I always thought it was funny... since when does not knowing who the terrorists are give the govt the right to treat each of us as one...
Airport - "Can you turn this laptop on for me, please." "Why?" "To prove that it's a laptop." "Uh, I can remove the guts and battery, replace them with whatever I want, and then fake the POST with a BASIC Stamp. Anyone could. That, and demonstrating this product in that fashion may be a violation of the Microsoft EULA." "[pause] Can you turn this laptop on for me, please."
Companies have had this concept for years. Typical document retention policy is "useful life" - for contracts, it'd be life of contract + 6.5 years. For crap records, it's as long is it's relevent, then whack it immediately.
And the reason is simple - all this junk needs to be stored, which costs money, and managed - which costs more money. Then, if someone wants it (and you have it), you have to find it - that's a ton of money... then the lawyers etc. get to review it, and that's a fortune, over a freakin post-it note that would never be used in your favor, meaning at best it won't be used against you in a suit... more often than not, it'll simply provide the cause needed for them to request more documents.
One of my scrapers wraps IE. Another is a script that runs inside an html page, and scrapes using IE inter-zone bugs with IFrames. I'd love to see the language that precludes either one of those techniques from being used...
Since we run a Win shop with Internet Exploder as the browser, I obviously wasn't too keen on letting the great unwashed touch any external hosts froma production machine... quite frankly, there is no business reason to allow it, it serves no purpose. My solution was simple - it isn't allowed, except for about 4 of us (out of 40 or 50).
The rest... well, we retire boxes all the time. They all get wiped, and some get Mozilla, others IE, and others Konquerer. They get stuck in disused corners in the building, and connected outside our DMZ. People can use 'em whenever they want... and if the box breaks, well... big deal, it's outside of my production.
Interesting side note - everyone is told that those boxes are "disavowed" by us - if they get hosed, they stay hosed, and we'll fix them in a few months when we're bored. Six months, and only one hose-up so far... and this in a demographic that often has big hair, chews bubblegum and thinks AIM is "cute!".
Yes, and "well regulated militia" would be 2 or more individuals wielding well regulated firearms, using the callibrations of their weapons to maximum effectiveness. Not exactly a tough concept, I'm sure.
You do know that "regulated" is in regards to the type of firearm (state-of-the-art at the time), and does NOT refer to some type of supervisory structure...
There's expense, and then there's cost. They aren't the same. See, expense is typically unforseen - you can't really predict it. Cost, OTOH, is fully predictable.
So, I've found a way to make this study work.
Time spent by an admin fixing, etc, is an expense. Time spent idle (e.g. not performing CPR on a dead box) is cost - wasted money spent on something you don't need.
Clearly, the Win2K will have a much lower cost, because the admin is never idle. *nix, OTOH, will have a huge cost. Win2K clearly has a much higher advantage in the utilization of any SA staff. Clearly.
Bawhaw... "Missile locked! I got a tone! I'm fir... @##$! Freakin popups!"
Or better yet, "We're sorry, the laser targeting system has detected copywritten material within the seeker's view and is unable to display the desired image. If this problem persists, please contact your System Administrator."
Countermeasures would be easy, then - just put a MickeyMouse logo on your tank. We'd be screwed.
Main box is an Endurance by Marathon, with the tuples split half a mile apart. Not exactly affordable, though.
As the day grinds along, stuff gets pumped to another rack, located in a concrete bunker under a trailer owned by some guy named "Bob" who works for AT&T. I think he lives in Tulsa or something. Should the world explode, our people can telecommute to it. That's not exactly affordable, either.
Before we used Bob at AT&T, I had a box in the basement of my house. As above, data transactions & incremental file snapshots were pushed onto it at some interval. That was mostly affordable, since it was effectively just a file store. During the day, my home's 'net connection would be sucked up by this crap. No big deal, I'm at work. When I get home, there's no real data left to push... so the net connection's all mine.
Along with that, we've got the obligatory 12-tape rotation. The tapes live in my truck most of the time, except for whatever ones will be used that night, and except for whatever monthly set goes to secured storage. Quite affordable, if DDS or DLT etc. is within your budget.
Stuff at home on my personal boxes... ugh. Snapshot anything of merit onto a Rom, and mail it off to Siberia. Ghost the rest onto a spare drive and store that drive somewhere else...
The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result. - Einstein. Einstein never used Windows. - The Mighty Dingus
People don't use VOIP because VOIP is a trainwreck, and doesn't have the maturity of a PBX solution. I can pump your 9-1-1 "help me I'm dying" phone call through a Meridian 2616, which consists of about... 5 chips and a UART? Or I can pump that call through a PC with over 1 gazillion components, all of which are primed to fail if the user screws up, let alone the if system screws itself.
I dunno about you, but critical communications demand simplicity and uptime. VOIP has neither. It's great for games, though.
Telephony apps are big bucks. Combine that with who usually buys them for a company (non technical managers, or committees) along with 50 rounds of RFPs... you'll end up on a platform already used by the customer, every time. After all, the client is already using Win32. As the switch side is tied tighter and tighter to the computing side, Win32 becomes even more attractive since it's on every desktop, and on the back-end as well. No sales pitch is needed in that respect... the myth of "seamless integration" is offered as a benefit, and what sounds more seamless to a customer using already Win32...
You combine this with the reality that small switch products are typically gutted versions of the real ones. Feature sets of Real Ones are dictated by Real Companies with Real Money. They buy things like Nortel(Wiltel/Nextera/whatever it's called this week), Compaq (or whatever they're called this week), HP (again). They don't buy switch products like ROLM, Panasonic, or Fujitsu... and they don't put E-Machines or $200 Walmart boxes on their user's desktops. All are great at what they do, but try to put any in a real telecom center and you'll be laughed at.
Make a (freeOS) version, none of the large places will buy it. That means your large-scale version will need to be either embedded or Win32; and as a vendor, once it's built you won't double your development costs by making a totally separate (FreeOS) smaller version when you can simply cut-n-paste from from a system that's already done(since the development is already paid for). From the large solution, a smaller one is made for the rest of you... and it's pure gravy, because designing it didn't cost a dime. And quite frankly, low-end users like it... it's Win32, they use Win32... they can have their little Screen Pops and "seamless integration". Yeah, they can have it with a FreeOS just as easy, but... apples and oranges aren't seamless to the layperson. They've already got Win32, they already know it. You tell me which one you'll buy, and remember your name is "Sally, the GM", and you don't care to learn about Telephony. Or computers for that matter... you just want this idiot sales pig to give you a switch and leave, so that you can get back to work.
There are a few FreeOS tel things around, but by and large, they're anecdotle when compared to even an Option11. The ROI for developing a large scale FreeOS solution just isn't out there yet, which means you won't be seeing any gutted "small" versions either... only small (anecdotle) solutions that hope to some day be scaled up into something useful. It may change (hopefully,) but not yet.
First, there's the difficulty of determining where the software looks for the information. Presumably, it's reading the disk, and sorting out that one line that it's requesting the key from is difficult
Err... why bother monitoring low level calls when you can make them yourself... if the software can issue a call to read the data on the disk, encrypted or not, then you can issue a call to read the data on the disk, encrypted or not. Then, you can issue a call to write that sector on a new disk, encrypted or not. When you're done, we'll have a perfect bit-wise copy, sector by sector... or physical track by physical track, whichever works better. Read a sector, write a sector. The context of the data is irrelevent, and will remain intact.
Since when does one need to interpret data to make a copy of it?
Back in the good 'ole days, people screwed around with half tracking, quarter tracking (which many said was snakeoil), screwing up sector headers, etc. All of these things made life tedious to the point that Nibbles Away, Locksmith, etc. were written.
I never really used those, however, because I didn't need to. It occured to me that these floppies were simply flat audio tape... so I gutted a pair of drives, stacked 'em, put them on a common spindle, and copied them the old-fashioned way... straight analog, no interpretation... just sweep the heads across the platter, what one hears, the other writes. Easy.
If the laser in the CDR can see the bits, those bits can be copied, and the physical image of the rom can be duplicated. End of story...
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I always thought it was funny... since when does not knowing who the terrorists are give the govt the right to treat each of us as one...
Airport - "Can you turn this laptop on for me, please." "Why?" "To prove that it's a laptop." "Uh, I can remove the guts and battery, replace them with whatever I want, and then fake the POST with a BASIC Stamp. Anyone could. That, and demonstrating this product in that fashion may be a violation of the Microsoft EULA." "[pause] Can you turn this laptop on for me, please."
Companies have had this concept for years. Typical document retention policy is "useful life" - for contracts, it'd be life of contract + 6.5 years. For crap records, it's as long is it's relevent, then whack it immediately.
And the reason is simple - all this junk needs to be stored, which costs money, and managed - which costs more money. Then, if someone wants it (and you have it), you have to find it - that's a ton of money... then the lawyers etc. get to review it, and that's a fortune, over a freakin post-it note that would never be used in your favor, meaning at best it won't be used against you in a suit... more often than not, it'll simply provide the cause needed for them to request more documents.
Yick.
The proper URL is now www.parliament.airstrip1
One of my scrapers wraps IE. Another is a script that runs inside an html page, and scrapes using IE inter-zone bugs with IFrames. I'd love to see the language that precludes either one of those techniques from being used...
Since we run a Win shop with Internet Exploder as the browser, I obviously wasn't too keen on letting the great unwashed touch any external hosts froma production machine... quite frankly, there is no business reason to allow it, it serves no purpose. My solution was simple - it isn't allowed, except for about 4 of us (out of 40 or 50).
The rest... well, we retire boxes all the time. They all get wiped, and some get Mozilla, others IE, and others Konquerer. They get stuck in disused corners in the building, and connected outside our DMZ. People can use 'em whenever they want... and if the box breaks, well... big deal, it's outside of my production.
Interesting side note - everyone is told that those boxes are "disavowed" by us - if they get hosed, they stay hosed, and we'll fix them in a few months when we're bored. Six months, and only one hose-up so far... and this in a demographic that often has big hair, chews bubblegum and thinks AIM is "cute!".
- SBB
What you say?
You've obviously never heard of Farnsworth [http://www.fusor.net]... all we need to figure out is Step 2, and we'll profit!
NAKED CITY! NAKED CITY!
Windows SPACE! Service Pack 12.
In other news, a satellite was taken over by a 5 year old...
Heh, dig a little deeper, we'll prolly see they used PKZip to compress JPEGs and GIFs, used Cookies as identifiers, and initiated the transfer by Hyperlinks... from a Graphical and textual information on a video screen for purposes of making a sale.
All unlicensed, of course.
:))
and it was a total disaster. Almost as bad as the Earth Quake Pills.
Yes, and "well regulated militia" would be 2 or more individuals wielding well regulated firearms, using the callibrations of their weapons to maximum effectiveness. Not exactly a tough concept, I'm sure.
You do know that "regulated" is in regards to the type of firearm (state-of-the-art at the time), and does NOT refer to some type of supervisory structure...
There's expense, and then there's cost. They aren't the same. See, expense is typically unforseen - you can't really predict it. Cost, OTOH, is fully predictable.
So, I've found a way to make this study work.
Time spent by an admin fixing, etc, is an expense. Time spent idle (e.g. not performing CPR on a dead box) is cost - wasted money spent on something you don't need.
Clearly, the Win2K will have a much lower cost, because the admin is never idle. *nix, OTOH, will have a huge cost. Win2K clearly has a much higher advantage in the utilization of any SA staff. Clearly.
See? It works! Lol.
Bawhaw...
"Missile locked! I got a tone! I'm fir... @##$! Freakin popups!"
Or better yet,
"We're sorry, the laser targeting system has detected copywritten material within the seeker's view and is unable to display the desired image. If this problem persists, please contact your System Administrator."
Countermeasures would be easy, then - just put a MickeyMouse logo on your tank. We'd be screwed.
We're loaded.
Main box is an Endurance by Marathon, with the tuples split half a mile apart. Not exactly affordable, though.
As the day grinds along, stuff gets pumped to another rack, located in a concrete bunker under a trailer owned by some guy named "Bob" who works for AT&T. I think he lives in Tulsa or something. Should the world explode, our people can telecommute to it. That's not exactly affordable, either.
Before we used Bob at AT&T, I had a box in the basement of my house. As above, data transactions & incremental file snapshots were pushed onto it at some interval. That was mostly affordable, since it was effectively just a file store. During the day, my home's 'net connection would be sucked up by this crap. No big deal, I'm at work. When I get home, there's no real data left to push... so the net connection's all mine.
Along with that, we've got the obligatory 12-tape rotation. The tapes live in my truck most of the time, except for whatever ones will be used that night, and except for whatever monthly set goes to secured storage. Quite affordable, if DDS or DLT etc. is within your budget.
Stuff at home on my personal boxes... ugh. Snapshot anything of merit onto a Rom, and mail it off to Siberia. Ghost the rest onto a spare drive and store that drive somewhere else...
The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result. - Einstein.
Einstein never used Windows. - The Mighty Dingus
Apple has also fallen behind the PC pack in popular music file-trading software
Err... they won't support Mac because Rights Restrictions aren't native... meanwhile, Mac users are at the bottom of the P2P curve. LOL.
said Marvin, "...and then, then I may try it backwards."
Rofl
People don't use VOIP because VOIP is a trainwreck, and doesn't have the maturity of a PBX solution. I can pump your 9-1-1 "help me I'm dying" phone call through a Meridian 2616, which consists of about... 5 chips and a UART? Or I can pump that call through a PC with over 1 gazillion components, all of which are primed to fail if the user screws up, let alone the if system screws itself.
I dunno about you, but critical communications demand simplicity and uptime. VOIP has neither. It's great for games, though.
Telephony apps are big bucks. Combine that with who usually buys them for a company (non technical managers, or committees) along with 50 rounds of RFPs... you'll end up on a platform already used by the customer, every time. After all, the client is already using Win32. As the switch side is tied tighter and tighter to the computing side, Win32 becomes even more attractive since it's on every desktop, and on the back-end as well. No sales pitch is needed in that respect... the myth of "seamless integration" is offered as a benefit, and what sounds more seamless to a customer using already Win32...
You combine this with the reality that small switch products are typically gutted versions of the real ones. Feature sets of Real Ones are dictated by Real Companies with Real Money. They buy things like Nortel(Wiltel/Nextera/whatever it's called this week), Compaq (or whatever they're called this week), HP (again). They don't buy switch products like ROLM, Panasonic, or Fujitsu... and they don't put E-Machines or $200 Walmart boxes on their user's desktops. All are great at what they do, but try to put any in a real telecom center and you'll be laughed at.
Make a (freeOS) version, none of the large places will buy it. That means your large-scale version will need to be either embedded or Win32; and as a vendor, once it's built you won't double your development costs by making a totally separate (FreeOS) smaller version when you can simply cut-n-paste from from a system that's already done(since the development is already paid for). From the large solution, a smaller one is made for the rest of you... and it's pure gravy, because designing it didn't cost a dime. And quite frankly, low-end users like it... it's Win32, they use Win32... they can have their little Screen Pops and "seamless integration". Yeah, they can have it with a FreeOS just as easy, but... apples and oranges aren't seamless to the layperson. They've already got Win32, they already know it. You tell me which one you'll buy, and remember your name is "Sally, the GM", and you don't care to learn about Telephony. Or computers for that matter... you just want this idiot sales pig to give you a switch and leave, so that you can get back to work.
There are a few FreeOS tel things around, but by and large, they're anecdotle when compared to even an Option11. The ROI for developing a large scale FreeOS solution just isn't out there yet, which means you won't be seeing any gutted "small" versions either... only small (anecdotle) solutions that hope to some day be scaled up into something useful. It may change (hopefully,) but not yet.
Dammit, now he's gonna sue me because I viewed this via a caching proxy... and I didn't even post anything! damn you!
- SBB
First, there's the difficulty of determining where the software looks for the information. Presumably, it's reading the disk, and sorting out that one line that it's requesting the key from is difficult Err... why bother monitoring low level calls when you can make them yourself... if the software can issue a call to read the data on the disk, encrypted or not, then you can issue a call to read the data on the disk, encrypted or not. Then, you can issue a call to write that sector on a new disk, encrypted or not. When you're done, we'll have a perfect bit-wise copy, sector by sector... or physical track by physical track, whichever works better. Read a sector, write a sector. The context of the data is irrelevent, and will remain intact.
Bawhaw... I remember that... we beat it with a sticker over the write-protect tab.
lmao
Since when does one need to interpret data to make a copy of it?
Back in the good 'ole days, people screwed around with half tracking, quarter tracking (which many said was snakeoil), screwing up sector headers, etc. All of these things made life tedious to the point that Nibbles Away, Locksmith, etc. were written.
I never really used those, however, because I didn't need to. It occured to me that these floppies were simply flat audio tape... so I gutted a pair of drives, stacked 'em, put them on a common spindle, and copied them the old-fashioned way... straight analog, no interpretation... just sweep the heads across the platter, what one hears, the other writes. Easy.
If the laser in the CDR can see the bits, those bits can be copied, and the physical image of the rom can be duplicated. End of story...
... "A toll on every highway, a troll under every bridge."
heh.