Case in point. The company that I work for is having to upgrade a lot of systems to meet the new 21 CFR Part 11 FDA requirements. Some of the systems like single pieces of lab equipment cost $300,000 USD! Plus things like $20,000 yearly for support, updates, and repairs. Multiply this times hundreds of labs times 30 countries. And you can see billions being spent yearly just to make sure the equipment is up to date.
If Windows was secure, there would be a lot of jobless IT people. I've plenty of times had to "crack" NT boxes where I worked, when the user did something stupid and locked themselves out of their own machine, deleted a necessary file, or just a general file system error that set permission to an entire volume to "Everyeone - No access".. If Windows was secure, I'd have been fired years ago when some BIG WIG exec finds out I can't break in and get his precious pron.
Why the hell doesn't some manufacturer realize that the world needs a small, portable, standardized non-contact RW media in a case with a shutter that has a decent capacity. (1+ gigs)
I've done zip (click of death), Jaz (head crashes) CDR(scratch) CDRW (fingerprints). The closest thing I've seen is the DVD-RAM and PD-RAM drives, but both are too big to carry around like a floppy. MiniDisc is nice but the capacity isn't there. Anyone else with me on this?
Another thing, since when did early 80's microcomputers have a TCP/IP stack? This reminds me of the guy that made a WAP browser for a C64. It was connected via serial cable to a linux box that stripped html code and removes pictures, converted it to wap, and sent it over the serial port. Plus... The contents of the website total more than the 32k of ram can handle. AFAIK random seeks on any tape drives do not do very well.
Exactly. I started to take MCSE classes and then quit when I found out that my instructor knew less than I did. (He was a Microsoft employee!) and he worked in the MS IIS and Frontpage support group. Later I got a job doing NT support at a large Pharmaceutical company and they said that the fact that I was not an MCSE was a plus. Because all my claims on my resume meant I had hands on business experience. My website for example I wanted to be as low maintanence as possible, so I chose OpenBSD and Apache running on Sparc. So even if somoene managed to upload a precompiled program and tried to run it, it wouldn't because they probably used an i386 version. It irritates me to see my logs fill up with get default.ida NNNNNNNNNNN but I know that I could leave this server for 3 months and come back with nothing out of the ordinary.
Just fire whoever is neglecting their servers.
But a lot of it boils down to the typical mentality of the admins.
Typical NT admin: "If their not a member of the admin group.. Then we're safe."
Typical Unix admin: "We're never safe, but we try our hardest every day."
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Case in point. The company that I work for is having to upgrade a lot of systems to meet the new 21 CFR Part 11 FDA requirements. Some of the systems like single pieces of lab equipment cost $300,000 USD! Plus things like $20,000 yearly for support, updates, and repairs. Multiply this times hundreds of labs times 30 countries. And you can see billions being spent yearly just to make sure the equipment is up to date.
Yep. I think that if more than X people have logs pointing to your machine infecting theirs, they should be able to class action sue for damages.
If Windows was secure, there would be a lot of jobless IT people. I've plenty of times had to "crack" NT boxes where I worked, when the user did something stupid and locked themselves out of their own machine, deleted a necessary file, or just a general file system error that set permission to an entire volume to "Everyeone - No access".. If Windows was secure, I'd have been fired years ago when some BIG WIG exec finds out I can't break in and get his precious pron.
If those bastards burn on the lights on my cable modem, my friends and I are going after them with pitch forks and torches!
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Why the hell doesn't some manufacturer realize that the world needs a small, portable, standardized non-contact RW media in a case with a shutter that has a decent capacity. (1+ gigs) I've done zip (click of death), Jaz (head crashes) CDR(scratch) CDRW (fingerprints). The closest thing I've seen is the DVD-RAM and PD-RAM drives, but both are too big to carry around like a floppy. MiniDisc is nice but the capacity isn't there. Anyone else with me on this?
Another thing, since when did early 80's microcomputers have a TCP/IP stack? This reminds me of the guy that made a WAP browser for a C64. It was connected via serial cable to a linux box that stripped html code and removes pictures, converted it to wap, and sent it over the serial port. Plus... The contents of the website total more than the 32k of ram can handle. AFAIK random seeks on any tape drives do not do very well.
Exactly. I started to take MCSE classes and then quit when I found out that my instructor knew less than I did. (He was a Microsoft employee!) and he worked in the MS IIS and Frontpage support group. Later I got a job doing NT support at a large Pharmaceutical company and they said that the fact that I was not an MCSE was a plus. Because all my claims on my resume meant I had hands on business experience. My website for example I wanted to be as low maintanence as possible, so I chose OpenBSD and Apache running on Sparc. So even if somoene managed to upload a precompiled program and tried to run it, it wouldn't because they probably used an i386 version. It irritates me to see my logs fill up with get default.ida NNNNNNNNNNN but I know that I could leave this server for 3 months and come back with nothing out of the ordinary.
Just fire whoever is neglecting their servers.
But a lot of it boils down to the typical mentality of the admins.
Typical NT admin: "If their not a member of the admin group.. Then we're safe."
Typical Unix admin: "We're never safe, but we try our hardest every day."