Out in some rural, and even suburban areas Bellsouth's service is so horrible that it regularly cuts out in stormy weather. The fact remains, you should pick the right tool for the job and always have a backup. It's like in spelunking where you always carry a second or third light source just in case. Use VOIP, save hundreds of dollars, and use that cell phone if it flakes out for an emergency call.
And don't give me some rap about how you don't have the extra 15 seconds it takes to reach a cell phone to dial 911. That's just poor planning on your part if you don't plan ahead.
Of just getting rid of it? I'd like to do that. If you aren't going to have it on an equinox, what is the point? Though I understand the latitude bias of the location of our country means that the equinox doesn't really mean we're getting equal sun and darkness at any point in the year.
I wrote both Windows and OSX clients for a very basic system that does this last night. I'm planning on offering it to my customers for free. I don't think that I would have a lot of success selling it as a service compared to the clients it would naturally bring in for other things... Plus... it's insurance you're buying with these folks... an insurance product... not a security product... think about it.
And yes, it's simple to get around this software... but think about this... Most criminals/thieves are stupid . I have seen stolen computers that still have entire family photo albums on them from the previous owner.
If you have a script that sends out a call for help every minute... What's your bet that an idiot can find out in less than a minute that the computer is calling for help.
of problem customers and scams. I'm all for competition. I was liquidating a motherboard on eBay that was an open box part obtained from an RMA. After the customer received the part and crammed half a dozen cards into it, he declared it broken. Which it might have been... and I told him how to file an RMA on that part. I also offered to refund part of his investment if he just wanted to return it to me outright.
Soon the story changed... the item wasn't was "as described"... I started getting explanations of and I quote, "Living in a trailer with a handicapped brother with a $10,000 plate in his head." I was going to need to send him $70 for the item to be returned...
Then he proceeded to file complaints with PayPal and try and get his funds frozen.
What merchant would ever let you buy a product, break it, and return it for more money than it is worth? And what crazy payment system allows you to raid a merchants bank account because you most likely zapped the product with your own hands?
A whole lot of rotting dinosaurs and plant matter underneath Titan to produce all those hydrocarbons...
Or
That's not where all our oil and gas comes from on this planet either. Besides that, it would be one weird damn dinosaur that would crawl into a giant rock to die, requiring explosives to extract its liquid remains.
As he says in the article... only a few games have ever been offered in 1080i, "the current standard for HDTV"
True, only a few games offer 1080i or 720p... But there are multiple standards for HDTV (Not just 1080i), and the games have all look damn good in widescreen HDTV on the XBox. Halo 2 in 480p (which no standard analog telivision offers) looks quite nice.
I'm no expert HDTV, gaming, or hardware... but clearly neither is this guy... Though the overall point he makes is valid, he shouldn't blame it all on Microsoft... a good share of the "blame" rests with developers and the public... It's economics man.
I wrote the data center to ask what's guarding the box. What are they goig to say? "Shhh it's a secret!"
I've got to say it's still a remote possibility that it isn't an IPSO. But I whacked it several times and nmap:
1. Knew it was a firewall always... never said it was anything else. 2. Came up with UNIX options early on. 3. After modifying some options it consistently told me it was an IPSO and nothing else was possibility.
True... and it is advertising after all...
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Absolutely true... it is an entire environment, and it is good practice. I have set up a few IIS servers and there has always been a Cisco PIX, Sonicwall, Whitebox, or something in front of that box.
I think the problem that I have with it is that some manager is going to look at the contest results without the full story. They will go away with the message that "Microsoft is on top of security, so buy all Microsoft and you will be fine." The truth is that they have a big component that doesn't have anything to do with configuring IIS6. I would like to see them credit the work of the data center or the firewall itself in the upcoming article.
Short Semi-related Story:
This client I used to have has been brainwashed by Microsoft... (Slow pay and a jackass to boot.) He tells me about the "digital dashboard" that Microsoft has developed is the wave of the future, and that everything will be like that in a few years. What he was pointing to was navigation on their web site that was consistently on the left side of the page... Shocking!
He also espouses how Windows Mobile will run all cellular phones in a few years, BECAUSE it looks like Windows XP.
PHP in his eyes is an immature language, while.Net is robust and has a larger development community.
This guy believes everything he sees in advertisements and does little or no research when making IT decisions for his startup company. I don't think I'm alone when I get a bit pissed off when an employer just goes out and buys a new piece of software or hardware without doing their homework. Then they want you to build a network out of a mismatched set of parts...
540 V8 HP engine... Six Speed Transmission Go Kart Frame
Inline Four 4 Speed Auto in a Honda Civic
Which is going to be more reliable? Which is really going to get the job done and cost less in the long run?
I totally agree with you, you made a really smart point that it is the entire solution we need to evaluate. I just want it portrayed accurately.
GUESS WHAT IS PROTECTING IT.
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And who the hell is going to care... but... a little quick research on the host reveals the following:
Obviously it's behind a Firewall at a pretty decent looking data center. It looks like a minimum security prison on the outside:
If you look on the right hand side of the page you will notice that Nokia credits the UNIX roots of IPSO.
So this Windows zealot is hiding his IIS6 box behind a big, bad ass, UNIX gatekeeper. For contest to prove that Microsoft rules... Shouldn't ISA Server be protecting the brave little web server?
This isn't totally pointless but...
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It costs me $71.40 to rent the DVR on top of my usual cable subscription... (yes, which subsidizes the DVR cost...) but at $71.40 a year, HDTV capability and no up front or program listing costs... It's worth the money. Now if I wanted an extra DVR for just grabbing regular television you bet I'd tinker with a homebuilt solution. It's a great learning exercise, but not for everyone.
In that case isn't the cat already out of the bag? Not like they can on the fly say that all your HD-DVDs won't work in the morning... The only thing that they can do is prevent future media from playing on that model of HD-DVD player.
We have seen that play before, cripple the next hot DVD to hit the market and what do you get? A ton of product returns and pissed off customers. The encryption may be more advanced, but when you want to give everyone consumer devices with the universal key to the castle... It's only a matter of time before someone figures out a way to copy it.
Why on earth you would ever want to put a video clip into a word processor document? Isn't the point of a word processor document that you might want to print it out?
Please don't tell me it's because they plan on publishing their web site with Word. That's the only reason I could think of off hand.
Oh yeah... and I don't think it's outrageous that MS cripple any of their products. Free market economies rock... someone can give them a non-crippled product and make some change take place.
Linus is a super high priced one if he's giving it up for da Dual G5. Yeah there are a few in my town who are good enough to hold out for an iPod or a Mac mini.
In my neighborhood though... the technology whores are giving it up for old sticks of PC100 RAM.
One thing I did read last night is that you can specify to run applications as root in your AppleScript. If the password isn't supplied in the script it automatically give you the dialog box...
Otherwise expect the operation run with whatever permissions the user which executed the script has.
I started playing around with AppleScript the other day and realized how simple it is to use it with xCode to create Cocoa GUI apps for Mac... I've already written a couple tools to run some command line tools for clients who are GUI centric.
The only complaint I have is that for a programmer AppleScript looks horrible when you first start working with it... The "Plain English" format of do and tell and "set x to y" seems a little laborious at first when you're used to x = y;
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He could be talking about these xServe units:
A ppleStore?family=XserveRAID
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/
$12,999 for the unit on the right hand side.
Out in some rural, and even suburban areas Bellsouth's service is so horrible that it regularly cuts out in stormy weather. The fact remains, you should pick the right tool for the job and always have a backup. It's like in spelunking where you always carry a second or third light source just in case. Use VOIP, save hundreds of dollars, and use that cell phone if it flakes out for an emergency call.
And don't give me some rap about how you don't have the extra 15 seconds it takes to reach a cell phone to dial 911. That's just poor planning on your part if you don't plan ahead.
Nothing in life is 100% reliable.
Of just getting rid of it? I'd like to do that. If you aren't going to have it on an equinox, what is the point? Though I understand the latitude bias of the location of our country means that the equinox doesn't really mean we're getting equal sun and darkness at any point in the year.
I wrote both Windows and OSX clients for a very basic system that does this last night. I'm planning on offering it to my customers for free. I don't think that I would have a lot of success selling it as a service compared to the clients it would naturally bring in for other things... Plus... it's insurance you're buying with these folks... an insurance product... not a security product... think about it.
And yes, it's simple to get around this software... but think about this... Most criminals/thieves are stupid . I have seen stolen computers that still have entire family photo albums on them from the previous owner.
If you have a script that sends out a call for help every minute... What's your bet that an idiot can find out in less than a minute that the computer is calling for help.
One busted hacker was quoted as saying,
"I'm going to Wichita, Far from this opera for evermore"
Now I have that song stuck in my head... Crafty pale white people...
of problem customers and scams. I'm all for competition. I was liquidating a motherboard on eBay that was an open box part obtained from an RMA. After the customer received the part and crammed half a dozen cards into it, he declared it broken. Which it might have been... and I told him how to file an RMA on that part. I also offered to refund part of his investment if he just wanted to return it to me outright.
Soon the story changed... the item wasn't was "as described"... I started getting explanations of and I quote, "Living in a trailer with a handicapped brother with a $10,000 plate in his head." I was going to need to send him $70 for the item to be returned...
Then he proceeded to file complaints with PayPal and try and get his funds frozen.
What merchant would ever let you buy a product, break it, and return it for more money than it is worth? And what crazy payment system allows you to raid a merchants bank account because you most likely zapped the product with your own hands?
A whole lot of rotting dinosaurs and plant matter underneath Titan to produce all those hydrocarbons...
Or
That's not where all our oil and gas comes from on this planet either. Besides that, it would be one weird damn dinosaur that would crawl into a giant rock to die, requiring explosives to extract its liquid remains.
I thought typical zombies needed brains to live. These "zombie PCs" thrive even without them.
All together now...
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As he says in the article... only a few games have ever been offered in 1080i, "the current standard for HDTV"
True, only a few games offer 1080i or 720p... But there are multiple standards for HDTV (Not just 1080i), and the games have all look damn good in widescreen HDTV on the XBox. Halo 2 in 480p (which no standard analog telivision offers) looks quite nice.
I'm no expert HDTV, gaming, or hardware... but clearly neither is this guy... Though the overall point he makes is valid, he shouldn't blame it all on Microsoft... a good share of the "blame" rests with developers and the public... It's economics man.
Can we see a schedule for this conference and where it took place? All we have is links to organization web sites and this photo at the moment.
If this is supposed to be proof of something, I want confirmation. Then I'll really start laughing.
Because honestly, who is to ay it wasn't just one guy putting up a slide and snapping a photo?
A company that hasn't put anyone... anyone at all... into space, is starting a company to put people into space.
One step at a time guys...
If the guys financing hem have money to burn... I've got a company with a real product taat could use some investment.
Sounds delicious.
But the real reason they named the project this is because they intend to sting you like a bee and then throw fecal matter at you.
I wrote the data center to ask what's guarding the box. What are they goig to say? "Shhh it's a secret!"
I've got to say it's still a remote possibility that it isn't an IPSO. But I whacked it several times and nmap:
1. Knew it was a firewall always... never said it was anything else.
2. Came up with UNIX options early on.
3. After modifying some options it consistently told me it was an IPSO and nothing else was possibility.
Absolutely true... it is an entire environment, and it is good practice. I have set up a few IIS servers and there has always been a Cisco PIX, Sonicwall, Whitebox, or something in front of that box.
.Net is robust and has a larger development community.
I think the problem that I have with it is that some manager is going to look at the contest results without the full story. They will go away with the message that "Microsoft is on top of security, so buy all Microsoft and you will be fine." The truth is that they have a big component that doesn't have anything to do with configuring IIS6. I would like to see them credit the work of the data center or the firewall itself in the upcoming article.
Short Semi-related Story:
This client I used to have has been brainwashed by Microsoft... (Slow pay and a jackass to boot.) He tells me about the "digital dashboard" that Microsoft has developed is the wave of the future, and that everything will be like that in a few years. What he was pointing to was navigation on their web site that was consistently on the left side of the page... Shocking!
He also espouses how Windows Mobile will run all cellular phones in a few years, BECAUSE it looks like Windows XP.
PHP in his eyes is an immature language, while
This guy believes everything he sees in advertisements and does little or no research when making IT decisions for his startup company. I don't think I'm alone when I get a bit pissed off when an employer just goes out and buys a new piece of software or hardware without doing their homework. Then they want you to build a network out of a mismatched set of parts...
540 V8 HP engine...
Six Speed Transmission
Go Kart Frame
Inline Four
4 Speed Auto
in a Honda Civic
Which is going to be more reliable? Which is really going to get the job done and cost less in the long run?
I totally agree with you, you made a really smart point that it is the entire solution we need to evaluate. I just want it portrayed accurately.
And who the hell is going to care... but... a little quick research on the host reveals the following:
Obviously it's behind a Firewall at a pretty decent looking data center. It looks like a minimum security prison on the outside:
http://www.consonus.com/
The thing that pisses me off... (IF) nmap fingerprinted the OS right. Is that this IIS6 box is behind a Nokia IPSO.
http://www.nokia.com/cda1/0,1080,43324,00.html
If you look on the right hand side of the page you will notice that Nokia credits the UNIX roots of IPSO.
So this Windows zealot is hiding his IIS6 box behind a big, bad ass, UNIX gatekeeper. For contest to prove that Microsoft rules... Shouldn't ISA Server be protecting the brave little web server?
http://www.microsoft.com/isaserver/default.mspx
It really pisses me off that he advertises the ability to put together an impenetrable IIS6 environment and that a key solution is a UNIX firewall.
If Microsoft ever makes a statement about this contest in their marketing and it was in fact behind an IPSO they should feel silly, not proud.
About OSX 10.1 Puma?
What about the makers of Sex Panther?
It costs me $71.40 to rent the DVR on top of my usual cable subscription... (yes, which subsidizes the DVR cost...) but at $71.40 a year, HDTV capability and no up front or program listing costs... It's worth the money. Now if I wanted an extra DVR for just grabbing regular television you bet I'd tinker with a homebuilt solution. It's a great learning exercise, but not for everyone.
In that case isn't the cat already out of the bag? Not like they can on the fly say that all your HD-DVDs won't work in the morning... The only thing that they can do is prevent future media from playing on that model of HD-DVD player.
We have seen that play before, cripple the next hot DVD to hit the market and what do you get? A ton of product returns and pissed off customers. The encryption may be more advanced, but when you want to give everyone consumer devices with the universal key to the castle... It's only a matter of time before someone figures out a way to copy it.
Why on earth you would ever want to put a video clip into a word processor document? Isn't the point of a word processor document that you might want to print it out?
Please don't tell me it's because they plan on publishing their web site with Word. That's the only reason I could think of off hand.
Oh yeah... and I don't think it's outrageous that MS cripple any of their products. Free market economies rock... someone can give them a non-crippled product and make some change take place.
To bringing down the GIMP.
Linus is a super high priced one if he's giving it up for da Dual G5. Yeah there are a few in my town who are good enough to hold out for an iPod or a Mac mini.
In my neighborhood though... the technology whores are giving it up for old sticks of PC100 RAM.
One thing I did read last night is that you can specify to run applications as root in your AppleScript. If the password isn't supplied in the script it automatically give you the dialog box...
Otherwise expect the operation run with whatever permissions the user which executed the script has.
I started playing around with AppleScript the other day and realized how simple it is to use it with xCode to create Cocoa GUI apps for Mac... I've already written a couple tools to run some command line tools for clients who are GUI centric.
The only complaint I have is that for a programmer AppleScript looks horrible when you first start working with it... The "Plain English" format of do and tell and "set x to y" seems a little laborious at first when you're used to x = y;
But that's why I'm buying the book...
What happen when you goto a site with 100 pop ups?
A symphony of bullshit.