Sweet! I can't wait to see the DK: Forever gameplay footage on this service!!!
Note: This sarcasm is brought to you by the letters F, U, C, K and the number 9.
Personally, I can only see this taking off in industrial environments where the server room is very hard/expensive to keep cool.
The concept of running a server room that warm, is just plain foolish really... I can see the techs now, sweating all over the place, fumbling with cables on the telco patch or else fumbing and sweating all over a server that they are installing... just not good really.
To have equipment able to tolerate these temperatures is a good thing, I agree to that, but this kind of system really shouldn't be targeting the standard datacenter/server room. It should target High Industry where they are going to be put in environments where heat is a constant, no matter what.
Now, as to savings, yeah, you could definitely save a few dollars by increasing the temp a bit on the server room, everyone knows that, but who in their right mind would want to crank a server room to 104 farenheit just to save a few dollars that you may not be saving depending on the TCO of these new racks.
Wouldn't want it here in Canada, where else am I supposed to store my beer and keep it cool?? In the winter lately, its been way too cold outside, freezing my beer!
There is more to it, but no real need for tons of detail, that is more of a brief overview on how it can be done. Hence the phrase:
Now, granted there is a little more to it than that, however that is the basics of the jpg exploit and how it works.
For exact details about the exploit, you can check out the MS Article for it (Linked above and below this post), and google is always a fun time (If you want to know how to do it)... just be careful what you click on a windows box:).
the JPG exploit is actually an old one (I thought even ms got this exploit in sp2 or something like that) and is really easy. Basically you take a jpg image , open it with a file compression app and then drop your payload in. When the Image is loaded, the payload is executed, effectively infecting systems.
Really, as an exploit it is quite a frustration, however as a means of cheap encryption, it could prove entertaining (need your buddy to get your message and not have the teach read it in front of the class)...
Now, granted there is a little more to it than that, however that is the basics of the jpg exploit and how it works.
I use this myself, and while it is a good solution, the free version is limited to 1 tech (Admin login at that). After that you have to buy a license to get more techs and it gets expensive quickly.
Where I actually work, we use a different issue tracking system (Not nearly as comprehensive as service desk plus), but it is free and gets the job done quite nicely. It is called Tech Center (Or Web + Center Version 5.0) and it has the basic/critical features for issue tracking, just not the bells and whistles like live chat and such
Is Windows even *capable* of being up for ~300 days?
Yes, it is possible, but I wouldn't want to run windows that long (I did it once with a server 2000 box, but it wasn't in a position to be directly connected to the net, it was buried behind my router firewall, then my linux firewall [Which blocked external requests to it from outside the network and it was blocked from reaching out])... I'd imagine if it had of had any external net access, it would have blown up, causing a fire;p
Since sentencing, the fish has moved on and already forgotten about poor Richard and moved on to someone who can keep his need for food up... you got used Richard! Used!
Exactly. I got my cat from a shelter when she wa a kitten, had her 5 years now and it is just like having an impetulant daughter some days, and others its like having a nagging mother.. and others still its like having an incredibly loyal dog (She has some dogish mannerisms). When she dies, its going to suck terribly, but you know what, when it happens, I wont get her cloned, it just wouldn't be the same cat. Sure it would look the same... but it just wouldn't be the same cat and that would creep me out. Instead, I'll end up marching back to the same shelter, play with some more kittens, and take home whichever one picks me. I'd rather do something to help a cat/dog that is in need than to have a creepy clone of my cat that turns out to be crazy as opposed to cool.
Same plan for when I have enough living space for a dog as well.
Muah Hahahaahaha!!! My facebook page doesn't even make it into the first couple pages of google, thanks for lots of people in much better paying positions having my name!!
I saw the summary and my first thought was to ask "Are you from the maritimes in Canada?" Thats what the market runs around here, sometimes less though never more....
Just get rid of the shortcut, it's a lot easier than trying to rip out vital parts of the OS because you'll just get all whiny when removing the only web accessing part of the OS too.
You'll whine that you can no longer use FTP, you'll whine that for some reason you can no longer connect to network shares, etc. What you want to get rid of, sir, is the shortcut. After all, IE is basically a wrapper around the internal engine (Trident.)
Anyway, there are still some applications you should not remove from most distros. Remove apt from Ubuntu and have fun setting it up again, stuff like that.
As long as you have another browser/ftp client installed, there is no issue with removing IE. Its as easy as Start --> Control Panel --> Add/Remove Programs --> Add/Remove windows components and uncheck IE and hit next a couple times. Finish with a reboot and you are IE free. If you want IE gone, get rid of it, your OS will not stop working because IE is gone.
As to network shares, in an IE free environment, ohh!!!! wait... oh, they work the same as they always did (Which may not be the best way, but MS isn't known for doing things the best way).
If you want to be lazy, delete the shortcut, if you want to remove it (And remove it properly), just make sure that you have a web client and ftp installed already and you are laughing. Don't buy into the Whine Scare... your OS wouldn't stop working. Besides, even if you do run into issue, you can go right back into add/remove programs and put the checkmark back in and hit next.
Exactly. Considering the media hype behind the inauguration of Obama, and considering the possible pr nightmare (And it does promise to be a pr nightmare) that this poses to heartland, I would have to say that this was pre-planned as a form of damage control.
All too true... for security fixes and windows updates... all you need to know is the MS fix number (In this case it is MS08-067) and then you can pop that into the kb and download the particular file direct from the article. No windows update, no WGA; however, there are a few of them out there that still may do the check, but it has been ages since I have seen anything like that.
I know the feeling. Up until a couple of months ago I used to work in the IT dept for one of the Hospitality Industry Giants as senior support for their "latest and greatest" application yet. Well, I was one of the original trainers for it, when it came out and we did our beta rollout, the app shouldn't have even been considered alpha ready yet. It was garbage, the app was/is slow, bloated and buggy. I supported the application for 2 years live before the issues with the app got me to a point where I could no longer in good conscience support the application (Financial issues with the app were really really bad and core functionality was still nowheres where it should have been at this point). It is/was that bad and it seems to be the growing trend to put out alpha quality products as if they are production ready, simply because it can be patched later. Its a horrible mentality to have, but when the almighty $$$ is the thing doing the talking, everything else can sit on the back burner.
Another system (unfortunately windows only) is the Conitec A7 Engine. It comes with its own scripting language, support for other languages (C++, C#, C, etc...), its own level editor (Basic, but supports importing from other formats), its own model editor (Really really basic, but supports importing from other modelling apps like 3DS Max, Maya, Lightwave, blender, etc..), and a whole host of other features.
Personally I used the engine in its older revisions (A5 Standard Edition and A6 Commercial Edition) and I know a lot about the engine has changed; and so has the community, so I am not 100% sure what the community is like now, however it did have a rock solid community when I had the time to dabble in game dev.
This engine isn't necessarily as flexible as Torque, but I would put (Older versions compared) Torque and the A# about on par, Torques community and structure would have the edge though with their support for publishing, etc...
Heck, you could go so far as to tell them that music must be on an external hard drive. Then your issue (which doesn't sound real plausible) that you are constantly having machines break due to too many music files, would not be an issue
Ahh but there is an even easier way for a disgruntled user to take confidential data out of the workplace, creating an even bigger security gap.
Really, the solution would be to find a happy medium. Enable drive quotas for users, tell them they get X MB/GB of space, they fill it, too bad, THEY need to clear it out/maintain it. They come to you with issues, you tell them that their solution is to delete some non-important stuff. I have been down the road before and while you may piss off joe blow now and then, you are still making their workplace a little better overall, and you are ensuring that they are responsible for their personal data.
Its as easy as a home drive.
Thats exactly it, if you want something to truely be yours, don't work on it at school or using school resources, same for the office as it works the same way there too. So really, if you do think of something, before you commit anything to a physical/digital media, you need to make a decision on what you want to do with it and how you want to handle it. Do you want to share it? Do you want to give it to the university/company/whatever, forsaking all your rights except intellectual property? Or do you want it to be all yours? Once you know that, then commit the information to the media form of your choice, ensuring to take the proper precautions if you want to keep it to yourself.
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Sweet! I can't wait to see the DK: Forever gameplay footage on this service!!! Note: This sarcasm is brought to you by the letters F, U, C, K and the number 9.
I fail at html tagging it seems..
Personally, I can only see this taking off in industrial environments where the server room is very hard/expensive to keep cool.
The concept of running a server room that warm, is just plain foolish really... I can see the techs now, sweating all over the place, fumbling with cables on the telco patch or else fumbing and sweating all over a server that they are installing... just not good really.
To have equipment able to tolerate these temperatures is a good thing, I agree to that, but this kind of system really shouldn't be targeting the standard datacenter/server room. It should target High Industry where they are going to be put in environments where heat is a constant, no matter what.
Now, as to savings, yeah, you could definitely save a few dollars by increasing the temp a bit on the server room, everyone knows that, but who in their right mind would want to crank a server room to 104 farenheit just to save a few dollars that you may not be saving depending on the TCO of these new racks.
Wouldn't want it here in Canada, where else am I supposed to store my beer and keep it cool?? In the winter lately, its been way too cold outside, freezing my beer!
Now, granted there is a little more to it than that, however that is the basics of the jpg exploit and how it works.
For exact details about the exploit, you can check out the MS Article for it (Linked above and below this post), and google is always a fun time (If you want to know how to do it)... just be careful what you click on a windows box :).
It is publicly known since it was fixed 5 years ago. No point in attacking a fixed exploit
Here is teh MS Link (MS04-028): http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS04-028.mspx
the JPG exploit is actually an old one (I thought even ms got this exploit in sp2 or something like that) and is really easy. Basically you take a jpg image , open it with a file compression app and then drop your payload in. When the Image is loaded, the payload is executed, effectively infecting systems. Really, as an exploit it is quite a frustration, however as a means of cheap encryption, it could prove entertaining (need your buddy to get your message and not have the teach read it in front of the class)... Now, granted there is a little more to it than that, however that is the basics of the jpg exploit and how it works.
Where I actually work, we use a different issue tracking system (Not nearly as comprehensive as service desk plus), but it is free and gets the job done quite nicely. It is called Tech Center (Or Web + Center Version 5.0) and it has the basic/critical features for issue tracking, just not the bells and whistles like live chat and such
Is Windows even *capable* of being up for ~300 days?
Yes, it is possible, but I wouldn't want to run windows that long (I did it once with a server 2000 box, but it wasn't in a position to be directly connected to the net, it was buried behind my router firewall, then my linux firewall [Which blocked external requests to it from outside the network and it was blocked from reaching out])... I'd imagine if it had of had any external net access, it would have blown up, causing a fire ;p
Since sentencing, the fish has moved on and already forgotten about poor Richard and moved on to someone who can keep his need for food up... you got used Richard! Used!
Same plan for when I have enough living space for a dog as well.
Muah Hahahaahaha!!! My facebook page doesn't even make it into the first couple pages of google, thanks for lots of people in much better paying positions having my name!!
I saw the summary and my first thought was to ask "Are you from the maritimes in Canada?" Thats what the market runs around here, sometimes less though never more....
Just get rid of the shortcut, it's a lot easier than trying to rip out vital parts of the OS because you'll just get all whiny when removing the only web accessing part of the OS too.
You'll whine that you can no longer use FTP, you'll whine that for some reason you can no longer connect to network shares, etc. What you want to get rid of, sir, is the shortcut. After all, IE is basically a wrapper around the internal engine (Trident.)
Anyway, there are still some applications you should not remove from most distros. Remove apt from Ubuntu and have fun setting it up again, stuff like that.
As long as you have another browser/ftp client installed, there is no issue with removing IE. Its as easy as Start --> Control Panel --> Add/Remove Programs --> Add/Remove windows components and uncheck IE and hit next a couple times. Finish with a reboot and you are IE free. If you want IE gone, get rid of it, your OS will not stop working because IE is gone. As to network shares, in an IE free environment, ohh!!!! wait... oh, they work the same as they always did (Which may not be the best way, but MS isn't known for doing things the best way). If you want to be lazy, delete the shortcut, if you want to remove it (And remove it properly), just make sure that you have a web client and ftp installed already and you are laughing. Don't buy into the Whine Scare... your OS wouldn't stop working. Besides, even if you do run into issue, you can go right back into add/remove programs and put the checkmark back in and hit next.
Exactly. Considering the media hype behind the inauguration of Obama, and considering the possible pr nightmare (And it does promise to be a pr nightmare) that this poses to heartland, I would have to say that this was pre-planned as a form of damage control.
All too true... for security fixes and windows updates... all you need to know is the MS fix number (In this case it is MS08-067) and then you can pop that into the kb and download the particular file direct from the article. No windows update, no WGA; however, there are a few of them out there that still may do the check, but it has been ages since I have seen anything like that.
I worked that 3 on, 4 off, 4 on 3 off 12 hour shift rotation and I gotta say, it was a nice rotation to have
I know the feeling. Up until a couple of months ago I used to work in the IT dept for one of the Hospitality Industry Giants as senior support for their "latest and greatest" application yet. Well, I was one of the original trainers for it, when it came out and we did our beta rollout, the app shouldn't have even been considered alpha ready yet. It was garbage, the app was/is slow, bloated and buggy. I supported the application for 2 years live before the issues with the app got me to a point where I could no longer in good conscience support the application (Financial issues with the app were really really bad and core functionality was still nowheres where it should have been at this point). It is/was that bad and it seems to be the growing trend to put out alpha quality products as if they are production ready, simply because it can be patched later. Its a horrible mentality to have, but when the almighty $$$ is the thing doing the talking, everything else can sit on the back burner.
Another system (unfortunately windows only) is the Conitec A7 Engine. It comes with its own scripting language, support for other languages (C++, C#, C, etc...), its own level editor (Basic, but supports importing from other formats), its own model editor (Really really basic, but supports importing from other modelling apps like 3DS Max, Maya, Lightwave, blender, etc..), and a whole host of other features. Personally I used the engine in its older revisions (A5 Standard Edition and A6 Commercial Edition) and I know a lot about the engine has changed; and so has the community, so I am not 100% sure what the community is like now, however it did have a rock solid community when I had the time to dabble in game dev. This engine isn't necessarily as flexible as Torque, but I would put (Older versions compared) Torque and the A# about on par, Torques community and structure would have the edge though with their support for publishing, etc...
Heck, you could go so far as to tell them that music must be on an external hard drive. Then your issue (which doesn't sound real plausible) that you are constantly having machines break due to too many music files, would not be an issue
Ahh but there is an even easier way for a disgruntled user to take confidential data out of the workplace, creating an even bigger security gap. Really, the solution would be to find a happy medium. Enable drive quotas for users, tell them they get X MB/GB of space, they fill it, too bad, THEY need to clear it out/maintain it. They come to you with issues, you tell them that their solution is to delete some non-important stuff. I have been down the road before and while you may piss off joe blow now and then, you are still making their workplace a little better overall, and you are ensuring that they are responsible for their personal data. Its as easy as a home drive.
Thats exactly it, if you want something to truely be yours, don't work on it at school or using school resources, same for the office as it works the same way there too. So really, if you do think of something, before you commit anything to a physical/digital media, you need to make a decision on what you want to do with it and how you want to handle it. Do you want to share it? Do you want to give it to the university/company/whatever, forsaking all your rights except intellectual property? Or do you want it to be all yours? Once you know that, then commit the information to the media form of your choice, ensuring to take the proper precautions if you want to keep it to yourself.