Wow, I've never had those kind of problems with Dell servers. I've seen lots of DOA desktop units though. My biggest problem with trying to get HP in the past has been a near impossibility to customize the server and get a price online. That is one area where Dell definitely got it right.
I really like their server products, but their sales staff, at least in higher education sucks monkey balls. Before I left the higher education IT arena, my university IT group was thinking about doing a big virtualized app/desktop push and was looking to do Citrix or VMware View. My boss emailed our higher-ed representative at Dell to inform him of the project scope and to give them a shot at getting the contract. Dell never called, emailed, or really acknowledged our existence despite having recently won the desktop computing contract for the computer labs in the previous year. At the same time, we were looking at updating our storage environment. A small 3rd party vendor contacted us just to see if there were any projects we were planning that might benefit from things that they resold and provided services. Once we had a working pilot project in place from that vendor, it was decided to go forward with it. Just before we started to make the purchase, the Dell rep got wind of it and tried to come in at the last second to win the contract. In the end it went pretty much like this: "Sorry Dell, you ignored us when we asked what you could do for us. Instead, we are going to buy the same EMC SAN from them that you would have been able to sell. We are going to buy all of those Citrix licenses from them. We are doing it for far less money and hassle than dealing with you." At this point in the game, you can't survive if you ignore customers when they are trying to purchase.
That won't work. Malware is an ecological/economic niche, and someone(s) or something will fill it.
Perhaps you are right, but nuking from orbit would be a significant deterrent. Besides, this could become an annual event. Having a contractor like Blackwater nuke it annually would open new jobs for malware enthusiasts each year. There would be construction jobs to rebuild the convention site. Just think of the economic impact! Additionally, it could serve as a method of population control./s
If this is how privacy of a driveway is viewed by the court, it should also follow that a private citizen placing a tracking device on someone's vehicle is not trespassing or violating privacy. I suspect a certain Judge might end up with a GPS tracking device on his car. We need to know where our activist judges are going.
Code that does not compile properly is guaranteed to not work properly. So I think he is stating that if the developers can't get the code to the bare minimum of successful compilation on the first try, they shouldn't be making those attempts against production. Logic errors and poor performance are still possibilties in the code that actually does compile, and that shouldn't go straight to production either.
I would love to know this as well. Many scenarios should be covered by a normal backup/recovery strategy, but that doesn't really cover the up to the second transactional type of data. I have seen a UPS system fail, not because of Electrical System outage, but because of UPS battery/controller issues. Everything in the room went dark. If all of my disks had "self-erased" at the middle of the working day, I would have had a heart attack. Surely there is a low level utility that can restore the security key in the event of power supply/environment failure.
I when I glanced at the headline my brain jumbled the words android and tablet. As a result my follow-up thought was "Big Deal, K-Mart has always carried tabloids."
Generating $280US or £185 in a matter of minutes without much technical skill is a pretty good payout. Not many jobs pay that well outside of the CEO class. These guys could easily be making $8000/day. At that rate they could make over $2Milllion in US dollars in a year just treating it like an 8 hour per day, 5 days per week job. I have to put more creativity and effort into my job and don't get anywhere near that kind of payback.
By essentially requiring universities to perform the investigation, response, or protection against piracy, the RIAA and MPAA are receiving a government supplied subsidy. If a thief stole a diamond ring and passed it to a friend who resided in a college dorm, would the jeweler ask the University Housing department to handle the investigation? Shouldn't they be entitled to the same assistance from the federal government?
From actual university work experience, the RIAA is a royal pain in the rear. They issue notices and expect the university to determine who broke the law. They expect this service without providing adequate information in many cases. Most universities don't have the human or budgetary resources to spare for this pointless endeavor. There should be a clause in the law to allow the colleges to bill the RIAA/MPAA for time spent on investigative services. At $100 per hour, they might decide it's not worth going after the kid who downloaded Britney Spears latest craptacular single to listen once and then delete it forever.
Slashdot Mirror
Remember when building a critical system ask WNGD? (What would Northrop Grumman Do?)
Youtube is just a couple more Bed Intruders away from profitability.
It's safe to say this isn't the first time porn webmasters have seen a plug pulled.
Wow, I've never had those kind of problems with Dell servers. I've seen lots of DOA desktop units though. My biggest problem with trying to get HP in the past has been a near impossibility to customize the server and get a price online. That is one area where Dell definitely got it right.
I really like their server products, but their sales staff, at least in higher education sucks monkey balls. Before I left the higher education IT arena, my university IT group was thinking about doing a big virtualized app/desktop push and was looking to do Citrix or VMware View. My boss emailed our higher-ed representative at Dell to inform him of the project scope and to give them a shot at getting the contract. Dell never called, emailed, or really acknowledged our existence despite having recently won the desktop computing contract for the computer labs in the previous year. At the same time, we were looking at updating our storage environment. A small 3rd party vendor contacted us just to see if there were any projects we were planning that might benefit from things that they resold and provided services. Once we had a working pilot project in place from that vendor, it was decided to go forward with it. Just before we started to make the purchase, the Dell rep got wind of it and tried to come in at the last second to win the contract. In the end it went pretty much like this: "Sorry Dell, you ignored us when we asked what you could do for us. Instead, we are going to buy the same EMC SAN from them that you would have been able to sell. We are going to buy all of those Citrix licenses from them. We are doing it for far less money and hassle than dealing with you." At this point in the game, you can't survive if you ignore customers when they are trying to purchase.
In philosophy, the situation you describe is known as Pascal's wager. Find more here and here.
But apart from all of those blindly obvious holes, this is a grant plan.
I don't know if that was intentional or a typo. But that is dead on. It is a grant plan just like almost every project that gets funded by DARPA.
MalCon 2011 - Sponsored by Symantec and McAfee
That won't work. Malware is an ecological/economic niche, and someone(s) or something will fill it.
Perhaps you are right, but nuking from orbit would be a significant deterrent. Besides, this could become an annual event. Having a contractor like Blackwater nuke it annually would open new jobs for malware enthusiasts each year. There would be construction jobs to rebuild the convention site. Just think of the economic impact! Additionally, it could serve as a method of population control. /s
Look at your landfill, now look back at me...
If this is how privacy of a driveway is viewed by the court, it should also follow that a private citizen placing a tracking device on someone's vehicle is not trespassing or violating privacy. I suspect a certain Judge might end up with a GPS tracking device on his car. We need to know where our activist judges are going.
Code that does not compile properly is guaranteed to not work properly. So I think he is stating that if the developers can't get the code to the bare minimum of successful compilation on the first try, they shouldn't be making those attempts against production. Logic errors and poor performance are still possibilties in the code that actually does compile, and that shouldn't go straight to production either.
I would love to know this as well. Many scenarios should be covered by a normal backup/recovery strategy, but that doesn't really cover the up to the second transactional type of data. I have seen a UPS system fail, not because of Electrical System outage, but because of UPS battery/controller issues. Everything in the room went dark. If all of my disks had "self-erased" at the middle of the working day, I would have had a heart attack. Surely there is a low level utility that can restore the security key in the event of power supply/environment failure.
I when I glanced at the headline my brain jumbled the words android and tablet. As a result my follow-up thought was "Big Deal, K-Mart has always carried tabloids."
Chuck Norris hides from nothing and nobody.
Generating $280US or £185 in a matter of minutes without much technical skill is a pretty good payout. Not many jobs pay that well outside of the CEO class. These guys could easily be making $8000/day. At that rate they could make over $2Milllion in US dollars in a year just treating it like an 8 hour per day, 5 days per week job. I have to put more creativity and effort into my job and don't get anywhere near that kind of payback.
By essentially requiring universities to perform the investigation, response, or protection against piracy, the RIAA and MPAA are receiving a government supplied subsidy. If a thief stole a diamond ring and passed it to a friend who resided in a college dorm, would the jeweler ask the University Housing department to handle the investigation? Shouldn't they be entitled to the same assistance from the federal government? From actual university work experience, the RIAA is a royal pain in the rear. They issue notices and expect the university to determine who broke the law. They expect this service without providing adequate information in many cases. Most universities don't have the human or budgetary resources to spare for this pointless endeavor. There should be a clause in the law to allow the colleges to bill the RIAA/MPAA for time spent on investigative services. At $100 per hour, they might decide it's not worth going after the kid who downloaded Britney Spears latest craptacular single to listen once and then delete it forever.