SPOILERS: So lets see, you're upset they didn't hit the reset button? This is a time travel episode where everything does NOT go back to how it was before the time travel. Think: Yesterday's Enterprise except they didn't send Enterprise C back. Think: The Year of Hell except the totally unexplained destroy the timeship and everything works out ok waving of the hand doesn't occur.
Essentially they explained it in the movie: It's an alternate reality -- alternate timeline. Spock and the Romulon's getting yanked into the blackhole back in time changed the original timeline. Wonder if Q cares enough to fix it.
The guy is a coder, not an english major. Read his blog post that is linked to there. It's a legitimate apology even if he's not the best at expressing himself.
That was changed, they no longer unblock and have posted a front page apology for the change in the first place. http://noscript.net/
Important update for Adblock Plus users: Version 1.9.2.6 automatically and permanently removes the cotroversial NoScript Development Support Filterset deployed with NoScript 1.9.2.4.
I sincerely apologize with ABP users. Even though information about its presence and how to remove it in two clicks was given on the AMO install page, on this site's install page, on the release notes landing page and in the FAQ, not including a prompt asking for explicit permission beforehand from the start has been a very bad omission, and I want all the ABP users who felt betrayed to know how much I'm sorry for that. As a sign of good will and repent, current NoScript 1.9.2.6 completely removes the ABP filterset on startup with no questions asked. Thanks for your patience.
-- Giorgio
Update: More apologies and background facts on author's blog Hackademix.net.
Ok so it doesn't apply to the current round of updates, but I used to admin a server that couldn't be upgraded to 2000 SP4 - trying to do so would cause irreparable damage (Full restore from backup, every single time). It's one thing to abuse an admin for not applying a patch, it's another to be that admin and making sure that adding it will work ok. The only sane security policy in a situation like that is protecting the internal network, but you can't protect a file server from an SMB attack if you need it to be a file server - and if you can't patch it for whatever reason......
If you can't patch it for some reason you fix the reason the patch fails. If that involves a server upgrade to 2003, then so be it. Hell, you mentioned it's an SMB attack and you can't protect against that if you're a file server. While true in a sense, you *can* protect against it by making sure all the non-file servers on the network aren't vulnerable. Make sure you don't use that machine for anything other than the applications you need (certainly don't use it as a terminal server as well). Have a security policy in place that makes it so you can't add vulnerable computers to the network, have a firewall between the company and the internet, etc.
This is something people don't understand until it happens to them, but security is serious business, if you have a server that has a must have application on it and you don't keep that thing #1: Backed up, #2: Up to date with security, you are just waiting for either data loss or time loss on the server.
If you can't afford to replace a server in that condition, then you likely can't afford the IT professional you hired to run it.
Hardware is inexpensive, especially considering you're running on Windows 2000 pre-SP4, you can get a low end server as a replacement and it'll be a very good upgrade. That's not even considering if you can replace with something other than windows or not!
If he's in the Geeksquad, I can see it not being his fault. It also keeps him in a job, and I can definately see a love/hate relation his there. But then, he claimed to be an "IT Professional" and I know that most people who claim to be an "IT Professional" mean they install/admin/maintain computers for a business. If said "IT Professional" doesn't have the pull to make sure a sane security policy is in place, then they get what they deserve and should use this instance to push through a sane security policy.
Seems like you should have spent a small amount of time patching the machines when the security updates were released instead of spending a good amount of time rebuilding them.
The thing I don't understand is why anyone would ever design the system in such a way that a third party needs to be trusted with confidential information. It seems unnecessary. What benefit does this provide that absolutely cannot be arranged by an independent e-mail client that stores such information locally on the phone? I suppose that same question can be rephrased as "does server-push provide any benefit that client-pull with a reasonable polling time could not also provide?"
Battery life. By having the Blackberry server push the email to your blackberry you save the battery time and bandwidth of checking your email every 10-15 minutes.
If you don't want them to have your password get a BES.
It starts to become a does $.002 ==.002cents question.
I think that if it were reported to the antispyware venders that it would be included. The problem is that it's a targeted install, so the infection rate is very low, as such it has probably never been seen by the antispyware venders at all, let alone examined well enough to detect.
Yeah, as I said in my original post, 5.0 was fine as a new install (Or clean install if that's what you want to call it) but upgrading from 4 was troublesome.
I'm a long, long time RedHat user. (Since Red Hat Linux 5.1, if you're curious)
You got lucky timing. As an "earlier than that" RedHat user, the 4.2-> 5.0 libc change was a horrible upgrade path. 5 worked great for new systems, but anyone with a good working 4.x system trying to upgrade to 5 had loads of problems. If you were to have gone through that upgrade you might not have stayed with RH as long as you have =)
The Road Runner here in Rochester is great where I live. Downloading games from Steam I get 1MB/s, so I'm maxing out my connection when I need to do that.
That said, I will have a very hard time staying under the 40GB limit, I work from home, have a Gentoo machine that I sync each night. I stream a couple of Netflix each week, along with other browsing. That doesn't even count the outside connections that get dropped by my Firewall from things like Blaster, etc that are still going strong.
Competition is DSL, and while the DSL isn't horrible, it's also not 1MB/sec either. I already give $120/month on cable/internet, I'm not adding $15 more to that to have a lower cap on my internet download. ($40/month now with no cap, will be $55 with 40GB cap after change). I'll switch to Dish and DSL.
As someone who has been through a *lot* of 4/1's on Slashdot, I have to say that if you really need to be told this is an april fools article, you should probably put down the computer and get back on the short bus.
Colbert hasn't asked people to write his name in for an actual election, so that's not a good question. He was denied his petition to join the ballot in his home state by a 13-3 vote in 2007.
You'll notice I havn't given my opinion on the name of the module, just about you saying their votes don't count. That's just BS. You're right. The vote is non-binding. Which, instead of naming it Colbert, they are instead debating what to do.
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SPOILERS: So lets see, you're upset they didn't hit the reset button? This is a time travel episode where everything does NOT go back to how it was before the time travel. Think: Yesterday's Enterprise except they didn't send Enterprise C back. Think: The Year of Hell except the totally unexplained destroy the timeship and everything works out ok waving of the hand doesn't occur.
Essentially they explained it in the movie: It's an alternate reality -- alternate timeline. Spock and the Romulon's getting yanked into the blackhole back in time changed the original timeline. Wonder if Q cares enough to fix it.
The parent poster has a lower UID than you do.
Not a fanboy, just willing to take something at face value if there is no reason not to.
The guy is a coder, not an english major. Read his blog post that is linked to there. It's a legitimate apology even if he's not the best at expressing himself.
Important update for Adblock Plus users: Version 1.9.2.6 automatically and permanently removes the cotroversial NoScript Development Support Filterset deployed with NoScript 1.9.2.4. I sincerely apologize with ABP users. Even though information about its presence and how to remove it in two clicks was given on the AMO install page, on this site's install page, on the release notes landing page and in the FAQ, not including a prompt asking for explicit permission beforehand from the start has been a very bad omission, and I want all the ABP users who felt betrayed to know how much I'm sorry for that. As a sign of good will and repent, current NoScript 1.9.2.6 completely removes the ABP filterset on startup with no questions asked. Thanks for your patience.
-- Giorgio
Update: More apologies and background facts on author's blog Hackademix.net.
IBM: I'll take Jap Anus Relations for $200. ...
TREBEK: I'm sorry, that's "Japan US Relations." That's just awful and you know it.
IBM: Oh, then I'll take "The Penis Mightier" for $200.
TREBEK: That's "The Pen Is Mightier" Mr. IBM.
Imagine if we could get a Beowulf cluster of these things.
Judgement day?
I bet that machine also isn't getting infected with Conficker because you handled security in this situation properly.
Ok so it doesn't apply to the current round of updates, but I used to admin a server that couldn't be upgraded to 2000 SP4 - trying to do so would cause irreparable damage (Full restore from backup, every single time). It's one thing to abuse an admin for not applying a patch, it's another to be that admin and making sure that adding it will work ok. The only sane security policy in a situation like that is protecting the internal network, but you can't protect a file server from an SMB attack if you need it to be a file server - and if you can't patch it for whatever reason......
If you can't patch it for some reason you fix the reason the patch fails. If that involves a server upgrade to 2003, then so be it. Hell, you mentioned it's an SMB attack and you can't protect against that if you're a file server. While true in a sense, you *can* protect against it by making sure all the non-file servers on the network aren't vulnerable. Make sure you don't use that machine for anything other than the applications you need (certainly don't use it as a terminal server as well). Have a security policy in place that makes it so you can't add vulnerable computers to the network, have a firewall between the company and the internet, etc.
This is something people don't understand until it happens to them, but security is serious business, if you have a server that has a must have application on it and you don't keep that thing #1: Backed up, #2: Up to date with security, you are just waiting for either data loss or time loss on the server.
If you can't afford to replace a server in that condition, then you likely can't afford the IT professional you hired to run it.
Hardware is inexpensive, especially considering you're running on Windows 2000 pre-SP4, you can get a low end server as a replacement and it'll be a very good upgrade. That's not even considering if you can replace with something other than windows or not!
If he's in the Geeksquad, I can see it not being his fault. It also keeps him in a job, and I can definately see a love/hate relation his there. But then, he claimed to be an "IT Professional" and I know that most people who claim to be an "IT Professional" mean they install/admin/maintain computers for a business. If said "IT Professional" doesn't have the pull to make sure a sane security policy is in place, then they get what they deserve and should use this instance to push through a sane security policy.
Seems like you should have spent a small amount of time patching the machines when the security updates were released instead of spending a good amount of time rebuilding them.
Road Runner recently killed their USENET service. If you want usenet you need to get an outside source.
The thing I don't understand is why anyone would ever design the system in such a way that a third party needs to be trusted with confidential information. It seems unnecessary. What benefit does this provide that absolutely cannot be arranged by an independent e-mail client that stores such information locally on the phone? I suppose that same question can be rephrased as "does server-push provide any benefit that client-pull with a reasonable polling time could not also provide?"
.002cents question.
Battery life. By having the Blackberry server push the email to your blackberry you save the battery time and bandwidth of checking your email every 10-15 minutes.
If you don't want them to have your password get a BES.
It starts to become a does $.002 ==
I think that if it were reported to the antispyware venders that it would be included. The problem is that it's a targeted install, so the infection rate is very low, as such it has probably never been seen by the antispyware venders at all, let alone examined well enough to detect.
Nah. Neo-Yoda speak would be something like "Kung-fu, know I."
Whoa.
Yeah, as I said in my original post, 5.0 was fine as a new install (Or clean install if that's what you want to call it) but upgrading from 4 was troublesome.
I'm a long, long time RedHat user. (Since Red Hat Linux 5.1, if you're curious)
You got lucky timing. As an "earlier than that" RedHat user, the 4.2-> 5.0 libc change was a horrible upgrade path. 5 worked great for new systems, but anyone with a good working 4.x system trying to upgrade to 5 had loads of problems. If you were to have gone through that upgrade you might not have stayed with RH as long as you have =)
The Road Runner here in Rochester is great where I live. Downloading games from Steam I get 1MB/s, so I'm maxing out my connection when I need to do that.
That said, I will have a very hard time staying under the 40GB limit, I work from home, have a Gentoo machine that I sync each night. I stream a couple of Netflix each week, along with other browsing. That doesn't even count the outside connections that get dropped by my Firewall from things like Blaster, etc that are still going strong.
Competition is DSL, and while the DSL isn't horrible, it's also not 1MB/sec either. I already give $120/month on cable/internet, I'm not adding $15 more to that to have a lower cap on my internet download. ($40/month now with no cap, will be $55 with 40GB cap after change). I'll switch to Dish and DSL.
No need for such language
Not sure about SC, but at least one in Brattleboro, VT. http://www.ibrattleboro.com/article.php/20081126150330411
He got 4 votes (write-in) for President in Duval County Florida.
I'm sure we can find other places.
Bravo!
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/01/0041200 is a valid article.
As someone who has been through a *lot* of 4/1's on Slashdot, I have to say that if you really need to be told this is an april fools article, you should probably put down the computer and get back on the short bus.
I agree, the achievement itself is an april fools joke, I don't think it actually exists.
Colbert hasn't asked people to write his name in for an actual election, so that's not a good question. He was denied his petition to join the ballot in his home state by a 13-3 vote in 2007.
You'll notice I havn't given my opinion on the name of the module, just about you saying their votes don't count. That's just BS. You're right. The vote is non-binding. Which, instead of naming it Colbert, they are instead debating what to do.