There are enough hard-core qmail zealots (and I kinda lean that way myself) that I'm sure there will be different packages available for the different distros within a year.
all the episodes were like sand...and to quote a great author:
"I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere. Not like [the memories of my childhood]. [The memories of my childhood, where] everything's soft... and smooth...."
The only legit RH options are: pay 1000$/year for RHEL (AS or ES or whatever) OR go with the latest fedora that's going to break in a year or two. I tried to go FreeBSD but mgmnt wanted linux and wanted supported, so we wound up paying for RHEL. It's nice, but their support is worth fuck-all ("oh, you changed the default config by installing a program we don't support?" "yeah, it's a firewall monitoring script. uses SNMP and JRE 1.5...." "yeah, we recommend you reinstall...") and the update/website combo is needlessly complex. Channels? WTF? Can't you keep track of the things on my box and update what needs to be updated to the level I want? apt-get does that, yum does that, fuck, a properly configured FreeBSD will do that, Mac OS X will do that with shiny! -- the only systems that have a more annoying update methodology are Sun's Solaris (and they're gettin better) and MS Windows (yeah, not so much though...although worth pointing out that while it's a pain in the ass, you can still do it if you're running your own AD and update server.)
So RH needs money, and making a sub-standard free version and an expensive "Enterprise" version are how they decided to do it. That's fine, but it doesn't mean I have to tie myself to them. They screwed themselves out of my custom -- which wouldn't have been a huge contract, but at least one or two yearly support incidents.
New job and all their linux boxes are various versions of Fedora (except one box which is a debian so old I can't get the ISO to make new disks). Which means I cannot update them since there are no yum repositories for these older versions. I have to make plans to bring up new CentOS boxes and migrate the data so that I can keep them updated.
I support the idea of esperanto, and it's a tragedy that it's not a more widely known and used language, but seriously, if you're going to read Shakespeare, you should read it in the original Klingon.
denying users without giving them an alternative method of doing what they want to do is a recipe for disaster; people will circumvent your safeguards if you don't give them any option (and usually even if you do...). But if you have a method in place (as GP did; an FTP is mentioned), and you circumvent security policy, you get what happened with MediaDefender.
Maybe they have a bad security guy. Maybe they have users who think they're smarter than the security guys or the server guys or thought "well obviously this rule is inconvenient to me so it obviously shouldn't apply to me. I'll just use my gmail account and fuck all this checking that my mail isn't from the work domains when I send it nonsense." Hell, more than likely it's a combination of all of these. Automated security policy is stupid, yes. Not following security policy (or not having a good policy in place to begin with) because "it's a hassle" is dumber.
When the story's about a security leak because some dude circumvented security policy, the GP's braggadocio about circumventing policy is hardly smart, even if it is a hassle.
congrats on not understanding strict security policy. you are the type of person who let this miivi/media defender thing go down: the guy who is technical enough to get around the security measures put in place to avoid things like this happening.
All my emails include 10meg attachments, so at 13 million, I guess I have roughly a 124TB limit. (maybe my math is bad, I dunno -- I never learned "emails" as a unit of measure).
1. Is the US actually part of the free world? (Patriot Act, Guantanamo Bay, "Ist amendment areas", unauthorised surveliance, etc). The US isn't even really a democracy because their poor are forced into crime (due to the effective absence of a welfare system or a public health system) and are then made ineligible to vote. It's government by the rich of the rich for the rich. That's not democracy.
Yes, it is part of the free world. It's current administration is making a concerted effort to ruin the things that make the United States of America great -- legally, as a nation, as an idea -- but it's still a part of the free world. There's a welfare system and a public health system. That they are...not very good, let's say...doesn't mean that they don't exist. Anyone who goes into crime makes a choice to do so. It's a rare person that commits a felony first off and right away gets caught and loses their right to vote. Also: No, it's not a democracy, it's a democratic republic. Anyone who tells you it's a democracy doesn't know what the word means.
In the resources-on-your-equipment sense, the size of the tables matter and yes, you are correct. In the money-has-to-be-paid-for-equipment sense, the size of the tables in software is irrelevant. Many ISPs don't have "modern routers", particularly smaller ones, as your national/international providers have the scale and money to have regular and scheduled hardware upgrades. Cisco gets a lot of shit, but a large amount of their equipment just lasts and lasts. And if you're an ISP trying to cut corners, weeeeelllll...you might not have upgraded to the latest hardware.
Consider also that this is not just routers, but anything with a public IP, such as firewalls and a lot of enterprise-level firewalls just do not have IPv6 capabilities yet. Not like, hey, the handling is Teh Suxx0rs, but it's Just Not There. Juniper's security products don't do it; hell until a recent-ish version of the FW+VPN OS was released, an IPv6 packet could reboot a VPN connection. Nor do Fortigate or CheckPoint handle IPv6. Cisco's SSL VPN does shit to the packets and to make a long story short, is just not ready to deal with IPv6. AFAIK, ISC's DHCPv6 is still kind of rough (although admittedly I don't follow it very closely on the list, it gets mentioned now and again and the impression I get is that they're working very hard on it. Which means it isn't ready yet.) This matters a great deal to ISPs who would be the ones handing out IPv6 to your average user; an unbelieveable amount of them use ISC's DHCP software.
No, then you've got a RIAA lawyer who has survived all the rest. An uber-lawyer, if you will. Do you really want that? Imagine the whispers in the courtroom: "Why does the RIAA only have one person in the courtroom?" "Because she's killed all the rest. By hand."
for a more typical windows-like experience in linux distros (w/r/t windows users, anyway,) you really want to be looking at ubuntu-based distros (ubuntu, kubuntu, xubuntu, etc): all those video/sound probs w/ webpages (as well as java apps etc) are unbelievably easy to solve (very literally between 4 and 5 lines of apt-get tomfoolery).
server-side, PHB's like RHEL/SuSE EL for the corporate "support" warm and fuzzy, but I've found FreeBSD and Solaris to be the way to go (particularly w/ Solaris 10's improved patching utils...it's like they finally noticed that all the other major OS's had a better way of doing it).
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There are enough hard-core qmail zealots (and I kinda lean that way myself) that I'm sure there will be different packages available for the different distros within a year.
all the episodes were like sand...and to quote a great author: "I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere. Not like [the memories of my childhood]. [The memories of my childhood, where] everything's soft... and smooth...."
So RH needs money, and making a sub-standard free version and an expensive "Enterprise" version are how they decided to do it. That's fine, but it doesn't mean I have to tie myself to them. They screwed themselves out of my custom -- which wouldn't have been a huge contract, but at least one or two yearly support incidents.
New job and all their linux boxes are various versions of Fedora (except one box which is a debian so old I can't get the ISO to make new disks). Which means I cannot update them since there are no yum repositories for these older versions. I have to make plans to bring up new CentOS boxes and migrate the data so that I can keep them updated.
verisgn and verizon are different.
You can still drive state-to-state with no papers. You just can't fly.
I support the idea of esperanto, and it's a tragedy that it's not a more widely known and used language, but seriously, if you're going to read Shakespeare, you should read it in the original Klingon.
so...he's been talking again?
denying users without giving them an alternative method of doing what they want to do is a recipe for disaster; people will circumvent your safeguards if you don't give them any option (and usually even if you do...). But if you have a method in place (as GP did; an FTP is mentioned), and you circumvent security policy, you get what happened with MediaDefender.
Maybe they have a bad security guy. Maybe they have users who think they're smarter than the security guys or the server guys or thought "well obviously this rule is inconvenient to me so it obviously shouldn't apply to me. I'll just use my gmail account and fuck all this checking that my mail isn't from the work domains when I send it nonsense." Hell, more than likely it's a combination of all of these. Automated security policy is stupid, yes. Not following security policy (or not having a good policy in place to begin with) because "it's a hassle" is dumber.
When the story's about a security leak because some dude circumvented security policy, the GP's braggadocio about circumventing policy is hardly smart, even if it is a hassle.
congrats on not understanding strict security policy. you are the type of person who let this miivi/media defender thing go down: the guy who is technical enough to get around the security measures put in place to avoid things like this happening.
All my emails include 10meg attachments, so at 13 million, I guess I have roughly a 124TB limit. (maybe my math is bad, I dunno -- I never learned "emails" as a unit of measure).
I think I can live with that.
...other children?
"the beatings will continue until morale improves"
Yes, it is part of the free world. It's current administration is making a concerted effort to ruin the things that make the United States of America great -- legally, as a nation, as an idea -- but it's still a part of the free world. There's a welfare system and a public health system. That they are ...not very good, let's say...doesn't mean that they don't exist. Anyone who goes into crime makes a choice to do so. It's a rare person that commits a felony first off and right away gets caught and loses their right to vote. Also: No, it's not a democracy, it's a democratic republic. Anyone who tells you it's a democracy doesn't know what the word means.
The US government feeds you and pays your meds?
especially considering that it's inaccurate. Someone point him to the great firewall of china, please.
you forgot: with grits. in russia.
also:
4) profit!
In the resources-on-your-equipment sense, the size of the tables matter and yes, you are correct. In the money-has-to-be-paid-for-equipment sense, the size of the tables in software is irrelevant. Many ISPs don't have "modern routers", particularly smaller ones, as your national/international providers have the scale and money to have regular and scheduled hardware upgrades. Cisco gets a lot of shit, but a large amount of their equipment just lasts and lasts. And if you're an ISP trying to cut corners, weeeeelllll...you might not have upgraded to the latest hardware.
Consider also that this is not just routers, but anything with a public IP, such as firewalls and a lot of enterprise-level firewalls just do not have IPv6 capabilities yet. Not like, hey, the handling is Teh Suxx0rs, but it's Just Not There. Juniper's security products don't do it; hell until a recent-ish version of the FW+VPN OS was released, an IPv6 packet could reboot a VPN connection. Nor do Fortigate or CheckPoint handle IPv6. Cisco's SSL VPN does shit to the packets and to make a long story short, is just not ready to deal with IPv6. AFAIK, ISC's DHCPv6 is still kind of rough (although admittedly I don't follow it very closely on the list, it gets mentioned now and again and the impression I get is that they're working very hard on it. Which means it isn't ready yet.) This matters a great deal to ISPs who would be the ones handing out IPv6 to your average user; an unbelieveable amount of them use ISC's DHCP software.
and now no one need know your secret shame.
No, then you've got a RIAA lawyer who has survived all the rest. An uber-lawyer, if you will. Do you really want that? Imagine the whispers in the courtroom: "Why does the RIAA only have one person in the courtroom?" "Because she's killed all the rest. By hand."
don't worry, we'll bring our democracy to the rest of the world soon enough. look at how well it's worked out for iraq.
just fyi, the car talk show is available as a podcast. phc also has a podcast but only for the news from lake wobegon segment.
Stop giving the current administration ideas....
wait
karl rove, is that you?
whereas a real doll would just break or bounce when dropped, goats tend to....uh...splash....a bit.
...and how did that affect you?
for a more typical windows-like experience in linux distros (w/r/t windows users, anyway,) you really want to be looking at ubuntu-based distros (ubuntu, kubuntu, xubuntu, etc): all those video/sound probs w/ webpages (as well as java apps etc) are unbelievably easy to solve (very literally between 4 and 5 lines of apt-get tomfoolery).
server-side, PHB's like RHEL/SuSE EL for the corporate "support" warm and fuzzy, but I've found FreeBSD and Solaris to be the way to go (particularly w/ Solaris 10's improved patching utils...it's like they finally noticed that all the other major OS's had a better way of doing it).