I'm the head of IT at a somewhat late-adopting company. We are preparing a company wide migration from NT 3.51 to NT4. We have a lot of client machines on Win95 that we hope to have to 98 by Fall and Me by this time next year. I thought that by moving to NT4 and Me that we'd be caught up on all this security hullaballoo. What am I going to tell the CIO?
You're right! I forgot to mention that you would need a radial arm saw and a laser guided miter saw! Oh, a good dust collection system is a must, too. And an HVLP gun for your lacquer and poly. Without all these tools you can't get anything useful done. And lots of clamps. Gotta have lots of clamps. And a biscuit jointer.
Take up woodworking and build your own. All you need is a tablesaw, surface planer, jointer, several routers, drill press, drill bits, router bits, dado blades, a workbench, a shop in which to keep all your stuff, some drills (both the corded and cordless varieties), maybe a scroll saw, a belt sander, some random orbital sanders, wood glue, and a nail gun. With all that, you'll be amazed that you can build your own Console Organizer for the miniscule price of the raw materials!
I wouldn't want to let anyone listen to this while on acid. It reminds me of that time in that movie, "The Bear," when the bear either ate some mushrooms or a toad or something then had a funky dream.
Yeah, that would be great, if only certain major shipping companies didn't refuse to ship model rocket engines! Link
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One time I wondered, "If I create an array of arrays of arrays of arrays, would I travel through time? Or break the time-space continuum somehow. Or would I cease to exists. Or.." Then I just went "uh-uh" and passed out for an hour and a half, because my fitness spa is the International House of Pancakes.
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"There's no reason that the basest part of an operating system has to be a command line"
Um, the command line is a shell. The shell is not the OS, it is a user interface. You know, the "UI" in "GUI."
An operating system has no concept of 2d, 3d, whatever. There is no direct interaction between human and OS. The human interacts with the UI, the UI interacts with the OS, the OS interacts with the hardware. The OS is not a visual thing.
Your problem was that you went to CMU. You should have gone to Pitt for Computer Engineering, like I did. Nobody there is smart enough to turn you into a gay linux lover. Hell, you're lucky if anyone at Pitt even knows how to gain root. Or what root is.
Though it wasn't explicitely mentioned in the question, I feel that such a situation may be more common when the developers are hired as temporary / part-time help. In this case, you are a client and the developers may be looking to get something more. If you have your own in-house developers, they'll have more stake in the company and the project, and surely would care more about security - both the security of the software and the security of their job. A hired hand could code the backdoor then move on before you ever notice. Your own developers would be more hesitant to do this because if and when it gets noticed, they'll still be easily found in the cube on the third floor, east wing.
Maybe a good idea would be to bring on a full time development staff and pay them good money so they don't feel the need to try to get something more. Oh, and tell me where to send my resume once you create these new full time positions.
A wee bit of sleuth-like snooping would see that the username most prevalent in that thread is the same as the username posting this comment. I was being sarcastic about JDE implementing security. They just don't do it.
Not at the highest, nor at the lowest. The only security performed in JDE OneWorld is password hashing via NTLMSSP. Everything else is sent in plain text. According the the "real" JDE people, not the software developers down on hard luck thus finding themselves working with JDE, it isn't JDE's responsibility to secure the data in the system. This should be implemented by IT at the network level. You know, where it would be costliest to do so.
Impolite way? Ever woken up at 4:30 AM only to find your male roommate's lips on your shaft? That's not too polite on his part. But I let him finish anyway... I didn't want to be impolite!
As for what causes this, I am at a loss. But I have noticed that it is very pronounced in my cheap $8 headphones, while unnoticeable in a pair of higher quality. I also cannot hear it when using decent speakers, though I can when using cheap ones. But using the cheap headphones or speakers with a walkman-type device or stereo does not induce the noise, only when connected to my computer.
An interesting test would be... Take the offending speakers or headphones and connect them to your walkman/cd player/ipod/whatever and sit at your computer. Do you hear the noise? If not, and if it only occurs when the speakers/headphones are connected to the computer, then the noise may be internal to the system, the problem occuring at the soundcard, and better speakers/headphones filter it out.
I only hope that they don't have to use frog DNA to supplement the sparse DRAM DNA that they've been able to harvest from amber that oozed over EDO SIMMS millions of seconds ago. If they did, we may end up with DRAM that is able to hot-switch it's bits, thus resulting in chaos.
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First wireframe walls in quake, now wirefreame mountains in the real world. Is someone going to develop PunkBuster for the real wars?
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I'm the head of IT at a somewhat late-adopting company. We are preparing a company wide migration from NT 3.51 to NT4. We have a lot of client machines on Win95 that we hope to have to 98 by Fall and Me by this time next year. I thought that by moving to NT4 and Me that we'd be caught up on all this security hullaballoo. What am I going to tell the CIO?
You're right! I forgot to mention that you would need a radial arm saw and a laser guided miter saw! Oh, a good dust collection system is a must, too. And an HVLP gun for your lacquer and poly. Without all these tools you can't get anything useful done. And lots of clamps. Gotta have lots of clamps. And a biscuit jointer.
Take up woodworking and build your own. All you need is a tablesaw, surface planer, jointer, several routers, drill press, drill bits, router bits, dado blades, a workbench, a shop in which to keep all your stuff, some drills (both the corded and cordless varieties), maybe a scroll saw, a belt sander, some random orbital sanders, wood glue, and a nail gun. With all that, you'll be amazed that you can build your own Console Organizer for the miniscule price of the raw materials!
I wouldn't want to let anyone listen to this while on acid. It reminds me of that time in that movie, "The Bear," when the bear either ate some mushrooms or a toad or something then had a funky dream.
You have to look for the (mp3).wav file. (I don't get it, either.)
Yeah, that would be great, if only certain major shipping companies didn't refuse to ship model rocket engines! Link
One time I wondered, "If I create an array of arrays of arrays of arrays, would I travel through time? Or break the time-space continuum somehow. Or would I cease to exists. Or.." Then I just went "uh-uh" and passed out for an hour and a half, because my fitness spa is the International House of Pancakes.
"There's no reason that the basest part of an operating system has to be a command line"
Um, the command line is a shell. The shell is not the OS, it is a user interface. You know, the "UI" in "GUI."
An operating system has no concept of 2d, 3d, whatever. There is no direct interaction between human and OS. The human interacts with the UI, the UI interacts with the OS, the OS interacts with the hardware. The OS is not a visual thing.
Peter Murphy's latest opus is anything but Western. Check it out...
Your problem was that you went to CMU. You should have gone to Pitt for Computer Engineering, like I did. Nobody there is smart enough to turn you into a gay linux lover. Hell, you're lucky if anyone at Pitt even knows how to gain root. Or what root is.
Are you hiring? First grovel!
This makes no sense to me; I authenticate to various servers etc. all day long, and never have problems with modifier keys.
That's because you're running Windows!
Though it wasn't explicitely mentioned in the question, I feel that such a situation may be more common when the developers are hired as temporary / part-time help. In this case, you are a client and the developers may be looking to get something more. If you have your own in-house developers, they'll have more stake in the company and the project, and surely would care more about security - both the security of the software and the security of their job. A hired hand could code the backdoor then move on before you ever notice. Your own developers would be more hesitant to do this because if and when it gets noticed, they'll still be easily found in the cube on the third floor, east wing.
Maybe a good idea would be to bring on a full time development staff and pay them good money so they don't feel the need to try to get something more. Oh, and tell me where to send my resume once you create these new full time positions.
A wee bit of sleuth-like snooping would see that the username most prevalent in that thread is the same as the username posting this comment. I was being sarcastic about JDE implementing security. They just don't do it.
Not at the highest, nor at the lowest. The only security performed in JDE OneWorld is password hashing via NTLMSSP. Everything else is sent in plain text. According the the "real" JDE people, not the software developers down on hard luck thus finding themselves working with JDE, it isn't JDE's responsibility to secure the data in the system. This should be implemented by IT at the network level. You know, where it would be costliest to do so.
Don't use PeopleSoft. Use JDE. It has security fully implemented at the lowest level of the system. See this thread on the JDE users list
Impolite way? Ever woken up at 4:30 AM only to find your male roommate's lips on your shaft? That's not too polite on his part. But I let him finish anyway... I didn't want to be impolite!
As for what causes this, I am at a loss. But I have noticed that it is very pronounced in my cheap $8 headphones, while unnoticeable in a pair of higher quality. I also cannot hear it when using decent speakers, though I can when using cheap ones. But using the cheap headphones or speakers with a walkman-type device or stereo does not induce the noise, only when connected to my computer.
An interesting test would be... Take the offending speakers or headphones and connect them to your walkman/cd player/ipod/whatever and sit at your computer. Do you hear the noise? If not, and if it only occurs when the speakers/headphones are connected to the computer, then the noise may be internal to the system, the problem occuring at the soundcard, and better speakers/headphones filter it out.
No time to read the articles, just gimme the jist.
First advantagous adaptive mutation!
I only hope that they don't have to use frog DNA to supplement the sparse DRAM DNA that they've been able to harvest from amber that oozed over EDO SIMMS millions of seconds ago. If they did, we may end up with DRAM that is able to hot-switch it's bits, thus resulting in chaos.
Wow. Just wow.