The use of the year 2000 distorts the argument as it was an abnormal high point for earnings. In 1999 and 2000, IT salaries benefited greatly out of all proportion to the productivity gain the workers provided to companies due to the scramble for Y2K compliance. A longer baseline going back to 1997 and treating 2000 as an outlier would provide a very different picture that is more likely to reflect real trends in hourly rates etc.
mod insightful.
Space weather events only strongly couple with the Earth in geomagnetic high latitudes (Alaska, parts of the Canadian peninsulas etc - you know, missile sub launching areas). Most of the Earth's population lives in equatorial (subject to tropospheric {rainstorms} more than space weather {ionospheric}) or mid-latitude regions. Yeah, there is a really low risk of a high energy electron embedding in satellites and other terrestrial electronic systems - every day risk largely independent of solar cycle activity. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_weather. I was at the Hitachi, Japan conference where the term "space weather" was coined. Talk about a media piece trying to conjoin disparate instances of geophysical systems:-(.
2012, you are kidding me right? Who is going to get a satellite program up in an early warning emplacement in time? USA, you have _got_ to be joking. This is a money grab, nothing more. Is there a risk, for sure there is. Beating a drum and sounding the end of the world? I think cry wolf has been sounded a couple of times already and the effort on the cry wolf at least is doomed (may be not misguided, to note, ipad generation).
If an auditor certifies a system compliant, at a set point in time, to an agreed, contractually stated structure of compliance, how is this different from an insurance agency underwriting the contract to a set event misfortune? If there is no effective penalty mechanism, does this not just encourage the types of behavior most recently lambasted during the GFC?
Operators in this sphere are well rewarded for their efforts. Why should they not stand by their assessments (ie fiscal risk) in addition to reputation loss? Any other contract scenario would require it so why not this circumstance?
This may depend on if you run the VM in NAT or Bridged network mode. The firewall to the Windows 7 machine and the communications to the XP machine could be different. The software installed may expect different firewall behavior (TCP keepalive etc) or use different ranges (eg random UDP port exclusions) for some connection types. At least that seems to happen now using other VM technologies (VMWare, Xen etc).
How would licensing work for AV (and other applications)? Surely you'd need a copy per client (host + VM)?
My experience is Truecrypt only does whole disk encryption for Windows systems. It will not do whole disk encryption for anything except the Windows. It also fails to do encryption for multiboot single HDD configurations. It only encrypts the Windows partition.
Its been a while since I last was doing this for a living (http://www.physics.uq.edu.au/sp) but in general, this does not does have a significant effect in the mid-latitude regions of the world (think temperate climate regions). In equatorial regions, the effects on GPS are more likely to be associated with the troposhere (rainstorms and the like). Yes, there are high-latitude regions (auroral storms) that face problems but I usually operated under the assumption that this was generally:
1) more important to nuclear subs lurking in the poles
2) of diminishing consequence when rated against inductive current effects such as suffered by electric production systems (http://arc.iki.rssi.ru/mirrors/stern/Education/FAQs6.html#q81).
Space weather events are more likely to be severe in impact because relativistic particles embed in satellite electronics and cause havoc, rather than Earth bound events.
This seems an odd article given preload made it into distros as a standard component for Fedora Core 1 (RHEL3). Its been around since the late 2.4 kernel series was still mainstream. What was the significance of the article? It didn't even update the numbers to a modern hardware config.
There seem to be a lot of comments against Dell. I contrast this with my experience buying from them. They aim to serve/please and you know the products will "just work" with Linux distros. I compare this with other shops like ASUS which are completely Microsoft dominated (server/laptop/desktop). Will Dell retreat from its so far accepting stance towards Linux in favor of the market dominant OS? I hope not but history might suggest a "sounder" business position.
SystemRescueCD--I particularly like the partition editor and imaging utilities. Been weaning myself off Partition Magic/Drive Image even for Windows work with these two.
This is an invaluable resource. Resize partitions to allow dual boot, reset Windows admin passwords, surface verification scans of failing HDD's, backup HDD to USB disks, scrub HDD's on warranty swap etc, etc. The more use, the more uses I discover.
You can defend against these attacks by installing and implementing "swatch" a perl based script that you can use to execute commands (eg iptables blocking). This can be done by tailing/var/log/messages or your relevant log file dynamically or by passing swatch over historic files. This has worked well since Nov/Dec 2004 when this was reported to AUSCERT. You might also like to look at "portsentry" which can watch for probes and block using iptables rules (takes out Windows machines infected with viruses for instance). Both systems have exclusion rules that allow internal traffic to transmit normally.
Matlab and Octave are good rapid prototyping systems but even Matlab falls short in some cases for symbolic math. Would suggest Mathomatic instead if doing hard sciences. Available for many platforms and regularly updated.
This will hopefully provide product vendors (eg NVIDIA, user-mode linux etc) with the opportunity to catch up with the release cycle. A good thing for the next 12-24 months.
At the entry point, what you say is reasonable - people shouldn't be working the hours that are decribed.
Beyond that, situations commonly arise where people in specific positions are inescapably central to business continuity. It is also not unusual for people in those circumstances to see part of their self identity wrapped up in their performance and client satisfaction.
Each person makes decisions about what is most important to them - job, family, hobbies etc. Mark your own decision and stick to it, recognising the risk attendant with your choice (loss of health/marriage/sanity). Arbitrary definitions of success, fulfillment and growth based on criteria you do not feel are relevant will only send you backwards in the long term.
I came into the computer game as a physics researcher in the late 1990's looking at CGI mechanisms to facilitate online data sharing/analysis methods (C at that time was the only option for NSCA daemons). I am now a sysadmin looking after Solaris/Tru64/Redhat/win32 servers with a 3000+ user base. I would recommend without hesitation that PHP should be your language of choice for web development because:
1) it is cross platform compatible
2) it talks to databases with less trouble than enything else
3) it is more likely to be available (or can be made available) than any other choice imaginable
My experience as a sysadmin at a UNI is that newbies want to use.NET because that is what they are hearing about, more mature players want to try PERL (yes you can but why?) and the rest just want something that works they don't have to code. PHP is the solution to all these problems:
1) no special firewall ports to be opened (.NET admins will know what I am talking about with socket connections)
2) talks to everything (my old PHP/SHTML/ASP template worked fine for all systems - a new corporate JSP system sucks for everything, including JSP)
3) don't know how it will be deployed. OS and other system details unknown or irrelevant.
4) extensive range of free software offering real solutions to customer issues.
PHP is also reasonably easy to develop for in comparison to JSP or other languages. Type casting can be loose without losing security (in a development environment) and the system calls to access external data repositories is much simpler than other alternatives.
The only thing that might be better is JAVA but that has a high local system resource cost and may invoke a lax IP security model for DB access. It is ALWAYS better to have a resource cost incurred at the server side, than the client side, where security is an issue (when is it not?). With this in mind, PHP and pure HTML interfaces are suggested as the best approach to multi-client access issues for resource constrained scenarios.
Regards
Mark (my opinion; not enterprise. within workgroup, my opinion holds some sway)
Do I even have to ask why instead of Australia extending their copyrights (they were/are a life+50 nation), the US doesn't scale back US laws to match Australia's?
Rule one of globalisation (ie being dictated to by the US) - the country with the most enlightened position will take it up the arse.
Knoppix is a great distro to pass on to students who need to work in a *IX shell environment to do course work. I recommend it to EE and IT students when they want to get their feet wet but don't want to use VMWARE or go through a potentially destructive HDD repartition. The KDE interface is friendly to the Windows crippled, the harware detection is fantastic and running from the CD, a user can't break it. Many of the derivative distros are also great in niche areas (eg ClusterKNOPPIX). A great piece of work to help make Linux better appreciated and understood.
Since when have you ever known a State or corporation to abide by any agreement if someone with a big stick didn't chase them down and enforce it? A clasic recent example is the US illegal detainment of persons in Cuba. He/she who wins (ie declares themselves a winner and isn't pushed off the podium) writes history. Someone "claiming" an asteroid has as much validity as my defining Washington as my own and charging rent. Eros among many bodies could only be reasonably described as in the public domain anyway given the number of persons/orgs that have observed it. Tell this guy to bugger off and move on.
I second the comments on NIS - insecure and "noisy" too. I have found some success using LDAP (openLDAP and eDir) to share information that is usually handled via NIS and it is way more secure. As suggested by other posters, NFS and automount works well, especially if you have a central file server and just have the logged in/home/$USER directory mounted on login (user info in LDAP with PAM authentication against LDAP/Active Directory/SAMBA).
You might also look at the oMFS filesystem that comes with openMosix. I haven't tried it yet but it seems to allow the sharing of filesystems to all cluster node members when set up. Shared memory/CPU resources and file access.
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The use of the year 2000 distorts the argument as it was an abnormal high point for earnings. In 1999 and 2000, IT salaries benefited greatly out of all proportion to the productivity gain the workers provided to companies due to the scramble for Y2K compliance. A longer baseline going back to 1997 and treating 2000 as an outlier would provide a very different picture that is more likely to reflect real trends in hourly rates etc.
Once upon a time, in another career ...
http://www.physics.uq.edu.au/sp/sp.html
mod insightful. Space weather events only strongly couple with the Earth in geomagnetic high latitudes (Alaska, parts of the Canadian peninsulas etc - you know, missile sub launching areas). Most of the Earth's population lives in equatorial (subject to tropospheric {rainstorms} more than space weather {ionospheric}) or mid-latitude regions. Yeah, there is a really low risk of a high energy electron embedding in satellites and other terrestrial electronic systems - every day risk largely independent of solar cycle activity. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_weather. I was at the Hitachi, Japan conference where the term "space weather" was coined. Talk about a media piece trying to conjoin disparate instances of geophysical systems :-(.
2012, you are kidding me right? Who is going to get a satellite program up in an early warning emplacement in time? USA, you have _got_ to be joking. This is a money grab, nothing more. Is there a risk, for sure there is. Beating a drum and sounding the end of the world? I think cry wolf has been sounded a couple of times already and the effort on the cry wolf at least is doomed (may be not misguided, to note, ipad generation).
Mod parent up. Market cap is also not acquisition value (usually about x8 market cap).
Its all a plot to make people buy Mac
If an auditor certifies a system compliant, at a set point in time, to an agreed, contractually stated structure of compliance, how is this different from an insurance agency underwriting the contract to a set event misfortune? If there is no effective penalty mechanism, does this not just encourage the types of behavior most recently lambasted during the GFC? Operators in this sphere are well rewarded for their efforts. Why should they not stand by their assessments (ie fiscal risk) in addition to reputation loss? Any other contract scenario would require it so why not this circumstance?
This may depend on if you run the VM in NAT or Bridged network mode. The firewall to the Windows 7 machine and the communications to the XP machine could be different. The software installed may expect different firewall behavior (TCP keepalive etc) or use different ranges (eg random UDP port exclusions) for some connection types. At least that seems to happen now using other VM technologies (VMWare, Xen etc). How would licensing work for AV (and other applications)? Surely you'd need a copy per client (host + VM)?
My experience is Truecrypt only does whole disk encryption for Windows systems. It will not do whole disk encryption for anything except the Windows. It also fails to do encryption for multiboot single HDD configurations. It only encrypts the Windows partition.
Its been a while since I last was doing this for a living (http://www.physics.uq.edu.au/sp) but in general, this does not does have a significant effect in the mid-latitude regions of the world (think temperate climate regions). In equatorial regions, the effects on GPS are more likely to be associated with the troposhere (rainstorms and the like). Yes, there are high-latitude regions (auroral storms) that face problems but I usually operated under the assumption that this was generally: 1) more important to nuclear subs lurking in the poles 2) of diminishing consequence when rated against inductive current effects such as suffered by electric production systems (http://arc.iki.rssi.ru/mirrors/stern/Education/FAQs6.html#q81). Space weather events are more likely to be severe in impact because relativistic particles embed in satellite electronics and cause havoc, rather than Earth bound events.
This seems an odd article given preload made it into distros as a standard component for Fedora Core 1 (RHEL3). Its been around since the late 2.4 kernel series was still mainstream. What was the significance of the article? It didn't even update the numbers to a modern hardware config.
There seem to be a lot of comments against Dell. I contrast this with my experience buying from them. They aim to serve/please and you know the products will "just work" with Linux distros. I compare this with other shops like ASUS which are completely Microsoft dominated (server/laptop/desktop). Will Dell retreat from its so far accepting stance towards Linux in favor of the market dominant OS? I hope not but history might suggest a "sounder" business position.
SystemRescueCD--I particularly like the partition editor and imaging utilities. Been weaning myself off Partition Magic/Drive Image even for Windows work with these two.
This is an invaluable resource. Resize partitions to allow dual boot, reset Windows admin passwords, surface verification scans of failing HDD's, backup HDD to USB disks, scrub HDD's on warranty swap etc, etc. The more use, the more uses I discover.
Software used at Queensland University of Technology for this was/is Quantum. I'm not there anymore but from memory, it does all you ask.
It looks like the website is still around
http://www.orc.soton.ac.uk/
Hungry Jacks (Australian version of Burger King). Watch them boot one of their touchscreen POS terminals sometime.
You can defend against these attacks by installing and implementing "swatch" a perl based script that you can use to execute commands (eg iptables blocking). This can be done by tailing /var/log/messages or your relevant log file dynamically or by passing swatch over historic files. This has worked well since Nov/Dec 2004 when this was reported to AUSCERT. You might also like to look at "portsentry" which can watch for probes and block using iptables rules (takes out Windows machines infected with viruses for instance). Both systems have exclusion rules that allow internal traffic to transmit normally.
Matlab and Octave are good rapid prototyping systems but even Matlab falls short in some cases for symbolic math. Would suggest Mathomatic instead if doing hard sciences. Available for many platforms and regularly updated.
This will hopefully provide product vendors (eg NVIDIA, user-mode linux etc) with the opportunity to catch up with the release cycle. A good thing for the next 12-24 months.
At the entry point, what you say is reasonable - people shouldn't be working the hours that are decribed.
Beyond that, situations commonly arise where people in specific positions are inescapably central to business continuity. It is also not unusual for people in those circumstances to see part of their self identity wrapped up in their performance and client satisfaction.
Each person makes decisions about what is most important to them - job, family, hobbies etc. Mark your own decision and stick to it, recognising the risk attendant with your choice (loss of health/marriage/sanity). Arbitrary definitions of success, fulfillment and growth based on criteria you do not feel are relevant will only send you backwards in the long term.
I came into the computer game as a physics researcher in the late 1990's looking at CGI mechanisms to facilitate online data sharing/analysis methods (C at that time was the only option for NSCA daemons). I am now a sysadmin looking after Solaris/Tru64/Redhat/win32 servers with a 3000+ user base. I would recommend without hesitation that PHP should be your language of choice for web development because: 1) it is cross platform compatible 2) it talks to databases with less trouble than enything else 3) it is more likely to be available (or can be made available) than any other choice imaginable My experience as a sysadmin at a UNI is that newbies want to use .NET because that is what they are hearing about, more mature players want to try PERL (yes you can but why?) and the rest just want something that works they don't have to code. PHP is the solution to all these problems:
1) no special firewall ports to be opened (.NET admins will know what I am talking about with socket connections)
2) talks to everything (my old PHP/SHTML/ASP template worked fine for all systems - a new corporate JSP system sucks for everything, including JSP)
3) don't know how it will be deployed. OS and other system details unknown or irrelevant.
4) extensive range of free software offering real solutions to customer issues.
PHP is also reasonably easy to develop for in comparison to JSP or other languages. Type casting can be loose without losing security (in a development environment) and the system calls to access external data repositories is much simpler than other alternatives.
The only thing that might be better is JAVA but that has a high local system resource cost and may invoke a lax IP security model for DB access. It is ALWAYS better to have a resource cost incurred at the server side, than the client side, where security is an issue (when is it not?). With this in mind, PHP and pure HTML interfaces are suggested as the best approach to multi-client access issues for resource constrained scenarios.
Regards
Mark (my opinion; not enterprise. within workgroup, my opinion holds some sway)
Do I even have to ask why instead of Australia extending their copyrights (they were/are a life+50 nation), the US doesn't scale back US laws to match Australia's?
Rule one of globalisation (ie being dictated to by the US) - the country with the most enlightened position will take it up the arse.
Knoppix is a great distro to pass on to students who need to work in a *IX shell environment to do course work. I recommend it to EE and IT students when they want to get their feet wet but don't want to use VMWARE or go through a potentially destructive HDD repartition. The KDE interface is friendly to the Windows crippled, the harware detection is fantastic and running from the CD, a user can't break it. Many of the derivative distros are also great in niche areas (eg ClusterKNOPPIX). A great piece of work to help make Linux better appreciated and understood.
Since when have you ever known a State or corporation to abide by any agreement if someone with a big stick didn't chase them down and enforce it? A clasic recent example is the US illegal detainment of persons in Cuba. He/she who wins (ie declares themselves a winner and isn't pushed off the podium) writes history. Someone "claiming" an asteroid has as much validity as my defining Washington as my own and charging rent. Eros among many bodies could only be reasonably described as in the public domain anyway given the number of persons/orgs that have observed it. Tell this guy to bugger off and move on.
Now we know how Telstra will save all that money...
I second the comments on NIS - insecure and "noisy" too. I have found some success using LDAP (openLDAP and eDir) to share information that is usually handled via NIS and it is way more secure. As suggested by other posters, NFS and automount works well, especially if you have a central file server and just have the logged in /home/$USER directory mounted on login (user info in LDAP with PAM authentication against LDAP/Active Directory/SAMBA).
You might also look at the oMFS filesystem that comes with openMosix. I haven't tried it yet but it seems to allow the sharing of filesystems to all cluster node members when set up. Shared memory/CPU resources and file access.