Nope it has damn ASP apps running on it that maketing had contracted out without IT knowledge. We run a very good Cisco Pix Firewall. It is not so bad that it is being exploited it is the sheer amount of time to rebuild the machine. Some have suggested moving some things around and I like that, it should keep them off my back long enough to move it to a Linux box and apache.
We already have 5 linux web servers and none have ever been compromised. We are a very savy linux shop and we have not purchased a windows server in over a year and it is likely we will never purchase another one.
We have one windows web server left that we are now converting to run on linux. Our windows web server has been compromised over 8 times in the last week. We applied every single security patch we could on the machine. We also locked every single port but 80 out at the firewall. We shut down every single service that is not necessary and stripped the site to the bare minimum, but it continues to be compromised. Yes we even reloaded from scratch 3 times still no good. Even our MCSE is now a linux convert and begging me to get it converted quick as possible.
Perhaps we don't give a damn what you say. They said they would use proprietary solutions if a sutible GPL program does not exist, do essentially your opinion is moot.
Now change the name of KPP and KMAIL
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Users have no clue what in the world KPP is. So I suggest redhat change the menu name to Dialup Settings or something to that effect. Please get rid of the KXXX crap it just confuses users...
Legalizing drugs would be a good move, I cannot even begin to tell you how much money could be saved by doing so. I don't do drugs and never have but if others wish to do it than so be it.
We use a BEA app server at work for our order processing system. Generally it works ok, but serious bugs in it cause us a lot of greif and downtime. First off it has serious memory leaks in the performance pack (trading speed for stability). We have to boot the BEA app server at least once a week least it runs out of memory and crashes. We are currently looking at JBOSS as our new production application server due to it's stability. If you code smartly you can move the code back and forth so you really have nothing to loose....
The idea is not to push OSS software
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It is just like filling in your yearly IT budget requests. You put in something totally unrealistic and hope that you actually get most of what you ask for. A smart person will immediately see that this is in fact a push for open data formats. Like the article says, legislation is a compromise. No valid argument can be held against the fact that govt should own their data.
It has little chance of passing in it's current state but that is never the intended goal.
We wanted linux to run the enterprise, so we just bought a certified linux cluster from HP. This thing costs us a boat load of money, a boat load of money DELL will never see. Dell is going to do to themselves what Gateway did, they are not enterprise players.
Use a linux machine and run a verification of IP an mac address that is what we do. We also have a script running looking for duplicate IP addresses on the network. If we see one we know we have someone trying to spoof a connection. If we ever find someone doing it the next thing for us to do is jump in a car with a antenna and hunt him down like a dog. A simple drive by with a microwave oven waveguide hooked to a grid antenna will cure the problem at least until he buys new equipment that just got fried.
No sense in all of the stupid radius servers, authentication ppoe....Build a simple linux bridge firewall and filter out all but valid mac addresses. Can it be spoofed sure it can, but I am damn sure going to know if someone is doing it very quickly. The great thing is that it will lock down the network and will not piss off your clients.
Do your self a big ass favor and rid yourself of the LMR. Search the web for POE Power over Ethernet. Build a couple POE connectors and put the WAP11 on a short cable 6 in from the antenna. Of course you will need to put it in a waterproof container but that is easy to do as well.
Grab a old primestar satellite dish and give it a shot, you just might be able to pull it off. A parabolic primestar dish can get you up to around 36 db gain which just might penetrate those trees in your way. If it does not work you will be out next to nothing...
Why on earth don't these idiots approach all of the major airlines and mount the boxes to all airplanes. The airlines could charge for the usage and boost their profits. Think of how many airplanes are in the air over the usa at any given moment. Now the trick part is to design a cheap phased array antenna for the client side radio.
No the difference is that I do know perl but on the other hand I know MORE than just perl. I do not use a particular language for anything I use the one that best fits the job. Perl is great for parsing which it was designed to do. PHP and java where designed with the web and network as a core functionality of the language and thus are better at internet programming.Most Perl programmers are like most of the programmers I know. They know one single language and try to wedge it into everything they do.
I have been trying to get rid of some old perl code that our marketing department contracted. I would say that it is rather well written perl code, but it is still unmaintainable due to it's ugly syntax. It is time to let perl drop away, it is no longer needed and is not a enerprise suited language.
First of all lay down your architecture. In our shop we started by loading a huge compaq server with memory. We went to a local used pc company and bought a whole bunch of used p350 machines at 100 dollars a piece. We loaded redhat 7.2 on the big server along with open office, mozilla and some other productivity apps. We turned on GDM on the big server to dish out x displays. Next we built a kickstart install to do the workstations. The kickstart does a standard minimal linux load with x and at the end of the install modifys the inittab to query the server for a display. These machines do nothing but X display so we wanted to capture the free cycles to run computatational fluid dynamics applications on. So we add the mosix kernel at the end of the kick start and boot the now running workstation. Another way to accomplish this is by using LTSP but it is more trouble than it is worth in my opinion. It is far easier to just load linux on the local disk. We totally control the desktop on each machine right down to the application icons...The moral of the story is "we are happier than pigs in shit with the outcome" and I have never had to show a single user how to use the kde desktop.
I will give everyone a little hint, if you do not have the code, don't run it. That simple rule will keep your computer happy and your data to yourself.
Cons: Their billing department sucks, they somehow claim they where not billing me for 6 months. So what do they do they bill me 7 times in one day, overdrew the shit out of my checking account. I call to talk to billing, of course they could provide no explanation.
The web accellerator bullshit they have you load does not work so I cannot really get maximum through put.
Only support windows, big drawback
Most software will not work at full speed due to the use of a proxy.
I am moving to a location soon that has cable and wireless available so I will be ridding myself of it. I can honestly say I am not going to miss it.
Most of us do not work for software companies idiot so we could care less. I get paid to write custom shit that no one else would even touch as a commercial product.
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Nope it has damn ASP apps running on it that maketing had contracted out without IT knowledge. We run a very good Cisco Pix Firewall. It is not so bad that it is being exploited it is the sheer amount of time to rebuild the machine. Some have suggested moving some things around and I like that, it should keep them off my back long enough to move it to a Linux box and apache.
We already have 5 linux web servers and none have ever been compromised. We are a very savy linux shop and we have not purchased a windows server in over a year and it is likely we will never purchase another one.
duhhhh maybe I should have thought about that....dork we changed them each time we reloded.
We have one windows web server left that we are now converting to run on linux. Our windows web server has been compromised over 8 times in the last week. We applied every single security patch we could on the machine. We also locked every single port but 80 out at the firewall. We shut down every single service that is not necessary and stripped the site to the bare minimum, but it continues to be compromised. Yes we even reloaded from scratch 3 times still no good. Even our MCSE is now a linux convert and begging me to get it converted quick as possible.
Perhaps we don't give a damn what you say. They said they would use proprietary solutions if a sutible GPL program does not exist, do essentially your opinion is moot.
Users have no clue what in the world KPP is. So I suggest redhat change the menu name to Dialup Settings or something to that effect. Please get rid of the KXXX crap it just confuses users...
Legalizing drugs would be a good move, I cannot even begin to tell you how much money could be saved by doing so. I don't do drugs and never have but if others wish to do it than so be it.
Nope....we don't have a single bean running on it, we are only using JMS....
We use a BEA app server at work for our order processing system. Generally it works ok, but serious bugs in it cause us a lot of greif and downtime. First off it has serious memory leaks in the performance pack (trading speed for stability). We have to boot the BEA app server at least once a week least it runs out of memory and crashes. We are currently looking at JBOSS as our new production application server due to it's stability. If you code smartly you can move the code back and forth so you really have nothing to loose....
It is just like filling in your yearly IT budget requests. You put in something totally unrealistic and hope that you actually get most of what you ask for. A smart person will immediately see that this is in fact a push for open data formats. Like the article says, legislation is a compromise. No valid argument can be held against the fact that govt should own their data.
It has little chance of passing in it's current state but that is never the intended goal.
We wanted linux to run the enterprise, so we just bought a certified linux cluster from HP. This thing costs us a boat load of money, a boat load of money DELL will never see. Dell is going to do to themselves what Gateway did, they are not enterprise players.
Use a linux machine and run a verification of IP an mac address that is what we do. We also have a script running looking for duplicate IP addresses on the network. If we see one we know we have someone trying to spoof a connection. If we ever find someone doing it the next thing for us to do is jump in a car with a antenna and hunt him down like a dog. A simple drive by with a microwave oven waveguide hooked to a grid antenna will cure the problem at least until he buys new equipment that just got fried.
No sense in all of the stupid radius servers, authentication ppoe....Build a simple linux bridge firewall and filter out all but valid mac addresses. Can it be spoofed sure it can, but I am damn sure going to know if someone is doing it very quickly. The great thing is that it will lock down the network and will not piss off your clients.
Do your self a big ass favor and rid yourself of the LMR. Search the web for POE Power over Ethernet. Build a couple POE connectors and put the WAP11 on a short cable 6 in from the antenna. Of course you will need to put it in a waterproof container but that is easy to do as well.
Grab a old primestar satellite dish and give it a shot, you just might be able to pull it off. A parabolic primestar dish can get you up to around 36 db gain which just might penetrate those trees in your way. If it does not work you will be out next to nothing...
Why on earth don't these idiots approach all of the major airlines and mount the boxes to all airplanes. The airlines could charge for the usage and boost their profits. Think of how many airplanes are in the air over the usa at any given moment. Now the trick part is to design a cheap phased array antenna for the client side radio.
No the difference is that I do know perl but on the other hand I know MORE than just perl. I do not use a particular language for anything I use the one that best fits the job. Perl is great for parsing which it was designed to do. PHP and java where designed with the web and network as a core functionality of the language and thus are better at internet programming.Most Perl programmers are like most of the programmers I know. They know one single language and try to wedge it into everything they do.
I have been trying to get rid of some old perl code that our marketing department contracted. I would say that it is rather well written perl code, but it is still unmaintainable due to it's ugly syntax. It is time to let perl drop away, it is no longer needed and is not a enerprise suited language.
First of all lay down your architecture. In our shop we started by loading a huge compaq server with memory. We went to a local used pc company and bought a whole bunch of used p350 machines at 100 dollars a piece. We loaded redhat 7.2 on the big server along with open office, mozilla and some other productivity apps. We turned on GDM on the big server to dish out x displays. Next we built a kickstart install to do the workstations. The kickstart does a standard minimal linux load with x and at the end of the install modifys the inittab to query the server for a display. These machines do nothing but X display so we wanted to capture the free cycles to run computatational fluid dynamics applications on. So we add the mosix kernel at the end of the kick start and boot the now running workstation. Another way to accomplish this is by using LTSP but it is more trouble than it is worth in my opinion. It is far easier to just load linux on the local disk. We totally control the desktop on each machine right down to the application icons...The moral of the story is "we are happier than pigs in shit with the outcome" and I have never had to show a single user how to use the kde desktop.
Isolation my ass, try doing a six month cruise in a nuke sub submerged most of the time with not even a window to stare out of.
Subject says it all....
I will give everyone a little hint, if you do not have the code, don't run it. That simple rule will keep your computer happy and your data to yourself.
But I hate Flash more....good by you will not be missed.
Try to find anyone but starband for service...
Cons: Their billing department sucks, they somehow claim they where not billing me for 6 months. So what do they do they bill me 7 times in one day, overdrew the shit out of my checking account. I call to talk to billing, of course they could provide no explanation.
The web accellerator bullshit they have you load does not work so I cannot really get maximum through put.
Only support windows, big drawback
Most software will not work at full speed due to the use of a proxy.
I am moving to a location soon that has cable and wireless available so I will be ridding myself of it. I can honestly say I am not going to miss it.
Most of us do not work for software companies idiot so we could care less. I get paid to write custom shit that no one else would even touch as a commercial product.
Oh yea, and it is going to be hard to beat free!