Sounds like the solution to the 'correlation of being poor and having diabetes/heat disease/etc later in life' is to get poor people jobs (if they don't already have one), and to ensure they are paid more than poverty line incomes, so they have the money to buy the foods that are healthier. Since in North America, the tendency is to charge more for the healthier foods.
I have confirmed the above assessment by 'pudge', that in order for the exploit to work, an account that is logged into the console, needs to be utilized from an SSH connection.
Don't get me wrong, I would love to put a rack in my house, and several rackable systems most likely of the Apple - Xserve variety (definitely not low power).
In the past year however I have dumped the over sized, excessively power hungry gray box servers for an Intel based Apple - Mac mini, only a 110W power supply. Then opted for a couple of external SATA drive enclosures for additional storage, the power bricks / wall warts used for the external drive enclosures are low wattage (though I do not have the numbers for them at the time of this posting.)
Net result, likely similar overall foot print, though the Mac mini is a little taller than 1u.
When the original G4 Mac mini was really wanted a Mac mini just so it could sit on top of my PowerMac G5, cause it would look cool. However after the time it took to finally purchase a Mac mini, I ended up using it to off-load the background server processes I had setup on the client version of Mac OS X, and not have to worry about the services impacting video editing and other processes in the foreground. Also I had chose to place it in my stereo rack, and use it as a media center to play back DivX, XviD, and other video types.
I don't think Mac users, Windows users, or other OS users for that matter should run anti-virus software. As many people have already pointed out your computer takes a performance hit, having to scan for a virus on every file read or write.
People should learn not to open files from e-mail unless they know that the file is coming from a reliable source. I do not use an anti-virus application on my Mac, but then again I didn't run one on my Linux box before that or my Windows box before that. I just plainly did not open attachments or or download files that I could not verify came from a reliable source.
How hard is it really for someone to send an e-mail back to their friend or family member and ask them if they created the file they sent, or know who created the file personally? If they say they did, then you stand a fairly good chance it did not contain a virus. If they say no they received it in an e-mail sent to them by who knows who, then tell them you won't be opening it. This leads me to chain e-mail and e-mail forwarding etiquette in general, but that is another story.
That being said, anyone who does not want to learn common sense, should go ahead and install an anti-virus application, take the performance hit and live with it. Don't call the rest of us when you get infected either, while running your ever up to date anti-virus application, call your anti-virus software developer and complain. I am at the point personally where I won't be doing viruses for much longer, whether that is on Windows, other OS's or Mac. I have cleaned enough viruses from other peoples computers, that if they don't hurry up and smarten up they are on their own.
If I ever feel the need for an anti-virus application, I will be running it on demand, and the darn thing better not install any services that will slow my machine down. The only time my machine should slow down from running an anti-virus is if I tell it to run a scan.
Glad I read a little bit before I posted the same comment. Wow, a/. article linking to itself so that it doesn't get lost, the ultimate in cyclic linking.
Some one please mod my original original reply post down. There is nothing insightful with a math error. A rather big math error to boot.
You will have to forgive my original reply post, I replied from a computer running Windows. Studies have tied usage of said operating system to temporary inability to perform basic math functions.
Before anyone else says it. I am a dork. $.87 per person. Something in my brain was focusing on the 275 not the 275,000,000, when my math skills worked their magic.
Let me see now. 270 million newly trained people for Microsoft applications. $235 million dollars being spent to train up said people. Cost of training 1 person $870 thousand US dollars.
I prefer alternatives to Microsoft applications, but if Microsoft would just pay me the $870 thousand US dollars to me directly I would gladly learn all the Microsoft applications. No one said I had to continue using them after I learned to use them.
In the past I have used the wonders of a dishwasher to fix a computer component. I have also resorted to boiling a floppy controller to get it to work. I have also had to fix a non-working Apple//e by lifting the power supply side of the unit off the floor by a foot and letting it drop back to the floor. The trusty old upside down canister of compressed air to super cool an overheating chip as a part of trouble shooting an issue.
Why these solutions actually worked I couldn't tell you, I just know strange processes often have a way of working when all other avenues are having problems.
"Some will be surprised to learn that our Windows environment has a lower total cost of ownership than our current Linux environment. Our decision to simplify our mixed-source environment with Microsoft and Novell will allow us to reduce the cost and complexity. That's why we have selected Novell as our preferred Linux partner to support our Linux infrastructure going forward."
There is no indication that the number of Microsoft Windows (Windows) based computers in the environment compares to the number of Linux based computers. There is no indication of how many different flavors of Linux the bank is using. There is no indication of how many different versions of Windows are in the environment. Without the details, the statement is not of any use.
Example, if I have an organization that has: 3 - Windows based Microsoft Exchange (Exchange) servers using only one flavor of Windows and Exchange. 30 - Linux based servers, using several flavors of Linux. 2000 - Linux based desktop computers, using several flavors of Linux, running Evolution and an Exchange connector.
It would likely cost more for the organization in total cost of ownership (TCO) for Linux than for Windows, in that environment.
Where as if I had an environment that used and equal number of Windows and Linux servers, and an equal numbers of Windows and Linux desktops, assuming the Linux servers had been consolidated to one flavor, and the Linux desktops were running one flavor, I would say it is possible to see a par TCO or a leaning in either direction.
My main point is that without quantifying numbers, it is all FUD / hearsay.
Power conservation is something valid. On another point of yours, about how much money some people throw into the hobby. I know people that the only extra money they throw into the hobby is for their power consumption. Many of the IT workers out there, get the old equipment from their customers, because there is no internal use for it.
I am not yet in to the Terabyte range myself either, but I can tell you this. If you edit home videos, from your miniDV camcorder, or any analog video recorder, through a capture card, you can run up your space usage very quickly.
Additionally, fair use, of my music CD collection and of my movie collections, within my own house, from my own, legally acquired CD's and DVD's is not illegal. It all depends on your bit rate, but it can add up quickly, even if you are just making your music available for playing. Especially if you use a lossless codec.
We live in a world where you need money to do pretty much anything. In North America it is next to impossible to survive with out money. As much as money is needed it is not everything. Anyone's decision about taking a pay cut or a pay increase for varying responsibilities should take the time to consider: 1) Is this something that will make me happy? 2) Can I continue my current lifestyle? (If the current lifestyle is important.) 3) Can I pay my bills? The most important one of those I think is, will it make me happy. Regardless of other possible changes if you won't be happy it won't matter if you were in a position to make hordes more money than before. If you are looking at a pay cut as the original post says, well, you want to be happy. Money is not everything. It can sustain our life if spent on the right things, it can make us happy with a new toy/gizmo/etc, but I have never seen money bring to happiness/joy to anyone. Work/Life balance is important, and less money is not always a bad thing.
Well most companies don't buy their mainframes, they lease them. Then the manufacture, often IBM, takes the system back and either redeploys the unit elsewhere, keeps it for spare parts, or recycles the metals, and plastics (I hope they do that with the metals and plastics).
I jumped to a Mac with Mac OS X, 2 1/2 years ago. I haven't looked back at Windows, though I still have a x86 box with a flavor of Linux/BSD on it to work with if my Mac is working overtime, with certain projects. And to try out the latest distro's to keep in touch with the BSD and Linux. As for Windows, I am forced to continue supporting it and use it at work. But personally, Mac is my way. Whether that be with Mac OS X or other over time. I predict I will be running Apple PPC hardware for a long time to come.
This is likely to have been said, but her it goes. So why not just user IP over Firewire??? Share your drive with access restrictions and use the faster connection firewire provides.
My personal choice, is Enterprise. I am sure if I gave Battlestar Galactica more chances I may get into it. But I am Trek all the way. I like other series and watch them when they happen to be on and I happen to be looking for something to watch, that is SCI-FI.
From the one episode I saw of Battlestar Galactica I truly wonder how they get more viewers than StarTrek Enterprise.
These are my opinions I am not trying to start a war or feud. I hope that for all of you that like Battlestar Galactica, that you get a longer run then the doomed StarTrek Enterprise. I know I want more years of shows. I personally think UPN and Paramount have their heads up there a.....
Anyways, enjoy what ever shows you like to watch, and may they 'live long and prosper'.
I would recommend Apple's Airport Express or Airport Extreme base stations. This of course means you will need some power occasionally, but you won't have to have any other wires, as the Airports effectively mesh together. You could use any other wireless repeater, but I really like the Airport line.
MSN Search topic has been regurgitated to the point of making me sick. Move on, give up on the issue. Do we really need 1-3 daily front page posts on MSN Search???? Lets restrict this to once a week, maybe.
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Sounds like the solution to the 'correlation of being poor and having diabetes/heat disease/etc later in life' is to get poor people jobs (if they don't already have one), and to ensure they are paid more than poverty line incomes, so they have the money to buy the foods that are healthier. Since in North America, the tendency is to charge more for the healthier foods.
Away with bulk processed foods.
I have confirmed the above assessment by 'pudge', that in order for the exploit to work, an account that is logged into the console, needs to be utilized from an SSH connection.
Tested it my self remotely.
Don't get me wrong, I would love to put a rack in my house, and several rackable systems most likely of the Apple - Xserve variety (definitely not low power).
In the past year however I have dumped the over sized, excessively power hungry gray box servers for an Intel based Apple - Mac mini, only a 110W power supply. Then opted for a couple of external SATA drive enclosures for additional storage, the power bricks / wall warts used for the external drive enclosures are low wattage (though I do not have the numbers for them at the time of this posting.)
Net result, likely similar overall foot print, though the Mac mini is a little taller than 1u.
When the original G4 Mac mini was really wanted a Mac mini just so it could sit on top of my PowerMac G5, cause it would look cool. However after the time it took to finally purchase a Mac mini, I ended up using it to off-load the background server processes I had setup on the client version of Mac OS X, and not have to worry about the services impacting video editing and other processes in the foreground. Also I had chose to place it in my stereo rack, and use it as a media center to play back DivX, XviD, and other video types.
I don't think Mac users, Windows users, or other OS users for that matter should run anti-virus software. As many people have already pointed out your computer takes a performance hit, having to scan for a virus on every file read or write.
People should learn not to open files from e-mail unless they know that the file is coming from a reliable source. I do not use an anti-virus application on my Mac, but then again I didn't run one on my Linux box before that or my Windows box before that. I just plainly did not open attachments or or download files that I could not verify came from a reliable source.
How hard is it really for someone to send an e-mail back to their friend or family member and ask them if they created the file they sent, or know who created the file personally? If they say they did, then you stand a fairly good chance it did not contain a virus. If they say no they received it in an e-mail sent to them by who knows who, then tell them you won't be opening it. This leads me to chain e-mail and e-mail forwarding etiquette in general, but that is another story.
That being said, anyone who does not want to learn common sense, should go ahead and install an anti-virus application, take the performance hit and live with it. Don't call the rest of us when you get infected either, while running your ever up to date anti-virus application, call your anti-virus software developer and complain. I am at the point personally where I won't be doing viruses for much longer, whether that is on Windows, other OS's or Mac. I have cleaned enough viruses from other peoples computers, that if they don't hurry up and smarten up they are on their own.
If I ever feel the need for an anti-virus application, I will be running it on demand, and the darn thing better not install any services that will slow my machine down. The only time my machine should slow down from running an anti-virus is if I tell it to run a scan.
Glad I read a little bit before I posted the same comment. Wow, a /. article linking to itself so that it doesn't get lost, the ultimate in cyclic linking.
Some one please mod my original original reply post down. There is nothing insightful with a math error. A rather big math error to boot.
You will have to forgive my original reply post, I replied from a computer running Windows. Studies have tied usage of said operating system to temporary inability to perform basic math functions.
Now I can't even get the 270 million right. Gee I give up.
Before anyone else says it. I am a dork. $.87 per person. Something in my brain was focusing on the 275 not the 275,000,000, when my math skills worked their magic.
I care not about this article any longer.
Let me see now. 270 million newly trained people for Microsoft applications. $235 million dollars being spent to train up said people. Cost of training 1 person $870 thousand US dollars.
I prefer alternatives to Microsoft applications, but if Microsoft would just pay me the $870 thousand US dollars to me directly I would gladly learn all the Microsoft applications. No one said I had to continue using them after I learned to use them.
In the past I have used the wonders of a dishwasher to fix a computer component. I have also resorted to boiling a floppy controller to get it to work. I have also had to fix a non-working Apple //e by lifting the power supply side of the unit off the floor by a foot and letting it drop back to the floor. The trusty old upside down canister of compressed air to super cool an overheating chip as a part of trouble shooting an issue.
Why these solutions actually worked I couldn't tell you, I just know strange processes often have a way of working when all other avenues are having problems.
ROTFLMAO
Praise God, someone still has some sense.
There is no indication that the number of Microsoft Windows (Windows) based computers in the environment compares to the number of Linux based computers. There is no indication of how many different flavors of Linux the bank is using. There is no indication of how many different versions of Windows are in the environment. Without the details, the statement is not of any use.
Example, if I have an organization that has:
3 - Windows based Microsoft Exchange (Exchange) servers using only one flavor of Windows and Exchange.
30 - Linux based servers, using several flavors of Linux.
2000 - Linux based desktop computers, using several flavors of Linux, running Evolution and an Exchange connector.
It would likely cost more for the organization in total cost of ownership (TCO) for Linux than for Windows, in that environment.
Where as if I had an environment that used and equal number of Windows and Linux servers, and an equal numbers of Windows and Linux desktops, assuming the Linux servers had been consolidated to one flavor, and the Linux desktops were running one flavor, I would say it is possible to see a par TCO or a leaning in either direction.
My main point is that without quantifying numbers, it is all FUD / hearsay.
Power conservation is something valid. On another point of yours, about how much money some people throw into the hobby. I know people that the only extra money they throw into the hobby is for their power consumption. Many of the IT workers out there, get the old equipment from their customers, because there is no internal use for it.
I am not yet in to the Terabyte range myself either, but I can tell you this. If you edit home videos, from your miniDV camcorder, or any analog video recorder, through a capture card, you can run up your space usage very quickly.
Additionally, fair use, of my music CD collection and of my movie collections, within my own house, from my own, legally acquired CD's and DVD's is not illegal. It all depends on your bit rate, but it can add up quickly, even if you are just making your music available for playing. Especially if you use a lossless codec.
We live in a world where you need money to do pretty much anything. In North America it is next to impossible to survive with out money. As much as money is needed it is not everything. Anyone's decision about taking a pay cut or a pay increase for varying responsibilities should take the time to consider:
1) Is this something that will make me happy?
2) Can I continue my current lifestyle? (If the current lifestyle is important.)
3) Can I pay my bills?
The most important one of those I think is, will it make me happy. Regardless of other possible changes if you won't be happy it won't matter if you were in a position to make hordes more money than before. If you are looking at a pay cut as the original post says, well, you want to be happy.
Money is not everything. It can sustain our life if spent on the right things, it can make us happy with a new toy/gizmo/etc, but I have never seen money bring to happiness/joy to anyone. Work/Life balance is important, and less money is not always a bad thing.
Well most companies don't buy their mainframes, they lease them. Then the manufacture, often IBM, takes the system back and either redeploys the unit elsewhere, keeps it for spare parts, or recycles the metals, and plastics (I hope they do that with the metals and plastics).
What the subject says.
yes, had should be have.
You can run multiple VNC servers on a linux box and had the equivalent. They can even be secured with SSH.
I jumped to a Mac with Mac OS X, 2 1/2 years ago. I haven't looked back at Windows, though I still have a x86 box with a flavor of Linux/BSD on it to work with if my Mac is working overtime, with certain projects. And to try out the latest distro's to keep in touch with the BSD and Linux. As for Windows, I am forced to continue supporting it and use it at work. But personally, Mac is my way. Whether that be with Mac OS X or other over time. I predict I will be running Apple PPC hardware for a long time to come.
This is likely to have been said, but her it goes. So why not just user IP over Firewire??? Share your drive with access restrictions and use the faster connection firewire provides.
done
My personal choice, is Enterprise. I am sure if I gave Battlestar Galactica more chances I may get into it. But I am Trek all the way. I like other series and watch them when they happen to be on and I happen to be looking for something to watch, that is SCI-FI.
From the one episode I saw of Battlestar Galactica I truly wonder how they get more viewers than StarTrek Enterprise.
These are my opinions I am not trying to start a war or feud. I hope that for all of you that like Battlestar Galactica, that you get a longer run then the doomed StarTrek Enterprise. I know I want more years of shows. I personally think UPN and Paramount have their heads up there a.....
Anyways, enjoy what ever shows you like to watch, and may they 'live long and prosper'.
I would recommend Apple's Airport Express or Airport Extreme base stations. This of course means you will need some power occasionally, but you won't have to have any other wires, as the Airports effectively mesh together.
You could use any other wireless repeater, but I really like the Airport line.
MSN Search topic has been regurgitated to the point of making me sick. Move on, give up on the issue. Do we really need 1-3 daily front page posts on MSN Search???? Lets restrict this to once a week, maybe.