UK law is slightly different, but my understanding is that taking photographs on private land requires the permission of the land/building owner; in the case of the underground, that's TFL. The owner is entitled to make whatever demands on the photographer it sees fit, up to and including charging for a license.
Amen - if you go with something you can't get out of, you're limiting future choice. If you get something you can transfer into another system (even if it needs scripting to do so), you've got a stick to beat them with; "fix this or we'll move to another solution".
Vxfs is, as far as I'm aware, the same as for Solaris and would support shrinking filesystems and/or doing online relayouts (e.g. moving from stripe to concat, changing stripe width etc). The big downside is that it's a paid for product and ain't cheap. There is a freebie version which only supports 4 volumes/filesystems if you can live with that limitation, not sure if it supports all the features of the full storage foundation suite.
As other posters have pointed out, ZFS isn't available on linux except via FUSE. Also, ZFS doesn't currently support removing disks from a zpool; your only recourse to remove disks from a pool is backup, rebuild & restore.
Doubt it. BoS (I assume you mean Bank Of Scotland) won't as it was information from RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland Group) which was lost. As far as I've heard, there hasn't been any sueing going on anyway.
The worst part is that RBS didn't atually have a breach, it was a 3rd party. That, of course, could well lead to someone getting sued.
ZFS - every server needs some kind of storage; your choices are some kind of native LVM (Disksuite, etc) or Veritas volume manager (pricy). ZFS has a few missing features still (e.g. can't remove a disk from a pool), but it's getting there.
SMF - svcs -x shows faults - it's pretty clear from that where hte issue is.
FMA - it will report faults and Solaris has had page retiral for single bit errors for some time now.
Zones - if you're sharing servers, it's a boon. Also useful for a lot of dev environments on a single larger server. Another reason we're considering is for clustering/disaster recovery. A common issue is config which hasn't been copied to the DR/cluster servers; with a zone on EMC replicated storage, we just flip the zone with all its config to the DR site and away we go.
Binary compatibility - yes, if you're missing the source it's a major issue, but it's very useful to have applications just work(TM) after an upgrade.
rcapd - ulimit will do it per-process, but not across a set of processes; i.e. set a limit of 500MB but you could run 100 processes at 500MB and kill your box.
The replacement of Solaris with Linux for cost savings could, in most cases, be equally met by using Solaris on x86. If you're doing "real" production workloads, chances are you're running on fairly similar hardware to what you'd run Solaris x86 on and have support from Redhat/Suse.
Partly, you need policies to discourage end users copying data anywhere it's not needed. And I really, really mean discourage, up to and including possible sacking.
At a technical level, every laptop/portable data storage device should have its hard drive encrypted. Disable USB ports if you can get away with it, or at least put software on which forces encryption of files sent to USB keys. That will cover most of your issues.
Users will legitimately require access to sensitive data as part of their job; the IT department should have the power to ensure they don't do it in a way that exposes the company to the embarassment of losing a laptop with SSNs in the subway...
Yup, I remember lenslok; I didn't find it too bad once you got the hang of it, even on the crappy TV I had on my speccy. It could occassionally be painful at times if you got the sizing wrong, though.
I never actually had to deal with dongles, although I did see them around from time to time. I've seen the daisy chains as you say, hanging off the back of the desk... urgh...
Mostly just an expectation that if their clients have lost their website, they're not going to be happy. Enemy or not, the customers are going to be a tad peeved that they've vanished off the face of the internet...
I've never had any dealings with ThePlanet, so can't comment on how they view/treat their customers, but my point about relative effort still stands; it's easier to provide hourly updates on a website than it is to deal with hundreds of customer complaints/questions.
It's probably less effort to spend a few minutes updating a forum than it would be to man the phones against irate customers demanding their servers be brought back online.
Getting the locks right can make a huge difference in performance. The problem for the developer is that he has to lock enough to prevent race conditions and data corruption, but not so much so as to destroy performance. As you say, developers have taken the "easy" route of locking everything because they can.
There should be very few things which lock up an entire kernel, even for a few nanoseconds.
The lawsuit alleged that Scientology churches around the world have been bombarded with harassing phone calls, obscene e-mails, bomb threats and death threats by members of an amorphous, loosely knit group that calls itself Anonymous. Then there's stuff about a suitcase being left, potentially as a bomb threat. If member of this group are doing this, they're stepping over the line from protest to harrassment. No matter what you think of Scientology, that is illegal.
The court throw out the case because they couldn't prove that the individuals identified were explicitly connected to any illegal activities, not because they thought the activities were "OK".
Disclaimer: IANAL (although I've done some law) and this is for UK law.
I did a contract law course at uni years ago and as I recall it, the term is "Invitation to Treat"; at the point at which you take the item to the till, you're making an offer to buy it at the stated price, which the store can refuse to accept. However, if a store is found to be misrepresenting the price either deliberately or for too long after being informed about it, they can be taken under the Trades Descriptions Act in the UK.
How this works on web buying is less obvious, but most stores now have some kind of disclaimer in their terms & conditions stating that they can cancel orders or that they only legally accept the offer at shipping time.
The problem with Java is it does a lot of hand-holding. You don't have to worry about memory leaks because it does Garbage Collection (yes, I know that's a simplification, but...), you don't have to worry much about casting types, you don't need to worry about pointer, etc, etc. I used to do sysadmin stuff at a university and I wasn't happy when they decided to push all their programming into Java because I could see it would remove people's ability to write good code. I could foresee graduates hitting the workfloor and writing buggy, leaky code because they'd code C++ as if it was Java without knowing the issues around it.
Now, if you want to use Java for whatever reason, that's fine, but graduates should have the knowledge to write software using pointers & memory management. It's safer to move from C++ to Java than Java to C++.
Maybe I'm being generous to it, but I don't remember it being that bad; we certainly used 4.06 & 4.07 at the time on Window NT. Bear in mind this was the start of my IT career, so I was a lot less cynical back then!
Pretty much. IE 3.x sucked, but it was out at the time of Netscape 3.x & 4.0x. 4.0x wasn't too bad, it didn't really suck until 4.5+. By that point, IE was up to 4.0 and actually worked fairly well, at least better than Netscape at the time and even I (rabid anti MS was I was) ended up going to IE because it was better.
The MS tricks just helped the demise, but they weren't the sole reason.
You don't actually need to be onsite to manage most servers these days. I'm in a team managing about 1100 servers (yes, I know some people probably manage more, this isn't a willy-waving contest) and I rarely have to go onsite in the data centres to do anything. Really, you only need physical access for:
server installs
parts replacement (which you can just palm off to the vendor)
cabling changes
tape changes
hitting a power button when it's completely hung (although most systems have remote power these days)
A small team of people onsite can handle that easily and they don't need to be that technically skilled and your "real" admins can be anywhere in the world.
It's marginally misleading - I read it as "lost, gone forever", but it sounds more like they sent a copy of the data to another department and it disappeared somewhere in the post.
Not quite as bad, but still very careless and possibly in violation of data security laws.
Between the non-FOSS license and the author's enormous ego, it becomes difficult to get anything done with qmail. Sure, it's secure, but it's a pain to do certain things. One of my biggest bugbears with it was that he didn't seem to see a problem where a mail sent to multiple group aliases might end up appearing twice in users' inboxes if a user was in more than one of the lists. It caused us some confusion when we started using qmail and all responses seemed to be "why wouldn't you want multiple copies of the same mail in your inbox?".
Yes, some of his refusal to compromise mean that qmail is still secure, but in terms of usability, it's a bitch unless you're willing to work with patches & diffs to add the functions you need.
Crap, just re-read what I typed; forgot to escape the "less than". Supposed to read:
So they get 70 Euro cents for every song for zero marginal cost. They get over 70% of the sale price, leaving the remaining <30% to cover costs plus a profit for Apple.
At least on a physical CD, they had the excuse of printing, transit, etc, etc to cover, but with this they just get a cheque every month for sitting on their backsides and doing sod all.
At present, UMG, the world's largest record company, gets 0.70 euro ($0.99) out of the 0.99 euro retail price charged by iTunes, Vivendi said So they get 70 Euro cents for every song for zero marginal cost. They get over 70% of the sale price, leaving the remaining
At least on a physical CD, they had the excuse of printing, transit, etc, etc to cover, but with this they just get a cheque every month for sitting on their backsides and doing sod all.
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UK law is slightly different, but my understanding is that taking photographs on private land requires the permission of the land/building owner; in the case of the underground, that's TFL. The owner is entitled to make whatever demands on the photographer it sees fit, up to and including charging for a license.
Amen - if you go with something you can't get out of, you're limiting future choice. If you get something you can transfer into another system (even if it needs scripting to do so), you've got a stick to beat them with; "fix this or we'll move to another solution".
Vxfs is, as far as I'm aware, the same as for Solaris and would support shrinking filesystems and/or doing online relayouts (e.g. moving from stripe to concat, changing stripe width etc). The big downside is that it's a paid for product and ain't cheap. There is a freebie version which only supports 4 volumes/filesystems if you can live with that limitation, not sure if it supports all the features of the full storage foundation suite.
As other posters have pointed out, ZFS isn't available on linux except via FUSE. Also, ZFS doesn't currently support removing disks from a zpool; your only recourse to remove disks from a pool is backup, rebuild & restore.
Except it wasn't them who lost the data, although what a 3rd party was doing with all those records I'm not sure.
The worst part is that RBS didn't atually have a breach, it was a 3rd party. That, of course, could well lead to someone getting sued.
The replacement of Solaris with Linux for cost savings could, in most cases, be equally met by using Solaris on x86. If you're doing "real" production workloads, chances are you're running on fairly similar hardware to what you'd run Solaris x86 on and have support from Redhat/Suse.
At a technical level, every laptop/portable data storage device should have its hard drive encrypted. Disable USB ports if you can get away with it, or at least put software on which forces encryption of files sent to USB keys. That will cover most of your issues.
Users will legitimately require access to sensitive data as part of their job; the IT department should have the power to ensure they don't do it in a way that exposes the company to the embarassment of losing a laptop with SSNs in the subway...
I never actually had to deal with dongles, although I did see them around from time to time. I've seen the daisy chains as you say, hanging off the back of the desk... urgh...
I've never had any dealings with ThePlanet, so can't comment on how they view/treat their customers, but my point about relative effort still stands; it's easier to provide hourly updates on a website than it is to deal with hundreds of customer complaints/questions.
It's probably less effort to spend a few minutes updating a forum than it would be to man the phones against irate customers demanding their servers be brought back online.
There should be very few things which lock up an entire kernel, even for a few nanoseconds.
The court throw out the case because they couldn't prove that the individuals identified were explicitly connected to any illegal activities, not because they thought the activities were "OK".
I did a contract law course at uni years ago and as I recall it, the term is "Invitation to Treat"; at the point at which you take the item to the till, you're making an offer to buy it at the stated price, which the store can refuse to accept. However, if a store is found to be misrepresenting the price either deliberately or for too long after being informed about it, they can be taken under the Trades Descriptions Act in the UK.
How this works on web buying is less obvious, but most stores now have some kind of disclaimer in their terms & conditions stating that they can cancel orders or that they only legally accept the offer at shipping time.
Now, if you want to use Java for whatever reason, that's fine, but graduates should have the knowledge to write software using pointers & memory management. It's safer to move from C++ to Java than Java to C++.
Maybe I'm being generous to it, but I don't remember it being that bad; we certainly used 4.06 & 4.07 at the time on Window NT. Bear in mind this was the start of my IT career, so I was a lot less cynical back then!
The MS tricks just helped the demise, but they weren't the sole reason.
Fairly quickly? It took almost 2 years for the US to stop charging the tariffs.
See also Lemmy.
- server installs
- parts replacement (which you can just palm off to the vendor)
- cabling changes
- tape changes
- hitting a power button when it's completely hung (although most systems have remote power these days)
A small team of people onsite can handle that easily and they don't need to be that technically skilled and your "real" admins can be anywhere in the world.Not quite as bad, but still very careless and possibly in violation of data security laws.
Yes, some of his refusal to compromise mean that qmail is still secure, but in terms of usability, it's a bitch unless you're willing to work with patches & diffs to add the functions you need.
As for the parent of this thread, while the UK doesn't have "opt out" organ donation at the moment, people are pressing for it to be introduced.
So they get 70 Euro cents for every song for zero marginal cost. They get over 70% of the sale price, leaving the remaining <30% to cover costs plus a profit for Apple.
At least on a physical CD, they had the excuse of printing, transit, etc, etc to cover, but with this they just get a cheque every month for sitting on their backsides and doing sod all.