Odd. I start a new job on Monday, after being laid off last April. I didn't start my job hunt until late October, when the consulting gigs dried up.
The CISSP, Security+, SCSA & SCNA got me in the door. The company is paying for me to get my MCSE as well as my CCSP. (Yes, I have years of experience with both Microsoft and Cisco products.)
It depends on the company you are going to be working for.
I would be very surprised if IBM, HP, Novell and others don't have lobbiests of their own refuting this b.s.
IBM seems to be doing okay. They announced better than expected earnings and are anticipating hiring more than previously projected. Yes, many of the jobs are not in the U.S., but IBM probably pays more in sales tax on their corporate lunches than SCO does in total tax.
I had this discussion over Christmas. A friend of mine's wife has been a bank teller for several years. They get lots of training on this sort of thing.
They're not supposed to take bills like the ones you describe -- with the ends ripped off. That scam is decades old. Of course, some most certainly do, but they aren't supposed to. There are a few other things that tip them off, too. I can't remember a lot of them now, but if they're busy a lot of it just slides by.
Bzzzt! Wrong. The bank doesn't want 51% of the bill, they want both serial numbers. Your 51% must show both serial numbers or they should deny your request for a replacement.
I can't find the link,but remember an article about location-based commentary and review.
Turn on your phone and download or record customer reviews on the restaurant you are about to enter. Just walking through the door could activate not only coupons and ads, but allow you to grab menus from all restaurants in the area; see wait times; place a reservation; and read reviews left by patrons over the last couple of hours/days.
This has potential for a lot of convenience and power...as well as significant abuse.
This is a targeted attack and only works in individual cases. You can't supply a universal backup patch that works in all situations, with all software, etc.
Commodore did an "Bridge Card" for the Amiga 2000 way back in 1986-1987. Both 8088 and 80286 and it "bridged" the Amiga's Zorro slots and the included ISA slots, allowing the use of both Amiga and PC hardware.
This concept has been around for a while, this is just a refinement.
It's so funny how everyone here cheers IBM like this because they're "sticking it to teh M$". Have you seen the source code to DB2 or Notes lately?
IBM is a corporation whose main reason for existence is to make money and maximize shareholder value. Things like these have absolutely nothing to do with their "support" of free software.
Most major closed-source software projects contain large chunks of code licensed from other people. It is quite possible that good portions of DB2 and Notes are licensed from others.
The cost of a code audit on something like that can be enormous. Google for Bruce Perens' comments about when HP let OpenMail go -- and why he advised *against* open sourcing it.
Supporting open source and maximizing shareholder value aren't mutually exclusive. IBM is a very large services organization. They can and do make quite a bit of profit supporting other people's stuff.
I've NEVER seen a Starbucks charge $10/hour in the U.S.
Where are these locations? The ones I've been to (Spokane, Seattle, D.C., Orlando, San Francisco, Dallas, Chicago) all charge $10 / DAY or $30-40 unlimited monthly.
If you have a T-Mobile account you can get it added on for like $20 a month (unlimited).
Over Christmas, my D-Link wireless rotuer (B) died.
I had a SoekrisNet4521 and a D-Link DWL-650 wireless B card laying around.
The Net4521 is a 133 MHz AMD Elan (486 compat) system with 64 Mb of RAM, a CF slot, 2 10/100 ethernet ports, a mini-PCI slot and 2 PCMCIA/Cardbus slots. It is small (10" x 6" x 1/2") and not very expensive ($235 for 1).
Pebble Linux is a Debian-based distro designed for the Soekris line of boxes. It includes NoCat Auth, Mad WiFi and HostAP tools for making your own WAP.
You'll need a minimum of 64 Mb CF card to load it on, though it boots read-only and runs in RAM. You'll also need a wireless card that supports Host AP mode.
The whole setup cost me less than $300, and it is more than just a WAP. It is a real linux box with SSH, auditing tools, logs, etc.
Soekris also makes the VPN 1211, which is a mini-PCI crypto accelerator. From what I've researched, OpenSSL supports it for offloading SSL/TLS transactions. I'll be testing this out over the rest of the week.
The Net4521 also has a hardware watchdog, for resetting itself in case of problems AND supports power over Ethernet (802.3af) for those hard-to-find-juice locations.
If you're really ambitious, plug in a B/G card and an A card (second PCMCIA slot) and provide the whole spectrum of coverage. Let me know if you find a G or A card that Linux can put into HostAP mode, though.
MySQL may be many things, but "slow as hell" has NEVER been a complaint. It is many times faster than other SQL servers -- mainly because of the lack of other features.
MySQL has often been described as more of an SQL-interface to a file system than a database.
I can't remember where, but one site had a claim that not only did Jackson not like the Sharky bits, he didn't even bother to film any of it -- so don't look for it in the EE.
Excellent! Good luck. I've been able to successfully move some servers for clients from MS Small Business Server 2000 to Linux simply because of the reliability and "don't have to fix/patch it daily" issues.
Workstations have always been a problem because of the apps they use -- some don't exist on Linux. I'm investigating Citrix or Win Terminal Services for those cases.
So let me get this straight. I'm supposed to install an OS on the PC so the user can run an application. THEN, I'm supposed to build another computer, to make sure that middleware software ( the OS) is constantly updated?
Yes.:-) Welcome to the wonderful world of Microsoft.
Why am I the only person who see's a problem with this? My job isn't to keep the part of the computer that the users _don't_ use up and running, it's to provide the users with the tools they need to do their jobs.
Actually, it *IS* part of your job if you're a sysadmin for a big company. The thing is, the parts the end-users interact with depend on the other parts. It is like maintaining the plumbing in a house.
What happened that the middleware all of a sudden became such a problem?
Complexity. Microsoft tries to throw in everything but the kitchen sink; integrate it all; and document as little (on the programming side) as possible. It is a method used for vendor lock-in.
It's like forcing a home builder to replace nails on a regular basis instead of building new additions or adding some nice finishing.
Consider it part of the monthly maintenance. You still need to check the roof, fix plumbing issues, clean the chimney, etc.
No, it isn't right. It is, however, the way it is.
You can't just gloss over this problem, it's an INCREDIBLY difficult problem.
I didn't gloss. I said "regression test if that is the policy".
Yes, I have worked for large companies with lots of machines. I know the problem. The easy fix was NOT to patch the machines AT ALL. After all, many of the production machines were NOT connected to the Internet and firewalled. No, no modems, either.
E-mail viruses are a different issue, as they aren't usually addressed by MS patches.
The idea of monthly patches was to ease the burden on corporate sysadmins.
MS makes an update server freely available, and it can serve XP Pro, NT Workstation and 2000 Workstation -- the official corporate clients.
How hard is it to have your central corporate update server get the patches DAILY, if necessary, and push them out on a schedule with SMS? Or a login script, or...
This also gives the sysadmin time to regression test some patches if that is their policy.
Big business clients -- you know, the ones benefitting from the monthly schedule -- shouldn't be using Windows Update anyway!
Wal-Mart sells PCs with Lindows on them from their website. They're supposed to be a decent seller, so they probably aren't adverse to the idea.
I remember dealing with Home Shopping Network a couple of years ago. Their biggest seller was computers, but it was also their biggest return. People just couldn't figure them out properly.
For most people, PCs are just too complicated. They try to please all of the people all of the time, and fail miserably.
Sun might be on to something. Time to check up on their stock.
Absolutely!!! We don't need laws, we need guns. When everyone has a weapon, we can each defend our rights (as we percieve them) and the law can go hang! Who cares if my perception clashes with yours? We can settle the matter with our guns and get on with the business of survival.
There is such a thing as a happy medium.
My sig is targeted at those who use the phrase "there ought to be a law!" a lot and assume that the simple creation of a law (putting it on paper) actually does something.
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Odd. I start a new job on Monday, after being laid off last April. I didn't start my job hunt until late October, when the consulting gigs dried up.
The CISSP, Security+, SCSA & SCNA got me in the door. The company is paying for me to get my MCSE as well as my CCSP. (Yes, I have years of experience with both Microsoft and Cisco products.)
It depends on the company you are going to be working for.
I would be very surprised if IBM, HP, Novell and others don't have lobbiests of their own refuting this b.s.
IBM seems to be doing okay. They announced better than expected earnings and are anticipating hiring more than previously projected. Yes, many of the jobs are not in the U.S., but IBM probably pays more in sales tax on their corporate lunches than SCO does in total tax.
I had this discussion over Christmas. A friend of mine's wife has been a bank teller for several years. They get lots of training on this sort of thing.
They're not supposed to take bills like the ones you describe -- with the ends ripped off. That scam is decades old. Of course, some most certainly do, but they aren't supposed to. There are a few other things that tip them off, too. I can't remember a lot of them now, but if they're busy a lot of it just slides by.
Bzzzt! Wrong. The bank doesn't want 51% of the bill, they want both serial numbers. Your 51% must show both serial numbers or they should deny your request for a replacement.
I can't find the link,but remember an article about location-based commentary and review.
Turn on your phone and download or record customer reviews on the restaurant you are about to enter. Just walking through the door could activate not only coupons and ads, but allow you to grab menus from all restaurants in the area; see wait times; place a reservation; and read reviews left by patrons over the last couple of hours/days.
This has potential for a lot of convenience and power...as well as significant abuse.
You read too many Tom Clancy novels. :-)
This is a targeted attack and only works in individual cases. You can't supply a universal backup patch that works in all situations, with all software, etc.
Commodore did an "Bridge Card" for the Amiga 2000 way back in 1986-1987. Both 8088 and 80286 and it "bridged" the Amiga's Zorro slots and the included ISA slots, allowing the use of both Amiga and PC hardware.
This concept has been around for a while, this is just a refinement.
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It's so funny how everyone here cheers IBM like this because they're "sticking it to teh M$". Have you seen the source code to DB2 or Notes lately?
IBM is a corporation whose main reason for existence is to make money and maximize shareholder value. Things like these have absolutely nothing to do with their "support" of free software.
Most major closed-source software projects contain large chunks of code licensed from other people. It is quite possible that good portions of DB2 and Notes are licensed from others.
The cost of a code audit on something like that can be enormous. Google for Bruce Perens' comments about when HP let OpenMail go -- and why he advised *against* open sourcing it.
Supporting open source and maximizing shareholder value aren't mutually exclusive. IBM is a very large services organization. They can and do make quite a bit of profit supporting other people's stuff.
-Charles Hill
I've NEVER seen a Starbucks charge $10/hour in the U.S.
Where are these locations? The ones I've been to (Spokane, Seattle, D.C., Orlando, San Francisco, Dallas, Chicago) all charge $10 / DAY or $30-40 unlimited monthly.
If you have a T-Mobile account you can get it added on for like $20 a month (unlimited).
-Charles Hill
Over Christmas, my D-Link wireless rotuer (B) died.
I had a Soekris Net4521 and a D-Link DWL-650 wireless B card laying around.
The Net4521 is a 133 MHz AMD Elan (486 compat) system with 64 Mb of RAM, a CF slot, 2 10/100 ethernet ports, a mini-PCI slot and 2 PCMCIA/Cardbus slots. It is small (10" x 6" x 1/2") and not very expensive ($235 for 1).
Pebble Linux is a Debian-based distro designed for the Soekris line of boxes. It includes NoCat Auth, Mad WiFi and HostAP tools for making your own WAP.
You'll need a minimum of 64 Mb CF card to load it on, though it boots read-only and runs in RAM. You'll also need a wireless card that supports Host AP mode.
The whole setup cost me less than $300, and it is more than just a WAP. It is a real linux box with SSH, auditing tools, logs, etc.
Soekris also makes the VPN 1211, which is a mini-PCI crypto accelerator. From what I've researched, OpenSSL supports it for offloading SSL/TLS transactions. I'll be testing this out over the rest of the week.
The Net4521 also has a hardware watchdog, for resetting itself in case of problems AND supports power over Ethernet (802.3af) for those hard-to-find-juice locations.
If you're really ambitious, plug in a B/G card and an A card (second PCMCIA slot) and provide the whole spectrum of coverage. Let me know if you find a G or A card that Linux can put into HostAP mode, though.
Good luck.
-Charles Hill
MySQL may be many things, but "slow as hell" has NEVER been a complaint. It is many times faster than other SQL servers -- mainly because of the lack of other features.
MySQL has often been described as more of an SQL-interface to a file system than a database.
This means that whenever it is stable and ready for production, it is going to have a random version number. Not the smartest practice.
.0 and not .rnd()
It would help if the major stable releases were
-Charles
What will happen when MS actually *DOES* release a patch? Will this non-official patch screw things up?
-Charles Hill
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http://www.access4less.net/ with unlimited dial-up access, nationwide, for $4.95 per month.
I've used them as a back-up service for months and have never had a problem.
CH
I can't remember where, but one site had a claim that not only did Jackson not like the Sharky bits, he didn't even bother to film any of it -- so don't look for it in the EE.
Hopefully, what I read was wrong.
The fifth was excluded you ignoramous.
From my original post... but the charter doesn't all that many from 1 company, so 4 will sit on the board.
Learn to read complete sentences you ignoramous.
-Charles
Novell had 5 people elected, but the charter doesn't all that many from 1 company, so 4 will sit on the board.
Sun & Red Hat had 2 each.
That means of the 11 sitting members, a super-majority (2/3) is in the hands of 3 big companies.
Hmmm... the big boys are starting to pay attention. I hope this is a good thing.
-Charles Hill
Excellent! Good luck. I've been able to successfully move some servers for clients from MS Small Business Server 2000 to Linux simply because of the reliability and "don't have to fix/patch it daily" issues.
Workstations have always been a problem because of the apps they use -- some don't exist on Linux. I'm investigating Citrix or Win Terminal Services for those cases.
-Charles
So let me get this straight. I'm supposed to install an OS on the PC so the user can run an application. THEN, I'm supposed to build another computer, to make sure that middleware software ( the OS) is constantly updated?
:-) Welcome to the wonderful world of Microsoft.
Yes.
Why am I the only person who see's a problem with this? My job isn't to keep the part of the computer that the users _don't_ use up and running, it's to provide the users with the tools they need to do their jobs.
Actually, it *IS* part of your job if you're a sysadmin for a big company. The thing is, the parts the end-users interact with depend on the other parts. It is like maintaining the plumbing in a house.
What happened that the middleware all of a sudden became such a problem?
Complexity. Microsoft tries to throw in everything but the kitchen sink; integrate it all; and document as little (on the programming side) as possible. It is a method used for vendor lock-in.
It's like forcing a home builder to replace nails on a regular basis instead of building new additions or adding some nice finishing.
Consider it part of the monthly maintenance. You still need to check the roof, fix plumbing issues, clean the chimney, etc.
No, it isn't right. It is, however, the way it is.
-Charles
You can't just gloss over this problem, it's an INCREDIBLY difficult problem.
I didn't gloss. I said "regression test if that is the policy".
Yes, I have worked for large companies with lots of machines. I know the problem. The easy fix was NOT to patch the machines AT ALL. After all, many of the production machines were NOT connected to the Internet and firewalled. No, no modems, either.
E-mail viruses are a different issue, as they aren't usually addressed by MS patches.
-Charles
The idea of monthly patches was to ease the burden on corporate sysadmins.
MS makes an update server freely available, and it can serve XP Pro, NT Workstation and 2000 Workstation -- the official corporate clients.
How hard is it to have your central corporate update server get the patches DAILY, if necessary, and push them out on a schedule with SMS? Or a login script, or...
This also gives the sysadmin time to regression test some patches if that is their policy.
Big business clients -- you know, the ones benefitting from the monthly schedule -- shouldn't be using Windows Update anyway!
-Charles Hill
Wal-Mart sells PCs with Lindows on them from their website. They're supposed to be a decent seller, so they probably aren't adverse to the idea.
I remember dealing with Home Shopping Network a couple of years ago. Their biggest seller was computers, but it was also their biggest return. People just couldn't figure them out properly.
For most people, PCs are just too complicated. They try to please all of the people all of the time, and fail miserably.
Sun might be on to something. Time to check up on their stock.
Absolutely!!! We don't need laws, we need guns. When everyone has a weapon, we can each defend our rights (as we percieve them) and the law can go hang! Who cares if my perception clashes with yours? We can settle the matter with our guns and get on with the business of survival.
There is such a thing as a happy medium.
My sig is targeted at those who use the phrase "there ought to be a law!" a lot and assume that the simple creation of a law (putting it on paper) actually does something.
This whole SCO fiasco was concocted by the geeks over at Groklaw to stress test their servers!
1. Patch
2. Post to Slashdot
3. Monitor Load
4. If crash, go to 1 else
5. Profit!!