I wouldn't really call either option as easy as Nagios. I don't have to post modifications to the DB in Nagios for an external script to function. I also don't have to add functionality to my scripts to generate a SNMP trap. All I have to do is return a numeric response to the calling process. Often times this is the output of the command you're running anyway. Still it does sound like NetCool is extensible. I'll have to give it a try when time permits. As always, each to their own.
That's a good point. It's worth noting though that Ethan Galstad, the author of Nagios, will take on custom tasks on a contract development basis. I'm in a fortunate position where I'm the netadm and sysadm (ie Nagios user and maintainer). I can usually whip out a script in an hour or two.
Who to prosecute and for exactly what is still outstanding.
The first part is easy. You prosecute whomever authorized it, whomever knew about it and didn't report it, and whomever actually did the deed. Whether or not you pull the trigger, if you hired the hitman you're still just as guilty. The second part is the hard part. Which law(s) did they actually break? We know it was wrong. We just don't know how to say it was wrong in the legal sense.
The problem is you can't extend NetCool or the other closed source apps to anything other than what they've allowed you to monitor. I'm monitoring the state of BGP peering sessions with Nagios. Try doing that with NetCool. Sometimes you don't get what you pay for. Sometimes you have to use a little of your own ingenuity.
It does matter if you're the author of a piece of GPL code that someone has chosen to modify under an incompatible license. You set forth your restrictions on the code when you GPLed it. Now some prick has taken your code and modified it under a different license. That's a no no.
Well, I suppose this is what bankruptcy is for. You could also say that this is also what the appeals process is for. If you're right and don't get the desired outcome the first time, appeal.
I must be one too. I've never gotten one of those damned things to work right, EVER. I was on the Amazon system once as well. It got caught in an endless loop where it would "hiccup" (say half a word, think it heard you say something and stop the spiel). Fact of the matter was I had the mic turned off at the time. Another time I was so sick and tired of their phone system I started cussing at the recorded operator. Oddly enough that usually throws you right to a live body (in my experience). Not on the Amazon system I was using. It immediately hung up. Bottom line is I really hate these things and everyone I've ever mentioned it to does as well. At the very least make it a dual-input system. "To speak with someone for the Murder For Hire Department" press or say 8. At least then you can be certain that your input is heard.
The other thing I hate is keypad-input systems that can't hear the keystrokes fast enough. Ie you can easily out-type the phone prompter, especially when you have number side by side or have repeating digits. I run into this at least once a day when I call my Verizon voicemail. It annoys me almost as much as a credit card text field in a form on a webpage that doesn't accept dashes AND they don't mention that anywhere. It can only get worse if they use javascript to clear the contents of all the text fields and reset the values of all the radio buttons upon the reload of the page. Grrr....
The ethics of the non-law-enforcement-officer are also in question. What's to stop the hacker from intentionally placing the files in question on what is not the victim's PC? The chain of custody has been broken and any lawyer should be able to get the case tossed. That goes both ways. What if the person really was a pedophile and used the FBI's trust in a person with unknown ethics to get the bastard off? What if an innocent person was framed by an unethical hacker? There are reasons why we've created law enforcement agencies and the checks and balances to govern them. There is no such thing in a vigilanty hacker.
I use it. I buy on average about $3k in books per year plus other misc stuff off of Amazon. If they can expand their grocery inventory a little bit I'll probably buy some non-perishables that way too. Imagine getting him from work to find a box of grocery items on your porch that are ready to go right into the cupboards? Forget about that trip to the grocery store and the hours spent plowing up and down each isle looking for what's on your list, trying to remember what was on the list that you left at home, and being tempted by the flashy stickers and box labels on displays of non-so-good-of-a-deal special price displays. My 2-day shipping is free with Amazon Prime. If I need a book in a hurry it only costs me a couple bucks to have it the next day. I'm a fan of it.
And that she doesn't have overbearing overzealous parents who will never believe that Daddy's Little Girl (tm) could ever have premarital sex so it must have been rape.
Not only that but computer labs greatly help increase traffic in and out of the libraries. This would be the equivalent to putting an ATM in the back of a gas station. 3 out of every 10 people might also buy something from the convience store simply because they stepped in the door (smelled the popcorn, saw the display of Mountain Dew and now they're thursting, etc). Computers enlarge the number of library patrons. More patrons, more donations, more justification for more funds from the local, state, or federal government.
In some of the Cisco low-to-mid-range routers, the line cards are connected to PCI busses (not that what's usually called L3 switches, of course). In fact, these routers are basically PCs with a MIPS CPU.
More likely is that the fiber connections between the buildings were passed through a non-VLAN aware/non-jumbo frame aware optical transport system. IEEE 802.1Q was not ratified until 1998. Most OTSs were not VLAN-aware until the early 2000s. Most OTSs did not support jumbo Ethernet frames until about the same time frame. All OTSs that supported neither VLAN tag passing or jumbo frames would have seen the larger packets as corrupt. The action of the individual OTS would be whatever action the vendor chose to implement. If the OTS did in fact have this limitation and could not be fixed or replaced with a more functional unit then the fix would have been to simply eliminate the L2 connection between the affected buildings and replace it with a L3 connection (ie, route from the affected buildings instead of trunking VLANs back to the core). It's a simple fix but an extremely weird problem to diagnose. I imagine that university, like many universities, has separate telecom and IT departments. In all likelyhood the IT department would have gotten the fiber from the telecom department. In an established institution like that I would be surprised to hear that the telecom department had ATM running across the campus over OTS-supplied rings to support their remote key systems. Telecom would have provided IT with the "fiber connection" which was really a LANE drops off of their OTS system. That would have been the end of the telecom department's involvment. This is a very likely scenario that I've actually seen played out before.
I ran into this very problem on a much newer OTS no more than 2 weeks ago.
I can not believe you just said that. Repeat after me people:
Windows DOES NOT adhere to the DHCP protocol standards AT ALL.
Microsoft's interpretation of the DHCP specs is worse than their interpretation of the W3C's HTML and CSS specs. It is absolutely horendous. Do you want to support Windows DHCP clients? Run the Windows DHCP server or don't bitch and moan when things don't work correctly. This is extremely common knowledge.
You make it seem as if his brain cell was actually moderately busy throughout the day. In the binary sense his brain cell is either on or off. I'm thinking it's "0" most of the time.
Last week I arrived home to find out that my Cox cable connection was offline. To make a long story short I found out through a couple phone calls that it was due to an AUP violation that was prompted by a DMCA takedown notice. The copyright holder alledged that they downloaded their copyrighted works (a movie) from my eMule client. What's interesting about this story is that the download of this 1.xGB file had only proceeded to about 50MB. There was no way that they could have confirmed that this was in fact their copyrighted works. IIRC the copyright holder is required to confirm that the content in question is in fact their copyrighted works before issuing a DMCA takedown notice. The only way they could have believed that this was their file was by looking at the filename. This reminded me of the people who were putting up bogus files on FTP servers that were named with the titles of current and poplar songs on the airwaves when in fact the files themselves were jibberish. It also reminded me of the band that had a song named the same as some other big-wig band and were issued a takedown notice because of that.
I thought that was interesting. I don't have the time or resources to fight their claim right now but I'd like to.
I agree. We should use every renewable method available to us. I also agree with the nuclear. Why are we building more coal-burning power plants? I can't believe we continued building them about the 60s or 70s. It should have stopped long ago.
The obvious solution to this is geo-thermal cooling. I've had about a dozen conversations about this over the past month (100+ temps here in Kansas tend to prompt discussions about keeping cool). The constant 55 degree temps of the Earth are more than enough to cool the steam. This sounds like a nice pairing of technologies.
The consequence would be that this business would simply not sell you their service. That's not a good thing if they are the only gas or electric company in town. The only way out of that is if your state has a consumer protection law that prevents utility companies from discriminating against certain classes of consumer (often the elderly). It all depends on how the laws are written.
Indeed. But we both know it's just a matter of time before they change the language to "We, and only we may record this call for quality assurance"
They can't actually do that and expect it to be legally binding in any way. Neither the Federal wiretap laws nor the state wiretap laws (which are almost always a carbon copy of the Federal laws) allow for such a recording. By Party A stating that they are recording the conversation they are implicitly giving their consent to the call being recorded. By staying on the call after the recording announcement all the remaining parties are consenting to the recording as well. This satisfies the most restrictive of states wiretapping laws, the all-party consent laws. This has already been tested court too. I came across references to a couple cases when I was researching my ability to record me telling SBC to take their services and go to hell.
And they better not try to ruin your credit through TransUnion's database (or the other two).
This is where the FCRA comes into play. If they can't prove that you actually have an outstanding debit to the Big3 then they have to remove their negative marks from you credit report.
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I wouldn't really call either option as easy as Nagios. I don't have to post modifications to the DB in Nagios for an external script to function. I also don't have to add functionality to my scripts to generate a SNMP trap. All I have to do is return a numeric response to the calling process. Often times this is the output of the command you're running anyway. Still it does sound like NetCool is extensible. I'll have to give it a try when time permits. As always, each to their own.
That's a good point. It's worth noting though that Ethan Galstad, the author of Nagios, will take on custom tasks on a contract development basis. I'm in a fortunate position where I'm the netadm and sysadm (ie Nagios user and maintainer). I can usually whip out a script in an hour or two.
HP != a government entity. The Patriot Act doesn't apply.
The first part is easy. You prosecute whomever authorized it, whomever knew about it and didn't report it, and whomever actually did the deed. Whether or not you pull the trigger, if you hired the hitman you're still just as guilty. The second part is the hard part. Which law(s) did they actually break? We know it was wrong. We just don't know how to say it was wrong in the legal sense.
The problem is you can't extend NetCool or the other closed source apps to anything other than what they've allowed you to monitor. I'm monitoring the state of BGP peering sessions with Nagios. Try doing that with NetCool. Sometimes you don't get what you pay for. Sometimes you have to use a little of your own ingenuity.
It does matter if you're the author of a piece of GPL code that someone has chosen to modify under an incompatible license. You set forth your restrictions on the code when you GPLed it. Now some prick has taken your code and modified it under a different license. That's a no no.
Well, I suppose this is what bankruptcy is for. You could also say that this is also what the appeals process is for. If you're right and don't get the desired outcome the first time, appeal.
I usually say operator repeatedly, pound 0 until my finger bleeds, or start swearing at the voice system. Usually one of these tactics works.
The other thing I hate is keypad-input systems that can't hear the keystrokes fast enough. Ie you can easily out-type the phone prompter, especially when you have number side by side or have repeating digits. I run into this at least once a day when I call my Verizon voicemail. It annoys me almost as much as a credit card text field in a form on a webpage that doesn't accept dashes AND they don't mention that anywhere. It can only get worse if they use javascript to clear the contents of all the text fields and reset the values of all the radio buttons upon the reload of the page. Grrr....
The ethics of the non-law-enforcement-officer are also in question. What's to stop the hacker from intentionally placing the files in question on what is not the victim's PC? The chain of custody has been broken and any lawyer should be able to get the case tossed. That goes both ways. What if the person really was a pedophile and used the FBI's trust in a person with unknown ethics to get the bastard off? What if an innocent person was framed by an unethical hacker? There are reasons why we've created law enforcement agencies and the checks and balances to govern them. There is no such thing in a vigilanty hacker.
One would have to if they watched his show.
Oh really? Well, I take a Bill O'Reilly every morning.
I use it. I buy on average about $3k in books per year plus other misc stuff off of Amazon. If they can expand their grocery inventory a little bit I'll probably buy some non-perishables that way too. Imagine getting him from work to find a box of grocery items on your porch that are ready to go right into the cupboards? Forget about that trip to the grocery store and the hours spent plowing up and down each isle looking for what's on your list, trying to remember what was on the list that you left at home, and being tempted by the flashy stickers and box labels on displays of non-so-good-of-a-deal special price displays. My 2-day shipping is free with Amazon Prime. If I need a book in a hurry it only costs me a couple bucks to have it the next day. I'm a fan of it.
And that she doesn't have overbearing overzealous parents who will never believe that Daddy's Little Girl (tm) could ever have premarital sex so it must have been rape.
Not only that but computer labs greatly help increase traffic in and out of the libraries. This would be the equivalent to putting an ATM in the back of a gas station. 3 out of every 10 people might also buy something from the convience store simply because they stepped in the door (smelled the popcorn, saw the display of Mountain Dew and now they're thursting, etc). Computers enlarge the number of library patrons. More patrons, more donations, more justification for more funds from the local, state, or federal government.
Ok, I'll bite. Name one.
I ran into this very problem on a much newer OTS no more than 2 weeks ago.
Windows DOES NOT adhere to the DHCP protocol standards AT ALL.
Microsoft's interpretation of the DHCP specs is worse than their interpretation of the W3C's HTML and CSS specs. It is absolutely horendous. Do you want to support Windows DHCP clients? Run the Windows DHCP server or don't bitch and moan when things don't work correctly. This is extremely common knowledge.
You make it seem as if his brain cell was actually moderately busy throughout the day. In the binary sense his brain cell is either on or off. I'm thinking it's "0" most of the time.
I thought that was interesting. I don't have the time or resources to fight their claim right now but I'd like to.
I agree. We should use every renewable method available to us. I also agree with the nuclear. Why are we building more coal-burning power plants? I can't believe we continued building them about the 60s or 70s. It should have stopped long ago.
The obvious solution to this is geo-thermal cooling. I've had about a dozen conversations about this over the past month (100+ temps here in Kansas tend to prompt discussions about keeping cool). The constant 55 degree temps of the Earth are more than enough to cool the steam. This sounds like a nice pairing of technologies.
The consequence would be that this business would simply not sell you their service. That's not a good thing if they are the only gas or electric company in town. The only way out of that is if your state has a consumer protection law that prevents utility companies from discriminating against certain classes of consumer (often the elderly). It all depends on how the laws are written.
They can't actually do that and expect it to be legally binding in any way. Neither the Federal wiretap laws nor the state wiretap laws (which are almost always a carbon copy of the Federal laws) allow for such a recording. By Party A stating that they are recording the conversation they are implicitly giving their consent to the call being recorded. By staying on the call after the recording announcement all the remaining parties are consenting to the recording as well. This satisfies the most restrictive of states wiretapping laws, the all-party consent laws. This has already been tested court too. I came across references to a couple cases when I was researching my ability to record me telling SBC to take their services and go to hell.
This is where the FCRA comes into play. If they can't prove that you actually have an outstanding debit to the Big3 then they have to remove their negative marks from you credit report.