When estimating the amount of time required for few of it's consultants to complete a set of tasks, estimated that 6000 hours would be required. (at $200/hour)
I agree with you completely. But one of the hazards of making yourself accessible (by posting accurate contact information) is that people will misuse your information.
My dad was a reasonably well-known public official in a mid-sized city. Our telephone number and address remained listed in the telephone book throughout his career. In that time we received alot of prank calls and even a few threats (particularly when something controversial was going on or during a contract negotiation).
There were good work-related calls too though -- workers or just citizens with problems or information would call for him once in awhile too.
To my dad, those good calls and just the principle of keeping himself accessible & accountible was worth wading through the shit. (My mom didn't agree with him most of the time, as you can imagine)
If you want the convenience of replies to public postings, you need to put up with the spam. Unless we come up with a technical solution to the spam menace.
He was the original project manager for the Ford Mustang project and responsible for the turnaround of Chrysler and the acquisition of Jeep/Eagle from AMC before it floundered.
You are making the same, tired arguments that have been made for decades.
Utilities should be tightly regulated or even owned by the government. Why? Profit-motivated corporations cannot be trusted to provide essential services to the public at a reasonable rate.
The road system and water&sewer systems are a great example of a public utilities that work.
In the northeast, de-regulation of electric and gas service has resulted in delivery & supply rate increases of 80% over the last 10-15 years. Instead of competing, suppliers withhold electricity and gas to keep prices high.
government contractors use this trick all the time to gouge government agencies.
in many cases it is actually not illegal.
if I offer you $500 to tie my shoes and you accept my offer, there is nothing illegal about that. if I offer you $500 so that I can have my shoes tied, bill it to the company expense account, and demand a kickback, then that is illegal.
I think I read the same article in PC magazine in 1985.
I have never registered a shareware program in my life. If some fool is going to give me something for free, and then expect me to pay $30 to remove some annoyance window, god bless them.
Shareware really existed because compilers are expensive and people wanted to recoup the costs of purchasing expensive development software. Now that free compilers and development environments are available, I think shareware is obsolete.
But then again, I suppose there is always a market for one-off utilities and WinZip.
Ah, I did not realize that more terminals actually translated into more mainframe power requirements.
I do recall people at work talking about the oddball terminal types that each system used. I'm currently working a large IT shop in a big state agency, so they have pretty had every system out there since they need to buy lowest bidder stuff.
Were the terminal specs an open specification, or did they need to be reverse-engineered by system programmers?
VNC isn't the application that would be affected here. VNC is basically a free version of PC Anywhere.
The application in trouble here is rdesktop, which allows you to connect a Windows Terminal Server or MetaFrame server over the RDP protocol.
MSFT doesn't want you to run MS apps on a server without owning a MSFT product. A CAL costs like $30, while a windows xp pro license is like 200.
I bet this sort of licensing restriction is illegal. I'm sure that IBM and Unisys had similar lines in their EULA's 20 years ago with mainframe systems to force companies to purchase expensive green screen terminals. Today people routinely connect with IBM 3270 emulators without any legal hassles.
The court security experts have an built in incentive to push whatever it is that they are pimping, because it keeps them employed. I have dealt with 'security' groups at my employers who seem to universally specialize pushing paranoia to management and holding the sysadmins and system programmers who enforce security practices hostage in tedious policy meetings.
I would estimate that 95% of successful hacking attempts are either internal compromises or moderately-skilled users using pre-programmed exploits.
Security through obscurity, combined with good user policies and applications is quite effective. You cannot hack what you don't know about.
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your admins are running W2k in NT4 compatability mode.
Unfortunately, the IT Dep't/Gestapo here runs everything in native W2k mode.
Fortunately, the network engineers and ldap folks have conspired to put up an iplanet proxy which works with everything.
When estimating the amount of time required for few of it's consultants to complete a set of tasks, estimated that 6000 hours would be required. (at $200/hour)
One small problem.
My boss and I completed the tasks in three days.
I agree with you completely. But one of the hazards of making yourself accessible (by posting accurate contact information) is that people will misuse your information.
My dad was a reasonably well-known public official in a mid-sized city. Our telephone number and address remained listed in the telephone book throughout his career. In that time we received alot of prank calls and even a few threats (particularly when something controversial was going on or during a contract negotiation).
There were good work-related calls too though -- workers or just citizens with problems or information would call for him once in awhile too.
To my dad, those good calls and just the principle of keeping himself accessible & accountible was worth wading through the shit. (My mom didn't agree with him most of the time, as you can imagine)
If you want the convenience of replies to public postings, you need to put up with the spam. Unless we come up with a technical solution to the spam menace.
1. Never sign up for a pr0n site.
2. Do not post your primary address to a public forum.
3. Don't piss people off.
If you are getting 40 spams a day, you are doing something stupid.
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He was the original project manager for the Ford Mustang project and responsible for the turnaround of Chrysler and the acquisition of Jeep/Eagle from AMC before it floundered.
Try recylcing an on-topic +5 comment in the same story. If you time it right, you'll get modded up every time.
I believe the USPS has not been funded by tax money since 1979.
The US Mint, US Bureau of Engraving and Printing and a few other Federal agencies also operate solely on the fees that they generate.
You are making the same, tired arguments that have been made for decades.
Utilities should be tightly regulated or even owned by the government. Why? Profit-motivated corporations cannot be trusted to provide essential services to the public at a reasonable rate.
The road system and water&sewer systems are a great example of a public utilities that work.
In the northeast, de-regulation of electric and gas service has resulted in delivery & supply rate increases of 80% over the last 10-15 years. Instead of competing, suppliers withhold electricity and gas to keep prices high.
government contractors use this trick all the time to gouge government agencies.
in many cases it is actually not illegal.
if I offer you $500 to tie my shoes and you accept my offer, there is nothing illegal about that. if I offer you $500 so that I can have my shoes tied, bill it to the company expense account, and demand a kickback, then that is illegal.
The italics provider a backdoor for anyone who wishes to withhold the source.
"for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution"
Let's say that I only distribute via CD-ROM. If I pay a subcontractor $500 to reproduce the source code onto a cd-rom, then my cost is $500.
No, not really. Since Windows 2000, TCALs are included with the base OS license.
c al _guide/termserv.asp
To connect a Windows 2000/XP pc to a terminal server, you need to purchase a CAL.
To connect a Windows 2000/XP to a MetaFrame server, you need to purchase a CAL and a Citrix License.
To connect a Windows 95/NT4 box to a Terminal server, you need a CAL and a TCAL.
More info here:
http://www.microsoft.com/PIRACY/samguide/tools/
I think I read the same article in PC magazine in 1985.
I have never registered a shareware program in my life. If some fool is going to give me something for free, and then expect me to pay $30 to remove some annoyance window, god bless them.
Shareware really existed because compilers are expensive and people wanted to recoup the costs of purchasing expensive development software. Now that free compilers and development environments are available, I think shareware is obsolete.
But then again, I suppose there is always a market for one-off utilities and WinZip.
Ah, I did not realize that more terminals actually translated into more mainframe power requirements.
I do recall people at work talking about the oddball terminal types that each system used. I'm currently working a large IT shop in a big state agency, so they have pretty had every system out there since they need to buy lowest bidder stuff.
Were the terminal specs an open specification, or did they need to be reverse-engineered by system programmers?
VNC isn't the application that would be affected here. VNC is basically a free version of PC Anywhere.
The application in trouble here is rdesktop, which allows you to connect a Windows Terminal Server or MetaFrame server over the RDP protocol.
MSFT doesn't want you to run MS apps on a server without owning a MSFT product. A CAL costs like $30, while a windows xp pro license is like 200.
I bet this sort of licensing restriction is illegal. I'm sure that IBM and Unisys had similar lines in their EULA's 20 years ago with mainframe systems to force companies to purchase expensive green screen terminals. Today people routinely connect with IBM 3270 emulators without any legal hassles.
Go to www.kornshell.com and download the source and compile. The Korn shell will then function as a drop-in replacement for cmd.exe.
There are also dozens of commercial Unix shells, including TCSH available in native NT binary form.
If you are in an old building, make sure that the floors can safely support the weight of alot of computers.
When you initally layout the room, pack everything as tightly as possible. You'll be happy you made that decision 5 years from now.
Be careful with roof-mounted air conditioners. They have a habit of spewing ice cold water all over the place when they have a problem.
Offset the racks far enough away from the wall so that you have enough room to work. Make sure that some dope doesn't push them back on you.
Look man, OGG is a great, but it came 4-5 years too late.
Beta was superior to VHS for videotaping. Guess what? Most people these days have never heard of Beta.
MP3's have mindshare and name recognition. MP3=Pirated_Music to the general public. This will remain so, in spite of the existance of WMV and OGG.
Find someone who uses OGG and they'll make it.
Thanks for your correction -- after copying those files over everything worked just peachy.
The automatic installer did not work properly, though, and hasn't for for several people that I work with.
Mozilla 0.9.7 - 0.9.9 are broken in that the Java plugin does not work for them at all, at least in Windows 2000 and XP
You can download the java plugin manually and run it or run it from the automatic plugin finder -- it just doesn't work.
This is a showstopper bug that has been around for months.
The court security experts have an built in incentive to push whatever it is that they are pimping, because it keeps them employed. I have dealt with 'security' groups at my employers who seem to universally specialize pushing paranoia to management and holding the sysadmins and system programmers who enforce security practices hostage in tedious policy meetings.
I would estimate that 95% of successful hacking attempts are either internal compromises or moderately-skilled users using pre-programmed exploits.
Security through obscurity, combined with good user policies and applications is quite effective. You cannot hack what you don't know about.
Try using a digitizer. Sony makes them.
You have one year for most purposes.
If the employee gave loki permission to do this however, they don't have a chance.
Perl
Python
C/C++ (with gcc)
This may be the first time that a General Manager has accomplished anything!