You see more Iraqis celebrating when the Al Qaeda backed militia kill US forces.
This is a dirty war. An attempt by George Bush to gain some cheap victory in the face of his inability to capture Osama. All he did was open another front.
The restore OS option is a last resort and done with a pretty non-functional machine.
The larger backup vendors Veritas BackupExec/NetBackup, Legato Networker and IBM Tivoli all offer the capability to generate system restore disks (cd/dvd) to facilitate a complete system + user data restore from a blank drive. Of course, you have to pay mucho dinero for the functionality.
Dantz are fast playing catchup (e.g. see the Multi-session capabilities introduced in Retrospect 6.5) and promise the capability soon.
There still is no patch (and its gone well past the 24 or 48 hr patch date) AND all this is considering MS "patched" RPC on July 16 (MS03-026 better known as Blaster) and RPCSS in 10/03 (MS03-039).
Now lets look at the OpenSSL vulnerability reported on 10/1/03:
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003 -24.html
Debian and Redhat had patches backported within 2 hours.
I've just completed a Samba3 Winbindd setup to synchronise some pop3 users+pws with an NT PDC. I have to admit it was a non-trivial task and i found myself scurrying to the 3.0 Head docs frequently.
I had been hoping to implement a samba BDC to an NT pdc but i was not successful in my efforts. It is trivial to configure a Samba filer but DC Replication is a still a work in progress. I will wait for the efforts to mature and contemplate the move to a Samba PDC.
I cannot but extend massive kudos to the Samba team et all for getting this far without access to the source code.
You mention your specific budget in terms that infer 1 full expenditure. Have you thought about buying your TV on a store Credit Card? Most stores (BestBuy, Sears etc) will balance a $4000 Plasma to ~$90pm for 4 years.
This will future greatly proof your investment (at this price, includes the HDTV 720x). No i don't work for a big store but i am drooling over the Panasonic and Daewoo 42" Plasmas for a personal Xmas present. My budget matches yours. I am also looking at a Sony XBR32" for ~$800 online. No idea what condition you'll get it in tho' !
There is no such thing as logging too much. You're making the mistake of thinking event logs are only for error messages. Managing the information available is the only problem hence NTSyslog, Eventtracker and now MS entries in the market.
The reason you archive, centralise and recycle event logs is to facilitate their use when necessary. Shit hits the fan and logs fill FAST. If you don't have a mechanism to step back through the events, you loose the first native step in the troubleshooting process. One flaky scsi controller/brute force attack/etc etc will spam a couple mbs in seconds. Active notification (Event logging/SNMPtraps/WMI polling etc) is your watchguard. You tell me whats easier, 1 alert notification process on a centralised audit log collecting from 100s of machines or 100s of audit logs for every machine deployed.
The reason you install SPs is to prevent future problems. Lax patch management is moronic. One carrier can infect your antequated "protected" internal network. Code Red, NIMDA and SQL Slammer taught you nothing?. Yeah, yeah, your internal network is protected.
Event logs fill because thats what they're for. If you only log warnings and errors you're not auditing USAGE. As Cabal referenced, how are you gonna trace a user if you don't enable the tracking mechanism.
"The system heartbeat is a timestamp written to the registry at a fixed interval. This timestamp is used by UPTIME to calculate how long a system was down when it fails to go through a normal shutdown"
Heartbeat is used to calculate availablity. Last reboot is computed from the reboot event log entries:6005/6/8/9.
NTSyslog and Swtach are both valuable tools. The syslog daemon itself has far too many built in insecurities to make it entirely trustworthy (i noticed you mention a secured Linux box). I'd appreciate your input on making it DoS proof. My own preference runs towards a remotely scheduled WMI script. I find it a much more direct method of polling the box _unobtrusively_ with one downside in that i have to use a winxp box as the collector. Reports can be formatted into XML (or whatever) and facilitate the big brother overview popular in corporate circles.
Again i question how you can facilitate enabling the kind of auditing levels you boast with a local event log retention policy which will maintain a reboot stamp from 1 year ago. I would have found if more believable if you had said you computed the value from your centralised logs.
The NT/W2k Uptime value is computed from the last boot record in the event log.
Good administration is all about centralizing event and application logs and cycling the originals. Any decent NT/2k audit trail will quickly fill event logs beyond the capacity of any reasonable local retention policy. I'm not quite certain why yours evidence 1 years uptime statistics.
My idea was that braintrusts NEVER go out of fashion. I took 2 weeks off and then spent 8 weeks stalking Universities and BioTechs. I think i damn near resumed every University in the Western Hemisphere.
I shit myself when the fuckers didn't respond.
Thankfully, in the meantime, i'd spammed enough businesses in my neighbourhood with rent-a-geek flyers to keep myself in a hand-to-mouth existence. Savings got lower and lower until the a flood of invoices from mom 'n pops coughed up. I was actually making a living on my own! Whoopie! Some advice - work around retainers - sell saving 5-10 desktop + 1 server companies money on a dedicated IT guy - then hit 'em up for $2-400 a month + expenses or per Desktop + per Server flat rates. Resell 'em prerolled website packages (opensourcecms.com). Sell Dell machines. Sell soho firewalls. Sell MS SBS and SUSE office server. Swing by a couple of times a month for new machines, virus updates etc. Get 5-10 clients and you have enough to pay the mortgage and feed yourself. Do a good job and it snowballs from there.
After 2 months i started to get responses. A lot of responses. Universities are so swamped with dot bomb resumes that even getting a response is almost a bloody lottery. Academia moves at a glacial pace anyway.
When i started interviewing, i was in the luxurious position of having a choice, again. I was in the driving seat. After another 2 months, i accepted a position in Harvard. I.S. here is a mix of laid back, relaxed hippies and semi-rigid offloaded corporates like myself.
I can reliably state, i'm better off for the experience. Knowing i can bounce back and stand on my own 2 feet is a great comfort.
How about we take a soccer team and pit them up against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in a game of real american football (no pads). Then we see who is standing at the end.
Still standing as in ran around a fucking big field for 90 minutes or still standing as we gave up chasing them around and just took out the goalkeeper? Qualify, man, qualify!
I've alway been of the opinion project and processes methodologies are the last resort worthless middle management use to justify their existence. Leadership, aptitude and competence being fearsome skills they prefer to outsource.
Should your institution decide on that course - its a good idea to start with the founders of the "process"
I've consulted here. No not on the network design! Desktop staff - big hello to the much expanded Research Support team!
AFAIK the BI network has gradually evolved from the 60/70s and has including several massive growth spurts to incorporate the expansions, refits, windfalls etc. I once participated in an after hour Cisco cutover where we yanked connections and waited for the data to flow (IPX round/robin servers listing) to find the specific segments affected. Very much a live trial and error process.
I got the feeling no-one is completely certain where/how all the data flows especially in the older Research segments e.g. Dana Farber. In fact, I'm guessing this is where the failure originated. Heavy duty number crunching and spanning tree errors lead me to some sort of distributed unix process across network segments. I want to blame a certain notorious geek (Dr P's) unix and mac labs but in truth it could be any one of the overworked and underfunded labrats in any of the segments.
The wiring closets used to look way worse than any posted at the recent Register article. A single Cat 5 cable run to a data jack is sometimes split to host 2 connections: unfortunately as the Research areas are grant funded, this is still bloody cheaper than a hub/switch! There is probably still some localtalk cabling in some labs, coax runs to a DG and Novell serial connections with 1 or 2 Mac Classic and SE holdouts running Dos and DG terminal emulators!!!
The network team in the Hospital (2 afaik) coped with daily routing failures, buggy failovers, the crappy Novell IPX 802.3 implementation and servers around every corner. Those folks team with a great desktop staff to nursemaid outdated equipment into the 21st century. It stuns me to this day what a superior job these folks did and probably do. They certainly made my job easier.
I feel this could have happened any time and disaster has been averted one too many times before. Halamka and the exec staff owe these guys more that just a few column inches of chagrined praise.
Even the most advanced Speech API is pretty rudimentary in comparison to conventional input methods. Your OS of choice will need a complete interface overhaul to make speech a more efficient control mechanism than a mouse/keyboard.
At the current level of maturity the technology serves only to facilitate dictation. The Microsoft take on the genre is as usual quite impressive from a technical and unjustifiable assimilation perspective.
It does however lead to very interesting mistakes not quite in the PK Dick Angry Vegetables/Grapes of Wrath vein but bizarrely fascinating all the same. Some months ago, as an experiment I left it running admidst the tangle of conversation buzzing around my cubicle. It somehow chose "Racial Isolation Media" and "The death of Green Onions" as viable alternatives to stock phrases.
I can assure you, those phrases were not uttered on this plane of existence. Perhaps the feature gives us a glimpse beyond Microsofts software ambitions into the next killer app: Edisons UNdeadTAPI.
Perhaps its indicative of the current violent atmosphere that the filmakers removed the movies teeth.
Plainly speaking, will a movie with a high moral stance fly at the box office atm. I am guessing but i think they will have made some reedits to change the story focus post 9-11.
Horrendously bad movies are as American as Apple Pie and should be enshrined as national treasures.
Does any1 really think the Farrelly, Zucker, Abrams, Lampoon, Martin+Lewis, Stooges, Arbuckle etc movies are that worthy of intellectual discourse within their own period and context? No/Low-brow comedy significantly matures with age partly in tandem with the target audience (which these days is comprised of early teens) and the revealing snapshot of the gutter humour prevalent/tolerated at that time.
Everyone should take a trip to morontown. I highly recommend National Lampoons Vacation.
Try not to oversimplify the answer - Gartner make buckets of money on these kind of surveys.
Your OS (besides the initial outlay and the hidden OEM costs) takes time and effort to support. Hardware and Software: maintenance, upgrades, patches, networking, security, warranties, blood, sweat and tears: boil down to the former hot buzzword Total Cost of Ownersip (TCO). The tandem buzzword Zero Administration greatly backfired when even executives smirked at such total bullsheet endeavours.
MS have locked in the belief that a homogenous platform greatly reduces TCO (despite early Gartner group reports to the contrary).
What is interesting is that a Single Platform of Choice (SPOC) morphs into support structures who address Single Points of Failure (SPOF). Eh, yes i know this sounds like a paradox but "one problem=everyones problem=one solution" is rarely a big deal when balanced with the savings on the off-the-shelf MS techs. Multiplatform support is bloody expensive.
Perhaps respecting the user experience got lost in the MS Shut Up and Reboot (SUaR) support implementation. From an end-user perspective, the costs are measured in downtime. MS have been working on fast rebooting "Instant On" initiatives for some time.
Intelligent implementations of solid platforms enable productivity regardless of the market domination creed professed in the development shop. And you can take that all the way to the bank.
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No need to project your fantasies mate, humor would be a bonus tho' ?
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Actually the best/. line in reference to her ridiculous lips said they 'resembled an inflamed dogs anus'.
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"Celebrating" in the streets?
You see more Iraqis celebrating when the Al Qaeda backed militia kill US forces.
This is a dirty war. An attempt by George Bush to gain some cheap victory in the face of his inability to capture Osama. All he did was open another front.
Saddam was absolutely irrelevant.
The restore OS option is a last resort and done with a pretty non-functional machine.
The larger backup vendors Veritas BackupExec/NetBackup, Legato Networker and IBM Tivoli all offer the capability to generate system restore disks (cd/dvd) to facilitate a complete system + user data restore from a blank drive. Of course, you have to pay mucho dinero for the functionality.
Dantz are fast playing catchup (e.g. see the Multi-session capabilities introduced in Retrospect 6.5) and promise the capability soon.
Bullshit.
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Lets take the recent MS RPCSS vulnerability published (not by MS with a patch in hand) on 10/10/03:
http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/security
There still is no patch (and its gone well past the 24 or 48 hr patch date) AND all this is considering MS "patched" RPC on July 16 (MS03-026 better known as Blaster) and RPCSS in 10/03 (MS03-039).
Now lets look at the OpenSSL vulnerability reported on 10/1/03:
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003 -24.html
Debian and Redhat had patches backported within 2 hours.
You work in Valve right?
Tried to get a support license for that Cisco box yet?
Methinks you'll run to eBay for spare hardware. How does 2 day shipping round out your uptime?
I've just completed a Samba3 Winbindd setup to synchronise some pop3 users+pws with an NT PDC. I have to admit it was a non-trivial task and i found myself scurrying to the 3.0 Head docs frequently.
I had been hoping to implement a samba BDC to an NT pdc but i was not successful in my efforts. It is trivial to configure a Samba filer but DC Replication is a still a work in progress. I will wait for the efforts to mature and contemplate the move to a Samba PDC.
I cannot but extend massive kudos to the Samba team et all for getting this far without access to the source code.
You mention your specific budget in terms that infer 1 full expenditure. Have you thought about buying your TV on a store Credit Card? Most stores (BestBuy, Sears etc) will balance a $4000 Plasma to ~$90pm for 4 years.
This will future greatly proof your investment (at this price, includes the HDTV 720x). No i don't work for a big store but i am drooling over the Panasonic and Daewoo 42" Plasmas for a personal Xmas present. My budget matches yours. I am also looking at a Sony XBR32" for ~$800 online. No idea what condition you'll get it in tho' !
This Server to Server feature is called FXP.
Heres a decent cmdline version i find quite useful.
There is no such thing as logging too much. You're making the mistake of thinking event logs are only for error messages. Managing the information available is the only problem hence NTSyslog, Eventtracker and now MS entries in the market.
The reason you archive, centralise and recycle event logs is to facilitate their use when necessary. Shit hits the fan and logs fill FAST. If you don't have a mechanism to step back through the events, you loose the first native step in the troubleshooting process. One flaky scsi controller/brute force attack/etc etc will spam a couple mbs in seconds. Active notification (Event logging/SNMPtraps/WMI polling etc) is your watchguard. You tell me whats easier, 1 alert notification process on a centralised audit log collecting from 100s of machines or 100s of audit logs for every machine deployed.
The reason you install SPs is to prevent future problems. Lax patch management is moronic. One carrier can infect your antequated "protected" internal network. Code Red, NIMDA and SQL Slammer taught you nothing?. Yeah, yeah, your internal network is protected.
Event logs fill because thats what they're for. If you only log warnings and errors you're not auditing USAGE. As Cabal referenced, how are you gonna trace a user if you don't enable the tracking mechanism.
From the uptime /help output.
:6005/6/8/9.
"The system heartbeat is a timestamp written to the registry at a fixed interval. This timestamp is used by UPTIME to calculate how long a system was down when it fails to go through a normal shutdown"
Heartbeat is used to calculate availablity. Last reboot is computed from the reboot event log entries
NTSyslog and Swtach are both valuable tools. The syslog daemon itself has far too many built in insecurities to make it entirely trustworthy (i noticed you mention a secured Linux box). I'd appreciate your input on making it DoS proof. My own preference runs towards a remotely scheduled WMI script. I find it a much more direct method of polling the box _unobtrusively_ with one downside in that i have to use a winxp box as the collector. Reports can be formatted into XML (or whatever) and facilitate the big brother overview popular in corporate circles.
Again i question how you can facilitate enabling the kind of auditing levels you boast with a local event log retention policy which will maintain a reboot stamp from 1 year ago. I would have found if more believable if you had said you computed the value from your centralised logs.
The NT/W2k Uptime value is computed from the last boot record in the event log.
Good administration is all about centralizing event and application logs and cycling the originals. Any decent NT/2k audit trail will quickly fill event logs beyond the capacity of any reasonable local retention policy. I'm not quite certain why yours evidence 1 years uptime statistics.
Stow your ego and get back to work.
Source level access is at the core of the digital rights debate. I do not seek to recycle the arguments presented better elsewhere.
I highly recommend the following website for those seeking to investigate decompilation/reverse engineering.
FraviaMy idea was that braintrusts NEVER go out of fashion. I took 2 weeks off and then spent 8 weeks stalking Universities and BioTechs. I think i damn near resumed every University in the Western Hemisphere.
I shit myself when the fuckers didn't respond.
Thankfully, in the meantime, i'd spammed enough businesses in my neighbourhood with rent-a-geek flyers to keep myself in a hand-to-mouth existence. Savings got lower and lower until the a flood of invoices from mom 'n pops coughed up. I was actually making a living on my own! Whoopie! Some advice - work around retainers - sell saving 5-10 desktop + 1 server companies money on a dedicated IT guy - then hit 'em up for $2-400 a month + expenses or per Desktop + per Server flat rates. Resell 'em prerolled website packages (opensourcecms.com). Sell Dell machines. Sell soho firewalls. Sell MS SBS and SUSE office server. Swing by a couple of times a month for new machines, virus updates etc. Get 5-10 clients and you have enough to pay the mortgage and feed yourself. Do a good job and it snowballs from there.
After 2 months i started to get responses. A lot of responses. Universities are so swamped with dot bomb resumes that even getting a response is almost a bloody lottery. Academia moves at a glacial pace anyway.
When i started interviewing, i was in the luxurious position of having a choice, again. I was in the driving seat. After another 2 months, i accepted a position in Harvard. I.S. here is a mix of laid back, relaxed hippies and semi-rigid offloaded corporates like myself.
I can reliably state, i'm better off for the experience. Knowing i can bounce back and stand on my own 2 feet is a great comfort.
It depends on your intended application.
AFAIK SSH/STunnel implementations tend to be TCP centric. Applications requiring UDP lean towards IPSec flavoured tunnels.
Bottom line MAPI over putty doesn't work (unless you enable OWA and http/tcp at which point there are dozens of more robust options).
Still standing as in ran around a fucking big field for 90 minutes or still standing as we gave up chasing them around and just took out the goalkeeper? Qualify, man, qualify!
I've alway been of the opinion project and processes methodologies are the last resort worthless middle management use to justify their existence. Leadership, aptitude and competence being fearsome skills they prefer to outsource.
Should your institution decide on that course - its a good idea to start with the founders of the "process"
I've consulted here. No not on the network design! Desktop staff - big hello to the much expanded Research Support team!
AFAIK the BI network has gradually evolved from the 60/70s and has including several massive growth spurts to incorporate the expansions, refits, windfalls etc. I once participated in an after hour Cisco cutover where we yanked connections and waited for the data to flow (IPX round/robin servers listing) to find the specific segments affected. Very much a live trial and error process.
I got the feeling no-one is completely certain where/how all the data flows especially in the older Research segments e.g. Dana Farber. In fact, I'm guessing this is where the failure originated. Heavy duty number crunching and spanning tree errors lead me to some sort of distributed unix process across network segments. I want to blame a certain notorious geek (Dr P's) unix and mac labs but in truth it could be any one of the overworked and underfunded labrats in any of the segments.
The wiring closets used to look way worse than any posted at the recent Register article. A single Cat 5 cable run to a data jack is sometimes split to host 2 connections: unfortunately as the Research areas are grant funded, this is still bloody cheaper than a hub/switch! There is probably still some localtalk cabling in some labs, coax runs to a DG and Novell serial connections with 1 or 2 Mac Classic and SE holdouts running Dos and DG terminal emulators!!!
The network team in the Hospital (2 afaik) coped with daily routing failures, buggy failovers, the crappy Novell IPX 802.3 implementation and servers around every corner. Those folks team with a great desktop staff to nursemaid outdated equipment into the 21st century. It stuns me to this day what a superior job these folks did and probably do. They certainly made my job easier.
I feel this could have happened any time and disaster has been averted one too many times before. Halamka and the exec staff owe these guys more that just a few column inches of chagrined praise.
Strikes me a virtual machine would be a more manageable solution?
Even the most advanced Speech API is pretty rudimentary in comparison to conventional input methods. Your OS of choice will need a complete interface overhaul to make speech a more efficient control mechanism than a mouse/keyboard.
At the current level of maturity the technology serves only to facilitate dictation. The Microsoft take on the genre is as usual quite impressive from a technical and unjustifiable assimilation perspective.
It does however lead to very interesting mistakes not quite in the PK Dick Angry Vegetables/Grapes of Wrath vein but bizarrely fascinating all the same. Some months ago, as an experiment I left it running admidst the tangle of conversation buzzing around my cubicle. It somehow chose "Racial Isolation Media" and "The death of Green Onions" as viable alternatives to stock phrases.
I can assure you, those phrases were not uttered on this plane of existence. Perhaps the feature gives us a glimpse beyond Microsofts software ambitions into the next killer app: Edisons UNdeadTAPI.
Perhaps its indicative of the current violent atmosphere that the filmakers removed the movies teeth.
Plainly speaking, will a movie with a high moral stance fly at the box office atm. I am guessing but i think they will have made some reedits to change the story focus post 9-11.
Horrendously bad movies are as American as Apple Pie and should be enshrined as national treasures.
Does any1 really think the Farrelly, Zucker, Abrams, Lampoon, Martin+Lewis, Stooges, Arbuckle etc movies are that worthy of intellectual discourse within their own period and context? No/Low-brow comedy significantly matures with age partly in tandem with the target audience (which these days is comprised of early teens) and the revealing snapshot of the gutter humour prevalent/tolerated at that time.
Everyone should take a trip to morontown. I highly recommend National Lampoons Vacation.
Try not to oversimplify the answer - Gartner make buckets of money on these kind of surveys.
Your OS (besides the initial outlay and the hidden OEM costs) takes time and effort to support. Hardware and Software: maintenance, upgrades, patches, networking, security, warranties, blood, sweat and tears: boil down to the former hot buzzword Total Cost of Ownersip (TCO). The tandem buzzword Zero Administration greatly backfired when even executives smirked at such total bullsheet endeavours.
MS have locked in the belief that a homogenous platform greatly reduces TCO (despite early Gartner group reports to the contrary).
What is interesting is that a Single Platform of Choice (SPOC) morphs into support structures who address Single Points of Failure (SPOF). Eh, yes i know this sounds like a paradox but "one problem=everyones problem=one solution" is rarely a big deal when balanced with the savings on the off-the-shelf MS techs. Multiplatform support is bloody expensive.
Perhaps respecting the user experience got lost in the MS Shut Up and Reboot (SUaR) support implementation. From an end-user perspective, the costs are measured in downtime. MS have been working on fast rebooting "Instant On" initiatives for some time.
Intelligent implementations of solid platforms enable productivity regardless of the market domination creed professed in the development shop. And you can take that all the way to the bank.
No need to project your fantasies mate, humor would be a bonus tho' ?
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