MS is a company made up of lots and lots of divisions that all do their own thing. So the Live group was able to figure out the trojan and put in a simple script to delete the executable before the OS group could re-engineer a chunk of IE. Big deal, sounds pretty normal to me. I think you're trying to invent a conspiracy. It's not like all however many thousands of MS employees all work on all of the same things at the same time, which you seem to imply.
You do realize that at the link provided they try to prove that an ancient civilization "destroyed itself in a nuclear holocaust" by linking to an article that untimately explains the nuclear event as a supernova bombardment, right?
Ah, why am I even bothering. *sigh* Some people will believe anything.
Some of it also depends on how critical the backups are. Our user's data is important, but anything that's really, really important should be on the RAID array of the file server which is backed up two separate ways. Files on the PCs are ok if we can only get them from last week, but that will only happen if our backup drive failed at the same time and we didn't swap in a spare and do an immediate full backup fast enough.
For that reason we're not blowing a lot of needless money on things we don't need. We are moving from a tape only backup system on really slow, low capacity DDS3 & DDS4 tapes to a rotating set of 400Gig external USB drives plus archiving to DDS4 tape for 3 months of offsite storage. Each week we'll back up to one USB drive while the other gets dumped to tape then swap them (logically, not physically) for the next week.
IDE/USB is cheap, a lot cheaper that SATA and firewire, and plenty fast enough for our needs, plus external enclosures keep the drives cool to improve their life. If we lose a drive, at most we've lost a week of backups, which is acceptable given we've had to restore data from backup all of one time in over a year. Right now the tape full backups start Friday at 5:30pm and run until about 3pm on Monday. Yes, around 72 hours, ouch. Did I mention tape drives are slow? The new system should manage it in just a few hours and we can take our time all week swapping tapes to archive the previous week's data. The next step is to see about replacing Veritas with a solution that doesn't require us to hand over bags of cash on a yearly basis.
Now that a few posts have better describe what you are asking for (a documentation library), can't you just use a wiki? Does this magical ITIL acronym require something more complex to match it's buzzword nature?
They do seem to go out of there way to make good deals for bulk purchasers and those that use the enterprise grade products. For example in my place of employment Office is $53, 2003 Enterprise server is $338, etc. Basically 10 times lower than retail. In fact the licensing people bend over backwards to make deals and often seem to talk about other divisions of Microsoft as if they were mysterious separate companies, which perhaps they almost are.
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Um, I don't think any of that is correct. Towers have GPS receivers to get accurate time signals, but they can transmit this to the phone, so the phone doesn't need a receiver of its own.
No, it just means that I believed a news story (admittedly this could be considered a fault) and as usual the news agency in question didn't do enough to correct their error. Given that the article you link to specifically cites there was widespread misinformation about this incident, your last comment about acting superior is a little snide don't you think?
You were the one that complained about the military doing its job, and then tried to claim some kind of an unemployment correlation. I just brought some reality into the matter. Are you honestly naive enough to think that if we stopped trying to defend ourselves that no one would take advantage of that? If so you need to study up on history, or even current events.
Furthermore, it is NOT the government's job to invent employment as some kind of cure for depression. There's always a lot of noise on here about surveillance and the Patriot Act and whatever the conspiracy theory of the day is, but the TRUE 1984 is going to come by means of social programs designed to "protect society from itself" just like you suggest. Why do you think most of the people effected in New Orleans where black? They were put there by a well meaning social program that did nothing more than segregate the population and put them into a high flood risk area that few had the means to escape or ensure against. The higher level the government, the more it needs to get out of the social wellfare business.
Oh come on. Just don't run through the station vaulting over turn-styles a few days after several bomb attacks and I think you'll be ok. More sensationalism.
If you read the article, you'd know that the Russians have already launched similar satellites and that our communications have been jammed in the past (it didn't say who did the jamming).
Do you know exactly how many people work for the government, the military and the huge industrial base that supports them? I'm guessing you don't from your comment. Plus, your facts are just plain wrong. You must be watching too much CNN.
I would guess you don't get it because either you can't read, or you choose not to read:
"Gen. Lord dismissed assertions by critics that the Air Force's plans to use small spacecraft for maintenance could include using the craft as anti-satellite ramming devices."
"Instead, offensive anti-satellite weapons currently are limited to "countercommunications" operations -- interrupting the signals sent from the ground to satellites that try to disrupt U.S. military or civilian spacecraft, Gen. Lord said."
You realize, don't you, that if you stored everything on your ceiling that you'd basically just have a lower ceiling, right? Ceiling heights are where they are for a reason (claustrophobia, lighting, ceiling fans, etc). Plus, I imagine because of this suggestion that you don't live where their are earthquakes...
Heck, anyone that's done anything in the document imaging field has known about this kind of thing for years. OCR software and forms processing applications have always had the ability to pick out and highlight whatever important information you wanted to extract or emphasize.
You may not want them, but I LOVE to read novels in eBook format. The thing that really angers me is that I have to pay TWICE if I want to get the eBook and the hard copy. As far as I'm concerned, I should get the right to read the eBook when I purchase the hard copy. As of yet, I'm still unhappy about buying an intangible book that I'm unable to put on the shelf in a format that I know will still be usable for most of my remaining lifespan.
This man actually QUIT HIS JOB so that he could spend more time gaming. Perhaps some better health management could be desired, but the man was the epitome of a GAMER.
OR.... not. Somebody's story is wrong, because this one, which seems to be a Korean news source, says:
Since being fired early last month over his frequent absences due to his game addiction, Lee had been coming to the PC café every day to play
He was a slacker. He actually died of slacking off too much.
*sigh* Let's see if we can make this simple enough to understand... They can't force you to do anything. Are we good with it that far? They can, however, fire you for not following their rules. Is that clear enough? It's how things work in the real world. The company REQUIRES you to follow their rules. You have the freedom to quit or potentially get fired if you do not follow them. It's your choice.
Security firm Guardsmark instituted a rule directing employees not to "fraternize on duty or off duty, date, or become overly friendly with the client's employees or with co-employees."
What exactly is wrong with that? It's a security firm. Security firms usually take steps to increase security, like preventing co-workers from hatching schemes with each other, preventing breaches by restricting when they can interact with clients, etc. This is a common sense policy, like not allowing relationships in the military that hinder the chain of command.
As a certified firefighter and geek, I can tell you that we certainly do not "use recovery equipment to remove refrigerants from cooling systems" when we arrive at an incident. Instead we are a little busy cutting people out of cars, extinguishing car fires, extinguishing house fires and the like. There are plenty of opportunities for this stuff to leak into the environment and if we do not have to use it, so much the better. BTW, does burning it turn it into a worse chemical?
If you care about this paperwork at all, have it photographed to 16mm or 35mm roll film. Some companies will generate digital version as they create the film, or you can pay someone to scan the film afterwords. Film is the only reliable long term storage media that allows you to reduce storage space requirements. It also does not suffer from "tech rot" as all you need is a light and a lens to view it. From there you can build your digital collection safe in the knowledge that if you keep your film in a fireproof, waterproof box it will outlive you.
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MS is a company made up of lots and lots of divisions that all do their own thing. So the Live group was able to figure out the trojan and put in a simple script to delete the executable before the OS group could re-engineer a chunk of IE. Big deal, sounds pretty normal to me. I think you're trying to invent a conspiracy. It's not like all however many thousands of MS employees all work on all of the same things at the same time, which you seem to imply.
When can I get it in a spray can?
You do realize that at the link provided they try to prove that an ancient civilization "destroyed itself in a nuclear holocaust" by linking to an article that untimately explains the nuclear event as a supernova bombardment, right?
Ah, why am I even bothering. *sigh* Some people will believe anything.
"Most notably naming a controversy has ensued with Christopher Lydon's public radio show"
Wouldn't one normally phrase that as: "Most notably a naming controversy has ensued with Christopher Lydon's public radio show"?
Some of it also depends on how critical the backups are. Our user's data is important, but anything that's really, really important should be on the RAID array of the file server which is backed up two separate ways. Files on the PCs are ok if we can only get them from last week, but that will only happen if our backup drive failed at the same time and we didn't swap in a spare and do an immediate full backup fast enough.
For that reason we're not blowing a lot of needless money on things we don't need. We are moving from a tape only backup system on really slow, low capacity DDS3 & DDS4 tapes to a rotating set of 400Gig external USB drives plus archiving to DDS4 tape for 3 months of offsite storage. Each week we'll back up to one USB drive while the other gets dumped to tape then swap them (logically, not physically) for the next week.
IDE/USB is cheap, a lot cheaper that SATA and firewire, and plenty fast enough for our needs, plus external enclosures keep the drives cool to improve their life. If we lose a drive, at most we've lost a week of backups, which is acceptable given we've had to restore data from backup all of one time in over a year. Right now the tape full backups start Friday at 5:30pm and run until about 3pm on Monday. Yes, around 72 hours, ouch. Did I mention tape drives are slow? The new system should manage it in just a few hours and we can take our time all week swapping tapes to archive the previous week's data. The next step is to see about replacing Veritas with a solution that doesn't require us to hand over bags of cash on a yearly basis.
Now that a few posts have better describe what you are asking for (a documentation library), can't you just use a wiki? Does this magical ITIL acronym require something more complex to match it's buzzword nature?
They do seem to go out of there way to make good deals for bulk purchasers and those that use the enterprise grade products. For example in my place of employment Office is $53, 2003 Enterprise server is $338, etc. Basically 10 times lower than retail. In fact the licensing people bend over backwards to make deals and often seem to talk about other divisions of Microsoft as if they were mysterious separate companies, which perhaps they almost are.
Um, I don't think any of that is correct. Towers have GPS receivers to get accurate time signals, but they can transmit this to the phone, so the phone doesn't need a receiver of its own.
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No, it just means that I believed a news story (admittedly this could be considered a fault) and as usual the news agency in question didn't do enough to correct their error. Given that the article you link to specifically cites there was widespread misinformation about this incident, your last comment about acting superior is a little snide don't you think?
gah, stupid brain. where->were, ensure->insure
You were the one that complained about the military doing its job, and then tried to claim some kind of an unemployment correlation. I just brought some reality into the matter. Are you honestly naive enough to think that if we stopped trying to defend ourselves that no one would take advantage of that? If so you need to study up on history, or even current events.
Furthermore, it is NOT the government's job to invent employment as some kind of cure for depression. There's always a lot of noise on here about surveillance and the Patriot Act and whatever the conspiracy theory of the day is, but the TRUE 1984 is going to come by means of social programs designed to "protect society from itself" just like you suggest. Why do you think most of the people effected in New Orleans where black? They were put there by a well meaning social program that did nothing more than segregate the population and put them into a high flood risk area that few had the means to escape or ensure against. The higher level the government, the more it needs to get out of the social wellfare business.
Oh come on. Just don't run through the station vaulting over turn-styles a few days after several bomb attacks and I think you'll be ok. More sensationalism.
If you read the article, you'd know that the Russians have already launched similar satellites and that our communications have been jammed in the past (it didn't say who did the jamming).
Do you know exactly how many people work for the government, the military and the huge industrial base that supports them? I'm guessing you don't from your comment. Plus, your facts are just plain wrong. You must be watching too much CNN.
I would guess you don't get it because either you can't read, or you choose not to read:
"Gen. Lord dismissed assertions by critics that the Air Force's plans to use small spacecraft for maintenance could include using the craft as anti-satellite ramming devices."
"Instead, offensive anti-satellite weapons currently are limited to "countercommunications" operations -- interrupting the signals sent from the ground to satellites that try to disrupt U.S. military or civilian spacecraft, Gen. Lord said."
You realize, don't you, that if you stored everything on your ceiling that you'd basically just have a lower ceiling, right? Ceiling heights are where they are for a reason (claustrophobia, lighting, ceiling fans, etc). Plus, I imagine because of this suggestion that you don't live where their are earthquakes...
Heck, anyone that's done anything in the document imaging field has known about this kind of thing for years. OCR software and forms processing applications have always had the ability to pick out and highlight whatever important information you wanted to extract or emphasize.
You may not want them, but I LOVE to read novels in eBook format. The thing that really angers me is that I have to pay TWICE if I want to get the eBook and the hard copy. As far as I'm concerned, I should get the right to read the eBook when I purchase the hard copy. As of yet, I'm still unhappy about buying an intangible book that I'm unable to put on the shelf in a format that I know will still be usable for most of my remaining lifespan.
This man actually QUIT HIS JOB so that he could spend more time gaming. Perhaps some better health management could be desired, but the man was the epitome of a GAMER.
OR.... not. Somebody's story is wrong, because this one, which seems to be a Korean news source, says:
Since being fired early last month over his frequent absences due to his game addiction, Lee had been coming to the PC café every day to play
He was a slacker. He actually died of slacking off too much.
*sigh* Let's see if we can make this simple enough to understand... They can't force you to do anything. Are we good with it that far? They can, however, fire you for not following their rules. Is that clear enough? It's how things work in the real world. The company REQUIRES you to follow their rules. You have the freedom to quit or potentially get fired if you do not follow them. It's your choice.
Security firm Guardsmark instituted a rule directing employees not to "fraternize on duty or off duty, date, or become overly friendly with the client's employees or with co-employees."
What exactly is wrong with that? It's a security firm. Security firms usually take steps to increase security, like preventing co-workers from hatching schemes with each other, preventing breaches by restricting when they can interact with clients, etc. This is a common sense policy, like not allowing relationships in the military that hinder the chain of command.
Let's see how I can put this delicately...
That's the biggest load of horse shit I've read in a while. I wish he had mentioned Art Bell at the beginning so I could have avoided wasting my time.
As a certified firefighter and geek, I can tell you that we certainly do not "use recovery equipment to remove refrigerants from cooling systems" when we arrive at an incident. Instead we are a little busy cutting people out of cars, extinguishing car fires, extinguishing house fires and the like. There are plenty of opportunities for this stuff to leak into the environment and if we do not have to use it, so much the better. BTW, does burning it turn it into a worse chemical?
Um, the last time you read some news site other than slashdot perhaps?
If you care about this paperwork at all, have it photographed to 16mm or 35mm roll film. Some companies will generate digital version as they create the film, or you can pay someone to scan the film afterwords. Film is the only reliable long term storage media that allows you to reduce storage space requirements. It also does not suffer from "tech rot" as all you need is a light and a lens to view it. From there you can build your digital collection safe in the knowledge that if you keep your film in a fireproof, waterproof box it will outlive you.