Hey there,
We are in the process of migrating away from proprietary serial console servers to one that's based on simple hardware and open source software.
See http://cmrg.fifthhorseman.net/wiki/cereal
it's also packaged in debian already.
hum... so you don't care whether manufacturers ensure the disks they refurbish are clean of any info?
... in fact you don't care about privacy, and you consider everything you store on disks to be of no importance, and accept that they are sent out to random people when the disks are made to work again?
don't whine when your software licenses get stolen and your accounts get used by random people, then.
I say: complain about it, and try and make them so ashamed of this that they ensure they wipe out disks before sending them out in the future.
It would be nice if the "learn-in" didn't show people only info about the technical implications of the SOPA and PIPA.
I think more people should be aware that more than having this huge annoyance technically, all of the applications that people are gonna use will be, practically speaking, spying on what they're doing. And also that that "spying" won't be put up for bad reasons at first... but hey! once the info will be readily available, why not take a look at it once in a while and come up with something new that's unacceptable that people do in their private life.
I think people should also know that those acts will in fact rob them of a fundamental right, which is the right to privacy.
Statements from politicians and big media representatives that state "if you're not doing anything wrong, you don't need to have privacy" prove that they don't really understand the reason for the existence of this right. The right to privacy is there to put a barrier to avoid law enforcement from abusing of their powers by simply prying into any personal and private information that they can put their teeth on, thus to avoid having a whole bunch of people wrongly accused of things they didn't commit because they behaved in a certain way that makes law officials think that they caught a felon.
It's a law that serves to balance power between the state and the people: without things like this law, people become powerless (read: unable to defend oneself) before the state.
ouch, how much time did you stay there? I wouldn't have gone through this for too long.
they hired you as their sysadmin to get some professional advice and technical skills, but they just don't want to listen to your advice..
Sometimes, though, you just need to find the right way to explain to your bosses / clients what you're thinking of.
For example, I started working for a client some time ago who was saying "Could you have a look at our servers? We got busted (security issues) around 3 months ago, but I would think that everything is now going well." They didn't resinstall their busted server, or fix the problems in any way.. the botnet running in there was just "less active":P
I needed the client to go from "Everything's going fine" to "Ouch, WTH is happening on my servers?" So the way I found out to prove my point that things were not OK was to setup tighter monitoring. Since the client was receiving the alerts, too, he started seeing when the ssh binary got replaced and when other problems were around. The idea to ask me to really fix things up "came from himself". heh
now for the OP: hmm... I guess I'd go with other comments: paid support can be good for situations where your team really isn't prepared to handle most situations.
but if what you're afraid of is to have that really weird quirk that brings your server down and that you don't know how to handle, you could do two things:
convince your CIO to have a team of consultants around that are specialized in the software you're most afraid of so that they can help you out when it busts down.
don't stop there, designate people who should attend formations on how to manage this software and if possible, try and have the consultants teach those people how to fix those weird quirks.
have the people on formation write documentation on the procedures and config twists that they learn.
when the designated people are starting be able to manage the previously unknown software appropriately, have them teach others so that it becomes general culture in your whole team.
Isn't there already a datacenter in the computer science department? why can't they manage it? in most universities resources will mostly be there already.
but then if it really only costs only the salary for the account provisioner, meh, guess it'll win.
There's still the possibility of a backdoor in the underlying encryption schemes of course which would be far beyond most people's ability to detect no matter how many people see it or how long they look.
not for Bruce Schneier! he finds backdoors to encryption algorithms while drinking his morning Tea!
(c.f. http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/ )
Is this a web-based back end for hosting apps on a server? Is it an online platform of application infrastructure? Is it a toolkit/API for writing apps like Ruby-on-Rails?
... or is it just a statement to give RMS a heart attack?
first off, you don't want to edit a file in.doc format seeign what sort of informations it contains. some horror stories have emerged about older text being still in a private document made public. http://reviews.cnet.com/4531-10921_7-6379053.html (not precise but I don't have much time to search)
and second, well it makes a good point for pdf that it can be read by anyone because word documents can't.
let me tell you now that although it is not generally integrated into pdf editors, the pdf format allows for incremental modification, giving you the opportunity to modify a file and keep track of modifications. but, as the file format is well documented, it is possible to erase those traces by rebuilding the data tree, which is not possible with a.doc file.
the point of having open document formats is to know what your documents contain and to be able to clean what you don't want it to contain.
in fact, isn't it pointless to attribute a patent to something that was already done before?
normally, patents apply to _new_ ideas that could be stolen to make money with. all this new patent movement of M$ is just completely ridiculous.
absolute nonsense... ok yeah, an infringment (hmm not sure about that translation.. it's a ticket:) ) pays more than one day of parking fees. but did you know only one of those "old fashioned parking meter" pays the city about more than 5000$ yearly? and how many of those are there around the city?
They do so much the job in revenue thing that they tend to install more in places which are illegal. now that's where the real infringments come; if you get caught for parking your car less than 5 meters away from the stop line, you get something like a 200$ bill to pay because you used the city's parking lots.
It's a quite common knowledge here in MTL that streets look more like an old rocky terrain than like the butiful streets they have in ontario. The minister plans to better the condition. But he does this by replacing parking meters which in many people's opinion should be a lot less urging than completely rebuilding most of the streets.
It may have a benefit in the long term but looking at how things work with the government here, it may as well say that the streets will always stay with the 8 inches wide and 4 high holes.
Hey, let's watch out and let us not speak that loud about how bad the law can be: we'll be flagged as Ennemy Of The States and get imprisoned as were those russians during communism.
Is capitalism getting this low?
I have enough of capitals. they seem like you're screaming everything.
Plus, I hate my COBOL! course. This language is so old it looks like it's been designed to make grandma's weaver work.
Anyways. About that "virus" I hope it doesn't do anything more than messaging poeple. t'would suck to install once more that (X)tra (P)epperoni. I think I wouldn't re-install it. If it's f@ked up because of some lame microsoft security bug well it'll go down and crash good time HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! (oops caps again).
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Hey there, We are in the process of migrating away from proprietary serial console servers to one that's based on simple hardware and open source software. See http://cmrg.fifthhorseman.net/wiki/cereal it's also packaged in debian already.
The usual way to implement that sort of tracking is by having a list of sensible URLs to track in the database and redirecting *only* those.
Poster didn't look thouroughly. Have a look here: http://radio.hope.net/archive.html
hum ... so you don't care whether manufacturers ensure the disks they refurbish are clean of any info?
... in fact you don't care about privacy, and you consider everything you store on disks to be of no importance, and accept that they are sent out to random people when the disks are made to work again?
don't whine when your software licenses get stolen and your accounts get used by random people, then.
I say: complain about it, and try and make them so ashamed of this that they ensure they wipe out disks before sending them out in the future.
It would be nice if the "learn-in" didn't show people only info about the technical implications of the SOPA and PIPA.
I think more people should be aware that more than having this huge annoyance technically, all of the applications that people are gonna use will be, practically speaking, spying on what they're doing. And also that that "spying" won't be put up for bad reasons at first ... but hey! once the info will be readily available, why not take a look at it once in a while and come up with something new that's unacceptable that people do in their private life.
I think people should also know that those acts will in fact rob them of a fundamental right, which is the right to privacy.
Statements from politicians and big media representatives that state "if you're not doing anything wrong, you don't need to have privacy" prove that they don't really understand the reason for the existence of this right. The right to privacy is there to put a barrier to avoid law enforcement from abusing of their powers by simply prying into any personal and private information that they can put their teeth on, thus to avoid having a whole bunch of people wrongly accused of things they didn't commit because they behaved in a certain way that makes law officials think that they caught a felon.
It's a law that serves to balance power between the state and the people: without things like this law, people become powerless (read: unable to defend oneself) before the state.
They use a protocol named ARP, short for Ass Recognition Protocol.
ouch, how much time did you stay there? I wouldn't have gone through this for too long.
they hired you as their sysadmin to get some professional advice and technical skills, but they just don't want to listen to your advice..
Sometimes, though, you just need to find the right way to explain to your bosses / clients what you're thinking of. :P
For example, I started working for a client some time ago who was saying "Could you have a look at our servers? We got busted (security issues) around 3 months ago, but I would think that everything is now going well." They didn't resinstall their busted server, or fix the problems in any way.. the botnet running in there was just "less active"
I needed the client to go from "Everything's going fine" to "Ouch, WTH is happening on my servers?" So the way I found out to prove my point that things were not OK was to setup tighter monitoring. Since the client was receiving the alerts, too, he started seeing when the ssh binary got replaced and when other problems were around. The idea to ask me to really fix things up "came from himself". heh
now for the OP: hmm... I guess I'd go with other comments: paid support can be good for situations where your team really isn't prepared to handle most situations.
but if what you're afraid of is to have that really weird quirk that brings your server down and that you don't know how to handle, you could do two things:
Is that what they call "the end of time" ?
Isn't there already a datacenter in the computer science department? why can't they manage it? in most universities resources will mostly be there already. but then if it really only costs only the salary for the account provisioner, meh, guess it'll win.
There's still the possibility of a backdoor in the underlying encryption schemes of course which would be far beyond most people's ability to detect no matter how many people see it or how long they look.
not for Bruce Schneier! he finds backdoors to encryption algorithms while drinking his morning Tea! (c.f. http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/ )
Is this a web-based back end for hosting apps on a server? Is it an online platform of application infrastructure? Is it a toolkit/API for writing apps like Ruby-on-Rails?
... or is it just a statement to give RMS a heart attack?
the complicated part about the plugin is to support 17 languages. i10n generally boosts the size of applications.
first off, you don't want to edit a file in .doc format seeign what sort of informations it contains. some horror stories have emerged about older text being still in a private document made public.
.doc file.
http://reviews.cnet.com/4531-10921_7-6379053.html (not precise but I don't have much time to search)
and second, well it makes a good point for pdf that it can be read by anyone because word documents can't.
let me tell you now that although it is not generally integrated into pdf editors, the pdf format allows for incremental modification, giving you the opportunity to modify a file and keep track of modifications. but, as the file format is well documented, it is possible to erase those traces by rebuilding the data tree, which is not possible with a
the point of having open document formats is to know what your documents contain and to be able to clean what you don't want it to contain.
it will now be "can you pleeeease come and install happybloggeryp2pdownloadmeforfreeporntoday.exe"
:)
Isn't it the point in restricting the right to install software?
in fact, isn't it pointless to attribute a patent to something that was already done before?
normally, patents apply to _new_ ideas that could be stolen to make money with. all this new patent movement of M$ is just completely ridiculous.
absolute nonsense... ok yeah, an infringment (hmm not sure about that translation.. it's a ticket :) ) pays more than one day of parking fees. but did you know only one of those "old fashioned parking meter" pays the city about more than 5000$ yearly? and how many of those are there around the city?
They do so much the job in revenue thing that they tend to install more in places which are illegal. now that's where the real infringments come; if you get caught for parking your car less than 5 meters away from the stop line, you get something like a 200$ bill to pay because you used the city's parking lots.
It's a quite common knowledge here in MTL that streets look more like an old rocky terrain than like the butiful streets they have in ontario. The minister plans to better the condition. But he does this by replacing parking meters which in many people's opinion should be a lot less urging than completely rebuilding most of the streets.
It may have a benefit in the long term but looking at how things work with the government here, it may as well say that the streets will always stay with the 8 inches wide and 4 high holes.
Here's an interesting lab report on a goup of people developping the same thing. http://www.ipuc.pucminas.br/labep/mentor/MUG_99/Vi rtual_RAID_LINUX.PDF
it explains from the architecture to contraints and problems found, and of course how they stood up to the challenge.
Hey, let's watch out and let us not speak that loud about how bad the law can be: we'll be flagged as Ennemy Of The States and get imprisoned as were those russians during communism. Is capitalism getting this low?
I have enough of capitals. they seem like you're screaming everything. Plus, I hate my COBOL! course. This language is so old it looks like it's been designed to make grandma's weaver work. Anyways. About that "virus" I hope it doesn't do anything more than messaging poeple. t'would suck to install once more that (X)tra (P)epperoni. I think I wouldn't re-install it. If it's f@ked up because of some lame microsoft security bug well it'll go down and crash good time HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! (oops caps again).