The worst part about this is that many of the texts associated with the MCSE training usually contain a lot of feel-good pro-Microsoft propaganda that doesn't mean much at all. Now, the 8 year-old brain is still very impressionable, so this kid will have to live with "The Microsoft Way" pretty much the rest of his life.
Yes, in this "light" version of Windows XP, they will change the code so that you will never be able to change the read-only attribute on any files or folders.
Yep, good ol Windows XP SP1 has a nice bug in it that doesn't allow you to remove the read-only attribute from a file. If you remove the attribute from the file, it will still be read-only unless you reboot the XP system.
Or maybe it is the cheapo version of Microsoft's built-in anti-virus measures (haha).
Napster is just feeling some of the problems of being Yet Another Online Music Store.
The problem is that everyone and their cat is getting into the Online Music Store business. Lots of people are concerned because there is no simple combination of song availability, software and DRM scheme between them all. That is no way to try and draw customers to your store, especially those who will still get their music from P2P networks.
Unfortunately, if you choose one such outlet and they go bust, you are essentially pooched and may have worthless files because they are forever locked.
In Napster's case specifically, the popularity of the brand took a nose-dive after the original service was shut down. By the time 2.0 made its debut, the brand's good reputation was nothing more than a faint memory.
Hmm, I suppose that Microsoft realizes that in their last anti-trust suit (in which they were found 'guilty'), their 'slap on the wrist' was a compliance order.
Now that they have been threatened with a lawsuit with respect to a violation of their compliance order, the likelyhood that MS would win is minimal. Contempt of court is not something to be taken lightly, especially when it comes to orders issued by a court of law.
True, the state of Nevada has the money to spend on their gaming control board. They do not only because they can, but they almost have to spend it.
It is primarily because the board can certify confidence in the fairness of its games that slot machines pull in billions in revenue per year. If these machines had a reputation of being crooked, they would not pull in the big revenues and therefore the state of Nevada would pull in less from casino taxes.
It is much like an investment. Spend a good sum and make back ten times back in pure profit.
Won't be in the US...
on
Son of Concorde
·
· Score: 2, Informative
The FAA has a strict policy about supersonic flight. It basically disallows it within a 50 mile radius of any US territory.
While the concorde did land in New York, it had to drop to subsonic speed over the Atlantic (in accordance with the FAA rule), so the plane is essentially useless for US domestic flights.
Microsoft might not have an iPod, but they do have one ace up their sleeve that I am pretty sure they will unleash in the future.
It most likely will be Windows - Media Centre Edition...
They have had little success in pushing this product, which basically is nothing more than a software package designed to run on dedicated hardware. If they setup their music to be playable using this, and then license said OS to device manufacturers, they could rake in some cash.
I am sure that a lot of people will like Verisign's comments about handling traffic other than http.
Instead of returning a host not found, we will return another type of error (TCP reset for example) to the client application.
I know that some computer users know nothing about DNS, IP addresses, etc. But, who is there to say for sure that something will send a TCP reset? What if someone were to change it to now accept mail (using SMTP as an example)?
While it most likely won't happen, I can't trust these folks further than they can throw the person responsible for false renewal notices. I think the Verisign marketing departement takes the cake by coming up with the most destructive ideas to boost their bottom line.
Actually, paper will most likely not ignite under these conditions, because it requires a significant heat source in order for it to burn.
You can put a sheet of paper into an oven at 150 degrees Celsius (302 degrees Farenheit), and it will not catch fire (unless you place it in direct contact with the heating element). However, you can use any butane lighter and easily set a sheet a paper on fire (because lighters burn their fuel at 300+ degrees Celsius or 572+ degrees Farenheit).
I suspect that these circuits will be very low on current and therefore won't generate enough heat to set the paper on fire.
I am personally surprised that Microsoft has not been objecting to Site Finder. After all, if Verisign resolves everything in.com and.net, the redirect in Internet Explorer no longer works for these domains. This means less ad revenue for MSN.
The amount of energy released by a cell phone is far less significant than many other sources of electromagnetic energy that we are constantly exposed to.
In case you forget, the electromagnetic spectrum consists of the following (in increasing amounts of energy).
Radio waves
Microwaves
Infrared
Visible Light
Ultraviolet
X-rays
Gamma rays
Electromagnetic radiation only does damage to biological matter when the energy contained with a photon is equal or greater than the energy involved in a chemical bond of any molecule within a cell. When any radiation meets this criteria, it is also known as ionizing radiation.
It is only within the ultraviolet range or greater where electromagnetic waves becoming ionizing.
In other words, your household light bulb produces far more energy than a cell phone. Personally, I would be far more concerned from overexposure to sunlight, as the degradation of the ozone layer is letting in more ultraviolet radiation than that present approximately 10-15 years ago.
When I was doing IT for a hardware engineering company, we were 2 IT persons for a company of 80. I would guess that, based upon my experience, you are basically putting out fires all the time.
1. Depending on your manager, you might not be able to say 'no'. If that is the case, try to get the users to help themselves by setting up some contingencies. Set up some spare computers if someone pooches their workstation. It'll depend on what you have for your budget, but the general idea is to not have them orbiting your desk with nothing to do.
2. Seriously ask your boss how he/she intends to fit in your vacation time into your schedule. If you don't get an answer, you'll never have a vacation. If the boss has to "think about it", that equates to the boss thinking "maybe the problem will go away if I ignore it".
3. Also ask your boss about getting another person in. It is not unreasonable in a high IT maintenance environment to have a minimum of 2 persons for 100 employees, plus 1 IT person per each additional 100.
I hope you have some luck into getting some of these points covered. Otherwise, you'll be burnt out in less than a year.
SPAM is not just about someone being too lazy to be bothered with hitting the delete key. The costs of SPAM are incurred way before that even happens.
SPAM's biggest costs are in bandwidth and storage space for all those useless e-mail messages. If a 2 kilobyte e-mail is sent to a half-million e-mail boxes, that equals 1 GB of data transfer, plus 1 GB of e-mail storage. MSN claims they get 2.4 billion SPAM items per day. Can you see how much the bulk of spam can cost in real dollars?
And while I include only MSN in these figures, there are plenty of other ISPs and businesses out there that have to incur costs due to SPAM. No wonder this is a BIG problem.
Re:DirectFB Inherently Insecure?
on
Qt On DirectFB
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
Well, unless you want to make a major hack to the kernel itself, the only way you are going to access the Linux framebuffer is to do so as root. Just look at how X works... It has to run as root so it can spawn a basic graphical display for you to use.
I suspect (since I have not tried it myself) that the problem with the DFB apps is that they don't come with the rendering abstraction layer that X provides (think client-server model). So every application needs to be root to write directly to the framebuffer. Sure, it will increase the rendering speed, but it sacrifices security while doing that.
With a lot of corporate customers moved over to the newest Microsoft Licensing formula, Microsoft is feeling the pressure to put up with what they have promised. They have been putting very little in the pipe with regards to updates with their latest products.
Mind you, they have put out Windows 2003 server, but as far as new features, it lacks in that departement. There are still organizations who are just recently migrating over to Windows 2000 server.
So, to make up for the technology gap, they will market over the gap. Doesn't surprise me one bit.
Wow. If you really feel that way, why don't you give out your phone number to the rest of us people on the earth (since we are on the subject of free speech and all). I'm pretty sure everyone would want to share their opinion with you.
World estimated population = 6 billion.
Even if you get only 1 call per minute, that means you'll be answering your phone for the next 11000+ years. I hope you have a good pool of highly paid secretaries to answer all those calls.
-- end scenario --
So, now that I've scared the bejessus out of you, you should know that processing information requires time, money or both.
The right to free speech gives you the right to state opinions without fear of persecution from the government (and that isn't even true with all opinions either, you can think up of examples for yourself).
It definitely does not allow you to abuse a system by overloading their ability (time, money or both) to process information regardless of how useful it may or may not be to its intended audience.
Spammers are not only abusive. They commit fraud; they lie, deceive and mask their communications source.
But you are right about one thing. I can't stop you from talking. I can, however, choose not to listen to you.
CheckPoint is a software firewall package and nothing more. It will run on many platforms including Nokia devices running IPSO; but it will also run on Linux, Solaris and Windows 2000, just to name a few.
In essence, the Nokia hardware is a security appliance which is optimized for network throughput. IPSO is essentially a hardened BSD; you can run an SSH daemon, a mail server, it also supports cron jobs, etc.
In all respects, getting Linux to run on a Nokia IP device is akin to getting Linux to run on an Xbox. Its basically done to prove that it can be done, but there really is no other benefit unless the box was doing nothing in the first place.
It all depends on what you need it to do.
on
SSH or IPSec?
·
· Score: 2, Informative
Well, since I work in the infosec industry and have used both myself, they both have their good and bad points.
SSH (the quick and dirty solution)
If all you really care about is encrypting your data and only need to forward a few connections, then SSH is a great candidate. It provides your basic encryption which is a must for security reasons.
However, it is essentially a stopgap measure to tunnel data between client and server. While you can forward as many ports as you have available, you can only tunnel TCP connections (unless you want the IP-over-TCP-over-TCP kludge) and you can only forward a finite amount of connections.
Also, tunneling over TCP is not the preferred method to tunnel connections. While it does provide some method to acknowledge the receipt of a packet, several latentcy problems can occur when TCP-over-TCP tunneling (as the packet overhead starts increasing dramatically if a connection problem occurs).
IPSec
One of the benefits of IPSec is that tunneling connections is no longer a major factor to consider. You can tunnel the entire Internet through IPsec without having to worry how many TCP port forwardings you can configure.
While it may be more difficult to initially setup a working infrastructure, it causes less headaches after it is proven to work properly.
Also, IPSec will work on a NAT connection. As long as your IKE requests (on UDP port 500) are not source port translated when traversing the NAT device, you can establish an IPSec session (and I have got this working myself).
Again, it really depends on what you need it for. For simple jobs, I use SSH. However, it doesn't scale very well, nor does it cover the full range of IP services that IPSec can handle.
The weight of the earth actually increases by tons every day from all the stuff in "empty" space falling on it. That's not counting the manmade stuff that's out there circling around waiting for its time to return to earth.
I'm glad you're not counting the manmade stuff. That would be akin to grabbing a rock from the earth and throwing it into the air. You don't end up adding extra weight to the earth when it lands if you removed it from there in the first place.
Actually, MS is not free to serve whatever they like on their servers. If they were to serve up a virus or someone's credit card database, you can bet the authorities will be over them in an instant. Just imagine if they were to serve mp3 songs illegally.
In this situation, they are playing the bold-faced lie of Opera 7.0 not displaying the page correctly because it doesn't adhere to standards. While I don't know what anti-trust violation that brings with it, the law would constitute this act as libel (knowingly disclosing lies as fact to damage another).
...but it's not because I'm cold-hearted toward people with disabilities.
The ADA has two purposes. The first one is to eliminate any discrimination towards individuals solely on the basis of their disability. Therefore, the argument must clearly present that "his disability and only his disability" is the root cause of his inability to access tickets at the reduced rate.
Well, one can argue that universal access doesn't apply. For instance, individuals without computers or internet access don't have access to the web site either. That eliminates the sole "disability discrimination rule" that the suit is based upon. If the judge would imply that SWA would be forced to provide a remedy, the customers that don't have computers could naturally sue along the same grounds. I doubt that the judge will let that happen any time soon.
The second purpose of the ADA is clearly define and legislate uniform standards of access for disabled individuals covered under the "universal access" portion of the ADA. While it is true that the government has officially legislated web standards for "public sector" (government) sites, the same is not true for private sector sites. SWA falls under the private sector. Therefore, there isn't a legislated standard for them to follow.
Result. Case gets thrown out. The ADA doesn't apply. Next case.
Legally, the decision is correct. Ethically, that decision is debatable. SWA should learn that this case will hurt them in terms of bad PR. And while SWA should give him the reduced rate, they are not legally obligated to do so.
Also, I can safely point out that price isn't that much of a factor. The person sitting next to you in that plane has most likely saved more on his/her flight than you have...
Well, I happen to know a few female gamers. The problem is that Tomb Raider doesn't interest them because it resembles a FPS (first-person shooter) game.
The consensus that I get from most of them is that they prefer simulation/construction games (The Sims, the Tycoon series of games, etc.), and puzzle games (Tetris). I've also managed to get a few of them hooked on RTS and turn based strategy games (Diablo 2, Heroes of Might and Magic, etc.) but that is usually the extent of what most of them will play.
Female FPS gamers are quite rare. Tomb Raider somewhat fits the FPS-style game, so they are trying to get the proverbial 'needle in the haystack'.
Mind you, it is a solar charger that will peak at 2 watts, so running a laptop would be somewhat excessive. You are able to daisy-chain these devices to get more power. Information on the iSun is here.
At least you don't worry about having consumables with you. I'd imagine that on a long trip, you'd probably want to carry extra fuel for a fuel cell, which probably wouldn't go over well with the airlines.
Slashdot Mirror
The worst part about this is that many of the texts associated with the MCSE training usually contain a lot of feel-good pro-Microsoft propaganda that doesn't mean much at all. Now, the 8 year-old brain is still very impressionable, so this kid will have to live with "The Microsoft Way" pretty much the rest of his life.
Yep, good ol Windows XP SP1 has a nice bug in it that doesn't allow you to remove the read-only attribute from a file. If you remove the attribute from the file, it will still be read-only unless you reboot the XP system.
Or maybe it is the cheapo version of Microsoft's built-in anti-virus measures (haha).
The problem is that everyone and their cat is getting into the Online Music Store business. Lots of people are concerned because there is no simple combination of song availability, software and DRM scheme between them all. That is no way to try and draw customers to your store, especially those who will still get their music from P2P networks.
Unfortunately, if you choose one such outlet and they go bust, you are essentially pooched and may have worthless files because they are forever locked.
In Napster's case specifically, the popularity of the brand took a nose-dive after the original service was shut down. By the time 2.0 made its debut, the brand's good reputation was nothing more than a faint memory.
Now that they have been threatened with a lawsuit with respect to a violation of their compliance order, the likelyhood that MS would win is minimal. Contempt of court is not something to be taken lightly, especially when it comes to orders issued by a court of law.
It is primarily because the board can certify confidence in the fairness of its games that slot machines pull in billions in revenue per year. If these machines had a reputation of being crooked, they would not pull in the big revenues and therefore the state of Nevada would pull in less from casino taxes.
It is much like an investment. Spend a good sum and make back ten times back in pure profit.
While the concorde did land in New York, it had to drop to subsonic speed over the Atlantic (in accordance with the FAA rule), so the plane is essentially useless for US domestic flights.
Microsoft might not have an iPod, but they do have one ace up their sleeve that I am pretty sure they will unleash in the future.
It most likely will be Windows - Media Centre Edition...
They have had little success in pushing this product, which basically is nothing more than a software package designed to run on dedicated hardware. If they setup their music to be playable using this, and then license said OS to device manufacturers, they could rake in some cash.
I am sure that a lot of people will like Verisign's comments about handling traffic other than http.
Instead of returning a host not found, we will return another type of error (TCP reset for example) to the client application.
I know that some computer users know nothing about DNS, IP addresses, etc. But, who is there to say for sure that something will send a TCP reset? What if someone were to change it to now accept mail (using SMTP as an example)?
While it most likely won't happen, I can't trust these folks further than they can throw the person responsible for false renewal notices. I think the Verisign marketing departement takes the cake by coming up with the most destructive ideas to boost their bottom line.
You can put a sheet of paper into an oven at 150 degrees Celsius (302 degrees Farenheit), and it will not catch fire (unless you place it in direct contact with the heating element). However, you can use any butane lighter and easily set a sheet a paper on fire (because lighters burn their fuel at 300+ degrees Celsius or 572+ degrees Farenheit).
I suspect that these circuits will be very low on current and therefore won't generate enough heat to set the paper on fire.
I am personally surprised that Microsoft has not been objecting to Site Finder. After all, if Verisign resolves everything in .com and .net, the redirect in Internet Explorer no longer works for these domains. This means less ad revenue for MSN.
I can't wait to see the first penis enlargement informercial on TV.
In case you forget, the electromagnetic spectrum consists of the following (in increasing amounts of energy).
Electromagnetic radiation only does damage to biological matter when the energy contained with a photon is equal or greater than the energy involved in a chemical bond of any molecule within a cell. When any radiation meets this criteria, it is also known as ionizing radiation.
It is only within the ultraviolet range or greater where electromagnetic waves becoming ionizing.
In other words, your household light bulb produces far more energy than a cell phone. Personally, I would be far more concerned from overexposure to sunlight, as the degradation of the ozone layer is letting in more ultraviolet radiation than that present approximately 10-15 years ago.
1. Depending on your manager, you might not be able to say 'no'. If that is the case, try to get the users to help themselves by setting up some contingencies. Set up some spare computers if someone pooches their workstation. It'll depend on what you have for your budget, but the general idea is to not have them orbiting your desk with nothing to do.
2. Seriously ask your boss how he/she intends to fit in your vacation time into your schedule. If you don't get an answer, you'll never have a vacation. If the boss has to "think about it", that equates to the boss thinking "maybe the problem will go away if I ignore it".
3. Also ask your boss about getting another person in. It is not unreasonable in a high IT maintenance environment to have a minimum of 2 persons for 100 employees, plus 1 IT person per each additional 100.
I hope you have some luck into getting some of these points covered. Otherwise, you'll be burnt out in less than a year.
Well, here is the obligatory Unix Shells FAQ in case you want to look it up. Then you can find the one that best suits your needs.
SPAM is not just about someone being too lazy to be bothered with hitting the delete key. The costs of SPAM are incurred way before that even happens.
SPAM's biggest costs are in bandwidth and storage space for all those useless e-mail messages. If a 2 kilobyte e-mail is sent to a half-million e-mail boxes, that equals 1 GB of data transfer, plus 1 GB of e-mail storage. MSN claims they get 2.4 billion SPAM items per day. Can you see how much the bulk of spam can cost in real dollars?
And while I include only MSN in these figures, there are plenty of other ISPs and businesses out there that have to incur costs due to SPAM. No wonder this is a BIG problem.
Well, unless you want to make a major hack to the kernel itself, the only way you are going to access the Linux framebuffer is to do so as root. Just look at how X works... It has to run as root so it can spawn a basic graphical display for you to use.
I suspect (since I have not tried it myself) that the problem with the DFB apps is that they don't come with the rendering abstraction layer that X provides (think client-server model). So every application needs to be root to write directly to the framebuffer. Sure, it will increase the rendering speed, but it sacrifices security while doing that.
With a lot of corporate customers moved over to the newest Microsoft Licensing formula, Microsoft is feeling the pressure to put up with what they have promised. They have been putting very little in the pipe with regards to updates with their latest products.
Mind you, they have put out Windows 2003 server, but as far as new features, it lacks in that departement. There are still organizations who are just recently migrating over to Windows 2000 server.
So, to make up for the technology gap, they will market over the gap. Doesn't surprise me one bit.
Wow. If you really feel that way, why don't you give out your phone number to the rest of us people on the earth (since we are on the subject of free speech and all). I'm pretty sure everyone would want to share their opinion with you.
World estimated population = 6 billion.
Even if you get only 1 call per minute, that means you'll be answering your phone for the next 11000+ years. I hope you have a good pool of highly paid secretaries to answer all those calls.
-- end scenario --
So, now that I've scared the bejessus out of you, you should know that processing information requires time, money or both.
The right to free speech gives you the right to state opinions without fear of persecution from the government (and that isn't even true with all opinions either, you can think up of examples for yourself).
It definitely does not allow you to abuse a system by overloading their ability (time, money or both) to process information regardless of how useful it may or may not be to its intended audience.
Spammers are not only abusive. They commit fraud; they lie, deceive and mask their communications source.
But you are right about one thing. I can't stop you from talking. I can, however, choose not to listen to you.
Well, there are a few points of note.
CheckPoint is a software firewall package and nothing more. It will run on many platforms including Nokia devices running IPSO; but it will also run on Linux, Solaris and Windows 2000, just to name a few.
In essence, the Nokia hardware is a security appliance which is optimized for network throughput. IPSO is essentially a hardened BSD; you can run an SSH daemon, a mail server, it also supports cron jobs, etc.
In all respects, getting Linux to run on a Nokia IP device is akin to getting Linux to run on an Xbox. Its basically done to prove that it can be done, but there really is no other benefit unless the box was doing nothing in the first place.
Well, since I work in the infosec industry and have used both myself, they both have their good and bad points.
SSH (the quick and dirty solution)
If all you really care about is encrypting your data and only need to forward a few connections, then SSH is a great candidate. It provides your basic encryption which is a must for security reasons.
However, it is essentially a stopgap measure to tunnel data between client and server. While you can forward as many ports as you have available, you can only tunnel TCP connections (unless you want the IP-over-TCP-over-TCP kludge) and you can only forward a finite amount of connections.
Also, tunneling over TCP is not the preferred method to tunnel connections. While it does provide some method to acknowledge the receipt of a packet, several latentcy problems can occur when TCP-over-TCP tunneling (as the packet overhead starts increasing dramatically if a connection problem occurs).
IPSec
One of the benefits of IPSec is that tunneling connections is no longer a major factor to consider. You can tunnel the entire Internet through IPsec without having to worry how many TCP port forwardings you can configure.
While it may be more difficult to initially setup a working infrastructure, it causes less headaches after it is proven to work properly.
Also, IPSec will work on a NAT connection. As long as your IKE requests (on UDP port 500) are not source port translated when traversing the NAT device, you can establish an IPSec session (and I have got this working myself).
Again, it really depends on what you need it for. For simple jobs, I use SSH. However, it doesn't scale very well, nor does it cover the full range of IP services that IPSec can handle.
The weight of the earth actually increases by tons every day from all the stuff in "empty" space falling on it. That's not counting the manmade stuff that's out there circling around waiting for its time to return to earth.
I'm glad you're not counting the manmade stuff. That would be akin to grabbing a rock from the earth and throwing it into the air. You don't end up adding extra weight to the earth when it lands if you removed it from there in the first place.
Actually, MS is not free to serve whatever they like on their servers. If they were to serve up a virus or someone's credit card database, you can bet the authorities will be over them in an instant. Just imagine if they were to serve mp3 songs illegally.
In this situation, they are playing the bold-faced lie of Opera 7.0 not displaying the page correctly because it doesn't adhere to standards. While I don't know what anti-trust violation that brings with it, the law would constitute this act as libel (knowingly disclosing lies as fact to damage another).
The ADA has two purposes. The first one is to eliminate any discrimination towards individuals solely on the basis of their disability. Therefore, the argument must clearly present that "his disability and only his disability" is the root cause of his inability to access tickets at the reduced rate.
Well, one can argue that universal access doesn't apply. For instance, individuals without computers or internet access don't have access to the web site either. That eliminates the sole "disability discrimination rule" that the suit is based upon. If the judge would imply that SWA would be forced to provide a remedy, the customers that don't have computers could naturally sue along the same grounds. I doubt that the judge will let that happen any time soon.
The second purpose of the ADA is clearly define and legislate uniform standards of access for disabled individuals covered under the "universal access" portion of the ADA. While it is true that the government has officially legislated web standards for "public sector" (government) sites, the same is not true for private sector sites. SWA falls under the private sector. Therefore, there isn't a legislated standard for them to follow.
Result. Case gets thrown out. The ADA doesn't apply. Next case.
Legally, the decision is correct. Ethically, that decision is debatable. SWA should learn that this case will hurt them in terms of bad PR. And while SWA should give him the reduced rate, they are not legally obligated to do so.
Also, I can safely point out that price isn't that much of a factor. The person sitting next to you in that plane has most likely saved more on his/her flight than you have...
Well, I happen to know a few female gamers. The problem is that Tomb Raider doesn't interest them because it resembles a FPS (first-person shooter) game.
The consensus that I get from most of them is that they prefer simulation/construction games (The Sims, the Tycoon series of games, etc.), and puzzle games (Tetris). I've also managed to get a few of them hooked on RTS and turn based strategy games (Diablo 2, Heroes of Might and Magic, etc.) but that is usually the extent of what most of them will play.
Female FPS gamers are quite rare. Tomb Raider somewhat fits the FPS-style game, so they are trying to get the proverbial 'needle in the haystack'.
Mind you, it is a solar charger that will peak at 2 watts, so running a laptop would be somewhat excessive. You are able to daisy-chain these devices to get more power. Information on the iSun is here.
At least you don't worry about having consumables with you. I'd imagine that on a long trip, you'd probably want to carry extra fuel for a fuel cell, which probably wouldn't go over well with the airlines.