If you RTFA, it seems to have been a design decision, rather than a bug per se. Just because something isn't present in an application, it doesn't necessarily mean it's a bug.
IIRC, software design for the space shuttle is somewhat detailed, so I don't think something like the date functionality is anything but a deliberate design decision.
Actually, it's a bit more serious than that. The bank http://www.rbnz.govt.nz/ who's phone system he compromised is an approximate functional equivilant of the US Federal Reserve http://www.federalreserve.gov/ (but quite a bit smaller).
He's very lucky he did it in NZ where it appears that the courts consider him stupid rather than malicious. In other countries he might get charged with terrorism related offenses or worse.
They talk about VMWare, Intel/AMD, the future Solaris on E10000, other things... but where is IBM?
Since IBM practically invented virtualisation in the '60's for their mainframes (or possibly earlier (I'm not quite that old), I was quite surprised to see it missing from the Infoworld articles too.
IIRC, VMWare modelled their solution on IBM's implementation. They may have also licensed some of the technology to do it.
Since MS gives Virtual Machine away to big Co.'s I am forced to use this horrible product at work. Once again MS finds a market, makes a far inferior product, then jams it down your throat by giving it away to their big customers.
So does VMWare - with VMWare Server. Although it's currently a Release Candidate version, and not yet available as "Production Ready" it seems to be fairly much identical to VMWare GSX Server, minus some of the management tools. Even with the missing tools, it appears to be better than the MS Virtual Server 2005 in terms of performance, manageability and stability. VMWare have also stated that once released, it will continue to be "free".
Once you are ready to upgrade to ESX server (which scales magnificently better than MS VS 5 or other VMWare products), there is a painless migration path.
I can't think of any good reason to do that. All the important data should be on the server. If the user wants to save a picture on the local disk to use as a background or something that's one thing (although I wouldn't allow that myself) but nothing important should be on those disks.
Parent is correct - to an extent. There is still probably a requirement to bring a failed desktop up and running quickly if there is a problem that requires a desktop restoration.
If centrally storing data is the way to take care of user data that's all fine and good, but there is still the requirement to restore the desktop environment quickly - and while a central backup solution might be one way to achieve this, it's probably not the best way.
Having a desktop re-imaging solution can enable an end-user (perhaps with a little help from your helpdesk (you do have a helpdesk right?)) to restore a desktop using something like a PXE enabled NIC to boot to either a RIS based imaging system (if you like Microsoft tech) or Linux + scripts to download and install a replacement image. While I'm not sure how well your Mac environment would work with a Linux solution (it won't work with RIS), it could at least take care of your Intel desktops.
As an aside, "enterprise" backup solutions require proper planning, both to design, implement, maintain and operate. Depending on your industry and location, you may be legally required to restore data going back decades, and if not well planned, you may have tapes that cannot be read, either because you've lost the means to restore (the tape drive or software required to restore a particular tape is no longer available) or the tape itself may not survive. Make sure that you have a mechanism to ensure that backed up data is still able to be restored. Some organisations transfer data from their legacy backup solution to their new one prior to each time their then legacy solution is replaced.
And build a datacenter and run some atm lines to them for nightly backups.
And add a WAFS appliances to the remote sites requiring a backup service. This gets you the ability to backup local data to your data center, and with the right software can ensure that you get single instance storage of any file stored within the backup system, and only send changes across the wire. This can also provide the ability to restore from bare metal if required.
Restore jobs can be performed remotely by someone from IT, or in the event of a simple file restore (maybe someone accidentally deleted a file fom their laptop/workstation) can be performed be the end-users.
Since you claim to require biometric thumb drives for a financial insitution, I'm reasonably sure that there are various (if you are US based) federal and state data compliance and record keeping requirements that a thumb drive most likely would not provide the required level of compliance. Certainly if you are subject to SOXA requirements then a thumb drive won't cut it.
Since when did the MPAA become a "enforcement body"? We already have the FBI. The MPAA should not have th authority to open up my PRIVATE mail to see whats inside. I do not know the legality of the rights of users of mail carriers, but I suspect that they should need a WARRENT to inspect my baggage. My baggage, if it did contain illegal DVDs, would not cause any threat to the carrier or its surroundings, so their is no just cause to inspect my baggage because of how a dog smells it. This is the MPAA trying to go past its privileges as a copyright holder, and not an inspecting or enforcement body. Leave it to the FBI to handle mass piracy issues, since theirs a FBI warning on the DVDs. And we all know that the FBIs top priority is the piracy of $10 DVDs, and not anti terrorism, or homeland security.
Fedex is not "mail". But in any case, it's HM Customs who are actually opening the packages (mail, freight, courier, luggage, whatever) - and under UK law, they don't require any reason or warrant to open or inspect packages. The MPAA are merely providing the tool.
Customs agencies are often tasked with enforcing laws regarding the importation of illegal intellectual property/copyrighted material/censored material (typically pornography).
Almost every other country's Customs agencies are also able to open/inspect any package without cause as well. Additionally, Customs agencies often have more "power" than the police, tax departments (IRS, etc.) and other domestic law enforcement agencies.
Can't burn it(you could, if you were rich, but then you would have to burn one disc everytime you discovered your previous driver wasn't the correct one)
So I guess the moral of the story is to not use this Certicom encryption system for valuable information - it's trivially brute-forceable, for a sufficiently motivated organisation.
Hmm, 1200 years of CPU time for a commodity PC, or to put it another way, as little as 1.5 weeks with 50,000 PC's - a cost of less than $5,000,000 in total costs to brute-force.
This is how.au politicians think - they need some tech education
The problem is not one of technical ineptitude or ignorance. It's the standard "think of the children" defence when imnposing otherwise politically sensitive restrictions on behaviour.
Far better to investigate if the Senator (or his family) has any financial interest in, or has recieved any gifts from technology companies involved in the roll-out, or whether or not the Senator has affiliations to fringe religious organisations, or what the Senators past behaviour has been in any way related the supression of human rights.
Google does have a history of "tweaking" pagerank results. It's more likely that the unadjusted pagerank results are saturated with hits for IE - therefore totally eliminating any results for non-IE browsers.
What's the bet that almost all of the unadjusted IE results were about how "This site is best viewed with IE", or IE sucks or doesn't work, or for some arcane browser compatibility issue, thus removing any chance that the person searching gets relevant results?
Yep - heaps of other countries do that - it's called VAT, GST etc. Guess what? Income tax, luxury taxes and other sales taxes such as excise tax and duties etc. don't drop, or if they do, it's very temporary.
Governments get a whole lot of additional revenue and don't get *any* incentive to operate more efficiently. The burden of collection is usually on the seller, often without compensation - i.e. they become a tax collector without compensation.
Besides, doesn't state tax allegedly pay for various state benefits such as roading, education etc.?
How would you propose to fairly, equiably and *efficiently* distribute federally collected taxes to the various state treasuries (or what ever the correct term for whoever looks after state funds)? You can guarantee that many states will argue that fair and equitable should be needs based, or based on population density, or spending per head of population, or a bunch of other mechanisms that may or may not be good.
Not that I have any sympathy for tax collectors^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H blood sucking leeches.
You can get remedy through the Consumer's Guarantee Act, which requires that either the retailer or importer/wholesaler (if the retailer is out of business or no longer in a position to remedy the problem) must provide goods and services fit for purpose, and be of a sufficient quality to work correctly. Note that this act is usually (unless you get a good lawyer) relevant to goods and services purchased for consumer use rather than for business use.
It sounds like the device in question is not particularly reliable.
Do everything in writing, including providing them with a summary of the issues and remedies already attempted. cc the supplier (I think in this case it's Renaissance Corporation Limited).
If rarking them up this way doesn't work, for the small cost of ~NZD45 you can file a claim with the small claims court which will allow damages of up to either NZD3000 or NZD5000 (I can't remember which) to be awarded (which won't be enough to cover your losses), or you can engage lawyer and take them to court, and possibly settle for the amount you are out of pocket, plus consequential damages. In NZ you would be surprised how fast a company remedies a situation when a bailiff turns up with a court summons for a company director. You can get the names of the director(s) from the New Zealand Companies Office.
Well, yeah, but I was kind of thinking of the type of work the question submitter is involved in - typically DoD work isn't outsourced to non-US citizens or companies.
You could try working remotely - systems admin and code-cutting are two IT related roles that can be performed reasonably easily from a remote location.
Systems admin can mostly be done via a VPN connection (unless your VPN gateway is the problem requiring tech support), and code-cutting can be performed similarly.
You might need to check what network connectivity you can get from a non-urban or suburban location, but you should be able to find something reasonable.
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So now we get to blame Canada for Java too? Woohoo! Is there nothing they are not at fault for?
If the ink is toxic, then it's a waste of good wholesome food!
If you RTFA, it seems to have been a design decision, rather than a bug per se. Just because something isn't present in an application, it doesn't necessarily mean it's a bug.
IIRC, software design for the space shuttle is somewhat detailed, so I don't think something like the date functionality is anything but a deliberate design decision.
Actually, it's a bit more serious than that. The bank http://www.rbnz.govt.nz/ who's phone system he compromised is an approximate functional equivilant of the US Federal Reserve http://www.federalreserve.gov/ (but quite a bit smaller).
He's very lucky he did it in NZ where it appears that the courts consider him stupid rather than malicious. In other countries he might get charged with terrorism related offenses or worse.
Don't you mean switched off and encased in a few cubic meters of concrete?
There is no such thing as "100% secure".
Something like this -> http://www.luggageonline.com/product.cfm?product_I D=1499 as long as you don't mind the cost.
Since IBM practically invented virtualisation in the '60's for their mainframes (or possibly earlier (I'm not quite that old), I was quite surprised to see it missing from the Infoworld articles too.
IIRC, VMWare modelled their solution on IBM's implementation. They may have also licensed some of the technology to do it.
So does VMWare - with VMWare Server. Although it's currently a Release Candidate version, and not yet available as "Production Ready" it seems to be fairly much identical to VMWare GSX Server, minus some of the management tools. Even with the missing tools, it appears to be better than the MS Virtual Server 2005 in terms of performance, manageability and stability. VMWare have also stated that once released, it will continue to be "free".
Once you are ready to upgrade to ESX server (which scales magnificently better than MS VS 5 or other VMWare products), there is a painless migration path.
Parent is correct - to an extent. There is still probably a requirement to bring a failed desktop up and running quickly if there is a problem that requires a desktop restoration.
If centrally storing data is the way to take care of user data that's all fine and good, but there is still the requirement to restore the desktop environment quickly - and while a central backup solution might be one way to achieve this, it's probably not the best way.
Having a desktop re-imaging solution can enable an end-user (perhaps with a little help from your helpdesk (you do have a helpdesk right?)) to restore a desktop using something like a PXE enabled NIC to boot to either a RIS based imaging system (if you like Microsoft tech) or Linux + scripts to download and install a replacement image. While I'm not sure how well your Mac environment would work with a Linux solution (it won't work with RIS), it could at least take care of your Intel desktops.
As an aside, "enterprise" backup solutions require proper planning, both to design, implement, maintain and operate. Depending on your industry and location, you may be legally required to restore data going back decades, and if not well planned, you may have tapes that cannot be read, either because you've lost the means to restore (the tape drive or software required to restore a particular tape is no longer available) or the tape itself may not survive. Make sure that you have a mechanism to ensure that backed up data is still able to be restored. Some organisations transfer data from their legacy backup solution to their new one prior to each time their then legacy solution is replaced.
And add a WAFS appliances to the remote sites requiring a backup service. This gets you the ability to backup local data to your data center, and with the right software can ensure that you get single instance storage of any file stored within the backup system, and only send changes across the wire. This can also provide the ability to restore from bare metal if required.
Restore jobs can be performed remotely by someone from IT, or in the event of a simple file restore (maybe someone accidentally deleted a file fom their laptop/workstation) can be performed be the end-users.
Since you claim to require biometric thumb drives for a financial insitution, I'm reasonably sure that there are various (if you are US based) federal and state data compliance and record keeping requirements that a thumb drive most likely would not provide the required level of compliance. Certainly if you are subject to SOXA requirements then a thumb drive won't cut it.
Fedex is not "mail". But in any case, it's HM Customs who are actually opening the packages (mail, freight, courier, luggage, whatever) - and under UK law, they don't require any reason or warrant to open or inspect packages. The MPAA are merely providing the tool.
Customs agencies are often tasked with enforcing laws regarding the importation of illegal intellectual property/copyrighted material/censored material (typically pornography).
Almost every other country's Customs agencies are also able to open/inspect any package without cause as well. Additionally, Customs agencies often have more "power" than the police, tax departments (IRS, etc.) and other domestic law enforcement agencies.
One or Zero works for me - http://www.oneorzero.com/
Enter the CDRW - problem solved!
That's what they want you to believe!
Cool - a new use for Monopoly money!
Most likely not. More likely is a Google presentation layer sitting on top of an existing OS.
So I guess the moral of the story is to not use this Certicom encryption system for valuable information - it's trivially brute-forceable, for a sufficiently motivated organisation.
Hmm, 1200 years of CPU time for a commodity PC, or to put it another way, as little as 1.5 weeks with 50,000 PC's - a cost of less than $5,000,000 in total costs to brute-force.
The problem is not one of technical ineptitude or ignorance. It's the standard "think of the children" defence when imnposing otherwise politically sensitive restrictions on behaviour.
Far better to investigate if the Senator (or his family) has any financial interest in, or has recieved any gifts from technology companies involved in the roll-out, or whether or not the Senator has affiliations to fringe religious organisations, or what the Senators past behaviour has been in any way related the supression of human rights.
Google does have a history of "tweaking" pagerank results. It's more likely that the unadjusted pagerank results are saturated with hits for IE - therefore totally eliminating any results for non-IE browsers.
What's the bet that almost all of the unadjusted IE results were about how "This site is best viewed with IE", or IE sucks or doesn't work, or for some arcane browser compatibility issue, thus removing any chance that the person searching gets relevant results?
Yep - heaps of other countries do that - it's called VAT, GST etc. Guess what? Income tax, luxury taxes and other sales taxes such as excise tax and duties etc. don't drop, or if they do, it's very temporary.
Governments get a whole lot of additional revenue and don't get *any* incentive to operate more efficiently. The burden of collection is usually on the seller, often without compensation - i.e. they become a tax collector without compensation.
Besides, doesn't state tax allegedly pay for various state benefits such as roading, education etc.?
How would you propose to fairly, equiably and *efficiently* distribute federally collected taxes to the various state treasuries (or what ever the correct term for whoever looks after state funds)? You can guarantee that many states will argue that fair and equitable should be needs based, or based on population density, or spending per head of population, or a bunch of other mechanisms that may or may not be good.
Not that I have any sympathy for tax collectors^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H blood sucking leeches.
Yeah - he *is* paying for it.
His machine is broken or unavailable while being repaired.
There might be a "lost opportunity" cost because of the machine not working.
He has to get it to the retailer and collect it again.
Just because there is no invoice to pay doesn't mean there is no cost to him.
BTW - the Apple distributor in NZ refurbishes broken parts, so the costs borne by Apple/Apple distributor might not be as high as people might think.
IANAL, YMMV etc.
You can get remedy through the Consumer's Guarantee Act, which requires that either the retailer or importer/wholesaler (if the retailer is out of business or no longer in a position to remedy the problem) must provide goods and services fit for purpose, and be of a sufficient quality to work correctly. Note that this act is usually (unless you get a good lawyer) relevant to goods and services purchased for consumer use rather than for business use.
It sounds like the device in question is not particularly reliable.
Do everything in writing, including providing them with a summary of the issues and remedies already attempted. cc the supplier (I think in this case it's Renaissance Corporation Limited).
If rarking them up this way doesn't work, for the small cost of ~NZD45 you can file a claim with the small claims court which will allow damages of up to either NZD3000 or NZD5000 (I can't remember which) to be awarded (which won't be enough to cover your losses), or you can engage lawyer and take them to court, and possibly settle for the amount you are out of pocket, plus consequential damages. In NZ you would be surprised how fast a company remedies a situation when a bailiff turns up with a court summons for a company director. You can get the names of the director(s) from the New Zealand Companies Office.
Well, yeah, but I was kind of thinking of the type of work the question submitter is involved in - typically DoD work isn't outsourced to non-US citizens or companies.
You could try working remotely - systems admin and code-cutting are two IT related roles that can be performed reasonably easily from a remote location.
Systems admin can mostly be done via a VPN connection (unless your VPN gateway is the problem requiring tech support), and code-cutting can be performed similarly.
You might need to check what network connectivity you can get from a non-urban or suburban location, but you should be able to find something reasonable.
You fly economy right? You're supposed to provide the vaseline.