I used 2.95 up until a year ago. Version 5 IS version 2! That was the whole point, they realized they made a horrible mistake with v3 and so they took the very last released version of 2.9x, and continued with it as version 5!
Just make sure you dig around the winamp site and download the super-lite version and do a custom install with updates/etc/etc turned off. PERFECT!
Like good datacenter practice -- NEVER UPGRADE unless you absolutely have to, and turn off all features you do not absolutely need. The fewer features you use (ala flashblocker and noscript) the fewer vulnerabilities you have.
You know what's cool about using Netscape Gold 3.x as your POP client with javascript and java turned off? No in-the-wild vulnerabilities target you. Who would target a mail client that old! It would be like trying to hack into systems not knowing that one of them is an Amiga 500!!
He should have filed charges with the Police. That's "unlawful confinement" and/or kidnapping.
My brother is RCMP, and he once filed "unlawful confinement" charges (and they stuck) to a 19 year old who locked the service station door so he could intimidate some 14 year old kid who wrote on the dust on his car.
Question: Is there a blackhole list maintained for malware infected IP addresses? (Maybe not, since so many are on dynamic IPs at DSL providers).
If a national police agency (maybe with the support or assistance of the NATO cyberwarfare group) were to compile a list of IPs, times, and associated network providers whom are known to be infected (and the associated evidence), is there no rule of law that could be used to ask a court for an order to force the ISPs to shut down the accounts of the individuals with the infected computers?
I mention NATO and/or Interpol because obviously it needs to be done in as many countries as once.
Yeah yeah, I don't want a police state. But clearly what's currently being done is NOT working well enough.
How the HELL are we supposed to train average people to "be secure" about online activities when MIXING of inter-domain inter-company data is this complicated and so absolutely FREAKING HARD to determine if it's being done safely or not.
Remember, it was a TECHNICAL user that started out this huge thread - who was really concerned about something he saw. If he and other technical types (not web developers, all the rest of techie types) can't discern "safe" from "unsafe"... well, this is NOT a good thing.
And I'm sure you've heard of the massive meter thick soup of garbage the size of some entire countries floating in the pacific?
I've been carrying and using a single pair of tough plastic bags for 3 months, and they show no signs of being near the end of their useful life. (I'd rather use them because I can roll up and put them in my jacket pocket, so they are always available - I'm never sure when I'm going to be dropping by the grocery store.)
Go go gadget LCBO bags!
Name collision is cute, but overall a BAD idea
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...because ANYONE who goes looking for this will have to sift through an impossibly high mound of totally unrelated "hubble space telescope black hole" stuff. Or WORSE, the former will start appearing in the middle of searches for the latter.
The same also goes for people who name their products or companies using simple short common terms strung together - whereupon a search for that returns a BAJILLION other unrelated hits.
This is sorta like "naming servers". "Short unique names that are easy to type." That's the primary criteria where I'm at. "Cute" and "in" and "cool" are completely secondary.
Well for God's sake tell the rest of us what client it is that you've got and what settings you are using, because you've got some magic combination that squeaks by.
There were rumors of certain (newer) clients having enough "randomness" that they didn't look enough like p2p - but I was never able to find one that worked. Sympatico and the hardware vendor have managed to improve their filters so that it catches it all, and now there are reports that they're catching anything encrypted - vpn sessions, ssh sessions, RDP, etc.
It's more likely that for some reason, wherever you live there's a tiny hole in their "coverage". Don't attribute to malice what can easilily be explained by incompetence" eh?
And we're not making things up wrt the limiting. Graphs of *everyones* bandwidth show a clear sharp decrease from max speed to 60KB/s at 4pm, down to 30KB/s at 5pm, and back up to 400KB/s at 2am.
In late 2007 Bell/Sympatico started throttling p2p to 30KB/s between 5pm and 1am (when you're paying for a line capable of >400KB/s).
IMMEDIATELY all the technically savy customers (like me) **dumped** them and switched to TekSavvy and other competitors. It was only a matter of time before all of us managed to tell all of our friends and family, and bit by bit Bell's customer base was going to be EATEN ALIVE.
I DOUBT LIKE HELL there is actual congestion on Bell's common-infrastructure WAN links inside city limits, before they reach the point where it splits into the Bell-internal network and all the reseller's internal systems.
I GUARANTEE that Bell is just being cheap-asses with bandwidth to the net, and suddenly they discovered that their cheap-assness was NOT flying in the competitive market. So they've invented this reason to throttle everyone (since they control the common infrastructure - the "to the door" bits - that the CRTC *forces* them to re-sell at set rates to competitors).
Here:
Customer----(fat ass pipe)----PeeringPointForResellers------Sympatico-----(cheapass tiny pipe)-----Net
Customer----(fat ass pipe)----PeeringPointForResellers------Competitor-----(fat ass pipe)----------Net
BellSympaticoThink: "oh jeeze, we're getting raped by our competitors, maybe if we claim we're having congestion problems with the "fat ass pipe" that we're being forced to share with our competitors, then we'll have a level playing field? Yeah, fuck-em."
Now:
Customer----(fat ass pipe with packet shaping to make it suck as much as Sympatico)----PeeringPointForResellers------Competitor-----(fat ass pipe)----------Net
"there, now we won't loose any more customers".
FUCK SYMPATICO. I was being lazy about switching away from them, but now I'll do it just to save the $10 a month that the cheaper competition would save me.
PPS: I've been with BellSympatico 8 years, on their most expensive plan, and now I hate their guts and can't stand to pay them money. This is enough to make me want to drop my land line and go with VOIP, even if the latter is shitty quality and service.
Seagate should also seriously consider one other thing. A chunk of the market is made up of the technical elite, we the very people who are most and are most vitrolic about the abuse of the patent system. If they fail to utterly convince us that they aren't abusing the system, that they don't have a CLEARLY non-obvious idea and patent......I and hundreds of thousands of others will never buy another Seagate drive ever again.
YES. That's exactly what I thought. They went out of their way to re-do gags they've done before and "show" every character ever in the series, no matter how irrelevant to the plot. Like you were watching a kitschy movie trying to remind you of how great it's past was - but DOING NOTHING NEW OR INTERESTING. HUGE disappointment.
Any two episodes from the series was better than the first movie. Any two. Many individual episodes from the series were better than the whole movie.
> should have been asked is just how much of a problem are such calls?
It will become a problem if designers (or their idiot pointy haired managers) keep making dumb decisions.
Blackberries that have the scroll wheel and/or the pearl are extremely prone to accidentally dialing 911. If the scroll wheel is *touch* or moved in any way - a dialog pops up with three options:
Unlock
Emergency Call (aka Dial 911)
Cancel
So if the scrollwheel was scrolled down a tiny bit (50% of the time!), now all that's needed to call 911 is two presses in a row of the scrollwheel - (there is a confirm dialog, and it defaults to yes please call) - and hey we already know that it's getting mucked with because it got moved!
Guess what the Blackberry/Rogers techs had to say when I phoned them to ask how to disable that? "Putting the phone in your pocket or your purse *IS NOT SUPPORTED* - you are NOT supposed to do that." They claim that blackberries are only being used "as designed" when they are in their crappy shitty uncomfortable holsters*. RIM has clearly heard tons of people bitch to them about it, because they were immediately defensive and angry and very cross for me not keeping it in the holster 24/7 - clearly a canned "oh we need to blame the customer for our screw-up" kind of response.
What kind of stupid idiot designer uses *one button* to create an emergency dialing system? At the very least all other phones require you to press two seperate buttons in a particular order (9 - 1 - 1) without pressing any other buttons within the reset/re-lockout period. I have never EVER pulled my cell out of my pocket to find it ready to call or calling 911. EVERYONE I know has pulled their blackberry out of their purse or pocket to find that it was one button press away from calling 911, and I was walking with another friend on a street when he got a call back from 911 saying "what's the problem, you just called us".
The laws may say the phone has to be able to make emergency calls, but it doesn't say the designers need to be daft idiots.
Someday I'll get around to writing a letter to the chief of police in my city and province, and to the attorney general - and pointing out that all the dead calls they are getting are likely from Blackberries, and that they should sic the dogs on RIM.
(*) Holsters that for one reason or another continuously hold down buttons and keep the screen on.
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Do a little light traffic analysis and block anything that isn't encrypted. Anything that isn't "as random" as encrypted data, and anything that has plaintext in it - block.
The only way to get users to do something with any reliability is to FORCE them to do it, and to make everything else impossible.
Now someone is going to scream that they really want the ability to do plain in the clear http over TOR. Fine, ship tor clients with two modes, "insecure" and "secure". Default to the latter which only uses the half of the tor network that blocks un-encrypted traffic, and force users to select "insecure" to be able to use the other half.
You try to be the CIO of any organization with 150 datacenters and 150 IT entities, and say confidently that "yes my patient records are safe" or "yes we're using technology that helps our customers receive the absolutely best care".
One thing I will say - big companies and organizations definitely have a problem with their network groups. Their network groups have such massive complicated networks that are basically all black boxes - when I'm troubleshooting problems with customers I ALWAYS have to ask them to go check and see if their network group hasn't thrown up another firewall or port rule without telling or asking anyone.
Hmmm, I guess that's change control - the exact problem they had in this case. I just can't understand how a port change could cause a cascade of problems of increasing severity and not be root-cause analyzed.
What's the difference between using a "software write blocker" that you and 2,000,000 other people trust, and using a "hardware write blocker" that is proprietary, untested by third parties, and put together by some small POS company?
And what's the difference between the analyst testifying that they used a write blocker of any type and the analyst testifying in court that they used a write blocker - but actually he didn't or he forgot to connect it or etc etc etc.
You probably sell the damn things!
If not using "l33t hardware blockers" that for some reason you think are infallable was as dire as you think it was - the "it might have been a virus" defence would get everyone off scott free all the time.
I'd like to see a "deletedopedia". All the wikipedia pages that were deleted.
I've got no problem with wikipedia cracking down on (oh, what are the terms..) - pages that talk about oneself or are marketing/sales vehicles for people and companies of absolutely no note. However I think their "notability" criteria is too strict. Basically I'm not happy to see people connected with sects and scientology and things end up with deleted articles because "they're not notable enough".
The bullshit about using the word "dictator" has got to go too. Sure there may be some.. leaders.. whose "authotarian rule" does not strictly comply with all/any of the requirements for the adjective "dictator" - and where two sides of a viewpoint have differing opinions if the adjective is accurate or even truthful. However when people start asking for references to "prove" that Batista (Cuba) was a dictator in an article on Che Gueverra - well then things have gone too far. If I read the Batista article and the Dictator article, it's patently clear that he 100% satisfies the needed parameters to have this adjective applied to him. It's not POV. It's basic fact combined with a dictionary word.
The tradgedy of the commons may yet crucify wikipedia. Except it won't be "the commons" as you and I know them, it will be "the commons" of the "people who want wikipedia to be a real bona-fide encyclopedia" instead of a new elite all-encompasing "modern information resource".
Real encyclopedias do not have full plot synopses on movies and complete episode listings for un-notable TV series.
No, we would not have wanted to hear about Alexander Graham Bell's very very first prototype - not when we'd be forced to listen to 500 crackpot theories and 2000 other half-assed experemental prototype results, of which only one (and it'd be impossible to tell which one) would pan out.
Come back to us when you're selling/building the first 1000 phones Mr. Graham.
Similar to when the first plasma's were on the market for $10,000. We didn't want to hear about the plasma ideas and prototypes in the 1980's.
> I'm not Russian, I'm Asian, but from my point of view, a lot of the criticism against the Kremlin comes from pro-NATO Cold War biases.
Maybe, but I also think you are biased.
You know - I'm the first person in the world to point out it's shades of grey, but there is a plain difference between right and wrong. Imprisoning or killing people who have not committed ANY crime - is wrong. Period. It must be opposed.
A large number of us have learned from history the forms of Government and the types of actions and circumstances that are almost guaranteed to lead to "wrong" behaviour, and we oppose it because we oppose what is wrong.
Russia is now headed directly back "into the wrong". This analysis has got nothing to do with me being Nationalistic (I'm not) or overly proud of the west.
> Even if you look at the Bolshevik Revolution that brought Russia under communist rule, it was backed by Western European powers trying to undermine the Czar.
PARDON ME? IIRC the western armies IN Russia were fighting against the red army.
I think - like wikipedia - I'll have to demand a reference or three. Something from a respectable source.
You know what everyone needs? A data cop. Our main fileserver has a job that indexes it every night and produces a diff, and it also shows the change in size day by day.
- When usage jumps by >1GB, the data cop investigates. Usless temporary data on the ultra-highly available highly backed up array? Move it Buster. 4GB of 2 year old useless temporary crap (like unzipped oracle distributions, etc etc) in your "tmp" directory - delete it Sir.
- Once a quarter, run a disk usage scan. Peer into what directories are using the most data, and ensure they need to be there.
- Regular public admonishments to clean up after ones-selves and to put certain types of data where it belongs - on non-backed-up partitions.
- Readme's in all new directories of crap.
Done consistently, vastly reduced bloat, vastly easier to determine if that 8 year old big directory needs to be archived or can be deleted.
The biggest problem isn't raw disk capacity, it's backup capacity and historical "what's important" intelligence. It's so much easier to find important-project-A's files from 4 years ago when it isn't in amongst 50 huge confusingly named directories of crap.
Hmmm, excuse me, time to empty my deleted items in Outlook and go purge the client side spam filter. Make sysadmin's exchange server happier:)
> Using RAID5 with 4TB drives would be insanity.... taking a chance on - but I personally wouldn't do it.
May I ask why? Are you saying any large drives in 4 or 5 disk raid-5 arrays somehow present a larger risk of failure than 4 or 5 10GB drives from years ago?
Or is it just the perceived "increased risk" of the amount of data that's at risk?
Or are you just trying to say "raid is not backup" - which everyone *should* know... and you're saying you'd rather have one JBOD with a second JBOD backup, as opposed to one raid 5 array? I'd agree with that - but a pair of raid-5 arrays (one backup of the other)... isn't that more cost effective? Or is the rebuild time just not worth it - instead just managed the data across individual disks with scripts and have backups, less work and risk due to the reduced rebuild time?
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And if you're smart enough to not drill in Alaska now, when OPEC *really* runs out of oil, you'll still have some of your own to make a killing with!
I used 2.95 up until a year ago. Version 5 IS version 2! That was the whole point, they realized they made a horrible mistake with v3 and so they took the very last released version of 2.9x, and continued with it as version 5!
Just make sure you dig around the winamp site and download the super-lite version and do a custom install with updates/etc/etc turned off. PERFECT!
Like good datacenter practice -- NEVER UPGRADE unless you absolutely have to, and turn off all features you do not absolutely need. The fewer features you use (ala flashblocker and noscript) the fewer vulnerabilities you have.
You know what's cool about using Netscape Gold 3.x as your POP client with javascript and java turned off? No in-the-wild vulnerabilities target you. Who would target a mail client that old! It would be like trying to hack into systems not knowing that one of them is an Amiga 500!!
He should have filed charges with the Police. That's "unlawful confinement" and/or kidnapping.
My brother is RCMP, and he once filed "unlawful confinement" charges (and they stuck) to a 19 year old who locked the service station door so he could intimidate some 14 year old kid who wrote on the dust on his car.
Question: Is there a blackhole list maintained for malware infected IP addresses? (Maybe not, since so many are on dynamic IPs at DSL providers).
If a national police agency (maybe with the support or assistance of the NATO cyberwarfare group) were to compile a list of IPs, times, and associated network providers whom are known to be infected (and the associated evidence), is there no rule of law that could be used to ask a court for an order to force the ISPs to shut down the accounts of the individuals with the infected computers?
I mention NATO and/or Interpol because obviously it needs to be done in as many countries as once.
Yeah yeah, I don't want a police state. But clearly what's currently being done is NOT working well enough.
This is REALLY fucking complicated.
How the HELL are we supposed to train average people to "be secure" about online activities when MIXING of inter-domain inter-company data is this complicated and so absolutely FREAKING HARD to determine if it's being done safely or not.
Remember, it was a TECHNICAL user that started out this huge thread - who was really concerned about something he saw. If he and other technical types (not web developers, all the rest of techie types) can't discern "safe" from "unsafe"... well, this is NOT a good thing.
The longetivity of the bits of plastic bags are the real killer to the world.
"Plastic bags turtle's biggest killer"
http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20081403-17043-2.html
And I'm sure you've heard of the massive meter thick soup of garbage the size of some entire countries floating in the pacific?
I've been carrying and using a single pair of tough plastic bags for 3 months, and they show no signs of being near the end of their useful life. (I'd rather use them because I can roll up and put them in my jacket pocket, so they are always available - I'm never sure when I'm going to be dropping by the grocery store.)
Go go gadget LCBO bags!
...because ANYONE who goes looking for this will have to sift through an impossibly high mound of totally unrelated "hubble space telescope black hole" stuff. Or WORSE, the former will start appearing in the middle of searches for the latter.
The same also goes for people who name their products or companies using simple short common terms strung together - whereupon a search for that returns a BAJILLION other unrelated hits.
This is sorta like "naming servers". "Short unique names that are easy to type." That's the primary criteria where I'm at. "Cute" and "in" and "cool" are completely secondary.
# ssh -l root supercalifragilisticexpialadocious
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Well for God's sake tell the rest of us what client it is that you've got and what settings you are using, because you've got some magic combination that squeaks by.
There were rumors of certain (newer) clients having enough "randomness" that they didn't look enough like p2p - but I was never able to find one that worked. Sympatico and the hardware vendor have managed to improve their filters so that it catches it all, and now there are reports that they're catching anything encrypted - vpn sessions, ssh sessions, RDP, etc.
It's more likely that for some reason, wherever you live there's a tiny hole in their "coverage". Don't attribute to malice what can easilily be explained by incompetence" eh?
And we're not making things up wrt the limiting. Graphs of *everyones* bandwidth show a clear sharp decrease from max speed to 60KB/s at 4pm, down to 30KB/s at 5pm, and back up to 400KB/s at 2am.
BULL-SHIT.
In late 2007 Bell/Sympatico started throttling p2p to 30KB/s between 5pm and 1am (when you're paying for a line capable of >400KB/s).
IMMEDIATELY all the technically savy customers (like me) **dumped** them and switched to TekSavvy and other competitors. It was only a matter of time before all of us managed to tell all of our friends and family, and bit by bit Bell's customer base was going to be EATEN ALIVE.
I DOUBT LIKE HELL there is actual congestion on Bell's common-infrastructure WAN links inside city limits, before they reach the point where it splits into the Bell-internal network and all the reseller's internal systems.
I GUARANTEE that Bell is just being cheap-asses with bandwidth to the net, and suddenly they discovered that their cheap-assness was NOT flying in the competitive market. So they've invented this reason to throttle everyone (since they control the common infrastructure - the "to the door" bits - that the CRTC *forces* them to re-sell at set rates to competitors).
Here:
Customer----(fat ass pipe)----PeeringPointForResellers------Sympatico-----(cheapass tiny pipe)-----Net
Customer----(fat ass pipe)----PeeringPointForResellers------Competitor-----(fat ass pipe)----------Net
BellSympaticoThink: "oh jeeze, we're getting raped by our competitors, maybe if we claim we're having congestion problems with the "fat ass pipe" that we're being forced to share with our competitors, then we'll have a level playing field? Yeah, fuck-em."
Now:
Customer----(fat ass pipe with packet shaping to make it suck as much as Sympatico)----PeeringPointForResellers------Competitor-----(fat ass pipe)----------Net
"there, now we won't loose any more customers".
FUCK SYMPATICO. I was being lazy about switching away from them, but now I'll do it just to save the $10 a month that the cheaper competition would save me.
PPS: I've been with BellSympatico 8 years, on their most expensive plan, and now I hate their guts and can't stand to pay them money. This is enough to make me want to drop my land line and go with VOIP, even if the latter is shitty quality and service.
Ughhhh, your website is completely unusable without Javascript. That's pathetic.
Seagate should also seriously consider one other thing. A chunk of the market is made up of the technical elite, we the very people who are most and are most vitrolic about the abuse of the patent system. If they fail to utterly convince us that they aren't abusing the system, that they don't have a CLEARLY non-obvious idea and patent... ...I and hundreds of thousands of others will never buy another Seagate drive ever again.
YES. That's exactly what I thought. They went out of their way to re-do gags they've done before and "show" every character ever in the series, no matter how irrelevant to the plot. Like you were watching a kitschy movie trying to remind you of how great it's past was - but DOING NOTHING NEW OR INTERESTING. HUGE disappointment.
Any two episodes from the series was better than the first movie. Any two. Many individual episodes from the series were better than the whole movie.
three words:
laser designates itself
$50 in electronics per rocket and I can kill it, as long as it's busy shooting down my neighbours and giving my electronics something to stare at.
Intent is important.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intention_(criminal)
I love having more sunlight in the evening, when I'm awake and out doing things.
Yeah, I'm going to use more energy.
No - I am not going to huddle inside my house doing nothing so that we will "save energy". Go stick that idea where the sun don't shine.
I figured it out.
The problem the Taliban have isn't that their own cellphones are emitting at night. I'm damn sure they're careful with cellphone use.
The problem is when NATO electronically sees a whole village *leave* their village at 2am.
Hmmm, I wonder what town the Taliban just rolled into?
> should have been asked is just how much of a problem are such calls?
It will become a problem if designers (or their idiot pointy haired managers) keep making dumb decisions.
Blackberries that have the scroll wheel and/or the pearl are extremely prone to accidentally dialing 911. If the scroll wheel is *touch* or moved in any way - a dialog pops up with three options:
Unlock
Emergency Call (aka Dial 911)
Cancel
So if the scrollwheel was scrolled down a tiny bit (50% of the time!), now all that's needed to call 911 is two presses in a row of the scrollwheel - (there is a confirm dialog, and it defaults to yes please call) - and hey we already know that it's getting mucked with because it got moved!
Guess what the Blackberry/Rogers techs had to say when I phoned them to ask how to disable that? "Putting the phone in your pocket or your purse *IS NOT SUPPORTED* - you are NOT supposed to do that." They claim that blackberries are only being used "as designed" when they are in their crappy shitty uncomfortable holsters*. RIM has clearly heard tons of people bitch to them about it, because they were immediately defensive and angry and very cross for me not keeping it in the holster 24/7 - clearly a canned "oh we need to blame the customer for our screw-up" kind of response.
What kind of stupid idiot designer uses *one button* to create an emergency dialing system? At the very least all other phones require you to press two seperate buttons in a particular order (9 - 1 - 1) without pressing any other buttons within the reset/re-lockout period. I have never EVER pulled my cell out of my pocket to find it ready to call or calling 911. EVERYONE I know has pulled their blackberry out of their purse or pocket to find that it was one button press away from calling 911, and I was walking with another friend on a street when he got a call back from 911 saying "what's the problem, you just called us".
The laws may say the phone has to be able to make emergency calls, but it doesn't say the designers need to be daft idiots.
Someday I'll get around to writing a letter to the chief of police in my city and province, and to the attorney general - and pointing out that all the dead calls they are getting are likely from Blackberries, and that they should sic the dogs on RIM.
(*) Holsters that for one reason or another continuously hold down buttons and keep the screen on.
Do a little light traffic analysis and block anything that isn't encrypted. Anything that isn't "as random" as encrypted data, and anything that has plaintext in it - block.
The only way to get users to do something with any reliability is to FORCE them to do it, and to make everything else impossible.
Now someone is going to scream that they really want the ability to do plain in the clear http over TOR. Fine, ship tor clients with two modes, "insecure" and "secure". Default to the latter which only uses the half of the tor network that blocks un-encrypted traffic, and force users to select "insecure" to be able to use the other half.
150 datacenters.
You try to be the CIO of any organization with 150 datacenters and 150 IT entities, and say confidently that "yes my patient records are safe" or "yes we're using technology that helps our customers receive the absolutely best care".
One thing I will say - big companies and organizations definitely have a problem with their network groups. Their network groups have such massive complicated networks that are basically all black boxes - when I'm troubleshooting problems with customers I ALWAYS have to ask them to go check and see if their network group hasn't thrown up another firewall or port rule without telling or asking
anyone.
Hmmm, I guess that's change control - the exact problem they had in this case. I just can't
understand how a port change could cause a cascade of problems of increasing severity and not be
root-cause analyzed.
What's the difference between using a "software write blocker" that you and 2,000,000 other people trust, and using a "hardware write blocker" that is proprietary, untested by third parties, and put together by some small POS company?
And what's the difference between the analyst testifying that they used a write blocker of any type and the analyst testifying in court that they used a write blocker - but actually he didn't or he forgot to connect it or etc etc etc.
You probably sell the damn things!
If not using "l33t hardware blockers" that for some reason you think are infallable was as dire as you think it was - the "it might have been a virus" defence would get everyone off scott free all the time.
I'd like to see a "deletedopedia". All the wikipedia pages that were deleted.
.. leaders .. whose "authotarian rule" does not strictly comply with all/any of the requirements for the adjective "dictator" - and where two sides of a viewpoint have differing opinions if the adjective is accurate or even truthful. However when people start asking for references to "prove" that Batista (Cuba) was a dictator in an article on Che Gueverra - well then things have gone too far. If I read the Batista article and the Dictator article, it's patently clear that he 100% satisfies the needed parameters to have this adjective applied to him. It's not POV. It's basic fact combined with a dictionary word.
I've got no problem with wikipedia cracking down on (oh, what are the terms..) - pages that talk about oneself or are marketing/sales vehicles for people and companies of absolutely no note. However I think their "notability" criteria is too strict. Basically I'm not happy to see people connected with sects and scientology and things end up with deleted articles because "they're not notable enough".
The bullshit about using the word "dictator" has got to go too. Sure there may be some
The tradgedy of the commons may yet crucify wikipedia. Except it won't be "the commons" as you and I know them, it will be "the commons" of the "people who want wikipedia to be a real bona-fide encyclopedia" instead of a new elite all-encompasing "modern information resource".
Real encyclopedias do not have full plot synopses on movies and complete episode listings for un-notable TV series.
No, we would not have wanted to hear about Alexander Graham Bell's very very first prototype - not when we'd be forced to listen to 500 crackpot theories and 2000 other half-assed experemental prototype results, of which only one (and it'd be impossible to tell which one) would pan out.
Come back to us when you're selling/building the first 1000 phones Mr. Graham.
Similar to when the first plasma's were on the market for $10,000. We didn't want to hear about the plasma ideas and prototypes in the 1980's.
> I'm not Russian, I'm Asian, but from my point of view, a lot of the criticism against the Kremlin comes from pro-NATO Cold War biases.
Maybe, but I also think you are biased.
You know - I'm the first person in the world to point out it's shades of grey, but there is a plain difference between right and wrong. Imprisoning or killing people who have not committed ANY crime - is wrong. Period. It must be opposed.
A large number of us have learned from history the forms of Government and the types of actions and circumstances that are almost guaranteed to lead to "wrong" behaviour, and we oppose it because we oppose what is wrong.
Russia is now headed directly back "into the wrong". This analysis has got nothing to do with me being Nationalistic (I'm not) or overly proud of the west.
> Even if you look at the Bolshevik Revolution that brought Russia under communist rule, it was backed by Western European powers trying to undermine the Czar.
PARDON ME? IIRC the western armies IN Russia were fighting against the red army.
I think - like wikipedia - I'll have to demand a reference or three. Something from a respectable source.
I completely agree.
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You know what everyone needs? A data cop. Our main fileserver has a job that indexes it every night and produces a diff, and it also shows the change in size day by day.
- When usage jumps by >1GB, the data cop investigates. Usless temporary data on the ultra-highly available highly backed up array? Move it Buster. 4GB of 2 year old useless temporary crap (like unzipped oracle distributions, etc etc) in your "tmp" directory - delete it Sir.
- Once a quarter, run a disk usage scan. Peer into what directories are using the most data, and ensure they need to be there.
- Regular public admonishments to clean up after ones-selves and to put certain types of data where it belongs - on non-backed-up partitions.
- Readme's in all new directories of crap.
Done consistently, vastly reduced bloat, vastly easier to determine if that 8 year old big directory needs to be archived or can be deleted.
The biggest problem isn't raw disk capacity, it's backup capacity and historical "what's important" intelligence. It's so much easier to find important-project-A's files from 4 years ago when it isn't in amongst 50 huge confusingly named directories of crap.
Hmmm, excuse me, time to empty my deleted items in Outlook and go purge the client side spam filter. Make sysadmin's exchange server happier
> Using RAID5 with 4TB drives would be insanity. ... taking a chance on - but I personally wouldn't do it.
... isn't that more cost effective? Or is the rebuild time just not worth it - instead just managed the data across individual disks with scripts and have backups, less work and risk due to the reduced rebuild time?
May I ask why? Are you saying any large drives in 4 or 5 disk raid-5 arrays somehow present a larger risk of failure than 4 or 5 10GB drives from years ago?
Or is it just the perceived "increased risk" of the amount of data that's at risk?
Or are you just trying to say "raid is not backup" - which everyone *should* know... and you're saying you'd rather have one JBOD with a second JBOD backup, as opposed to one raid 5 array? I'd agree with that - but a pair of raid-5 arrays (one backup of the other)