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  1. Re:You're not getting it. on The Greying of the Mainframe Elite · · Score: 1

    Because the cache is marked dirty if there is a update.

  2. Re:You're not getting it. on The Greying of the Mainframe Elite · · Score: 1

    Think about why this "additional" overhead is the same as in the original query.

  3. Re:You're not getting it. on The Greying of the Mainframe Elite · · Score: 1

    Neither is the query that the author suggests... and I will point out that as fast as it executed it would have been much faster had results been cached.

    Such technique harkens from a day when memory was very expensive.

  4. Re:Massive? Massive? on The Greying of the Mainframe Elite · · Score: 1

    Well, the size of a refridgerator and 1200 lbs (545kg) for just the zSeries 800 server might not be massive, but it is pretty big!

  5. Re:Business Plan on The Greying of the Mainframe Elite · · Score: 1

    Number 6 is not optional.

    Where is all that Viagra spam when I need it?!!!?!?!??!

  6. Re:Where can one get training? on The Greying of the Mainframe Elite · · Score: 1
  7. No training or even CS degree back then on The Greying of the Mainframe Elite · · Score: 1

    What the article fails to mention is that most of these "grey hairs" got their training in the form of OJT. In 1977 there were damn few corporate training programs and even fewer CS degrees offered.

    There is no reason why a young person could not walk in that the older workers did decades ago and learn in the exact same fashion that they did.

  8. If he is fair and cool.... on Uneducated IT Managers, and How to Deal? · · Score: 1

    ...then definately put up with it. Help him out and make him look good. Teach him.

    If he is an a-hole, then take the good advice you get in other posts.

    People friendly bosses are hard to find. Note that to be a great leader he doesn't have to know squat about what his workers do - General Leslie Groves headed up the Manhattan Project not knowing squat about atomic theory.

  9. Re:I've done it dozens of times on Building Secure Computers? · · Score: 1

    (Actually I simplify - you have to note serail numbers of various parts, and mark them as secret too (hard drives, monitors, et al). All this info is then recorded with your facility security officer.

    However the machine itself, depending on the network (you said "Secret", not "Top Secret"), can be COTS for the most part.

  10. I've done it dozens of times on Building Secure Computers? · · Score: 1

    Go to www.dell.com. Buy a computer. Put it in a classified area. Slap a red SECRET sticker on it.

    Woe be the person who sticks uncleared media into the machine, or attaches it to an unclassified network.

    You are done.

  11. Re:Free LCDs! on Video Tombstones · · Score: 1

    I rest my case.

  12. Re:YAIM on Google Instant Messenger Coming Really (or Not?) · · Score: 1

    I think yacc predates GNU, but good one!

  13. YAIM on Google Instant Messenger Coming Really (or Not?) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yet Another Instant Messanger.

    Just what we need!

  14. Re:I've only gotten as far as the first page... on Windows User Experiments With Linux for 10 Days · · Score: 1

    From the LAST entry:

    >> Even though I might cry for an hour due to some pre-pubescent children criticizing my writing style, I must tell you this now: YOUR MOCKERIES MAKE ME STRONGER!

  15. Re:Free LCDs! on Video Tombstones · · Score: 4, Informative

    >> but who is going to be offended by this?

    You have got to be kidding, right? There are some people who are offended by others wearing hats indoors, use of the word "niggardly", and by the presence of children in church... ...andI haven't even scratched the surface of uptightness/ignorance.

  16. Lets face it the Brits rule SF... on U.K. SF Writers Dominate Hugos · · Score: 1

    ...and have for a long time.

    We Americans have given a good effort, but....

  17. Re:Does this make me incredibly stupid? on On The Current State of WiFi Security · · Score: 1

    Turns out they dont need to chew on squat - since the challenge is clear, and the response is encrypted (but the same sequence as the challenge - see my post below) all a hacker would need to do us feed them into the RC4 routines and wala: WEP key.

    Christ that is boneheaded!

  18. Re:Does this make me incredibly stupid? on On The Current State of WiFi Security · · Score: 1

    PS Assuming the challenge and response do not send the same data.

  19. Re:Does this make me incredibly stupid? on On The Current State of WiFi Security · · Score: 1

    If the challenge is clear text, but the reply is not, then why is this a hole?

  20. Terrorists and pedophiles are everywhere... on On The Current State of WiFi Security · · Score: 1

    ...according to the opinion of the vast majority of posters.

  21. Re:Does this make me incredibly stupid? on On The Current State of WiFi Security · · Score: 1

    I am sort of in the same boat as you (being a complete Wi-Fi noob) but I guess I have a much less cavalier attitude when it comes to security.

    I did a couple of real basic things to secure the wireless segment of my home network.

    Note that according to numerous articles my steps are mot going to stop anyone really (or even mildly) determined. But I am getting there! However I worry *slightly* less since I took these steps.

    1) Changed the AP's admin username and password
    2) Enabled 128 bit WEP
    3) Enabled MAC based access control
    4) Changed the default SSID
    5) Disabled DHCP
    6) Moved the AP to the center of my house in the basement (less signal out in the wild that way)
    7) Disabled SSID broadcast
    8) Disabled Open System and enabled shared key

    OK this low level of "sophistication" took all of 1 day to read about at work between builds and a hour to set up (like I said I am a newbie). I am currently trying to get 256 bit encryption to work... for some reason this doesn't seem to work I will soon figure this out. Also I can't seem to enable WPA even tho the access point and the router both supposedly support it. I am also going to pull out an old linksys router and put all of my wireless on a separate subnet and firewall it off from the rest of the network.

    I mean if a good hacker wants you, you are screwed, but you may as well make him (or her) work for their access (if even just a little bit). They may have an ounce of respect for you after they trash your unbacked up Quicken files.

  22. Re:Personal information is not science on Reconciling Information Privacy and Liberty? · · Score: 1

    At that level it cannot be traced to an individual.... besides thinking back to Into to Sociology (the only soc class I ever took) I think that:

    1) Sociology is quasiscientific much like much of psychology

    2) your definition of sociology is a bit off if you think 10 million credit reports or medical records qualifies as sociology

  23. Personal information is not science on Reconciling Information Privacy and Liberty? · · Score: 1

    Personal information pertains only to you. Science pertains to everyone.

  24. Re:No foam on Energia on NASA's Shuttle Plans · · Score: 1

    1) it doesn't have solid rocket boosters (ala Challenger). Hoever it can use them if so desired.

    2) it isn't covered in foam (Columbia)

    3) it was orbited by the Sov's unmanned (its only space flight)

    However the shuttle disasters were all caused by the boosters - and Engergia seems to address the problems that have (so far) led to disaster. This is not to say it doesn't have problems of it's own: it well might.

    http://www.k26.com/buran/Info/A_Comparison/a_compa rison.html

  25. Re:has anyone used this for finding terrorists on Wayback Archives as a Law Tool · · Score: 1

    But then they would have to refer to the attacks as the "11-9 attacks"....