Scenario 3:
Man backs up RAID server to remote location and evacuates building before it collapses.
Reward: Lives fruitful life with wife and kids IN TOTAL ANONYMITY.
C'mon, even sysadmins like to be heroes. Imagine the BABES!
Charles oversaw the development of Multiplan, Word, and Excel among many other achievements.
"Travelling through hyperspace ain't like developing Office applications, boy! Without precise coordinates from the nava computer we'd fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova, and that would end our trip real quick, wouldn't it?"
How about a stack of "foil" platters read by a single head outside the stack, that can "focus" its read-sensitive probe electromagnetically inside the stack? Maybe they wouldn't even need an airgap, just some intervening film to help "address" the different layers.
That's an ingenious idea. Technology like that would make existing hard disks last a lot longer, because the only moving part would be the spinning of the disks. That would prevent a lot of head crashes, and also increase the operating temperature range.
Microsoft's 'built-in payload' does not PROPAGATE the virus. It just STOPS the PC from working. Now, tell me, how is a virus going to affect a large number of machines when it can't even REPLICATE ITSELF?
This is why viruses don't format your C: drive anymore. It's a lot easier to backup your machine now than it was when viruses erased your C: drive. Viruses like mydoom and nimda hit the front page of the NYTimes because they propagate, propagate, propagate!
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Have you figured out the moral yet?
Yeah. The moral is that you can pick up chicks who are in town on business, even if they are in a relationship, if their SO is in the IT field.
You've been watching way too much CSI if you think this evidence isn't enough to take a case to trial. Not every murder case ends with the forensic investigators finding a tiny shard of a unique knife mande only once in history by the accused's next door neighbor which is metallically linked to the handle of a knife found in a dumpster with the accused fingerprints on it nearby some ashes that have remnants of the victims DNS embedded in the one tooth that survived the burning process etcetcetcetc.
I would say that *YOU* have been watching too much CSI, but then I noticed that you typed DNS when you really meant DNA. Good for you! You have been working on getting BIND correctly configured instead of watching medical dramas. Keep up the good work!
BTW: California Highway Patrol is CHiPs, not DHCP.
Get 2 identical computers. On computer number 1, open an e-bay web page. On computer number 2, open the same e-bay web page, and then open microsoft word.
Now, to the web monitoring system, it looks like both computers are "USING" the auction page, but a human could be composing memos in microsoft word on computer number 2.
How do they know how long someone sat and read a web page? The only way to do that is to have another human standing over your shoulder watching, and I'm pretty sure that would taint the results of this study....
I don't understand why so many home users are against using a good, old fashioned tape backup.
I can sum it up in one word: SCSI. Most high capacity tape drives are some form of SCSI, and SCSI can be a nightmare to configure and troubleshoot. There are like DOZENS of different kinds of SCSI buses: SCSI, SCSI 2, SCSI - Ultra, SCSI - Wide, SCSI-Ultra/Wide,SCSI 3, LVD, etc... Each bus can handle 8, 16, 32 devices, whatever, so you have to deal with scsi IDs on the devices, then you have to deal with termination, powered or unpowered. GOOD LORD!
Open up a modern home PC. What does it have in it? A SATA hard drive. One Drive per cable, one cable per socket on the motherboard, no jumpers, no terminators, no SCSI IDs. For goodness sakes, Home PCs are getting SIMPLER because the market demanded it! Why the hell mess that up by adding something as confusing as SCSI?
Don't worry, there's still a sizeable number of die-hard SONY fans out there who will buy Sony's latest crap, no matter how bad it is or how overpriced it is.
Yes, and they're called the MPAA. Studios always buy sony monitors to appear in films. With that much of a guaranteed sale, Sony will do just fine.
As a christmas gift, I bought my nephew a Sansa player that had the same requirements. He has Windows 2000 Pro. When he tried to install the software, it complained. I just connected the player anyway, and it was found as a USB storage device. We crammed the MP3s onto it, and it just plain worked.
The same will hold true for ANY OS that supports USB storage devices.
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Scenario 3:
Man backs up RAID server to remote location and evacuates building before it collapses.
Reward: Lives fruitful life with wife and kids IN TOTAL ANONYMITY.
C'mon, even sysadmins like to be heroes. Imagine the BABES!
Thank you. I'm glad to be here. Now build me a pyramid....
It looks like the admins now have a "second job"....
The research is done at MIT. MIT is in the United States.
TFA is from the BBC in the UK.
How is it that overseas news agencies are breaking stories like this, and our local ones are not?
Agent Smith says: "What good is a phone call if you're unable to speak?"
...and I remember when tagging was something that was done to wildlife.
"What's that flashing?"
I wonder if it's feasible.
Except for one thing:
Microsoft's 'built-in payload' does not PROPAGATE the virus. It just STOPS the PC from working. Now, tell me, how is a virus going to affect a large number of machines when it can't even REPLICATE ITSELF?
This is why viruses don't format your C: drive anymore. It's a lot easier to backup your machine now than it was when viruses erased your C: drive. Viruses like mydoom and nimda hit the front page of the NYTimes because they propagate, propagate, propagate!
BTW: California Highway Patrol is CHiPs, not DHCP.
Likewise, Try this experiment:
Get 2 identical computers. On computer number 1, open an e-bay web page.
On computer number 2, open the same e-bay web page, and then open microsoft word.
Now, to the web monitoring system, it looks like both computers are "USING" the auction page, but a human could be composing memos in microsoft word on computer number 2.
How do they know how long someone sat and read a web page? The only way to do that is to have another human standing over your shoulder watching, and I'm pretty sure that would taint the results of this study....
You must be thinking aboot Canadian english....
How about a power supply with a USB connector on it, just for charging your USB batteries?
I can just see the Executives at MonsterCable hoarding all the HDMI cables and laughing "I have *ALL* the cables! Muahahaha!"
Most high capacity tape drives are some form of SCSI, and SCSI can be a nightmare to configure and troubleshoot. There are like DOZENS of different kinds of SCSI buses: SCSI, SCSI 2, SCSI - Ultra, SCSI - Wide, SCSI-Ultra/Wide,SCSI 3, LVD, etc... Each bus can handle 8, 16, 32 devices, whatever, so you have to deal with scsi IDs on the devices, then you have to deal with termination, powered or unpowered. GOOD LORD!
Open up a modern home PC. What does it have in it? A SATA hard drive. One Drive per cable, one cable per socket on the motherboard, no jumpers, no terminators, no SCSI IDs. For goodness sakes, Home PCs are getting SIMPLER because the market demanded it! Why the hell mess that up by adding something as confusing as SCSI?
Yes, and they're called the MPAA. Studios always buy sony monitors to appear in films. With that much of a guaranteed sale, Sony will do just fine.
As a christmas gift, I bought my nephew a Sansa player that had the same requirements. He has Windows 2000 Pro. When he tried to install the software, it complained. I just connected the player anyway, and it was found as a USB storage device. We crammed the MP3s onto it, and it just plain worked.
The same will hold true for ANY OS that supports USB storage devices.
Yeah, but who's going to pay for it kid, you?
I should search for those terms using AOL. It would put anyone who looks at the logs WAY off the trail because I'm not even married.
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