Actually broken software can generate more profits.
No large company will install something without a support contract, but a support contract is review generally annually. If you are not using the support contract, why keep paying for it?
If software has bug, then you are using the support contract to repair it. Then the contract pays for itself.
Now if you have lot of bugs, then the software should be called into question, but when it runs 95% of the machines in the office - you keep paying it, becuase the bugs must be fixed.
Have you ever had a "sick" drive in a mirrored array? When that drive is working, it is giving out bad data that is then being written to both drives during the update/write back. Then you have coruption on two drives instead of one.
The "safe" setup is Raid-5, but if you loose 2 drives you lost all...
A service tech loose his balance while replacing a down drive in a HOT Raid-5. He fell backward while squating pushing in the new drive. He grabed another drive in the same array to stop his fall, and pulled it out... Every bad shutdown for a production system, and a very long recovery.
Now service techs are required to sit in chair when changing a drive below chest hieght.
We had S/36 (a grandfather AS/400) hit by car and slammed though wall.
The wiring was torn from the wall, same wall as the car entered though, so it traveled with S/36 though the next wall. The machine was dented and case torn open, but was still running operations for 2 weeks until a replacement was installed.
public key crypo is only as good as the guy that signed your key.
This is same problem with Notary Public. They have to follow standards and so on... but what happens when one is "bad" and others use them?
What about a doctor or the guy that fixes your car?
In each and every case a form of trust is required that I claim I am who I say I am. And the other end does them same.
But with faceless techinology, it is impossible to realy besure.
EBay has tried one method - called feedback. With it other faceless people leave notes about how well a transaction went, with more and more feedback for good quailty other faceless people will start to trust them too. But there have been cases where that feedback was valid but the con was to build enough so when the real take began it was big.
So again, there can be no indentity standard, because there can be no indentity.
Now... Glorf, can you prove you are you, when I have not met or seen you? Will you use a Notary to sign a paper claiming the same? Will you use your doctor to release your medical records to prove the mole on back, is a mark that truly proves who you are? Are you going to use crypto key instead?
See all of these assume a trust to a third party that is unknown to me. So how will you prove that they are who they claim to be? and so on.
OR are you just cowboy neal under a nome-de-plume;-)
There a can be no indentity standard, because there can be no indentity.
IPs can be spoofed, mail foraged, add to that proxies and firewall... There is no way of telling who is really on either end of the connection. Now, add single signon security, without forced timeout of passwords and without heavy forced editing preventing reuse and dictonary attacks.
Look to windowsupdate.microsoft.com. Are you connecting to truly to microsoft? No, you are not. So you are taking a SECURITY download from a site, that may have an associtation with MS but not MS itself. Boy are we trusting.
So your computers do not "talk" to each other to any other computer...
So why have a network?
P2P or C-S are the same. As much as anyone trys to claim otherwise, it all goes down to a computer passing information to another. So EMAIL, FTP, HTTP, XWindows, VNC,... all fall under banner.
Question is "Who owns the computer?".
Your policy really has no problem if the supplier of the information being a a college owned machine. But if the student offers information, you have an issue.
So XWidnows is out, IM is gone, HTTP server is gone... so much for your CS students.
He was at Bikini helped setup and "clean-up" afterwards. No cancers or other tell-tales.
He does joke why his kids are taller then them though... he 6'2" and kids 6'2" to 6'10". For us it was all the manure between our toes while cleaning the barn.
If you ask for DL or SS, there goes your business.
Think about it.. that leads to claim of identity theif immedatily.
Better question why offer 30 day demo software, or crippleware in the first place?
Why not offer lower cost software, so it can be tossed if the customer does not like it.
Or required the software to phone home every few days while in demo period. This why you can use embedded id of software / IP of coonection to determine if linesse is valid... but that will label you with SPYWARE instead.
Silcon is too much of a light switch. There is human ear ramping of sound, it is there, it is not.
Tubes on the otherhand, help smooth the sound because of amount of electrons needed "jump the gap".
Besides for REAL power, there is ONLY tubes. Look are the linear accelator at Sanford, RADAR, Radio, and TV to name quite a few of real power switching.
"These are done with DOS-like commands. UNIX/LINUX is heavily DOS-command style oriented. If you want to get into computer security then you will have to live, eat, and breath DOS and UNIX."
UNIX is DOS-Like?
Try again: DOS is UNIX-Like.
Question: Which came first the Chicken or the Egg? Answer: the egg.
But that same gamma ray burst, with only one ray hitting 1 disk drive, hitting the 1 sector that contains your data "root". Should NEVER make you lose anything. This is just normal processing.
That is why raid and tape backups are around. Exspecially since your are paying a fee to them monthly to keep your data safe.
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That is why I am glad I have the originals on LaserDisk.
I have the release also on LaserDisk, but the plastic has not been broken.
I change my seat all the time on flights, becuase the computers can not figure away to fit a 6'7" person into a 5'10" space.
Remeber Flight 800 also made it so mailing a more than 1lb package anonymously is also illegal.
The government err twice on the smae flight.
Then they where an idoit to install a unsecure network connection to a secure network.
That is problem with most wireless routers, they treat the wireless and wired the same.
Also the same would go for allowing a LAN party to use a trusted network.
Actually broken software can generate more profits.
No large company will install something without a support contract, but a support contract is review generally annually. If you are not using the support contract, why keep paying for it?
If software has bug, then you are using the support contract to repair it. Then the contract pays for itself.
Now if you have lot of bugs, then the software should be called into question, but when it runs 95% of the machines in the office - you keep paying it, becuase the bugs must be fixed.
I gave up on them in the late 80's, I check back with Dr Dobbs from time to see if there was a glimer of the once great past, but to not avail.
Then again, I still bring out of the boxes my original copies of Kilobaud Mag and read about CPM and S100 bus computers.
Already switched to hot spares, was replacing the dead one he pulled a live one out, with not spares to go.
Chairs are still cheap and safer than squating.
The same arguement goes for mirrored as well.
Have you ever had a "sick" drive in a mirrored array? When that drive is working, it is giving out bad data that is then being written to both drives during the update/write back. Then you have coruption on two drives instead of one.
The "safe" setup is Raid-5, but if you loose 2 drives you lost all...
A service tech loose his balance while replacing a down drive in a HOT Raid-5. He fell backward while squating pushing in the new drive. He grabed another drive in the same array to stop his fall, and pulled it out... Every bad shutdown for a production system, and a very long recovery.
Now service techs are required to sit in chair when changing a drive below chest hieght.
Actually closer to: 0:bebedt 1:y y aa
We had S/36 (a grandfather AS/400) hit by car and slammed though wall.
The wiring was torn from the wall, same wall as the car entered though, so it traveled with S/36 though the next wall. The machine was dented and case torn open, but was still running operations for 2 weeks until a replacement was installed.
That is a prefect summary.
Including E!!
public key crypo is only as good as the guy that signed your key.
;-)
This is same problem with Notary Public. They have to follow standards and so on... but what happens when one is "bad" and others use them?
What about a doctor or the guy that fixes your car?
In each and every case a form of trust is required that I claim I am who I say I am. And the other end does them same.
But with faceless techinology, it is impossible to realy besure.
EBay has tried one method - called feedback. With it other faceless people leave notes about how well a transaction went, with more and more feedback for good quailty other faceless people will start to trust them too. But there have been cases where that feedback was valid but the con was to build enough so when the real take began it was big.
So again, there can be no indentity standard, because there can be no indentity.
Now... Glorf, can you prove you are you, when I have not met or seen you? Will you use a Notary to sign a paper claiming the same? Will you use your doctor to release your medical records to prove the mole on back, is a mark that truly proves who you are? Are you going to use crypto key instead?
See all of these assume a trust to a third party that is unknown to me. So how will you prove that they are who they claim to be? and so on.
OR are you just cowboy neal under a nome-de-plume
There a can be no indentity standard, because there can be no indentity.
IPs can be spoofed, mail foraged, add to that proxies and firewall... There is no way of telling who is really on either end of the connection. Now, add single signon security, without forced timeout of passwords and without heavy forced editing preventing reuse and dictonary attacks.
Look to windowsupdate.microsoft.com. Are you connecting to truly to microsoft? No, you are not. So you are taking a SECURITY download from a site, that may have an associtation with MS but not MS itself. Boy are we trusting.
So where does that leave the rest?
So your computers do not "talk" to each other to any other computer...
... all fall under banner.
So why have a network?
P2P or C-S are the same. As much as anyone trys to claim otherwise, it all goes down to a computer passing information to another. So EMAIL, FTP, HTTP, XWindows, VNC,
Question is "Who owns the computer?".
Your policy really has no problem if the supplier of the information being a a college owned machine. But if the student offers information, you have an issue.
So XWidnows is out, IM is gone, HTTP server is gone... so much for your CS students.
So is my father...
He was at Bikini helped setup and "clean-up" afterwards. No cancers or other tell-tales.
He does joke why his kids are taller then them though... he 6'2" and kids 6'2" to 6'10". For us it was all the manure between our toes while cleaning the barn.
If you ask for DL or SS, there goes your business.
Think about it.. that leads to claim of identity theif immedatily.
Better question why offer 30 day demo software, or crippleware in the first place?
Why not offer lower cost software, so it can be tossed if the customer does not like it.
Or required the software to phone home every few days while in demo period. This why you can use embedded id of software / IP of coonection to determine if linesse is valid... but that will label you with SPYWARE instead.
Tubes are better in giving a "warmer" sound.
Silcon is too much of a light switch. There is human ear ramping of sound, it is there, it is not.
Tubes on the otherhand, help smooth the sound because of amount of electrons needed "jump the gap".
Besides for REAL power, there is ONLY tubes. Look are the linear accelator at Sanford, RADAR, Radio, and TV to name quite a few of real power switching.
For me...
Software made Algebra understandable.
Physics made Calculus understandable.
Reality makes Abstract understandable.
Add to that this from his writings...
"These are done with DOS-like commands. UNIX/LINUX is heavily DOS-command style oriented. If you want to get into computer security then you will have to live, eat, and breath DOS and UNIX."
UNIX is DOS-Like?
Try again: DOS is UNIX-Like.
Question: Which came first the Chicken or the Egg?
Answer: the egg.
1/5 to 1/4 quarter of the world popolution can not be wrong...
Boy is that a standard.
So much for hidding from IR detection...
OK, I "see" them.
No, they do not appear to locals. With that heat bloom, they are using using XXY Notebook, with AMD 64, 250G harddrive...
Oh, there is 802.11A signal, must have just rebooted...
That is it, Windows XP! They are NOT locals. NOT LOCALS! The locals in this area use SuSE.
To make really sure that they know a geek did it...
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Next they need to add is heads-up display. By projecting this on the window sheild so you can look thoughit it will really help to tell when to turn.
Then we all can use those really dark window tints!!
It is in the East Indies Though I like the South America ideas better. The East Indies have ALL the right stuff.
That falls under Acts of God.
But that same gamma ray burst, with only one ray hitting 1 disk drive, hitting the 1 sector that contains your data "root". Should NEVER make you lose anything. This is just normal processing.
That is why raid and tape backups are around. Exspecially since your are paying a fee to them monthly to keep your data safe.