Ooops. Actually I like Opera. I think its really cool. What I was hitting on was how this person said they would accept "adware" if the software was priced very high. I never mentioned my opinion about Opera, which I really like.
Simple.. Opera standard version now costs $501. I suppose you meant if the software was WORTH more than the advertising, then you'd take the advertising. Often, though, in the industry, companies will pay (or reduce the price) to have companies favour certain brands (like Cisco, Microsoft, etc)..
Any IT Geek(tm) worth their salt will stay if you let them actually use their training. For most people in this industry, money is just as important as interest in what they are doing. I mean, look at all the people out there creating cool stuff and GIVING it away - simply because they are really curious and interested in what they are doing.
If, however, you train them to be "de facto Unix sysadmins," you had better let them use that knowledge on an ongoing basis and encourage them to do so.
Also, remember that you will need to increase their pay - they are now more skilled workers and are contributing to a higher success of the company. If they do more work for the same pay, I guarantee that some will leave for that reason alone. You don't have to raise their pay right away, but as soon as they begin to use their new skills you had better be ready to give them some kind of incentive.
Anyway, whenever you train someone, there is more than just the cost of teaching them - there is the ongoing cost of having more skilled workers.
I know what it said, but it sounds stupid to tax anything on what it is and not what it costs. What I think I was saying was that if something costs $1.50, then you should be taxed on $1.50.
Besides, you are taxed if you BUY a distribution from a STORE. Here in Ontario Canada, if you bought Linux in a store, you would be charged 7% PST and 8% GST. But it's FREE software...
In a store, though, you are not buying that Linux distro. You are buying the packaging, the medium, the service of bringing it to the store and to you, the clerk earning minimum wage that sneeres that you as you walk out of the store, and a lot of other tangable things. Again, the SOFTWARE is free, the retail packaging is not.
It would be widely unfair if, for instance, they imposed a tax simply for running software. That is silly and will never happen.
Think people. Fuck, it's like the whole world is having this massive brain drain. Another person posted, already, that when shipping their Linux CD's they over-value on the shipping label and some countries duties will add upwards of $50 onto the price... but you ARE paying for shipping.
Slackware 7.1 cost me $5.00. $2.00 for the blank CD, and roughly $3.00 in ISP connection fees. ALL of that was taxed and paid in full. So no matter HOW you get the software, you WILL be taxed for it. But you did get a service (your ISP) or a product (the CD) from someone which the government, in our world, has a right to tax.
They are called LOGS. Duh! When someone selects their vote, the ballot is logged and the data recorded in the primary database. When the election is over, you count the tallies from the primary Database. If someone demands a recount, say if the results were really close, you could go through the logs to check for consistancy. I bet 99% of the time the logs would concur with the db results, but you still have the option of "double-checking" the results.
I think python said it the best (re:
Philosophers that is)
Immanuel Kant was a real piss-ant who was very rarely stable. Heideggar, Heideggar was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out-consume Schoppenhauer and Hegel. And Whittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel.
There's nothing Nieizsche couldn't teach 'ya 'bout the raising of the wrist. Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed.
John Stewart Mill, of his own free will On half a pint of shanty was particularly ill. Plato they say could stick it away, Half a crate of whiskey every day.
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle, And Hobbes was fond of his dram. And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart. 'I drink, therefore I am.'
Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed; A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed.
The author is correct in that there is a lot of duplication and not a lot of resources to exploit... err.. take advantage of... err... I'll let MS's spin-doctors take care of that one..
Anyhow, we _need_ more companies like (*ugh*) RedHat who are willing to hire programmers to work on projects and release the results to the community. The benefits are two-fold: the community gets programmer resources and a company gets a product to sell (and wareZ0r ala RedHat).
Besides, whats wrong with being proud of Linux? I mean, it's come out of pratically nothing to be widely supported, talked about, developed upon, and most importantly - used.
Linux is more than a toy... it represents a way of life.
I remember hearing something a long time ago about LD co's called "It doesn't matter" or "Whatever Company" to scam you when the operator asks you which LD company you want to use - a LOT of people would answer "It doesn't matter" or "Whatever" and get charged out the a$$.
Canadian Alliance? Nope, Stockwell gives me the shivers. I liked Preston (Refooooooooooorm Party!) but Stockwell has that weird look in his eyes...
I love that word refooooo[...]oooooooorm..;-)..
Besides, you gotta like having a leader who'll take the time to punch out a whiny protestor.:)
We need a leader who will personally beat the crap out of anyone he doesn't like. Not like the US with their sex-crazed leaders, we have a leader who isn't afraid to throw the punches when they are necessary;).
I'm still waiting for a leader that will crush those teachers who think that the system should work for them (and not the other way around). Though I suppose I have to wait for another provincial erectio... election...;)
Vote for the most poopular (:-)) leader in the country..;)
Simple.. whomever you send your fixes to would probably take credit. "Look sir.. I fixed that BSOD problem... we should have checked that string for a termination BEFORE sending it into the function."
Why do people think its a Microsoft conspiracy to destroy Linux? Sure, that's something Gates or Ballmer have inked in their to-do lists, but it would be extremly bad timing to attack Linux now. Think about their appeal, which is still in court. It lingers on the fact that Microsoft has "competition" in the form of alternate OSs. By destroying the competition with lawsuits now, they tell the Government that Microsoft should have been broken up 5 years ago (when they first tried).
There's no evidence that the unauthorized intruder gained access to source code for our major products," said Microsoft spokesman Ricardo Adame
The hacker in this case has probably seen some developmental material which would be useless to most OSS endevours (since they have their own bleeding edge stuff). In fact, using the Microsoft code (no matter what you think of it) would be fundamentially detrimental: Windows and Linux are completly different in their underlying structure and operation. While they deliver simelar protocols and goals, they implement them in completly different ways (I'll leave it to someone else to argue which is better).
I think illustrating the basic differences between Windows and <insert-oss-os-here> would show that any stolen code would need massaging from an experienced programmer - one that probably could have come up with the code herself - without pilfering it from Microsoft.
Besides, once Microsoft finds out where the source is on the net, they will be extra quick to file huge lawsuits against whomever is involved in posting it. I will subscribe to your theory if Microsoft does not do this;).
The Germans are stealing our code! Oh No! Bill Gates __IS__ the final antichrist that was predicted. Judgement Day is at hand. We're all gonna die at the hands of Model 101 cyborgs from Cyberdyne Systems. The world is coming to an end.
Several people have reported over IRC that someone going by the nick "BigBG" hacked into ftp.kernel.org and STOLE the source code to LINUX. It turns out that the kernel.org servers were configured in such a way that "BigBG" could exploit the known Anonymous/Email user-account. It is unknown how long this BigBG has had access to the Linux source code, nor is it known what code this person could have introduced into the Linux kernel. Linux sys-admins are encouraged to check their systems for a mysterious kernal entry that may cause your computer to emit a so-called "Blue Screen of Death" upon a segmentation fault. Linus Torvalds was not bothered for comment.
A person calls and complains that their E-Mail isn't working. Your call board show all the mail servers as fully operational and working. The first thing you do (and these documents agree with this) is check if the mail server is up by connecting to it yourself. If that works then it is very likely a problem on the constomer end. You proceed to figure out what the real problem is and (hopefully) fix it.
This is really REALLY silly people.
These documents seem damming only to those people who do not understand how technical support people are trained to think. We do NOT think of customers as stupid morons who should never have even thought of owning a personal computer, rather we have to deal with vague descriptions of non-problems. Worse yet is the lack of good technical support personnel in the field and add to that the fact that there is SO much to know that one can NOT know everything (though clients often think that one tech support person should know it all). The senior technical people will write out procedure guides which step through EVERY POSSIBLE problem in the MOST EFFECIENT way of fixing the problem. Eg. It is faster to have the client check their network connection by trying to access a webpage or loading up winipcfg than seeing if the DHCP server is not responding on their subnet. Knowing if they have an IP or not, one can quickly eliminate various problems and think of what is really causing the problem.
Then there are the pseudo-techs that call in. These people don't know their ass from the security hole in their file-share, yet claim to be some r33t h4x0r. These are the people that give technical support people migrains and early retirement. I can help people who know what they are doing and I can help people who don't know what they are doing. I can not help those who think they know what they are doing but, really, don't.
These documents, to me, are simply guidelines that tehnical support people can use to step through various problems. When I look at something like this I don't read it top-to-bottom, I scan it for what the customer is having problems with. Having it in a certain order lets me remember where certain things are so that I can get to them when I need to.
As for this idoit losing his account, well.. tough luck. He didn't like the service and @home did the right thing - they gave him what he asked for. This guy had ABSOLUTLY no right to post confidential material to the internet - basically exposing the internal policies of a company to the world.
In my mind these are not bad policies.
You may disagree. I doubt many technical support people would though.
(I do not work for @home, but I do provide internet related technical support).
You need to invest in good locks (there are specific ones made for laptops) and learn how to use them properly. Wherever there is sensetive material or potential access to sensetive material, you need to have security cameras and a security service that is available 24/7. People are designing computer systems to run 24/7, but often forget to ensure that the security is available for the same time frame.
Do background checks on employees - inside jobs are killer.
In the end, be sure you don't leave things laying around.. get a shredder.. and never give something to someone unless they need it for their job.
Whatver tho.. if security is your problem, deal with it.
if I found a 512M DIMM lying on the street -- and 448M still works -- I'm not gonna complain!!
I just seems like a recepie for disaster. And if Murphy has anything to say about it, the memory will completly fail just as you finish that 100% windows compatable OS (and forgot to save as you went) and it will be all lost to that great processing cycle in the sky.
Hey, if you don't mind putting low-quality, defective or damaged parts in your computer, be my guest. I'd rather run be stable than wondering how long until my computer craps out (granted that this could happen for many OTHER reasons, but I don't need another reason).
I can't see it being recommended to buisnesses or even consumers. Hackers... maybe that's the niche you'd be looking for.
By Hackers I mean - people who push their computer systems beyond specification for the simple pleasure of being able to do it.
Buisnesses want reliability - no buisness will buy "damaged" or "defective" parts. You might swindle them by calling them "refurbished", but thats streching it.
Consumers want something to "surf the internet" or to send pictures to grandma. They don't want the hassle of replaing their RAM every 4 months because the lower-quality memory gives out too much.
Hackers... well.. we're a weird bunch... Most will find the idea interesting.. maybe set a system up to see how kewl it looks, but... nah.
There is no performance hit; the pages are marked bad and not used, not continuously tested. It's the same as marking a chunk of memory as invalid (causing a page fault on access) but never marking it valid again since it's never swapped back in my the vmm. I'm not well versed enough to know if memory with bad sections will get progressively worse but everything else you've mentioned is silliness.
Uhh.. Another kernel level module won't cause any problems? Uh huh. It has to "mark" these bad memory sectors somewhere - I'll need to look at the thing to be more informed on HOW it marks these sectors - probably in memory. I don't think that it is unreasonable to assume that this module is not as great as some are making it out to be.
Why?
another potentially buggy kernel module
memory is used to record the bad locations
speed drops because the program has to wait a few cycles to determine if it can use an area of ram or not.
Also, wouldn't an entire page of memory be whiped out - not just one bit? I haven't looked at what these guys have done, but I wouldn't be suprised if entire 64KB pages are affected if only one bit in that page is gone.
As I said before, I think it's really cool what they have been able to do. There may be some niche areas for this program to be useful. It is not, however, a good thing (IMO) to be buying bad memory just to save a buck.
Say that current-day RAM modules would cost $100. These are the 100% correct modules, all others are wasted. By selling a decent subset of the wasted ones for a profit of, say, $20 each, a new audience is addressed, namely the one that thinks $100 is a lot (mostly home users). The professional market has the tendency to go for high-quality materials, and they will continue to be willing to pay $100 per module.
Okay, so you car dealer marks down the car 80% because ONE of the pistons doesn't work right. However, the rest work fine and he installed a thing-a-ma-bob to make the engine ignore that piston.. ummm..
What kind of warranties will the end user get for the memory? what kind of performance is eaten by this program? does the memory run up to spec? will it still work in 2 months?
There could be a niche market for "used" memory sticks, but "damaged" or "defective" may not sell all too well...
I agree, however, that this does seem like a cool way to resurect older systems into useful appliances (print servers, routers/gateways, etc).
I hear an AC in the distance, calling out... WORK.
I agree that it _sounds_ like invasion, but you have to remember that you, the network, the computers, etc, are all assets of the company. The company has a right to know how its assets are being used and has the right to control how those assets are used. A reasonable manager may allow some non-work related activites (helps to reduce stress, makes people happier, etc) but they have the absolute right to know whats going on with their property.
If you don't want your manager reading your e-mail, talk with him/her first. If you aren't happy with the result - work elsewhere and don't bitch about your loss of privacy.
PEOPLE, afaik this is not the government coming into your home for information or allowing them to peruse your personal e-mail. It simply lets buisnesses control what goes on at work.
Now, on to the encryption thing. I don't agree that you should be forced to divulge encryption keys for any reason except if you are using buisness resources. If you send an e-mail over the compnay network (when you should be working), I believe that the company has an absolute right to know what the contents of that message were. If, however, you are at home and sending encrypted messages to friends or whatever, you should not have to reveal the keys to that stuff (regardless of the subject of the messages).
I'll be honest here: I would *love* subnets with more IPs. The people who built our network put in more network drops (for mobile computers) than IPs were available on particular subnets. The way the network is wired (each subnet having it's own 'gateway' to the rest of the network) if too many mobile users connect at once some are left out because there aren't enough IPs available. This happened on the desktop subnets too, and I think our network guys have sorted it all out (eg. re-allocate the subnets to ensure that there is an IP available for each drop).
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<i>Also, the powers that be recently carved out a huge chunk of address space for 6to4, so that every IPv4 address can have a/48.
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That makes sense...
DNS issues...Currently, I can type 192.168.1.100 to get to a machine if the DNS is down... what happens with IPv6? 123.456.789.111.123.456.789.0? Actually, I'll shut my ignorant mouth and go RTFM. I've wanted to learn some more about IP anyway...;)
I haven't been keeping up on IPv6 since it's a long time comming, but I am curious about a few things that maybe the astute/. crowd could answer:
1) I hear IPv6 implements security (packet level encryption?) for end-users, but what about tracing origins over the network? Its hard enough with current 32bit addresses, will it be more or less dificult to trace a 128bit source (possibly even if it gets filtered from those 6-4 routers)?
2) It seems to me that the internet community went through the address space of ipv4 rather quickly due to gross mismanagement - people were given huge blocks of IPs to connect their 5 user LAN... back THEN they didn't believe that we would use up the whole address space... and now... well.. As the article suggests - we could do the same thing by giving IPs for useless reasons. Will there be some sort of control to the assignment of IP addresses? I think they should be treated as if we were running out.
3) How long will this be? I mean, would it be a good idea to start preparing big systems for a change, or wait and see how the technology developes (eg. is this tech really comming?)
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Simply put: Backups are for wussies. Everything I need is available on the Internet on multiple servers - thats backup enough for me ;P.
;)
Ooops. Actually I like Opera. I think its really cool. What I was hitting on was how this person said they would accept "adware" if the software was priced very high. I never mentioned my opinion about Opera, which I really like.
;-)
So there
Simple.. Opera standard version now costs $501. I suppose you meant if the software was WORTH more than the advertising, then you'd take the advertising. Often, though, in the industry, companies will pay (or reduce the price) to have companies favour certain brands (like Cisco, Microsoft, etc)..
Bleh.
Any IT Geek(tm) worth their salt will stay if you let them actually use their training. For most people in this industry, money is just as important as interest in what they are doing. I mean, look at all the people out there creating cool stuff and GIVING it away - simply because they are really curious and interested in what they are doing.
If, however, you train them to be "de facto Unix sysadmins," you had better let them use that knowledge on an ongoing basis and encourage them to do so.
Also, remember that you will need to increase their pay - they are now more skilled workers and are contributing to a higher success of the company. If they do more work for the same pay, I guarantee that some will leave for that reason alone. You don't have to raise their pay right away, but as soon as they begin to use their new skills you had better be ready to give them some kind of incentive.
Anyway, whenever you train someone, there is more than just the cost of teaching them - there is the ongoing cost of having more skilled workers.
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I know what it said, but it sounds stupid to tax anything on what it is and not what it costs. What I think I was saying was that if something costs $1.50, then you should be taxed on $1.50.
Maybe define a retail value of Linux as $0.00?
I dunno.. But I did read (for the record).
What's 100% of NOTHING. ;-)
;)
Besides, you are taxed if you BUY a distribution from a STORE. Here in Ontario Canada, if you bought Linux in a store, you would be charged 7% PST and 8% GST. But it's FREE software...
In a store, though, you are not buying that Linux distro. You are buying the packaging, the medium, the service of bringing it to the store and to you, the clerk earning minimum wage that sneeres that you as you walk out of the store, and a lot of other tangable things. Again, the SOFTWARE is free, the retail packaging is not.
It would be widely unfair if, for instance, they imposed a tax simply for running software. That is silly and will never happen.
Think people. Fuck, it's like the whole world is having this massive brain drain. Another person posted, already, that when shipping their Linux CD's they over-value on the shipping label and some countries duties will add upwards of $50 onto the price... but you ARE paying for shipping.
Slackware 7.1 cost me $5.00. $2.00 for the blank CD, and roughly $3.00 in ISP connection fees. ALL of that was taxed and paid in full. So no matter HOW you get the software, you WILL be taxed for it. But you did get a service (your ISP) or a product (the CD) from someone which the government, in our world, has a right to tax.
Bye now
They are called LOGS. Duh! When someone selects their vote, the ballot is logged and the data recorded in the primary database. When the election is over, you count the tallies from the primary Database. If someone demands a recount, say if the results were really close, you could go through the logs to check for consistancy. I bet 99% of the time the logs would concur with the db results, but you still have the option of "double-checking" the results.
:-)
Okay, nuff said.
The author is correct in that there is a lot of duplication and not a lot of resources to exploit... err.. take advantage of... err... I'll let MS's spin-doctors take care of that one..
Anyhow, we _need_ more companies like (*ugh*) RedHat who are willing to hire programmers to work on projects and release the results to the community. The benefits are two-fold: the community gets programmer resources and a company gets a product to sell (and wareZ0r ala RedHat).
Besides, whats wrong with being proud of Linux? I mean, it's come out of pratically nothing to be widely supported, talked about, developed upon, and most importantly - used.
Linux is more than a toy... it represents a way of life.
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I remember hearing something a long time ago about LD co's called "It doesn't matter" or "Whatever Company" to scam you when the operator asks you which LD company you want to use - a LOT of people would answer "It doesn't matter" or "Whatever" and get charged out the a$$.
It was on 60 minutes (a long time ago) I believe.
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I love that word refooooo[...]oooooooorm.. ;-)..
We need a leader who will personally beat the crap out of anyone he doesn't like. Not like the US with their sex-crazed leaders, we have a leader who isn't afraid to throw the punches when they are necessary ;).
I'm still waiting for a leader that will crush those teachers who think that the system should work for them (and not the other way around). Though I suppose I have to wait for another provincial erectio... election... ;)
Vote for the most poopular (:-)) leader in the country.. ;)
Simple.. whomever you send your fixes to would probably take credit. "Look sir.. I fixed that BSOD problem... we should have checked that string for a termination BEFORE sending it into the function."
;)
whatever.
Why do people think its a Microsoft conspiracy to destroy Linux? Sure, that's something Gates or Ballmer have inked in their to-do lists, but it would be extremly bad timing to attack Linux now. Think about their appeal, which is still in court. It lingers on the fact that Microsoft has "competition" in the form of alternate OSs. By destroying the competition with lawsuits now, they tell the Government that Microsoft should have been broken up 5 years ago (when they first tried).
The hacker in this case has probably seen some developmental material which would be useless to most OSS endevours (since they have their own bleeding edge stuff). In fact, using the Microsoft code (no matter what you think of it) would be fundamentially detrimental: Windows and Linux are completly different in their underlying structure and operation. While they deliver simelar protocols and goals, they implement them in completly different ways (I'll leave it to someone else to argue which is better).
I think illustrating the basic differences between Windows and <insert-oss-os-here> would show that any stolen code would need massaging from an experienced programmer - one that probably could have come up with the code herself - without pilfering it from Microsoft.
Besides, once Microsoft finds out where the source is on the net, they will be extra quick to file huge lawsuits against whomever is involved in posting it. I will subscribe to your theory if Microsoft does not do this ;).
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The Germans are stealing our code! Oh No! Bill Gates __IS__ the final antichrist that was predicted. Judgement Day is at hand. We're all gonna die at the hands of Model 101 cyborgs from Cyberdyne Systems. The world is coming to an end.
Or not.
:)
Whoever did this is prolly still laughing on their floor, rolling around in a heap of giggles. It ain't gonna be hard to hide ;).
Cop: Did you break into Microsoft?
Hax0r: *giggle* uhh.. *giggle* no.
Cop: We have logs that claim you did.
Hax0r: Alright.. *giggle* you got me *giggle*.
Cop: Whats so funny?
Hax0r: How do you break into something that isn't protected?
:P
Several people have reported over IRC that someone going by the nick "BigBG" hacked into ftp.kernel.org and STOLE the source code to LINUX. It turns out that the kernel.org servers were configured in such a way that "BigBG" could exploit the known Anonymous/Email user-account. It is unknown how long this BigBG has had access to the Linux source code, nor is it known what code this person could have introduced into the Linux kernel. Linux sys-admins are encouraged to check their systems for a mysterious kernal entry that may cause your computer to emit a so-called "Blue Screen of Death" upon a segmentation fault. Linus Torvalds was not bothered for comment.
;)
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A person calls and complains that their E-Mail isn't working. Your call board show all the mail servers as fully operational and working. The first thing you do (and these documents agree with this) is check if the mail server is up by connecting to it yourself. If that works then it is very likely a problem on the constomer end. You proceed to figure out what the real problem is and (hopefully) fix it.
This is really REALLY silly people.
These documents seem damming only to those people who do not understand how technical support people are trained to think. We do NOT think of customers as stupid morons who should never have even thought of owning a personal computer, rather we have to deal with vague descriptions of non-problems. Worse yet is the lack of good technical support personnel in the field and add to that the fact that there is SO much to know that one can NOT know everything (though clients often think that one tech support person should know it all). The senior technical people will write out procedure guides which step through EVERY POSSIBLE problem in the MOST EFFECIENT way of fixing the problem. Eg. It is faster to have the client check their network connection by trying to access a webpage or loading up winipcfg than seeing if the DHCP server is not responding on their subnet. Knowing if they have an IP or not, one can quickly eliminate various problems and think of what is really causing the problem.
Then there are the pseudo-techs that call in. These people don't know their ass from the security hole in their file-share, yet claim to be some r33t h4x0r. These are the people that give technical support people migrains and early retirement. I can help people who know what they are doing and I can help people who don't know what they are doing. I can not help those who think they know what they are doing but, really, don't.
These documents, to me, are simply guidelines that tehnical support people can use to step through various problems. When I look at something like this I don't read it top-to-bottom, I scan it for what the customer is having problems with. Having it in a certain order lets me remember where certain things are so that I can get to them when I need to.
As for this idoit losing his account, well.. tough luck. He didn't like the service and @home did the right thing - they gave him what he asked for. This guy had ABSOLUTLY no right to post confidential material to the internet - basically exposing the internal policies of a company to the world.
In my mind these are not bad policies.
You may disagree. I doubt many technical support people would though.
(I do not work for @home, but I do provide internet related technical support).
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You need to invest in good locks (there are specific ones made for laptops) and learn how to use them properly. Wherever there is sensetive material or potential access to sensetive material, you need to have security cameras and a security service that is available 24/7. People are designing computer systems to run 24/7, but often forget to ensure that the security is available for the same time frame.
Do background checks on employees - inside jobs are killer.
In the end, be sure you don't leave things laying around.. get a shredder.. and never give something to someone unless they need it for their job.
Whatver tho.. if security is your problem, deal with it.
I just seems like a recepie for disaster. And if Murphy has anything to say about it, the memory will completly fail just as you finish that 100% windows compatable OS (and forgot to save as you went) and it will be all lost to that great processing cycle in the sky.
Hey, if you don't mind putting low-quality, defective or damaged parts in your computer, be my guest. I'd rather run be stable than wondering how long until my computer craps out (granted that this could happen for many OTHER reasons, but I don't need another reason).
I can't see it being recommended to buisnesses or even consumers. Hackers... maybe that's the niche you'd be looking for. By Hackers I mean - people who push their computer systems beyond specification for the simple pleasure of being able to do it.
Buisnesses want reliability - no buisness will buy "damaged" or "defective" parts. You might swindle them by calling them "refurbished", but thats streching it.
Consumers want something to "surf the internet" or to send pictures to grandma. They don't want the hassle of replaing their RAM every 4 months because the lower-quality memory gives out too much.
Hackers... well.. we're a weird bunch... Most will find the idea interesting.. maybe set a system up to see how kewl it looks, but... nah.
Whatever..
Why?
Also, wouldn't an entire page of memory be whiped out - not just one bit? I haven't looked at what these guys have done, but I wouldn't be suprised if entire 64KB pages are affected if only one bit in that page is gone.
As I said before, I think it's really cool what they have been able to do. There may be some niche areas for this program to be useful. It is not, however, a good thing (IMO) to be buying bad memory just to save a buck.
Thats just my opinion tho...
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Okay, so you car dealer marks down the car 80% because ONE of the pistons doesn't work right. However, the rest work fine and he installed a thing-a-ma-bob to make the engine ignore that piston.. ummm..
What kind of warranties will the end user get for the memory? what kind of performance is eaten by this program? does the memory run up to spec? will it still work in 2 months?
There could be a niche market for "used" memory sticks, but "damaged" or "defective" may not sell all too well...
I agree, however, that this does seem like a cool way to resurect older systems into useful appliances (print servers, routers/gateways, etc).
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You go to work to do what?
I hear an AC in the distance, calling out... WORK.
I agree that it _sounds_ like invasion, but you have to remember that you, the network, the computers, etc, are all assets of the company. The company has a right to know how its assets are being used and has the right to control how those assets are used. A reasonable manager may allow some non-work related activites (helps to reduce stress, makes people happier, etc) but they have the absolute right to know whats going on with their property.
If you don't want your manager reading your e-mail, talk with him/her first. If you aren't happy with the result - work elsewhere and don't bitch about your loss of privacy.
PEOPLE, afaik this is not the government coming into your home for information or allowing them to peruse your personal e-mail. It simply lets buisnesses control what goes on at work.
Now, on to the encryption thing. I don't agree that you should be forced to divulge encryption keys for any reason except if you are using buisness resources. If you send an e-mail over the compnay network (when you should be working), I believe that the company has an absolute right to know what the contents of that message were. If, however, you are at home and sending encrypted messages to friends or whatever, you should not have to reveal the keys to that stuff (regardless of the subject of the messages).
Just my $0.03 ($0.02+tax)
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I'll be honest here: I would *love* subnets with more IPs. The people who built our network put in more network drops (for mobile computers) than IPs were available on particular subnets. The way the network is wired (each subnet having it's own 'gateway' to the rest of the network) if too many mobile users connect at once some are left out because there aren't enough IPs available. This happened on the desktop subnets too, and I think our network guys have sorted it all out (eg. re-allocate the subnets to ensure that there is an IP available for each drop).
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That makes sense...
DNS issues...Currently, I can type 192.168.1.100 to get to a machine if the DNS is down... what happens with IPv6? 123.456.789.111.123.456.789.0? Actually, I'll shut my ignorant mouth and go RTFM. I've wanted to learn some more about IP anyway...
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Have you thought about patenting that idea?
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sounds like a good one
I haven't been keeping up on IPv6 since it's a long time comming, but I am curious about a few things that maybe the astute /. crowd could answer:
1) I hear IPv6 implements security (packet level encryption?) for end-users, but what about tracing origins over the network? Its hard enough with current 32bit addresses, will it be more or less dificult to trace a 128bit source (possibly even if it gets filtered from those 6-4 routers)?
2) It seems to me that the internet community went through the address space of ipv4 rather quickly due to gross mismanagement - people were given huge blocks of IPs to connect their 5 user LAN... back THEN they didn't believe that we would use up the whole address space... and now... well.. As the article suggests - we could do the same thing by giving IPs for useless reasons. Will there be some sort of control to the assignment of IP addresses? I think they should be treated as if we were running out.
3) How long will this be? I mean, would it be a good idea to start preparing big systems for a change, or wait and see how the technology developes (eg. is this tech really comming?)
Oh well.. l8r.
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