Try Telling that to the Nurses, Doctors, Pharmacy techs, The receptionist in ER trying to check you in.. The Staff scheduling the OR's, the people in supply and a few dozen more that all rely on the computers 24/7..
I work in national support for a large health care org. Not KP big but in the top 10 for Non-Profits. If a major system was down 44 hours of the year some people would be walking out the door. Our current uptime target for MS servers is 99.95%.. We run at about 99.98% uptime and we count downtime for patching. Thats about 105 minutes a year or 8m 45:s a month for patching. Just about enough time for 2 reboots on a typical server.
As for blaming the issues on power outages.. Thats what generators and UPS systems are for. We don't have a 2 MW generator on the side of the building for looks plus a UPS that will keep our 400+ servers up for 8 hours if the generator did happen to fail.
Now as for blaming Citrix? Citrix is great for running bandwidth hungry apps over a large network that can't handle the traffic. We use a ton of citrix to run some of the poorly written apps the healthcare industry is stuck with.
Designing a system from the ground up that depends on it?? thats stupid!
Implementing the same thing for the blind would be simple..
Have a link for a blind captcha that plays sound files. simply have a recording say the word to type in.. Over time I'm sure the spammers will add voice recognition to the bots but it'll take time and more processing power to spam.
when that stops working move on to animal sounds or songs..
Our latest spam numbers are about 90% up from 80% a few months ago 5.5 million connections a week 3 million rejected by block lists 2 million by spam filters 500,000 sent through (still a little spam in there)
Our post lunch spike is about 40k pr hour but peak mailfow is the 1am spam fest at 80k pr hour.
We run a Clustered pair of St Bernard ePrism 2000's.. I wish we had 3 of em.. The load gets a bit high at peak mail hours.
Out latest numbers are 5.5 million connections a week 3 million rejected by block lists 2 million by spam filters 500,000 sent through (still a little spam in there)
Our post lunch spike is about 40k pr hour but peak mailfow is the 1am spam fest at 80k pr hour.
We are running about 90% spam here.. up from 80% a few months ago.
Latest stats from the servers are 5.5 connections a week. 3 million rejected on Block Lists 2 million caught by spam filters 500,000 messages let through (still some spam in there too)
More than likely this was a signal for automated playback systems. The equipment used then needed a good 5-10 second pre-roll for get up to speed and in sync.
Other setups used queue tones..
Normally you would only see this with an overscan monitor but it's possible to see the overscan area on a normal TV is you mess with the adjustments a bit.
Other things you might see in the overscan area (typically at the top) is the timecode signal(not readable) and the macrovision signal that screws with your VCR's auto video level adjustment when recording from DVD or another macrovision tape.
Effective December 19, 1988, all lawn darts are banned from sale in the United States. Lawn darts, used in an outdoor game, have been responsible for the deaths of 3 children.
A set of lawn darts usually includes four large darts and two targets. The darts typically are about 12 inches long with a heavy metal or weighted plastic tip on one end and three plastic fins on a rod at the other end. The darts are intended to be grasped by the rod and thrown underhand toward a target. While the tip may not be sharp enough to be obviously dangerous, these darts can cause skull punctures and other serious injuries.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission urges parents to discard or destroy all lawn darts immediately. They should not be given away since they may be of harm to others.
Consumers who find lawn darts still being sold, should contact the Consumer Product Safety Commission on the toll free hotline: 1-800-638-CPSC (2772). A teletypewriter for the hearing impaired is available at 1-800-638-8270. Consumers also may write to: Compliance, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Washington, D.C. 20207.
Ohh man done even get me started on Non covered items.
As an example I had to have surgery this year.. I thought I'd checked everything.. Doc in Plan for insurance Check Sergi Center in Plan? Check Anasteologist in plan? Check Docs Freaking Assistant in Plan? Umm no.. WTF? Sorry no coverage for her $609 bill.
My 1st Daughter.. OB doc in plan Hospital in plan (the company owns it so it's covered 100%) The on Call pediatritian they had check her over becaue it was 3am and ours was sleeing like normal people? Nope not in plan.. not covered.. $1010 please!!
Ya know what burns me more? the amount I'm billed for and what insurance pays.
The Surgi Center billed $5900.. Insurance paied them $1300.. The $609 for the assistant has she been in plan would have been paied $169
I wish the rest of my world operated like that.. Phone bill is $90.. Umm here's $20.. have a nice day..
Yet another guy here who had the same experence with Comcast installers. I saw the comcast guy pull up so I go to the door but he ran upstairs to another apartment.. I'm thinking ok he'll stop by when he's done up there.
Nope.. 5 min later the van was gone.. I called comcast and they said I wasn't home.. ARGH!! I finally got them to come back 3 days later and a free install..
Then to top it off, the install was on my bill the next month then a credit the month after..
This guy has been trying to force his invertion on us for years..
After the saw manufactures refused to pay his unreasonable licensing free (3-8% of the saw sale price)for his patented tchnology he moved on to lobbying for a law to make it mandetory (and still pay his licensing fee)
I have to agree the idea is cool but I don't like having it forced down my throat. He did go on to start his own saw company and makes one of the best saws on the market...
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Try Telling that to the Nurses, Doctors, Pharmacy techs, The receptionist in ER trying to check you in..
The Staff scheduling the OR's, the people in supply and a few dozen more that all rely on the computers 24/7..
I work in national support for a large health care org. Not KP big but in the top 10 for Non-Profits. If a major system was down 44 hours of the year some people would be walking out the door. Our current uptime target for MS servers is 99.95%.. We run at about 99.98% uptime and we count downtime for patching. Thats about 105 minutes a year or 8m 45:s a month for patching. Just about enough time for 2 reboots on a typical server.
As for blaming the issues on power outages.. Thats what generators and UPS systems are for.
We don't have a 2 MW generator on the side of the building for looks plus a UPS that will keep our 400+ servers up for 8 hours if the generator did happen to fail.
Now as for blaming Citrix? Citrix is great for running bandwidth hungry apps over a large network that can't handle the traffic.
We use a ton of citrix to run some of the poorly written apps the healthcare industry is stuck with.
Designing a system from the ground up that depends on it?? thats stupid!
Implementing the same thing for the blind would be simple..
Have a link for a blind captcha that plays sound files.
simply have a recording say the word to type in.. Over time I'm sure the spammers will add voice recognition to the bots but it'll take time and more processing power to spam.
when that stops working move on to animal sounds or songs..
Our latest spam numbers are about 90% up from 80% a few months ago
5.5 million connections a week
3 million rejected by block lists
2 million by spam filters
500,000 sent through (still a little spam in there)
Our post lunch spike is about 40k pr hour but peak mailfow is the 1am spam fest at 80k pr hour.
We run a Clustered pair of St Bernard ePrism 2000's..
I wish we had 3 of em.. The load gets a bit high at peak mail hours.
Out latest numbers are
5.5 million connections a week
3 million rejected by block lists
2 million by spam filters
500,000 sent through (still a little spam in there)
Our post lunch spike is about 40k pr hour but peak mailfow is the 1am spam fest at 80k pr hour.
We are running about 90% spam here.. up from 80% a few months ago.
Latest stats from the servers are
5.5 connections a week.
3 million rejected on Block Lists
2 million caught by spam filters
500,000 messages let through (still some spam in there too)
I'm seeing an increase..
Here's our stats for this week from our anti=spam appliances.
5.5 million inbound connections.
3 million rejected by block lists
2 million rejected by mail filters
480,000 messages passed on to the mail servers
Our spam rate is 90%.. 12 months ago it was 80%
In the last year we went from 2.5 million connections to 5.5 million..
The legitimate mail has not grown.. only inbound spam.
More than likely this was a signal for automated playback systems.
The equipment used then needed a good 5-10 second pre-roll for get up to speed and in sync.
Other setups used queue tones..
Normally you would only see this with an overscan monitor but it's possible to see the overscan area on a normal TV is you mess with the adjustments a bit.
Other things you might see in the overscan area (typically at the top) is the timecode signal(not readable) and the macrovision signal that screws with your VCR's auto video level adjustment when recording from DVD or another macrovision tape.
A little info on Overscan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overscan
Well you see it's not just the power supplies in the server.
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Check out This Article
http://www.techworld.com/opsys/features/index.cfm
Every 1kw used by a server needs another 1kw for cooling and other support equipment.
The average rack consumes 5KW plus 5KW more to support it..
Thats only 200 Racks to eat up 2MW
It all adds up quickly.
They were banned in 1988 by the Consumer Product Safety Commission
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/pubs/5053.html
Effective December 19, 1988, all lawn darts are banned from sale in the United States. Lawn darts, used in an outdoor game, have been responsible for the deaths of 3 children.
A set of lawn darts usually includes four large darts and two targets. The darts typically are about 12 inches long with a heavy metal or weighted plastic tip on one end and three plastic fins on a rod at the other end. The darts are intended to be grasped by the rod and thrown underhand toward a target. While the tip may not be sharp enough to be obviously dangerous, these darts can cause skull punctures and other serious injuries.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission urges parents to discard or destroy all lawn darts immediately. They should not be given away since they may be of harm to others.
Consumers who find lawn darts still being sold, should contact the Consumer Product Safety Commission on the toll free hotline: 1-800-638-CPSC (2772). A teletypewriter for the hearing impaired is available at 1-800-638-8270. Consumers also may write to: Compliance, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Washington, D.C. 20207.
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't ICANN only responsable for maintaining the Root level servers and TLD's?
.whatever is run by the registrars..
.org tld is managed by Network Solutios under a contract from ICANN (Verisigan whatever they are this week)
Everything under
Now I believe the
I wonder if the court might pick on NetSol next.
A prevous post noted that spamhaus.org is registered through Tucows.. a Canadian registrar.
It took all of 5 seconds on Google to find a really sweet garbage can PC.
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Google Cache
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Thats 239,000 miles hitting an 18 inch square target.
Honestly, 5 years and only 2 service packs?
SP2 came out 2 years ago.. SP3 isn't due untill late 2007??
I reloaded my wife's laptop over the weekend.. after SP2 I only had to install 80 patches.
If they can't find the time to get SP3 out the door how about a Security roll up pack?
I guess the "Product" of the healthcare industry is hard see for some people.
What they produce is a healthy population.
How productive would you be if you had no place to go when you got sick or injured?
I think you got your numbers messed up..
The aritcle said 1.7 million new HEALTHCARE jobs..
Are you trying to say Healthare should should be creating jobs to meet all US population growth???
Healthcare alone added jobs to meet 12% of the population growth. Thats is quite a bit for a single sector of the job market.
Now a usefull stastic would be how much did Healthcare grow vs US Population..
Now according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics there were 6,388,000 US Healthcare Jobs in 2002.
By adding 1.7 million jobs the sector grew by 26%
In the same timeframe the population grew by 5% so healthcare is growing 5x faster the the population.
I couldn't find numbers for total US job growth from 2001 to today.
Spamhaus operates from London..
I had to setup our contract with them so I have delt with them a few times.
They don't have any offices or servers in the US.
Ohh man done even get me started on Non covered items.
As an example I had to have surgery this year.. I thought I'd checked everything..
Doc in Plan for insurance Check
Sergi Center in Plan? Check
Anasteologist in plan? Check
Docs Freaking Assistant in Plan? Umm no.. WTF? Sorry no coverage for her $609 bill.
My 1st Daughter..
OB doc in plan
Hospital in plan (the company owns it so it's covered 100%)
The on Call pediatritian they had check her over becaue it was 3am and ours was sleeing like normal people?
Nope not in plan.. not covered.. $1010 please!!
Ya know what burns me more? the amount I'm billed for and what insurance pays.
The Surgi Center billed $5900.. Insurance paied them $1300..
The $609 for the assistant has she been in plan would have been paied $169
I wish the rest of my world operated like that.. Phone bill is $90.. Umm here's $20.. have a nice day..
Man that reminds me..
When I called to cancel they told me they couldn't stop my service untill I returned the boxes to the comcast store.. no pickup option.
The comcast store is only open 9am-5pm Monday through Friday.. So I had to blow my whole lunch to get that crap done.
Yet another guy here who had the same experence with Comcast installers.
I saw the comcast guy pull up so I go to the door but he ran upstairs to another apartment..
I'm thinking ok he'll stop by when he's done up there.
Nope.. 5 min later the van was gone..
I called comcast and they said I wasn't home.. ARGH!!
I finally got them to come back 3 days later and a free install..
Then to top it off, the install was on my bill the next month then a credit the month after..
No Problem.. Get your $3,000 ready and go here
http://www.sawstop.com/
I forgot the link to the SawStop site
http://www.sawstop.com
This guy has been trying to force his invertion on us for years..
After the saw manufactures refused to pay his unreasonable licensing free (3-8% of the saw sale price)for his patented tchnology he moved on to lobbying for a law to make it mandetory (and still pay his licensing fee)
I have to agree the idea is cool but I don't like having it forced down my throat.
He did go on to start his own saw company and makes one of the best saws on the market...
I got some updated info in this..
I wasn't that they got the domain admin's domain acocunt information form the LSASS cache.
He had created a local accout on the SQL lab server use the same username and password as his production domain admin account.
OK here an example from a recent pen test .
Someone setup a test SQL server in the lab with access to the production netowork.
Since it's "just a lab box" the SA password was left blank.
at some point a domain admin logged into this box.
The security team accessed the box with the local SA account.
They got the LSASS password cache.
With that they got the Domain Admin account.
They used that to acccess a DC, got the SAM and used Rainbow crack with a 10gig pre compiled hash DB to get 30 out of 35 domain admin accounts.
I'm not supprised at all..
Li-Poly batteries are popular is the electric R/C hobby.
The fire danger from over charging or physical damage are well known.
These are the same type of battery you have in your cell phone.
Li-Ion is the same type of battery but in a metal case.
See this video on Google
Li-poly battery fire