I am glad you did point out at the beginning that you work for Sun, since it does explain your point of view on clustering:) Otherwise it would look entirely crazy.
Beowulf can mean cheap hardware, Sun doesn't. Government doesn't always need secure. He doesn't say what part of the government.. it might be the department of the interior doing climate modelling or something. Trusted/Secure Solaris adds huge amount of overheads to installing and configuring and using a system that they just might not need. Sure, the original poster's view on system administration is somewhat unconventional, but it does seem like they have on-site staff who are more than capable of putting him back in his padded box.
In my opinion you have forced your customer to make a move on questionable grounds.. and in my opinion, you're looking at it from a loosing vendor's point of view, talking about what's bad in this solution.
Risk management includes managing risks that havent occured but might occur. Logic bombs aren't the only reason for these sort of policies. If you're really important to a corporation with one of these types of policies, you'd hope they are sensible enough to (like other people have mentioned) to retain you with the access of a contractor for the remainder of your notice period.
I saved the company and its business partners an estimated 20000 dollars through the work I did
Would your replacement have done the same thing during two weeks? Probably not initially, but eventually they would. It's good that you saved the company $20k in those two weeks, but someone else probably would have picked it up as well.
There is no reason to cut access to systems to avoid a perceived 'risk' to company assets
Only the force deal in absolutes;) Yes, there are a number of reasons. You and many other slashdotters just don't seem to understand them. It's ok though, they don't make sense when you look at them on an individual, case by case basis, but when blanketly applied, they can be appropriate. They're not always appropriate, but they're not always inappropriate either.
Many companies don't care about the feelings of their current employees, let alone their soon to be ex-employees. It's sad but true. Companies exist to make and retain money for their shareholders, at the expense of all else.
Security is about managing risks. There's no way to make something perfectly secure, only to manage the risks it presents to your organisation.
Immediately ceasing access for staff who are leaving, as an example. Most people aren't going to do anything. If they've given you 2 weeks notice and you let them go straight away, you're spending the equivalent of 2 weeks wages to treat the risk they will. Depending on the company, many places are happy to accept that risk treatment cost.The risk is not just that they will trash their computer or your systems. They may also steal or misuse confidential data, like customer lists.
I know of one person in consulting, who planned to setup his own company, doing what he did for his current company, and had planned to send a goodbye email to all his corporate contacts saying he was now in practise for himself - at 75% the price. He however was similarly unaware, like the original poster, of his company's seperation practises, and was escorted from the building immediately after handing in his letter of resignation. Fortunately his old company never found out about this, so he got a good reference for when he went for a similar job at another company, unable to start his own firm.
I once saw a post on slashdot about how sad it was that the NSA would destroy entire machines that had never been out of their box, just because they had been designated as spares for their datacentre. Consider it another way.. the machines were 2 years old, purchased tax free in bulk, and depreciated down to a minimal value. The risk posed that they may have ever been used and had operational data meant that it made a lot of sense to destroy perfectly good hardware.
Anyway, the point is, risks aren't always as obvious as they seem, and risk treatment is an interesting beast. Sometimes you do things which look like waste in order to prevent threats.
(IANAL, but I am a risk management/it security consultant:P I'd recommend the same thing in the same situation)
Jeremy's other work has also including defending people against spammer's who've sued for being put on blacklists. How quickly the tide turns. As others have pointed out, he's also a very strong anti-spam campaigner.
As a disclaimer: I have met Jeremy a fair few times. I also work with his cousin and the treasurer of Linux Australia. Neither have given me any comment on this matter.
Bingo. IT Managers use Windows because staffing costs are lower. There are literally nine year old girls in Pakistan who can admin your servers, according to Microsoft.
Of course, if your IT architechture deviates from Microsoft's, good luck finding someone for under three figures who can fix it;) As the saying goes, pay peanuts, get monkeys.
Once upon a time, there was a company called Keyhole that paid DigitalGlobe lots of money to take lots and lots and lots of high res photos of the earth. The terms of DG seems to assign you copyright for a particular shot if you pay enough for it. Google then bought Keyhole.
However, not all of Google maps satellite is DG, some of it is NASA. They're usually pretty good about not labelling this as copyright Google, but they do get it wrong some of the time.
So no, google don't have spy satellites (yet..) but they do hold the copyright legitimately for most of the areas they claim to.
Google also owns Keyhole. Keyhole is the original source of all the imagery in Google maps. Keyhole also has a for-fee browser (with 7 day trial) that has more mainstream features than Worldwind, but that could generate that image.
Worldwind uses the same edited images of the capitol area for the high-res colour data. There is, however, unedited black and white imagery of the area available in Worldwind if you activate the right layers.
They also probably have an openboot password on them.. (of course, if you add any ram to them and hold down cmd-option-pr when it boots, it's not an issue:)
Back when I was in high school, the school computers were running DOS 5, and PowerMenu.. (1992-1996).. the password was the last 4 digits of the school's phone number.
Actually, most of the computers were Mac Pluses.. *shudder*
Each new hardware revision required updates to OS9. Once 10.1 came out, the death knell was sounding for OS9. To spend money continuing to update it was not financially a good idea. Apparently Quark didn't run that well on classic.
a/v hardware is a whole different problem. The people you know continue to run OS9 because they can't afford the new hardware which works with OSX, because believe me, if you're doing audio or video stuff, there's something available for OSX. And that's reasonable, video hardware is not cheap.
*Apple* was forced to continue making and shipping old G4s that could run OS9, mainly so people could keep using Quark. The company really has no direction, nor does it seek to satisfy the needs of their clients.
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So in summary, OpenOffice sucks now and will continue to suck in the future?
If you had gpgmail installed under 10.3 and upgraded to 10.4, mail.app wouldn't work at all. I suspect they're probably trying to avoid this sort of thing happening in the future.
Ditch all your switching gear which isn't cisco. Replace it with stuff that is. Configure "private vlan edge" on all the access ports. Problem solved:P
You have passwords that expire monthly? That's insane!
It's not really. A month is a fairly good guesstimate of how long it would take to obtain an encrypted version of an account password, brute force it, and attempt to use it.
For industrial intelligence purposes, the resources to brute force 90% of passwords in a month is within reach.
I was hyped up and ready to go see Hellboy and The Incredibles in the theatre (in Australia) last year. In both cases, a few weeks before release, a 3 month delay was announced for the movie.
What happened? Everyone knew someone who had downloaded a copy of them from the net and the movies flopped.
Message to content producers: By treating us as second class and adding abnormal delays in releasing things in Australia, you're disrespecting us. Don't be too surprised when we return the favour when it comes to your intellectual property and download rips off the internet.
You are at the controls of an alien space ship. Photoshop has so many options and tools that the learning curve can really throw some people. But once you get to know how to use it, it's quite easy.
Think of it like being at the controls of a Boeing 747-100. Yes, the UI stinks, since all you really want is up, down, forwards and left and right, but once you get to know it, it's not a problem. Same thing with Photoshop.
IANAPP either, but I have been using it for 11 years (version 2 on a Mac LC:) . You get used to it after the first year or so.
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I am glad you did point out at the beginning that you work for Sun, since it does explain your point of view on clustering :) Otherwise it would look entirely crazy.
.. and in my opinion, you're looking at it from a loosing vendor's point of view, talking about what's bad in this solution.
Beowulf can mean cheap hardware, Sun doesn't. Government doesn't always need secure. He doesn't say what part of the government.. it might be the department of the interior doing climate modelling or something. Trusted/Secure Solaris adds huge amount of overheads to installing and configuring and using a system that they just might not need. Sure, the original poster's view on system administration is somewhat unconventional, but it does seem like they have on-site staff who are more than capable of putting him back in his padded box.
In my opinion you have forced your customer to make a move on questionable grounds
Risk management includes managing risks that havent occured but might occur. Logic bombs aren't the only reason for these sort of policies. If you're really important to a corporation with one of these types of policies, you'd hope they are sensible enough to (like other people have mentioned) to retain you with the access of a contractor for the remainder of your notice period.
I saved the company and its business partners an estimated 20000 dollars through the work I did
;) Yes, there are a number of reasons. You and many other slashdotters just don't seem to understand them. It's ok though, they don't make sense when you look at them on an individual, case by case basis, but when blanketly applied, they can be appropriate. They're not always appropriate, but they're not always inappropriate either.
Would your replacement have done the same thing during two weeks? Probably not initially, but eventually they would. It's good that you saved the company $20k in those two weeks, but someone else probably would have picked it up as well.
There is no reason to cut access to systems to avoid a perceived 'risk' to company assets
Only the force deal in absolutes
Many companies don't care about the feelings of their current employees, let alone their soon to be ex-employees. It's sad but true. Companies exist to make and retain money for their shareholders, at the expense of all else.
Security is about managing risks. There's no way to make something perfectly secure, only to manage the risks it presents to your organisation.
:P I'd recommend the same thing in the same situation)
Immediately ceasing access for staff who are leaving, as an example. Most people aren't going to do anything. If they've given you 2 weeks notice and you let them go straight away, you're spending the equivalent of 2 weeks wages to treat the risk they will. Depending on the company, many places are happy to accept that risk treatment cost.The risk is not just that they will trash their computer or your systems. They may also steal or misuse confidential data, like customer lists.
I know of one person in consulting, who planned to setup his own company, doing what he did for his current company, and had planned to send a goodbye email to all his corporate contacts saying he was now in practise for himself - at 75% the price. He however was similarly unaware, like the original poster, of his company's seperation practises, and was escorted from the building immediately after handing in his letter of resignation. Fortunately his old company never found out about this, so he got a good reference for when he went for a similar job at another company, unable to start his own firm.
I once saw a post on slashdot about how sad it was that the NSA would destroy entire machines that had never been out of their box, just because they had been designated as spares for their datacentre. Consider it another way.. the machines were 2 years old, purchased tax free in bulk, and depreciated down to a minimal value. The risk posed that they may have ever been used and had operational data meant that it made a lot of sense to destroy perfectly good hardware.
Anyway, the point is, risks aren't always as obvious as they seem, and risk treatment is an interesting beast. Sometimes you do things which look like waste in order to prevent threats.
(IANAL, but I am a risk management/it security consultant
He's like a Total n00b, I remember helping him run Linux on his Powerbook in 1998.
;p)
(Hi Dan
We discovered it in 1982.
:)
-- Staff member from the winner's institution
Jeremy's other work has also including defending people against spammer's who've sued for being put on blacklists. How quickly the tide turns. As others have pointed out, he's also a very strong anti-spam campaigner.
As a disclaimer: I have met Jeremy a fair few times. I also work with his cousin and the treasurer of Linux Australia. Neither have given me any comment on this matter.
Bingo. IT Managers use Windows because staffing costs are lower. There are literally nine year old girls in Pakistan who can admin your servers, according to Microsoft.
;) As the saying goes, pay peanuts, get monkeys.
Of course, if your IT architechture deviates from Microsoft's, good luck finding someone for under three figures who can fix it
Once upon a time, there was a company called Keyhole that paid DigitalGlobe lots of money to take lots and lots and lots of high res photos of the earth. The terms of DG seems to assign you copyright for a particular shot if you pay enough for it. Google then bought Keyhole.
However, not all of Google maps satellite is DG, some of it is NASA. They're usually pretty good about not labelling this as copyright Google, but they do get it wrong some of the time.
So no, google don't have spy satellites (yet..) but they do hold the copyright legitimately for most of the areas they claim to.
Google also owns Keyhole. Keyhole is the original source of all the imagery in Google maps. Keyhole also has a for-fee browser (with 7 day trial) that has more mainstream features than Worldwind, but that could generate that image.
Worldwind uses the same edited images of the capitol area for the high-res colour data. There is, however, unedited black and white imagery of the area available in Worldwind if you activate the right layers.
Plus, they were iBooks :)
:)
They also probably have an openboot password on them.. (of course, if you add any ram to them and hold down cmd-option-pr when it boots, it's not an issue
Back when I was in high school, the school computers were running DOS 5, and PowerMenu .. (1992-1996).. the password was the last 4 digits of the school's phone number.
Actually, most of the computers were Mac Pluses.. *shudder*
You've never put any of these on a website or posted to a mailing list that has a web-based archive. Therein lies the path to pain.
Because running PPC binaries on the Intel Macs requires emulation. Emulation = slow. The whole reason they're changing is speed :)
(For small values of whole)
Each new hardware revision required updates to OS9. Once 10.1 came out, the death knell was sounding for OS9. To spend money continuing to update it was not financially a good idea. Apparently Quark didn't run that well on classic.
a/v hardware is a whole different problem. The people you know continue to run OS9 because they can't afford the new hardware which works with OSX, because believe me, if you're doing audio or video stuff, there's something available for OSX. And that's reasonable, video hardware is not cheap.
*Apple* was forced to continue making and shipping old G4s that could run OS9, mainly so people could keep using Quark. The company really has no direction, nor does it seek to satisfy the needs of their clients.
So in summary, OpenOffice sucks now and will continue to suck in the future?
Fair enough
*buys Office 2004*
If you had gpgmail installed under 10.3 and upgraded to 10.4, mail.app wouldn't work at all. I suspect they're probably trying to avoid this sort of thing happening in the future.
Ditch all your switching gear which isn't cisco. Replace it with stuff that is. Configure "private vlan edge" on all the access ports. Problem solved :P
warez.dal.net = 127.0.0.1 too
:)
But bleh, dalnet
You have passwords that expire monthly? That's insane!
It's not really. A month is a fairly good guesstimate of how long it would take to obtain an encrypted version of an account password, brute force it, and attempt to use it.
For industrial intelligence purposes, the resources to brute force 90% of passwords in a month is within reach.
I was hyped up and ready to go see Hellboy and The Incredibles in the theatre (in Australia) last year. In both cases, a few weeks before release, a 3 month delay was announced for the movie.
What happened? Everyone knew someone who had downloaded a copy of them from the net and the movies flopped.
Message to content producers: By treating us as second class and adding abnormal delays in releasing things in Australia, you're disrespecting us. Don't be too surprised when we return the favour when it comes to your intellectual property and download rips off the internet.
You are at the controls of an alien space ship. Photoshop has so many options and tools that the learning curve can really throw some people. But once you get to know how to use it, it's quite easy.
:) . You get used to it after the first year or so.
Think of it like being at the controls of a Boeing 747-100. Yes, the UI stinks, since all you really want is up, down, forwards and left and right, but once you get to know it, it's not a problem. Same thing with Photoshop.
IANAPP either, but I have been using it for 11 years (version 2 on a Mac LC