One of the guys I work with here had some serious troubles with his work laptop. The service guy came in six or seven times within a couple of weeks. The first problem he had was his display didn't work. Then they came and fixed that and something else went wrong. After all of these service trips, his system ended up in a state where it wouldn't even recognize the hard drive and wouldn't boot.
*After* replacing everything but the case, they finally decided to ship a new (read: refurbished) laptop to him. It remains to be seen whether this one is any better.
"The terrorists who hijacked U.S. airplanes on September 11 analyzed the airline security system until they found a weakness, and then they exploited it. Much in the same way, industrial terrorists analyzed IIS Web server security until they found a weakness, and then they exploited it. If Gartner wrote an equivalent recommendation for business travelers, would it be to take the bus rather than risk airline travel? That would be a victory for terrorism, as would abandoning IIS."
I don't understand this comparison at all. Clearly, it is still safer to fly on an airplane than to ride a bus, notwithstanding terrorism. Why would Gartner suggest a more dangerous approach? This is not the case when it comes to a comparison between IIS and other webserver software. It is to some extent safer to not use IIS, especially in light of purported "terrorism."
Another comment made by Thomas is "Did the Code Red worm exploit a flaw in the underlying technology or the flaw in human nature commonly known as procrastination?" I think it's a bit harsh to assert that all cases of Code Red were the result of procrastination. The fact of the matter is that many shops are wary of applying every patch that Microsoft sends their way without testing them first. One of the reasons why Code Red was so devastating was that it came out before companies could adequately review the patch to make sure it didn't break existing systems.
Thomas' point of view misses a lot. Perhaps the forum lends itself well to the Reader's Digest version of the story, but he should at least try to be fair rather than alienating his clientele.
Not only that, but it irks pro-grammar and pro-spelling advocates to boot.
The BBC are reporting in this story that the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield, England is blaming the Millennium Bug for getting 150 tests for Down Syndrome with four mothers going on to give birth to affected children.
Uh, the Department of Justice IS in the Executive branch, despite what you think it should be.
http://www.loc.gov/global/executive/fed.html
The Department of Justice is not part of the judiciary. Since it's responsible for prosecution, it would be a conflict of interest to be in the judicial branch.
It doesn't take 3500 volts for a human to feel a shock, naturally. It takes 3500 volts for a human to feel a static discharge, which is what the story asserted.
The problem -- as many knowledgeable folks have already reported -- is that admins are reluctant to update production servers, because of the fact that such updates can and do break those systems.
Do you really want to rely on Microsoft's updates to be reliable and correct? Updates are best installed on test servers and then migrated to production systems. The fact is that once an exploit is discovered, it typically takes several months for destructive software to be released that takes advantage of the export. Code Red came out much quicker and that has caused many of the problems we are witnessing.
Not only that, but it seems that 99.999% uptime would be 5 minutes per 10 years, not 50 minutes.
bash-2.04$ bc
bc 1.06
Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type 'warranty'.
What Actually Makes Up "Linux"?
Posted by CmdrTaco on 4:14 Thursday 21 June 2001
from the somebody-did-actual-research-for-a-change dept.
David A. Wheeler sent in linkage to his extensive analysis of the true size of Linux....
I don't get it. The title of the article is "More Than a Gigabuck: Estimating GNU/Linux's Size" and in the first line it is made clear that he's talking about GNU/Linux, but in the heading and the abstract for this story, Taco refers to it as Linux. He's not talking about the size of Linux, he's talking about the size of GNU/Linux.
I especially like this part of the article:
"They are asking us for patience and for a
lot of details,'' said Bigelow, who formed Bigelow
Aerospace in 1999 and has promised to spend $500
million on his effort over the next 15 years.
"The papers and forms don't exist for an
application like this.''
...Um, $500 million? Considering that the United
States alone is spending some $95 billion on the
ISS, I don't quite understand. Is he going to put a
cardboard box up there?
2600 v. Ford Motors
Posted by michael on 15:18 Friday 18 May 2001
from the just-buy-a-honda dept.
lizrd writes: "The New York Times is reporting in their cyber law section that Eric Corley is in trouble in the courts again. This time he's being sued by Ford Motor Company for pointing a domain name that the New York Times won't mention to Ford's website. It will be interesting to see how this comes out in the courts, both sides seem to have some fairly strong arguments."
for document management - it's okay for that purpose, but quite inflexible for document sharing on an intranet. I've found myself frustrated with this inflexibility quite often. (e.g. you can't easily have a user-friendly index.html pointing to the documents you want to share in a directory). Haven't tried the version control feature.
I think it's great for document sharing on the intranet. Sometimes it might be hard to find documents that you're looking for, but there is a built in search engine. If the intranet is organized it shouldn't be that hard.
The difference between Linux and Solaris is that the Linux version would have to run on ia32, while the Solaris version does not. Developing software for Linux on ia32 would give people less of a reason for running Windows. Now, if they developed a Linux Sparc version, it wouldn't be in direct competition with Windows, but that isn't much of a market anyways. You won't see a Solaris x86 version of the software for the same reason you won't see a Linux x86 version.
Sorry for the shameless plug (I work for Open Text Corporation), but Livelink is a great document management system product. It may be out of your price range, but it does allow you to have versioning on your documents, and it has a whole whack of other features that many enterprises demand.
It seems that they're marketing it now as "a highly scalable and comprehensive collaborative environment for the development of Web-based intranets, extranets and e-business applications." Oh dear.
If our civilization comes to an end,
why are the people that come after us
going to care about 90% of the stuff
we know or do? They might be more
interested in where to find food and
shelter. Really important information
is still printed on paper, and I don't
see that stopping any time soon.
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One of the guys I work with here had some serious troubles with his work laptop. The service guy came in six or seven times within a couple of weeks. The first problem he had was his display didn't work. Then they came and fixed that and something else went wrong. After all of these service trips, his system ended up in a state where it wouldn't even recognize the hard drive and wouldn't boot.
*After* replacing everything but the case, they finally decided to ship a new (read: refurbished) laptop to him. It remains to be seen whether this one is any better.
"The terrorists who hijacked U.S. airplanes on September 11 analyzed the airline security system until they found a weakness, and then they exploited it. Much in the same way, industrial terrorists analyzed IIS Web server security until they found a weakness, and then they exploited it. If Gartner wrote an equivalent recommendation for business travelers, would it be to take the bus rather than risk airline travel? That would be a victory for terrorism, as would abandoning IIS."
I don't understand this comparison at all. Clearly, it is still safer to fly on an airplane than to ride a bus, notwithstanding terrorism. Why would Gartner suggest a more dangerous approach? This is not the case when it comes to a comparison between IIS and other webserver software. It is to some extent safer to not use IIS, especially in light of purported "terrorism."
Another comment made by Thomas is "Did the Code Red worm exploit a flaw in the underlying technology or the flaw in human nature commonly known as procrastination?" I think it's a bit harsh to assert that all cases of Code Red were the result of procrastination. The fact of the matter is that many shops are wary of applying every patch that Microsoft sends their way without testing them first. One of the reasons why Code Red was so devastating was that it came out before companies could adequately review the patch to make sure it didn't break existing systems.
Thomas' point of view misses a lot. Perhaps the forum lends itself well to the Reader's Digest version of the story, but he should at least try to be fair rather than alienating his clientele.
Just my 2 cents worth.
Not only that, but it irks pro-grammar and pro-spelling advocates to boot.
The BBC are reporting in this story that the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield, England is blaming the Millennium Bug for getting 150 tests for Down Syndrome with four mothers going on to give birth to affected children.
WTF does that mean?
Uh, the Department of Justice IS in the Executive branch, despite what you think it should be.
http://www.loc.gov/global/executive/fed.html
The Department of Justice is not part of the judiciary. Since it's responsible for prosecution, it would be a conflict of interest to be in the judicial branch.
So Bush is saying that he approves of the actions of the attorney general. He didn't say he had any hand in the decision-making.
Some would consider the previous line of attack to be dishonourable. The new plan doesn't seem as tainted to me.
It doesn't take 3500 volts for a human to feel a shock, naturally. It takes 3500 volts for a human to feel a static discharge, which is what the story asserted.
The problem -- as many knowledgeable folks have already reported -- is that admins are reluctant to update production servers, because of the fact that such updates can and do break those systems.
Do you really want to rely on Microsoft's updates to be reliable and correct? Updates are best installed on test servers and then migrated to production systems. The fact is that once an exploit is discovered, it typically takes several months for destructive software to be released that takes advantage of the export. Code Red came out much quicker and that has caused many of the problems we are witnessing.
Not only that, but it seems that 99.999% uptime would be 5 minutes per 10 years, not 50 minutes.
bash-2.04$ bc
bc 1.06
Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type 'warranty'.
60*24*365.25
525960.00
scale=6
525960*.99999
525954.74040
525960-525954.74
5.26
I don't get it. What does "115" have to do with a spooky coincidence?
How can a company expect to make money (and stay in business) by carrying ads? Maybe you haven't been following the fallout of the dot-conomy.
Q: What's a Serway?
A: Oh, about 175 pounds.
What about Teco?
What Actually Makes Up "Linux"?
Posted by CmdrTaco on 4:14 Thursday 21 June 2001
from the somebody-did-actual-research-for-a-change dept.
David A. Wheeler sent in linkage to his extensive analysis of the true size of Linux....
I don't get it. The title of the article is "More Than a Gigabuck: Estimating GNU/Linux's Size" and in the first line it is made clear that he's talking about GNU/Linux, but in the heading and the abstract for this story, Taco refers to it as Linux. He's not talking about the size of Linux, he's talking about the size of GNU/Linux.
Just for that, it's exempli gratia, not gratis.
...If the story is for real, that is.
I especially like this part of the article:
"They are asking us for patience and for a
lot of details,'' said Bigelow, who formed Bigelow
Aerospace in 1999 and has promised to spend $500
million on his effort over the next 15 years.
"The papers and forms don't exist for an
application like this.''
...Um, $500 million? Considering that the United
States alone is spending some $95 billion on the
ISS, I don't quite understand. Is he going to put a
cardboard box up there?
This is exactly the kind of information that should be encoded according to RFC 1437.
2600 v. Ford Motors
Posted by michael on 15:18 Friday 18 May 2001
from the just-buy-a-honda dept.
lizrd writes: "The New York Times is reporting in their cyber law section that Eric Corley is in trouble in the courts again. This time he's being sued by Ford Motor Company for pointing a domain name that the New York Times won't mention to Ford's website. It will be interesting to see how this comes out in the courts, both sides seem to have some fairly strong arguments."
Can you read that?
It isn't a 302 Object Moved message. It is a DNS record pointing to a different IP address.
tim@tux:~$ nslookup fuckgeneralmotors.com
Server: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: fuckgeneralmotors.com
Address: 164.109.71.245
tim@tux:~$ nslookup ford.com
Server: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: ford.com
Address: 164.109.71.245
HTH
You don't seem to understand that it's Ford, and not General Motors, that are doing the suing.
Actually, that was Parliament-haus der Austr[al]ia
I think if I said "URL" fast I would hear something more like "ural" than "earl".
for document management - it's okay for that purpose, but quite inflexible for document sharing on an intranet. I've found myself frustrated with this inflexibility quite often. (e.g. you can't easily have a user-friendly index.html pointing to the documents you want to share in a directory). Haven't tried the version control feature.
I think it's great for document sharing on the intranet. Sometimes it might be hard to find documents that you're looking for, but there is a built in search engine. If the intranet is organized it shouldn't be that hard.
The difference between Linux and Solaris is that the Linux version would have to run on ia32, while the Solaris version does not. Developing software for Linux on ia32 would give people less of a reason for running Windows. Now, if they developed a Linux Sparc version, it wouldn't be in direct competition with Windows, but that isn't much of a market anyways. You won't see a Solaris x86 version of the software for the same reason you won't see a Linux x86 version.
Sorry for the shameless plug (I work for Open Text Corporation), but Livelink is a great document management system product. It may be out of your price range, but it does allow you to have versioning on your documents, and it has a whole whack of other features that many enterprises demand.
It seems that they're marketing it now as "a highly scalable and comprehensive collaborative environment for the development of Web-based intranets, extranets and e-business applications." Oh dear.
If our civilization comes to an end,
why are the people that come after us
going to care about 90% of the stuff
we know or do? They might be more
interested in where to find food and
shelter. Really important information
is still printed on paper, and I don't
see that stopping any time soon.