So who's responsible for IT security there? If they've outsourced IT security to Microsoft or Symantec, then it is well past time to fire them and put some linux or unix-based (low-cost high-availability) servers up. Ask any Linux sysadmin how they survived the last two months worth of email virus bombardments. Then ask a Microscrap Exchange administrator. Do some simple math on the time and therefore money involved with maintenance of these systems. Why is no-one outraged about the tax dollars being wasted on cleanup of Microsoft-platform based email viruses?
I don't understand why in an age that allows you to work from anywhere, everybody seems to flock to the same small areas: New York, Boston, Silicon Valley, etc. You wouldn't believe the quality of life that a tech-worker can have in the midwest, for instance. If you can supply something of value to the uber-inflated bi-coastals and then spend your money in places like the Dakotas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, you can live like a king. Seriously. You could walk in and buy a whole town for the price of a condo in Redondo. The big cities are cool, and all, especially when you can visit them for the fun and nightlife and then drive away from the smog when the parties are over and get back to Healthy America.
Not sure why your comment got moderated up so high, since it might confuse people. Something not mentioned in the parent post that might make things a little clearer is that you'll want to replace the prefix path: --prefix=/opt with whatever is appropriate for your setup. Do a which sshd to find out where your sshd has been installed. What I ended up using on my FreeBSD 4.8 box was actually --prefix=/usr
Last but not least, if you've done much lock-down or modifications to your sshd_conf, you'd actually want to be using the original configuration instead of a new default one. Hope that helps.
Here's a presentation about what the following tech companies have publicly said about PHP: Macromedia, IBM, Oracle, Sun, Apple, Symantec, Novell, Microsoft, MySQL
http://php.ist.unomaha.edu/presentations/secondc la ss.pdf
I think the biggest news is that Oracle is putting the PHP module into their 9i Application Server.
I built something fairly similar to this, but it needs threading. The idea is a mysql-based email discussion archive. See olug.phpconsulting.com is an example of a mailing list that is archived. It is only a few short steps to add web-based posting. You have to be careful, though, when building web-to-email interfaces, for the obvious reasons.
> USE mysql;
> ALTER TABLE User CHANGE COLUMN Password Password LONGTEXT;
> UPDATE User SET Password = '3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939 937 51058209123456781234567812345678123456781234567812 34567812345678123456781234567812345678123456781234 56781234567812345678123456781234567812345678123456 7812345678123456781234567812345678...' WHERE User = 'abcd';
> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
After all this time, Code Red still beats out slapper and nimda. 131 intrusions total. Most breaking activity occurring on Saturday. Sure wish there was more economic incentive for Poland, Romania, and Brazil not to crack systems, but to help build out and defend networks instead. Sysadmins keep a close eye on your samba intalls and stay aware and/or current with apache/openssl.
Only do the shredding on documents which have been run through a script which converts all characters to uppercase and removes whitespace in a systematic fashion: no tabs, anything beyond three spaces becomes one space etc. Wouldn't that resolve most of the objections you raise? Fuzzy hashes, mentioned elsewhere in threads on this slashdot posting, could also be useful.
If you're looking to answers to the question "why?" it shouldn't suprise you that you're not alone. Since the beginning of time and throughout the ages, the human mind has confronted the same questions. My best advice is to read the original thinkers, the ones who first came to an understanding of whatever subject matter you pursue, as this is closer to the natural course of human understanding (in opposition to the textbook fact-collection approach which you mention.) The Thomas Aquinas College curriculum includes four years of mathematics, from Euclid to Dedekind and Lobachevsky, and for physics, you cannot outdo Netwon's Principia Mathematica and original treatises by Maxwell and Einstein. So if you really want answers, consider chatting with the instructors there, and/or the purchase of a Great Books set.
Early Titanium PowerBooks (15" before they called them that) in the 400 to 500 megahertz range G4 processor had problems with the screen developing always-on vertical lines. Apple will charge you around $800 to $1200 to fix this problem. Unfortunately, that's the depreciated value of those powerbooks at this point. Applecare would have taken care of this issue for $50. It took about 18 months before this problem developed widely and powerbook owners were able to corroborate stories that this problem was widespread. I've heard of keyboard-issues with the 12" models, but can't confirm that. My next powerbook will have AppleCare, as this is a piece of business equipment I can't afford to have not work perfectly all the time (kinda like a high availability server).
If you are facing size restrictions (older, smaller hard drives) or wanting to work with smart-card-bootable systems, check out: Damn Small Linux which fits everything into less than 50 megabytes, as does the bootable business card distro.
So we can expect to see Microsoft making life very painful for VMWare in the near future. Why? Well, they'll be leveraging their Connectix investment for all it is worth. Sure you can run multiple OS's on one box: as long as they're all from Redmond Washington. VMWare folks had better enjoy their success... while it lasts.
A company called Protocall will be having kiosks in CompUSA where they produce software-on-demand from their system. So when you choose the program, the artwork is printed out, inserted into a DVD case, and the CD gets burned and five minutes later you walk out with the software you purchased. I wouldn't be suprised if we hear more and more companies making partnerships like this to avoid the gargantuan fees levied by Ingram-Micro, who have been throwing their weight around the retail channels. On-demand production of software is definitely an idea whose time has come.
It isn't Linux itself that Microsoft is scared of: it is deployment of services across a network that linux enables. This means that the LAMP (apache mysql php) approach is really what concerns them.
Does "business value" mean having a bunch of point-and-clickers take over your IT department? It takes a sixth-grade education to get through a Windows Server 2003 patch upgrade. Know how to click "OK" and you've got the job!
What Microsoft is missing is this: unix sysadmin skills have real value, a value tied up in automating business processes. Investing in off-the-shelf boxed products so you don't have to invest in quality skilled IT people is short-sighted.
A typical 200 pound adult riding a segway is centered directly over the axle and actively balancing to stay there (so I understand, I've never ridden one). On the other hand, a typical lawnmower is located several feet away from the same axis of rotation. Big difference. Will there be enough weight on a typical segway to provide enough torque to actually accomplish the horizontal push you need? Easily fixed with sandbags or redesigning to put the blades directly under the wheels I suppose, though.
I give an off-hand estimate that my lawn mower weighs 75 to 125 pounds. It is self-propelled, but the self-propelling gear ratio is not enough to move it by itself: you still have to push. Automatic mowers don't really need self-balancing like the Segways have, but kicking back and watching the robots attack your low grass is a savory idea.
Can this thing mow my grass? I wonder if the segways have enough torq to push a lawn mower.
Anybody that has know know the answer to this? If they do, you could make a little device that it goes and attaches to which fits a lawn mower onto the segway. Add some voice recognition, and you're one "Segway, please mow my lawn." away from enjoying a lime and tonic while your grass gets cut.
Caucho's resin application clusters are a great way to get load balacing and distributed sessions into your appserver farm. Cost is around $1k per server, so real enterprise jocks will laugh at it, but unlike some of the "three engineers per server" solutions, it really works without having to spend all your time troubleshooting and hand-coding things.
You get all of the object oriented organizational possibilities but none of the Java-induced hardware and middleware bloat. Microsoft's Sharepoint will be there to web-enable the Outlook-centric tasks, but an integrated application set on PHP5 could do the trick just as easily for a fraction of the price. Too bad all of the funding sources dried up last year, or I'd be pitching this idea to the venture capitalists. Hmmm. Money isn't the driving force in software development anyways, maybe I should just go for it. I'm not the first person in line to "build first and ask questions later" but as this story mentions: pretty much nothing sucks worse than business software these days.
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So who's responsible for IT security there? If they've outsourced IT security to Microsoft or Symantec, then it is well past time to fire them and put some linux or unix-based (low-cost high-availability) servers up. Ask any Linux sysadmin how they survived the last two months worth of email virus bombardments. Then ask a Microscrap Exchange administrator. Do some simple math on the time and therefore money involved with maintenance of these systems. Why is no-one outraged about the tax dollars being wasted on cleanup of Microsoft-platform based email viruses?
I don't understand why in an age that allows you to work from anywhere, everybody seems to flock to the same small areas: New York, Boston, Silicon Valley, etc. You wouldn't believe the quality of life that a tech-worker can have in the midwest, for instance. If you can supply something of value to the uber-inflated bi-coastals and then spend your money in places like the Dakotas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, you can live like a king. Seriously. You could walk in and buy a whole town for the price of a condo in Redondo. The big cities are cool, and all, especially when you can visit them for the fun and nightlife and then drive away from the smog when the parties are over and get back to Healthy America.
Not sure why your comment got moderated up so high, since it might confuse people. Something not mentioned in the parent post that might make things a little clearer is that you'll want to replace the prefix path:
--prefix=/opt
with whatever is appropriate for your setup. Do a which sshd to find out where your sshd has been installed. What I ended up using on my FreeBSD 4.8 box was actually --prefix=/usr
Last but not least, if you've done much lock-down or modifications to your sshd_conf, you'd actually want to be using the original configuration instead of a new default one. Hope that helps.
Here's a presentation about what the following tech companies have publicly said about PHP:
c la ss.pdf
Macromedia, IBM, Oracle, Sun, Apple, Symantec, Novell, Microsoft, MySQL
http://php.ist.unomaha.edu/presentations/second
I think the biggest news is that Oracle is putting the PHP module into their 9i Application Server.
Hi there fellow slashdaughters, this got me upgraded:
./configure --prefix=/opt --sysconfdir=/etc/ssh
make
make install
use ps -aux to find the ##### of the process of sshd.
kill -HUP #####
Anyone who reboots to accomplish this upgrade shouldn't be a sysadmin. Have fun!
The upgrade shouldn't touch your key files. Even the IP#/domain-name checksums shouldn't change when you update.
I built something fairly similar to this, but it needs threading. The idea is a mysql-based email discussion archive. See olug.phpconsulting.com is an example of a mailing list that is archived. It is only a few short steps to add web-based posting. You have to be careful, though, when building web-to-email interfaces, for the obvious reasons.
> USE mysql;
> ALTER TABLE User CHANGE COLUMN Password Password LONGTEXT;
> UPDATE User SET Password =
'3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693
> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
[Connection lost]
Is it web-based? Try giving PHP's ldap functions a look-through.
You might consider starting with phplist and then adding custom features for each list (QUAKE-ALL, SC-EQPAGER3 etc.).
;)
If you want it customized for you, consider asking these guys.
After all this time, Code Red still beats out slapper and nimda. 131 intrusions total. Most breaking activity occurring on Saturday. Sure wish there was more economic incentive for Poland, Romania, and Brazil not to crack systems, but to help build out and defend networks instead. Sysadmins keep a close eye on your samba intalls and stay aware and/or current with apache/openssl.
Only do the shredding on documents which have been run through a script which converts all characters to uppercase and removes whitespace in a systematic fashion: no tabs, anything beyond three spaces becomes one space etc. Wouldn't that resolve most of the objections you raise? Fuzzy hashes, mentioned elsewhere in threads on this slashdot posting, could also be useful.
... the expectation of end-users at this point is that the software will be free.
If you're looking to answers to the question "why?" it shouldn't suprise you that you're not alone. Since the beginning of time and throughout the ages, the human mind has confronted the same questions. My best advice is to read the original thinkers, the ones who first came to an understanding of whatever subject matter you pursue, as this is closer to the natural course of human understanding (in opposition to the textbook fact-collection approach which you mention.) The Thomas Aquinas College curriculum includes four years of mathematics, from Euclid to Dedekind and Lobachevsky, and for physics, you cannot outdo Netwon's Principia Mathematica and original treatises by Maxwell and Einstein. So if you really want answers, consider chatting with the instructors there, and/or the purchase of a Great Books set.
Early Titanium PowerBooks (15" before they called them that) in the 400 to 500 megahertz range G4 processor had problems with the screen developing always-on vertical lines. Apple will charge you around $800 to $1200 to fix this problem. Unfortunately, that's the depreciated value of those powerbooks at this point. Applecare would have taken care of this issue for $50. It took about 18 months before this problem developed widely and powerbook owners were able to corroborate stories that this problem was widespread. I've heard of keyboard-issues with the 12" models, but can't confirm that. My next powerbook will have AppleCare, as this is a piece of business equipment I can't afford to have not work perfectly all the time (kinda like a high availability server).
If you are facing size restrictions (older, smaller hard drives) or wanting to work with smart-card-bootable systems, check out: Damn Small Linux which fits everything into less than 50 megabytes, as does the bootable business card distro.
...and the article Custom Debian CD from Knoppix tells you how.
So we can expect to see Microsoft making life very painful for VMWare in the near future. Why? Well, they'll be leveraging their Connectix investment for all it is worth. Sure you can run multiple OS's on one box: as long as they're all from Redmond Washington. VMWare folks had better enjoy their success... while it lasts.
knoppix has qtparted on it. No need to buy Partition Magic. Just get a knoppix CD and run qtparted.
see http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/
A company called Protocall will be having kiosks in CompUSA where they produce software-on-demand from their system. So when you choose the program, the artwork is printed out, inserted into a DVD case, and the CD gets burned and five minutes later you walk out with the software you purchased. I wouldn't be suprised if we hear more and more companies making partnerships like this to avoid the gargantuan fees levied by Ingram-Micro, who have been throwing their weight around the retail channels. On-demand production of software is definitely an idea whose time has come.
It isn't Linux itself that Microsoft is scared of: it is deployment of services across a network that linux enables. This means that the LAMP (apache mysql php) approach is really what concerns them.
Does "business value" mean having a bunch of point-and-clickers take over your IT department? It takes a sixth-grade education to get through a Windows Server 2003 patch upgrade. Know how to click "OK" and you've got the job!
What Microsoft is missing is this: unix sysadmin skills have real value, a value tied up in automating business processes. Investing in off-the-shelf boxed products so you don't have to invest in quality skilled IT people is short-sighted.
Get it straight from the horse's mouth: Microsoft Lessons
A typical 200 pound adult riding a segway is centered directly over the axle and actively balancing to stay there (so I understand, I've never ridden one). On the other hand, a typical lawnmower is located several feet away from the same axis of rotation. Big difference. Will there be enough weight on a typical segway to provide enough torque to actually accomplish the horizontal push you need? Easily fixed with sandbags or redesigning to put the blades directly under the wheels I suppose, though.
I give an off-hand estimate that my lawn mower weighs 75 to 125 pounds. It is self-propelled, but the self-propelling gear ratio is not enough to move it by itself: you still have to push. Automatic mowers don't really need self-balancing like the Segways have, but kicking back and watching the robots attack your low grass is a savory idea.
Can this thing mow my grass? I wonder if the segways have enough torq to push a lawn mower.
Anybody that has know know the answer to this? If they do, you could make a little device that it goes and attaches to which fits a lawn mower onto the segway. Add some voice recognition, and you're one "Segway, please mow my lawn." away from enjoying a lime and tonic while your grass gets cut.
Caucho's resin application clusters are a great way to get load balacing and distributed sessions into your appserver farm. Cost is around $1k per server, so real enterprise jocks will laugh at it, but unlike some of the "three engineers per server" solutions, it really works without having to spend all your time troubleshooting and hand-coding things.
You get all of the object oriented organizational possibilities but none of the Java-induced hardware and middleware bloat. Microsoft's Sharepoint will be there to web-enable the Outlook-centric tasks, but an integrated application set on PHP5 could do the trick just as easily for a fraction of the price. Too bad all of the funding sources dried up last year, or I'd be pitching this idea to the venture capitalists. Hmmm. Money isn't the driving force in software development anyways, maybe I should just go for it. I'm not the first person in line to "build first and ask questions later" but as this story mentions: pretty much nothing sucks worse than business software these days.