Tape is best, but is certainly not foolproof... it all depends on the how and where your data is stored.
NASA has many, many TB of data from space probes and such archived on tape. When you maintain huge tape libraries for archival purposes, you hit a snag in that the earth's magnetic field randomizes tape over time.
NASA uses massive tape silos (see Storagetek and IBM websites) and moves data between tapes on a regular basis.
Keep in mind that digital storage is a very new medium with alot of disadvantages. The easy decay, deletion and modification of digital data guarantees that future historians will know little about our society in the future.
#1 the CIA, FBI etc are nothing special from an IT point of view. If anything, they are worse than most companies.
#2 I actually worked at the CIA, and Windows 2000 workstations on secure networks were common
#3 I also worked on secured networks that are part of the NMCI, where we found a wide variety of Unix, Windows and legacy equipment with out of date patchlevels.
Exactly, having a "root" superuser who is not subject to any restrictions as far as file access and resource utilization is the ultimate level of security.
I'm happy that any system administrator can use "su" to assume my identity, and then use his root powers to cover his tracks.
You obviously don't understand the fact that Steve Jobs is a genius. I once witnessed Steve turn a barrel of rocks into gold bricks. The man is amazing.
OS X holes aren't problems, but opportunities for Mac users who "Think Different." to explore the creative possibilities of their Mac from a new, unique and artful perspective.
Apple is a corporation that cares about and nurtures the creative class of our society. "Security" is just another word for mindless oppression by the man.
Microsoft is just and evil corporation in it for the money, and they put holes in their software to sell more stuff!
Apple apologists are the most amazing bunch of people that I have ever encountered.
When it was revealed the Apple sold a $300 super-walkman that needed a $100 exchange for a refurbished iPod & battery after a year, the Appleheads insisted that it was perfectly ok. Hell, AAA batteries would cost more!
Now the some bleating shit about security patches: "Apple is not revealing exploits to protect us"
Would would your reaction be if Steve Ballmer got up and said "patches do not matter, we are withholding them for your protection"? It would be a vertitable orgy of Microsoft denunciations.
The argument "Well, the CIA used NeXT, so OSX is secure" holds no water either. The CIA used alot of Sun boxes from that era as well. Solaris 2.5/2.6 and SunOS were practically wide open from a security POV. If you stuck a gold disk Solaris 2.6 box on the internet, it would be rooted in minutes.
I hear Steve Jobs is going to ask you to drink the kool-aid! Get your cup ready!
Because Java is unreliable as hell. Most java apps gooble up system resources, particularly memory, and produce voluminous and useless logs, making troubleshooting incredibly difficult.
Secondary schools are more about behavior modification than education. If you compare the curriculum and social atmosphere of a typical public school with a typcial middle-class private school, that becomes readily apparent.
While serious students do come away with good public educations, they also need dedicated parents to back them up. I can think of a half dozen people that I know whose education suffered because their parents were unwilling or unable to fight the byzantine and irrational bureaucracy that exists in any district.
College is not a vocational school, although that many would argue that DeVry is a vocation school.
College is supposed to teach you how to think & learn... it's become a necessity since US secondary schools are so malfunctional. Your college classes should give you a base of knowledge about whatever you are studying, and the rest is up to you.
The reason that top schools like MIT are top schools is that they force their students to explore and learn new things. If you are a serious student, you can come away with a good education from almost any school.
Yes, and they learned the lessons from ISA (ie smaller competitors will kick IBM's rear) and came back to conquer the desktop with proprietary MicroChannel. Rember the PS/2?
In 1995 Microsoft was widely touted as a "non-political" company. The company wasn't a big political contributor and felt that it's software stood on it's merits.
Enter the Sun/Netscape/? lawsuits. Microsoft is now a huge campaign contributor, and wields the political club well.
MSFT got badly burned by bogus patent lawsuits. Using history as a guide, it is not difficult to see MSFT using patents as a club in the future.
Among the things that Micrsoft is patenting is XAML/Avalon, which is a Mozilla XUL-like interface for building Windows Forms and GUIs based on XML. It will eventually turn into Microsoft's proprietary, "extended" HTML.
Microsoft will hold patents in all sorts of key technology areas, making copycat or open APIs impossible to build. Even if the patents are weak, patent litigation is an insanely expensive process that open source developers cannot afford to take part in.
Because RedHat is committing to keep the distribution stable.
Just about every other distribution changes so rapidly that you generally need to roll your own distro to use Linux on a large number of desktops, unless you have the time to do yearly reimages.
Math causes more problems in public schools than it is worth. Students who do not grasp the concepts have their self esteem suffer and don't feel very good.
Personally, I believe that math and science courses should be reduced in schools. We could teach more tolerance classes and fire science teachers to buy laptops for kids.
Laptops can do the math that students can't. Anything that the laptop cannot do can be outsourced to India.
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With other IBM software, like Tivoli products, IBM bundles Websphere for use with the product.
IBM is a box-maker after all...
If you want to extend stuff, however, you need to buy a Websphere license.
The worst was the silver-plated DIMMs. They cost 50% more and if you put a tin DIMM on the board, you had a good chance of messing up the board.
You're right. Every home should have an IT monkey.
Tape is best, but is certainly not foolproof... it all depends on the how and where your data is stored.
NASA has many, many TB of data from space probes and such archived on tape. When you maintain huge tape libraries for archival purposes, you hit a snag in that the earth's magnetic field randomizes tape over time.
NASA uses massive tape silos (see Storagetek and IBM websites) and moves data between tapes on a regular basis.
Keep in mind that digital storage is a very new medium with alot of disadvantages. The easy decay, deletion and modification of digital data guarantees that future historians will know little about our society in the future.
I hope you are trolling.
If not, you are undoubtably the biggest idiot ever to post here.
Suuuuure you do....
#1 the CIA, FBI etc are nothing special from an IT point of view. If anything, they are worse than most companies.
#2 I actually worked at the CIA, and Windows 2000 workstations on secure networks were common
#3 I also worked on secured networks that are part of the NMCI, where we found a wide variety of Unix, Windows and legacy equipment with out of date patchlevels.
It's really strange, my sister's Ford Explorer's firestone tires didn't blow and flip the truck owner.
I guess exploding tires aren't a problem after all.
You are obviously an Apple-basher. The "white spots" were an undocumented feature that enhanced powerbook usability.
Exactly, having a "root" superuser who is not subject to any restrictions as far as file access and resource utilization is the ultimate level of security.
I'm happy that any system administrator can use "su" to assume my identity, and then use his root powers to cover his tracks.
You obviously don't understand the fact that Steve Jobs is a genius. I once witnessed Steve turn a barrel of rocks into gold bricks. The man is amazing.
OS X holes aren't problems, but opportunities for Mac users who "Think Different." to explore the creative possibilities of their Mac from a new, unique and artful perspective.
Apple is a corporation that cares about and nurtures the creative class of our society. "Security" is just another word for mindless oppression by the man.
Microsoft is just and evil corporation in it for the money, and they put holes in their software to sell more stuff!
If a bear shits in the woods, does it smell?
Apple apologists are the most amazing bunch of people that I have ever encountered.
When it was revealed the Apple sold a $300 super-walkman that needed a $100 exchange for a refurbished iPod & battery after a year, the Appleheads insisted that it was perfectly ok. Hell, AAA batteries would cost more!
Now the some bleating shit about security patches:
"Apple is not revealing exploits to protect us"
Would would your reaction be if Steve Ballmer got up and said "patches do not matter, we are withholding them for your protection"? It would be a vertitable orgy of Microsoft denunciations.
The argument "Well, the CIA used NeXT, so OSX is secure" holds no water either. The CIA used alot of Sun boxes from that era as well. Solaris 2.5/2.6 and SunOS were practically wide open from a security POV. If you stuck a gold disk Solaris 2.6 box on the internet, it would be rooted in minutes.
I hear Steve Jobs is going to ask you to drink the kool-aid! Get your cup ready!
Because Java is unreliable as hell. Most java apps gooble up system resources, particularly memory, and produce voluminous and useless logs, making troubleshooting incredibly difficult.
Secondary schools are more about behavior modification than education. If you compare the curriculum and social atmosphere of a typical public school with a typcial middle-class private school, that becomes readily apparent.
While serious students do come away with good public educations, they also need dedicated parents to back them up. I can think of a half dozen people that I know whose education suffered because their parents were unwilling or unable to fight the byzantine and irrational bureaucracy that exists in any district.
College is not a vocational school, although that many would argue that DeVry is a vocation school.
College is supposed to teach you how to think & learn... it's become a necessity since US secondary schools are so malfunctional. Your college classes should give you a base of knowledge about whatever you are studying, and the rest is up to you.
The reason that top schools like MIT are top schools is that they force their students to explore and learn new things. If you are a serious student, you can come away with a good education from almost any school.
Yes, and they learned the lessons from ISA (ie smaller competitors will kick IBM's rear) and came back to conquer the desktop with proprietary MicroChannel. Rember the PS/2?
Microsoft doesn't like getting beaten up twice.
In 1995 Microsoft was widely touted as a "non-political" company. The company wasn't a big political contributor and felt that it's software stood on it's merits.
Enter the Sun/Netscape/? lawsuits. Microsoft is now a huge campaign contributor, and wields the political club well.
MSFT got badly burned by bogus patent lawsuits. Using history as a guide, it is not difficult to see MSFT using patents as a club in the future.
Or to stay consistent with what you call a "sentence":
"All your base are belong to us"
It's just you.
Among the things that Micrsoft is patenting is XAML/Avalon, which is a Mozilla XUL-like interface for building Windows Forms and GUIs based on XML. It will eventually turn into Microsoft's proprietary, "extended" HTML.
Microsoft will hold patents in all sorts of key technology areas, making copycat or open APIs impossible to build. Even if the patents are weak, patent litigation is an insanely expensive process that open source developers cannot afford to take part in.
Oh no, of course not.
IBM is a guardian of open systems and the free exchange of ideas.
If IBM had its way, your PC would be a glorified 3270 emulator connecting to some AS/400 or Mainframe.
Are you on crack?
How are you going to "integrate" a terminal email client with a GUI calendar app?
Because RedHat is committing to keep the distribution stable.
Just about every other distribution changes so rapidly that you generally need to roll your own distro to use Linux on a large number of desktops, unless you have the time to do yearly reimages.
The quality is far superior on US TV.
I for one would rather watch "Crossfire" and "Who's gonna marry a midget" than Monty Python or BBC News.
Why would students take math?
Math causes more problems in public schools than it is worth. Students who do not grasp the concepts have their self esteem suffer and don't feel very good.
Personally, I believe that math and science courses should be reduced in schools. We could teach more tolerance classes and fire science teachers to buy laptops for kids.
Laptops can do the math that students can't. Anything that the laptop cannot do can be outsourced to India.
Depreciation isn't related to what you can or cannot buy. That's what cash flow is for.
For tax purposes, they have to depreciate the costs of their equipment across its useful life.
If you purchase a computer for $1,000 and depreciate it over four years, you can "write off" $250 per year.