As much as I don't like Microsoft, I must make a little correction here. Windows 2000/XP Professional only allows a maximum of 5 inbound CLIENT connections.
For inbound TCP/IP connections to an IIS server, the limit is whatever Windows, IIS or the computer can handle. Whichever dies first determines the limit.
No one in their right mind would try to run a production webserver on an 2000/XP workstation. If you have a rackmount server you certainly wouldn't install a workstation strength OS on it.
the power of noisemakers. When you know it is a telemarketer, just set the phone next to any of the following for an extended period of time. Say . . . 5 minutes.
-A blender
-A garbage disposal
-A TV/Radio speaker
-You ass after eating beans
-etc.
Remember, they pay for those calls. Make them earn em!
Reading this brings back up a thought I have been having for a while now. What do we do when our hard drives become the next bottleneck?
Network throughput seems to be increasing faster than physical hard drives. Not that this is surprising since hard drives are battling physics on two fronts and NIC's on one.
I wonder how long before we see RAM based hard drives become affordable and practical.
Learn to bend the will of management. That seems to be the key. What I do is just slowly but surely work ideas into their head. When they finally realize what a great idea it is, then you credit them with it. This will serve a threefold purpose: 1) The Right Thing gets done 2) Management feels like a million dollars 3) They will come back to you for more
It seems to me that having the ability to throw together a low cost TB storage array while novel, is not that big of a surprise. As most of you probably do, I remember a time when hard drives were a novelty themselves coming in sizes of like 10 MB.
The natural progression of storage space seems to be one where the price is constantly dropping while size is constantly increasing. Is it really going to be all that long before you can buy TB sized storage devices in a single unit?
I don't remain convinced about the decision makers thinking it is loaded with necessary features. Instead, I think it is because there is a significant amount of techs/companies/consultants that claim to have experience and knowledge of exchange. Therefore they justify finding someone to support it will be easy. I find this extremely amusing since if every company suddenly shifted to open source, MCSE's everywhere would be hitting the books for open source. The chicken and the egg.
If I were to try to point out why people are drawn to Exchange, it is because these companies are already deeply stuck in Microsoft territory. I am a big open source advocate so don't take these next statements the wrong way.
Microsoft does a really good job (mostly lately) of their products playing well with each other. In less than an hour, you can have a good VB app up and running that can interoperate with any and all of MS servers. Query a SQL Server, send mail through an Exchange server, even query a domain controller for a list of all user accounts.
Is this really the greatest thing since sliced bread? No, but it is this sort of interoperability that is seeping deep into the ears of management and making them approve purchase requests for MS powered servers left and right. "What, we can make it all work together relatively easy? We don't have to hire more people to make it work? GREAT! Where is my pen?"
We use InocculateIT for anti-virus and upgrades to the latest version are included in our maintenance agreement. Computer Associates has been excellent about backporting their older versions for the latest garbage the Beast throws our way.
It may have appeared that I was aiming at you, but I wasn't. Actually I was referring to things I have heard in conversation. I didn't make that clear.
As far as possibility, again I wasn't clear. It should have read something like "reasonably possible." Reasonable as in supported by the laws of physics and such. I am not an expert by any means (obviously), but it seems that a turtle just kind of floating through space is out of that scope.
Now if you had said a large turtle wearing a tutu, now that would have been different:)
Well, I have always been amused by anyone that says it is impossible or even "highly unlikely" that another Earth-type planet exists (size, atmosphere, etc.). Earth itself is proof positive.
If it is in the realm of possibility, you can just about damn sure bet it is in the realm of actuality. The universe is just big enough for possibility to cross over into probability.
We are probably surrounded by many planets with an atmosphere. If a solar system is capable of having a Jupiter type planet, what about an Earth type planet? It isn't THAT far of a stretch.
As Carl Sagan says (or was it just Contact?) "If it is just us, it seems like an awful waste of space."
All the countries in the world besides America have decided to reinvent the wheel. Frere Jaques, a senior official close to the project commented saying "The wheel is just too round. We thought we would make more like an octagon."
Next on the list for them is to invent refried-refried beans. Stay tuned.
One of the goals of pushing the technological envelope is to remove and overcome bottlenecks to any process. We have seen bottlenecks overcome in the past. One example is punch cards. Having to point and click or type is just another bottleneck that will eventually be alleviated.
The merging of humans and computers has been a process long in the making. Computers operate in binary and humans operate in a complex visual world. The original computers had to be operated bit by bit. Eventually command-line made it to the scene. Then GUI's made an appearance. Then VR was realized. There aren't too many steps left to place interaction directly to the brain level.
I only have one major fear about it. The brain has thus far been a closed system. We don't really know how vulnerable it is. It might sound crazy, but I don't think it entirely impossible that we will find that a brain is easily controlled or exploited once a link is established.
Of course, that is my opinion founded in pure hypothetical so it must be taken completely at a casual value as such.
Sounds like you need to press management for creating a list of application and database standards so that you don't get cracked out companies trying to deploy applications with hard coded passwords.
Here at work, I had to do just that. We are deploying 3 production SQL Servers and we had no standards base. I developed a list that says specifically the dos and don'ts. If an application doesn't pass the test, we hand it back to the vendor and say "fix it or sell it to someone else."
Keep pressing management on your current vulnerabilities. E-mail them links to security holes just like this with a note saying "yes, we ARE vulnerable to this." Keep a record of it. That way when "they" try to come down on you, print out the copies and hand them over as your answer.
Every day when I hear about new vulnerabilities, I e-mail links to the admins in charge of other systems, managers and the poor help desk personnel that often catch the user anger.
The environment I work in it is a cut-throat atmosphere where I don't really trust anyone. I suspect that is much the way it is other places but I can only speak for myself.
Besides, I am young and single and everyone else is at least 5 years older and married. They can't possibly keep up without finding themselves on the threshold of divorce.
I think that the only way to properly "hang" with a coworker in my kind of atmosphere without fear of backstabbing is to make sure they either stand nothing to gain from your downfall or that they are comfortably ahead of you.
When they start into their script, yell STOP until they stop. Then say something like this, "This call my be recorded for contractual purposes. I must politely inform you that I perform most of my work on the phone and I charge an hourly rate of US$100 per hour with a 3 hour minimum for any and all non-personal calls. All calls past 6PM (insert your timezone) are considered overtime and will be charged an additional US$50 per hour. To agree to these terms, please do so by saying yes now . .."
Take that and run with it. Buy a cheap recorder and actually record it. If they have someone stupid enough to say yes, then you just scored 300 maybe 450 dollars!
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All I need is a set of headphones and music to tune out conversation, ringing phones and the like.
That and a constant IV drip of some flavor of caffeine.
Someone says "You didn't get my email? Carnivore ate my homework prefessor. That is the only explanation."
hell has froze over or it can fetch me a beer. Whichever happens first.
As much as I don't like Microsoft, I must make a little correction here. Windows 2000/XP Professional only allows a maximum of 5 inbound CLIENT connections. For inbound TCP/IP connections to an IIS server, the limit is whatever Windows, IIS or the computer can handle. Whichever dies first determines the limit. No one in their right mind would try to run a production webserver on an 2000/XP workstation. If you have a rackmount server you certainly wouldn't install a workstation strength OS on it.
the power of noisemakers. When you know it is a telemarketer, just set the phone next to any of the following for an extended period of time. Say . . . 5 minutes. -A blender -A garbage disposal -A TV/Radio speaker -You ass after eating beans -etc. Remember, they pay for those calls. Make them earn em!
I have played with RC3 at work a bit and it is very nice. With the additional bug fixes, the final release can only be better.
It is bringing me one step closer to never booting an MS OS at home and possibly work.
One bug I ran into that I HOPE has been fixed is that whenever I clicked on the "Lock Workstation" button on the toolbar, it would log me out.
Let me get this straight, on March 16, 2880, we will get hit by an asteroid. But they can only manage to place this in the next 4 or 5 days?
I guess physics isn't an exact science.
This brings a whole new definition to the term "Can of whoop ass" doesn't it?
Reading this brings back up a thought I have been having for a while now. What do we do when our hard drives become the next bottleneck?
Network throughput seems to be increasing faster than physical hard drives. Not that this is surprising since hard drives are battling physics on two fronts and NIC's on one.
I wonder how long before we see RAM based hard drives become affordable and practical.
"That's right Mr. Johnson, you password is boob, nipple, tongue and lips."
I could be wrong, but couldn't discovering ET bacteria lead to new and more powerful antibiotics?
Learn to bend the will of management. That seems to be the key. What I do is just slowly but surely work ideas into their head. When they finally realize what a great idea it is, then you credit them with it. This will serve a threefold purpose: 1) The Right Thing gets done 2) Management feels like a million dollars 3) They will come back to you for more
Trust me.
It seems to me that having the ability to throw together a low cost TB storage array while novel, is not that big of a surprise. As most of you probably do, I remember a time when hard drives were a novelty themselves coming in sizes of like 10 MB.
The natural progression of storage space seems to be one where the price is constantly dropping while size is constantly increasing. Is it really going to be all that long before you can buy TB sized storage devices in a single unit?
As opposed to thousands of users connecting to a Linux box with a P2 400 and 128 megs of RAM running sendmail?
I don't remain convinced about the decision makers thinking it is loaded with necessary features. Instead, I think it is because there is a significant amount of techs/companies/consultants that claim to have experience and knowledge of exchange. Therefore they justify finding someone to support it will be easy. I find this extremely amusing since if every company suddenly shifted to open source, MCSE's everywhere would be hitting the books for open source. The chicken and the egg.
If I were to try to point out why people are drawn to Exchange, it is because these companies are already deeply stuck in Microsoft territory. I am a big open source advocate so don't take these next statements the wrong way.
Microsoft does a really good job (mostly lately) of their products playing well with each other. In less than an hour, you can have a good VB app up and running that can interoperate with any and all of MS servers. Query a SQL Server, send mail through an Exchange server, even query a domain controller for a list of all user accounts.
Is this really the greatest thing since sliced bread? No, but it is this sort of interoperability that is seeping deep into the ears of management and making them approve purchase requests for MS powered servers left and right. "What, we can make it all work together relatively easy? We don't have to hire more people to make it work? GREAT! Where is my pen?"
We use InocculateIT for anti-virus and upgrades to the latest version are included in our maintenance agreement. Computer Associates has been excellent about backporting their older versions for the latest garbage the Beast throws our way.
It may have appeared that I was aiming at you, but I wasn't. Actually I was referring to things I have heard in conversation. I didn't make that clear.
:)
As far as possibility, again I wasn't clear. It should have read something like "reasonably possible." Reasonable as in supported by the laws of physics and such. I am not an expert by any means (obviously), but it seems that a turtle just kind of floating through space is out of that scope.
Now if you had said a large turtle wearing a tutu, now that would have been different
Well, I have always been amused by anyone that says it is impossible or even "highly unlikely" that another Earth-type planet exists (size, atmosphere, etc.). Earth itself is proof positive.
If it is in the realm of possibility, you can just about damn sure bet it is in the realm of actuality. The universe is just big enough for possibility to cross over into probability.
Again, just my opinion.
We are probably surrounded by many planets with an atmosphere. If a solar system is capable of having a Jupiter type planet, what about an Earth type planet? It isn't THAT far of a stretch.
As Carl Sagan says (or was it just Contact?) "If it is just us, it seems like an awful waste of space."
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All the countries in the world besides America have decided to reinvent the wheel. Frere Jaques, a senior official close to the project commented saying "The wheel is just too round. We thought we would make more like an octagon."
Next on the list for them is to invent refried-refried beans. Stay tuned.
One of the goals of pushing the technological envelope is to remove and overcome bottlenecks to any process. We have seen bottlenecks overcome in the past. One example is punch cards. Having to point and click or type is just another bottleneck that will eventually be alleviated.
The merging of humans and computers has been a process long in the making. Computers operate in binary and humans operate in a complex visual world. The original computers had to be operated bit by bit. Eventually command-line made it to the scene. Then GUI's made an appearance. Then VR was realized. There aren't too many steps left to place interaction directly to the brain level.
I only have one major fear about it. The brain has thus far been a closed system. We don't really know how vulnerable it is. It might sound crazy, but I don't think it entirely impossible that we will find that a brain is easily controlled or exploited once a link is established.
Of course, that is my opinion founded in pure hypothetical so it must be taken completely at a casual value as such.
Sounds like you need to press management for creating a list of application and database standards so that you don't get cracked out companies trying to deploy applications with hard coded passwords.
Here at work, I had to do just that. We are deploying 3 production SQL Servers and we had no standards base. I developed a list that says specifically the dos and don'ts. If an application doesn't pass the test, we hand it back to the vendor and say "fix it or sell it to someone else."
Keep pressing management on your current vulnerabilities. E-mail them links to security holes just like this with a note saying "yes, we ARE vulnerable to this." Keep a record of it. That way when "they" try to come down on you, print out the copies and hand them over as your answer.
Every day when I hear about new vulnerabilities, I e-mail links to the admins in charge of other systems, managers and the poor help desk personnel that often catch the user anger.
The environment I work in it is a cut-throat atmosphere where I don't really trust anyone. I suspect that is much the way it is other places but I can only speak for myself.
Besides, I am young and single and everyone else is at least 5 years older and married. They can't possibly keep up without finding themselves on the threshold of divorce.
I think that the only way to properly "hang" with a coworker in my kind of atmosphere without fear of backstabbing is to make sure they either stand nothing to gain from your downfall or that they are comfortably ahead of you.
When they start into their script, yell STOP until they stop. Then say something like this, "This call my be recorded for contractual purposes. I must politely inform you that I perform most of my work on the phone and I charge an hourly rate of US$100 per hour with a 3 hour minimum for any and all non-personal calls. All calls past 6PM (insert your timezone) are considered overtime and will be charged an additional US$50 per hour. To agree to these terms, please do so by saying yes now . . ."
Take that and run with it. Buy a cheap recorder and actually record it. If they have someone stupid enough to say yes, then you just scored 300 maybe 450 dollars!
Microsoft has decided to cluster-enable the BSOD so that response times for rebooting can be quicker.