Most government agencies operate under extreme budgetary stress. (with many exceptions)
At my office the best/cheapest solution wins. The only disadvantage to this is that our datacenter looks like a computer zoo. We have everything from Unisys mainframes to 2U rs/6000's to sun e10ks. Lots of windows nt, dos (!) and sys v stuff glueing everything together as well.
Sorry, your post needs to be eliminated for not following Slashdot orthodoxy.
Those stupid, bumbling, unionized Verizon workers were probaly sleeping in their trucks. After all, they are not smart dotcom types who work 80 hours a week for underwater options.
Regular non-geeks don't need phone service -- they should get a clue and find out just how important the internet is.
Verizon's #1 priority should be to establish free 802.11b nodes at every streetlight, so that enlightened geek can check out pr0n while walking down the street with their iBook.
In order to accomplish this, all of those lazy and imcompetent union slobs should be fired and replaced with the Slashdot staff. Instead of having monopolized, unreliable phone service, we would enjoy the smooth operations and record uptime of Slashdot using only Linux & MySQL.
You complain about union labor, then demand that the Federal government take over phone service...
Wow.
The problem is Verizon is that the management sucks. The employees are treated like useless pieces of shit and act acordingly.
I live in another area of NYS where the local management is still from the pre-New York Telephone era. Our service is great; my agency had a T-3 pulled through 5 or 6 miles of farm company in a month or two.
Keep in mind that in New York, Verizon is a particularly fucked up, over-mergered company, which results in fucked up, incompetent management of "Dilbert" proportions.
Here is the chronology of NY telecom since the early 80's
AT&T Bell System & Small phone companies
New York Telephone NYS / New York Telephone NYC
New York Telephone
NYNEX (merger of New England Bell & NYT)
Bell Atlantic (NYNEX & BA)
Verizon (BA & GTE)
I used to have a 24-hour CVS about two blocks from my home, and two friends and I decided that it would be a good idea to wire it up for broadband. (That way, we could check Slashdot while waiting for perscriptions to be filled with our laptops)
We were going to install our own conduits, but the big problem was that the store manager would not allow us to run CAT 5 from the house through the store.
We waited until 3am to have our MAN install party. We ran into the store with stockings on our heads and locked the night manager and cashier in the back room. Finally we were free to install our CAT-5.
Our plan was foiled when we ran across the magazine rack, and began lusting after the glossy's of Natalie Portman in People magazine. We ended up with a "hot grits" problem and before we could realize what was happening, we were arrested by the police. Those fascist cops (paid off by RIAA, no doubt) even started searching our laptops!!
I ended up in a cell with my friends and this guy who was permamently bent over with a gaping rectum. He kept muttering something about "those goddamn goats"
I got out on bail, but now I'm the same plight as Dmitry. I'm oppressed by "the man" and need free legal assistance!
Part of the all-encompassing freedom that comes with the GNU system and it's compiler is the freedom to be forced to use gcc.
Writing code that only compiles on the GNU C compiler is actually freeing the huddled masses of computer users the horror of using closed-source, arch-capitalist compiler products.
If people would bother to click on the link in the story, you would be able to remove the tin hats and stop whining about encryption backdoors and black helicopters.
This is the text of the abstract of the NSA project. You can find it here http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/policy_abstract.html
The security architecture of the system is general enough to support many security policy abstractions. The access controls in the implemention currently support a combination of two, type enforcement and role-based access control. This combination was chosen because togther they provide powerful tools to construct useful security policies. The specific policy that is enforced by the kernel is dictated by security policy configuration files which include type enforcement and role-based access control components.
The type enforcement component defines an extensible set of domains and types. Each process has an associated domain, and each object has an associated type. The configuration files specify how domains are allowed to access types and to interact with other domains. They specify what types (when applied to programs) can be used to enter each domain and the allowable transitions between domains. They also specify automatic transitions between domains when programs of certain types are executed. Such transitions ensure that system processes and certain programs are placed into their own separate domains automatically when executed.
The role-based access control component defines an extensible set of roles. Each process has an associated role. This ensures that system processes and those used for system administration can be separated from those of ordinary users. The configuration files specify the set of domains that may be entered by each role. Each user role has an initial domain that is associated with the user's login shell. As users execute programs, transitions to other domains may, according to the policy configuration, automatically occur to support changes in privilege.
Why don't you read the article instead of looking out the window for black helicopters????
SELinux implements a more robust access control mechanism in Linux. This is similar to TrustedSolaris/AIX/BSD/HPUX. It has nothing to do with encryption.
So in other words, you go out of your way to avoid crappy, disreuputable vendors to avoid being defrauded, then happily commit an act of fraud against an honest merchant.
I consider it very unethical for companies like Gateway to sell computers with buggy and unreliable Via boards and overheated AMD chips to unsavvy low-end customers.
People pay more Intel machines because you have a guarantee of what you are buying.
Back in the dark old K6 days, AMD was simultaneously shipping 300 Mhz K6-2's running at 66,75,83 and 100Mhz FSB speeds. These were mostly in cut rate Compaq, Packard-Bell and HP retail systems.
When Intel makes chips with the same speed and different internals, they designate the chip differently. (eg Celeron 300 v. Celeron 300A, Pentium 3 667/667A/667B, etc)
AMD is a crappy, cut-rate company. Their new marketing-name convention further illustrates this.
I know SprintPCS and other cell vendors are rolling out high-speed wireless networks in Arizona and new mexico.
I think the cost is alot more reasonable than normal cellular packet data too.
Otherwise depending on LOS and other issues, you might want to consider using microwave trucks like the tv stations use. I know a town near me (Bethlehem, NY) uses a van with a microwave transmitter to relay to HQ when there is some sort of problem on the far side of town near the river.
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802.11b is not a valid solution for this sort of thing.
I would be happy to contribute my extensive skillset to te OpenOffice movement.
I posess over 10 years of devlopment experience with Mac OS X and 15 years of Java and 20 years of Linux development expertise.
Check out my homepage at http://www.goatse.cx
Probing people's networks and then offering to fix things is a lousy idea and will get you in trouble eventually.
Do you like door-to-door salesmen and spammers? Would you make decisions that will affect your business based on an unsolicited visit or phone call?
Conduct your business in an ethicial manner -- there is certainly no shortage of computer consulting gigs.
Ok, let me get this straight:
When Microsoft releases bloated, buggy and dangerous software, it is an evil attempt to subvert the democratic process, take your mp3's away, etc
When Linus releases a bloated and buggy Linux kernel, it is "part of the testing process"
Good thing we use AIX, Solaris and the 2.2 series of linux kernels at my shop!
Just tweak your current system a bit, get the info into some sort of database and pull reports using Crystal Reports or something similar.
If you feel like spending alot of money, buy Tivoli Enterprise, CA Unicenter or HP Openview.
Inventory tools are a pain in the ass to design and test. Why would anyone give one away??
Most government agencies operate under extreme budgetary stress. (with many exceptions)
At my office the best/cheapest solution wins. The only disadvantage to this is that our datacenter looks like a computer zoo. We have everything from Unisys mainframes to 2U rs/6000's to sun e10ks. Lots of windows nt, dos (!) and sys v stuff glueing everything together as well.
The anti-landmine treaty is about as useful as the much-heralded treaty that banned war in the 1920's.
The only thing more frightening than "hawks" are prattleing "pro-peace" morons like yourself.
Where can you find them?
Can't find a gloove shop anywhere.
No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Goering. You may call me Meyer.
--Herman Goering, German Air Force Minister, 1939
Sorry, your post needs to be eliminated for not following Slashdot orthodoxy.
Those stupid, bumbling, unionized Verizon workers were probaly sleeping in their trucks. After all, they are not smart dotcom types who work 80 hours a week for underwater options.
Regular non-geeks don't need phone service -- they should get a clue and find out just how important the internet is.
Verizon's #1 priority should be to establish free 802.11b nodes at every streetlight, so that enlightened geek can check out pr0n while walking down the street with their iBook.
In order to accomplish this, all of those lazy and imcompetent union slobs should be fired and replaced with the Slashdot staff. Instead of having monopolized, unreliable phone service, we would enjoy the smooth operations and record uptime of Slashdot using only Linux & MySQL.
You complain about union labor, then demand that the Federal government take over phone service...
Wow.
The problem is Verizon is that the management sucks. The employees are treated like useless pieces of shit and act acordingly.
I live in another area of NYS where the local management is still from the pre-New York Telephone era. Our service is great; my agency had a T-3 pulled through 5 or 6 miles of farm company in a month or two.
Keep in mind that in New York, Verizon is a particularly fucked up, over-mergered company, which results in fucked up, incompetent management of "Dilbert" proportions.
Here is the chronology of NY telecom since the early 80's
AT&T Bell System & Small phone companies
New York Telephone NYS / New York Telephone NYC
New York Telephone
NYNEX (merger of New England Bell & NYT)
Bell Atlantic (NYNEX & BA)
Verizon (BA & GTE)
Perhaps you are new to the english language?
All I know is that the passage cited in the parent post does not resemble the english language in any way.
Perhaps the writers and "editors" of Slashdot should have taken some remedial English classes in addition to CS.
You are a real idiot then.
If I was an attorney, I'd love to run into a dumb-mother fucker like you.
I'd bill your sorry ass $10k to deal with your $200 hard drive issue.
I used to have a 24-hour CVS about two blocks from my home, and two friends and I decided that it would be a good idea to wire it up for broadband. (That way, we could check Slashdot while waiting for perscriptions to be filled with our laptops)
We were going to install our own conduits, but the big problem was that the store manager would not allow us to run CAT 5 from the house through the store.
We waited until 3am to have our MAN install party. We ran into the store with stockings on our heads and locked the night manager and cashier in the back room. Finally we were free to install our CAT-5.
Our plan was foiled when we ran across the magazine rack, and began lusting after the glossy's of Natalie Portman in People magazine. We ended up with a "hot grits" problem and before we could realize what was happening, we were arrested by the police. Those fascist cops (paid off by RIAA, no doubt) even started searching our laptops!!
I ended up in a cell with my friends and this guy who was permamently bent over with a gaping rectum. He kept muttering something about "those goddamn goats"
I got out on bail, but now I'm the same plight as Dmitry. I'm oppressed by "the man" and need free legal assistance!
Please help!
Part of the all-encompassing freedom that comes with the GNU system and it's compiler is the freedom to be forced to use gcc.
Writing code that only compiles on the GNU C compiler is actually freeing the huddled masses of computer users the horror of using closed-source, arch-capitalist compiler products.
If people would bother to click on the link in the story, you would be able to remove the tin hats and stop whining about encryption backdoors and black helicopters.
This is the text of the abstract of the NSA project. You can find it here http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/policy_abstract.html
The security architecture of the system is general enough to support many security policy abstractions. The access controls in the implemention currently support a combination of two, type enforcement and role-based access control. This combination was chosen because togther they provide powerful tools to construct useful security policies. The specific policy that is enforced by the kernel is dictated by security policy configuration files which include type enforcement and role-based access control components.
The type enforcement component defines an extensible set of domains and types. Each process has an associated domain, and each object has an associated type. The configuration files specify how domains are allowed to access types and to interact with other domains. They specify what types (when applied to programs) can be used to enter each domain and the allowable transitions between domains. They also specify automatic transitions between domains when programs of certain types are executed. Such transitions ensure that system processes and certain programs are placed into their own separate domains automatically when executed.
The role-based access control component defines an extensible set of roles. Each process has an associated role. This ensures that system processes and those used for system administration can be separated from those of ordinary users. The configuration files specify the set of domains that may be entered by each role. Each user role has an initial domain that is associated with the user's login shell. As users execute programs, transitions to other domains may, according to the policy configuration, automatically occur to support changes in privilege.
Why don't you read the article instead of looking out the window for black helicopters????
SELinux implements a more robust access control mechanism in Linux. This is similar to TrustedSolaris/AIX/BSD/HPUX. It has nothing to do with encryption.
There was a story on Slashdot recently claiming that they were planning on doing just that.
This is Slashdot you fool.
Who needs documentation??? Just read the source and pretend like you know what you are doing!
So in other words, you go out of your way to avoid crappy, disreuputable vendors to avoid being defrauded, then happily commit an act of fraud against an honest merchant.
You're a swell guy.
Chuck Schumer is not an ultra-conservative you ignorant dimwit.
Schumer is a left-winger liberal ass-kisser of the highest order.
I can listen to public radio for a couple of weeks.
AFter that, the begging sessions turn me off.
It's a shame too. Public radio in my area (Albany, NY) is some of the best in the country.
I consider it very unethical for companies like Gateway to sell computers with buggy and unreliable Via boards and overheated AMD chips to unsavvy low-end customers.
People pay more Intel machines because you have a guarantee of what you are buying.
Back in the dark old K6 days, AMD was simultaneously shipping 300 Mhz K6-2's running at 66,75,83 and 100Mhz FSB speeds. These were mostly in cut rate Compaq, Packard-Bell and HP retail systems.
When Intel makes chips with the same speed and different internals, they designate the chip differently. (eg Celeron 300 v. Celeron 300A, Pentium 3 667/667A/667B, etc)
AMD is a crappy, cut-rate company. Their new marketing-name convention further illustrates this.
Be a Slashbot and save $20 on a chip.
Maybe you should stop consistently indexing 5 million row tables with MySQL.
Then buy a real DB.
You might want to hold off a little while
I know SprintPCS and other cell vendors are rolling out high-speed wireless networks in Arizona and new mexico.
I think the cost is alot more reasonable than normal cellular packet data too.
Otherwise depending on LOS and other issues, you might want to consider using microwave trucks like the tv stations use. I know a town near me (Bethlehem, NY) uses a van with a microwave transmitter to relay to HQ when there is some sort of problem on the far side of town near the river.
Best of luck.