So, if I use my cable modem connection to transfer a compressed file, thus exceeding my bandwidth cap, I should spend a year in prison? The way I see it, armed thugs arresting people at gunpoint for tweaking their cable modems is inherently a jackbooted nazi thug "repress the proles" sort of thing.
If you honestly believe that tweaking a cable modem should carry a penalty greater than having your service disconnected, you are insane.
"Also the post-9/11 unwillingness/inability of the press to criticize Bush Jr.. "
WTF? From the day of the attacks itself, when Peter Jennings interpreted the Secret Service's presidential emergency response plan as confusion and panic - to today, with accusations of Bush being everything from an idiot to a tyrant to a drugged out loser, the media has consistently and constantly criticized him.
I don't believe the criticism is unwarranted in some cases, but this situation is quite different from the media carrying nothing but poll results about how most Americans don't care that their president attempted to intimidate witnesses in a criminal case against him. One can only wonder at the media fury that would occur if Bush's senior White House staffers started turning up dead under mysterious circumstances, or if Ashcroft ordered the destruction of a church (complete with children inside) whose practices he didn't agree with.
If none of *that* sounds familiar, then I suggest you re-evaluate your opinions with regard to US media bias.
Novell is not a real OS, but DOS has nothing to do with that fact. Novell is an answer to a question which is no longer being asked. Novell is the best file server system that has ever been created. Period. It is a secure, stable, high performance file server. The user administration features under NDS exceed any modern definition of the word "scalable", and its reliability is legendary.
As I mentioned, however, no one wants a file server anymore. File servers are commodity items, in the form of Win2k servers in closets, and the core of an enterprise network these days is not the file servers, but the application servers. This is where *nix (the only real operating system(s) in existence) and windows (a brightly colored omnibus driving off a cliff) have taken over.
Novell's good if you have an enormous need for enterprise wide file services. Just don't try to print (at least with NDPS), and for God's sake, don't do anything while Console One is loading. And no "cons" discussion related to Novell would be complete without mentioning the seething hell that is NLS or SLP problems. But, if you need enterprise wide file services, it's because you've implemented enterprise wide applications which run on desktops via shared database files, which means you have much bigger problems that anything I've described here.
It was a good idea, and I hope the NDS concept takes hold elsewhere (so far it hasn't - AD is not a directory), but all in all, Novell is irrelevant. That is why I put down my CNE and picked up Linux.
Novell, if you're reading this and wondering how and when you lost it, I just want to say it WAS the case 87 NCP fiasco. Well, okay, and the fact that I couldn't request Pink Floyd's "Time" while on hold with Novell Support Connection Radio. May your death be prolonged and gentle, may you fade quietly away into a copyright holding company who makes good money with the occaisonal lawsuit, and, long after Brainshare is no more, know that I will show up every so often in the Spring to raise a Wasatch brew to the glory that was Novell.
Was there ever a time when a team had ABSOLUTELY nothing worth sending into competition?
Yeah, every British built contrivance in the US vs. UK competitions.
I have very fond memories of the VW bug with a rake mine clearing device going up against the giant American diesel powered beach beater bar. The distctively USian machine was so destructive to the course that it was entirely obscured by sand while in operation, and utterly destroyed the mines rather than detonating them - which led to glowing and egregious anti-American Brit praise of the bug's rake having popped two mines during its run - until the fragments were counted. hehe.
The ad was in violation of (I pause to compose myself) Microsoft's code of behavior (is there any way I can see that code?), but making a scapegoat of some poor PR rep who was doing her best to put lipstick on the MS pig (tm) is not?
If I shut down IE before running Excel because I don't want my computer to crash during a presentation, will I be castigated as well?
This is a Good Thing (tm), but it got me wondering. Has anyone else noticed that only the losers of the last election care about freedom at any given point in time? The ACLU didn't seem to mind Janet "The Butcher of Waco" Reno burning down children filled churches, nor sexual harassment at the presidential level a few years ago.
It must just be that the purpose of government, regardless of who is in power, is directly contreverted by the cause of liberty, and that the political ideologies are only so much window dressing used by parties which really are no different from one another.
Have you ever seen a blue screen on a 2600? Kind of puts the whole "wiping out most of the life on the planet" thing into perspective, doesn't it?
Remember that neophilia isn't necessarily the first criterion when designing systems designed to do things which affect, as you so accurately pointed out, most of the lives on the planet - all while being depth charged.
First of all, with Rh8, almost all of the examples you mentioned are not only possible in Linux, but quite simple. The print driver for my HP photosmart 1215 does not hang the machine like the windows version does, just to cite one example.
Second of all, if you think MS has won because of ease of use, you've already bought into the propganda. Ever since MSDOS was ripped off of CP/M, Microsoft has consistently been technically inferior to all of its competitors. From the GUI to groupware, every one of Microsoft's product efforts has been a poor copy of someone else's work. If you call Windows the easy to use solution, you have to say that BSODs and the regular cycle of format and reinstall are easy.
I was a CNE in a past life, and I saw first hand how MS got their market share. They send a representative to the CTO, and suggest that a license audit of all their windows workstations might be less difficult than converting their servers to NT. If this fails, they bribe the CIO/CEO, or engage in character assasination. Poof. Instant market share. The company's history is a prime example of bully tactics and practiced world domination.
You can argue this if you want to, but you would be opposing observation with opinion. I know. I was there.
The problem is that web sites are becoming the primary means of disseminating information for a great many organizations.
I bitched out a local government agency for hosting a web site which only worked with IE. If they are a public agency, the information should not be restricted to those who buy Microsoft's operating system. The governor and one of my senators got involved, and I got a personal call of apology from the agency head.
Having a patch in a few hours isnt all that impressive - its nice, but in effect - its not that useful.
I suppose it's more useful to be subject to the delays of what the commercial sfw industry calls "accepted vulnerability reporting practices" - which means we'll let you and your systems remain vulnerable for months while we:
Do a cost benefit analysis to derive the date at which it is more expensive to us to allow the problem to remain unpatched than to fix it.
Forward the results of the above analysis a schedule for the patch devel group so they can work on a patch.
Coordinate with other devel groups, legal, and marketing to determine what competitive inhibition (breaking Netscape, Novell, Samba, etc.), new DRM measures, EULA changes, and other related stuff should be released with the patch.
people are wary of installing untested patches
I have all of my Linux systems on automatic update, and I've never once had a problem with a patch. I've also never had to accept a new EULA, never had icons I'd previously deleted return to my desktop, nor had third party software suddenly fail to work following a system update.
I noticed this a while back. This is apparently Scientology's way of preventing free speech advocates from purchasing ads pointing to www.xenu.net, which many did during the Google fiasco.
I return your graciousness in revising your statements by accepting those revisions. It's refreshing to see someone more dedicated to the discussion than to their ego.
Although I accept that you did not intend to impune white men, your analysis leads one to the conclusion that white men and Muslims are not mutually exclusive. After all, there are those who are members of both groups. Consider Aukai Collins:
white
male
Muslim
extremist
fought jihad (in Chechnya)
He's 100% on the American side vs. Al Qaeda and would have worked undercover to help the feds break it up if not for bureaucratic quagmires. I'd be honored to sit next to him on a plane, despite the fact that he meets several criteria for concern as a Muslim terrorist.
White men commit far more crimes than Muslims (numerically).
You were doing a pretty good job of deconstructing profiling until you made that statement. That your positions regarding profiling somehow failed to undergird your very own arguments casts everything you say in doubt.
Oh yeah, great plan. Centralized download management, virtually no verification of the legality of the content. It would be easier just to drop all your computer equipment off at the local FBI office.
which makes me wonder, can you split the UTP cable so the upgoing packets go through one hub and the downgoing packet go through another hub?
Technically this is doable, given a few custom cables and a very ugly wiring configuration. This isn't how the pros do it, however. Given that the need is:
An IDS box without an address
A wiring facility which allows all traffic to be picked up
Some means of out of band management.
The best thing to do is plan the point of insertion for the IDS. Most WAN circuits are far below the 100Mbps level. Therefore, the best place to sniff is between the WAN edge device and the gateway router. Set both devices up for half duplex communication, insert a hub, and away you go. The only problem here is that the hub is now the single point of failure for the WAN. This is why some shops use very advanced electronic taps which may even sniff the raw WAN packets before they ever get to the termination device.
Out of band remote management can be achieved with the implementation of a management network. The easiest way to do this is with a second NIC in the IDS box. The slickest way to do it is with 802.1q tagging and VLANS. If you have the right switches and NICS in place, you can build a complete isolated management network without changing a single piece of hardware.
Interesting point. The historical answer is quite revealing. The invention in question is not the memeograph, but the printing press. The printing press so threatened those in control of information at the time (the Catholic church), that the entire reformation resulted. Let's just hope this go-round is not as bloody.
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So, if I use my cable modem connection to transfer a compressed file, thus exceeding my bandwidth cap, I should spend a year in prison? The way I see it, armed thugs arresting people at gunpoint for tweaking their cable modems is inherently a jackbooted nazi thug "repress the proles" sort of thing.
If you honestly believe that tweaking a cable modem should carry a penalty greater than having your service disconnected, you are insane.
Kind of puts a whole new light on the concept of dressing for success, doesn't it?
"Also the post-9/11 unwillingness/inability of the press to criticize Bush Jr.. "
WTF? From the day of the attacks itself, when Peter Jennings interpreted the Secret Service's presidential emergency response plan as confusion and panic - to today, with accusations of Bush being everything from an idiot to a tyrant to a drugged out loser, the media has consistently and constantly criticized him.
I don't believe the criticism is unwarranted in some cases, but this situation is quite different from the media carrying nothing but poll results about how most Americans don't care that their president attempted to intimidate witnesses in a criminal case against him. One can only wonder at the media fury that would occur if Bush's senior White House staffers started turning up dead under mysterious circumstances, or if Ashcroft ordered the destruction of a church (complete with children inside) whose practices he didn't agree with.
If none of *that* sounds familiar, then I suggest you re-evaluate your opinions with regard to US media bias.
Novell is not a real OS, but DOS has nothing to do with that fact. Novell is an answer to a question which is no longer being asked. Novell is the best file server system that has ever been created. Period. It is a secure, stable, high performance file server. The user administration features under NDS exceed any modern definition of the word "scalable", and its reliability is legendary.
As I mentioned, however, no one wants a file server anymore. File servers are commodity items, in the form of Win2k servers in closets, and the core of an enterprise network these days is not the file servers, but the application servers. This is where *nix (the only real operating system(s) in existence) and windows (a brightly colored omnibus driving off a cliff) have taken over.
Novell's good if you have an enormous need for enterprise wide file services. Just don't try to print (at least with NDPS), and for God's sake, don't do anything while Console One is loading. And no "cons" discussion related to Novell would be complete without mentioning the seething hell that is NLS or SLP problems. But, if you need enterprise wide file services, it's because you've implemented enterprise wide applications which run on desktops via shared database files, which means you have much bigger problems that anything I've described here.
It was a good idea, and I hope the NDS concept takes hold elsewhere (so far it hasn't - AD is not a directory), but all in all, Novell is irrelevant. That is why I put down my CNE and picked up Linux.
Novell, if you're reading this and wondering how and when you lost it, I just want to say it WAS the case 87 NCP fiasco. Well, okay, and the fact that I couldn't request Pink Floyd's "Time" while on hold with Novell Support Connection Radio. May your death be prolonged and gentle, may you fade quietly away into a copyright holding company who makes good money with the occaisonal lawsuit, and, long after Brainshare is no more, know that I will show up every so often in the Spring to raise a Wasatch brew to the glory that was Novell.
Was there ever a time when a team had ABSOLUTELY nothing worth sending into competition?
Yeah, every British built contrivance in the US vs. UK competitions.
I have very fond memories of the VW bug with a rake mine clearing device going up against the giant American diesel powered beach beater bar. The distctively USian machine was so destructive to the course that it was entirely obscured by sand while in operation, and utterly destroyed the mines rather than detonating them - which led to glowing and egregious anti-American Brit praise of the bug's rake having popped two mines during its run - until the fragments were counted. hehe.
ROTFL mod parent up!
The ad was in violation of (I pause to compose myself) Microsoft's code of behavior (is there any way I can see that code?), but making a scapegoat of some poor PR rep who was doing her best to put lipstick on the MS pig (tm) is not?
If I shut down IE before running Excel because I don't want my computer to crash during a presentation, will I be castigated as well?
This is a Good Thing (tm), but it got me wondering. Has anyone else noticed that only the losers of the last election care about freedom at any given point in time? The ACLU didn't seem to mind Janet "The Butcher of Waco" Reno burning down children filled churches, nor sexual harassment at the presidential level a few years ago.
It must just be that the purpose of government, regardless of who is in power, is directly contreverted by the cause of liberty, and that the political ideologies are only so much window dressing used by parties which really are no different from one another.
Ow. Okay, now I'm depressed. I hate epiphanies.
Have you ever seen a blue screen on a 2600? Kind of puts the whole "wiping out most of the life on the planet" thing into perspective, doesn't it?
Remember that neophilia isn't necessarily the first criterion when designing systems designed to do things which affect, as you so accurately pointed out, most of the lives on the planet - all while being depth charged.
First of all, with Rh8, almost all of the examples you mentioned are not only possible in Linux, but quite simple. The print driver for my HP photosmart 1215 does not hang the machine like the windows version does, just to cite one example.
Second of all, if you think MS has won because of ease of use, you've already bought into the propganda. Ever since MSDOS was ripped off of CP/M, Microsoft has consistently been technically inferior to all of its competitors. From the GUI to groupware, every one of Microsoft's product efforts has been a poor copy of someone else's work. If you call Windows the easy to use solution, you have to say that BSODs and the regular cycle of format and reinstall are easy.
I was a CNE in a past life, and I saw first hand how MS got their market share. They send a representative to the CTO, and suggest that a license audit of all their windows workstations might be less difficult than converting their servers to NT. If this fails, they bribe the CIO/CEO, or engage in character assasination. Poof. Instant market share. The company's history is a prime example of bully tactics and practiced world domination.
You can argue this if you want to, but you would be opposing observation with opinion. I know. I was there.
Yeah, and if all the bad press fails, we can always bring the Microsoft marketing machine to a complete standstill by slashdotting getty images.
CatSex
OW! Mental image!
As if the Beowulf cluster references were not enough, now I have to imagine castration via angry cat.
Reeeoorrrww!
The problem is that web sites are becoming the primary means of disseminating information for a great many organizations.
I bitched out a local government agency for hosting a web site which only worked with IE. If they are a public agency, the information should not be restricted to those who buy Microsoft's operating system. The governor and one of my senators got involved, and I got a personal call of apology from the agency head.
You better back off, or I'll uncork some evolution on your ass!
So Microsoft's clustering solution is going to be better than free, even after you've paid for it?
Having a patch in a few hours isnt all that impressive - its nice, but in effect - its not that useful.
I suppose it's more useful to be subject to the delays of what the commercial sfw industry calls "accepted vulnerability reporting practices" - which means we'll let you and your systems remain vulnerable for months while we:
people are wary of installing untested patches
I have all of my Linux systems on automatic update, and I've never once had a problem with a patch. I've also never had to accept a new EULA, never had icons I'd previously deleted return to my desktop, nor had third party software suddenly fail to work following a system update.
I noticed this a while back. This is apparently Scientology's way of preventing free speech advocates from purchasing ads pointing to www.xenu.net, which many did during the Google fiasco.
I return your graciousness in revising your statements by accepting those revisions. It's refreshing to see someone more dedicated to the discussion than to their ego.
Although I accept that you did not intend to impune white men, your analysis leads one to the conclusion that white men and Muslims are not mutually exclusive. After all, there are those who are members of both groups. Consider Aukai Collins:
- white
- male
- Muslim
- extremist
- fought jihad (in Chechnya)
He's 100% on the American side vs. Al Qaeda and would have worked undercover to help the feds break it up if not for bureaucratic quagmires. I'd be honored to sit next to him on a plane, despite the fact that he meets several criteria for concern as a Muslim terrorist.White men commit far more crimes than Muslims (numerically).
You were doing a pretty good job of deconstructing profiling until you made that statement. That your positions regarding profiling somehow failed to undergird your very own arguments casts everything you say in doubt.
Help! There's warchalkers everywhere and they're stealing our underwear!
I guess it is theft. Warchalkers are performing wireless security audits for free, thus stealing from themselves.
This should make for an interesting recliner ritual.
Come home, grab a beer, and annouce "Watch out! I'm coming in for re-entry!"
Oh yeah, great plan. Centralized download management, virtually no verification of the legality of the content. It would be easier just to drop all your computer equipment off at the local FBI office.
which makes me wonder, can you split the UTP cable so the upgoing packets go through one hub and the downgoing packet go through another hub?
Technically this is doable, given a few custom cables and a very ugly wiring configuration. This isn't how the pros do it, however. Given that the need is:
The best thing to do is plan the point of insertion for the IDS. Most WAN circuits are far below the 100Mbps level. Therefore, the best place to sniff is between the WAN edge device and the gateway router. Set both devices up for half duplex communication, insert a hub, and away you go. The only problem here is that the hub is now the single point of failure for the WAN. This is why some shops use very advanced electronic taps which may even sniff the raw WAN packets before they ever get to the termination device.
Out of band remote management can be achieved with the implementation of a management network. The easiest way to do this is with a second NIC in the IDS box. The slickest way to do it is with 802.1q tagging and VLANS. If you have the right switches and NICS in place, you can build a complete isolated management network without changing a single piece of hardware.
Interesting point. The historical answer is quite revealing. The invention in question is not the memeograph, but the printing press. The printing press so threatened those in control of information at the time (the Catholic church), that the entire reformation resulted. Let's just hope this go-round is not as bloody.