Seriously? What you have is not a "server", it's a PC in a rack chassis. Any decent computer designed to go into a datacenter will have a redundant PSU, and a BMC that will log and alert you that one same has failed. I'm responsible for computers that I've literally never seen, and it's really not that big a deal.
The only reason you wouldn't be able to remotely enter in a boot-time decryption password, is if you don't have any remote managementcapabilities on this server. If this is the case, you should get just better hardware.
I have never been asked that in my life. SSN, mother's maiden name, billing address, but never for characters of my password for the account in question.
Where did you run into this, so I can make sure never to do business with them?
The real WTF is that all those passwords were in the clear. What the hell business does anyone have these days, doing anything more than storing a one-way hash?
Just as a point of comparison, the typical latency you want in pro audio applications between when a guitarist plucks a string, and when they hear the note, is less than 15ms. This makes me think that the 80ms might be *acceptable*, but it's by no means ideal.
For the love of $DIETY why the fuck is it that the government feels the need to call anything that has the slightest thing to do with information technology "Cyber." I'm cybersick of cybermorons in cybergovernment cyberthinking they cyberknow cyberanything about cyberanything.
What would be a "worst case" scenario for internet warfare (I *hate* the term "cyber") against the US. What are some specific scenarios you're trying to defend against? Do you consider, for example, the rampant credit card fraud on the internet to be a form of economic warfare against the US at this point? How will you go about shoring up the security of our network infrastructure against massive, coordinated intrusion or denial-of-service?
Seriously though, software package support is a major failing of Solaris, and I say this having been both a linux and solaris admin for over ten years.
First of all, there are no fewer than THREE different F/OSS software stacks to use - coolstack, blastwave, and sunfreeware. Choice is fine, but redundancy is bad. I didn't understand why many admins define every executable in a shell script as a hard-coded variable until I realized that there was a/usr/bin/tar,/usr/ucb/tar,/usr/xpg4/tar,/opt/csw/bin/gtar,/opt/coolstack/bin/tar,/opt/sfw/bin/gtar, and so forth.
Second of all, none of the three of these have the amazing dependency handling of a modern linux package manager like apt. I can install a basic debian box, type apt-get install bugzilla, and have it pull down apache2, mod_perl, mysql, install and configure the bugzilla database, download and enable all the mysql modules for perl and apache, ALL IN ONE COMMAND. It takes several hours to do the same thing in Solaris.
I'm not saying that Solaris is useless, or that Linux is perfect, just that the original poster is dead on the money that Solaris application support (or whatever you want to call software packaging) is years behind.
Thanks a lot for linking to an article that puts perfectly good plaintext info into a craptastic, poorly supported, embedded flash image that won't even load in 64-bit linux. Scribd sucks so badly it makes black holes jealous. There's already a document format for the internet, fuckers - it's called HTML. Might look into it.
You know, this argument is really annoying. If AT&T decided to delete all traffic from your personal website, would that still not be censorship? How about if one of the handful* of owners of all media in the US decided to ignore your political party?
Sufficiently large multinational corporations, for all intents and purposes, are equivalent to governments, just without all the checks and balances. Not saying Apple here, but your argument is semantic, not reasoned.
*Literally, five or six corporations own virtually every mass media outlet in the United States.
Um, several million DJs are pretty sure you're wrong. Virtually all new music that can be danced to is released on vinyl - not reissues or new stock vintage, but actual new pressings of new music.
Yes, there was about a 5-10 year period after 1988 where records were difficult to get, but that's long past. Get with the times, man!
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It's where you use a delimiter to divide elements in a string for easy parsing;)
Servers you right for getting a D-Link. Worst. Home networking kit. Ever. Did you do it to save the $10 over a Netgear or Linksys, or did you fall for the "super-high-speed pre-release 118Mb wireless that will never work with anything else on the market"?
Not sure I agree with you there - I would say there was quite a long period of time; let's say 2000 through whenever Intel '86ed their single-core lineup, when OSes *were* able to take advantage of SMP, and most users didn't have it. Maybe people didn't know how much better things would be with a second CPU, but they sure knew they didn't have "the snappy".
You're wrong - multi-page TIFF is a real image format, as about 2 seconds with Google would have told you if you'd bother to check. We used it extensively at a copy shop I used to work at that served law firms.
What the OP wants is to use ghostscript as a converter from PDF to TIFF. If I recall correctly, you can specify multi-page TIFF as an output format.
Bull crap - there are plenty of non OSS/FSF licensed SSH implementations, go to freaking SSH.Com if you don't believe me.
What I think you *meant* was, "its unlikely that they were able to give the box ssh ability without using any of the FSF copyrighted material" and still keep it at a price palatable to the mass market. These companies all want the convenience of a closed license without the cost.
CBCNews.ca: So theoretically an internet service provider could sell customers a dedicated peer-to-peer YouTube/Myspace/ESPN router, that runs passably well for corporate sites, and like shit for the self-published web?
Caputo: Conceivably. The beauty is to let the market figure it out, and it will.
Better yet, start going through, and publishing the contents of, politicians' garbage. There's a ton of precedent now that people's trash on city streets is not protected private property anymore, let's see how some mayors and police chiefs like having the contents of their fridge, or unshredded paperwork disclosed.
Depends on how big your business is, but if you have servers in a datacenter, chances are their terms of service explicitly prohibit what your boss wants to do. If you can track down those terms, you can simply explain to your boss that he or she is risking getting the company kicked off the internet.
If that fails, then go ahead and spam, then wait for the SpamCop complaints to go to your ISP, who will then send you a nastygram explaining the above that you can show to your boss. "We can't do this again or Global Crossing [or whoever] will cancel our contract."
My only complaint with the book was that the chapter on network configuration seemed to be rather long. For a person working with Xen at a business level, especially mid-size to enterprise, this chapter provided an excellent amount of insight and information. But for the person at home building his/her own test server for simple purposes, much of the content in this chapter was overkill.
You know, I can't agree with you there, on account of my being an IT professional evaluating xen for a mid-sized to enterprise business. On one hand, your review told me this book will probably be quite helpful for setting up xen in complex network environments. On the other hand, you seem to be looking for a couple HOW-TO documents and a PHP forum aimed at amateur home installations.
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Seriously? What you have is not a "server", it's a PC in a rack chassis. Any decent computer designed to go into a datacenter will have a redundant PSU, and a BMC that will log and alert you that one same has failed. I'm responsible for computers that I've literally never seen, and it's really not that big a deal.
The only reason you wouldn't be able to remotely enter in a boot-time decryption password, is if you don't have any remote management capabilities on this server. If this is the case, you should get just better hardware.
I have never been asked that in my life. SSN, mother's maiden name, billing address, but never for characters of my password for the account in question. Where did you run into this, so I can make sure never to do business with them?
The real WTF is that all those passwords were in the clear. What the hell business does anyone have these days, doing anything more than storing a one-way hash?
Just as a point of comparison, the typical latency you want in pro audio applications between when a guitarist plucks a string, and when they hear the note, is less than 15ms. This makes me think that the 80ms might be *acceptable*, but it's by no means ideal.
Clojure, Rails, Hadoop, jeez - what's next, white belts and fixed-gear bicycles? This is probably what these guys look like.
You can't help but wonder if these failures aren't a coincidence.
2x more powerful, is included in the set of "up to" 1000x more powerful.
You see, unlike us savage Americans, the British know that it's not a violation of privacy if the government are the ones watching you.
Google should just cut a deal with parliament to use the 88,000,023 cameras already installed across the UK.
For the love of $DIETY why the fuck is it that the government feels the need to call anything that has the slightest thing to do with information technology "Cyber." I'm cybersick of cybermorons in cybergovernment cyberthinking they cyberknow cyberanything about cyberanything.
What would be a "worst case" scenario for internet warfare (I *hate* the term "cyber") against the US. What are some specific scenarios you're trying to defend against? Do you consider, for example, the rampant credit card fraud on the internet to be a form of economic warfare against the US at this point? How will you go about shoring up the security of our network infrastructure against massive, coordinated intrusion or denial-of-service?
Seriously though, software package support is a major failing of Solaris, and I say this having been both a linux and solaris admin for over ten years.
First of all, there are no fewer than THREE different F/OSS software stacks to use - coolstack, blastwave, and sunfreeware. Choice is fine, but redundancy is bad. I didn't understand why many admins define every executable in a shell script as a hard-coded variable until I realized that there was a /usr/bin/tar, /usr/ucb/tar, /usr/xpg4/tar, /opt/csw/bin/gtar, /opt/coolstack/bin/tar, /opt/sfw/bin/gtar, and so forth.
Second of all, none of the three of these have the amazing dependency handling of a modern linux package manager like apt. I can install a basic debian box, type apt-get install bugzilla, and have it pull down apache2, mod_perl, mysql, install and configure the bugzilla database, download and enable all the mysql modules for perl and apache, ALL IN ONE COMMAND. It takes several hours to do the same thing in Solaris.
I'm not saying that Solaris is useless, or that Linux is perfect, just that the original poster is dead on the money that Solaris application support (or whatever you want to call software packaging) is years behind.
Thanks a lot for linking to an article that puts perfectly good plaintext info into a craptastic, poorly supported, embedded flash image that won't even load in 64-bit linux. Scribd sucks so badly it makes black holes jealous. There's already a document format for the internet, fuckers - it's called HTML. Might look into it.
You know, this argument is really annoying. If AT&T decided to delete all traffic from your personal website, would that still not be censorship? How about if one of the handful* of owners of all media in the US decided to ignore your political party?
Sufficiently large multinational corporations, for all intents and purposes, are equivalent to governments, just without all the checks and balances. Not saying Apple here, but your argument is semantic, not reasoned.
*Literally, five or six corporations own virtually every mass media outlet in the United States.
It's not a dwarf planet, it's a Plutoid. Give #9 a little respect people.
Um, several million DJs are pretty sure you're wrong. Virtually all new music that can be danced to is released on vinyl - not reissues or new stock vintage, but actual new pressings of new music.
Yes, there was about a 5-10 year period after 1988 where records were difficult to get, but that's long past. Get with the times, man!
It's where you use a delimiter to divide elements in a string for easy parsing ;)
Servers you right for getting a D-Link. Worst. Home networking kit. Ever. Did you do it to save the $10 over a Netgear or Linksys, or did you fall for the "super-high-speed pre-release 118Mb wireless that will never work with anything else on the market"?
Not sure I agree with you there - I would say there was quite a long period of time; let's say 2000 through whenever Intel '86ed their single-core lineup, when OSes *were* able to take advantage of SMP, and most users didn't have it. Maybe people didn't know how much better things would be with a second CPU, but they sure knew they didn't have "the snappy".
You're wrong - multi-page TIFF is a real image format, as about 2 seconds with Google would have told you if you'd bother to check. We used it extensively at a copy shop I used to work at that served law firms. What the OP wants is to use ghostscript as a converter from PDF to TIFF. If I recall correctly, you can specify multi-page TIFF as an output format.
Bull crap - there are plenty of non OSS/FSF licensed SSH implementations, go to freaking SSH.Com if you don't believe me. What I think you *meant* was, "its unlikely that they were able to give the box ssh ability without using any of the FSF copyrighted material" and still keep it at a price palatable to the mass market. These companies all want the convenience of a closed license without the cost.
There - FTFY
Better yet, start going through, and publishing the contents of, politicians' garbage. There's a ton of precedent now that people's trash on city streets is not protected private property anymore, let's see how some mayors and police chiefs like having the contents of their fridge, or unshredded paperwork disclosed.
In fact, someone already beat me to it:
http://cryptome.org/tia-brass.htm
Depends on how big your business is, but if you have servers in a datacenter, chances are their terms of service explicitly prohibit what your boss wants to do. If you can track down those terms, you can simply explain to your boss that he or she is risking getting the company kicked off the internet.
If that fails, then go ahead and spam, then wait for the SpamCop complaints to go to your ISP, who will then send you a nastygram explaining the above that you can show to your boss. "We can't do this again or Global Crossing [or whoever] will cancel our contract."
You know, I can't agree with you there, on account of my being an IT professional evaluating xen for a mid-sized to enterprise business. On one hand, your review told me this book will probably be quite helpful for setting up xen in complex network environments. On the other hand, you seem to be looking for a couple HOW-TO documents and a PHP forum aimed at amateur home installations.