Once upon a time, "firewalls" were stateless port filters. Usually, they'd just be ACLs on a router like a Cisco, Bay or Ass-end.
Then there were stateful firewalls (yay!)
Now there are content-filtering firewalls (inspect the data in each packet).
The practical implementation of a "firewall" has changed but the fundamental model remains consistent: It's setting up communications rules/filters between one entity and another entity using a program/device that sits on the only path between the entities 8)
Software gets old and the best thing to do is officially put it to rest. If you want to continue to use it that's your choice. Just means you also don't plan to update your hardware.
Try telling that to NASA. ^_^
Maintained software tends to stabilise over time. It's lack of maintenance that tends to kill software rather than age.
> Also, cant you just make an NT/W2K/XP machine login as a specified user (like generic_student) on boot, anyway?
Yes you can.
Funnily enough, RedHat has supported this feature for a little while too (Since RH8/9?). My machine at work (upgraded to Fedora now) does this, then runs xscreensaver and locks the screen after X/Gnome is loaded. Means I can switch it on in the morning and go fetch a coffee without delay 8)
It's not the securest practice in the world: someone could intercept the box before xscreensaver locks the machine but I'm fortunate enough to have trustworthy workmates.
You could run into a problem when powering the UPS from the generators: apparently many UPSs (such as APC ones) have various checks on the AC power input to ensure it's clean power and will not operate if the tests fail.
It will check the phase, for example, to see if it's running at exactly nHz (n is country dependent. In Australia, it's 50Hz.)
Correcting the phase is difficult and expensive, therefore you need a motor that spins at a pretty damn constant nHz, which practically means it needs to be something like a 4-stroke petrol engine (2-stroke isn't constant enough) and requires some pretty accurate control systems.
I am not an EE though so I welcome the more experienced to correct/ elaborate.
> Yes. The main reason that comes to mind is an armed revolution against the existing government, should it ever become tyranical / dictatorial / etc.
LOL. I love this argument.
1. The majority of American citizens probably wouldn't be motivated and organised enough to band together against their government. 2. The US government would protect itself from it's citizens. You bring the machine pistols, they'll bring the f-18s, stealths, MOABs and nucear/chemical/experimental weapons.
There's a GPL ext3 reader/shell-type program for Windows. It's not integrated into the filesystem but It Worked For Me and I liked it (even got that cheesy "this is pretty cool" grin when I fired it up)
http://www.xmission.com/~jstanley/bletch2.html Cheers Stor
I used to work for the stockmarket. More specifically, stock analysis software and websites.
Stock price doesn't mean squat. It's all based on speculation, emotions and announcements.
If you want a better indicator of a business' longevity, look at P/E and market capitalisation.
Seriously man, you can't have forgotten the inflated stock prices during the tech boom already. Were all these people "on to something"? Hell no! They just cooked up a misleading prospectus.
Jumping from 15.33 to 17 is nothing extraordinary.
>Because that's the exact situation RedHat is in. They can't sell $350 Enterprise licences because everyone thinks the $60 product is just great. There's just not enough of an upsell. And you can see their "profit" (or lack there of) in their financial statements.
95% people will want the $60/for-free product anyway, no matter what Red Hat do. If they were selling the $60 product to most of the planet, they'd be doing alright (still analagous to the $3/day thing). A lot of their software leverages the OSS model after all.
It's only the minority that wants another Solaris but they are a profitable minority. If your software is ubiquitous you'll have a fine opportunity to sell to these people.
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You're right. They ought to just concede defeat and help out with Linux.
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> THIS IS NOT WHAT A FIREWALL DOES
Once upon a time, "firewalls" were stateless port filters. Usually, they'd just be ACLs on a router like a Cisco, Bay or Ass-end.
Then there were stateful firewalls (yay!)
Now there are content-filtering firewalls (inspect the data in each packet).
The practical implementation of a "firewall" has changed but the fundamental model remains consistent: It's setting up communications rules/filters between one entity and another entity using a program/device that sits on the only path between the entities 8)
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Try telling that to NASA. ^_^
Maintained software tends to stabilise over time. It's lack of maintenance that tends to kill software rather than age.
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> In fact, I just replaced SQL Server 7 on Windows NT with a PostgreSQL server running Linux.
Man, you should have said that in your first post: a bit of sugar to help the medicine go down 8)
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> Also, cant you just make an NT/W2K/XP machine login as a specified user (like generic_student) on boot, anyway?
Yes you can.
Funnily enough, RedHat has supported this feature for a little while too (Since RH8/9?). My machine at work (upgraded to Fedora now) does this, then runs xscreensaver and locks the screen after X/Gnome is loaded. Means I can switch it on in the morning and go fetch a coffee without delay 8)
It's not the securest practice in the world: someone could intercept the box before xscreensaver locks the machine but I'm fortunate enough to have trustworthy workmates.
Cheers
Stor
Not if you do something like this instead of using regular solar cells.
I've always wondered how widespread this relatively simple technology is.
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You could run into a problem when powering the UPS from the generators: apparently many UPSs (such as APC ones) have various checks on the AC power input to ensure it's clean power and will not operate if the tests fail.
It will check the phase, for example, to see if it's running at exactly nHz (n is country dependent. In Australia, it's 50Hz.)
Correcting the phase is difficult and expensive, therefore you need a motor that spins at a pretty damn constant nHz, which practically means it needs to be something like a 4-stroke petrol engine (2-stroke isn't constant enough) and requires some pretty accurate control systems.
I am not an EE though so I welcome the more experienced to correct/ elaborate.
Cheers
Stor
> Yes. The main reason that comes to mind is an armed revolution against the existing government, should it ever become tyranical / dictatorial / etc.
LOL. I love this argument.
1. The majority of American citizens probably wouldn't be motivated and organised enough to band together against their government.
2. The US government would protect itself from it's citizens. You bring the machine pistols, they'll bring the f-18s, stealths, MOABs and nucear/chemical/experimental weapons.
Doesn't sound like a fair fight to me
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Well to be fair there's Solaris x86.
But I wouldn't tend to run it in production.
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> who in their right mind merges the public internet server and internal intranet server ???
Obviously more than you imagine my friend.
If I had a dollar for the number of companies I've walked into that had no physical segmentation on their LAN...
Segmentation is not a panacea either but I'm sure you'd know that.
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Just FYI,
There's a GPL ext3 reader/shell-type program for Windows. It's not integrated into the filesystem but It Worked For Me and I liked it (even got that cheesy "this is pretty cool" grin when I fired it up)
http://www.xmission.com/~jstanley/bletch2.html
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Stor
> Why not just hire contractors to do this if you have the cash?
Umm, because the donation is supposed to facilitate decent code?
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I used to work for the stockmarket. More specifically, stock analysis software and websites.
Stock price doesn't mean squat. It's all based on speculation, emotions and announcements.
If you want a better indicator of a business' longevity, look at P/E and market capitalisation.
Seriously man, you can't have forgotten the inflated stock prices during the tech boom already. Were all these people "on to something"? Hell no! They just cooked up a misleading prospectus.
Jumping from 15.33 to 17 is nothing extraordinary.
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Stor
Homer: Boy, talk about irony. The AMA tries to drive you guys out of business, now you're doing the same to me. Think about the irony.
Steve: [grabs Homer by the collar] You've been warned. Stop chiropracting.
Homer: Not unless you think about the irony.
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Oi! We're following _your_ lead buddy ;)
We're threatening to jail 20 year olds, you're giving 12 year olds $2,000 fines and threatening grandma!
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I've actually run into a number of "Ng's" here in Oz. Reminds me of an outburst from one of my slightly-aggressive teachers in school:
"Ng? What kind of name is Ng? I can't even shout it!"
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Or maybe there would be more realistic and creative ads that don't attempt to sate the lusts of the mentally-challenged?
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Awwiiiiiiight! My favowite website! That's gweat!
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p.s. Are you some kind of robot?
What's that coffin made of? Soggy cardboard?
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"the complete SDK's for all versions of Mac OS X going back to 10.0..."
"...What's your excuse?"
We have compatibility going back to the 70s!
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1. Not X's problems id=1416&m ode=thread&order=0
2. It's being done for GTK2.4:
http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?
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They want their brain cell back!
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>Because that's the exact situation RedHat is in. They can't sell $350 Enterprise licences because everyone thinks the $60 product is just great. There's just not enough of an upsell. And you can see their "profit" (or lack there of) in their financial statements.
95% people will want the $60/for-free product anyway, no matter what Red Hat do. If they were selling the $60 product to most of the planet, they'd be doing alright (still analagous to the $3/day thing). A lot of their software leverages the OSS model after all.
It's only the minority that wants another Solaris but they are a profitable minority. If your software is ubiquitous you'll have a fine opportunity to sell to these people.
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Stor
>each guy has some private time with the girl to impress her and each week she decides which guy quits the show
What a deal! I'd expect geeks to be lining up for the public humiliation.
Sheesh, the geek (actually the male) ego is fragile enough as is.
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That reminds me of a really bad joke I made up. Get ready to groan:
We're all stuck in a looping subroutine,
A looping subroutine
A looping subroutine
repeat ad nauseum...
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