I disagree.. the dot com problem was that they didn't care about the next quarter at all and their entire buisness plans were based on having large amounts of investor money.
The problem with that is many of them failed to even consider how to make money. Comany values were based on page views and number of customers without ever considering how to make money from either one of those.
The only people who made profits duiring that were the hardware vendors(cisco, sun etc) and the people making money off of their stupidity by selling ad space such as doubbleclick and netzero.
Uhh No changing this would cause problems for those who actually USE this information.
There is nothing to say you need to put clues to your gender into the domain info. Put in a fake name if you want.. use your work email address.. use a PO BOX and a pager as long as you can be contacted without too much trouble it's all good.
Anyone who thinks this info needs to be removed from the public needs to have their head examined.
Your right they don't and the result can be down right hillarious.
Two years ago after the whole WTC thing some idiot had a pro terrorist website he was spamming on ICQ from his university's computer lab.. imagine my supprise when I discovered it was his real name and address in his info...
He was supprised too when he got busted and the University called the police. When be brought the website back up a year later all of his info was set to garbage. Guess he didn't know we could all read that.
If it bothers you then get a postoffice box and a pager.
That information needs to be valid in case someone needs to contact the admin in a hurry.
Nothing has been more of a pain in the past when trying to deal with infected/rooted servers and trying to find the admin via the domain owner only to find out the contact info is invalid.
Makes me have to go to the isp(the slow route) rather than either getting the box owner or the box owner.
Mind you that doesn't apply as much if the domain is simply hosted on a sever somewhere and your not the admin.
Actually Links has serious "we will cache it whether it is dynamic content or not because it's faster" problems that turned out to be showstopper for me.
The author said something about doing it on purpose to prevent sites from marking their content as dynamic to raise their hit count.
THe danger with that approach is that you risk no one actually thinking the polcies out.
Case in point: At my last workplace a project manager overruled me and demanded I put something in an ftp account with a username and password because "anonymous ftp is insecure. and should never be enabled on a sever"
So he instead embedded the username and password intot the binary and left the executables in that account writable by that account...
Not saying IBM has those moments but it's something to keep in mind.
That had better be soon the Opteron has already outsold the Itanium during the last quarter. Mind you that says more about Itanium's popularity than it does the Opteron's.
According the the artical they aren't even looking.. . has anyone else noticed that the "incest" and "underage" labelled files have exactly the same sha value as other files?
I noticed that one night on GAIM. It's a lot of what is labelled as child porn is just idiots putting their stuff up under any name they can imagine to get you to download.
Most of them are either unscrupulous porn site operators(the same ones who think putting a 35 year old in a cheerleader outfit makes her look like a teen) or viruses.
I wouldn't even want to think about the beurocratic process needed to schelule maintinance on machine used to monitor safety systems on a nucular power plant.
Also none of this is new. ~10 years ago there were stories on how people were installing pirated games on power planet computers. And ~5 years ago they found drug parephenalia inside the restricted areas of a power plant in Ontario. Ohh yeah and lets not forget 3 mile island.. what was that? someone forgot to open a valve?
The power grid has been at the hands of the incompetant for years.
That's funny.. last time there were security vulns I read about them on 3 different news sites and I didn't have to do a thing because my system updated itself.
It is the distro's job to make sure you are protected when a new exploit is discovered just as it's Microsoft's job when the problem is in windows. Also, if you think anyone accepts accountability for the problem in windows land you may want to read through the EULA again because it sure isn't MS.
Linux distros get bashed just as much over this and some of us actually avoid the distros with overly bad security records.
You also need to keep in mind that there is less downtime involved when upgrading Linux systems. My Linux servers are all fully upgraded but have not been shutdown in months. Window? 4 patches 3 reboots.. yuck
I had a CEO that did that once.. whever was on his mind at the moment needed to be done "by friday". One week he was overly obnoxious about it and put 6 projects in my lap all due by the end of the week. I was pissed but I put in the hours needed and got em all done. At the end of the week I handed him the resulting time sheet. He flipped out but I listed off everything he ordered me to do so he had no option but to pay me for twice the normal working hours(and overtime). After that he backed off and never did that to me again.
They may not understand your time but they will when you put a dollar amount on it.
It's bad enough with workstations but throw servers into the mix and often even 2 different MS sales reps can't agree on how many licenses you need.
Also even if you have everything correct, a single employee can shut down your company for the time it takes to do an audit(days.. possibly weeks) by calling the BSA and reporting you. I've seen it used as a good way to screw over compeditors too.. the tip line has an anonymous option. What's the TCO of an audit?
It's become even worse now that MS has been using the threat of an audit as a means of selling more licenses.
At the time Microsoft had just been lost it's court round and been declared in violation of US antitrust laws and while MS got almost no penalty the ruling opened the way for everyone damage in the past to sue them. SCO won that round because MS was drowning in lawsuits and jumped at the chance to settle to free up lawyers to handle much more expensive problems.
Had they gone up against an undistracted MS they surely would have lost.
" Just because you have an mcse doesn't mean you are an admin, I think it means that you are less than an admin. If you call Dell support (like the original post) and are a unix admin and have been for over 10 years, they treat you like an idiot. I know from a lot of experience with Dell and their support."
Right but how do they know you have been an admin for 10 years? You think they trust you to tell them? and even if you do your still at first level tech and that person probably doesn't know anything more than the script And aren't qualified to determine what you know.
Several of the large computer makers use Stream Inc for their tech support. You don't even need copmputer experiance for first level support. Just the ability to read will do fine.
I run into that problem a lot with support departments.. keep in mind most system admin jobs can be had with a 2 week crash course in MCSE.
I've had to walk "qualified system admins" step by step through reboots.
And of course that person will think they know all and tell me how expert they are.
The real problem is that clued in users are a minority when it comes to tech support callers so the entire system has ended up being designed by them.
It is the job of first level tech support to weed out the idiots and pass those with real problems on to second level. Your goal is not to get the first level to fix the problem it is to convince him or her that the problem is not one that can be fixed by the scripts.
This is often why some companies will give you the second level number directly if they know you actually have a clue ensuring that you only need to go through that pain once.
In short: dob't blame it on the support techs.. it sucks for them more than it does you.
It has less to do with the computers's lack of abillity to react to changing information than it does with ISPS changing the IPs inside of the DHCP lease time.
The reason you see this more often with cable modems is that DSL providers tend to use PPPoe instead of DHCP to provision ips.
I just had an outage this week where there hold message involved exactly that fix and all that was really needed for linux was a "ifdown eth0; ifup eth0"
In windows that would have been a simple matter of running "winipcfg" and clicking the "renew" button.
Same deal with the routers.. http://ip.of.router and click "renew".
DHCP will work regardless of whether there is traffic on the line. The real reason they feed people such bogus instructions is that they don't want to have to explain the whole process to people who probably wouldn't even the basics of any of that. A reboot will involve a DHCP renew on startup so it all just works.
You would have been better to refer the user to somoene who can locally provide help.
I get these housecalls quite often and since I'm at the computer I can A: fix the problem and B: show them how to do things. I don't mind helping even the most cluless user locally.. but over the phone it *sucks*.
When modems connect the calling side stays silent and the *answering* side screetches. It's only fax machines that beep at you from the calling side.
That means the police would get a silent line and yes they will show up at your house for that.
Ohh and windows will add auto add a one like that I've seen it do exactly that. It happens if the auto prefix option is enabled and it will use it if it's emabled, it knows your area code and the number being dialed has another area code. OTH I think it detects the case where youve already put a 1 there.
In Canada that would be a fairly expensive mistake you can be fined for needlessly calling 911.
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I disagree.. the dot com problem was that they didn't care about the next quarter at all and their entire buisness plans were based on having large amounts of investor money.
The problem with that is many of them failed to even consider how to make money. Comany values were based on page views and number of customers without ever considering how to make money from either one of those.
The only people who made profits duiring that were the hardware vendors(cisco, sun etc) and the people making money off of their stupidity by selling ad space such as doubbleclick and netzero.
No I get it.. I administrate quite a few domains.
Yeah.. I get spam on my contact info.. but I get a lot more from people finding my domains and emailing all possible addresse.
Do I disconnect abuse and postmaster too? Or do I go install spamassassin to catch most of it.
Spamassasin works btw... it filters over a hundered junk mails a day leaving only 4 or 5 for me to deal with.
Works for me correctly and I have both mine and the emails of several customers all set to my email address.
Uhh No changing this would cause problems for those who actually USE this information.
There is nothing to say you need to put clues to your gender into the domain info. Put in a fake name if you want.. use your work email address.. use a PO BOX and a pager as long as you can be contacted without too much trouble it's all good.
Anyone who thinks this info needs to be removed from the public needs to have their head examined.
Your right they don't and the result can be down right hillarious.
Two years ago after the whole WTC thing some idiot had a pro terrorist website he was spamming on ICQ from his university's computer lab.. imagine my supprise when I discovered it was his real name and address in his info...
He was supprised too when he got busted and the University called the police. When be brought the website back up a year later all of his info was set to garbage. Guess he didn't know we could all read that.
I've seen it happen with snail mail. A client of mine showed me a "bill" from the domain registry of Canada demanding she renew her domain with them.
Thankfully she asked me first before paying it and was quite relieved to know it was a scam.
If it bothers you then get a postoffice box and a pager.
That information needs to be valid in case someone needs to contact the admin in a hurry.
Nothing has been more of a pain in the past when trying to deal with infected/rooted servers and trying to find the admin via the domain owner only to find out the contact info is invalid.
Makes me have to go to the isp(the slow route) rather than either getting the box owner or the box owner.
Mind you that doesn't apply as much if the domain is simply hosted on a sever somewhere and your not the admin.
I've used BSD/OS in the past and I can tell you it's one solid OS with excellent SMP support.
It's a pity but maybe now they will be nice and donate the code the freebsd project like the previous managment said they would.
OTH hand it is wind river so probably not. I can dream though...
Actually Links has serious "we will cache it whether it is dynamic content or not because it's faster" problems that turned out to be showstopper for me.
The author said something about doing it on purpose to prevent sites from marking their content as dynamic to raise their hit count.
THe danger with that approach is that you risk no one actually thinking the polcies out.
Case in point: At my last workplace a project manager overruled me and demanded I put something in an ftp account with a username and password because "anonymous ftp is insecure. and should never be enabled on a sever"
So he instead embedded the username and password intot the binary and left the executables in that account writable by that account...
Not saying IBM has those moments but it's something to keep in mind.
That had better be soon the Opteron has already outsold the Itanium during the last quarter. Mind you that says more about Itanium's popularity than it does the Opteron's.
"And just what is the kiddie porn doing on the internet anyway? I'm sure you agree that it must be eradicated."
I agree completely.. unfortunatly most of it is off in countries that either don't have laws against it or don't bother enforcing them.
"why not put them outside strip clubs"
They do that here in Montreal.. only they do it in picture form in case you can't read.
err .. not gaim.. gnutella
According the the artical they aren't even looking.. . has anyone else noticed that the "incest" and "underage" labelled files have exactly the same sha value as other files?
I noticed that one night on GAIM. It's a lot of what is labelled as child porn is just idiots putting their stuff up under any name they can imagine to get you to download.
Most of them are either unscrupulous porn site operators(the same ones who think putting a 35 year old in a cheerleader outfit makes her look like a teen) or viruses.
I wouldn't even want to think about the beurocratic process needed to schelule maintinance on machine used to monitor safety systems on a nucular power plant.
Also none of this is new. ~10 years ago there were stories on how people were installing pirated games on power planet computers. And ~5 years ago they found drug parephenalia inside the restricted areas of a power plant in Ontario. Ohh yeah and lets not forget 3 mile island.. what was that? someone forgot to open a valve?
The power grid has been at the hands of the incompetant for years.
That's funny.. last time there were security vulns I read about them on 3 different news sites and I didn't have to do a thing because my system updated itself.
It is the distro's job to make sure you are protected when a new exploit is discovered just as it's Microsoft's job when the problem is in windows. Also, if you think anyone accepts accountability for the problem in windows land you may want to read through the EULA again because it sure isn't MS.
Linux distros get bashed just as much over this and some of us actually avoid the distros with overly bad security records.
You also need to keep in mind that there is less downtime involved when upgrading Linux systems. My Linux servers are all fully upgraded but have not been shutdown in months. Window? 4 patches 3 reboots.. yuck
I had a CEO that did that once.. whever was on his mind at the moment needed to be done "by friday". One week he was overly obnoxious about it and put 6 projects in my lap all due by the end of the week. I was pissed but I put in the hours needed and got em all done. At the end of the week I handed him the resulting time sheet. He flipped out but I listed off everything he ordered me to do so he had no option but to pay me for twice the normal working hours(and overtime). After that he backed off and never did that to me again.
They may not understand your time but they will when you put a dollar amount on it.
It's bad enough with workstations but throw servers into the mix and often even 2 different MS sales reps can't agree on how many licenses you need.
.. possibly weeks) by calling the BSA and reporting you. I've seen it used as a good way to screw over compeditors too.. the tip line has an anonymous option. What's the TCO of an audit?
Also even if you have everything correct, a single employee can shut down your company for the time it takes to do an audit(days
It's become even worse now that MS has been using the threat of an audit as a means of selling more licenses.
At the time Microsoft had just been lost it's court round and been declared in violation of US antitrust laws and while MS got almost no penalty the ruling opened the way for everyone damage in the past to sue them. SCO won that round because MS was drowning in lawsuits and jumped at the chance to settle to free up lawyers to handle much more expensive problems.
Had they gone up against an undistracted MS they surely would have lost.
" Just because you have an mcse doesn't mean you are an admin, I think it means that you are less than an admin. If you call Dell support (like the original post) and are a unix admin and have been for over 10 years, they treat you like an idiot. I know from a lot of experience with Dell and their support."
Right but how do they know you have been an admin for 10 years? You think they trust you to tell them? and even if you do your still at first level tech and that person probably doesn't know anything more than the script And aren't qualified to determine what you know.
Several of the large computer makers use Stream Inc for their tech support. You don't even need copmputer experiance for first level support. Just the ability to read will do fine.
I run into that problem a lot with support departments.. keep in mind most system admin jobs can be had with a 2 week crash course in MCSE.
I've had to walk "qualified system admins" step by step through reboots.
And of course that person will think they know all and tell me how expert they are.
The real problem is that clued in users are a minority when it comes to tech support callers so the entire system has ended up being designed by them.
It is the job of first level tech support to weed out the idiots and pass those with real problems on to second level. Your goal is not to get the first level to fix the problem it is to convince him or her that the problem is not one that can be fixed by the scripts.
This is often why some companies will give you the second level number directly if they know you actually have a clue ensuring that you only need to go through that pain once.
In short: dob't blame it on the support techs.. it sucks for them more than it does you.
It has less to do with the computers's lack of abillity to react to changing information than it does with ISPS changing the IPs inside of the DHCP lease time.
The reason you see this more often with cable modems is that DSL providers tend to use PPPoe instead of DHCP to provision ips.
I just had an outage this week where there hold message involved exactly that fix and all that was really needed for linux was a "ifdown eth0; ifup eth0"
In windows that would have been a simple matter of running "winipcfg" and clicking the "renew" button.
Same deal with the routers.. http://ip.of.router and click "renew".
DHCP will work regardless of whether there is traffic on the line. The real reason they feed people such bogus instructions is that they don't want to have to explain the whole process to people who probably wouldn't even the basics of any of that. A reboot will involve a DHCP renew on startup so it all just works.
You would have been better to refer the user to somoene who can locally provide help.
I get these housecalls quite often and since I'm at the computer I can A: fix the problem and B: show them how to do things. I don't mind helping even the most cluless user locally.. but over the phone it *sucks*.
I don't know if the story is true or not but:
When modems connect the calling side stays silent and the *answering* side screetches. It's only fax machines that beep at you from the calling side.
That means the police would get a silent line and yes they will show up at your house for that.
Ohh and windows will add auto add a one like that I've seen it do exactly that. It happens if the auto prefix option is enabled and it will use it if it's emabled, it knows your area code and the number being dialed has another area code. OTH I think it detects the case where youve already put a 1 there.
In Canada that would be a fairly expensive mistake you can be fined for needlessly calling 911.
But SMART only warns you if something they can detect about to die. There are cases where the drive dies and there was no warning at all.
Or cases like the one just mentioned where the fault was with another componant and the damage extended to the drive.
SMART is cool but never depend on it.