I do exactly what they say in the article. Buy a 15$ shell, then remove it when you travel somewhere potentially sensitive.
I've been told by a few infosec types that laptop stickers actually DETER the average petty crook because it can make them potentially individually identifiable.
Duh I guess I did say that didnt I in the subject didnt I. Well I might have been a little over the top with my subject selection but my points still stand.
Just thought that I'd note that for years IBM has been trying to make AIX's administration more Linux-like so SystemP administrators can use overlaping skillsets for the 2 OSs that run on SystemP. Whats the 'L' in AIX5L stand for... thats right "Linux"
I dont understand how Sun can be seen as innovative anymore. They just lurch this way and that, never following any kind of coherant strategy.
Im sorry, but in my opinion this thing is next to worthless. I cant really think of a single application that you would want 20 TB concentrated into one server chassis. I mean, its not like you can attach this thing to a SAN and carve off LUNS to utilize the space from other devices in the fabric. The only interesting thing about this server is the shock factor of 20TB in it. Once you realize that you can get the same thing in a SAN attached array from vendors like Nexsan for way cheaper, it really becomes sort of another stupid Sun gimmick.
This is old news. Capacity Optimized Storage has been out and in use for several years now.
I just got through evalutating de-duplication products for the company I work for, and contrary to what the article states, this technology is indeed being used today. Three main companies are vendors of de-duplication compression: Diligent, Data Domain, and Avamar. After looking at this stuff for 3 months, I can tell you it ISNT smoke and mirrors and the technology DOES work. Some other posters have stated correctly however -- the compression factor increases based on how often the devices see the same data. For example, you back up a SQL server to the device, you might get a more reasonable 4:1 compression ration but subsequent backups you get a 98% compression on that same data.
Diligent is a fibre-attached gateway that will use whatever LUN is presented to it in a SAN. Its weakness is that the powerhouse features such as replication/open file system seem to be vaporware, limiting its usefulness for any serious applications.
Avamar is a rip-n-replace soup-to-nuts replacement for your existing backup infrastructure. That is its strength and its weakness. No company with a Veritas Netbackup infrastructure that it has built over the course of a decade is going to tear it out overnight to replace it. However it is a VERY cool product as it does all the compression on the client end so backing up a 20gb server might take 6 hours the first time but subsequent times the same server will back up in like 6 MINUTES.
Data Domain basically makes hardware appliances that do the same type of compression on the hardware end, they make devices that work with existing infrastructure. Basically you target the Data Domain box instead of your tape library. They have the advantage of basically being a 'snap-in' replacement for tape. The disadvantage is that unlike Avamar you are still piping ALL the data off of the server to the device where the compression happens. They have a good replications system, and seem to be a neck ahead of the other vendors in he COS horse race.
COS is great technology and it solves a lot of backup headache.
So what's the problem here? It surely isn't my "libertarian BS"; it's your precious regulatory agencies giving out monopoly power out to providers. The solution here isn't more regulation.
I agree, the solution is a level regulatory playing field for all broadband providers.
There needs to be SOME kind or regulatory oversight in the telecom industry, Im sure even you can admit that. Otherwise no one who doesnt live around a metro area would be able to get phone service because it isnt profitable.
If I cared about "fair" and "competition", I would be giving out a dollar to every stranger on the street, just cause I'm a nice guy like that. I am not a nice guy; I'm a guy who doesn't want to be robbed by "fairness".
huh?
The U.S. does not pay more per megabit than any other country, that's pure bullshit.
Believe it or not it isnt BS. Here I pay 50$ a month for 3 megabits, in Japan for example, they pay the equivelent of about 25$ for about 50 megabits. Business Week, hardly a liberal bastion even says "The U.S. has steadily fallen behind other nations, both in terms of the share of the population with broadband and the speed of those connections."
But even if it wasn't, so what? Is it your god-given right to get "affordable" broadband out of another person's pocket? How can you justify it?
I'm not asking anyone to subsidize anything. I'm asking for the govt to level the playing field so competitive forces can take over.
This whole/. topic would be a non-issue if I could pick my cable Broadband provider. If my provider did something I didnt like then I could go the the competition. As it stands I cant do that now.
To reiterate my point, if Vonage wants to not be regulated, it should not expect others to be regulated for its benefit.
Sure, this libertarian BS sounds nice, but you have to factor in the fact that the major ISP's are not playing on a level playing field to begin with. If you really expect this approach to work then the government would have to completly remove itself from the equasion. Look at DSL vs. Cable today. ILECs are forced by regulatory agencies to allow competitive use of its networks, cable is not in any substative way. Fair market in action? NOT. Sure, you have a choice with DSL. You can see in the article that Qwest is more than happy to service raw bandwidth customers. Cable, which is able to handle a greater service are has no substantial competition.
If you really want fair market competition:
You have to allow any given provider to service an area. This is what the FCC USED to do before it got into censoring free speech- dole out spectrum to businesses. Since this is obviously not going to happen, becasue spectrum is limited, a simple solution would solve our problems. Force Cable to open their networks. The emperical evidence it there, US pays more per megabit than nearly every other first world country.
A) I can get cable or DSL - Whoopee! Cable blocks my Vonage, so I'm going with the Local DSL provider down the street. Ain't the free market grand??!??
B) Crap, I can only get cable, they block my Vonage, I have no option but to bend over and accept it.
So you can see that in a regulatory vaccum your theory might work, but we dont live in that world.
OTOH the NT kernel is not even comparable to the Linux kernel. There is simply hands down a hundred things the Linux kernel can do that the NT kernel can't in it's current state. Software raid(as i mentioned in another post) seperate cli/gui, removing internet explorer, real filesystem choices, etc etc etc.
And there are probably a hundred things that the NT kernel does better than Linux. None of the things that you have listed, with the exception of RAID, which Windows does do, are really kernel functions. Uninstalling IE? That makes the Linux kernel better how, again?
As far as filesystems go, NTFS is just, well a fairly decent filesystem. Linux, just lately is getting ACL support in various filesystems which has been around since the original NT.
I have to agree with the OP. The differences in the kernel are fairly trivial to the sucesses or demises of either operating systems.
Ok, I'll give you that, but IMO there was really no 'story' playing out in Doom 1,2. There was some text scroll that told you what was going on, and that was about it. In HL you leared what was going on by playing the game, not by reading the text between levels.
Art in the way that "Dogs Playing Poker" is art. I would go further than others in this thread, and say that Doom 3 could potentially be the biggest gaming let down in years. The game has NO original traits. Everything you tout about the game has been done, and done better in other products. The story is a re-hash of Halflife, the scenery tedious. The audio files do nothing for the game, other than having to listen to some guy ramble about medical files for 3 minuts just so you can deduce a locker code with a medikit in it. The videos that tell a story through the game was lamely lifted from Max Payne.
You want to play a FUN FPS, get yourself a copy of FarCry.
A hole with conditions. When I want to open a hole, do i just open it? Or should I use a method that will allow me to utilize a multitude of encryption and identity management options.
> they can provide clear access to your internal network
Remember, A good firewall/VPN solution will allow you to apply policies to tunneled traffic just like you would plain traffic. For example, my firewall allows you to filter traffic coming down a tunnel by src, dest, proto, etc. If all I want a user to access over VPN is Webmail and Intranet, I can apply a policy to allow only those destinations and protocols.
I will agree that a BAD vpn setup can be almost as bad as not having a firewall at all.
Info Security IMO is about mitigation. What can I best do to contain the external threat? identity management-yup, encryption-yup. VPN is most definitely a important part of any Admins toolkit.
Slashdot whines when there is no competition in an industry. Then turns around and whines when there is.
The only thing that will come out of this is better video cards faster and cheaper. All the shenanigans? Who cares. Let the companies duke it out in the marketing sphere. You really cant go wrong with either brand.
For every Falcon 4 there are 20 titles that we never hear about becasue they miss their market window, and are cancelled even before initial release. Anyone who has worked in a development house knows that overengineering (feature creep) is almost more of a danger than underengineering. A good orginization will know when to say 'enough' and freeze the design so the darn thing can get done!
My feelings exactly....Valve is doing a better job at 'being' ID than ID is. Valve has surpassed ID as the most innovative FPS creators. -- ID is sooooo 1990's.
I think the "it'll be out when it is done" is a dumb way to run a business. A better motto would be "it BETTER be out before there are a dozen games on the market that top what we are making." Because that is EXACTLY what is happeining. At some point they need to freeze the technology, and move toward release.
Phaser 7700 does not have this problem. We have a 7700 in the office and it has a first page out time of like 30 seconds. When we run some sales materials we can crank out like 500 duplexed sheets in a half hour. Quality is the best I have ever seen in a printer, including inkjets.
Sorry, without the guide functionality a home-brew PVR will never be as good. If I just wanted to record shows I would use a VCR. Tivo has functionality above and beyond that becasue of its guide services that let you search for shows, record all unique showings of a program, etc. People who say their homebrew PVRS are as good are missing the point.
Living in MN you seem to have the inside track on tons of MST3k jokes that no one else would get.
For instance several mentions are made to Minnesota institutions such as: Chanhassen Dinner Theater, Guthrie, Brainerd National Raceway, Crow's latest screenplay: "Peter Graves Goes to the University of Minnesota", And the all important fishing reference "Oh, that'll put your panfish down for a couple hours."
Personally I would take any of the Williams Street toons over most Anime any day of the week. Sealab 2021 is one of the wierdest toons I have ever seen, but one of the funniest as well.
As close as I want to get to Anime is Thunderclese, the gundam-style robot on the Brak Show. "Are you here to destroy my lawn?" "Be forewarned, three hams will surely kill him"
Adding Futurama will really round out the concept.
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I do exactly what they say in the article. Buy a 15$ shell, then remove it when you travel somewhere potentially sensitive.
I've been told by a few infosec types that laptop stickers actually DETER the average petty crook because it can make them potentially individually identifiable.
Supercollider? I just met her. And then they built the supercollider. Thank you you've been a great audience.
You could level a character to 70 no problem in 4 weeks. Enjoy!
Duh I guess I did say that didnt I in the subject didnt I. Well I might have been a little over the top with my subject selection but my points still stand.
First of all I never said that Sun was copying IBM. I said that Sun isn't doing anything new by making a commercial UNIX more Linux-like.
Second of all, open-sourcing a piece of software =! innovation. Its a business/licensing decision.
Just thought that I'd note that for years IBM has been trying to make AIX's administration more Linux-like so SystemP administrators can use overlaping skillsets for the 2 OSs that run on SystemP. Whats the 'L' in AIX5L stand for... thats right "Linux"
I dont understand how Sun can be seen as innovative anymore. They just lurch this way and that, never following any kind of coherant strategy.
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Im sorry, but in my opinion this thing is next to worthless. I cant really think of a single application that you would want 20 TB concentrated into one server chassis. I mean, its not like you can attach this thing to a SAN and carve off LUNS to utilize the space from other devices in the fabric. The only interesting thing about this server is the shock factor of 20TB in it. Once you realize that you can get the same thing in a SAN attached array from vendors like Nexsan for way cheaper, it really becomes sort of another stupid Sun gimmick.
Oh man.... Now I have to go Wikipedia 'agitprop'.
This is old news. Capacity Optimized Storage has been out and in use for several years now.
I just got through evalutating de-duplication products for the company I work for, and contrary to what the article states, this technology is indeed being used today. Three main companies are vendors of de-duplication compression: Diligent, Data Domain, and Avamar. After looking at this stuff for 3 months, I can tell you it ISNT smoke and mirrors and the technology DOES work. Some other posters have stated correctly however -- the compression factor increases based on how often the devices see the same data. For example, you back up a SQL server to the device, you might get a more reasonable 4:1 compression ration but subsequent backups you get a 98% compression on that same data.
Diligent is a fibre-attached gateway that will use whatever LUN is presented to it in a SAN. Its weakness is that the powerhouse features such as replication/open file system seem to be vaporware, limiting its usefulness for any serious applications.
Avamar is a rip-n-replace soup-to-nuts replacement for your existing backup infrastructure. That is its strength and its weakness. No company with a Veritas Netbackup infrastructure that it has built over the course of a decade is going to tear it out overnight to replace it. However it is a VERY cool product as it does all the compression on the client end so backing up a 20gb server might take 6 hours the first time but subsequent times the same server will back up in like 6 MINUTES.
Data Domain basically makes hardware appliances that do the same type of compression on the hardware end, they make devices that work with existing infrastructure. Basically you target the Data Domain box instead of your tape library. They have the advantage of basically being a 'snap-in' replacement for tape. The disadvantage is that unlike Avamar you are still piping ALL the data off of the server to the device where the compression happens. They have a good replications system, and seem to be a neck ahead of the other vendors in he COS horse race.
COS is great technology and it solves a lot of backup headache.
So what's the problem here? It surely isn't my "libertarian BS"; it's your precious regulatory agencies giving out monopoly power out to providers. The solution here isn't more regulation.
/. topic would be a non-issue if I could pick my cable Broadband provider. If my provider did something I didnt like then I could go the the competition. As it stands I cant do that now.
I agree, the solution is a level regulatory playing field for all broadband providers.
There needs to be SOME kind or regulatory oversight in the telecom industry, Im sure even you can admit that. Otherwise no one who doesnt live around a metro area would be able to get phone service because it isnt profitable.
If I cared about "fair" and "competition", I would be giving out a dollar to every stranger on the street, just cause I'm a nice guy like that. I am not a nice guy; I'm a guy who doesn't want to be robbed by "fairness".
huh?
The U.S. does not pay more per megabit than any other country, that's pure bullshit.
Believe it or not it isnt BS. Here I pay 50$ a month for 3 megabits, in Japan for example, they pay the equivelent of about 25$ for about 50 megabits. Business Week, hardly a liberal bastion even says "The U.S. has steadily fallen behind other nations, both in terms of the share of the population with broadband and the speed of those connections."
But even if it wasn't, so what? Is it your god-given right to get "affordable" broadband out of another person's pocket? How can you justify it?
I'm not asking anyone to subsidize anything. I'm asking for the govt to level the playing field so competitive forces can take over.
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To reiterate my point, if Vonage wants to not be regulated, it should not expect others to be regulated for its benefit.
Sure, this libertarian BS sounds nice, but you have to factor in the fact that the major ISP's are not playing on a level playing field to begin with. If you really expect this approach to work then the government would have to completly remove itself from the equasion. Look at DSL vs. Cable today. ILECs are forced by regulatory agencies to allow competitive use of its networks, cable is not in any substative way. Fair market in action? NOT. Sure, you have a choice with DSL. You can see in the article that Qwest is more than happy to service raw bandwidth customers. Cable, which is able to handle a greater service are has no substantial competition.
If you really want fair market competition:
You have to allow any given provider to service an area. This is what the FCC USED to do before it got into censoring free speech- dole out spectrum to businesses. Since this is obviously not going to happen, becasue spectrum is limited, a simple solution would solve our problems. Force Cable to open their networks. The emperical evidence it there, US pays more per megabit than nearly every other first world country.
A) I can get cable or DSL - Whoopee! Cable blocks my Vonage, so I'm going with the Local DSL provider down the street. Ain't the free market grand??!??
B) Crap, I can only get cable, they block my Vonage, I have no option but to bend over and accept it.
So you can see that in a regulatory vaccum your theory might work, but we dont live in that world.
retard
n. Offensive Slang
Used as a disparaging term for a mentally retarded person
I'll bet if you looked up racial slurs in the dictionary you would find them too. Does it mean its OK to use them?
OTOH the NT kernel is not even comparable to the Linux kernel. There is simply hands down a hundred things the Linux kernel can do that the NT kernel can't in it's current state. Software raid(as i mentioned in another post) seperate cli/gui, removing internet explorer, real filesystem choices, etc etc etc.
And there are probably a hundred things that the NT kernel does better than Linux. None of the things that you have listed, with the exception of RAID, which Windows does do, are really kernel functions. Uninstalling IE? That makes the Linux kernel better how, again?
As far as filesystems go, NTFS is just, well a fairly decent filesystem. Linux, just lately is getting ACL support in various filesystems which has been around since the original NT.
I have to agree with the OP. The differences in the kernel are fairly trivial to the sucesses or demises of either operating systems.
Ok, I'll give you that, but IMO there was really no 'story' playing out in Doom 1,2. There was some text scroll that told you what was going on, and that was about it. In HL you leared what was going on by playing the game, not by reading the text between levels.
Doom3 is a work of art.
Art in the way that "Dogs Playing Poker" is art. I would go further than others in this thread, and say that Doom 3 could potentially be the biggest gaming let down in years. The game has NO original traits. Everything you tout about the game has been done, and done better in other products. The story is a re-hash of Halflife, the scenery tedious. The audio files do nothing for the game, other than having to listen to some guy ramble about medical files for 3 minuts just so you can deduce a locker code with a medikit in it. The videos that tell a story through the game was lamely lifted from Max Payne.
You want to play a FUN FPS, get yourself a copy of FarCry.
> Um... a vpn is a hole in the firewall.
A hole with conditions. When I want to open a hole, do i just open it? Or should I use a method that will allow me to utilize a multitude of encryption and identity management options.
> they can provide clear access to your internal network
Remember, A good firewall/VPN solution will allow you to apply policies to tunneled traffic just like you would plain traffic. For example, my firewall allows you to filter traffic coming down a tunnel by src, dest, proto, etc. If all I want a user to access over VPN is Webmail and Intranet, I can apply a policy to allow only those destinations and protocols.
I will agree that a BAD vpn setup can be almost as bad as not having a firewall at all.
Info Security IMO is about mitigation. What can I best do to contain the external threat? identity management-yup, encryption-yup. VPN is most definitely a important part of any Admins toolkit.
Slashdot whines when there is no competition in an industry. Then turns around and whines when there is.
The only thing that will come out of this is better video cards faster and cheaper. All the shenanigans? Who cares. Let the companies duke it out in the marketing sphere. You really cant go wrong with either brand.
So quityerbitchin!
For every Falcon 4 there are 20 titles that we never hear about becasue they miss their market window, and are cancelled even before initial release. Anyone who has worked in a development house knows that overengineering (feature creep) is almost more of a danger than underengineering. A good orginization will know when to say 'enough' and freeze the design so the darn thing can get done!
My feelings exactly....Valve is doing a better job at 'being' ID than ID is. Valve has surpassed ID as the most innovative FPS creators. -- ID is sooooo 1990's.
I think the "it'll be out when it is done" is a dumb way to run a business. A better motto would be "it BETTER be out before there are a dozen games on the market that top what we are making." Because that is EXACTLY what is happeining. At some point they need to freeze the technology, and move toward release.
Phaser 7700 does not have this problem. We have a 7700 in the office and it has a first page out time of like 30 seconds. When we run some sales materials we can crank out like 500 duplexed sheets in a half hour. Quality is the best I have ever seen in a printer, including inkjets.
Then again it is a $6000 printer too.
Sorry, without the guide functionality a home-brew PVR will never be as good. If I just wanted to record shows I would use a VCR. Tivo has functionality above and beyond that becasue of its guide services that let you search for shows, record all unique showings of a program, etc. People who say their homebrew PVRS are as good are missing the point.
Living in MN you seem to have the inside track on tons of MST3k jokes that no one else would get.
For instance several mentions are made to Minnesota institutions such as: Chanhassen Dinner Theater, Guthrie, Brainerd National Raceway, Crow's latest screenplay: "Peter Graves Goes to the University of Minnesota", And the all important fishing reference "Oh, that'll put your panfish down for a couple hours."
You'll be happy to know that new episodes of Sealab, The Brak Show and, Aqua Teen Hunger Force start this Sunday night.
Personally I would take any of the Williams Street toons over most Anime any day of the week. Sealab 2021 is one of the wierdest toons I have ever seen, but one of the funniest as well.
As close as I want to get to Anime is Thunderclese, the gundam-style robot on the Brak Show. "Are you here to destroy my lawn?" "Be forewarned, three hams will surely kill him"
Adding Futurama will really round out the concept.