Is anyone else a little surprised that an actual list of server names and apps was leaked in the memo?
And oh, look, they don't even subscribe to the fundamental security tenet of not naming your hosts something obvious. An attacker wouldn't even have to scan the box to determine where to begin an attack. That saves time! From the memo...
I agree. I like Vala, Mitchell, and Atlantis. In fact, I actually prefer Atlantis. Although I will admit, I didn't start watching SG-1 until a few years ago. Don't know why I wasn't interested before, but since I found love for it, I've had a great time getting caught up. Condemning new developments seems petty to me. The production quality is much better now than it ever has been, and the plotlines are no more campy than they ever were, which is part of their charm.
The website's back up (still running IIS4) with a big "Nothing but red" ad on the front page... but what happened to our $16 stapler!? $28.99, my friends!! Well, if they can't admin a website, at least they recognize customer demand when they see it.
Does IBM have plans, or hopes, to make Linux as powerful on the pSeries platform as AIX is? Accomplishing that would likely take some significant kernel patches which may not be accepted into the official source tree, so would IBM then simply maintain a set of patches for pSeries use?
That confused me too. Calling it a placebo implies that it's only there to ease the student's mind, not actually prevent plagiarism.
You should change the title of that article. It's annoying to find your favorite website's authors in a moment of illiteracy.
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Basically I think everyone can agree that the commercialization of hollywood has led to lower and lower quality films, while the independant film scene continues to thrive w/innovative and creative ideas.
Copyright law was introduced to keep credit where credit is due. That means preventing people from stealing other's ideas, and reaping the rewards thereof.
The copyright infringment that multimedia giants are trying to get the SSSCA passed for is not for protecting from the theivery of ideas, but the theivery of products. Passing the SSSCA will not only stunt the growth of the technology sector, but it will also continue, and even increase the decadence already inherent in commercialized multimedia. By forcing the multimedia giants to spend the money required to deal w/their own problems, we may be stunting the growth of their industry, but who cares? Creative ideas have never been hampered by a lack of money, only a lack of opportunity. Independant films, where most of the truly creative artistry comes from anyway, will continue to flourish, and maybe even increase in stature.
The multimedia industry has tried to set standards in the past, only to watch our community find faults in their designs as soon as they were pushed out the door. So they're whining to Uncle Sam, because they don't want to spend the money for good, cryptographically talented programmers. Boohoo.
I agree wholeheartedly here. If you've ever noticed, the best books in the computer world are all only about an inch think. Look at "The C Programming Language", "Lions' Commentary on UNIX", "The Practice of Programming", etc. The list goes on, but these are all part of what I call the "Guru Series." Everything in the Guru Series is an inch thick or less. Ok, well some of the best are actually a little thicker, but certainly not 1000 pages! The point is, technical books are generally a dime a dozen. I refuse to buy any book that has the term "Unleashed" in it. Same goes for pretty much anything written by Sams and Que. Sorry if you work for them, but I've never seen a book by either of these publishers that was worth the paper it was printed on.
How about some books on applied genetic algorithm design, or how to integrate fuzzy logic into your firewall code? I want to own every single book in the Wiley Interscience series, but they're all over $100!! Some are WAY over. Why can't there be important topics discussed in books not priced for people who already know the topics?
What you should do is emulate Wiley Interscience, but only charge half the money for the books! Yea! That's the ticket! Then you can put W. Richard Stevens on the payroll, and we'll have Elvis and Jimi Hendrix for a release party! Yea!
I would not be suprised to see 90% of Slashdot readers using windows to browse the website. I personally don't use any MS products at home, but I normally surf Slashdot from my office PC, which I have no control over, and consequently runs Windows. Unless most Slashdot readers spend their days at home, or only read Slashdot in the evening, I'm sure they are in a similar situation.
I'm gonna have to disagree with you here, as an administrator of many large installations of IBM and Sun systems, I can assure you that when we become aware of a root exploit, we assess the impact of the upgrade, and get it installed. The "mainframe mentality" you refer to is a copout. Any admin worth his salt should have his systems stable enough that he will not be afraid to change things on them (with due caution of course). Of course, I'm not an NT admin, so I can only conjecture how shady a patch from Microsoft can be.
And as for "You don't expose your Datacenter servers to the Internet" - you obviously are not keeping up with current security issues, since it's well know that 80% of breakins occur from the inside. Not to mention the fact that all large enterprises are internetworked, period. There is always a way in from somewhere, including the Internet, and thus there is no such thing as a "secure network".
And what's this about "Datacenter-type servers typically don't run HTTP servers"? There's plenty of services besides web servers that are potential points of attack. IIS just happens to be consistently faulty.
And what's this about "The config of your Datacenter server is the bare minimum"? I've never seen a bare minimum server running SAP, or Oracle.
The question is, what does Microsoft mean by Datacenter? They make it sound like you have every operation in the company riding on one Microsoft box. If you're doing that, you've got bigger problems than the occasional security patch.
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Is anyone else a little surprised that an actual list of server names and apps was leaked in the memo?
And oh, look, they don't even subscribe to the fundamental security tenet of not naming your hosts something obvious. An attacker wouldn't even have to scan the box to determine where to begin an attack. That saves time! From the memo...
SERVERS CONTAINING SENSITIVE DATA:
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wb2ksql08
wbmfilecl01b
wbes126
wbdc104
wbmsrsa001
Golly, I wonder what platform and applications these servers are running.
I agree. I like Vala, Mitchell, and Atlantis. In fact, I actually prefer Atlantis. Although I will admit, I didn't start watching SG-1 until a few years ago. Don't know why I wasn't interested before, but since I found love for it, I've had a great time getting caught up. Condemning new developments seems petty to me. The production quality is much better now than it ever has been, and the plotlines are no more campy than they ever were, which is part of their charm.
The website's back up (still running IIS4) with a big "Nothing but red" ad on the front page... but what happened to our $16 stapler!? $28.99, my friends!! Well, if they can't admin a website, at least they recognize customer demand when they see it.
Does IBM have plans, or hopes, to make Linux as powerful on the pSeries platform as AIX is? Accomplishing that would likely take some significant kernel patches which may not be accepted into the official source tree, so would IBM then simply maintain a set of patches for pSeries use?
Thanks!
Martin McGreal
St Louis, MO
That confused me too. Calling it a placebo implies that it's only there to ease the student's mind, not actually prevent plagiarism.
You should change the title of that article. It's annoying to find your favorite website's authors in a moment of illiteracy.
Basically I think everyone can agree that the commercialization of hollywood has led to lower and lower quality films, while the independant film scene continues to thrive w/innovative and creative ideas.
Copyright law was introduced to keep credit where credit is due. That means preventing people from stealing other's ideas, and reaping the rewards thereof.
The copyright infringment that multimedia giants are trying to get the SSSCA passed for is not for protecting from the theivery of ideas, but the theivery of products. Passing the SSSCA will not only stunt the growth of the technology sector, but it will also continue, and even increase the decadence already inherent in commercialized multimedia. By forcing the multimedia giants to spend the money required to deal w/their own problems, we may be stunting the growth of their industry, but who cares? Creative ideas have never been hampered by a lack of money, only a lack of opportunity. Independant films, where most of the truly creative artistry comes from anyway, will continue to flourish, and maybe even increase in stature.
The multimedia industry has tried to set standards in the past, only to watch our community find faults in their designs as soon as they were pushed out the door. So they're whining to Uncle Sam, because they don't want to spend the money for good, cryptographically talented programmers. Boohoo.
I agree wholeheartedly here. If you've ever noticed, the best books in the computer world are all only about an inch think. Look at "The C Programming Language", "Lions' Commentary on UNIX", "The Practice of Programming", etc. The list goes on, but these are all part of what I call the "Guru Series." Everything in the Guru Series is an inch thick or less. Ok, well some of the best are actually a little thicker, but certainly not 1000 pages! The point is, technical books are generally a dime a dozen. I refuse to buy any book that has the term "Unleashed" in it. Same goes for pretty much anything written by Sams and Que. Sorry if you work for them, but I've never seen a book by either of these publishers that was worth the paper it was printed on.
How about some books on applied genetic algorithm design, or how to integrate fuzzy logic into your firewall code? I want to own every single book in the Wiley Interscience series, but they're all over $100!! Some are WAY over. Why can't there be important topics discussed in books not priced for people who already know the topics?
What you should do is emulate Wiley Interscience, but only charge half the money for the books! Yea! That's the ticket! Then you can put W. Richard Stevens on the payroll, and we'll have Elvis and Jimi Hendrix for a release party! Yea!
I would not be suprised to see 90% of Slashdot readers using windows to browse the website. I personally don't use any MS products at home, but I normally surf Slashdot from my office PC, which I have no control over, and consequently runs Windows. Unless most Slashdot readers spend their days at home, or only read Slashdot in the evening, I'm sure they are in a similar situation.
I'm gonna have to disagree with you here, as an administrator of many large installations of IBM and Sun systems, I can assure you that when we become aware of a root exploit, we assess the impact of the upgrade, and get it installed. The "mainframe mentality" you refer to is a copout. Any admin worth his salt should have his systems stable enough that he will not be afraid to change things on them (with due caution of course). Of course, I'm not an NT admin, so I can only conjecture how shady a patch from Microsoft can be.
And as for "You don't expose your Datacenter servers to the Internet" - you obviously are not keeping up with current security issues, since it's well know that 80% of breakins occur from the inside. Not to mention the fact that all large enterprises are internetworked, period. There is always a way in from somewhere, including the Internet, and thus there is no such thing as a "secure network".
And what's this about "Datacenter-type servers typically don't run HTTP servers"? There's plenty of services besides web servers that are potential points of attack. IIS just happens to be consistently faulty.
And what's this about "The config of your Datacenter server is the bare minimum"? I've never seen a bare minimum server running SAP, or Oracle.
The question is, what does Microsoft mean by Datacenter? They make it sound like you have every operation in the company riding on one Microsoft box. If you're doing that, you've got bigger problems than the occasional security patch.