I don't have an iPhone, so I'm not sure if you can do this, but my Blackberry can send SMS's with embedded pictures/videos/sounds. Commonally called MMS. According to wikipedia, its an exension of the SMS standard. I would assume this is where the vulnerabilities lie.
I went to the exhibit last February with a good friend of mine (and fellow Trekkie). While I did find it to be a bit overpriced (I believe the tickets were $50.00 each), it was well worth it. The rides were entertaining, and the memorabilia very cool.
However the best part by far was "Quarks Bar". I had myself more then few Warp Core Breaches (complete with dry ice!). I would avoid the Romulan Ale however, it tastes like Bud Light, with blue food coloring.
I think that outages are actually a blessing in disguise. Especially when it comes to cable TV. Instead of watching the outrageous and completely asinine "entertainment" that is spewed from the major networks (crap like MTV's My Sweet Sixteen comes to mind), you could always, I dont know, read a book.
And when the internet is down, there is always this thing called "outside", where you can enjoy the beauty of these things called "plants" and "animals". Or hell, you could even just go get drunk at your local pub.
Oh, and when it comes to cell phone dead spots, it could be God's way of telling you to stop being that douche bag who is always their cell phone having obnoxiously-loud private conversations in public.
From what I have seen, for 98% of things in XP 512MB is enough on a properly configured system. I'd say for XP that 128mb is "barely adequate."
Apparently you don't run Firefox.
I am running XP and I currently I have 2 applications running (Firefox and Pidgin), and I am using 579MB (of 2GB) of memory. Top offenders: Firefox (53MB with two tabs open) and, Symantec AntiVirus Corporate (67MB). Infact, even explorer.exe is using 51MB of RAM.
If you have less then 512MB, sure it may "run", but you have to be some kind of masochist.
I know its outrageous! A company thats trying to make money for its shareholders! What kind of world do we live in?
But you are right to some extent - its not a good business model to screw your customers by bending over for your competition. But I do not think that's what Novell has done here. Lets all face reality for one second - we live in a Windows world, and Novell knows this. Their server products have always been reliant upon a Windows environment. For example their NDS/eDirectory requires the use of Novell Client on Windows workstations. Same thing with their main Desktop Management platform "ZenWorks Desktop Management", the client piece runs only on Windows.
I honestly believe that this deal will by be good for Novell and Linux in general. I always say - the right operating system for the job, and that means that interoperability is the key. Would world were Linux only worked with Linux be any better then a Windows only working with Windows?
Actually, I have a partial answer to this question. As a sysadmin for a Novell GroupWise email system, I can tell you that the actually message data for duplicate incoming messages (such as spam that is sent to many people at the same time) are only stored on disk once. Some sort of "pointer" is used to reference the messages to the individual users mailboxe's. Check out the docs if you are interested.
That said with about 1400 users (spread across multiple postoffices), we have probably about 400gb of email data. We are able to keep it low, by having a 120 day retention policy. After that point, email can be archived locally, otherwise its deleted. Independant of that, and to comply with regulations and disaster recovery scenarios, email data is backed up and replicated offsite using disk-to-disk backup (eVault in case anyone is interested).
This gives us the ability to archive email for up to 27 years or something like that (with relatively low storage costs because the disk-to-disk is incremental, storing changes at the per-block level).
As for Microsoft Exchange, I have not the slightest clue how data is stored.
I have to say thats I find it quite strange that the iPhone does not have a GPS receiver. I own a Blackberry 8830 (which is awesome in case anyone is interested), that has a GPS receiver in it. Combined with the built in "Maps" application that supports finding directions, its pretty decent for those long road-trips.
One feature that I really love (although it's an extra $4.99/month or something), is the OnDemand 411. You can search for "pizza" and it determine where you are, and list all the pizza places nearby. Although if you didn't feel like coughing up the extra $4.99 for that service, you can download Google Maps for free, and to basically the same thing.
Now of course, the Blackberry 8830 isn't as "cool" as the iPhone (which I have to admit, is very well designed).
Oh! One more thing that I love about the BB, is since the company I work for has an a BlackBerry Enterprise Server, the BlackBerry "sits" inside the firewall. Thus I am able to access the company intranet, and even SSH (using the 3rd party app - MidpSSH) to my machine. There is nothing like doing an emerge --world while waiting for a movie to start, at the theater.;-)
Also, would you want to be the captain of a ship carrying several hundred of those? If that ship sinks, then you're in deep trouble. Pun intended. Having hundreds of mobile datacenters on the sea floor isn't going to do you much good, now is it?
At $100/barrel, a supertanker with 2 million barrels of oil, is probably worth a lot more then a bunch of computers. Especially if you wreck the thing and it costs you another $100m to clean up.
You hit the nail on the head with this one. No IT manager wants the hammer to fall on them when the shit-hits-the-fan and they have to explain to senior management that a mission critical application went down because the free (as in beer) operating system they were running offered no support. The cost of a RHEL license ($1200) is nominal when you look at the cost of downtime of a major application running in a large business. Not only in terms of revenue, but time spent by IT staff to correct the problem. Having someone to call (in this case RedHat) and say "Fix it", is just good business.
On somewhat related note...
I have to ask, who writes these articles? They really have no bloody clue what they are talking about. I swear I am going to find the dude who invented the "blog" and kick him in the nuts. It has resulted in nothing but an endless crapshoot of self-rightious wankers who get off listening to themselves spew garbage on topics which they have not the slightest clue. To make matters worse, there seems to be a plague of mass-stupidity running ramped through the internet where people actually read this shit, and even worse, submit it to Slashdot. Oh how I long for the days where there were these people called "journalists" who did "research" and wrote about "news". Somehow we've ended up somewhere where any old retard can become a "blogger" and pollute our news sites and RSS feeds with their diarrhea-of-the-mouth.
I am not sure if this is funny or just sad. But in one of those pics, there appeared to be an HP N2000 PA-RISC system. I only know this because up until about January, my company ran their ERP system off one one.
I have to agree with you on this point. I work in IT, although not as a network security person. However, I do know that our corporate firewall's default policy is to block all traffic (incoming and outgoing). Anything to pass to or from the internet, must have an explicit rule created. For us, this pretty much axes P2P because P2P programs tend to use ports that have not been opened. That means that for the people in this survey to use P2P they must be behind a firewall who's default policy is to accept traffic (which is retarded), or b) those ports have been opened by someone. I also suppose they could be using some sort VPN tunnel. But that seems like a stretch.
Regardless, if someone is using P2P on your network and you don't want them to. You're an idiot.
US employment law is completely different to that in the UK. In particular, IIRC most US states are still "at will" states, where either party may terminate an employment contract without notice, and for any reason not explicitly prohibited (e.g., by anti-discrimination legislation).
You seemed to have missed the point somewhat. They are asking him to commit a crime. An employer can not ask you to do that, and fire you when you refuse. If they did, you would have the option of going to court and suing for wrongful termination, but its probably not worth the effort. So you are right in some respects, but you still have legal recourse in this situation.
If I were the poster, I would just do it, and stash away the relevent communications directing me to do so. Then I would begin looking for a new job where management is not a bunch of cheap bastards. If shit hits the fan, and they try to blame me, at least I documentation, and better yet, a new job.
I've been both a Linux user, and a reader of Slashdot for many years now. While reading this story, I thought of the countless comments I have read over the years, with Linux zealots pontificating that what Linux really needed was for a major PC manufacture to sell pre-installed Linux machines to the masses.
I guess that day has arrived, and it blows my mind. If you really think about what has been accomplished by the countless thousands of hackers around the world, it's astonising. To create from scratch a free operating system, that is ready to compete for the holy-of-holies: the desktop market.
So this post serves as a shout out to every hacker that has ever contributed a line of code to bring Linux to where it is. Today, I bet the good ol' boys up in Redmond are nervous, or at the very least, had to dodge a few chairs.
If the university is offering high-speed Internet access for free to students, then restricting it to ensure it's properly available for academic use is one thing. If they're actually charging for it at a market rate, then restricting it is completely out of line.
If I recall correctly I remember that a fee of $175 was added to my tuition bill for "Network Access". Over and 8 month period thats about $21/month. I don't know where I can get a 100mb connection for $21/month.
If the students start doing illegal stuff with it, sure, kick 'em off if it's causing problems, but don't block stuff by default even for those who are using those technologies for constructive purposes when those people are paying for the privilege.
Save the handful of Linux geeks who use P2P to download legit torrents, nobody uses P2P for academic purposes. I am sure that if you had a legit purpose to use a P2P service, and there was no other way to get the information, the school would have no problem creating an exception. However the likelihood of that is extremely small.
Furthermore, from an administrative point, a large university would have to devote lots of resources (e.g people) to policing network usage if they wanted to enforce proper network usage, and maintain an open network. Its simply not practical, or cost effective.
At the university I attended, P2P file sharing was blocked using Packeteer. Which essentially scanned every packet to/from the Internet and cross referenced them with a list known P2P protocol packets. It was highly effective. That was until some enterprising students set up SSL tunnels to remote machines.
The reason that the university cited for blocking P2P was of course bandwidth utilization, but as I remember there was an issue where the University holds some liability for students who violate copyright laws by downloading pirated content. However I am not familiar with the laws regarding this.
Overall, P2P file sharing was tolerated on the internal network as long as it wasn't obvious. Meaning that anonymous FTP servers with 100GB of movies would attract attention. However setting up and FTP server with a password that was given out to friends went by unnoticed.
Right now, I don't have any way to get a legal copy of the CD I want to buy. Thank god I already have the entire run of "The Golden Girls" on DVD, or I would have to wait until the next century for my masturbation material. I really wish there was a -1, Disturbing mod.
You're absolutly right, I don't need an AK-47. But what right does the government have to tell me I can't buy one and carry it around on my own property? It's not that regulation of automatic weapons is bad, its that its a steep and slipperly slope. One that I am not willing to go down.
I live in New Hampshire who's state motto is "Live Free, or Die". And pretty much sums up how I feel about gun control. I would rather get gunned down in strip mall by some nut, then have to governtment tell me what I can and can't do.
This is a new millenium and 2D is not gone, but it is dying fast. Somehow they, Autodesk, missed the point that we live and think in a 3D world.
I don't use AutoCAD (the product) so I really cant say if it missed the 3D thing for CAD applications, but I can say that AutoDesk (the company) is not going anywhere. Ever heard of Maya or 3Ds-Max? Those are industry standard 3D modeling programs. I guess if they were smart, they would of taken some of technology from their 3d-modeling programs and ported it into their CAD products. Oh well.
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Do you know what captical gains tax on $2.75 billion is? These guys may not pay income tax on their salary, but the government will get its share.
I don't have an iPhone, so I'm not sure if you can do this, but my Blackberry can send SMS's with embedded pictures/videos/sounds. Commonally called MMS. According to wikipedia, its an exension of the SMS standard. I would assume this is where the vulnerabilities lie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_Messaging_Service
I went to the exhibit last February with a good friend of mine (and fellow Trekkie). While I did find it to be a bit overpriced (I believe the tickets were $50.00 each), it was well worth it. The rides were entertaining, and the memorabilia very cool. However the best part by far was "Quarks Bar". I had myself more then few Warp Core Breaches (complete with dry ice!). I would avoid the Romulan Ale however, it tastes like Bud Light, with blue food coloring.
I think that outages are actually a blessing in disguise. Especially when it comes to cable TV. Instead of watching the outrageous and completely asinine "entertainment" that is spewed from the major networks (crap like MTV's My Sweet Sixteen comes to mind), you could always, I dont know, read a book.
And when the internet is down, there is always this thing called "outside", where you can enjoy the beauty of these things called "plants" and "animals". Or hell, you could even just go get drunk at your local pub.
Oh, and when it comes to cell phone dead spots, it could be God's way of telling you to stop being that douche bag who is always their cell phone having obnoxiously-loud private conversations in public.
Apparently you don't run Firefox.
I am running XP and I currently I have 2 applications running (Firefox and Pidgin), and I am using 579MB (of 2GB) of memory. Top offenders: Firefox (53MB with two tabs open) and, Symantec AntiVirus Corporate (67MB). Infact, even explorer.exe is using 51MB of RAM.
If you have less then 512MB, sure it may "run", but you have to be some kind of masochist.
I know its outrageous! A company thats trying to make money for its shareholders! What kind of world do we live in?
But you are right to some extent - its not a good business model to screw your customers by bending over for your competition. But I do not think that's what Novell has done here. Lets all face reality for one second - we live in a Windows world, and Novell knows this. Their server products have always been reliant upon a Windows environment. For example their NDS/eDirectory requires the use of Novell Client on Windows workstations. Same thing with their main Desktop Management platform "ZenWorks Desktop Management", the client piece runs only on Windows.
I honestly believe that this deal will by be good for Novell and Linux in general. I always say - the right operating system for the job, and that means that interoperability is the key. Would world were Linux only worked with Linux be any better then a Windows only working with Windows?
Actually, I have a partial answer to this question. As a sysadmin for a Novell GroupWise email system, I can tell you that the actually message data for duplicate incoming messages (such as spam that is sent to many people at the same time) are only stored on disk once. Some sort of "pointer" is used to reference the messages to the individual users mailboxe's. Check out the docs if you are interested.
That said with about 1400 users (spread across multiple postoffices), we have probably about 400gb of email data. We are able to keep it low, by having a 120 day retention policy. After that point, email can be archived locally, otherwise its deleted. Independant of that, and to comply with regulations and disaster recovery scenarios, email data is backed up and replicated offsite using disk-to-disk backup (eVault in case anyone is interested).
This gives us the ability to archive email for up to 27 years or something like that (with relatively low storage costs because the disk-to-disk is incremental, storing changes at the per-block level).As for Microsoft Exchange, I have not the slightest clue how data is stored.
The GPS navigation service does not cost anything extra (from Sprint at least). The only that that costs extra is the OnDemand 411 directory service.
I have to say thats I find it quite strange that the iPhone does not have a GPS receiver. I own a Blackberry 8830 (which is awesome in case anyone is interested), that has a GPS receiver in it. Combined with the built in "Maps" application that supports finding directions, its pretty decent for those long road-trips.
One feature that I really love (although it's an extra $4.99/month or something), is the OnDemand 411. You can search for "pizza" and it determine where you are, and list all the pizza places nearby. Although if you didn't feel like coughing up the extra $4.99 for that service, you can download Google Maps for free, and to basically the same thing.
Now of course, the Blackberry 8830 isn't as "cool" as the iPhone (which I have to admit, is very well designed).
Oh! One more thing that I love about the BB, is since the company I work for has an a BlackBerry Enterprise Server, the BlackBerry "sits" inside the firewall. Thus I am able to access the company intranet, and even SSH (using the 3rd party app - MidpSSH) to my machine. There is nothing like doing an emerge --world while waiting for a movie to start, at the theater. ;-)
Dear LordSkippy,
You're fired.
Kindest Regards,
Your Boss
P.S. Please learn the difference between a server and a workstation before applying for a job in the IT department.
At $100/barrel, a supertanker with 2 million barrels of oil, is probably worth a lot more then a bunch of computers. Especially if you wreck the thing and it costs you another $100m to clean up.
You hit the nail on the head with this one. No IT manager wants the hammer to fall on them when the shit-hits-the-fan and they have to explain to senior management that a mission critical application went down because the free (as in beer) operating system they were running offered no support. The cost of a RHEL license ($1200) is nominal when you look at the cost of downtime of a major application running in a large business. Not only in terms of revenue, but time spent by IT staff to correct the problem. Having someone to call (in this case RedHat) and say "Fix it", is just good business.
On somewhat related note...
I have to ask, who writes these articles? They really have no bloody clue what they are talking about. I swear I am going to find the dude who invented the "blog" and kick him in the nuts. It has resulted in nothing but an endless crapshoot of self-rightious wankers who get off listening to themselves spew garbage on topics which they have not the slightest clue. To make matters worse, there seems to be a plague of mass-stupidity running ramped through the internet where people actually read this shit, and even worse, submit it to Slashdot. Oh how I long for the days where there were these people called "journalists" who did "research" and wrote about "news". Somehow we've ended up somewhere where any old retard can become a "blogger" and pollute our news sites and RSS feeds with their diarrhea-of-the-mouth.
I am not sure if this is funny or just sad. But in one of those pics, there appeared to be an HP N2000 PA-RISC system. I only know this because up until about January, my company ran their ERP system off one one.
I have to agree with you on this point. I work in IT, although not as a network security person. However, I do know that our corporate firewall's default policy is to block all traffic (incoming and outgoing). Anything to pass to or from the internet, must have an explicit rule created. For us, this pretty much axes P2P because P2P programs tend to use ports that have not been opened. That means that for the people in this survey to use P2P they must be behind a firewall who's default policy is to accept traffic (which is retarded), or b) those ports have been opened by someone. I also suppose they could be using some sort VPN tunnel. But that seems like a stretch.
Regardless, if someone is using P2P on your network and you don't want them to. You're an idiot.
I agree. But lets get some pics up! I'm sure everyone here would enjoy a few pictures filled with racks of servers and blinking lights.
On a serious note, are you currently running in a SAN environment? If so, what vendor?
You seemed to have missed the point somewhat. They are asking him to commit a crime. An employer can not ask you to do that, and fire you when you refuse. If they did, you would have the option of going to court and suing for wrongful termination, but its probably not worth the effort. So you are right in some respects, but you still have legal recourse in this situation.
If I were the poster, I would just do it, and stash away the relevent communications directing me to do so. Then I would begin looking for a new job where management is not a bunch of cheap bastards. If shit hits the fan, and they try to blame me, at least I documentation, and better yet, a new job.
I've been both a Linux user, and a reader of Slashdot for many years now. While reading this story, I thought of the countless comments I have read over the years, with Linux zealots pontificating that what Linux really needed was for a major PC manufacture to sell pre-installed Linux machines to the masses.
I guess that day has arrived, and it blows my mind. If you really think about what has been accomplished by the countless thousands of hackers around the world, it's astonising. To create from scratch a free operating system, that is ready to compete for the holy-of-holies: the desktop market.
So this post serves as a shout out to every hacker that has ever contributed a line of code to bring Linux to where it is. Today, I bet the good ol' boys up in Redmond are nervous, or at the very least, had to dodge a few chairs.
If I recall correctly I remember that a fee of $175 was added to my tuition bill for "Network Access". Over and 8 month period thats about $21/month. I don't know where I can get a 100mb connection for $21/month.
If the students start doing illegal stuff with it, sure, kick 'em off if it's causing problems, but don't block stuff by default even for those who are using those technologies for constructive purposes when those people are paying for the privilege.
Save the handful of Linux geeks who use P2P to download legit torrents, nobody uses P2P for academic purposes. I am sure that if you had a legit purpose to use a P2P service, and there was no other way to get the information, the school would have no problem creating an exception. However the likelihood of that is extremely small.
Furthermore, from an administrative point, a large university would have to devote lots of resources (e.g people) to policing network usage if they wanted to enforce proper network usage, and maintain an open network. Its simply not practical, or cost effective.
At the university I attended, P2P file sharing was blocked using Packeteer. Which essentially scanned every packet to/from the Internet and cross referenced them with a list known P2P protocol packets. It was highly effective. That was until some enterprising students set up SSL tunnels to remote machines. The reason that the university cited for blocking P2P was of course bandwidth utilization, but as I remember there was an issue where the University holds some liability for students who violate copyright laws by downloading pirated content. However I am not familiar with the laws regarding this. Overall, P2P file sharing was tolerated on the internal network as long as it wasn't obvious. Meaning that anonymous FTP servers with 100GB of movies would attract attention. However setting up and FTP server with a password that was given out to friends went by unnoticed.
You're absolutly right, I don't need an AK-47. But what right does the government have to tell me I can't buy one and carry it around on my own property? It's not that regulation of automatic weapons is bad, its that its a steep and slipperly slope. One that I am not willing to go down.
I live in New Hampshire who's state motto is "Live Free, or Die". And pretty much sums up how I feel about gun control. I would rather get gunned down in strip mall by some nut, then have to governtment tell me what I can and can't do.
Let's do these folks on the school board a favor and let them know they're idiots by listening to this crack pot.
From FWPS Board of Education Website.This is slashdot, and still we aren't really sure how HDCP works. I fear the worst for Joe Blow consumer.
... who thinks that building is ugly as hell?