It would indeed be to blame if you put a switch in instead of running 4 cables back again.
Having a spider style topology is only a good idea if everything happens to be going out the same way or going to the same server. In some cases this will just be a bottleneck.
It is however great if everyone is just going out through the same place.(internet connection)
Breaking things into partitions is beond useless for anything that inviolves large files. And for anything else it's just annoying. One of my servers has a 140 gb partition and it _NEEDS_ to be that large. Breaking it up simply will not work.
It's not two percent.. we hosted a spammer here once and I checked the subscriber list as I was closing the account. It's actually 0.0013 percent(based on 10 million emails).
that means you have to be *really* obnoxious to make any money at all.
Ohh and the percentage gets better of you spam to AOL users(freaking morons sent me hate mail last time I shut an account down)
uhh Except that the people who's jobs are to fight the war are doing so. That's not the DOJ's job however.
I find it amazing how many people expect every day things to just stop simply because there is a war. We need to all get on with our lives and not let the terrorists win by disrupting everything.
Seriously though the GPL prevents companies from being truely parasitic. The GPL prevents said company from making changes and keeping them to themselves.
So what if they make money off the code? At least these companies have payed developers and contributed things like useabillity studdies and If (heven forbid) I actually wanted to go into the tech support buisness, they have no real advantage other than being previously established.
Contrast that to what happens without the GPL:
Some company takes the work done so far, improves on it and keeps the changes from the original developer and uses their improved version to make more money.
Personally, I improve things the way I want and send the changes to the proper maintainers. It's cool that some other people actually use my code but I'd rather not have to deal with the users.
Implementing a working driver for a filesystem that tends not to follow even the sparse ducumentation that is available is *hard*.
On top of the problems of having to basically reverse engineer the fs you get the joys of a team of Lawers from MS just waiting for you to do something they can sue you for.
So basically you need somone who has a lot of time oh their hands with a partition they don't mind frying on a constant basis and who isn't worried about potential lawsuits.
The only way it will work is if they can constantly do things like "request" that you sign up for a passport account or use their current dominance to make themselves look like the only option.
Without windows.Net loses.
Now whether an "open monopoly" will happen soon enough to stop it is a totally diffrent question.
I'm *REALLY* tired of not being able to trace packets back to their source.
What Im hoping for is a nice way to query a router and see from where a packet came. The abillity to do some sort of a reverse traceroute would be just plain sweet.
Any sysadmin who has had to deal with a DDos that's entirely made up of spoofed packets will know what I mean.
Those areguments are getting more tired by the minute. If it's all admin incompetance then why was MS Windows Update infected by CodeRed?
The problem here is that Security fixes are an after thought.. theres no cordination within MS at all.
I actually bought that load of crap when this first happened but then I realised that some software installs actually REMOVE said fixes.
That's not accepable.
To make it worse a HUGE number of people infected had no idea whatsoever that they were running a webserver.
Ohh yeah and while I'm at it just try running IIS as a user other than administrator. What good was ripping off an awesome set of ACLs from VMS when admins can't even make good use of them?
NT/2000 are 15% of my servers but they are HALF of what I spend my time dealing with.If it were up to me I'd have reformatted the lot of em.
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This will face the same sorts of problems Wine does. NT has a mess of internal interfaces that ALL need to be duplicated.. And that includes the undocumented once that MS uses for it's own products.
The problem isn't the undelying OS the problem is NT is BY DESIGN obfuscated to prevent clones.
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Yengerous yes.. but not nearly as dangerous as a remote exploit.
Where I work most of the worry is the almost constant script kiddy scans from outside the network. And everyone with remote access has financial reason for the server to keep working.
Right now the bus is one of the largest bottlenecks in the system.
problems for home use:
Video card
Buisness:
Networking
multiple controllers.
It's not that hard to saturate a bus and unfortunatly it happens a lot. There are several hackish ways companies are trying to fix that (multiple PCI busses AGP etc) but none really fix the underlying problem.
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It would indeed be to blame if you put a switch in instead of running 4 cables back again.
Having a spider style topology is only a good idea if everything happens to be going out the same way or going to the same server. In some cases this will just be a bottleneck.
It is however great if everyone is just going out through the same place.(internet connection)
This is great if everyone is going out through the same connection but not so good if people are accessing multiple file servers inside the building.
Adding a switch will simply give all 4 people 1/4 of the 100 mb connection between the wall plate and the destination.
Breaking things into partitions is beond useless for anything that inviolves large files. And for anything else it's just annoying. One of my servers has a 140 gb partition and it _NEEDS_ to be that large. Breaking it up simply will not work.
That is Invidia's fault.. They should provide a proper installer.
It's not two percent.. we hosted a spammer here once and I checked the subscriber list as I was closing the account. It's actually 0.0013 percent(based on 10 million emails).
that means you have to be *really* obnoxious to make any money at all.
Ohh and the percentage gets better of you spam to AOL users(freaking morons sent me hate mail last time I shut an account down)
uhh Except that the people who's jobs are to fight the war are doing so. That's not the DOJ's job however.
I find it amazing how many people expect every day things to just stop simply because there is a war. We need to all get on with our lives and not let the terrorists win by disrupting everything.
Security on FreeBSD isn't much diffrent from a good Linux distro. Personally I wouldn't trust my system to mandrake or RedHat.
That's not actually correct.
Right now we have 3 kernel trees being sepperately
maintained: 2.0.38, 2.2.20, 2.4.14 are all diffrent trees.
Forking happens all of the time and it's in general a good thing if done right. People were making much too big a deal out of this.
That's not really correct.. OS wise theres actually not that much diffrent between a Server and desktop.
Most of the diffrences are in the packaging and UI.
Why reinvent the wheel?
It would however be interesting to see somone make a desktop out of something other than X.
X is not linux.
VA is making money? That's news to me.
Seriously though the GPL prevents companies from being truely parasitic. The GPL prevents said company from making changes and keeping them to themselves.
So what if they make money off the code? At least these companies have payed developers and contributed things like useabillity studdies and If (heven forbid) I actually wanted to go into the tech support buisness, they have no real advantage other than being previously established.
Contrast that to what happens without the GPL:
Some company takes the work done so far, improves on it and keeps the changes from the original developer and uses their improved version to make more money.
Personally, I improve things the way I want and send the changes to the proper maintainers. It's cool that some other people actually use my code but I'd rather not have to deal with the users.
I dont like crontabbing upgrades I like to know when files are being changed.
/etc/hosts.deny in 2 servers .. oops?
Today was another reason why. one of the upgrades
overwrote
apt may be the best of package managers but it's still only as good as the idiots who maintain the packages.
Once again we see an american group forgetting that all the world is not the USA.
What happens when a webmaster simpy hosts in say.. Russia?
What then? do they block all countries without similar laws?
Same thing you do when the isps in your area all charge too much for b/w: co-locate.
Implementing a working driver for a filesystem that tends not to follow even the sparse ducumentation that is available is *hard*.
On top of the problems of having to basically reverse engineer the fs you get the joys of a team of Lawers from MS just waiting for you to do something they can sue you for.
So basically you need somone who has a lot of time oh their hands with a partition they don't mind frying on a constant basis and who isn't worried about potential lawsuits.
Good luck.
The only way it will work is if they can constantly do things like "request" that you sign up for a passport account or use their current dominance to make themselves look like the only option.
.Net loses.
Without windows
Now whether an "open monopoly" will happen soon enough to stop it is a totally diffrent question.
They have yet to EVER ask me to remove my steel toe boots.
I set off the detector every time and all they do is wave the stupid wand and make sure my boots are actually metalic.
Lucky for them I'm mostly harmless.
I have never run into that.. I just go to the "download firmware" page and download.
It's really not that hard and there are well documented instructions on how to do so.
If course if you wanted Cisco to do the work for you I could see the need for a service contract...
THat's the problem .. thanks to MS marketing we have people who think they can just set up a machine and have it work.
And as for running services by default no I don't think it's acceptable that RedHat does it either.
I noticed you said NOTHING about the fact that some software installs will remove patches.
Why should they fire me? I keep the servers running. It's my fault that some OS have more issues than others? I don't think so.
There have been plenty of posts on there about why x company feels the need to not open source drivers.
In fact, there was even one from Intel.
I'm *REALLY* tired of not being able to trace packets back to their source.
What Im hoping for is a nice way to query a router and see from where a packet came. The abillity to do some sort of a reverse traceroute would be just plain sweet.
Any sysadmin who has had to deal with a DDos that's entirely made up of spoofed packets will know what I mean.
Those areguments are getting more tired by the minute. If it's all admin incompetance then why was MS Windows Update infected by CodeRed?
The problem here is that Security fixes are an after thought.. theres no cordination within MS at all.
I actually bought that load of crap when this first happened but then I realised that some software installs actually REMOVE said fixes.
That's not accepable.
To make it worse a HUGE number of people infected had no idea whatsoever that they were running a webserver.
Ohh yeah and while I'm at it just try running IIS as a user other than administrator. What good was ripping off an awesome set of ACLs from VMS when admins can't even make good use of them?
NT/2000 are 15% of my servers but they are HALF of what I spend my time dealing with.If it were up to me I'd have reformatted the lot of em.
This will face the same sorts of problems Wine does. NT has a mess of internal interfaces that ALL need to be duplicated.. And that includes the undocumented once that MS uses for it's own products.
The problem isn't the undelying OS the problem is NT is BY DESIGN obfuscated to prevent clones.
Yengerous yes .. but not nearly as dangerous as a remote exploit.
Where I work most of the worry is the almost constant script kiddy scans from outside the network. And everyone with remote access has financial reason for the server to keep working.
Having said that I have 20 servers to upgrade.
Right now the bus is one of the largest bottlenecks in the system.
problems for home use:
Video card
Buisness:
Networking
multiple controllers.
It's not that hard to saturate a bus and unfortunatly it happens a lot. There are several hackish ways companies are trying to fix that (multiple PCI busses AGP etc) but none really fix the underlying problem.
I wonder if this is another step towords purely optical computing. For now the speed encrease should be nothing short of sweet.