email isn't guaranteed.
I see and interesting article on the reg about vulnerabilities in commercial software.
And why is any solution more secure than any other..???
I heard John Reid on radio on Wed justifying ID-Cards by saying it would stop identity theft..I nearly crashed the car I was so mad.
ID-cards will get 'cloned'/copied eventually too. Technology on it's own isn't a cure-all.
Of course, alot of people/ISPs do this already (not at the internet level but within their network), trouble is when one of the links go down, the 'failover' route gets it's own traffic and the traffic from the broken route. AND there's not enough bandwidth over this route to handle both sets of traffic.
Happened to me many many times...as a customer of lots of different ISPs.
I'll choose what settings to run, esp on machines I need to backup at random times during the night.
yes it would be nice to turn the things off/standby/hibernate but it wouldn't work here..
You need to push to get Data protection legislation (similar to that used in the UK/EU) to be made a Federal Law. Some states are looking into this, but basically as the law in the US stands people holding information on you (either electronic or paper) have no legal rights to look after this information in a proper way.
IMHO until this gets fixed you're with luck on any redress.
Compare Solaris's backwards compatibility with Windows...very different views of the same subject.
I've still got SUNOS 4 code ( from suppliers long since disappeared) running on Solaris 9.
Trying to that with Windows code is a real bother....might work and might not - more likely not.
add the sare_stock and the FVGT rules, this'll stop the stock image with the huge overhead of fuzzyOCR.
also have a look at the other SARE and jennifer rules - I find these very useful.
Let me think, when all this email started getting popular in the mid 1990's wasn't the advice to treat it as postcard....
ie it could be read during transmission buy the post-office worker (sys-admin)....
just a gentle reminder.
unless there's something in the staff policy about 'not' visiting sites people might deem offensive/doing non work on computers etc etc there's not alot the managers can do.
Also pop in the managers usage as well - as someone else pointed out.
hmm lets see 50% to run the computers and 50% to run the a/c to move the heat away ;-)
Good news - might finally get rid of their unique mailbox format and the dodgy attachment folder feature.
I was lucky enough to be told about /. very early on..
Looking at my gmail account it shows a little *BETA* under the Google mail logo.
Call me stupid but using beta grade software for real world stuff could be asking for trouble by the many people using the gmail service....
OK so maybe I'm being odd here, but why no recall from Sony on their own laptops?
Don't they use their own batteries, or are they somehow different to the ones they sell to other people???
For your unending enthusiasm, commitment and teamwork (how many people to catch a croc!) in bringing folk a little nearer to those wonderful animals.
You'll be missed by both the many who never met you, and by those who loved you.
To your family, may your God comfort you and protect you during these days of mourning.
RIP.
About time the US caught with the EU/UK on Data Protection Legislation then.....
Not that the UK's is perfect, but its better than the Nothing in the US.
Amongst other stuff, getting a laptop etc through customs via Fed-Ex etc is a nightmare. Usually takes at least 3 days to clear - I had thsi problem trying to ship a new laptop to a Senior Exec who lives in Iowa (we're based in the UK).
At the time (9 months ago) it would have been easier for me to travel with the thing, drop off at his house and return on the red-eye.
I'd pack the items well (using your usual laptop case) in the middle of your normal luggage (and make sure you have a good backup before hand!).
http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/~fanf2/hermes/doc/t alks/2004-02-ukuug/
is how the University of Cambridge do it....
lots of nice details in there
Should be using pool.ntp.org surely........
or am I being daft again..
darn, there was me thinking I'd actually be able to get a laptop on my lap again - these things are HOT!
;-)
A well at least I'll look nice even with a burn on my lap
Look at the things you need to cover to get CISSP certified - that'll give a good idea..
I think the phrase "less risk of any holes being exploited" is better than "more secure".
Unix can be hacked/cracked too, just there's less likelihood and there less risk associated with running a *nix based O/S.
Never mind zero day or zero hour, how long before zero minute?
the faster the broadband the faster the malware propogates.
I wonder if anyone has ever logged the ave speed of internet connections and the speed of these darn viruses?