Maybe Bill should come over and manage my inbox? Then when he's finished that he can organize the random collection of files that were dumped into a folder due to lack of time. Then, he can manage the dead-tree information which typically gets filed in a box whenever the desk is full.
One of the reasons I left my last company was because I received something like 150 messages a day, most were useless, broadcasts about things I didn't need, or things that should have been put elsewhere. I had a large number of auto-delete rules, and flagged mail based on colour (Apple mail is the only thing that saved me!), and at one point I stopped emptying my trash hoping I would get the attention of a sysadmin. Nobody noticed or even understood what I was talking about (you can just delete!). And, this is from a tech company.
IP's don't mean much. One of our ISP's offers DSL anywhere the phone company does, but they connect to the internet in only one city. Geolocation always gets the wrong place.
I'm wondering if there would somehow be a way to include the proper routing to 911 as part of of the DHCP packet, or if it could be handled at the router level somehow as a broadcast or something. It wouldn't work for static, but you should know what you're doing if you're statically assigning ip's.
How did you sign up/where did you give your address out? In our campaign I was very careful with our list, but another candidate wasn't (they didn't bcc: one time, giving us their entire email list).
It also heavily depends on the skill level of the organization, and if they actually have someone who knows the various tech issues. I've seen everything from web pages created in Frontpage (with major layout issues) to other computer problems. The campaign manager is often flooded with offers during a campaign and may not know about the bad ones, especially if nobody is around to stop it.
My complaint with MS is that there's no easy way to recover licensing information once it's installed. If you lose it, it's $200+ for a new one.
Nothing pisses off clients more than having to buy the same license over. As a result, I've been doing a number of openoffice installs. Does MS really want to give up the revenue stream as a result of anal licensing policies?
I don't even care about the actual numbers. Just tell me what keys to backup and import, or give me a tool to do it if you're paranoid. With product activation, the numbers don't even matter much anymore.
I get that now on my landline! Spam messages are left on my voicemail and I'm forced to ignore anyone with a "Private Name" call id.
Now they're even calling my cell phone (which I thought was illegal) with a recorded "You have won!". I really feel like invoicing them for the $0.25 in airtime charges, just to take on the overhead of paying a small invoice.
Standard practice when a box has been compromized is to wipe it all, since you never know what else is hiding. Removal tools only remove what's in their database.
I've tried to wipe spyware in safe mode, using MS AntiSpyware, Ad-Aware and Spybot and still couldn't remove some parts. That took me over an hour and it was still a waste.
Some forms of spyware now attack the kernel, which means that safe mode is no longer a reliable method to remove spyware.
My current cleanup strategy is one sweep using a Bart's PE live windows cd. If I still suspect that something is there, it's wipe time.
(another thing Apple got right: I can do an Archive & Install; which backs up the old system folders, installs a new one and keeps everything else intact, in under 30 minutes. A windows install almost always requires reinstalling every app and hunting down drivers)
Wasn't Microsoft turned down when they tried to trademark "Windows"? Apple couldn't trademark "System". Both products are now known as "Microsoft Windows" and "Mac OS"
Here's what I'm missing. Tiger Direct is suing Apple over a drop in search results. If the complaint is over search results, shouldn't they be going after Google?
Google has been known to change their PageRank algorithm from time to time. It could be entirely unrelated to Apple.
Are they planning to sue the zoos next for having a tiger exhibit featured on their web site?
If I was Apple, I'd be asking for the last few months of web server referrer logs.
During the 9.x days, another company tried to sue Apple as their product was called "OS-9".
Apple's response? Their product is "MacOS 9.0", not "OS" 9. (and IIRC, it was renamed MacOS as Apple couldn't trademark System)
I expect we'll see something similar here. People can call it tiger, but the full product name is "MacOS X 10.4 Tiger" (as it appears on all packaging). I would expect that Apple would have trademarked that a long time ago.
I wonder if Steve's "That's why we have backups" crash during MacWorld was staged, due to Microsoft's recent "Let's run the entire show on one box" crash.
In at least one case, I started moving a domain over early for exactly this reason. Somewhere along the line NetSol screwed up and denied the transfer (it's not like they have a history of this, right?). When I called them, the basic answer was "pay us for another year and you can move it then". Ignoring that I didn't want to pay them and I already had an open transfer with someone else. Go daddy had to credit back my transfer (however, not until I complained - so they could have billed me for a domain that didn't actually transfer)
Once I saw the probes I made my scary banner even scarier (If you have not been given explicit permission to continue here, disconnect immediately. If you continue, we'll report it to local authorities, etc). It's my box, not the probers. You have no business connecting to me!.
Of course, I eventually traced most probes back to china (where ISP's don't care... the great firewall is working backwards), and probably to automated probes. If it works, great there's a box to be rooted, if not no harm done.
So I did the next best thing. Close the ports to a small subset (hopefully I won't be caught from outside of there), lock sshd down to a specific set of users, increase auditing and the next phase is to put a little more intelligence behind the fw rules (login attempts to invalid accounts automatically ban your ip, for example. You attempt to nimda my apache server, you get banned, etc). Yes, I should have done much of that before (I did, but a bad rule slipped in somewhere), along with banning a whole bunch of asian netblocks. Since I can dynamically alter ip tables without reloading the ruleset, I might as well use the power I have with my firewall.
I've also taken steps to limit the damage a compromize could actually do. External services are on a separate box on a separate dmz, with all important data either backed up, or nfs mounted (exported read only). It's not perfect, but a lot better than many setups out there (including clients who have their main server talk to the outside!)
I remember setting my country to US to try out iTMS before it was available here. I got as far as entering a credit card, which failed because it did not have a US billing address.
Paypal won't work unless it somehow looks like a credit card. Apple doesn't take paypal.
"Don't use FTP-- the passwords are sent over the Public Internet in cleartext" are beyond many of these website maintainers.
I once needed to change a password for a client's web site (I stupidly saved it somewhere). The ISP had no method to change the password online, so I called them. Instead of changing it then, they wanted me to hang up and email the new password. Clear text. Bouncing around from smtp to smtp server.
That, and some other (clueless) issues has given me enough reason not to host with them again.
I received those for a while too (misconfigured my firewall), even with a big scary full-screen banner (private system, don't login without permission, we'll get the lawyers after you, etc.) Didn't help. My probes also used names rather than system accounts (bob, joe, patrick... as well as mysql, www...)
Since the places I can connect in from is fairly small (a few clients with static ip's, my cell phone and my shell isp), I adjusted my firewall rules to block ssh to everyone else.
I also renamed my account on that system so that it no longer resembles my name (ex_myname1), making it harder to guess what it actually is.
Maybe the ISP's need to split service into residential (filtered), advanced (wide open but still residential class) and business (open, static ip, etc). A simple stateful firewall would go a long way (require communication out before incoming packets are allowed in).
Of course, nothing prevents services from running on alternate ports, or even pinging boxes just to establish the return path. You can't block everything.
The USB cards all follow a common interface (OHCI). As long as the card follows it, it's worked from something like 8.5 and up.
As for memory bandwidth: yes the machine could be faster. The only reason I've upgraded the machine this far is that the parts have been extremely cheap. I'm only running 10.3 because my 10.2 discs stopped reading properly. And, it actually runs 10.3 better (no suprize given the speedups we usually get) What I'd be interested to see is if Apple is just saying that they're dropping support (ie: XPostFacto), or if in fact the OS won't run.
My main machine now is a tibook. I'm really only using the G3 because it's there. Most of the time it's a fancy firewire hard drive, but it's also nice to have a box to offload things to (like iTunes). I tend to be hard on my powerbook so whatever takes the load off helps. It's also there as a backup box when my powerbook goes down (during a 1 week period recently when my HD failed, for example). It's not fast, it doesn't handle many of my tasks, but at least it leaves me with something to use.
Steve is very against themes. I'm suprized the Appearance Manager even made it in. (Apple never released the themes, but they did leak out eventually).
Why? How hard is it to debug when nothing is where it should be?
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Maybe Bill should come over and manage my inbox? Then when he's finished that he can organize the random collection of files that were dumped into a folder due to lack of time. Then, he can manage the dead-tree information which typically gets filed in a box whenever the desk is full.
One of the reasons I left my last company was because I received something like 150 messages a day, most were useless, broadcasts about things I didn't need, or things that should have been put elsewhere. I had a large number of auto-delete rules, and flagged mail based on colour (Apple mail is the only thing that saved me!), and at one point I stopped emptying my trash hoping I would get the attention of a sysadmin. Nobody noticed or even understood what I was talking about (you can just delete!). And, this is from a tech company.
In my area, I've actually called the local police station for something non-urgent, and was told to call 911 instead.
In other cases, there is no non-emergency number. I can reach my police station, but not the fire or ambulance stations.
You're requiring people to know an exact address. Depending on the emergency, it may not always be possible
IP's don't mean much. One of our ISP's offers DSL anywhere the phone company does, but they connect to the internet in only one city. Geolocation always gets the wrong place.
I'm wondering if there would somehow be a way to include the proper routing to 911 as part of of the DHCP packet, or if it could be handled at the router level somehow as a broadcast or something. It wouldn't work for static, but you should know what you're doing if you're statically assigning ip's.
How did you sign up/where did you give your address out? In our campaign I was very careful with our list, but another candidate wasn't (they didn't bcc: one time, giving us their entire email list).
It also heavily depends on the skill level of the organization, and if they actually have someone who knows the various tech issues. I've seen everything from web pages created in Frontpage (with major layout issues) to other computer problems. The campaign manager is often flooded with offers during a campaign and may not know about the bad ones, especially if nobody is around to stop it.
I did my LPI 101 almost completely from memory - I found out about it that day, and I spent about 45 min looking at the study guide.
Doing this stuff for 5 years helps.
My complaint with MS is that there's no easy way to recover licensing information once it's installed. If you lose it, it's $200+ for a new one.
Nothing pisses off clients more than having to buy the same license over. As a result, I've been doing a number of openoffice installs. Does MS really want to give up the revenue stream as a result of anal licensing policies?
I don't even care about the actual numbers. Just tell me what keys to backup and import, or give me a tool to do it if you're paranoid. With product activation, the numbers don't even matter much anymore.
I get that now on my landline! Spam messages are left on my voicemail and I'm forced to ignore anyone with a "Private Name" call id.
Now they're even calling my cell phone (which I thought was illegal) with a recorded "You have won!". I really feel like invoicing them for the $0.25 in airtime charges, just to take on the overhead of paying a small invoice.
Standard practice when a box has been compromized is to wipe it all, since you never know what else is hiding. Removal tools only remove what's in their database.
I've tried to wipe spyware in safe mode, using MS AntiSpyware, Ad-Aware and Spybot and still couldn't remove some parts. That took me over an hour and it was still a waste.
Some forms of spyware now attack the kernel, which means that safe mode is no longer a reliable method to remove spyware.
My current cleanup strategy is one sweep using a Bart's PE live windows cd. If I still suspect that something is there, it's wipe time.
(another thing Apple got right: I can do an Archive & Install; which backs up the old system folders, installs a new one and keeps everything else intact, in under 30 minutes. A windows install almost always requires reinstalling every app and hunting down drivers)
thanks, couldn't remember the company name.
Wasn't Microsoft turned down when they tried to trademark "Windows"? Apple couldn't trademark "System". Both products are now known as "Microsoft Windows" and "Mac OS"
Here's what I'm missing. Tiger Direct is suing Apple over a drop in search results. If the complaint is over search results, shouldn't they be going after Google?
Google has been known to change their PageRank algorithm from time to time. It could be entirely unrelated to Apple.
Are they planning to sue the zoos next for having a tiger exhibit featured on their web site?
If I was Apple, I'd be asking for the last few months of web server referrer logs.
During the 9.x days, another company tried to sue Apple as their product was called "OS-9".
Apple's response? Their product is "MacOS 9.0", not "OS" 9.
(and IIRC, it was renamed MacOS as Apple couldn't trademark System)
I expect we'll see something similar here. People can call it tiger, but the full product name is "MacOS X 10.4 Tiger" (as it appears on all packaging). I would expect that Apple would have trademarked that a long time ago.
Along the same lines...
I wonder if Steve's "That's why we have backups" crash during MacWorld was staged, due to Microsoft's recent "Let's run the entire show on one box" crash.
Netsol... I love them as much as my cell carrier.
In at least one case, I started moving a domain over early for exactly this reason. Somewhere along the line NetSol screwed up and denied the transfer (it's not like they have a history of this, right?). When I called them, the basic answer was "pay us for another year and you can move it then". Ignoring that I didn't want to pay them and I already had an open transfer with someone else. Go daddy had to credit back my transfer (however, not until I complained - so they could have billed me for a domain that didn't actually transfer)
Completely agree with you.
Once I saw the probes I made my scary banner even scarier (If you have not been given explicit permission to continue here, disconnect immediately. If you continue, we'll report it to local authorities, etc). It's my box, not the probers. You have no business connecting to me!.
Of course, I eventually traced most probes back to china (where ISP's don't care... the great firewall is working backwards), and probably to automated probes. If it works, great there's a box to be rooted, if not no harm done.
So I did the next best thing. Close the ports to a small subset (hopefully I won't be caught from outside of there), lock sshd down to a specific set of users, increase auditing and the next phase is to put a little more intelligence behind the fw rules (login attempts to invalid accounts automatically ban your ip, for example. You attempt to nimda my apache server, you get banned, etc). Yes, I should have done much of that before (I did, but a bad rule slipped in somewhere), along with banning a whole bunch of asian netblocks. Since I can dynamically alter ip tables without reloading the ruleset, I might as well use the power I have with my firewall.
I've also taken steps to limit the damage a compromize could actually do. External services are on a separate box on a separate dmz, with all important data either backed up, or nfs mounted (exported read only). It's not perfect, but a lot better than many setups out there (including clients who have their main server talk to the outside!)
I remember setting my country to US to try out iTMS before it was available here. I got as far as entering a credit card, which failed because it did not have a US billing address.
Paypal won't work unless it somehow looks like a credit card. Apple doesn't take paypal.
"Don't use FTP-- the passwords are sent over the Public Internet in cleartext" are beyond many of these website maintainers.
I once needed to change a password for a client's web site (I stupidly saved it somewhere). The ISP had no method to change the password online, so I called them. Instead of changing it then, they wanted me to hang up and email the new password. Clear text. Bouncing around from smtp to smtp server.
That, and some other (clueless) issues has given me enough reason not to host with them again.
I received those for a while too (misconfigured my firewall), even with a big scary full-screen banner (private system, don't login without permission, we'll get the lawyers after you, etc.) Didn't help. My probes also used names rather than system accounts (bob, joe, patrick... as well as mysql, www...)
Since the places I can connect in from is fairly small (a few clients with static ip's, my cell phone and my shell isp), I adjusted my firewall rules to block ssh to everyone else.
I also renamed my account on that system so that it no longer resembles my name (ex_myname1), making it harder to guess what it actually is.
Maybe the ISP's need to split service into residential (filtered), advanced (wide open but still residential class) and business (open, static ip, etc). A simple stateful firewall would go a long way (require communication out before incoming packets are allowed in).
Of course, nothing prevents services from running on alternate ports, or even pinging boxes just to establish the return path. You can't block everything.
Apple never bought Filemaker. It's the leftovers of Claris, which Apple was unable to sell.
Don't give them any ideas :)
Already being done in Canada. CDs, audio tapes, video tapes, in fact just about any blank media.
Completely agree with you but...
The USB cards all follow a common interface (OHCI). As long as the card follows it, it's worked from something like 8.5 and up.
As for memory bandwidth: yes the machine could be faster. The only reason I've upgraded the machine this far is that the parts have been extremely cheap. I'm only running 10.3 because my 10.2 discs stopped reading properly. And, it actually runs 10.3 better (no suprize given the speedups we usually get) What I'd be interested to see is if Apple is just saying that they're dropping support (ie: XPostFacto), or if in fact the OS won't run.
My main machine now is a tibook. I'm really only using the G3 because it's there. Most of the time it's a fancy firewire hard drive, but it's also nice to have a box to offload things to (like iTunes). I tend to be hard on my powerbook so whatever takes the load off helps. It's also there as a backup box when my powerbook goes down (during a 1 week period recently when my HD failed, for example). It's not fast, it doesn't handle many of my tasks, but at least it leaves me with something to use.
Steve is very against themes. I'm suprized the Appearance Manager even made it in. (Apple never released the themes, but they did leak out eventually).
Why? How hard is it to debug when nothing is where it should be?