To a great degree, because of all this FUD being thrown about, my employer has decided to throw nearly $100K into MS's pockets to repurchase all our network infrastructure with all new W2003 servers and CALs. This is happening in lean economic times when we really cant afford it and actually have no immediate pressing need to "upgrade" our existing NT4 stuff, other than MS's end-of-lifing NT4 (and prematurely, IMHO).
Oh well, at least I'll be getting plenty of hands on experience very soon with MS's latest stuff, which will keep my MS-skillset current, and also keep my "employability" level up pretty high, so really I have no reason to complain... Eh?
Back when I was a youngster and the very first ABC Afterschool Specials were being aired... for 'commercials' we had such wonderful gems as: "Conjunction Junction What's Your Function", "I'm Only a Bill", and "Lollie Lollie Lollie Get Your Adverbs Here".
What cute little music videos will the new generation bring? Perhaps something along the lines of "Rootkit Randy Goes to Jail", "Virus Vinny He's Such a Ninny" and "You Can't Ride A Trojan Horse" (sung to the tune of Eagles' "You Can't Hide Your Lyin Eyes")???
Now, I realize you say its on an internal network only which somewhat mitigates risk but how secure is that network, really?
Obviously you didn't believe me when I said it's on a private network did you?. There are only six devices on this private network segment -- the server itself and five workstations, it is NOT routeable *anywhere* else, or even connected to any other network device period. You have to be physically present in the computer room, where I am right now, and under my personal supervision to telnet to this AIX box.
Re:Yes, we certainly do use AIX.
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how exactly does an OS pay for itself? i've got to get me one of these AIX os's...
This system as a whole, including the Oracle database and the apps which use that database, are parts of a revenue-generating organization. That organization could not operate as successfully without that system, and before it was purchased 7 years ago, our operation was done solely by manual accounting procedures. The financial benefits (expense reduction plus additional revenue) realized above and over the old manual process during that 7 year period are at least twice what that the system cost to purchase and maintain over that amount of time... so the system has made our operation more efficient and profitable.
Yes, we certainly do use AIX.
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Once again postings like this prove that Slashdot is full of CS graduates and home "experts" who wouldn't know true corporate computing environments if they slapped them in the face. Of course people use AIX.
Yes, we certainly do use AIX, and it is a fine, reliable, stable and high-performance *nix.
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CWX1 (AIX 4.2.1) Unauthorized use/access is prohibited. login: root root's Password: Last unsuccessful login: Wed May 14 13:25:58 2003 on/dev/pts/0 from netmgt1 Last login: Thu May 15 09:28:00 2003 on/dev/pts/0 from netmgt3
Yes, it's an older, outdated version of AIX, but does its job and runs too reliably to risk dorking with upgrading it. Besides, it's on a private internal network only (hence being able to telnet in as root), and runs an older version of Oracle that's quite happy on this platform. And furthermore, it's long since paid for itself over and over again.
I remember seeing an old 50's or 60's sci-fi movie back when I was in grade school, where idiot scientists drilled a hole down to the earth's mantle and all hell broke loose-- massive earthquakes, volcanoes erupting, the Earth starting to split apart along the mid-oceanic ridge. They fixed it by dropping an atomic bomb down a volcano just as the crack was approaching, in order to "stop-drill" the crack and saved the planet.
Have you ever seen central Oklahoma? The land is very flat, and everything stays so beautifully green most of the year round. It rains very often and the water table is usually pretty close to the surface. That makes this area extraordinarily good for farming... and floating basements up out of the ground, or keeping leaky ones full of water, unfortunately. Backyard concrete storm shelters are usually small enough, thick-walled enough and hence dense enough to stay put in the ground, but once you build a concrete shell the size of a typical house basement, and usually with thinner concrete walls, the larger interior volume displaced makes the overall density of the substructure less than that of water. To make the basement thick and heavy enough not to float up out of the ground and crack walls, etc, just costs too much, except for the wealthiest home builders, and unfortunately the average homebuilder/owner in OKC ain't very rich.
Seriously, tornadoes can occur *anywhere* where a _thunderstorm_ can develop. That's pretty much most of Earth's surface between the Arctic and Antarctic circle latitudes. Of course there are unique areas within these zones where thunderstorms are rare like extremely high mountain tops, etc, that interfere with thunderstorms.
Of course you can also build a city under the sea to escape them.
The word 'landed' is the key. As far as I know, all the US manned space flights before the shuttle program splashed into ocean on return. Whether you call it landing, is up to you.
Actually, in aeronautical terms, it's called ditching into the sea.
Yeah if it is a commercial airline in the USA, you leave you GPS in your luggage, turned off. That's pretty much the policy of every major airline that's still operating these days. Used to not be the case, once upon a time you could use a handheld GPS in-route (not during takeoff and landing), but one-by-one, all the airlines have added specific language to their policies forbidding their use.
I sure hope they are using more than a compass to navigate a commercial plane.
They do. The compass is there to fall back on in case the sophisticated stuff quits working for whatever reason. And yes, a cellphone can interfere with the magnetic compass. I know, I'm a private pilot and own a small aircraft. Every bit of electrically operated gear in the cabin jacks with the compass's reading. Since I *know* how the electrical equipment that's installed and certificated as part of my aircraft affects my compass, I can deal with and compensate for that since I'm intimately familiar with all that gear.
It's all the *unknown* electrical devices that are brought on board an airliner and operated by passengers, that an airline pilot doesn't need to be made to worry about and wonder how to compensate for because if the situation has deteriorated to such a bad point that he's having to use the mag compass, you want nothing to interfere with it.
Now you might want to say,"How often does everything really go wrong and the pilot have to use the old fashioned mag compass to navigate?" Well, not very often at all in fact extremely rare, but I have to ask you, "How many times have you needed the spare tire in your car"? Well, I've driven my current vehicle over 150K miles in the past 11 years and never needed it, but that still doesn't mean I'm going to remove it or let the air out of it, or not check to see if it is in roadworthy before embarking upon a long trip, so why should the airline pilots risk the integrity of their last backup spare navigation instrument just because some selfish passengers want to play with their toys on board. Hell, the passengers should consider themselves lucky they are still allowed to fly at all and not having to make do with only ground and water transportation.
I just wrote a book on 802.11 security: Here it is
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There is no such thing as viable security with 802.11. Get over it.
That's it, the whole book, two sentences, and it's free for the public domain.
If those things pass mustard, then I start actually looking at server room access...
Umm, I'll bet you really meant to say "pass muster", not mustard.
Sorry, but I'm just in a nitpicky mood this evening after fighting a problematic Cisco router all day long that turned out in the end to have bad memory in it, but never reported any memory errors.
... is not necessarily all *that* fuel consuming at all. Fuel burn to get from point A to point B depends a great deal on the aircraft. For instance I own a single engine Piper PA28. It has a maximum gross weight of 2150 lbs. The engine produces 150hp at sea level. On long cross-country flights I generally fly 7500' or 8500' MSL and burn about 8 gallons per hour at an typical average ground speed of 120mph (statute mph) depending on headwinds or tailwinds. At that altitude and power setting the engine is really only producing about 100hp. That works out to be about 15 miles per gallon, just about the same as a typical pickup truck or SUV.
Not too bad at all when you consider I'm flinging a ton of stuff eight thousand feet thru the air well in excess of a hundred miles per hour.
And it's certainly a heck of a lot more fun than driving on the highway too.
Seems like Slackware has always been around... it's alive and well today, and it will continue thriving forever. I'll bet that after the nuclear holocaust, the mutant cockroaches left wandering the planet will be running and maintaining Slackware still.
Yep, the *real* reason OSS has a change against MS
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Yep, the economy having tanked is the real reason that OSS stands a BIG improved chance at displacing MS-entrenchment.
Back in the Y2K craze and even immediately thereafter, management wanted to migrate to MS stuff because the people who can install, run, and maintain MS stuff cost a lot less money to hire and retain. Back then the real knowledgeable system professionals who knew their stuff cost a great deal more money, and were harder to hire and keep than an MS monkey. Management has known full well all along that *nix and OSS solutions are the more technologically superior, but they also knew that MS stuff is easier to slap onto a machine and an idiot can make it work. Security and reliability be damned as long as the software functions good enough. *Real* systems just cost too much money and there was always the perceived danger that your little niche of techies who were essential for keeping the harder-to-operate systems running would jump ship on you or God forbid, try to exert some leverage against management.
Now, with the economy tanked, it's much easier to hire and retain the truly knowledgeable system folks, plus the acquisition costs of OSS are right:-) so these two things acting together are synergistically giving OSS the "market" boost it need right now to displace uhh, ermmm, "expensive legacy systems" we all love to hate.
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I can see those headlines in tomorrow's IBM company newsletter.
To a great degree, because of all this FUD being thrown about, my employer has decided to throw nearly $100K into MS's pockets to repurchase all our network infrastructure with all new W2003 servers and CALs. This is happening in lean economic times when we really cant afford it and actually have no immediate pressing need to "upgrade" our existing NT4 stuff, other than MS's end-of-lifing NT4 (and prematurely, IMHO).
Oh well, at least I'll be getting plenty of hands on experience very soon with MS's latest stuff, which will keep my MS-skillset current, and also keep my "employability" level up pretty high, so really I have no reason to complain... Eh?
Microsoft must âoeimprove business consistencyâ so that customers are not hit with unexpected â" and unwanted â" changes.
You mean like finding out after you've bought into the expensive Windows 2003 Server upgrade, you find out that many of your mission-critical software packages, even Microsoft's own products are incompatible with 2003 and you'll have to buy those all over again too?
The real question is what the tripod was for? And did it have anything to do with him on the couch
;-)
I think the real question is: Is Dain's last name "Bramage"?
Inquisitive minds just gotta ask....
Sorry I couldn't resist.
Back when I was a youngster and the very first ABC Afterschool Specials were being aired... for 'commercials' we had such wonderful gems as: "Conjunction Junction What's Your Function", "I'm Only a Bill", and "Lollie Lollie Lollie Get Your Adverbs Here".
What cute little music videos will the new generation bring? Perhaps something along the lines of "Rootkit Randy Goes to Jail", "Virus Vinny He's Such a Ninny" and "You Can't Ride A Trojan Horse" (sung to the tune of Eagles' "You Can't Hide Your Lyin Eyes")???
Yeah, but contrary to your analogy.... a supernova is also pretty bright. Need I say more?
... about roasting stomachs?
Now, I realize you say its on an internal network only which somewhat mitigates risk but how secure is that network, really?
Obviously you didn't believe me when I said it's on a private network did you?. There are only six devices on this private network segment -- the server itself and five workstations, it is NOT routeable *anywhere* else, or even connected to any other network device period. You have to be physically present in the computer room, where I am right now, and under my personal supervision to telnet to this AIX box.
how exactly does an OS pay for itself? i've got to get me one of these AIX os's...
This system as a whole, including the Oracle database and the apps which use that database, are parts of a revenue-generating organization. That organization could not operate as successfully without that system, and before it was purchased 7 years ago, our operation was done solely by manual accounting procedures. The financial benefits (expense reduction plus additional revenue) realized above and over the old manual process during that 7 year period are at least twice what that the system cost to purchase and maintain over that amount of time... so the system has made our operation more efficient and profitable.
Once again postings like this prove that Slashdot is full of CS graduates and home "experts" who wouldn't know true corporate computing environments if they slapped them in the face. Of course people use AIX.
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Yes, we certainly do use AIX, and it is a fine, reliable, stable and high-performance *nix.
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CWX1 (AIX 4.2.1) Unauthorized use/access is prohibited.
login: root
root's Password:
Last unsuccessful login: Wed May 14 13:25:58 2003 on
Last login: Thu May 15 09:28:00 2003 on
Determining terminal type, please wait...
Terminal recognized as vt220 (DEC VT220)
TERM=vt220
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AIX cwx1 2 4 00054848A100
/ >#uptime
10:41AM up 337 days, 12:13, 4 users, load average: 0.19, 0.22, 0.54
/ >#
Yes, it's an older, outdated version of AIX, but does its job and runs too reliably to risk dorking with upgrading it. Besides, it's on a private internal network only (hence being able to telnet in as root), and runs an older version of Oracle that's quite happy on this platform. And furthermore, it's long since paid for itself over and over again.
Seems like lots of /.'ers have seen it too, my memory was a bit foggy about it since it's been over 25 years since I've seen it last.
I remember seeing an old 50's or 60's sci-fi movie back when I was in grade school, where idiot scientists drilled a hole down to the earth's mantle and all hell broke loose-- massive earthquakes, volcanoes erupting, the Earth starting to split apart along the mid-oceanic ridge. They fixed it by dropping an atomic bomb down a volcano just as the crack was approaching, in order to "stop-drill" the crack and saved the planet.
Have you ever seen central Oklahoma? The land is very flat, and everything stays so beautifully green most of the year round. It rains very often and the water table is usually pretty close to the surface. That makes this area extraordinarily good for farming... and floating basements up out of the ground, or keeping leaky ones full of water, unfortunately. Backyard concrete storm shelters are usually small enough, thick-walled enough and hence dense enough to stay put in the ground, but once you build a concrete shell the size of a typical house basement, and usually with thinner concrete walls, the larger interior volume displaced makes the overall density of the substructure less than that of water. To make the basement thick and heavy enough not to float up out of the ground and crack walls, etc, just costs too much, except for the wealthiest home builders, and unfortunately the average homebuilder/owner in OKC ain't very rich.
You mean move to another planet???
Seriously, tornadoes can occur *anywhere* where a _thunderstorm_ can develop. That's pretty much most of Earth's surface between the Arctic and Antarctic circle latitudes. Of course there are unique areas within these zones where thunderstorms are rare like extremely high mountain tops, etc, that interfere with thunderstorms.
Of course you can also build a city under the sea to escape them.
Face the music boys and girls. Hacker and Cracker are indeed synonyms now. We lost that battle. Time to move on.
Even CowboyNeal knows that or he wouldn't have used "Hacker".
The word 'landed' is the key. As far as I know, all the US manned space flights before the shuttle program splashed into ocean on return. Whether you call it landing, is up to you.
Actually, in aeronautical terms, it's called ditching into the sea.
Hmmm, you're right. Delta still allows them to be used, but only once you're in the enroute cruise phase of flight.
United's website does not mention handheld GPS units one way or the other.
Anyone the rules about a GPS on a plane?
Yeah if it is a commercial airline in the USA, you leave you GPS in your luggage, turned off. That's pretty much the policy of every major airline that's still operating these days. Used to not be the case, once upon a time you could use a handheld GPS in-route (not during takeoff and landing), but one-by-one, all the airlines have added specific language to their policies forbidding their use.
I sure hope they are using more than a compass to navigate a commercial plane.
They do.
The compass is there to fall back on in case the sophisticated stuff quits working for whatever reason. And yes, a cellphone can interfere with the magnetic compass. I know, I'm a private pilot and own a small aircraft. Every bit of electrically operated gear in the cabin jacks with the compass's reading. Since I *know* how the electrical equipment that's installed and certificated as part of my aircraft affects my compass, I can deal with and compensate for that since I'm intimately familiar with all that gear.
It's all the *unknown* electrical devices that are brought on board an airliner and operated by passengers, that an airline pilot doesn't need to be made to worry about and wonder how to compensate for because if the situation has deteriorated to such a bad point that he's having to use the mag compass, you want nothing to interfere with it.
Now you might want to say,"How often does everything really go wrong and the pilot have to use the old fashioned mag compass to navigate?" Well, not very often at all in fact extremely rare, but I have to ask you, "How many times have you needed the spare tire in your car"? Well, I've driven my current vehicle over 150K miles in the past 11 years and never needed it, but that still doesn't mean I'm going to remove it or let the air out of it, or not check to see if it is in roadworthy before embarking upon a long trip, so why should the airline pilots risk the integrity of their last backup spare navigation instrument just because some selfish passengers want to play with their toys on board. Hell, the passengers should consider themselves lucky they are still allowed to fly at all and not having to make do with only ground and water transportation.
There is no such thing as viable security with 802.11. Get over it.
That's it, the whole book, two sentences, and it's free for the public domain.
If those things pass mustard, then I start actually looking at server room access...
Umm, I'll bet you really meant to say "pass muster", not mustard.
Sorry, but I'm just in a nitpicky mood this evening after fighting a problematic Cisco router all day long that turned out in the end to have bad memory in it, but never reported any memory errors.
Still only works with Lotus R5 :-(.
It sure would be useful to me if it would support Lotus Notes 6.
... is not necessarily all *that* fuel consuming at all. Fuel burn to get from point A to point B depends a great deal on the aircraft. For instance I own a single engine Piper PA28. It has a maximum gross weight of 2150 lbs. The engine produces 150hp at sea level. On long cross-country flights I generally fly 7500' or 8500' MSL and burn about 8 gallons per hour at an typical average ground speed of 120mph (statute mph) depending on headwinds or tailwinds. At that altitude and power setting the engine is really only producing about 100hp. That works out to be about 15 miles per gallon, just about the same as a typical pickup truck or SUV.
Not too bad at all when you consider I'm flinging a ton of stuff eight thousand feet thru the air well in excess of a hundred miles per hour.
And it's certainly a heck of a lot more fun than driving on the highway too.
Seems like Slackware has always been around... it's alive and well today, and it will continue thriving forever. I'll bet that after the nuclear holocaust, the mutant cockroaches left wandering the planet will be running and maintaining Slackware still.
Yep, the economy having tanked is the real reason that OSS stands a BIG improved chance at displacing MS-entrenchment.
:-) so these two things acting together are synergistically giving OSS the "market" boost it need right now to displace uhh, ermmm, "expensive legacy systems" we all love to hate.
Back in the Y2K craze and even immediately thereafter, management wanted to migrate to MS stuff because the people who can install, run, and maintain MS stuff cost a lot less money to hire and retain. Back then the real knowledgeable system professionals who knew their stuff cost a great deal more money, and were harder to hire and keep than an MS monkey. Management has known full well all along that *nix and OSS solutions are the more technologically superior, but they also knew that MS stuff is easier to slap onto a machine and an idiot can make it work. Security and reliability be damned as long as the software functions good enough. *Real* systems just cost too much money and there was always the perceived danger that your little niche of techies who were essential for keeping the harder-to-operate systems running would jump ship on you or God forbid, try to exert some leverage against management.
Now, with the economy tanked, it's much easier to hire and retain the truly knowledgeable system folks, plus the acquisition costs of OSS are right