The survey found that almost a quarter of unauthorised connections to the WLANs were intentional, with 71 percent used to send emails.
Umm... First, this means that 75% of the connections were not intentional? Is this the equivalent of 75 people saying they're sorry for stepping on your toes, while 25 people did it on purpose?
Uhh... That's the least of it. I have a 15" PB, and an iPod. If I want to move ~5GB of tunes to the iPod from an MP3 share on a Linux box wirelessly, I'll get about 500k/s over 802.11b, but 5Mb/sec over 802.11g.
Big difference.
I also NFS mount directories wirelessly, and pull source/data from them. I run X apps from wired servers to a wireless client. That's also much snappier.
Anyone who's been to a Phish show can tell you about the legions of folks with high-gain mics and DAT/miniDisc units taping the whole show. Used to be that they'd have RCA patch bays coming off the soundboard that you could pull a post-mix feed from.
Normally, redundancy is a high priority. Is the savings in hardware and electricity worth the risk of losing (say) 10 machines because one power supply failed?
Blade servers are akin to modular switches and routers. All servers share a backplane, delivering power and network connectivity, both within the chassis and to network patch panels. Some solutions have break out boxes that permit KVM access to individual blades, while others run that through the backplane as well. Redundant power isn't the issue, since the backplane usually has redundant power; the issue is that these servers usually don't have multiple hard drives, so redundant disk isn't possible per blade. There are some that do have mirrorsets, they are less dense than the single-disk models.
The use of blades is normally for webserving, thin client servers, etc, where the failure of a single blade simply decreases the capacity of the overall farm, rather than rendering a service unavailable.
The best designs implement SAN HBAs into the backplane, providing common disk to all devices, and with netbooting, the devices won't need local disk at all. That's probably going to be the future of compute farms...
But the more applicable analogy is leaving your cases of beer on your lawn in front of your house.
Ahh, so the original argument stands. Think of it like this:
I leave a case of beer unsecured in a public area, owned by the government, i.e. the people. This wouldn't be my lawn, now would it? Perhaps the street?
Someone notices a case of beer hanging around, and puts up a sign in chalk on the sidewalk that says "Hey! Beer over there!
I cannot see a circumstance under which the person writing the sign can be prosecuted for anything.
Oh, and in response to the hilarious coward with the Night Court reference, I checked with a lawyer on this. His response was that having left the beer in a public place without any security, I would forgive any ownership of such. If the beer was returned to me, I would just be lucky.
I doubt GWB could have said anything like that without a few "uhhs", "whippersnappers", "crawfished", etc. He couldn't put a complete sentence together if his life depended on it.
IANAL, but I believe that if I left a few cases of beer on the sidewalk for a few days (discounting the skunk factor) and some or all of it disappeared, it would be regarded as "Shame on me" for not securing my property, and I would have no case.
As others have mentioned, your claim is way off base. One of my bands plays a weekly gig at the same venue. We record everything direct to my laptop, which is then cut and processed and posted as mp3 files (soon to be.ogg) on the net from a server at my house here.
Currently, the disk usage is about 200GB with archived WAV files.
Just because you don't have a legitimate use doesn't mean the rest of us don't.
Huh. I bought a Raritan MasterConsole IIxwith 8 cables (10'-30') off eBay for $225 shipped. And again, do you use VNC to fix SCSI controller problems, change the boot device order? Didn't think so.
I'm sitting in front of a Sun 21" monitor at 1920x1440@75 24-bit color run through an inexpensive Belkin OmniView SE. Crisp and clear.
Raritan is the best bang for the buck, IMHO.
Additionally, the VNC/RDP argument is a horse of a different color. The aforementioned PC Weasel is the only other device that'll let you view the POST/BIOS unless you've got a Compaq/HP with a RILOE card.
Of course, what people don't seem to realize is that you can easily pull a disk image of your TiVo (with or without actual MPEGs) and archive it to CD-R (without MPEGs). If they update the OS and remove features, you can be right back where you were in less than an hour. This will mean that you need to disable the dial-up, however, since it'll d/l the new code.
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Erm. It was Benjamin Disraeli, not Sam Clemens.
Umm... First, this means that 75% of the connections were not intentional? Is this the equivalent of 75 people saying they're sorry for stepping on your toes, while 25 people did it on purpose?
Second, define "emails". Is that 10? 10,000?
This seems a bit alarmist.
Gee, like the butane lighters that I've carried with my on every flight for the past 8 years?
The horror!
Uhh... That's the least of it. I have a 15" PB, and an iPod. If I want to move ~5GB of tunes to the iPod from an MP3 share on a Linux box wirelessly, I'll get about 500k/s over 802.11b, but 5Mb/sec over 802.11g.
Big difference.
I also NFS mount directories wirelessly, and pull source/data from them. I run X apps from wired servers to a wireless client. That's also much snappier.
This makes me think of all the conference speeches I've given on security, watching folks yawn through the physical security sections.
Firewall indeed.
-JPJ
[jpj@soul linux-2.4]$ find . -type f -exec grep -Hi fuck {} \; | wc -l
28
[jpj@soul linux-2.4]$ find . -type f -exec grep -Hi shit {} \; | wc -l
75
Anyone who's been to a Phish show can tell you about the legions of folks with high-gain mics and DAT/miniDisc units taping the whole show. Used to be that they'd have RCA patch bays coming off the soundboard that you could pull a post-mix feed from.
Rather enlightened, IMHO.
-JPJ
10:27am up 46 days, 18:02, 19 users, load average: 0.69, 0.35, 0.23
I must be late.
-JPJ
Normally, redundancy is a high priority. Is the savings in hardware and electricity worth the risk of losing (say) 10 machines because one power supply failed?
Blade servers are akin to modular switches and routers. All servers share a backplane, delivering power and network connectivity, both within the chassis and to network patch panels. Some solutions have break out boxes that permit KVM access to individual blades, while others run that through the backplane as well. Redundant power isn't the issue, since the backplane usually has redundant power; the issue is that these servers usually don't have multiple hard drives, so redundant disk isn't possible per blade. There are some that do have mirrorsets, they are less dense than the single-disk models.
The use of blades is normally for webserving, thin client servers, etc, where the failure of a single blade simply decreases the capacity of the overall farm, rather than rendering a service unavailable.
The best designs implement SAN HBAs into the backplane, providing common disk to all devices, and with netbooting, the devices won't need local disk at all. That's probably going to be the future of compute farms...
-JPJ
But the more applicable analogy is leaving your cases of beer on your lawn in front of your house.
Ahh, so the original argument stands. Think of it like this:
I leave a case of beer unsecured in a public area, owned by the government, i.e. the people. This wouldn't be my lawn, now would it? Perhaps the street?
Someone notices a case of beer hanging around, and puts up a sign in chalk on the sidewalk that says "Hey! Beer over there!
I cannot see a circumstance under which the person writing the sign can be prosecuted for anything.
Oh, and in response to the hilarious coward with the Night Court reference, I checked with a lawyer on this. His response was that having left the beer in a public place without any security, I would forgive any ownership of such. If the beer was returned to me, I would just be lucky.
-JPJI doubt GWB could have said anything like that without a few "uhhs", "whippersnappers", "crawfished", etc. He couldn't put a complete sentence together if his life depended on it.
-JPJIANAL, but I believe that if I left a few cases of beer on the sidewalk for a few days (discounting the skunk factor) and some or all of it disappeared, it would be regarded as "Shame on me" for not securing my property, and I would have no case.
How is this different?
-JPJAs others have mentioned, your claim is way off base. One of my bands plays a weekly gig at the same venue. We record everything direct to my laptop, which is then cut and processed and posted as mp3 files (soon to be .ogg) on the net from a server at my house here.
Currently, the disk usage is about 200GB with archived WAV files.
Just because you don't have a legitimate use doesn't mean the rest of us don't.
-JPJSeems to me that Gates must've read The Art of War.
Huh. I bought a Raritan MasterConsole IIx with 8 cables (10'-30') off eBay for $225 shipped. And again, do you use VNC to fix SCSI controller problems, change the boot device order? Didn't think so.
-JPJ
Get another KVM.
I'm sitting in front of a Sun 21" monitor at 1920x1440@75 24-bit color run through an inexpensive Belkin OmniView SE. Crisp and clear.Raritan is the best bang for the buck, IMHO.
Additionally, the VNC/RDP argument is a horse of a different color. The aforementioned PC Weasel is the only other device that'll let you view the POST/BIOS unless you've got a Compaq/HP with a RILOE card.
Two different functions.
-JPJ
Have I been working under a false assumption that a day is 24 hours long?
Wow. What could I have been doing in that other hour?
-JPJ
You are out of mayonnaise, Dave. Why don't you buy more, Dave.
-JPJ
Was that MIN-ute or min-UTE?
-JPJ
Oh God please no.
Ummm... and my grandmother had a helluva time overclocking her Athlon.
Took me about 20 minutes to install the same hardware in a RH7.1 system. Get the module source, compile, install.
YMMV
-JPJ
Then we win.
The geek shall inherit the earth.
-JPJ
Of course, what people don't seem to realize is that you can easily pull a disk image of your TiVo (with or without actual MPEGs) and archive it to CD-R (without MPEGs). If they update the OS and remove features, you can be right back where you were in less than an hour. This will mean that you need to disable the dial-up, however, since it'll d/l the new code.
*shrug*
-JPJ
BorderManager is a great firewall as Mrs. O'Leary's cow started the great Chicago fire.
Do everyone a favor and burn it down.
-JPJ
It's painfully obvious that you haven't been paying any attention, or don't care to.
1st 1U, 2P servers with integrated RAID
RILOE (look it up)
iPAQ
SANWorks appliances with Volume Management (grow Win2K partitions on the fly? Sure)
And that's just some of the Intel stuff.
Go troll elsewhere.
-JPJ