It looks more like the response to your scans is coming from something other than the dreamcast. Perhaps the ISP is filtering or something.
(Personally, i think it should be put online and everyone should try to hack it. Then, if it *IS* the ISP filtering traffic.. we catch them in the act when they complain)
No, it's certainly not a regular event. It's happened roughly four times in the past 7 years. For.99 (1.0) For 1.1 (1.2) for 1.3 (2.0) for 2.1 (2.2) now 2.3 (2.4)
I don't think Amiga can capture what they had... regardless of who has the name. The world has changed. When the original Amiga stuff came out.. I don't think even Commodore knew *why* it was great. THEY didn't do anything to get this great following, as a company... people loved the machine... Those things were MAGICAL! They filled the entire room with magic. Never have I seen a platform where so many artist/coders got together to write the most beautiful software I've ever seen.
The only thing successful about the Amiga was the machine itself. Commodore blew it.
The machine was way ahead of it's time, cool looking, and was doing really goddamn cool sexy things.
This largely makes sense. I don't know about statement 1, I don't think there *is* any absolute protection of a name. As many said, trademark law protects your use of the mark in your trade... not your right to use the word for anything you want. 2) I don't agree. "A" can have as many domains as he wants.... 3&4) YES! Absolutely! Good idea! We should start doing this immediately.
The only problem I see with revoking domain names is the fact that people percieve having PAID for it. Even though they have just paid a fee for 'registration services' and not actually bought the domain..... this could get ugly. If my domain was taken away, I would certainly feel that NSI had performed their duties as registrar fraudulently by letting me register in the first place. It would be easy to show that the original guidelines, up until recently, for which TLD to use are still in place, and that NSI ignored them.
I think It's simple. Do things as they were originally intended. Force names to be registered in 'good faith'. Obey guidelines about different TLD's. (ie: A business SHOULD NEVER be able to register name.com, name.org, and name.net, unless they are both a business, a network provider, and a non-commercial entity. Domains were meant to make things a bit easier, not to be the be-all-end-all of directory services.
Do like.ca does. Anyone can have a.ca domain. BUT... if it's for a business, it has to be directly derived from or very closely related to the name of your business. If it's only in one province, you get a.bc.ca, or.ab.ca, or whatever. If you are in more than one, you can have a.ca. If you are a person who wants a domain, put it on person.city.pr.ca
It seems clunky.. but if NSI had run the Internic as it should have been, and actually LOOKED at what they were registering, and forced them to be reasonable... (What about all the.com domains that have fraudulent information as to the business they are registered to? Shouldnt' those go? )
There should never have been this many domains registered this fast.. people are to unwilling to be heirarchial.
This has nothign to do with the 'rights of corporation'. Whether it's the companies private PBX, email system, file server, what have you, pretty much every single employment agreement/employee handbook states clearly that THE PLACE OF BUSINESS is NOT FOR PERSONAL USE. That means TELEPHONE, that means EMAIL, that means FAX, that means the photocopier, the pens and paper, even the goddamn filtered AIR! and the WATER COOLER! It is all paid for by the company, for you to use in the capacity of doing your job. The fact that those same resources allow you to get porn doesn't give you the right to do it. This isn't like they are interfering in your private life. You are at work, doing work.
I think the real problem with this sort of thing isn't the fact that people are scanned, but what is done with the information. If Mr. Sysadmin is doing his scan, and sees a few naughty-but-mostly-harmless web sites or emails, or sees that someone is developing a bad porn-mailing-list-habit, they should be informed, casually, that this behavior could get them fired and that they should cease and desist. This information should go no further, unless it repeats. I realize this doesn't fit the standard company mold, though.
All too often, it is some semi-technical type in HR that wants to see the compelete log file, to analyze who is looking at what, and then they go balistic, looking to fire people for wasting company time. They see a dozen hits to CNN and think that the employee is 'slacking off'. If an employee is really slacking off, it would be their dept. manager that should notice, as their work will be no good. The network admin should notice if large amounts of network resources are disappearing, and should investigate. There should be no wich hunt, though. After all, the company doesn't check every single piece of paper and doesn't record and analyze every single phone call. Yes, the company *does* have the right to read everything... however, how the choose to exercise this is a matter of PR.
Note: It should be the goal of any modern HR dept. to already know how to deal with these issues without going on a witch hunt. If they are going on a witch-hunt, this shows backward thinking and you should maybe rethink your HR policy.
But the point isn't that they are *always* watching, it's that they *might* be watching, and they *might* find out, and fire you. If they say 'As a condition of your working here, you will not look at porn on our servers, under penalty of dismissal' then you shouldn't look at it, whether they monitor or not.
I realize there are many laws regarding email, and it is very unclear.... but the fact remains. Whether it is the journal book on your desk that the company gave you to record notes in, or the memo pad they gave you to write memos, or the email account they gave you for company purposes.
In most company networks, there *is* no expectation of privacy with regards to email, or at least, there shouldn't be. Not if it has been stated up front. It's not your personal email account. It's an account belonging to the company, and you happen to be authorized to use it, and it has your name on it.
As for refusing to do it based on privacy.... There is another way to approach it. As I said, if it was declared that email is company property, for company business only, then t *IS* company property. If they said that casual personal use was allowed.. they may have to be more careful. *may*.
Privacy in communication is necessary, but absolute privacy within the company is not.
My personal belief is that the only time snooping should occur on web traffic and/or email is when investigating some issue related to espionage, breach of NDA, etc, and should be done with very much courtesy for people's privacy. Personally, if the network allows you to look at porn at work, technically, and you do.... HR shouldn't be on a witch hunt. If people are meeting their goals, then HR shouldn't have a problem. Granted, the company has the right to scan their servers for whatever they want... it's up to you as an administrator if you wish to either a) change their policies or b) not work for them.
The law deals with tying products together. If they are a general consumer product that is available separately, then separate companies cannot 'tie' their products together in exclusive agreements, as it is an anti-competitive practice, and bad for the consumer in the long run. In the case ofa computer, yes, motherboards, modems, monitors, HD's, and chipsets are all available separately, but really, they are still not a consumer item. They are *starting* to be, but nothing prevents you from buying them separately. In Dell's case, they have a PC. THey have had PC's for ages, but, even though there are several competing products out there, they insist on shipping windows. Now.. honestly, I suspect that they can get away with this. Just as a HD is necessary to create a functioning system, so is an OS. ANd it is their choice of OS.
True product tying, I think, is saying 'You can buy product X, but only if you buy product Y at the same time, and vice-versa'. If they forced you to purchase windows and their PC at the same time, this would be illegal. If they combine into one product, this is not illegal.
But, you know what? I hate to say it, but they are correct. The fact is that DELL has paid for the right to put windows on every system they ship. The details of that financial agreement are nobody elses business except Dell and Microsoft. It's Dell's right to pay MS for every copy and not ship them. It's Dell's right to sell computers with nothing but OS/2 or BE on them if they so chose. To demand a refund because you dont' like the software they included isn't necessary, as they didn't force *you* to buy the software. You bought a DELL Personal Computer.
What I do not understand is that all these emails refer to the fact that dell does 'not wish to install Linux on systems'. We aren't ASKING for linux installed. We are asking for blank systems, with NO OS.
It appears that what is *reallY* going to happen, in theory, is that all these people, citizens, ministers, secretaries, whatever you call them, are going to manage one big-assed website/server farm. Once a certain number of people are invovled, a plea will be made to the UN to have the server room recognized as it's own country with it's own laws. Afterwards, it could easily become a 'data haven'..
Yes, straight public key, if you don't take signed keys into account, doesn't solve the problem. But who said that 'public keys' had to be tied to an email address? In a real Public Key Infrastructure, it is very possible (and common, observer x.509 web certificates and email certificates) to create a system (of whatever type) that only accepts data that has been encrypted by keys that have been *signed* by a certificate authority, usually issued by that authority as well.
This could apply to networks, email systems, web pages, building access systems, the lock on the company car.
In this case, both your public and private keys serve a purpose. to encrypt, yes, but also to identify that it is, in fact, you.
You know when you get those applets that say 'check here to always trust software from MS corporation?'... what it is really asking you is if your browser should always trust applets that have been 'signed' by a certain certificate authority at MS.
However.. as technically feasible as this may be.. let's not forget what the Internet really is.
A bunch of Private networks, hooked together by private agreements (generally, anyway), by private individuals.
Let's remember that, this time, there *IS* no point of control on the Internet, and that it exists above and beyond the telco's that provide the links.
But who declared Yahoo was anonymous? Anyone checked the service agreement/or whatever it is you have to hit an 'agree' button on? It probably states that they will comply with all laws.. etc....and that 'anonymous' only means that your name isn't attached to it for all to see whenever they please.
Against the law? Look, if it *IS* someone who works at said company, and they *ARE* giving away proprietary information, then they *ARE* breaking the law, they deserve it. Believe me, if I'm your employer, and you start chirping out things you *KNOW* you aren't allowed to disclose, and I catch you, you *WILL* be prosecuted.
If you don't care about the Radius logs, why not simply not log them at all? write the log to/dev/null.
What system admin tasks do I entrust to CRON? LOTS! Purging old files, virus scanning, log analysis, permission sanity checking, generating free space statistics, system usage reports, compacting databases, running backups, running 'at, the list goes on....
I don't rightly know how you back up 11Tb. Probably one of those robotic high-speed tape silos. Maybe a few of them.
As to your 400Gb NetApp filer.. get a backup library, aka jukebox, something using about a dozen or so 35GB DLT tapes. Or perhaps there is something even bigger.. I've never had to look..
This is a storage system, not a 'hard disk'. These things already exist, though this one may be a cut above the rest. Sun has a storage array system, so do others. They allow you do add dozens, or possibly even hundreds of SCSI drives, allow those drives to be accessed quickly and efficiently, and provide for raid-like striping and redundancy. Some, you can simply buy the chassis, get it hooked up, add a few drives to it, and when you need more space, just slap a new drive in, of whatever size, and things will automatically assimilate the new space.
For sure brother.... That's how it works. I used to feel the same way about things... And here's what I've decided.
Why not use DHCP for those 200+ machines? Anyway...
I know perfectly well that feeling of 'must stay until it is done, it is critical. I am critical. This is my job...' etc..... and I know how it can get the better of you.
But the truth is that, in most cases, people are only in this postition because they allow it. Very very few employers are going to accuse you of working too hard for too little money. You are the employers dream! Oftentimes, when you aren't punching a timecard, the boss doesn't even KNOW that you are spending such late nights at work... and if he does, he doesn't necessarily know it's because of things that HAD to be done, he thinks it's because of things that you WANT to do.
I stopped this cycle.. how? Simple. Write things down. Report to boss how much time is being spent on things. Don't complain, just report, say, once a week. If there is more than enough work for two people and you are the only one on staff, getting worked to death, you can easily show him.. This is what I do, this is how many hours I do it, here is some regular maintenance stuff that takes half my time and you can hire someone full time to do it. Most bosses won't turn a blind eye to this information if it is presented in a form they can understand. Hearing 'hey chief, joe is overworked' doesn't really help. Reading a document that shows how the network department really works helps a lot.
Also, design your networks to function correctly, according to YOUR specs, not some lackeys. Buy hardware you trust, software you trust, and don't be afraid to get the boss to spend some REALY money on his IT infrastructure. It makes your job a lot easier in the end.
And GO HOME after work. As a wise friend once said, you really aren't doing a good job unless you can do it from 9 to 5 and then leave it at work!
Think about it. If your services are as critical to the company's operation as you think they are, then that will translate directly into money and authority with the boss. If the boss is willing to just toss you aside, then you obviously aren't critical to him!
Yes, an in a corporate environment, so long as you are made aware that your actions are for work only, and that your stuff can be monitored, and that personal work/correspondence is not acceptable, then the company is in the right. As to the login script causing stuff to be installed when you log in remotely with your home PC, that is YOUR fault, as you LET the remote machine execute whatever it wanted on your PC.
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It looks more like the response to your scans is coming from something other than the dreamcast. Perhaps the ISP is filtering or something.
(Personally, i think it should be put online and everyone should try to hack it. Then, if it *IS* the ISP filtering traffic.. we catch them in the act when they complain)
Probably not yet.
But that's no worry... as we are getting stable releases more frequently from now on.
No, it's certainly not a regular event. It's happened roughly four times in the past 7 years. .99 (1.0)
For
For 1.1 (1.2)
for 1.3 (2.0)
for 2.1 (2.2)
now 2.3 (2.4)
I don't think Amiga can capture what they had... regardless of who has the name. The world has changed. When the original Amiga stuff came out.. I don't think even Commodore knew *why* it was great. THEY didn't do anything to get this great following, as a company... people loved the machine... Those things were MAGICAL! They filled the entire room with magic. Never have I seen a platform where so many artist/coders got together to write the most beautiful software I've ever seen.
The only thing successful about the Amiga was the machine itself. Commodore blew it.
The machine was way ahead of it's time, cool looking, and was doing really goddamn cool sexy things.
Nowadays... what does?
This largely makes sense. I don't know about statement 1, I don't think there *is* any absolute protection of a name. As many said, trademark law protects your use of the mark in your trade... not your right to use the word for anything you want.
2) I don't agree. "A" can have as many domains as he wants....
3&4) YES! Absolutely! Good idea! We should start doing this immediately.
The only problem I see with revoking domain names is the fact that people percieve having PAID for it. Even though they have just paid a fee for 'registration services' and not actually bought the domain..... this could get ugly.
If my domain was taken away, I would certainly feel that NSI had performed their duties as registrar fraudulently by letting me register in the first place.
It would be easy to show that the original guidelines, up until recently, for which TLD to use are still in place, and that NSI ignored them.
I think It's simple.
.ca does. Anyone can have a .ca domain. .bc.ca, or .ab.ca, or whatever. If you are in more than one, you can have a .ca.
.com domains that have fraudulent information as to the business they are registered to? Shouldnt' those go? )
Do things as they were originally intended.
Force names to be registered in 'good faith'.
Obey guidelines about different TLD's.
(ie: A business SHOULD NEVER be able to register name.com, name.org, and name.net, unless they are both a business, a network provider, and a non-commercial entity.
Domains were meant to make things a bit easier, not to be the be-all-end-all of directory services.
Do like
BUT... if it's for a business, it has to be directly derived from or very closely related to the name of your business. If it's only in one province, you get a
If you are a person who wants a domain, put it on person.city.pr.ca
It seems clunky.. but if NSI had run the Internic as it should have been, and actually LOOKED at what they were registering, and forced them to be reasonable...
(What about all the
There should never have been this many domains registered this fast.. people are to unwilling to be heirarchial.
This has nothign to do with the 'rights of corporation'. Whether it's the companies private PBX, email system, file server, what have you, pretty much every single employment agreement/employee handbook states clearly that THE PLACE OF BUSINESS is NOT FOR PERSONAL USE. That means TELEPHONE, that means EMAIL, that means FAX, that means the photocopier, the pens and paper, even the goddamn filtered AIR! and the WATER COOLER! It is all paid for by the company, for you to use in the capacity of doing your job. The fact that those same resources allow you to get porn doesn't give you the right to do it.
This isn't like they are interfering in your private life. You are at work, doing work.
No, one cannot control what others send them. That is why any scanned results must be taken in context, in private, to decide what it really means.
I think the real problem with this sort of thing isn't the fact that people are scanned, but what is done with the information.
If Mr. Sysadmin is doing his scan, and sees a few naughty-but-mostly-harmless web sites or emails, or sees that someone is developing a bad porn-mailing-list-habit, they should be informed, casually, that this behavior could get them fired and that they should cease and desist. This information should go no further, unless it repeats. I realize this doesn't fit the standard company mold, though.
All too often, it is some semi-technical type in HR that wants to see the compelete log file, to analyze who is looking at what, and then they go balistic, looking to fire people for wasting company time. They see a dozen hits to CNN and think that the employee is 'slacking off'.
If an employee is really slacking off, it would be their dept. manager that should notice, as their work will be no good. The network admin should notice if large amounts of network resources are disappearing, and should investigate. There should be no wich hunt, though. After all, the company doesn't check every single piece of paper and doesn't record and analyze every single phone call.
Yes, the company *does* have the right to read everything... however, how the choose to exercise this is a matter of PR.
Note: It should be the goal of any modern HR dept. to already know how to deal with these issues without going on a witch hunt. If they are going on a witch-hunt, this shows backward thinking and you should maybe rethink your HR policy.
But the point isn't that they are *always* watching, it's that they *might* be watching, and they *might* find out, and fire you.
If they say 'As a condition of your working here, you will not look at porn on our servers, under penalty of dismissal' then you shouldn't look at it, whether they monitor or not.
I realize there are many laws regarding email, and it is very unclear.... but the fact remains.
Whether it is the journal book on your desk that the company gave you to record notes in, or the memo pad they gave you to write memos, or the email account they gave you for company purposes.
In most company networks, there *is* no expectation of privacy with regards to email, or at least, there shouldn't be. Not if it has been stated up front. It's not your personal email account. It's an account belonging to the company, and you happen to be authorized to use it, and it has your name on it.
As for refusing to do it based on privacy.... There is another way to approach it.
As I said, if it was declared that email is company property, for company business only, then
t *IS* company property. If they said that casual personal use was allowed.. they may have to be more careful. *may*.
Privacy in communication is necessary, but absolute privacy within the company is not.
My personal belief is that the only time snooping should occur on web traffic and/or email is when investigating some issue related to espionage, breach of NDA, etc, and should be done with very much courtesy for people's privacy. Personally, if the network allows you to look at porn at work, technically, and you do.... HR shouldn't be on a witch hunt. If people are meeting their goals, then HR shouldn't have a problem.
Granted, the company has the right to scan their servers for whatever they want... it's up to you as an administrator if you wish to either
a) change their policies or
b) not work for them.
Uhh..
Doing 1.5Mbps over spread spectrum ISM bands (or other bands) is not new technology.
Yeah.
Fastest network != fastest networking technology.
We are talking about really building a production network, not some lab test results.
They aren't forcing you to pay for it. They are giving it to you for free as a bonus for buying their PC.
The law deals with tying products together.
If they are a general consumer product that is available separately, then separate companies cannot 'tie' their products together in exclusive agreements, as it is an anti-competitive practice, and bad for the consumer in the long run.
In the case ofa computer, yes, motherboards, modems, monitors, HD's, and chipsets are all available separately, but really, they are still not a consumer item. They are *starting* to be, but nothing prevents you from buying them separately.
In Dell's case, they have a PC. THey have had PC's for ages, but, even though there are several competing products out there, they insist on shipping windows.
Now.. honestly, I suspect that they can get away with this. Just as a HD is necessary to create a functioning system, so is an OS. ANd it is their choice of OS.
True product tying, I think, is saying 'You can buy product X, but only if you buy product Y at the same time, and vice-versa'. If they forced you to purchase windows and their PC at the same time, this would be illegal. If they combine into one product, this is not illegal.
But, you know what? I hate to say it, but they are correct.
The fact is that DELL has paid for the right to put windows on every system they ship. The details of that financial agreement are nobody elses business except Dell and Microsoft.
It's Dell's right to pay MS for every copy and not ship them. It's Dell's right to sell computers with nothing but OS/2 or BE on them if they so chose. To demand a refund because you dont' like the software they included isn't necessary, as they didn't force *you* to buy the software. You bought a DELL Personal Computer.
IF you don't like it, DONT BUY DELL!
What I do not understand is that all these emails refer to the fact that dell does 'not wish to install Linux on systems'. We aren't ASKING for linux installed. We are asking for blank systems, with NO OS.
It appears that what is *reallY* going to happen, in theory, is that all these people, citizens, ministers, secretaries, whatever you call them, are going to manage one big-assed website/server farm. Once a certain number of people are invovled, a plea will be made to the UN to have the server room recognized as it's own country with it's own laws. Afterwards, it could easily become a 'data haven'..
Won't fly.. but I see what they are trying to do.
Yes, straight public key, if you don't take signed keys into account, doesn't solve the problem.
But who said that 'public keys' had to be tied to an email address? In a real Public Key Infrastructure, it is very possible (and common, observer x.509 web certificates and email certificates) to create a system (of whatever type) that only accepts data that has been encrypted by keys that have been *signed* by a certificate authority, usually issued by that authority as well.
This could apply to networks, email systems, web pages, building access systems, the lock on the company car.
In this case, both your public and private keys serve a purpose. to encrypt, yes, but also to identify that it is, in fact, you.
You know when you get those applets that say 'check here to always trust software from MS corporation?'... what it is really asking you is if your browser should always trust applets that have been 'signed' by a certain certificate authority at MS.
However.. as technically feasible as this may be.. let's not forget what the Internet really is.
A bunch of Private networks, hooked together by private agreements (generally, anyway), by private individuals.
Let's remember that, this time, there *IS* no point of control on the Internet, and that it exists above and beyond the telco's that provide the links.
But who declared Yahoo was anonymous? Anyone checked the service agreement/or whatever it is you have to hit an 'agree' button on? It probably states that they will comply with all laws.. etc....and that 'anonymous' only means that your name isn't attached to it for all to see whenever they please.
Against the law? Look, if it *IS* someone who works at said company, and they *ARE* giving away proprietary information, then they *ARE* breaking the law, they deserve it. Believe me, if I'm your employer, and you start chirping out things you *KNOW* you aren't allowed to disclose, and I catch you, you *WILL* be prosecuted.
If you don't care about the Radius logs, why not simply not log them at all? write the log to /dev/null.
What system admin tasks do I entrust to CRON? LOTS! Purging old files, virus scanning, log analysis, permission sanity checking, generating free space statistics, system usage reports, compacting databases, running backups, running 'at, the list goes on....
I don't rightly know how you back up 11Tb. Probably one of those robotic high-speed tape silos. Maybe a few of them.
As to your 400Gb NetApp filer.. get a backup library, aka jukebox, something using about a dozen or so 35GB DLT tapes.
Or perhaps there is something even bigger.. I've never had to look..
This is a storage system, not a 'hard disk'.
These things already exist, though this one may be a cut above the rest. Sun has a storage array system, so do others.
They allow you do add dozens, or possibly even hundreds of SCSI drives, allow those drives to be accessed quickly and efficiently, and provide for raid-like striping and redundancy.
Some, you can simply buy the chassis, get it hooked up, add a few drives to it, and when you need more space, just slap a new drive in, of whatever size, and things will automatically assimilate the new space.
For sure brother.... That's how it works. I used to feel the same way about things... And here's what I've decided.
Why not use DHCP for those 200+ machines? Anyway...
I know perfectly well that feeling of 'must stay until it is done, it is critical. I am critical. This is my job...' etc..... and I know how it can get the better of you.
But the truth is that, in most cases, people are only in this postition because they allow it. Very very few employers are going to accuse you of working too hard for too little money. You are the employers dream! Oftentimes, when you aren't punching a timecard, the boss doesn't even KNOW that you are spending such late nights at work... and if he does, he doesn't necessarily know it's because of things that HAD to be done, he thinks it's because of things that you WANT to do.
I stopped this cycle.. how? Simple.
Write things down. Report to boss how much time is being spent on things. Don't complain, just report, say, once a week. If there is more than enough work for two people and you are the only one on staff, getting worked to death, you can easily show him.. This is what I do, this is how many hours I do it, here is some regular maintenance stuff that takes half my time and you can hire someone full time to do it. Most bosses won't turn a blind eye to this information if it is presented in a form they can understand.
Hearing 'hey chief, joe is overworked' doesn't really help. Reading a document that shows how the network department really works helps a lot.
Also, design your networks to function correctly, according to YOUR specs, not some lackeys. Buy hardware you trust, software you trust, and don't be afraid to get the boss to spend some REALY money on his IT infrastructure. It makes your job a lot easier in the end.
And GO HOME after work. As a wise friend once said, you really aren't doing a good job unless you can do it from 9 to 5 and then leave it at work!
Think about it. If your services are as critical to the company's operation as you think they are, then that will translate directly into money and authority with the boss. If the boss is willing to just toss you aside, then you obviously aren't critical to him!
Yes, an in a corporate environment, so long as you are made aware that your actions are for work only, and that your stuff can be monitored, and that personal work/correspondence is not acceptable, then the company is in the right.
As to the login script causing stuff to be installed when you log in remotely with your home PC, that is YOUR fault, as you LET the remote machine execute whatever it wanted on your PC.