Nonsense, unless you're claiming this represents a good response time to release the exploit. The second part of your post is far more pertinent:
When was this first discovered? How many days total did it take for the patch to be released?
Exactly. Now, if the vulnerability was first discovered four days ago, and it therefore took three days for the patch to be released, then I'll agree that's a good response time. Let's rephrase it to make this more glaring: the patch was released just in the nick of time. And the corollary is you can point to any number of exploits for Windows, etc., which didn't come out until months after the patch had been released by Microsoft. Get it?
it does suffer from the usual MS problems of over-complication (check out backups and the transaction log issues)
I'll bite -- what is so complicated about backups, and to which transaction log issues are you referring?
If you want to do it by hand, then you have to know a bit of T-SQL, but compared to Oracle this is trivial (and you can do your dumps online!). But even easier is to set up a maintenance plan or two, and let the maintenance plan take care of retention, naming, etc.
T-SQL is nowhere near as good as PLSQL which comes with Postgreqsl
SQL Server 2005.
we work with a client who insists on staying MS only even though their databases are in the range on 20/30 GB.
what happens is that the (very expensive quad processor/SCSI/GB's of RAM) servers are constantly going wrong. they go on go slow's, crash etc. and they have a small team of very expensive MSCE's trying to sort them out - but they never get fixed properly.
Why oh why oh why? This should be trivial. Tell your client to get rid of these MCSEs as they obviously can't cut it, and spend the resultant savings on getting a Microsoft consultant on site for three days. You may not like MS, but their front-line tech people know their stuff inside and out.
No kidding. Comcast.net is ranked #5 in the Top Infected Networks table, and #2 in the Infected US Networks table.
So, let's summarize. If you live in the Philadelphia area, then you're stuck with the monopoly broadband company, and the commensurate extortionate prices, wretched customer service, frequent service interruptions...and now this.
I really loathe Comcast. And you just know there's no way they're going to clean up their act. Why would they? Where's the incentive or threat?
If there's a dramatic decline in people willing to take even introductory comp. sci. courses, where are they going instead, and why? Accounting or business majors, because that's where the money is?
If you have a big drop in the percentage of top people going the computer science or IT route, then they must be a corresponding increase in the people taking other courses. Either a big jump in specific areas, or else it's dispersed across disciplines. The former indicates that there's a specific discipline that is now seen as a hot item. The latter indicates that computer science/IT is now seen as a cold item. So, which is it? And, if the former, is it just our path, or are there other disciplines similarly affected? All the sciences, for example?
Once you know what the real reasons are behind the figures, then maybe you can do something to intelligently address the problem.
We use PowerDVD 5 on our work systems, which we lock down to the nth degree. Our users do have Power User, but they are not permitted to be local administrators.
Of course, the next question is always "What have they produced?" I don't know. Maybe they have produced something, maybe they are getting ready to, who knows?
"New Zealanders are mostly comfortable with their larger neighbor, Australia, although jokes fly in both directions. The late Prime Minister Robert Muldoon once was heckled that he had ruined the economy so badly that most New Zealanders were migrating to Australia. "They are merely raising the average IQ levels in both countries," he shot back."
Right. In the first few months the baby will get you up every couple of hours anyway to tell you he/she needs you. (We were extremely lucky; our daughter started sleeping through the night when she was a month old, but that's way unusual.)
Our daughter is now about to turn one year old, and I can still be standing right over the top of her and have to strain to see if she's moving when she's sound asleep. So you may find the video induces more panic than it relieves, unless you're just worried about her hopping over the side of the crib and escaping when she's three weeks old. We have a baby monitor from Babies 'R' us (audio only) and that's exactly what we needed. If we're at all worried over and above that audible reassurance, then one of us walks into the room to check on her. (This often has the reassuring effect of awaking her, at which point she makes it brutally clear she was quite all right, thank you very much, until some tactless git walked into her room and woke her up.)
The main thing you should probably be worried about is that her parents are not too casual and not too paranoid. Either one is bad. As far as the baby's concerned...go to the SIDS home page and read up, and follow up if you fit any of the high risk categories. Otherwise, enjoy -- it's a blast.
1. Take a wild stab and enter http://www.sids.org into your favorite browser. 2. Look at the sidebar that has a section labeled Reducing the Risk". 3. Read and digest, particularly the bit at the bottom that discusses home monitoring systems (apnea/bradycardia monitors). Consider that there are thousands of experts in the medical and electronic fields who've been working on this exact problem for years.
Seriously, when it comes to a baby, play it safe. If you can think of it and it can be done, there's likely an entire industry that's already designed the tool to do it properly.
Right! Here's something else to consider...in the past, when you had an application people might want to evaluate before they committed time and money to buying the full product, what did you do if it required a database and you were concerned your clients may not have an existing database implementation? Exactly...you included the free MSDE engine so people didn't have to go out and spend money on MS SQL or Oracle for what was only an evaluation. If it worked out well and the customer bought the software, they now had a database which, if MSDE wasn't up to snuff for a full production deployment, could be painlessly migrated to MS SQL. The engine is exactly the same, so no translation is necessary.
This worked out so well, precisely because MSDE was free to redistribute and easy to migrate to MS SQL, that MSDE is now included with thousands of applications. And remember -- if you ever outgrow its limitations, it can be directly moved over to MS SQL.
Coincidentally, MS SQL (which, as everyone is ecstatic to be able to point out, used to be Sybase) continues to gain market share. Sybase (see above) does not.
The big three at the moment in terms of market share are Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft. Oracle is #1 but is slowly losing market share to IBM and MS. Sybase is #4 -- but that #4 translates to 3.6%. And it's static -- they're not gaining any of that market share being lost by Oracle.
But this is addressed by the last three paragraphs of the article.
Of course, all of this could be laughed off if it wasn't for the fact that he actually has a good point. Last week, Red Hat announced that it would no longer support Red Hat Linux 9. Instead, it is directing all users to its Red Hat Enterprise Linux Platform.
And what's the difference between the two? Why, one is free and the other isn't. Guess which is which. Red Hat also announced yesterday that it is producing a desktop version that it will aim directly at enterprise customers - a move that it knows full well puts it directly in the way of Microsoft.
Only time will tell whether Red Hat's growing confidence has caused it to face up to Microsoft too soon, but one thing is for certain - by appearing to cut ties with the open source movement, it has given Microsoft a new and potentially ruinous line of attack.
Interesting...so what's the plan for that other bastion of patents-out-the-wazoo, IBM? You know, the Linux hero in corporate clothing?
See, this is why I barely come to/. any more...pointless and uninteresting articles with scant information (especially from Michael), and futile arguments and knee-jerk paranoid reactions masquerading as discussion.
Well put. I can't believe in the space of 60 seconds you've been modded down from 4 to 2. Oh wait, yes I can -- the truth only hurts when it should, and you're 100% right, and there are simply too many people who don't want to take responsibility for their actions and admit that what they do is wrong.
It's truly amazing what lengths people will go to in order to justify their wrong acts.
Yes, it's war, and microsoft is not above recruiting the enemy's best lieutenants.
Oh grow up. You could just as easily spin this as Linux's best evangelists are mercenaries with no integrity; they can be bought by the enemy.
It's business. RTFA and don't skip the bits about Juniper recruiting from Cisco, EMC recruiting from HP, etc. Guess what -- for all the childish railing against MS, they actually can't force someone to work for them. Can MS throw money at someone? Sure. Can a target of their recruitment strategy say no? Of course.
And, by the way, I'm guessing MS probably didn't ring him up and offer him a job right away. Usually you start by feeling out if someone is interested before you start talking dollars. You can be aggressive in your negotiations, but he could always have just said no right at the beginning. Right? So why isn't this story headlined Traitor defects to the enemy MS camp?
Funnily enough, many, many Pennsylvanians drive across the border on a semi-regular to regular basis to either NJ or Delaware to take advantage of the liquor stores there. PA residents have several disadvantages:
* massive taxes, including an archaic Johnstown flood tax of 18% meant to assist in the rebuilding of a specific fairly small town several decades ago. * state-run liquor control board, which means dreadful selections and surly clerks. Just try ordering something that the local store doesn't carry. Hah, I say, and hah again.
So people regularly cross the border to the afore-mentioned states, to get (i) much better prices; (ii) far superior selection; (iii) helpful and knowledgeable assistants.
But it's illegal. And you think it's heavy handed to find a flyer on your windscreen? PA troopers will coop just inside the state line down the highway or across the bridge from a popular liquor store in DE or NJ. They will stop people coming back, and if you have liquor bought from out-of-state, they can charge you the tax you'd have owed in PA, plus a stiff fine per bottle, and they can seize your vehicle.
By the way, thanks to our insane laws, you can't buy beer at a liquor store or vice-versa. And you can only buy a full case of beer (unless you go to a pub in which case they're allowed to sell six-packs at huge markups).
Don't know (I am not a stock broker), but as I've pointed out frequently in the past, their bottomline has certainly profited from everything going on.
The other thing that attracted me to Farscape was the dry wit and the pure humanity of the hero (John Crichton). He screwed up on several occasions and had to figure his way out of jams. Or maybe something didn't go the way it "should have," and plans were shot. No phasers from space or transporters to get them out of trouble.
Yes, and this (rather o/t, I know) is one of the reasons I dislike Stargate SG-1. (Apart from the fact that Richard Dean Anderson is so annoying; please tell me the military isn't a place where the most sour, anti-authoritarian mavericks rise to that rank.) Have a big problem? No worries; Thor's crowd will fix it. A really big problem and someone dies? Yay, sarcophagus!
Never mind the fact that the vast majority of these problems occur because (i) RDA is so non-politic that he's offended three-quarters of the galaxy who didn't even know we existed a decade ago; or (ii) SG-1 keeps on finding strange things on other planets that they don't understand, and naturally enough decide that bringing said mysterious object back to earth after five minutes of cursory discussion is a wise move.
And if anything is, can't slashdot make a deal with NY times?
Of course not, because God forbid Slashdot should make a deal with someone -- that might involve that nasty money stuff, and we all know (chant it with me now) that information wants to be free. (Glassy-eyed sheep mode off, now.)
Ironically enough, roughly half the people who complain incessantly on Slashdot about registration-required sites have registrations on Slashdot. The difference, I quite realize, is that it's optional on Slashdot. But what are you worried about? Think the NYT is going to sell your information? Make up a silly age and name and use a throwaway Hotmail account. Are you in paranoia mode? Please...I know I trust the NYT with my information far more than, say, Slashdot's Michael.
Slashdot Mirror
Nonsense, unless you're claiming this represents a good response time to release the exploit. The second part of your post is far more pertinent:
When was this first discovered? How many days total did it take for the patch to be released?
Exactly. Now, if the vulnerability was first discovered four days ago, and it therefore took three days for the patch to be released, then I'll agree that's a good response time. Let's rephrase it to make this more glaring: the patch was released just in the nick of time. And the corollary is you can point to any number of exploits for Windows, etc., which didn't come out until months after the patch had been released by Microsoft. Get it?
And mods...please...+4 Insightful for this?
it does suffer from the usual MS problems of over-complication (check out backups and the transaction log issues)
I'll bite -- what is so complicated about backups, and to which transaction log issues are you referring?
If you want to do it by hand, then you have to know a bit of T-SQL, but compared to Oracle this is trivial (and you can do your dumps online!). But even easier is to set up a maintenance plan or two, and let the maintenance plan take care of retention, naming, etc.
T-SQL is nowhere near as good as PLSQL which comes with Postgreqsl
SQL Server 2005.
we work with a client who insists on staying MS only even though their databases are in the range on 20/30 GB.
what happens is that the (very expensive quad processor/SCSI/GB's of RAM) servers are constantly going wrong. they go on go slow's, crash etc. and they have a small team of very expensive MSCE's trying to sort them out - but they never get fixed properly.
Why oh why oh why? This should be trivial. Tell your client to get rid of these MCSEs as they obviously can't cut it, and spend the resultant savings on getting a Microsoft consultant on site for three days. You may not like MS, but their front-line tech people know their stuff inside and out.
That's what the Easton Press is for. Examples:
Shakespeare
Tolkien
Asimov's Robot Series
Science Classics
Churchill's World War I History
Somebody must care, otherwise he wouldn't get paid to write his articles, editorials and columns.
Or be constantly linked to on Slashdot, the readers of which site pride themselves on their geek stature and technical insight.
No kidding. Comcast.net is ranked #5 in the Top Infected Networks table, and #2 in the Infected US Networks table.
So, let's summarize. If you live in the Philadelphia area, then you're stuck with the monopoly broadband company, and the commensurate extortionate prices, wretched customer service, frequent service interruptions...and now this.
I really loathe Comcast. And you just know there's no way they're going to clean up their act. Why would they? Where's the incentive or threat?
If there's a dramatic decline in people willing to take even introductory comp. sci. courses, where are they going instead, and why? Accounting or business majors, because that's where the money is?
If you have a big drop in the percentage of top people going the computer science or IT route, then they must be a corresponding increase in the people taking other courses. Either a big jump in specific areas, or else it's dispersed across disciplines. The former indicates that there's a specific discipline that is now seen as a hot item. The latter indicates that computer science/IT is now seen as a cold item. So, which is it? And, if the former, is it just our path, or are there other disciplines similarly affected? All the sciences, for example?
Once you know what the real reasons are behind the figures, then maybe you can do something to intelligently address the problem.
We use PowerDVD 5 on our work systems, which we lock down to the nth degree. Our users do have Power User, but they are not permitted to be local administrators.
Of course, the next question is always "What have they produced?" I don't know. Maybe they have produced something, maybe they are getting ready to, who knows?
Not that hard...research.microsoft.com, maybe? Here, some more useful information.
For Windows OS and for general products.
In fact, because I'm such a nice guy:
Business Solutions
Consumer/Hardware/Multimedia
Developer Tools
Macintosh Products
Office
Servers
Windows
Windows Embedded
Just look at the recent /. article about employes with terrible spelling.
Beautiful.
Based on a former New Zealand prime minister's comments? From the International Herald Tribune:
"New Zealanders are mostly comfortable with their larger neighbor, Australia, although jokes fly in both directions. The late Prime Minister Robert Muldoon once was heckled that he had ruined the economy so badly that most New Zealanders were migrating to Australia. "They are merely raising the average IQ levels in both countries," he shot back."
Right. In the first few months the baby will get you up every couple of hours anyway to tell you he/she needs you. (We were extremely lucky; our daughter started sleeping through the night when she was a month old, but that's way unusual.)
Our daughter is now about to turn one year old, and I can still be standing right over the top of her and have to strain to see if she's moving when she's sound asleep. So you may find the video induces more panic than it relieves, unless you're just worried about her hopping over the side of the crib and escaping when she's three weeks old. We have a baby monitor from Babies 'R' us (audio only) and that's exactly what we needed. If we're at all worried over and above that audible reassurance, then one of us walks into the room to check on her. (This often has the reassuring effect of awaking her, at which point she makes it brutally clear she was quite all right, thank you very much, until some tactless git walked into her room and woke her up.)
The main thing you should probably be worried about is that her parents are not too casual and not too paranoid. Either one is bad. As far as the baby's concerned...go to the SIDS home page and read up, and follow up if you fit any of the high risk categories. Otherwise, enjoy -- it's a blast.
1. Take a wild stab and enter http://www.sids.org into your favorite browser.
2. Look at the sidebar that has a section labeled Reducing the Risk".
3. Read and digest, particularly the bit at the bottom that discusses home monitoring systems (apnea/bradycardia monitors). Consider that there are thousands of experts in the medical and electronic fields who've been working on this exact problem for years.
Seriously, when it comes to a baby, play it safe. If you can think of it and it can be done, there's likely an entire industry that's already designed the tool to do it properly.
Right! Here's something else to consider...in the past, when you had an application people might want to evaluate before they committed time and money to buying the full product, what did you do if it required a database and you were concerned your clients may not have an existing database implementation? Exactly...you included the free MSDE engine so people didn't have to go out and spend money on MS SQL or Oracle for what was only an evaluation. If it worked out well and the customer bought the software, they now had a database which, if MSDE wasn't up to snuff for a full production deployment, could be painlessly migrated to MS SQL. The engine is exactly the same, so no translation is necessary.
This worked out so well, precisely because MSDE was free to redistribute and easy to migrate to MS SQL, that MSDE is now included with thousands of applications. And remember -- if you ever outgrow its limitations, it can be directly moved over to MS SQL.
Coincidentally, MS SQL (which, as everyone is ecstatic to be able to point out, used to be Sybase) continues to gain market share. Sybase (see above) does not.
The big three at the moment in terms of market share are Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft. Oracle is #1 but is slowly losing market share to IBM and MS. Sybase is #4 -- but that #4 translates to 3.6%. And it's static -- they're not gaining any of that market share being lost by Oracle.
Comcast, for one.
But this is addressed by the last three paragraphs of the article.
Of course, all of this could be laughed off if it wasn't for the fact that he actually has a good point. Last week, Red Hat announced that it would no longer support Red Hat Linux 9. Instead, it is directing all users to its Red Hat Enterprise Linux Platform.
And what's the difference between the two? Why, one is free and the other isn't. Guess which is which. Red Hat also announced yesterday that it is producing a desktop version that it will aim directly at enterprise customers - a move that it knows full well puts it directly in the way of Microsoft.
Only time will tell whether Red Hat's growing confidence has caused it to face up to Microsoft too soon, but one thing is for certain - by appearing to cut ties with the open source movement, it has given Microsoft a new and potentially ruinous line of attack.
Interesting...so what's the plan for that other bastion of patents-out-the-wazoo, IBM? You know, the Linux hero in corporate clothing?
/. any more...pointless and uninteresting articles with scant information (especially from Michael), and futile arguments and knee-jerk paranoid reactions masquerading as discussion.
See, this is why I barely come to
Well put. I can't believe in the space of 60 seconds you've been modded down from 4 to 2. Oh wait, yes I can -- the truth only hurts when it should, and you're 100% right, and there are simply too many people who don't want to take responsibility for their actions and admit that what they do is wrong.
It's truly amazing what lengths people will go to in order to justify their wrong acts.
Yes, it's war, and microsoft is not above recruiting the enemy's best lieutenants.
Oh grow up. You could just as easily spin this as Linux's best evangelists are mercenaries with no integrity; they can be bought by the enemy.
It's business. RTFA and don't skip the bits about Juniper recruiting from Cisco, EMC recruiting from HP, etc. Guess what -- for all the childish railing against MS, they actually can't force someone to work for them. Can MS throw money at someone? Sure. Can a target of their recruitment strategy say no? Of course.
And, by the way, I'm guessing MS probably didn't ring him up and offer him a job right away. Usually you start by feeling out if someone is interested before you start talking dollars. You can be aggressive in your negotiations, but he could always have just said no right at the beginning. Right? So why isn't this story headlined Traitor defects to the enemy MS camp?
Funnily enough, many, many Pennsylvanians drive across the border on a semi-regular to regular basis to either NJ or Delaware to take advantage of the liquor stores there. PA residents have several disadvantages:
* massive taxes, including an archaic Johnstown flood tax of 18% meant to assist in the rebuilding of a specific fairly small town several decades ago.
* state-run liquor control board, which means dreadful selections and surly clerks. Just try ordering something that the local store doesn't carry. Hah, I say, and hah again.
So people regularly cross the border to the afore-mentioned states, to get (i) much better prices; (ii) far superior selection; (iii) helpful and knowledgeable assistants.
But it's illegal. And you think it's heavy handed to find a flyer on your windscreen? PA troopers will coop just inside the state line down the highway or across the bridge from a popular liquor store in DE or NJ. They will stop people coming back, and if you have liquor bought from out-of-state, they can charge you the tax you'd have owed in PA, plus a stiff fine per bottle, and they can seize your vehicle.
By the way, thanks to our insane laws, you can't buy beer at a liquor store or vice-versa. And you can only buy a full case of beer (unless you go to a pub in which case they're allowed to sell six-packs at huge markups).
Don't know (I am not a stock broker), but as I've pointed out frequently in the past, their bottom line has certainly profited from everything going on.
Well said.
The other thing that attracted me to Farscape was the dry wit and the pure humanity of the hero (John Crichton). He screwed up on several occasions and had to figure his way out of jams. Or maybe something didn't go the way it "should have," and plans were shot. No phasers from space or transporters to get them out of trouble.
Yes, and this (rather o/t, I know) is one of the reasons I dislike Stargate SG-1. (Apart from the fact that Richard Dean Anderson is so annoying; please tell me the military isn't a place where the most sour, anti-authoritarian mavericks rise to that rank.) Have a big problem? No worries; Thor's crowd will fix it. A really big problem and someone dies? Yay, sarcophagus!
Never mind the fact that the vast majority of these problems occur because (i) RDA is so non-politic that he's offended three-quarters of the galaxy who didn't even know we existed a decade ago; or (ii) SG-1 keeps on finding strange things on other planets that they don't understand, and naturally enough decide that bringing said mysterious object back to earth after five minutes of cursory discussion is a wise move.
I mean, they really irritate me, you know?
clicky
If, on the other hand, you don't have MS SQL Server on hand, you can go here.
What's against posting this in the main article?
Copyright?
And if anything is, can't slashdot make a deal with NY times?
Of course not, because God forbid Slashdot should make a deal with someone -- that might involve that nasty money stuff, and we all know (chant it with me now) that information wants to be free. (Glassy-eyed sheep mode off, now.)
Ironically enough, roughly half the people who complain incessantly on Slashdot about registration-required sites have registrations on Slashdot. The difference, I quite realize, is that it's optional on Slashdot. But what are you worried about? Think the NYT is going to sell your information? Make up a silly age and name and use a throwaway Hotmail account. Are you in paranoia mode? Please...I know I trust the NYT with my information far more than, say, Slashdot's Michael.