Hmm, interesting idea. I didn't see performance listed as a feature.
I wonder how much slower my query will be when the data is spread across several machines. I'd imagine that a few complex queries that aren't correctly optimized would bring this system to it's knees rather quickly.
Thanks! I must be doing something right if I am pissing someone off.
FYI, I spent six months the first time someone gave me that problem before I came up with a workable solution, and then I came up with four variants on the solution in the next week.
By specifying the design of the scale, I could find a single marble (heavier or lighter) out of any sized set of otherwise equally weighted marbles in exactly two weighings.
Think outside the box, or in this case, outside of the scale and outside of a single dimension.:)
Have you tried your catalogue of bugs against recent betas of Windows Server 2003?
If so, are any of the security bugs still exploitable? Microsoft stopped new feature work for 2 months to fix security bugs and then focused heavily on security bugs since then, so these bugs should be fixed. If not, many people at Microsoft would like to know before it hits the store shelves.
I would guess that in addition to DRM, the ability to watermark a serial number into each movie would be very valuable. That way the film industry can track down the theaters where the bootlegs were recorded in and start pressuring those theater owners to keep recording devices out of their theater.
Developers take turns holding the "on-call" pager and only the "on-call" person gets paged to investigate build breaks. Now, if you checked in code that breaks the build, you might get a phone call at home. That isn't even as bad as it sounds, since check-ins need war-team approval for most of the cycle developers only check in once or twice a week, and unless you wrote un-decyperable code, the "on-call" developer will probably patch it for you.
...besides, the build lab guys like their sleep too...
Just write to the company that makes the software. If they donate it to your non-profit organization, they can deduct it from their taxes.
I work for a software company, I can buy software in the company store for a substantial discount and I end up making quite a few charitable donations this way.
Seriously, it sounds like half of the complaints that people here have with software licenses and/or pricing is that they are misapplied to you.
If you are a computer geek running a server in your basement, a $1500 license for windows advanced server isn't going to be worth it, but you still want the software so you can learn how to work with it and be better prepared to use it at work. To me, that sounds like you should be screaming for a hobbyist license rather than pirating it from work.
If you wouldn't purchase it anyway, I'm sure the software company would rather have reasonable compensation rather than have you pirate their software.
I installed my current linux server three years ago and I *HAVE* been hit with *TWO* different worms and I do try to install the latest patches when I have time. I installed them at roughly the same time to compare their performance and so far, the linux box has required significantly more work.
I don't consider myself to be a serious sysadmin, I just admin two boxes (one linux, one windows) on the internet, mostly for personal use.
To be fair, I haven't tried installing and configuring linux from scratch in the last year and a half, I just don't have that much spare time to sit down and figure out how to configure everything.
I didn't say that I wouldn't have any vulnerabilities, but no worms have yet been made to exploit them.
You run *OUTLOOK* on a SERVER???? Besides, outlook can be secured...and if you have used windows update in the last year, most of the features responsible for the virus problems are disabled.
...but if the code was written right in the first place, why do I need to install patches?
Everyone around here tends to tout the superiority of linux, but if I install a three year old version of RedHat, I am vulnerable to half a dozen worms. However, if I install Win2k and disable IIS, I don't know of any worms that I would be vunerable to.
Everyone says the patch system that microsoft has is flawed, but linux is just as bad, maybe worse.
Did you read what you just wrote: now all I do is "apt-get --config-file=/etc/apt/apt.conf.security upgrade"
Compare that to "Click Windows Update, read the list and decide which updates you need, and click next." Do you really want the general public to use linux, or do you just like Linux because it makes you look like a cool geek?...Sorry for the rant, I like to understand what changes I am applying to my system, I read bugtraq, ntbugtraq, risks, etc. Windows Update is fairly straightforward and I can quickly and easily get information about what the update with fix. My linux box was hit once via a BIND vulnerability - the fix was to upgrade to a new version of BIND, a change that would require some planning and since this was a personal server I didn't have time to do that planning. The other time I was hit, I missed a patch for FTP.
No, I am not using Debian, last time I tried (about four years ago), I gave up after a month of trying to get it installed and configured, and I went to RedHat.
Good question, why did several of the root DNS servers go down? If I remember right, they run BIND.
My guess: Flooding from infected personal boxes caused a DoS on the SQL servers and routers resulting in some service used by Windows Update to be unavailable. It is also possible that the people maintaining those servers didn't do their job, but there are other possible explanations.
Actually, it is a production box, it just happens to have fairly light load and a couple fairly small websites on it. For a while, I was getting more hits from code red than I do from visitors.
Define production how you will, compared to some it isn't a production box...for me, it is.
What is the best and fastest way for me achieve this?
Welll... It is vastly faster and cheaper to fed-ex a couple large hard drives across the country than to download files over a wire. Just find an archive, send your drives and a case of beer to the maintainers and ask them to copy their archive and send the hard drives back to you.
If you send it priority, you could have your archive in a couple days.
Funny, my linux box was infected with two worms in the last two years but my windows 2000 box hadn't been hit. Windows Update is easy to use, and I run it every few weeks, but the assorted packages on my linux box are much harder to track and keep patched so I miss patches that I should apply. I may have been hit more, these are only the hits that I noticed, but for me Windows is *already* more secure than linux.
Also, note, MSDE was installed as part of Visual Studio.NET, what do you think Microsoft's programmers use to write code? I suspect that a large percentage of the problems on Microsoft's network were caused by boxes managed by individual users.
Just because Douglas Adams wrote it? I see a lot of wisdom in that. Don't give power to those hungry for it, give it to someone who will treat it with the appropriate level of respect.
If they are capable of getting themselves made President, they already have too much power. They need to have the trust of the people, if they have control of the people then it is a dictatorship.
It seems like it would be simple to require keywords to be submitted along with a story, say "MIT, HARD DRIVE, EBAY, CREDIT CARD" or maybe even a one-line summary "MIT grads find credit card and other personal data on old hard drives purchased on ebay."
Then do a keyword search and review any articles with a 60% or greater match that was submitted within the last two months to make sure that you aren't posting a dupe.
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Hmm, interesting idea. I didn't see performance listed as a feature.
I wonder how much slower my query will be when the data is spread across several machines. I'd imagine that a few complex queries that aren't correctly optimized would bring this system to it's knees rather quickly.
Freaks like you piss me off.
Thanks! I must be doing something right if I am pissing someone off.
FYI, I spent six months the first time someone gave me that problem before I came up with a workable solution, and then I came up with four variants on the solution in the next week.
By specifying the design of the scale, I could find a single marble (heavier or lighter) out of any sized set of otherwise equally weighted marbles in exactly two weighings.
:)
Think outside the box, or in this case, outside of the scale and outside of a single dimension.
Have you tried your catalogue of bugs against recent betas of Windows Server 2003?
If so, are any of the security bugs still exploitable? Microsoft stopped new feature work for 2 months to fix security bugs and then focused heavily on security bugs since then, so these bugs should be fixed. If not, many people at Microsoft would like to know before it hits the store shelves.
I would guess that in addition to DRM, the ability to watermark a serial number into each movie would be very valuable. That way the film industry can track down the theaters where the bootlegs were recorded in and start pressuring those theater owners to keep recording devices out of their theater.
Have you heard the phrase by critics "Write once port everywhere"?
The way I head it, and said it constantly when I had to write a few small java apps, is: "Write once, Debug everywhere."
Sure, it was an earlier version of Java, but the same app had three different behaviors on three different platforms!
Custom fortune cookies: "www.monster.com"
Farscape is the only reason why I have a subscription to cable TV.
That is not quite true anymore.
...besides, the build lab guys like their sleep too...
Developers take turns holding the "on-call" pager and only the "on-call" person gets paged to investigate build breaks. Now, if you checked in code that breaks the build, you might get a phone call at home. That isn't even as bad as it sounds, since check-ins need war-team approval for most of the cycle developers only check in once or twice a week, and unless you wrote un-decyperable code, the "on-call" developer will probably patch it for you.
BTW, you don't need to run as Administrator.
There is a nice little command runas that lets you 'su' to another user.
Also, in XP, runas is a right-click option on executable desktop and start menu items.
Just write to the company that makes the software. If they donate it to your non-profit organization, they can deduct it from their taxes.
I work for a software company, I can buy software in the company store for a substantial discount and I end up making quite a few charitable donations this way.
Why not apply for software donations?
Seriously, it sounds like half of the complaints that people here have with software licenses and/or pricing is that they are misapplied to you.
If you are a computer geek running a server in your basement, a $1500 license for windows advanced server isn't going to be worth it, but you still want the software so you can learn how to work with it and be better prepared to use it at work. To me, that sounds like you should be screaming for a hobbyist license rather than pirating it from work.
If you wouldn't purchase it anyway, I'm sure the software company would rather have reasonable compensation rather than have you pirate their software.
Petition for hobbyist and student licenses!
1) The actors hadn't played the parts in so long, they had forgotten their characters.
2) The actors had all aged a good decade since the last episode and aren't as appealing anymore.
3) The plot had more holes than swiss cheese.
4) Better movies were released at the same time.
5) The previous movie was going downhill, why see another if the previous one wasn't worth paying for.
I don't thnk that moving forward from NT4 to Win2k will be trivial.
Win2k was a 5 year, from the ground up, re-write of the OS. Although, I guess Active Directory was much of that effort.
I installed my current linux server three years ago and I *HAVE* been hit with *TWO* different worms and I do try to install the latest patches when I have time. I installed them at roughly the same time to compare their performance and so far, the linux box has required significantly more work.
I don't consider myself to be a serious sysadmin, I just admin two boxes (one linux, one windows) on the internet, mostly for personal use.
To be fair, I haven't tried installing and configuring linux from scratch in the last year and a half, I just don't have that much spare time to sit down and figure out how to configure everything.
I didn't say that I wouldn't have any vulnerabilities, but no worms have yet been made to exploit them.
You run *OUTLOOK* on a SERVER???? Besides, outlook can be secured...and if you have used windows update in the last year, most of the features responsible for the virus problems are disabled.
...but if the code was written right in the first place, why do I need to install patches?
...Sorry for the rant, I like to understand what changes I am applying to my system, I read bugtraq, ntbugtraq, risks, etc. Windows Update is fairly straightforward and I can quickly and easily get information about what the update with fix. My linux box was hit once via a BIND vulnerability - the fix was to upgrade to a new version of BIND, a change that would require some planning and since this was a personal server I didn't have time to do that planning. The other time I was hit, I missed a patch for FTP.
Everyone around here tends to tout the superiority of linux, but if I install a three year old version of RedHat, I am vulnerable to half a dozen worms. However, if I install Win2k and disable IIS, I don't know of any worms that I would be vunerable to.
Everyone says the patch system that microsoft has is flawed, but linux is just as bad, maybe worse.
Did you read what you just wrote: now all I do is "apt-get --config-file=/etc/apt/apt.conf.security upgrade"
Compare that to "Click Windows Update, read the list and decide which updates you need, and click next." Do you really want the general public to use linux, or do you just like Linux because it makes you look like a cool geek?
No, I am not using Debian, last time I tried (about four years ago), I gave up after a month of trying to get it installed and configured, and I went to RedHat.
Good question, why did several of the root DNS servers go down? If I remember right, they run BIND.
My guess: Flooding from infected personal boxes caused a DoS on the SQL servers and routers resulting in some service used by Windows Update to be unavailable. It is also possible that the people maintaining those servers didn't do their job, but there are other possible explanations.
Actually, it is a production box, it just happens to have fairly light load and a couple fairly small websites on it. For a while, I was getting more hits from code red than I do from visitors.
Define production how you will, compared to some it isn't a production box...for me, it is.
Welll...
It is vastly faster and cheaper to fed-ex a couple large hard drives across the country than to download files over a wire. Just find an archive, send your drives and a case of beer to the maintainers and ask them to copy their archive and send the hard drives back to you.
If you send it priority, you could have your archive in a couple days.
Now, can we compare this with a timeline of security flaws in linux and packages frequently installed on linux like mysql, bind, apache, etc?
Funny, my linux box was infected with two worms in the last two years but my windows 2000 box hadn't been hit. Windows Update is easy to use, and I run it every few weeks, but the assorted packages on my linux box are much harder to track and keep patched so I miss patches that I should apply. I may have been hit more, these are only the hits that I noticed, but for me Windows is *already* more secure than linux.
.NET, what do you think Microsoft's programmers use to write code? I suspect that a large percentage of the problems on Microsoft's network were caused by boxes managed by individual users.
Also, note, MSDE was installed as part of Visual Studio
Why is this funny?
Just because Douglas Adams wrote it? I see a lot of wisdom in that. Don't give power to those hungry for it, give it to someone who will treat it with the appropriate level of respect.
If they are capable of getting themselves made President, they already have too much power. They need to have the trust of the people, if they have control of the people then it is a dictatorship.
Warning!!! Reality Distortion Field approaching!
I don't want a translucent-blue White House, and I still use my floppy drive!
One man's "art form" is another man's "darwin award" in-progress.
... just let me know where and when they plan to drop these, and let's hope it isn't on top of Burning Man.
It seems like it would be simple to require keywords to be submitted along with a story, say "MIT, HARD DRIVE, EBAY, CREDIT CARD" or maybe even a one-line summary "MIT grads find credit card and other personal data on old hard drives purchased on ebay."
Then do a keyword search and review any articles with a 60% or greater match that was submitted within the last two months to make sure that you aren't posting a dupe.