You said they need remote access and botched the upgrade. There is no technological solution for this. If your management insists an incompetent vendor have such access and thinks you can do something about this result then the solution is to find another job. If you aren't being told to fix it, realize that it's not your problem.
You can't fix stupid; you either have to accept it or escape it.
Have to give props to AMEX here. While traveling for a living I apparently got my card skimmed shortly before a flight home Friday. They called me at my connecting airport, we discussed which charges were mine and which weren't. They canceled my card and had a replacement card ready to pick up within a few miles of my house on Saturday so when I flew out Sunday night I had my new card for the rent car and hotel. (It was a corporate card; I don't know if that makes a difference.) I was briefly concerned when the fraudulent charges showed up on my balance on the website, but they took them off again before I started getting antsy about the fraudulent-claim window.
I suppose it might have helped my case that my travel was on the East coast, I live in TX and the fraudulent charges were in CA.
Things may have changed in the past couple of years, but I distro-upgraded-before-I-looked from Ubuntu Hardy LTS to Lucid LTS and found that the OpenVZ components were removed and LXC components added which threw me for a few loops on my home containers. At the time I found LXC to be lacking in tools and documentation, and OpenVZ wasn't being supported in a sane way. I had enough troubles with Lucid in containers that I put everything on a hard box and later moved all of it to Windows and Ubuntu-in-Hyper-V. But once LXC has decent tools and documentation I might look into it again. Sharing a kernel was very handy for my home sites.
Except that Twitter is almost never just 140 characters. Rather, it is 10 words of description and then a shortened URL to who-knows-what. There's very little meaningful information that can be conveyed via video in 6 seconds.
In 140 characters you can learn whether or not you want to follow the link. (Or the tweeter.) It's brilliant.
Not sure what 6 seconds of video can do, but I'm interested in finding out.
It's like the argument put forward by Neal Stephenson in Cryptonomicon - the Allies won WWII because they had the best technology,
Really? It's been a while since my history classes, but I thought it was the U.S. ability to manufacture more tanks and ships and trucks and things. The Sherman was outclassed but was sent in much larger numbers. And their bomber's couldn't reach the U.S. factories whereas the German factories were having to move into hollowed-out mountains and such. The Germans had ballistic missles, cruise missles, superior tanks and were on the verge of intercontinental flying-wing bombers.
They also were fighting a two-front war.
Japan put a prototype jet fighter in the air during WWII.
I don't think the Allied Forces had superior tech in WWII.
I had a guy a couple of gigs ago that would call me when one of his desktop icons moved a bit. I'm not sure you're exaggerating with the phrasing "would poop themselves".
Also, if you have multiple monitors it's harder to hit the hot spots when you want them and easier to stray onto them when I'm scrolling on my second monitor on the left of my main monitor.
If anyone had actually spent time using it, or if CowboyNeal was attempting anything other than a flamefest to drive ad impressions, perhaps that'd be more clear to people.
Imagine Windows 7 where the start menu opened at login and took up the whole screen. That's it. If you don't use any modern apps, you won't ever see the WinRT part of the system. Start an application, you're on the desktop.
Simple question: Do you use Metro IE or desktop IE?
I'm trying to run Win8, and when I'm living on the desktop I'm okay. But then I try to open up a PDF, media file or image and suddenly the default Metro-based app launches and my desktop and task bar are gone. I haven't yet figured out how to close the Metro app to return to the desktop. I have to alt-tab back to the desktop and then right click in the top-left hotspot to close the Metro app. Instead I am now manually dragging PDFs into Chrome (the desktop version) and right-clicking media files to launch in desktop WMP. (Adobe's PDF reader annoys me, too, so far I am avoiding installing it.)
I've installed Win8 on my main home machine to force myself to get used to it, but I have yet to like anything about Metro. Shutting down or sleeping the computer takes several gestures and clicks.
When I look at the Metro screen my brain wants to explode. The Win7 start menu does a decent job of promoting my commonly used links while allowing me to pin items if I want, but I can also search the start menu, and unlike Metro it will show me apps, files and control panel items in the search results. In Metro I have to move the mouse a lot and click to search files, apps or control panel items. In the Win7 menu I have the option of browsing the hierarchical folder structure, too. In Metro I get the mass of gaudy tiles that make no immediate sense to me and then a bunch of ugly tiles for installed programs and all the items that might have appeared buried in the hierarchy in Win7. I am not liking it yet and haven't yet figured out an advantage for me with Metro.
The second monitor is the desktop with a copy of the task bar. I'm running Win8 preview and living entirely in the desktop, but it's weird when Metro is on one screen and part of the desktop is on another.
Oh, you can configure where the taskbar appears; I have it only on my main monitor now.
Seriously? People that use such easy to guess (and therefore pointless) shouldn't even have access to anything that needs protection...
Pfffft. You ever worked for a Director/VP or higher? Try telling them how to set their passwords. I've seen "boss", "super" and other motivational-poster-worthy simple words. And they want everything to auto-login. One of the last major worm outbreaks I encountered originated in the senior executive offices.
Okay, that was a few years ago. Maybe that company has learned a few things since then.
Um, even Win2k had IPv6 downloadable. WinXP just needs it turned on. Vista an 7 have it on by default and will use it for file sharing and terminal services.
Outside of ISP availability and SOHO router support, the only current stumbling blocks with IPv6 are programs that try to store IP addresses and haven't been updated to store IPv6 addresses. Programs that use or store host names and use the OS'es name resolution work fine as-is.
Having IPv6 to the router and IPv4 behind it doesn't make a lot of sense. Layer 2 and client IPv6 really isn't a problem.
But no, IPv4 isn't going away soon. Dual-stack will be a reality for at least a few years, probably 10-20.
Aside from IPv4-only servers, the biggest stumbling block to ditching IPv4 entirely (once IPv6 is ubiquitous) is that there is no PXE boot for IPv6 yet. Will somebody please develop that and start getting it into boot firmware?
Plus wastage due to subnetting (network address, broadcast etc)... Imagine trying to segment a network of that size, and then trying to keep track of what was in which segment etc... Would be quite a nightmare.
Allow me to point out a couple of IPv6's features for you:
- IPv6 is designed to be hierarchical, so knowing the location of a segment will be easier than IPv4. Each/64 is routed under a matching/48, which is under a/32, etc..
- All subnets should be/64's
- IPv6 does not use broadcast IPs. It has various multicast addresses with the prefix ff00:/8 to address the link-local domain (~=broadcast), site-local domain, etc.
- Don't think of "wastage". By design every subnet should be a/64. The host address is intended to be globally unique, so there are 2^63 available globally-unique host addresses that by design can move to another prefix and still be unique within that prefix. If you don't want to use a globally unique ID, there are also 2^63 non-globally-unique IDs, and for example prefix::1 is one of them. By your thinking the IPv6 waste is colossal, but it's not waste, it's a design feature which allows hierarchical routing and collision-free merging of subnets.
- Routers need not take up a public IPv6 address if you're that desperate for space (which you aren't, I promise). All IPv6 hosts have a link-local address (think 169.254.0.0/16, but always there), and the router can advertise a route on the link-local address
I switched to JaguarPC for an unmanaged Debian VPS after my old provider had my VPS down 5 days, didn't communicate with me well and ultimately never got my VPS and data back. (I kept my own backups, luckily.) JaguarPC had a special running and had been in business 10 years at the time, so I gave them a try. Never a problem. 3 years later they upgraded my resources and lowered my fee, and did it without having to restart my VPS. I once got an email that they were experiencing a DDoS attack that might affect me and pointed me to a website with running updates, but it didn't seem to affect me. Much better service than I had before and have seen with my friends' providers who would have issues, look at the status page and get a false "everything is fine!" message. I'm about to leave them to self-host at home, so I wrote them a thank-you blog singing their praises.
On the other hand, I just wrote two checks to family (um, not for services previously mentioned in this post). It seems like there should be a way to wire/ACH funds between individuals.
Then again, there are certain places (besides prostitutes) I would not trust with the information necessary to debit my accounts.
djbdns is a collection of programs. The 512B limit doesn't apply to all of them. The resolver dnscache would be the program of concern in this context, and it can both request and serve requests over 512B on TCP in the default build. I am currently using other resolvers for IPv6 reasons, but I don't expect dnscache to have a problem with DNSSEC on the root servers.
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You said they need remote access and botched the upgrade. There is no technological solution for this. If your management insists an incompetent vendor have such access and thinks you can do something about this result then the solution is to find another job. If you aren't being told to fix it, realize that it's not your problem.
You can't fix stupid; you either have to accept it or escape it.
with Google there really only is two states of a service, runaway hit or dying.
You forgot the third: Google+
I suspect at least some of the dying services will somehow resurface as a new G+ feature.
Have to give props to AMEX here. While traveling for a living I apparently got my card skimmed shortly before a flight home Friday. They called me at my connecting airport, we discussed which charges were mine and which weren't. They canceled my card and had a replacement card ready to pick up within a few miles of my house on Saturday so when I flew out Sunday night I had my new card for the rent car and hotel. (It was a corporate card; I don't know if that makes a difference.) I was briefly concerned when the fraudulent charges showed up on my balance on the website, but they took them off again before I started getting antsy about the fraudulent-claim window.
I suppose it might have helped my case that my travel was on the East coast, I live in TX and the fraudulent charges were in CA.
(And btw...traveling for a living sucks!)
Things may have changed in the past couple of years, but I distro-upgraded-before-I-looked from Ubuntu Hardy LTS to Lucid LTS and found that the OpenVZ components were removed and LXC components added which threw me for a few loops on my home containers. At the time I found LXC to be lacking in tools and documentation, and OpenVZ wasn't being supported in a sane way. I had enough troubles with Lucid in containers that I put everything on a hard box and later moved all of it to Windows and Ubuntu-in-Hyper-V. But once LXC has decent tools and documentation I might look into it again. Sharing a kernel was very handy for my home sites.
When you say "Japanese Probe" I had an entirely different idea in my head regarding what this story was about.
Weren't you surprised nothing was pixelated?
I should start a twitter for intellects, and require > 140 characters to post.
Not.
XXXX XXXX xxxx xxx XXXX xxxxx XXXX (stupid word count filter for posts) xxx XXXX
(^^ example of a post on your twitter for intellects site :-) )
Except that Twitter is almost never just 140 characters. Rather, it is 10 words of description and then a shortened URL to who-knows-what. There's very little meaningful information that can be conveyed via video in 6 seconds.
In 140 characters you can learn whether or not you want to follow the link. (Or the tweeter.) It's brilliant.
Not sure what 6 seconds of video can do, but I'm interested in finding out.
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Every person I've ever met would say something like this:
"All the other drivers should get a car like this. I don't need one because I'm a really good driver!"
The closest thing to that at the moment is a JVM.
Then why do I have to install two or three versions of Java on each desktop to support my enterprise apps?
Oh, nevermind.
Isn't Pussy Riot close enough? But they got thrown in jail for saying words.
It's like the argument put forward by Neal Stephenson in Cryptonomicon - the Allies won WWII because they had the best technology,
Really? It's been a while since my history classes, but I thought it was the U.S. ability to manufacture more tanks and ships and trucks and things. The Sherman was outclassed but was sent in much larger numbers. And their bomber's couldn't reach the U.S. factories whereas the German factories were having to move into hollowed-out mountains and such. The Germans had ballistic missles, cruise missles, superior tanks and were on the verge of intercontinental flying-wing bombers.
They also were fighting a two-front war.
Japan put a prototype jet fighter in the air during WWII.
I don't think the Allied Forces had superior tech in WWII.
I had a guy a couple of gigs ago that would call me when one of his desktop icons moved a bit. I'm not sure you're exaggerating with the phrasing "would poop themselves".
Also, if you have multiple monitors it's harder to hit the hot spots when you want them and easier to stray onto them when I'm scrolling on my second monitor on the left of my main monitor.
Some questions to you:
Do you use Metro IE?
Do you use the built-in PDF viewer app? Image app? Media app?
I find myself avoiding the Metro apps and instead living on the desktop.
If anyone had actually spent time using it, or if CowboyNeal was attempting anything other than a flamefest to drive ad impressions, perhaps that'd be more clear to people.
Imagine Windows 7 where the start menu opened at login and took up the whole screen. That's it. If you don't use any modern apps, you won't ever see the WinRT part of the system. Start an application, you're on the desktop.
Simple question: Do you use Metro IE or desktop IE?
I'm trying to run Win8, and when I'm living on the desktop I'm okay. But then I try to open up a PDF, media file or image and suddenly the default Metro-based app launches and my desktop and task bar are gone. I haven't yet figured out how to close the Metro app to return to the desktop. I have to alt-tab back to the desktop and then right click in the top-left hotspot to close the Metro app. Instead I am now manually dragging PDFs into Chrome (the desktop version) and right-clicking media files to launch in desktop WMP. (Adobe's PDF reader annoys me, too, so far I am avoiding installing it.)
I've installed Win8 on my main home machine to force myself to get used to it, but I have yet to like anything about Metro. Shutting down or sleeping the computer takes several gestures and clicks.
When I look at the Metro screen my brain wants to explode. The Win7 start menu does a decent job of promoting my commonly used links while allowing me to pin items if I want, but I can also search the start menu, and unlike Metro it will show me apps, files and control panel items in the search results. In Metro I have to move the mouse a lot and click to search files, apps or control panel items. In the Win7 menu I have the option of browsing the hierarchical folder structure, too. In Metro I get the mass of gaudy tiles that make no immediate sense to me and then a bunch of ugly tiles for installed programs and all the items that might have appeared buried in the hierarchy in Win7. I am not liking it yet and haven't yet figured out an advantage for me with Metro.
The second monitor is the desktop with a copy of the task bar. I'm running Win8 preview and living entirely in the desktop, but it's weird when Metro is on one screen and part of the desktop is on another.
Oh, you can configure where the taskbar appears; I have it only on my main monitor now.
Pfffft. You ever worked for a Director/VP or higher? Try telling them how to set their passwords. I've seen "boss", "super" and other motivational-poster-worthy simple words. And they want everything to auto-login. One of the last major worm outbreaks I encountered originated in the senior executive offices.
Okay, that was a few years ago. Maybe that company has learned a few things since then.
Um, even Win2k had IPv6 downloadable. WinXP just needs it turned on. Vista an 7 have it on by default and will use it for file sharing and terminal services.
Outside of ISP availability and SOHO router support, the only current stumbling blocks with IPv6 are programs that try to store IP addresses and haven't been updated to store IPv6 addresses. Programs that use or store host names and use the OS'es name resolution work fine as-is.
Having IPv6 to the router and IPv4 behind it doesn't make a lot of sense. Layer 2 and client IPv6 really isn't a problem.
But no, IPv4 isn't going away soon. Dual-stack will be a reality for at least a few years, probably 10-20.
Aside from IPv4-only servers, the biggest stumbling block to ditching IPv4 entirely (once IPv6 is ubiquitous) is that there is no PXE boot for IPv6 yet. Will somebody please develop that and start getting it into boot firmware?
Allow me to point out a couple of IPv6's features for you:
- IPv6 is designed to be hierarchical, so knowing the location of a segment will be easier than IPv4. Each /64 is routed under a matching /48, which is under a /32, etc..
- All subnets should be /64's
- IPv6 does not use broadcast IPs. It has various multicast addresses with the prefix ff00:/8 to address the link-local domain (~=broadcast), site-local domain, etc.
- Don't think of "wastage". By design every subnet should be a /64. The host address is intended to be globally unique, so there are 2^63 available globally-unique host addresses that by design can move to another prefix and still be unique within that prefix. If you don't want to use a globally unique ID, there are also 2^63 non-globally-unique IDs, and for example prefix::1 is one of them. By your thinking the IPv6 waste is colossal, but it's not waste, it's a design feature which allows hierarchical routing and collision-free merging of subnets.
- Routers need not take up a public IPv6 address if you're that desperate for space (which you aren't, I promise). All IPv6 hosts have a link-local address (think 169.254.0.0/16, but always there), and the router can advertise a route on the link-local address
I switched to JaguarPC for an unmanaged Debian VPS after my old provider had my VPS down 5 days, didn't communicate with me well and ultimately never got my VPS and data back. (I kept my own backups, luckily.) JaguarPC had a special running and had been in business 10 years at the time, so I gave them a try. Never a problem. 3 years later they upgraded my resources and lowered my fee, and did it without having to restart my VPS. I once got an email that they were experiencing a DDoS attack that might affect me and pointed me to a website with running updates, but it didn't seem to affect me. Much better service than I had before and have seen with my friends' providers who would have issues, look at the status page and get a false "everything is fine!" message. I'm about to leave them to self-host at home, so I wrote them a thank-you blog singing their praises.
Unfortunately, after you program it you no longer know where it is.
Crap, how would I pay for prostitutes?
On the other hand, I just wrote two checks to family (um, not for services previously mentioned in this post). It seems like there should be a way to wire/ACH funds between individuals.
Then again, there are certain places (besides prostitutes) I would not trust with the information necessary to debit my accounts.
djbdns is a collection of programs. The 512B limit doesn't apply to all of them. The resolver dnscache would be the program of concern in this context, and it can both request and serve requests over 512B on TCP in the default build. I am currently using other resolvers for IPv6 reasons, but I don't expect dnscache to have a problem with DNSSEC on the root servers.
Liar, I'm not new here!
Oh no, not again...