Hehehe, unless you type the IP address by hand you have no clue if you are going to the correct site. DNS cache poisoning may not be as easy a phishing but it's also not that hard to do. Two factor identification (and possibly mutual authentication if using smart cards) is definitly the way to go.
Media Center has to do with back to school because many college students will want a single device that takes up room to function as a computer, vcr, and tv. The savings in a dorm or small college apartment by only having the single device is huge. Back in the bad old days my roommate and I had to suffer with a 14" tv because we had no room for anything larger, yet we both had monitors that were larger than that!
It's called reading comprehension.... They were built to last 7.5 years, they have been in service between 8 and 14 years,.5 to 6.5 years longer then their origional design life. Like everything else in space they were overengineered and have surpassed their design life (the minimum time that they should last given expected MTBF of components). This isn't the first time this has happened, and as long as NASA and their contractors (and military contractors) keep up the good engineering principal of overdesigning and underselling it won't be the last.
Huh? Where do you get unlimited data for $15/month?!?! When I look at Sprint's site I get $79.99/month from their site here. If that's an addon to phone plans is it full speed, and what is the cheapest phone plan?
I don't know if it's what you are talking about but I had a yellow Sony Walkman Sport that had rubber seals all around the cassette bay, around the battery bay, and over the second headphone port. It also came with earbuds that did not mind being wet. While I wouldn't have gone diving with it I did wear it to swim practice quite a few times with no ill effect.
Actually a lot of the no-bid contract talks these days is in reference to all the cronyism going on down south in the wake of Katrina and Rita. Billions and billions of dollars in contracts were awarded without bid or even research. Many of those contracts are being reevaluated and put out for bid, but only after much fuss was raised in the media and Congress.
Uh, without internet my point to point T-1's cost a bit less, even between Chicago and Cleveland or New York and Cleveland (admitadly only a couple hundred miles, but after you leave the local pop there aren't any big increases with milage). Sorry but anyone payint $1,800/month for a T-1 is getting ripped, you can almost get a T-3 from a bargain basement reseller for that much these days.
$1,800/month? I'm paying $550/month per T-1 for local loop plus bandwidth plus router rental and maintenance. Sure that's more then $50-70 for xDSL, but running something like video is going to be too painfull over xDSL anyways. If your job involves peoples lives then don't use something as flaky as VoIP on the cheap, you're really irresponsible to not use the 99.999% uptime POTS network that costs little more per month. I love VoIP, and if you have the right infrastructure it can be as realiable as POTS, but it won't be that much (if any) cheaper.
hmm, I have Wide Open West, could have had Adelphia but they offered crappier service for a few dollars more per month. I'm sorry that you live somewhere where the local municipality wasn't enlightened enough during the eighties to demand choice. Besides unless you are out in the boonies you probably have DSL available with your choice of providers thanks to Covad and your local telco. Heck I AM in the boonies (my neighbors are a farm, a farm, a ranch, and a utility right of way) and I can get decent speed DSL in addition to the two cable offerings.
Sorry, but with modern BGP routes if there is no way through a Level 1 peering point then the data is unlikely to get through except for if your upstream is multihomed with each of the parties that severed their peering point(s). There really isn't as much redundancy of routes as many people think, that mostly went out after MAE stopped being a common peering point for all the carriers and private peering points took over most of the inter carrier traffic.
Oooh, you just gave me an idea. If the filesystem is a DB, and configuration files are in the DB, then have a presentation layer. Expose the configuration as a text or xml file, showing only the current version. If you blow something up you go into an advanced tool and roll the transaction back and your configuration goes back to the way it was. It's the best of both worlds, the simplicity and accessibility of text/xml configration files and the robustness of database stored configuration information!
None of the applications which were actually broken by XP SP2 are something granny would run. On the other hand some of the applications that were affect were, but those were generally minor problems.
If you are going to go so far as to pay for redundant everything hardware you probably want to buy at least a pair of them and put them in a cluster. I know very few places where the demands are such that they would buy a single super expensive server and NOT have a cluster to allow for things like software upgrades.
After walking into a number of clients who a previous consultant had sold HP BL10e's to I can catagorically state that as a big fat negative. Those things had their laptop HDD's die left and right after just 2-3 years, much less reliable that just about any storage solution I have ever run into other than the troubled IBM Deskstar line.
No, the target audience is the local ISP who will bundle it with either a USB cablemodem or a USB DSL modem. That way they can continue to use the same stock of modems they already have and not have to pay for the cost and space of a NIC.
In the three cases we ran into when I was a consultant last year we placed the blame squarely on the shoulders of the vendor with the foobar product. They were coding in an unsafe manner to an undocumented API, it was 100% their fault. Now a naive home user with no real computer savy might blame MS, but when you look at the tradeoffs it seems like the security cleanup was good for the entire computer using public, even if a few people did have an app or two broken.
No, they merely shift the tax burden from one place to another. Artificially locking public information up so that it can be resold by a private entity is just wrong. It's like when governments spend huge amounts of money to make GIS maps and then only provide them under expensive licenses, you've already paid to have the data collected and consolidated, why should you be double taxed if you actually want to access the information? Just because there are people with the means to buy the information under expensive licenses does not mean that the government should make it standard practice to double tax anyone who wants to actually use the output of the information retrieval and consolidation process that they have already paid for. Down that path lies much less transparant government, which is never a good thing.
Yes, but for ~$2.5M(US) you can have a Cessna Citation Mustang 6-person bizjet which is currently in shakedown testing and which will almost assuradly become certified before the skycar. Or if you are commuting by yourself or with only a few passengers there's the Dayjet Eclipse 500 which seats two pilots and 3 passengers for ~$1.3M which is also in shakedown. Basically the skycar is overpriced, underperforming, and overhyped. Basically there's a bunch of 3-6 seat bizjet's currently in testing or early production which cost less than the $3.5M pricetag of this thing, many are listed here. Since it's a page from one of the competitors in the space take all claims about estimates with the appropriate amount of salt, but even when being estimated by a competitor all of their costs come in under $3M.
HD-DVD will only be out months ahead of Blue-Ray, not a year as Toshiba and company had hoped. In fact they just made the announcement yesterday. Of course this is news for nerds, not actual breaking news =)
WRONG!
See Bowers v. Baystate and Davidson & Assoc. v. Internet Gateway (the BNETD case) for court rulings finding clickwrap licenses valid and enforceable. The Slashdot meme that EULA's aren't enforceable is just plain wrong.
Access applications can be used as frontends to any real RDMS which has an ODBC connector available (all of them). Access might not make the world's best code, but it does allow people who are not professional programmers access to the data in their database.
DO NOT listen to this advice. Every real RAID controller I have ever worked with requires exactly matched disks. In fact having different firmware versions on the drive controllers can cause problems. You can get away with unmatched disks using pseudo software controllers but I still wouldn't do it because I really doubt the manufacturer has tested such a configuration. Total software setups can of course use whatever as they are just a layer on top of the already existing disks and drivers.
What are you talking about? RDP/Citrix ICA (they are essentially the same protocol) runs on both windows and UNIX platforms for the server and clients are available for just about everything under the sun. RDP/ICA's sucess has nothing to do with the innards of windows and everything to do with having a sane, modern design.
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Hehehe, unless you type the IP address by hand you have no clue if you are going to the correct site. DNS cache poisoning may not be as easy a phishing but it's also not that hard to do. Two factor identification (and possibly mutual authentication if using smart cards) is definitly the way to go.
Until NVidia's K8/Opteron boards came out the SiS based solutions were by far the most reliable since the other alternative (VIA) was just pure crud.
Media Center has to do with back to school because many college students will want a single device that takes up room to function as a computer, vcr, and tv. The savings in a dorm or small college apartment by only having the single device is huge. Back in the bad old days my roommate and I had to suffer with a 14" tv because we had no room for anything larger, yet we both had monitors that were larger than that!
It's called reading comprehension.... They were built to last 7.5 years, they have been in service between 8 and 14 years, .5 to 6.5 years longer then their origional design life. Like everything else in space they were overengineered and have surpassed their design life (the minimum time that they should last given expected MTBF of components). This isn't the first time this has happened, and as long as NASA and their contractors (and military contractors) keep up the good engineering principal of overdesigning and underselling it won't be the last.
Huh? Where do you get unlimited data for $15/month?!?! When I look at Sprint's site I get $79.99/month from their site here. If that's an addon to phone plans is it full speed, and what is the cheapest phone plan?
I don't know if it's what you are talking about but I had a yellow Sony Walkman Sport that had rubber seals all around the cassette bay, around the battery bay, and over the second headphone port. It also came with earbuds that did not mind being wet. While I wouldn't have gone diving with it I did wear it to swim practice quite a few times with no ill effect.
Actually a lot of the no-bid contract talks these days is in reference to all the cronyism going on down south in the wake of Katrina and Rita. Billions and billions of dollars in contracts were awarded without bid or even research. Many of those contracts are being reevaluated and put out for bid, but only after much fuss was raised in the media and Congress.
Uh, without internet my point to point T-1's cost a bit less, even between Chicago and Cleveland or New York and Cleveland (admitadly only a couple hundred miles, but after you leave the local pop there aren't any big increases with milage). Sorry but anyone payint $1,800/month for a T-1 is getting ripped, you can almost get a T-3 from a bargain basement reseller for that much these days.
$1,800/month? I'm paying $550/month per T-1 for local loop plus bandwidth plus router rental and maintenance. Sure that's more then $50-70 for xDSL, but running something like video is going to be too painfull over xDSL anyways. If your job involves peoples lives then don't use something as flaky as VoIP on the cheap, you're really irresponsible to not use the 99.999% uptime POTS network that costs little more per month. I love VoIP, and if you have the right infrastructure it can be as realiable as POTS, but it won't be that much (if any) cheaper.
hmm, I have Wide Open West, could have had Adelphia but they offered crappier service for a few dollars more per month. I'm sorry that you live somewhere where the local municipality wasn't enlightened enough during the eighties to demand choice. Besides unless you are out in the boonies you probably have DSL available with your choice of providers thanks to Covad and your local telco. Heck I AM in the boonies (my neighbors are a farm, a farm, a ranch, and a utility right of way) and I can get decent speed DSL in addition to the two cable offerings.
Sorry, but with modern BGP routes if there is no way through a Level 1 peering point then the data is unlikely to get through except for if your upstream is multihomed with each of the parties that severed their peering point(s). There really isn't as much redundancy of routes as many people think, that mostly went out after MAE stopped being a common peering point for all the carriers and private peering points took over most of the inter carrier traffic.
Oooh, you just gave me an idea. If the filesystem is a DB, and configuration files are in the DB, then have a presentation layer. Expose the configuration as a text or xml file, showing only the current version. If you blow something up you go into an advanced tool and roll the transaction back and your configuration goes back to the way it was. It's the best of both worlds, the simplicity and accessibility of text/xml configration files and the robustness of database stored configuration information!
None of the applications which were actually broken by XP SP2 are something granny would run. On the other hand some of the applications that were affect were, but those were generally minor problems.
If you are going to go so far as to pay for redundant everything hardware you probably want to buy at least a pair of them and put them in a cluster. I know very few places where the demands are such that they would buy a single super expensive server and NOT have a cluster to allow for things like software upgrades.
After walking into a number of clients who a previous consultant had sold HP BL10e's to I can catagorically state that as a big fat negative. Those things had their laptop HDD's die left and right after just 2-3 years, much less reliable that just about any storage solution I have ever run into other than the troubled IBM Deskstar line.
No, the target audience is the local ISP who will bundle it with either a USB cablemodem or a USB DSL modem. That way they can continue to use the same stock of modems they already have and not have to pay for the cost and space of a NIC.
In the three cases we ran into when I was a consultant last year we placed the blame squarely on the shoulders of the vendor with the foobar product. They were coding in an unsafe manner to an undocumented API, it was 100% their fault. Now a naive home user with no real computer savy might blame MS, but when you look at the tradeoffs it seems like the security cleanup was good for the entire computer using public, even if a few people did have an app or two broken.
Is this just an extension of the work done for the S/360 nee zSeries LPAR stuff, or was something truely different needed for the POWER line?
No, they merely shift the tax burden from one place to another. Artificially locking public information up so that it can be resold by a private entity is just wrong. It's like when governments spend huge amounts of money to make GIS maps and then only provide them under expensive licenses, you've already paid to have the data collected and consolidated, why should you be double taxed if you actually want to access the information? Just because there are people with the means to buy the information under expensive licenses does not mean that the government should make it standard practice to double tax anyone who wants to actually use the output of the information retrieval and consolidation process that they have already paid for. Down that path lies much less transparant government, which is never a good thing.
Yes, but for ~$2.5M(US) you can have a Cessna Citation Mustang 6-person bizjet which is currently in shakedown testing and which will almost assuradly become certified before the skycar. Or if you are commuting by yourself or with only a few passengers there's the Dayjet Eclipse 500 which seats two pilots and 3 passengers for ~$1.3M which is also in shakedown. Basically the skycar is overpriced, underperforming, and overhyped. Basically there's a bunch of 3-6 seat bizjet's currently in testing or early production which cost less than the $3.5M pricetag of this thing, many are listed here. Since it's a page from one of the competitors in the space take all claims about estimates with the appropriate amount of salt, but even when being estimated by a competitor all of their costs come in under $3M.
HD-DVD will only be out months ahead of Blue-Ray, not a year as Toshiba and company had hoped. In fact they just made the announcement yesterday. Of course this is news for nerds, not actual breaking news =)
WRONG!
See Bowers v. Baystate and Davidson & Assoc. v. Internet Gateway (the BNETD case) for court rulings finding clickwrap licenses valid and enforceable. The Slashdot meme that EULA's aren't enforceable is just plain wrong.
Access applications can be used as frontends to any real RDMS which has an ODBC connector available (all of them). Access might not make the world's best code, but it does allow people who are not professional programmers access to the data in their database.
DO NOT listen to this advice. Every real RAID controller I have ever worked with requires exactly matched disks. In fact having different firmware versions on the drive controllers can cause problems. You can get away with unmatched disks using pseudo software controllers but I still wouldn't do it because I really doubt the manufacturer has tested such a configuration. Total software setups can of course use whatever as they are just a layer on top of the already existing disks and drivers.
What are you talking about? RDP/Citrix ICA (they are essentially the same protocol) runs on both windows and UNIX platforms for the server and clients are available for just about everything under the sun. RDP/ICA's sucess has nothing to do with the innards of windows and everything to do with having a sane, modern design.