You can't help that the laptop of rich daddy princess isn't up to date.
That's one host you can't control, but you've got (to some degree) control of the rest of the hosts on your network. If they're not protected from an old vulnerability, that's your fault. If you are in a position where Paris Hilton's T-mobile can bring down your network, you're not doing your job.
You put firewalls between your machines and the dorms. You NAT off the dorms. You kill connections to infected machines. Putting up a sign that says "the computers are down" isn't proactive.
You are just elitist;)
You say elitist, I say battle scarred . I had to patch 150+ machines one at a time since our remote campus wasn't allowed to "set up servers". And I had to patch those machines in 8 inchs of snow! Up Hill! Upload and Download! and I liked it!
The patch for sasser's vulnerability was up two weeks before the worm hit. If you're not going to be thorough and proactive in defense of your systems, you're going to get nailed.
"but...but...Microsoft's evil patch might possibly break something somewhere at some point!!!!"
Tough. If it breaks, you're there to fix it. Lose X amount of time / work fixing something that Microsoft's patch broke, or lose Y time / work trying to clean up from a worm that you know nothing about.
Patches can be rolled back. Very easily rolled back at that. You test, you roll out, you fix it if it breaks. Yes, the kid who wrote sasser is a nasty little shit that made a lot of work for a lot of people. But it didn't have to.
Pakistan isn't exactly known for having hospitable terrain. Or being well developed in outlying areas. Packets can route around "damage" only if there's actually a route there to use. The infrastructure just isn't there. Hell, according to the factbook, 40% of the "highways" aren't paved. I'd wager that high speed data lines aren't exactly a high priority.
As for links through China...the Chinese don't seem to like having their own citizens using their links to the net, let alone another country. And there's the little problem of trying to run a landline through the same mountain range that K2 calls home.
It's nice that you can cram every single package under the sun onto a DVD, but does it really make "knoppix" any better? I mean, the review basically says "OMG Packages! I can run teh Gnome & Firefox, then KDE and Konq! This makes knoppix awesome!!!
I'm more interested in what the 4.0 "mini" release.
More like one of those instants where your brain, while processing the signals you've just sent to your appendages, says to itself:
Fuck. This guy's an idiot.
I've done stupid things with electricty. Similar things. Not once, but twice, I've touched both metal ends of a Flourescent light tube while the light was on. Once while a box cutter was in my hand, touching the metal end of one of the lights. Not me showing off being an idiot, just having one of those beautiful moments where Darwin should have taken over. My hands got moving faster than my mind could slow them down.
This guy was probably up on a cherry picker. His weight shifted, a gust of wind came along, etc and as he started to fall his insticts yelled:
GRAB SOMETHING!
meanwhile his mind, not really paying attention sees what's happening and says:
Nono don't grab th.....nevermind.
Yeah, the guy probably screwed up somewhere down the line but Shit will invariably, consistently, and always, Happen.
-Nagaskaki was a deliberate strike. The aircraft lifted off with three targets, Nagasaki was second. They didn't just go picking a city at random.
-The bombs weren't aimed by radar. They were aimed by hand. The detonator that caused the air burst was a primative radar device. The bomb was on target.
-Nagasaki was a secondary target because of it's hilly terrain. the terrain cut down on some of the civilian casuaulties, since it contained most of the blast.
-The US Army Air Force supressed a lot of information. The Air Force still does this when testing new weapons.
Look at the first use of the F-117's in Panama as an example. Their bombs were horribly off target, but were reported initially as being dead on.
Not that the search for extra terrestrial life isn't a worthy cause, but there's a better reason for picocells on airplanes.
Please, correct me if I'm wrong. When you make a connection to a cell phone tower, you'll connect to the closest towers. Usually this is only two or three. While you're on an airplane though, you tend to pick up many more (several dozen?) towers, and connect to all of them. You're also moving through a coverage area faster, taking up a whole swath of towers.
I know, boo hoo, they're using up the poor phone companies resources. But I'd rather not have to wait for a passing 747 to get out of range before I can make a call.
It makes more sense to have the plane be its own cell phone tower, and route the calls out through it and not taking up channels on normal cell phone towers. Oh yeah, and it'd be nice to cut out some of the interference.
Then again, I could be completely talking out of my ass. Hopefully someone in the know will come along and smite me or expend on this though/
Does your 16-year old have his very own, unmonitored by you, credit card / debit card? Last time I checked, not many internet retailers took cash. The supreme court knocked down rules that prohibited interstate commerce. yay supreme court
Besides your kid should have to sit around in front of a quik-e-mart and ask passersby to buy for him like the rest of us god fearing americans! Back in my day we didn't have the internet! we had creepy guys, older brothers, and bums with state ID's! and we had to have them buy is cheap wine in the snow, uphill, both ways! AND WE LIKED IT!
If all you've got is control of the DHCP server, your hands are pretty tied. I would suggest setting up fixed leases and BOFH'ing students into submission. Kill the lease of infected machines, then bring 'em back once the infected system is clean. You don't have to be a dick about it, just bring the system back on at your leasure. Of course, you've got class all day and an exam tomorrow, oh and you're going home for the weekend...
Make it clear in polite, simple terms what the users responsabilities are, what will happen if they don't keep their system clean, and why you have to take the action you do. Maybe put together a standard "so you fucked up your system and got kicked off the network" sheet. Educate as much as possible. Yes it feels like you're talking to a wall. But the users will either evolve (get sick of being off the net) or die (find other ways of getting their computering needs met.)
Some people have suggested Microsoft SUS. You need to be able to apply a group policy, or make registry changes on the remote machine. Since you're not inchage of the domain controller, this is a moot point. Also, SUS only works on XP and 2000, so it may not help all users.
Have UPS, FEDEX, or DHL placed orders for 787's yet?
UPS and FEDEX have already ordered A380's. I'm assuming that DHL, a subsidiary of the German national postal service, has as well. Big hub is perfect for freight distribution. Once it's out the door, I dont think scarebus cares what you use their planes for.
The A380's engines are remarkably fuel efficient, to quote their PR machine:
According to Airbus, the A380 has about a 13 percent lower fuel burn than the 747 and is the first long-haul aircraft to consume less than 3 liters of fuel per passenger over 100 km
OpenOffice gives you the option to save as.pdf. With Microsft Word, you cannot save as.pdf, and you can only export a document to.pdf if you have purchased the full version of adobe Acrobat. Granted, the.pdf you create with open office may be a bit wonky, it'll still be a pdf.
Open Office has one thing going for it. Everything that doesn't work now, usually works in the next release. Converting word docs to.pdf's sucked in 1.1.3. The forms looked horrible. Updated to 1.1.4, and everything becomes magically delicious.
My resume (created and tweaked to hell and back under word) looked terrible under OO.o 1.1.3. And not just from a content stand point. The tables were completely butchered. Upgraded to 1.1.4, and everything looks fine.
The 1.1.x series still doesn't quite strike me as ready for prime time luser land just yet, but once 2.0 goes gold, I'm going to give it a strong look for the non-profit that I work for.
The amount you spent on your computer is probably more than the yearly income of a person from one of the companies you mention. How "nessicary" would your computer seem to a person from one of these countries.
Values are relative. And it's spelled "embarrassment"
Sit down and read "Skunk Works" by Ben Rich. he details trying to deal with the Navy on a couple aircraft design projects while heaidng the skunk works at lockheed, and his work on the stealth ship program. The Navy will overburden you with silly, expensive, useless crap. (The stealth ship, for example, had to have a paint locker built in. A ship that would never, ever be painted again. But all navy ships had one, so by God the stealth ship needed one too...)
Bottom line (from the book anyway): the Navy is an insular community of officious, small minded, power hungry folks who value a project on two things: How many men will I command, and how much does it cost? Bigger, high budget projects obviously mean better projects.
Doing things cheaper, better, faster, and more efficiently doesn't seem to be the Navy way. I'd like to be wrong, but i seriously doubt I will be. The Navy was born to use NT 4.0.
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You can't help that the laptop of rich daddy princess isn't up to date.
;)
That's one host you can't control, but you've got (to some degree) control of the rest of the hosts on your network. If they're not protected from an old vulnerability, that's your fault. If you are in a position where Paris Hilton's T-mobile can bring down your network, you're not doing your job.
You put firewalls between your machines and the dorms. You NAT off the dorms. You kill connections to infected machines. Putting up a sign that says "the computers are down" isn't proactive.
You are just elitist
You say elitist, I say battle scarred . I had to patch 150+ machines one at a time since our remote campus wasn't allowed to "set up servers". And I had to patch those machines in 8 inchs of snow! Up Hill! Upload and Download! and I liked it!
Brassafrackin whippersnappers.
Don't you mean "Clean up after *your* mess" ?
The patch for sasser's vulnerability was up two weeks before the worm hit. If you're not going to be thorough and proactive in defense of your systems, you're going to get nailed.
"but...but...Microsoft's evil patch might possibly break something somewhere at some point!!!!"
Tough. If it breaks, you're there to fix it. Lose X amount of time / work fixing something that Microsoft's patch broke, or lose Y time / work trying to clean up from a worm that you know nothing about.
Patches can be rolled back. Very easily rolled back at that. You test, you roll out, you fix it if it breaks. Yes, the kid who wrote sasser is a nasty little shit that made a lot of work for a lot of people. But it didn't have to.
"It is easy to be a bad sysadmin"
You can get robbed in a little as three minutes in Downtown Detroit if you walk around counting large stacks of cash.
The internet is not a nice place. Evolve or die.
You try running a land line through here
Pakistan isn't exactly known for having hospitable terrain. Or being well developed in outlying areas. Packets can route around "damage" only if there's actually a route there to use. The infrastructure just isn't there. Hell, according to the factbook, 40% of the "highways" aren't paved. I'd wager that high speed data lines aren't exactly a high priority.
As for links through China...the Chinese don't seem to like having their own citizens using their links to the net, let alone another country. And there's the little problem of trying to run a landline through the same mountain range that K2 calls home.
Yep.
Roughly half an hour delivery time, but they can't guarentee it'll get to the correct address. Kinda like Domino's.
As for pickup? Just look for the flash, then follow the sirens. Some of your order should still be in the area.
It's nice that you can cram every single package under the sun onto a DVD, but does it really make "knoppix" any better? I mean, the review basically says "OMG Packages! I can run teh Gnome & Firefox, then KDE and Konq! This makes knoppix awesome!!!
I'm more interested in what the 4.0 "mini" release.
Ok, So it's not a "world wide" google image
The Old Site of the Yankee Air Museum
1 Point for every aircraft you ID that's not the B-52.
Answers from the Yankee Air Museum static display page
Yeah, I know that page is straight outta 1995. We've had other stuff to fix lately....
More like one of those instants where your brain, while processing the signals you've just sent to your appendages, says to itself:
Fuck. This guy's an idiot.
I've done stupid things with electricty. Similar things. Not once, but twice, I've touched both metal ends of a Flourescent light tube while the light was on. Once while a box cutter was in my hand, touching the metal end of one of the lights. Not me showing off being an idiot, just having one of those beautiful moments where Darwin should have taken over. My hands got moving faster than my mind could slow them down.
This guy was probably up on a cherry picker. His weight shifted, a gust of wind came along, etc and as he started to fall his insticts yelled:
GRAB SOMETHING!
meanwhile his mind, not really paying attention sees what's happening and says:
Nono don't grab th.....nevermind.
Yeah, the guy probably screwed up somewhere down the line but Shit will invariably, consistently, and always, Happen.
-Nagaskaki was a deliberate strike. The aircraft lifted off with three targets, Nagasaki was second. They didn't just go picking a city at random.
-The bombs weren't aimed by radar. They were aimed by hand. The detonator that caused the air burst was a primative radar device. The bomb was on target.
-Nagasaki was a secondary target because of it's hilly terrain. the terrain cut down on some of the civilian casuaulties, since it contained most of the blast.
-The US Army Air Force supressed a lot of information. The Air Force still does this when testing new weapons.
Look at the first use of the F-117's in Panama as an example. Their bombs were horribly off target, but were reported initially as being dead on.
Thanks. I was hoping for someone to drop a little knowledge
Not that the search for extra terrestrial life isn't a worthy cause, but there's a better reason for picocells on airplanes.
Please, correct me if I'm wrong. When you make a connection to a cell phone tower, you'll connect to the closest towers. Usually this is only two or three. While you're on an airplane though, you tend to pick up many more (several dozen?) towers, and connect to all of them. You're also moving through a coverage area faster, taking up a whole swath of towers.
I know, boo hoo, they're using up the poor phone companies resources. But I'd rather not have to wait for a passing 747 to get out of range before I can make a call.
It makes more sense to have the plane be its own cell phone tower, and route the calls out through it and not taking up channels on normal cell phone towers. Oh yeah, and it'd be nice to cut out some of the interference.
Then again, I could be completely talking out of my ass. Hopefully someone in the know will come along and smite me or expend on this though/
Bram's site is bitconjuror.org
Does your 16-year old have his very own, unmonitored by you, credit card / debit card? Last time I checked, not many internet retailers took cash. The supreme court knocked down rules that prohibited interstate commerce. yay supreme court
Besides your kid should have to sit around in front of a quik-e-mart and ask passersby to buy for him like the rest of us god fearing americans! Back in my day we didn't have the internet! we had creepy guys, older brothers, and bums with state ID's! and we had to have them buy is cheap wine in the snow, uphill, both ways! AND WE LIKED IT!
your sarcasm filter is broken.
Ya know, this one time, Bill Gates said 640k should be enough memory for anyone. I bet I'm the only person who remembers that.
from the my-password-is-hunter2 dept.
If all you've got is control of the DHCP server, your hands are pretty tied. I would suggest setting up fixed leases and BOFH'ing students into submission. Kill the lease of infected machines, then bring 'em back once the infected system is clean. You don't have to be a dick about it, just bring the system back on at your leasure. Of course, you've got class all day and an exam tomorrow, oh and you're going home for the weekend...
Make it clear in polite, simple terms what the users responsabilities are, what will happen if they don't keep their system clean, and why you have to take the action you do. Maybe put together a standard "so you fucked up your system and got kicked off the network" sheet. Educate as much as possible. Yes it feels like you're talking to a wall. But the users will either evolve (get sick of being off the net) or die (find other ways of getting their computering needs met.)
Some people have suggested Microsoft SUS. You need to be able to apply a group policy, or make registry changes on the remote machine. Since you're not inchage of the domain controller, this is a moot point. Also, SUS only works on XP and 2000, so it may not help all users.
Interesting. Lufthansa is there, but DHL isn't.
Have UPS, FEDEX, or DHL placed orders for 787's yet?
UPS and FEDEX have already ordered A380's. I'm assuming that DHL, a subsidiary of the German national postal service, has as well. Big hub is perfect for freight distribution. Once it's out the door, I dont think scarebus cares what you use their planes for.
The A380's engines are remarkably fuel efficient, to quote their PR machine :
According to Airbus, the A380 has about a 13 percent lower fuel burn than the 747 and is the first long-haul aircraft to consume less than 3 liters of fuel per passenger over 100 km
OpenOffice gives you the option to save as .pdf. With Microsft Word, you cannot save as .pdf, and you can only export a document to .pdf if you have purchased the full version of adobe Acrobat. Granted, the .pdf you create with open office may be a bit wonky, it'll still be a pdf.
.pdf's sucked in 1.1.3. The forms looked horrible. Updated to 1.1.4, and everything becomes magically delicious.
Open Office has one thing going for it. Everything that doesn't work now, usually works in the next release. Converting word docs to
My resume (created and tweaked to hell and back under word) looked terrible under OO.o 1.1.3. And not just from a content stand point. The tables were completely butchered. Upgraded to 1.1.4, and everything looks fine.
The 1.1.x series still doesn't quite strike me as ready for prime time luser land just yet, but once 2.0 goes gold, I'm going to give it a strong look for the non-profit that I work for.
The amount you spent on your computer is probably more than the yearly income of a person from one of the companies you mention. How "nessicary" would your computer seem to a person from one of these countries.
Values are relative. And it's spelled "embarrassment"
If it's really that good, it wouldn't be on Fox.
Good God, this may be the most depressing thing I've ever read.
You should read more.
Sit down and read "Skunk Works" by Ben Rich. he details trying to deal with the Navy on a couple aircraft design projects while heaidng the skunk works at lockheed, and his work on the stealth ship program. The Navy will overburden you with silly, expensive, useless crap. (The stealth ship, for example, had to have a paint locker built in. A ship that would never, ever be painted again. But all navy ships had one, so by God the stealth ship needed one too...)
Bottom line (from the book anyway): the Navy is an insular community of officious, small minded, power hungry folks who value a project on two things: How many men will I command, and how much does it cost? Bigger, high budget projects obviously mean better projects.
Doing things cheaper, better, faster, and more efficiently doesn't seem to be the Navy way. I'd like to be wrong, but i seriously doubt I will be. The Navy was born to use NT 4.0.