Oh sure.. I wasn't meaning to imply that we're going to rush into XP2..
I suspect it will be at least 6 months before we get around to it, and until then, the windows updater is disabled on all of the machines.
Now, whether this is good security policy or not, I leave to the peanut gallery to decide! [as it could go either way, and I don't really have an opinion on it]
Companies with 10000 machines shouldn't have 1000 configurations, unless you're a bunch of howling amateurs.
Our company has 50,000 desktops.. guess how many builds we have..
3.
Sure, you get the odd niche group who do customized dev work, they run their own build, and do their own IT, but we aren't responsible for upgrading them. So yeah. 3.
Living in a pro-liberal area is not such a bad thing. Buy yourself some spray paint and graffiti the whole damned place. And don't just stop at the FTA.
As for the bombing of Iraq, it's over man, let it go. Sure, people died, but that's what war is all about.
You remind me of the socialists from Sydney Uni who always go down to UTS to protest, because they're afraid of rocking the boat.
Inciting others to graffitti either means you're i) a hypocrit and coward [not doing the things you're inciting others to do] OR ii) someone who will quite happily piss all over other peoples things, just because they happen to disagree with you or even if they don't.. hell, you don't know who owns the buildings you're spraying. [for bonus points you're also being a criminal]
if you think that is bad, wait until I come up with a joke that inclues ALL ANAL FUCKING.
Now, the question is.. will I get modded down for saying all anal fucking, or will I get modded up for tweaking the nose of some slashdotter with a retarded sense of what is right. [I mean retarded in the literal sense]
Got some links to prove that? I think you'll find that, like everywhere else, the vast majority of stock is not owned by 'the average person' via retirement funds, but is in fact owned by a very small percentage of the population. What were the figures... 90% of the wealth being owned by 1% of the population?
What am I, your mother? It's not my job to educate you. Do your own damn googling.Btw, if you'd done even a rudimentry amount of research, you'd see that for Australia, your 90% figure is way off the mark.
This is already happening in the US - many large superannuation funds are simply disappearing, leaving 'the average person' with nothing.
Super in the US doesn't exist like it does in Australia. ie: We have about 7 trillion dollars invested in the various super schemes (not theoretical money, but actual cash monies). But of course, you knew that before you posted, right?
Also, forced investment in the stock exchange doesn't change the fact that the stock exchange is fundamentally flawed with respect to the way that it affect resource allocation. There are better ways to decide what to do with our resources. For example we could have a more democratic method of resource allocation. That would scare the stock brokers, I'm sure...
Aside from the fact that we're not talking about 'forced investment' here. I need to slap you back into reality:
More democratic.. right.. I'm pretty sure if you held a referendum and said "hey, who wants to share the money equally", you would get smacked down, because people don't want to share the money equally, they want a chance to earn more than everyone else.
Exactly. Typical neo-conservative apoligist. Full of praise for the stock markets and finanicial institutions, and devoid of any knowledge of what the growing opposition to them is saying. Stick your head back in the sand, and remember to keep buying McDonalds, watching Fox News, deriding the refugees, voting for fucking Howard and waving the American flag when Baby Bush comes back into town.
Well.. just keep pasting those posters which say 'Support the people blowing Americans up in Iraq'. I hope it makes you happy. Because one thing it does show, is that your overwhelming desire to 'show the US' is worth any amount of lives, as long as they aren't yours, right?
PS: The best and most compelling reason not to bother 'winning' this argument with you is that it's not going to influence the outcome of the next election at all. After the Greens fucked over Labour with regards to the free trade agreement, there is no way in hell that Howard can lose.
I see. Well I wasn't with them when this was happening - it must have been just before I joined. But I can see the point. The stock market is responsible for transporting the profits made in 3rd world countries ( sweat shops, natural resource 'gathering' etc ) back to foreign investors. Considering the difference in standard of living between those making millions on the stock exchange and those starving in the 75% of the world, I think this protest was justified.
Like I said, out of touch with Australia. The vast majority of the stock in Australia is owned by retirees, the average person like you and I. In fact, Australia has the highest rate of share take up by 'the common man' in the country.
As for your comment about the Greens policies, I simply don't care enough to do any serious research into their problems. Remember, arguing on the internet is like being in the special olympics.
PS: Would you being there have changed the Socialist protest at all? Would they have mysteriously realised that their protest was fundamentally flawed thanks to your amazing insight into the Australian economy? Amazing!
Unfortunately the sentence about the stock exchange doesn't really make any sense.
Well, it's very simple. A year or so ago, the socialist alliance held a demonstration near the Australian Stock Exchange, on the basis that the stock exchange turns over X million dollars a day, and doesn't give any of it to the needy. [ie: Socialists].
As for policies, here is a list of them:
http://www.greens.org.au/policies/
99% of them them are 'it would be nice if we do this', with no indication of how it will be done.
PS: Quite a large chunk of the Australian population simply doesn't care about Iraq anymore, they have more important things to worry about.
Holy shit, are you retarded? The socialist alliance are the ones who protest the stock exchange because they don't take everyone's money [which for the most part belongs to retirees] and use it to feed the homeless and stuff like that.
Pretty much every single policy they make shows the fact that they have absolutely no idea how the world works.
Also, the Greens are now not offering preferences to the Labor party, since they supported the FTA. Which is great, because I'm damned if I want the Labor party being held hostage by a bunch of extremists any time they feel like making a demand.
Not quite, they are available, however Telstra/any other huge IT/IS company would have a dedicated architecture team which would be almost as good as anything MS have.
MS would still only be called out in exceptional circumstances.
The real benefits that you get involve your staff going to MS and getting access to all the secret MS seminars that they don't show everyone else.
Companies of this size generally make around 20-30 calls a year to Microsoft.. tops.
However, most of these are the sort of calls where the business is crumbling, while the best techs in the company all frantically try and recover an exchange server database where every second or third byte has been replaced with 00000000. [Replace with high severity scenario of your choice.]
Even when it is your job to do security stuff like that, you should run it by the person in charge of security for the company. (In my company, all the security people have 2 bosses, they report to someone in IT who signs their paychecks etc, and they have a logical boss who is the head of security for the company.) Safest way to do things I think.
Whatever the reasons may be, Foster and White obviously felt that it was their duty to let the student body know about the security loophole so that the university would be pressured into fixing the problem. They may have done quite a bit of good.
Perhaps they did it just because they wanted to stroke their ego.
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Don't worry about this guy too much, he has trouble extracting his political axe from his favourite grinder.
I suspect it will be at least 6 months before we get around to it, and until then, the windows updater is disabled on all of the machines.
Now, whether this is good security policy or not, I leave to the peanut gallery to decide! [as it could go either way, and I don't really have an opinion on it]
Our company has 50,000 desktops.. guess how many builds we have..
3.
Sure, you get the odd niche group who do customized dev work, they run their own build, and do their own IT, but we aren't responsible for upgrading them. So yeah. 3.
Living in a pro-liberal area is not such a bad thing. Buy yourself some spray paint and graffiti the whole damned place. And don't just stop at the FTA.
As for the bombing of Iraq, it's over man, let it go. Sure, people died, but that's what war is all about.
Inciting others to graffitti either means you're i) a hypocrit and coward [not doing the things you're inciting others to do] OR ii) someone who will quite happily piss all over other peoples things, just because they happen to disagree with you or even if they don't.. hell, you don't know who owns the buildings you're spraying. [for bonus points you're also being a criminal]
Either way, it sucks to be you.
Now, the question is.. will I get modded down for saying all anal fucking, or will I get modded up for tweaking the nose of some slashdotter with a retarded sense of what is right. [I mean retarded in the literal sense]
This is already happening in the US - many large superannuation funds are simply disappearing, leaving 'the average person' with nothing .
Super in the US doesn't exist like it does in Australia. ie: We have about 7 trillion dollars invested in the various super schemes (not theoretical money, but actual cash monies). But of course, you knew that before you posted, right?
Also, forced investment in the stock exchange doesn't change the fact that the stock exchange is fundamentally flawed with respect to the way that it affect resource allocation. There are better ways to decide what to do with our resources. For example we could have a more democratic method of resource allocation. That would scare the stock brokers, I'm sure...
Aside from the fact that we're not talking about 'forced investment' here. I need to slap you back into reality:
More democratic.. right.. I'm pretty sure if you held a referendum and said "hey, who wants to share the money equally", you would get smacked down, because people don't want to share the money equally, they want a chance to earn more than everyone else.
Exactly. Typical neo-conservative apoligist. Full of praise for the stock markets and finanicial institutions, and devoid of any knowledge of what the growing opposition to them is saying. Stick your head back in the sand, and remember to keep buying McDonalds, watching Fox News, deriding the refugees, voting for fucking Howard and waving the American flag when Baby Bush comes back into town.
Well.. just keep pasting those posters which say 'Support the people blowing Americans up in Iraq'. I hope it makes you happy. Because one thing it does show, is that your overwhelming desire to 'show the US' is worth any amount of lives, as long as they aren't yours, right?
PS: The best and most compelling reason not to bother 'winning' this argument with you is that it's not going to influence the outcome of the next election at all. After the Greens fucked over Labour with regards to the free trade agreement, there is no way in hell that Howard can lose.
Like I said, out of touch with Australia. The vast majority of the stock in Australia is owned by retirees, the average person like you and I. In fact, Australia has the highest rate of share take up by 'the common man' in the country.
As for your comment about the Greens policies, I simply don't care enough to do any serious research into their problems. Remember, arguing on the internet is like being in the special olympics.
PS: Would you being there have changed the Socialist protest at all? Would they have mysteriously realised that their protest was fundamentally flawed thanks to your amazing insight into the Australian economy? Amazing!
Well, it's very simple. A year or so ago, the socialist alliance held a demonstration near the Australian Stock Exchange, on the basis that the stock exchange turns over X million dollars a day, and doesn't give any of it to the needy. [ie: Socialists].
As for policies, here is a list of them: http://www.greens.org.au/policies/
99% of them them are 'it would be nice if we do this', with no indication of how it will be done.
PS: Quite a large chunk of the Australian population simply doesn't care about Iraq anymore, they have more important things to worry about.
Pretty much every single policy they make shows the fact that they have absolutely no idea how the world works.
Also, the Greens are now not offering preferences to the Labor party, since they supported the FTA. Which is great, because I'm damned if I want the Labor party being held hostage by a bunch of extremists any time they feel like making a demand.
Well.. my guess is 11.895 billion.
MS would still only be called out in exceptional circumstances.
The real benefits that you get involve your staff going to MS and getting access to all the secret MS seminars that they don't show everyone else.
However, most of these are the sort of calls where the business is crumbling, while the best techs in the company all frantically try and recover an exchange server database where every second or third byte has been replaced with 00000000. [Replace with high severity scenario of your choice.]
Um.. very little of their data processing is linux, most of the middleware is solaris, and the big iron runs whatever IBM puts on there.
Get permission from his bosses boss. If his bosses boss doesn't care, well, that's as far as it goes.
Even when it is your job to do security stuff like that, you should run it by the person in charge of security for the company. (In my company, all the security people have 2 bosses, they report to someone in IT who signs their paychecks etc, and they have a logical boss who is the head of security for the company.) Safest way to do things I think.
Well, his managers didn't think so.
Sal, is that you?!
Well, google didn't start doing the special day icons until last year - Maybe he stole it from them by going into the future! [in Japan!]
It seems this free code is restricting my ability to use PHP, and GPL pundits are trying to blame PHP for it.
Sure they did. :P
Hmm.. well, embarassment is universal I guess. University sysadmins hate being embarassed just as much [probably more so] as 'civillian' ones.
Perhaps they did it just because they wanted to stroke their ego.
Good investigative journalism would be working out whether it is possible WITHOUT breaking in, then writing a story about that.
Are you speaking to Doctor Science.. right now?