Ok. Say you have some open software you want to compile and run on your SPARC boxen (of which I have a truckload). Now suppose it hasn't been ported to Solaris yet and probably never will be. Now suppose there are some very good Linux ports of the software.
If IBM and Carrier do the project it will be a huge waste of resources. But this project is really a piece of cake. Nothing to it. More along the lines of an undergraduate student project in terms of complexity and cost. I think it would be cool to be able to control my AC/Heat from my PC.
Besides, it would seem that somebody is already getting Internet access to developing nations - you have it.
It's a pretty good bet that if you don't contact the compliance company, you will the audit notification letter in a couple of months. That what happened here.
I lived over there for 4 years back in the 70's. It was great. When you first get there you wonder how come the beer sucks so bad and everybody moves so slow. Then after a while you get used to it. Then you come back to the USA and wonder how come the beer here sucks so bad and everybody is in such a damn hurry.
You should have really taken the time to implement an anti-virus solution before the problem got too big. Both on the servers and desktops. You can also use system policies that absolutely don't allow attached executables to run from the Outlook client no matter how hard the user tries to run them.
--JB
As one who has run sendmail/postfix/pine/etc in large university settings and ISP settings I think I have a fairly well balanced view point. As a long time *NIX sys admin, it pains me to say it, but in a business organization, Exchange beats the pants off other *NIX solutions I have used. I also run several dozen distributed mail servers across north america for an enterprise business concern and I would absolutely shoot my self in the head if I had to try and come up with a *NIX solution as feature rich, easy to implement and maintain as Exchange.
Exchange servers and outlook are excellent choices for business organizations for their internal mail needs. It is easy to setup, easy to maintain, allows easy setup and maintenance of distribution groups, allows easy setup of multiple smtp addressess for the same mailbox, only maintains one copy of a message in the message database for multiple distributions to save space, is generally quite bullet proof and runs forever without a reboot if you don't try and put several apps on the same box, havae the coreect patches on it,etc, allows for distributed e-mail servers with very little work or maintenance, allows user mailboxes to be moved between distributed servers easily. My mail system admins are pretty much entry level and require very little training. There is a lot of control over distribution lists and addresses in terms of who is allowed to send mail to those addresses (good for pager email addresses for the IT and executive staff and "everyone" distributions). Exchange server allows for the easy integration of things link the RIM Blackberry wireless PDA's (what the execs prefer here) on a server level instead of a workstation level. How 'bout when upgrading/adding a new mail server with exchange. Bring it online, move the users mailboxes to it by selecting the user and picking a different home server for them. Next time the user logs in, Outlook will automatically detect the mailbox was moved and reconfig transparently. Really simple, really painless.
Of course there are the shared schedules that make it easy for execs to have their admins keep their appointment books for them, and allows all changes to be merged. There is granting "send as" privs to exec admins. The really big thing for everyone is the GAL (global address list). Since the Microsoft solutions are very expensive compared to other solutions, Execs are willing to hear proposals for just about any kind of replacement mail system that has a decent web mail interface and all the other scheduling features, etc, but if it doesn't have a GAL, it won't get heard.
So, the respondent is a contact of some kind on lots of domains. So am I. So there have been other decisions against him. I really don't see that as any kind of supporting evidence for Guinesses claims and the ruling that the registrations met the 3 infrigment rules.
As for him being a squatter, he may well be, but so is most everybody with a purely net presence as far as the brick and mortars are concerned.
But, I really don't think Guiness is the bad guy here either. So OK, Guiness is acting like a corporation. Big suprise. That is the nature of the beast. It is not too much different in that respect from most other corporations. Most of them could care less about the what is right or the rights of human beings. The real problem here is ICANN and their hired henchmen the WIPO. It's their house - their rules - their aribitrators. These people have virtually no oversight, and they probably are operating way outside of their legal authority. The also seem to be completely biased towards corporations. Are there any recent cases brought to arbitration where the little guy won?
That is the nature of the beast. It is not too much different in that respect from most other corporations. Most could care less about the what is right or the rights of human beings. The real problem here is ICANN and their hired henchmen WIPO. It's their house - their rules - their aribitrators. These people have virtually no oversight, and they probably are operating way outside of their legal authority. The also seem to be completely biased towards corporations. Are there any recent cases brought to arbitration where the little guy won?
A quick whois shows that the site is registered to Mike Emke or Emke and Associates. A quick search of the Net picked up an article (www.trancenet.org/heavensgate/news/409.shtml) attributing Mike Emke or Emke and Associates (alias Varak) as one of the authors of the "Heavens Gate" spoof site highersource.org.
It would seem at the very least this man has a knack for getting noticed.
I have been out of school for a few decades, but my "school" experiences, my childrens "school" experiences, and my wife's "school" experiences (she is a high level public school administrator) renforce my view that many public schools are run like minimum security prisons. Children are warehoused while their parents work or whatever, under the guise of "education". The education, for the most part, is not designed to enhance and nuture the abilities and talents unique to each one of us. These are institutions, run by government bureaucrats, who are either in the waning years or a political career, or trying to jumpstart a a new political career. The status quo is what is desired and expect from everyone, including the students. Taking a view that could be considered disruptive can be hazardous to your future. Lay low, survive, and quitely proceed down your own chosen path and become the best at what ever it is you have chosen that you can be. You do not need the approval of these robots of the machine to be successful. There are those institutions and teachers who are the exception, however, and if you are or belong to one of these, you and/or your students are very lucky indeed.
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According to this site it is barrb@mindspring.com
Ok. Say you have some open software you want to compile and run on your SPARC boxen (of which I have a truckload). Now suppose it hasn't been ported to Solaris yet and probably never will be. Now suppose there are some very good Linux ports of the software.
If IBM and Carrier do the project it will be a huge waste of resources. But this project is really a piece of cake. Nothing to it. More along the lines of an undergraduate student project in terms of complexity and cost. I think it would be cool to be able to control my AC/Heat from my PC.
Besides, it would seem that somebody is already getting Internet access to developing nations - you have it.
It's a pretty good bet that if you don't contact the compliance company, you will the audit notification letter in a couple of months. That what happened here.
I lived over there for 4 years back in the 70's. It was great. When you first get there you wonder how come the beer sucks so bad and everybody moves so slow. Then after a while you get used to it. Then you come back to the USA and wonder how come the beer here sucks so bad and everybody is in such a damn hurry.
You should have really taken the time to implement an anti-virus solution before the problem got too big. Both on the servers and desktops. You can also use system policies that absolutely don't allow attached executables to run from the Outlook client no matter how hard the user tries to run them. --JB
You could use backup software that does a brick level backup. Then you can backup and restore individual mailboxes. -JB-
As one who has run sendmail/postfix/pine/etc in large university settings and ISP settings I think I have a fairly well balanced view point. As a long time *NIX sys admin, it pains me to say it, but in a business organization, Exchange beats the pants off other *NIX solutions I have used. I also run several dozen distributed mail servers across north america for an enterprise business concern and I would absolutely shoot my self in the head if I had to try and come up with a *NIX solution as feature rich, easy to implement and maintain as Exchange.
Exchange servers and outlook are excellent choices for business organizations for their internal mail needs. It is easy to setup, easy to maintain, allows easy setup and maintenance of distribution groups, allows easy setup of multiple smtp addressess for the same mailbox, only maintains one copy of a message in the message database for multiple distributions to save space, is generally quite bullet proof and runs forever without a reboot if you don't try and put several apps on the same box, havae the coreect patches on it,etc, allows for distributed e-mail servers with very little work or maintenance, allows user mailboxes to be moved between distributed servers easily. My mail system admins are pretty much entry level and require very little training. There is a lot of control over distribution lists and addresses in terms of who is allowed to send mail to those addresses (good for pager email addresses for the IT and executive staff and "everyone" distributions). Exchange server allows for the easy integration of things link the RIM Blackberry wireless PDA's (what the execs prefer here) on a server level instead of a workstation level. How 'bout when upgrading/adding a new mail server with exchange. Bring it online, move the users mailboxes to it by selecting the user and picking a different home server for them. Next time the user logs in, Outlook will automatically detect the mailbox was moved and reconfig transparently. Really simple, really painless.
Of course there are the shared schedules that make it easy for execs to have their admins keep their appointment books for them, and allows all changes to be merged. There is granting "send as" privs to exec admins. The really big thing for everyone is the GAL (global address list). Since the Microsoft solutions are very expensive compared to other solutions, Execs are willing to hear proposals for just about any kind of replacement mail system that has a decent web mail interface and all the other scheduling features, etc, but if it doesn't have a GAL, it won't get heard.
--JB--
As for him being a squatter, he may well be, but so is most everybody with a purely net presence as far as the brick and mortars are concerned. But, I really don't think Guiness is the bad guy here either. So OK, Guiness is acting like a corporation. Big suprise. That is the nature of the beast. It is not too much different in that respect from most other corporations. Most of them could care less about the what is right or the rights of human beings. The real problem here is ICANN and their hired henchmen the WIPO. It's their house - their rules - their aribitrators. These people have virtually no oversight, and they probably are operating way outside of their legal authority. The also seem to be completely biased towards corporations. Are there any recent cases brought to arbitration where the little guy won?
JB
never had a sig, never will
JB
never had a sig, never will
Yes, people log on as root and run X as root [Gasp!] What we teach new sys admins and what we do are two different things. JB
Some Interesting Facts:
A quick whois shows that the site is registered to Mike Emke or Emke and Associates. A quick search of the Net picked up an article (www.trancenet.org/heavensgate/news/409.shtml) attributing Mike Emke or Emke and Associates (alias Varak) as one of the authors of the "Heavens Gate" spoof site highersource.org.
It would seem at the very least this man has a knack for getting noticed.
I have been out of school for a few decades, but my "school" experiences, my childrens "school" experiences, and my wife's "school" experiences (she is a high level public school administrator) renforce my view that many public schools are run like minimum security prisons. Children are warehoused while their parents work or whatever, under the guise of "education". The education, for the most part, is not designed to enhance and nuture the abilities and talents unique to each one of us. These are institutions, run by government bureaucrats, who are either in the waning years or a political career, or trying to jumpstart a a new political career. The status quo is what is desired and expect from everyone, including the students. Taking a view that could be considered disruptive can be hazardous to your future. Lay low, survive, and quitely proceed down your own chosen path and become the best at what ever it is you have chosen that you can be. You do not need the approval of these robots of the machine to be successful. There are those institutions and teachers who are the exception, however, and if you are or belong to one of these, you and/or your students are very lucky indeed.