A useful parallel here is the way that security works in the software industry. Often times a software vendor will be notified of a security vulnerability in their product only to shrug it off to the 'security through obscurity' bucket.
But....post that security vulnerability to BugTraq (or your security mailing list of choice) and the vendor is usually pretty quick to make some changes so that they can start wiping the proverbial egg off of their face.
Seems to me that the overhead required to estimate your speed would make small downloads slower. Since 99% of our downloads (web pages, images, etc.) are relatively small, wouldn't this be worse??
For large downloads, however, it seems there could be some definite advantages.
The widespread use of NAT and RFC 1918 address space has somewhat mitigated the need for more address space. I realize there is more to ipv6 than just more addresses, but I think shrinking ipv4 space is going to be the thing that makes everyone switch over.
I disagree. I think the remote management capabilities in linux are just fine. I regularly use kickstart to re-install old boxes and to install brand new ones. (including a bunch of Dell 1650's)
As long as the machine has got a serial port and BIOS support for console redirection, then you don't even need the machine on a network to administrate it remotely. I've got a whole slew of machines that are thousands of miles away from me that I administrate over SSH when the network is available and through a Cyclades serial concentrator when the network is dead......it works great. No third party cards required. And, if you've got remotely controllable power strips (which you should if you're serious about remotely administering any number of servers), then your power needs are taken care of as well!
Administrating my hundreds of linux boxes remotely is just as easy as administrating my Solaris boxes, maybe easier.....ever accidentally send a break over a serial connection to a Solaris box??
Since they are coming out with this new CRM software, if it has the ability to do email 'Customer Relationship Management' (read: spam), they may be trying to get a break to keep their customers from being flagged as spammers by sending out unwanted email updates.
It seems like more and more 'popular' artists are have so much re-mixing and re-touching done to the sound that the costs of producing an album should be going up, not down. Physical production (i.e. stamping out a million cd's) costs are probably going down, but there is a lot of behind the scenes work at the studio that has to be done to make modern artists sound as good as they seem to. I bet that studio time costs some serious $$.
If I was hired to make a crappy artist sound good, and I knew they were gonna make millions off of it, my services wouldn't be cheap!
For me it is merely a case of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". I just haven't found a good reason to switch yet. Bug fixes and security patches keep on coming out for 1.3.x, and performance hasn't been an issue for me yet. (not that 2.x is supposed to fix everyone's performance woes)
The fact of the matter is that most users are too lazy and/or too technically unsavvy to try to build a web of trust on their own. They like seeing the 'Verisign - Click to Verify' icon on a site where they'll be submitting their credit card numbers or other information that they'd like to remain private.
> So, according to Microsoft, forcing annual upgrades and software subscription on businesses IS a sustainable business model?
Of course it is.....for Microsoft.
We have been experimenting with a box provided by SolidData. ( http://www.soliddata.com ) The thing seems to work pretty well. Lots of redundancy built in. Kind of pricey, but the thing is blazingly fast.
Slashdot Mirror
Go live and do business stuff instead of worrying about all this bs.
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Business stuff??......Oh....you mean surfing Slashdot, UserFriendly and StrongBad all day. No problem!
A useful parallel here is the way that security works in the software industry. Often times a software vendor will be notified of a security vulnerability in their product only to shrug it off to the 'security through obscurity' bucket.
But....post that security vulnerability to BugTraq (or your security mailing list of choice) and the vendor is usually pretty quick to make some changes so that they can start wiping the proverbial egg off of their face.
Joe Haldeman, can't remember if it was in 'Forever War', or 'Forever Peace'
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Pretty good books.
Seems to me that the overhead required to estimate your speed would make small downloads slower. Since 99% of our downloads (web pages, images, etc.) are relatively small, wouldn't this be worse??
For large downloads, however, it seems there could be some definite advantages.
penguin $ grep bonzi.com /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 casino.bonzi.com
127.0.0.1 images.bonzi.com
127.0.0.1 www.bonzi.com
So, let's all create thousands of zero length files containing artists names and '.mp3' and put them out on our ftp servers. :)
The widespread use of NAT and RFC 1918 address space has somewhat mitigated the need for more address space. I realize there is more to ipv6 than just more addresses, but I think shrinking ipv4 space is going to be the thing that makes everyone switch over.
Onsite backups are useful for recovering the occasional, accidental 'rm -rf'.
I agree. In fact, if Slashdot editors aren't reading Slashdot....should they be slashdot editors at all?
I disagree. I think the remote management capabilities in linux are just fine. I regularly use kickstart to re-install old boxes and to install brand new ones. (including a bunch of Dell 1650's)
As long as the machine has got a serial port and BIOS support for console redirection, then you don't even need the machine on a network to administrate it remotely. I've got a whole slew of machines that are thousands of miles away from me that I administrate over SSH when the network is available and through a Cyclades serial concentrator when the network is dead......it works great. No third party cards required. And, if you've got remotely controllable power strips (which you should if you're serious about remotely administering any number of servers), then your power needs are taken care of as well!
Administrating my hundreds of linux boxes remotely is just as easy as administrating my Solaris boxes, maybe easier.....ever accidentally send a break over a serial connection to a Solaris box??
..software.
Since they are coming out with this new CRM software, if it has the ability to do email 'Customer Relationship Management' (read: spam), they may be trying to get a break to keep their customers from being flagged as spammers by sending out unwanted email updates.
Did the image get cut off, I wonder? or is one of the researchers missing a finger?
It seems like more and more 'popular' artists are have so much re-mixing and re-touching done to the sound that the costs of producing an album should be going up, not down. Physical production (i.e. stamping out a million cd's) costs are probably going down, but there is a lot of behind the scenes work at the studio that has to be done to make modern artists sound as good as they seem to. I bet that studio time costs some serious $$.
If I was hired to make a crappy artist sound good, and I knew they were gonna make millions off of it, my services wouldn't be cheap!
For me it is merely a case of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". I just haven't found a good reason to switch yet. Bug fixes and security patches keep on coming out for 1.3.x, and performance hasn't been an issue for me yet. (not that 2.x is supposed to fix everyone's performance woes)
Anybody out there been using Apache 2.x and PHP enough to call it stable in their environment?
Other than huge threading improvements, are there any compelling reasons to switch from 1.3.x to 2.x right now?
The fact of the matter is that most users are too lazy and/or too technically unsavvy to try to build a web of trust on their own. They like seeing the 'Verisign - Click to Verify' icon on a site where they'll be submitting their credit card numbers or other information that they'd like to remain private.
> So, according to Microsoft, forcing annual upgrades and software subscription on businesses IS a sustainable business model? Of course it is.....for Microsoft.
Anybody remember the *old* packetstorm.....like when Ken used to run it alongside ehap.org and genocide2600.com ????
And by that I am absolutely NOT saying that Ken sold out. He kinda got screwed out.
Anyways, you are correct.....the new (I still refer to it as *new*) PacketStorm is very good.
We have been experimenting with a box provided by SolidData. ( http://www.soliddata.com ) The thing seems to work pretty well. Lots of redundancy built in. Kind of pricey, but the thing is blazingly fast.