It's been my experience working on the ISP side of the world that just about every ISP / colo provider claims at least 99.9% uptime with every SLA (service level agreement).
Its pretty safe to say that almost none actually back that up with their performance. However, from my experience, very few customers will try to get the company to honor its SLA because you need to provide pretty good documentation. We had a few situations where the company was down for a few hours, dropping its uptime below its guarantee, and still wouldn't credit us because they claimed the downtime to be much shorter. No matter how many traceroutes from major network nodes we showed, they kept arguing against it until we gave up.
Also, unless there is a catastrophic downtime that pulls service out for more than a few minutes at a time, and uptime falls below 95% for the month or lower, most users don't want to be bothered fighting for a credit. If you've ever dealt with any big telco / network provider you know what I'm talking about.
So, the bottom line is that in a lot of service industries (internet especially) it is very easy to claim 5 9's reliability, come close, and not really pay a huge price for failing. In fact, most people won't even notice. Now, for the 911 network, air traffic control, etc., it's a different story.
True, it was fast...and better than anything M$ would do in this situation. But, there were already worms and such circulating that took advantage of the apache vulnerability so machines could have been compromised in the interim.
so, hats off to apple for getting an update out quickly, but let's hope they get the process streamlined so that the next update is released a little quicker.
The only problem is that more and more people want to use their personal machines in combination with their cable / dsl connection to host their own personal web pages.
In the system prefs, apache isn't known as apache, its web sharing. So, even if the user's knew apache had a vulnerability, they might not think it applies to them since they've only turned on "web sharing".
I am happy to see that Apple is doing the right thing. I just hope their next update comes a little bit quicker after a vulnerability is announced.
I mean, I had already updated my FreeBSD machines two days ago. I got sick of waiting for Apple to release the easy to apply software update patch so I just manually upgraded my OpenSSH via the command line.
I understand that most of Apple's users don't want to touch the command line and wouldn't know where to start compiling software, so I also understand that it will take them a little time to deliver the security patch in an easy to install fashion via software update. I just hope they release the next update more quickly, instead of waiting for a few needed updates to pile up and release an all in one uber-update.
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A moon base would be a great strategic location for a weapon. Think of how simple it would be for them to hurl large rocks and other naturally occuring objects towards their enemies on Earth. Much cheaper and deniable than a missile. The only significant problem would be aiming. If they aim for Taiwan and get their own mainland that would be trouble....
Of course if rocks fail they could always build a "death star" laser...
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Its pretty safe to say that almost none actually back that up with their performance. However, from my experience, very few customers will try to get the company to honor its SLA because you need to provide pretty good documentation. We had a few situations where the company was down for a few hours, dropping its uptime below its guarantee, and still wouldn't credit us because they claimed the downtime to be much shorter. No matter how many traceroutes from major network nodes we showed, they kept arguing against it until we gave up.
Also, unless there is a catastrophic downtime that pulls service out for more than a few minutes at a time, and uptime falls below 95% for the month or lower, most users don't want to be bothered fighting for a credit. If you've ever dealt with any big telco / network provider you know what I'm talking about.
So, the bottom line is that in a lot of service industries (internet especially) it is very easy to claim 5 9's reliability, come close, and not really pay a huge price for failing. In fact, most people won't even notice. Now, for the 911 network, air traffic control, etc., it's a different story.
so, hats off to apple for getting an update out quickly, but let's hope they get the process streamlined so that the next update is released a little quicker.
In the system prefs, apache isn't known as apache, its web sharing. So, even if the user's knew apache had a vulnerability, they might not think it applies to them since they've only turned on "web sharing".
I mean, I had already updated my FreeBSD machines two days ago. I got sick of waiting for Apple to release the easy to apply software update patch so I just manually upgraded my OpenSSH via the command line.
I understand that most of Apple's users don't want to touch the command line and wouldn't know where to start compiling software, so I also understand that it will take them a little time to deliver the security patch in an easy to install fashion via software update. I just hope they release the next update more quickly, instead of waiting for a few needed updates to pile up and release an all in one uber-update.
Of course if rocks fail they could always build a "death star" laser...