If you spend any time working on an IBM mainframe you'll find it IS going strong. I spend substantial amounts of my day writing and debugging REXX code.
If I pop up my 3270 emulator window right now, there's a 27,000 line REXX program in an edit window waiting to be ripped apart... (which is the main reason I'm reading slashdot right now!)
but pro) contained magnetite (hematite) in a form that ONLY occurs in lifeforms on earth, but con) they came from Mars, which totals up to "no one has the vote."
How does anyone know that magnetite ONLY occurs in lifeforms from Earth. Last time I checked those were the only lifeforms we knew about.
... or just using the P2P networks, PeerGuardian can help. I reject about 250 requests per day on the Emule network from tracking companies. Here's about 40 minutes worth:
From http://itvibe.com/default.aspx?NewsID=1283 UPDATE @ 22:46:
Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive and President of Microsoft has said in a statement,
"I can assure you that we know there has been no compromise of the integrity of the source code; that it has not been modified or tampered with in any way."
Go out and enjoy yourself. Go to Australia for 3 weeks and have a blast Do anything that you won't have the chance to do again, but don't blow the money on a network for the rest of your building!
Jesus! Hell, give me the money and I'll enjoy it for you!
BCV - Business Contingency Volume I think. We call it Snap backup'ing.
When we dump data, it gets dumped to a VTS (that's Virtual Tape system which is a whopping collection of disk, or DASD pretending to be loads of cartridges). Once the data is on the VTS, it then makes it's way to a selection of real MagStar drives which sit behind the VTS system.
Maybe I'm telling you something you alerady know, but those decks you mention are for DJ's. We often speed up or slow down tunes, to beat-match two tunes together. However, if you speed up a tune, greatly, you can easily end up chipmunking the vocals. The samplers in these decks compensate for this, and keep the vocals at the same pitch even though they are playing much faster.
A friend of mine uses them, and rates them greatly. I personally have never used them, as all of my DJ'ing is done with CD's and is mainly trance, so I don't have much of a vocals problem to deal with.
So, it'll support 3,500 concurrent TSO users with sub 1.8 second response times, 60+ batch jobs all running at 6000 I/O requests per second, maybe 10 or 15 people compiling in foreground and some of those 60+ batch jobs also compiling in background. It'll serve FTP requests and HTTP requests in sub second times, whilst all this is going on. In essence, if you throw work at it, it just gets done.
Tonight, it'll begin processing your quarterly ledger, finance and payroll suites for 19 seperate companies. You *KNOW* it'll all be done in the morning. Your downtime is measured to the 5th decimal over the year, and they are all 9's.
This machine I'm working on right now will.
I rather suspect you don't have a mainframe under your desk. You might have something which looks like a very slow mainframe on-screen, but it sure isn't a mainframe!
I think, perhaps, the poster meant that with the amount of assumptions being made, and the unlikelyhood of being able to do anything with the fact that "oh, there is alien life out there", the idle cycles could be used more efficiently - say in the folding@home project, or any of the other distributed computing systems currently running.
Then again, I've happily spent the last 4 years checking RC56 encryption keys, and my machine is currently checking Optimal Golomb Rulers to try to find shorter ones that those already known, so I can hardly preach about wasting CPU cycles.
By Robert Lemos Staff Writer, CNET News.com March 3, 2003, 5:13 PM PT
A critical flaw in Sendmail, the Internet's most popular e-mail server, has become the first test for the newly minted Department of Homeland Security and its cyberdefense arm. The DHS's Directorate of Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection (IAIP) worked with security company Internet Security Systems, which discovered the flaw, and Sendmail Inc. to create a patch while keeping news of the issue from leaking to those who might exploit the vulnerability.
"Working with the private sector, we alerted key owners of the vulnerable software and got them talking," said David Wray, spokesman for the IAIP Directorate. "We think this is a great example of how this should, and does, work."
The Department of Homeland Security got high marks from the security community for giving companies the necessary time to create the patch and for synchronizing its release.
"This is the model for what you do if you want to find a vulnerability," said Alan Paller, director of research for the SysAdmin, Audit, Network and Security (SANS) Institute, a research and education group that lets security companies, system administrators and others share information. "The DHS are the ones that can put the pressure on all the vendors and keep it quiet."
In the future, the Department of Homeland Security will be the U.S. agency that will manage any response to major cyberthreats.
The three organizations that have previously handled the United States government's response to cyberthreats--the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), the Federal Computer Incident Response Center (FedCIRC), and the National Communication System (NCS)--officially became part of the Department of Homeland Security on Friday at midnight. The third of NIPC personnel that handled investigations, rather than response, have returned to the FBI. The IAIP Directorate has now absorbed the NIPC's response personnel and role.
Internet Security Systems originally reported the flaw to the NIPC in mid-January. The agency helped notify other companies and the Sendmail Consortium, the open-source project that develops the mail-server code.
"They were a good resource in helping us make sure that the protection was put in place," Greg Olson, chairman and co-founder of Sendmail Inc., said of the National Infrastructure Protection Center responder personnel (now with the directorate). "You need to contact a lot of people and make sure they understand this is important and (make sure they) apply the patch." Sendmail Inc. develops a proprietary version of the mail server.
In February, the Bush administration unveiled the completed National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace and laid out five major efforts: to create a cyberspace security response system, to establish a threat and vulnerability reduction program, to improve security training and awareness, to secure the government's own systems and to work internationally to solve security issues.
The IAIP is one of five directorates under the umbrella of the Department of Homeland Security. The others are Management, Science and Technology, Border and Transportation Security, and Emergency Preparedness and Response.
It's also (partly) filmed in my village in West Yorkshire, meaning each weekend hundreds of Tourists come on busses to look at absolutely nothing. Seriously - nothing at all.
Slashdot Mirror
Helium? We had raw Ether. Nothing atually ran, but we didn't actually care...
And what exactly are you going to do? The people here were sharing illegal material and thus are breaking the law.
In a decent, moral society, I expect to see people breaking the law to be punished, fined, locked up, whatever.
If you spend any time working on an IBM mainframe you'll find it IS going strong. I spend substantial amounts of my day writing and debugging REXX code.
If I pop up my 3270 emulator window right now, there's a 27,000 line REXX program in an edit window waiting to be ripped apart... (which is the main reason I'm reading slashdot right now!)
Miss Chokesondick... she was a teacher.
but pro) contained magnetite (hematite) in a form that ONLY occurs in lifeforms on earth, but con) they came from Mars, which totals up to "no one has the vote."
How does anyone know that magnetite ONLY occurs in lifeforms from Earth. Last time I checked those were the only lifeforms we knew about.
I suspect I'm missing something obvious, but...
... or just using the P2P networks, PeerGuardian can help. I reject about 250 requests per day on the Emule network from tracking companies. Here's about 40 minutes worth:
Connection Rejected: 12.222.39.72 - Communications Resources PGIPDB (02-19-2004 @ 17:49:19)
Connection Rejected: 12.222.39.72 - Communications Resources PGIPDB (02-19-2004 @ 17:50:00)
Connection Rejected: 12.222.39.72 - Communications Resources PGIPDB (02-19-2004 @ 17:50:42)
Connection Rejected: 12.222.39.72 - Communications Resources PGIPDB (02-19-2004 @ 17:56:11)
Connection Rejected: 12.222.39.72 - Communications Resources PGIPDB (02-19-2004 @ 17:56:55)
Connection Rejected: 12.222.39.72 - Communications Resources PGIPDB (02-19-2004 @ 17:57:37)
Connection Rejected: 12.222.39.72 - Communications Resources PGIPDB (02-19-2004 @ 17:59:00)
Connection Rejected: 12.222.39.72 - Communications Resources PGIPDB (02-19-2004 @ 17:59:44)
Connection Rejected: 12.222.39.72 - Communications Resources PGIPDB (02-19-2004 @ 18:00:26)
Connection Rejected: 12.222.39.72 - Communications Resources PGIPDB (02-19-2004 @ 18:08:53)
Connection Rejected: 12.222.39.72 - Communications Resources PGIPDB (02-19-2004 @ 18:09:35)
Connection Rejected: 12.222.39.72 - Communications Resources PGIPDB (02-19-2004 @ 18:10:16)
Connection Rejected: 12.222.39.72 - Communications Resources PGIPDB (02-19-2004 @ 18:18:51)
Connection Rejected: 12.222.39.72 - Communications Resources PGIPDB (02-19-2004 @ 18:19:34)
Connection Rejected: 12.222.39.72 - Communications Resources PGIPDB (02-19-2004 @ 18:20:14)
Connection Rejected: 12.222.39.72 - Communications Resources PGIPDB (02-19-2004 @ 18:28:40)
Connection Rejected: 12.222.39.72 - Communications Resources PGIPDB (02-19-2004 @ 18:29:24)
Connection Rejected: 12.222.39.72 - Communications Resources PGIPDB (02-19-2004 @ 18:30:06)
You can get it from Methlabs.org. Windows only as far as I know.
From http://itvibe.com/default.aspx?NewsID=1283E @ 22:46:
UPDAT
Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive and President of Microsoft has said in a statement,
"I can assure you that we know there has been no compromise of the integrity of the source code; that it has not been modified or tampered with in any way."
Go out and enjoy yourself. Go to Australia for 3 weeks and have a blast Do anything that you won't have the chance to do again, but don't blow the money on a network for the rest of your building!
Jesus! Hell, give me the money and I'll enjoy it for you!
I managed to get 61 bytes down before it started timing out...
"Their" when you are referring to another person/group of people.
e.g. "Their behaviour was shocking considering their viewpoint on narcotics"
"There" otherwise.
"Those people over there were heavily drugged."
BCV - Business Contingency Volume I think. We call it Snap backup'ing.
When we dump data, it gets dumped to a VTS (that's Virtual Tape system which is a whopping collection of disk, or DASD pretending to be loads of cartridges). Once the data is on the VTS, it then makes it's way to a selection of real MagStar drives which sit behind the VTS system.
Works quite nicely.
Dragsters. They accelerate at 1g? Surely some mistake sir... try something like 10g+
I get the impressions most slashdotters would like any old beaver, stoned or not.
I believe it'll remain imaginary for you...
Interesting, but you need to get out more.
The BBC's website uses Real extensively. For this reason, I never use it. I flat refuse to allow RealPlayer onto my machine.
Maybe I'm telling you something you alerady know, but those decks you mention are for DJ's. We often speed up or slow down tunes, to beat-match two tunes together. However, if you speed up a tune, greatly, you can easily end up chipmunking the vocals. The samplers in these decks compensate for this, and keep the vocals at the same pitch even though they are playing much faster.
:)
A friend of mine uses them, and rates them greatly. I personally have never used them, as all of my DJ'ing is done with CD's and is mainly trance, so I don't have much of a vocals problem to deal with.
They do look sexy though, don't they!
The man who dug the hole, I'd assume.
So, it'll support 3,500 concurrent TSO users with sub 1.8 second response times, 60+ batch jobs all running at 6000 I/O requests per second, maybe 10 or 15 people compiling in foreground and some of those 60+ batch jobs also compiling in background. It'll serve FTP requests and HTTP requests in sub second times, whilst all this is going on. In essence, if you throw work at it, it just gets done.
Tonight, it'll begin processing your quarterly ledger, finance and payroll suites for 19 seperate companies. You *KNOW* it'll all be done in the morning. Your downtime is measured to the 5th decimal over the year, and they are all 9's.
This machine I'm working on right now will.
I rather suspect you don't have a mainframe under your desk. You might have something which looks like a very slow mainframe on-screen, but it sure isn't a mainframe!
You were doing this editing on an MVS/zOS box?
RENUM will renumber all lines for you. not much use now of course, but if it ever happens again....
Surely all jobs would abend immediately with a JCL error (they do at the moment - not sure when you were doing this).
No cancelleing would be required...
I think, perhaps, the poster meant that with the amount of assumptions being made, and the unlikelyhood of being able to do anything with the fact that "oh, there is alien life out there", the idle cycles could be used more efficiently - say in the folding@home project, or any of the other distributed computing systems currently running.
Then again, I've happily spent the last 4 years checking RC56 encryption keys, and my machine is currently checking Optimal Golomb Rulers to try to find shorter ones that those already known, so I can hardly preach about wasting CPU cycles.
...using nothing more than a prism.
They wouldn't even know you where there!
Sendmail flaw tests Homeland Security
By Robert Lemos
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
March 3, 2003, 5:13 PM PT
A critical flaw in Sendmail, the Internet's most popular e-mail server, has become the first test for the newly minted Department of Homeland Security and its cyberdefense arm.
The DHS's Directorate of Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection (IAIP) worked with security company Internet Security Systems, which discovered the flaw, and Sendmail Inc. to create a patch while keeping news of the issue from leaking to those who might exploit the vulnerability.
"Working with the private sector, we alerted key owners of the vulnerable software and got them talking," said David Wray, spokesman for the IAIP Directorate. "We think this is a great example of how this should, and does, work."
The Department of Homeland Security got high marks from the security community for giving companies the necessary time to create the patch and for synchronizing its release.
"This is the model for what you do if you want to find a vulnerability," said Alan Paller, director of research for the SysAdmin, Audit, Network and Security (SANS) Institute, a research and education group that lets security companies, system administrators and others share information. "The DHS are the ones that can put the pressure on all the vendors and keep it quiet."
In the future, the Department of Homeland Security will be the U.S. agency that will manage any response to major cyberthreats.
The three organizations that have previously handled the United States government's response to cyberthreats--the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), the Federal Computer Incident Response Center (FedCIRC), and the National Communication System (NCS)--officially became part of the Department of Homeland Security on Friday at midnight. The third of NIPC personnel that handled investigations, rather than response, have returned to the FBI. The IAIP Directorate has now absorbed the NIPC's response personnel and role.
Internet Security Systems originally reported the flaw to the NIPC in mid-January. The agency helped notify other companies and the Sendmail Consortium, the open-source project that develops the mail-server code.
"They were a good resource in helping us make sure that the protection was put in place," Greg Olson, chairman and co-founder of Sendmail Inc., said of the National Infrastructure Protection Center responder personnel (now with the directorate). "You need to contact a lot of people and make sure they understand this is important and (make sure they) apply the patch." Sendmail Inc. develops a proprietary version of the mail server.
In February, the Bush administration unveiled the completed National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace and laid out five major efforts: to create a cyberspace security response system, to establish a threat and vulnerability reduction program, to improve security training and awareness, to secure the government's own systems and to work internationally to solve security issues.
The IAIP is one of five directorates under the umbrella of the Department of Homeland Security. The others are Management, Science and Technology, Border and Transportation Security, and Emergency Preparedness and Response.
It's also bloody awful.
It's also (partly) filmed in my village in West Yorkshire, meaning each weekend hundreds of Tourists come on busses to look at absolutely nothing. Seriously - nothing at all.
Apart from the outside of Sid's Cafe...