I just saw a presentation on a campus-wide wireless network.
Because you cannot control who uses the wireless zone, it's treated as potentially hostile or untrusted and users must authenticate to a VPN.
A nice side-effect of this is that the VPN in Windows routes all traffic via the VPN, letting them apply all sorts of policies "port 4444, I don't think so...". Blaster only affected users silly enough to bring in an infected machine.
Perhaps a similar setup for the untrusted wired network too?
Tell them they can pick projects (in order of priority) up to your available working days.
"I can spend next month installing Minesweeper on your laptop, but I'll send a time summary up the line saying I did that instead of patching for Blaster"
When I did work-experience, they were using HP programmable calculators to log tree growth data. The backup was a printer like what you get on cash registers. Since the batteries failed one weekend, one of my jobs was to get all of these logs and re-enter them into a computer (an Apricot no less)
But you tell youngster that nowdays an' they'll nowt believe ye...
I like the last bit in that title line, "Is there a story?". A friend of mine who used to use Win 3.11 recently moved back there. I was chatting with him on ICQ when I noticed every 2-3 minutes he'd go offline and come back. He told me that he keeps getting hit by UAEs. It is a regular occurance, and the operating system he was using to connect to the net was even less reliable.
Here in Win XP, we get hit by worms about once a month for 10-20 days (more frequent if a new exploit's been found, also depends on which version of Windows you are using). Sometimes, the system is out for a few hours. It's just a way of life.
I realize that it's impressive that so many computers get infected, but really, is this such a big deal? Everything should be fixed soon. People just need to relax. Maybe GO OUTSIDE!!!:)
Besides, even if GPL was trashed, the copyright remains with the original authors who could start releasing their software under another GPL style licence the very next day. The GPL is merely a mechanism and attacking it is a waste of time.
If taken on an agency, by agency basis, $700 per server is likely to be seen as "not much" by some PHBs anxious to minimise the risk in their lives. What sort of percentage uptake would Darl need to get substantial cashflow?
They are able to do this because the company is worth next to nothing otherwise. That or this is purely about manipulating the share price.
I said the *rise* of these sorts of companies. Once is an accident, twice is a concidence, three times is enemy action. I do not see how companies such as NTP (who acquire patent portfolios at fire sales) can encourage innovation, and regard their viability as a serious concern.
The constitution gives a limited monopoly on inventions in order to encourage innovation and get innovations out into the community. If some were too inept or unlucky to make the most of this privilege, why should we carry the can?
An interesting thing to note about NTP is that it has no commercial operations at all. It is simply a holding company that has the patents. Needless to say, owning and defending patents could easily be a source of revenue for a company. As it relates to this case it seems that type of business structure may be profitable.
The rise of these sorts of companies demonstrate that the current patent system no-longer meets the constitution's stated objective of encouraging innovation (which is why patents are supposed to exist). What we are getting now is a legislated monopoly.
As far as I have been able to tell, all the doll's sayings are already onboard, plus a number of sentence fragments like numbers and showtimes that allow him to assemble sayings. ("You may want to be back here at 8:00 to get a spot for the fireworks") The only way to get the toy to say something not intended is to somehow capture and retransmit the IR data
So if you knew the protocol, you could use a suitably IR equipped device (like a PDA) to get any MPMs in your vicity to say whatever you want. Of course you'd need to be creative to work with the on-board vocab. The mischief potential is astounding!
OTOH, if you have a stonking huge RDBMS that does heavy transactions, or are modelling complex systems, you *might* be interested in a big Sun box.
We haven't used Sun desktops for a long while now, but our 700 MHz 4800 still runs demanding stuff faster than our 2 GHz x86 desktops. The forthcoming 64 bit x86 stuff will make life very interesting, but we'll have to wait and see how much of the big end of town moves that way.
And I don't need a special PC for word processing now that I have Open Office.
I am posting this from a Debian desktop that used to be a corporate Win NT desktop until one fateful evening.;-p
Simply put, the change order process is too slow for dev work. I want something changed, I change it. This all came about because of the glacial nature of our outsourced support and is now an accepted part of how we do things. I have promised BOFH that I will not to do stupid things like advertise my desktop as a primary domain controller, and apps go into production through the normal channels.
Virii? *if* such a beast appeared and *if* I was stupid enough to run it, it would trash my userland stuff.
Desktop licence management? There's not a single proprietary application on this box.
Security? security.debian.org. And it's not visible to the Real World anyway.
As you said, the *company* owns the machine. Be sure you check with the relevant exec lest you trash something important.
I think it is possible to create a closed, proprietary e-voting system that is accountable.
OK, popular-OS may have many holes in it that we don't know about. You just make sure the total process takes such issues into account. For example; via physical security; by providing mechanisms to detect changes; and by design choices that make it impossible for the application itself to know whose votes are being tallied "at this polling station Mr Smith will be candidate A". Even an open source, peer reviewed system shouldn't discount the possibility of fiddling.
Plus the record companies have presumably stopped illegal price fixing that delivered them record profits during the pre-P2P era. That is, we'd expect a decline in revenue because they were stealing money.
But I'd say th reality is that the record industry is as lucrative as it was before. Small wonder they want to kill anything that threatens it.
Reviewers found that green made an inferior purple, and that until green was purple, purple would be the superior purple.
We had similar problems integrating Windows 3.11 PCs onto our Sun and Mac network[1]. They were completely crap at NFS and Appletalk. WindowsPCs will never be ready for the work environment until they can properly handle those two protocols.
Plus many of the cheap colour lasers I have been looking at are quite dark/dull when compared with expensive colour lasers or even cheap inkjet printers. They also seem to be quite poor at continuous tones.
You can afford to buy several "disposable" inkjet printers for the price of even a cheap colour laser.
Colour lasers also seem a bit hit-and-miss quality wise, even within a manfacturer. We have some that are fine, then others that are pretty much lemons. I just looked at someone's Xerox that's been in for 6 months now and it seems OK. If we get one, it'll probably have an extended on-site warranty.
I am thinking of buying a cheap inkjet for home and emailing pics I want printed to the local camera store, where they are printed for about as much as it costs to get a good set of 35mm prints done.
At ~700 Mb per scene, we'd cut Landsat images onto Exabyte and send a taxi across town for about $20 AUD. As 700 Mb of data at 20c/Mb would cost $140 AUD _on_each_end_, putting it in a taxi was a bargain (even the latency was comparable).
More recently, we're getting 100's of Gb of RADAR data being shipped overnight on firewire drives.
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I just saw a presentation on a campus-wide wireless network.
Because you cannot control who uses the wireless zone, it's treated as potentially hostile or untrusted and users must authenticate to a VPN.
A nice side-effect of this is that the VPN in Windows routes all traffic via the VPN, letting them apply all sorts of policies "port 4444, I don't think so...". Blaster only affected users silly enough to bring in an infected machine.
Perhaps a similar setup for the untrusted wired network too?
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Give lists of projects with estimated times.
Tell them they can pick projects (in order of priority) up to your available working days.
"I can spend next month installing Minesweeper on your laptop, but I'll send a time summary up the line saying I did that instead of patching for Blaster"
Xix.
The Feedback column in New Scientist has these every week. My favourite so far was the invoice for a locomotive purchased at auction, something like:
Item: Locomotive Quantity: 1 (approximately)
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When I did work-experience, they were using HP programmable calculators to log tree growth data. The backup was a printer like what you get on cash registers. Since the batteries failed one weekend, one of my jobs was to get all of these logs and re-enter them into a computer (an Apricot no less)
But you tell youngster that nowdays an' they'll nowt believe ye...
Xix.
I like the last bit in that title line, "Is there a story?". A friend of mine who used to use Win 3.11 recently moved back there. I was chatting with him on ICQ when I noticed every 2-3 minutes he'd go offline and come back. He told me that he keeps getting hit by UAEs. It is a regular occurance, and the operating system he was using to connect to the net was even less reliable.
:)
Here in Win XP, we get hit by worms about once a month for 10-20 days (more frequent if a new exploit's been found, also depends on which version of Windows you are using). Sometimes, the system is out for a few hours. It's just a way of life.
I realize that it's impressive that so many computers get infected, but really, is this such a big deal? Everything should be fixed soon. People just need to relax. Maybe GO OUTSIDE!!!
We had Enron lined up too, because they had the sort of ethics and businness acumen we can really relate to.
--Darl
Besides, even if GPL was trashed, the copyright remains with the original authors who could start releasing their software under another GPL style licence the very next day. The GPL is merely a mechanism and attacking it is a waste of time.
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That sounds like anyone with venture capital.
1. lunatice prince with a gun platform
2. ???
3. Profit!
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On the contrary.
If taken on an agency, by agency basis, $700 per server is likely to be seen as "not much" by some PHBs anxious to minimise the risk in their lives. What sort of percentage uptake would Darl need to get substantial cashflow?
They are able to do this because the company is worth next to nothing otherwise. That or this is purely about manipulating the share price.
Xix.
I said the *rise* of these sorts of companies. Once is an accident, twice is a concidence, three times is enemy action. I do not see how companies such as NTP (who acquire patent portfolios at fire sales) can encourage innovation, and regard their viability as a serious concern.
The constitution gives a limited monopoly on inventions in order to encourage innovation and get innovations out into the community. If some were too inept or unlucky to make the most of this privilege, why should we carry the can?
Xix.
Xix.
"You'll all be home for Christmas".
Isn't that what they always say about every bloody and protracted conflict?
Xix.
OTOH, if you have a stonking huge RDBMS that does heavy transactions, or are modelling complex systems, you *might* be interested in a big Sun box.
We haven't used Sun desktops for a long while now, but our 700 MHz 4800 still runs demanding stuff faster than our 2 GHz x86 desktops. The forthcoming 64 bit x86 stuff will make life very interesting, but we'll have to wait and see how much of the big end of town moves that way.
And I don't need a special PC for word processing now that I have Open Office.
Xix.
Xix.
I am posting this from a Debian desktop that used to be a corporate Win NT desktop until one fateful evening. ;-p
Simply put, the change order process is too slow for dev work. I want something changed, I change it. This all came about because of the glacial nature of our outsourced support and is now an accepted part of how we do things. I have promised BOFH that I will not to do stupid things like advertise my desktop as a primary domain controller, and apps go into production through the normal channels.
Virii? *if* such a beast appeared and *if* I was stupid enough to run it, it would trash my userland stuff.
Desktop licence management? There's not a single proprietary application on this box.
Security? security.debian.org. And it's not visible to the Real World anyway.
As you said, the *company* owns the machine. Be sure you check with the relevant exec lest you trash something important.
I think it is possible to create a closed, proprietary e-voting system that is accountable.
OK, popular-OS may have many holes in it that we don't know about. You just make sure the total process takes such issues into account. For example; via physical security; by providing mechanisms to detect changes; and by design choices that make it impossible for the application itself to know whose votes are being tallied "at this polling station Mr Smith will be candidate A". Even an open source, peer reviewed system shouldn't discount the possibility of fiddling.
Xix.
But I'd say th reality is that the record industry is as lucrative as it was before. Small wonder they want to kill anything that threatens it.
Xix.
Reviewers found that green made an inferior purple, and that until green was purple, purple would be the superior purple.
We had similar problems integrating Windows 3.11 PCs onto our Sun and Mac network[1]. They were completely crap at NFS and Appletalk. WindowsPCs will never be ready for the work environment until they can properly handle those two protocols.
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[1] Killed via CEO edict
Plus many of the cheap colour lasers I have been looking at are quite dark/dull when compared with expensive colour lasers or even cheap inkjet printers. They also seem to be quite poor at continuous tones.
You can afford to buy several "disposable" inkjet printers for the price of even a cheap colour laser.
Colour lasers also seem a bit hit-and-miss quality wise, even within a manfacturer. We have some that are fine, then others that are pretty much lemons. I just looked at someone's Xerox that's been in for 6 months now and it seems OK. If we get one, it'll probably have an extended on-site warranty.
I am thinking of buying a cheap inkjet for home and emailing pics I want printed to the local camera store, where they are printed for about as much as it costs to get a good set of 35mm prints done.
Xix.
Index = price * volume * alchol_percent
But you get sick of drinking port wine pretty quickly.
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At ~700 Mb per scene, we'd cut Landsat images onto Exabyte and send a taxi across town for about $20 AUD. As 700 Mb of data at 20c/Mb would cost $140 AUD _on_each_end_, putting it in a taxi was a bargain (even the latency was comparable).
More recently, we're getting 100's of Gb of RADAR data being shipped overnight on firewire drives.
Xix.
Oh great,
"So we want to make sure that some of them are different..."
I love the possibility of different countries opting for different voltages. That way you can chance frying your laptop every time you travel.
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