It is also cheap to snag on eBay. So are U2's, but well beggars can't be choosers. And if I remember what started all these posts on OS News, it was someone snagging a U5 on ebay or some such. I might be making that up; but i seem to recall.
Anyway, for someone wanting to learn about Sparc, Solaris, OpenBoot, and just plain mess around with something different, it is not a bad place to start. And not caring too much about performance what's it matter if he does it on a U5 or U2, and the U5's come in under the U2's a lot of the time. Ya I'm a baised whore cause that's how I got my U5, but then I can also tell you price was a problem, and when I wanted and UltraSparc to learn about Solaris 8/9 and OpenBoot on I got my hands on a beautiful looks like its fresh out of the U5 for $200.
I ear the U10's are flaky, but I don't know I've never used one and cannot say myself, but whatever. I tend to think the U5 is just fine for what he's doing without inserting the 'you're using a cheap loser system' type snobbery.
This wouldn't be a bad thing. Except allow them to just that one page with a list of (and access to)every AV company under the sun whether free or not. Then they can still download AV programs & updates. Gives them just enough breathing room to fix the computer before calling to get their service hooked back up.
Seriously, most of the time you can diagnose a problem with simple methodical logical thinking. Somethings not working? What are the possible causes. Isolate and eliminate.
Now you said diagnostic tools, so I wont tell you adaware/spybot, av, a knoppix disc and so on. Besides you have enough people listing enough good ideas.
The simple truth is, if you replace the memory and the system starts booting, why do you need to know what's wrong with the memory? It's no working and you can not fix it. If you/the customer is lucky you can send it back on a warranty and get it replaced.
Nope screw the diag software. The best thing you can do is buy and or acucmulate lots of spare parts like some people have suggested. Think it might be this? Replace it or put that in another system and (try to) prove it conclusively one way or another.
I know in rare cases you get really F'ed up behaviour and just CANNOT figure out what it is even after replacing everything (two recent events in my experience come to mind...); but I seriously doubt any piece of software is going to tell me what was causing those problems. If they did it would be a first and I would definately recommend them...
... I haven't downloaded this stuff, but I've heard a lot of people stating that there are tons of empty.eml files, suggesting it was taken from a system infected with Nimda.
And now we have a core dump files from a Linux PC....
If no one has been able to explain the.eml files then it sounds like this source may have been copied from one to another, and without some more conclusive evidence, who is to say which it was actually stolen from...
As an example in the article, most people want cell phones that do one thing - make calls. Yet phones come with games, instant messaging, cameras, etc. You can't even buy a simple cell phone any more.
This drives me insane. I want a phone. I want it to do THAT one thing. And I want to leave out ALL the CRAP so they can make it fit in my wallet about like a credit card. Can I get that? Hell No. Americas F'ed up sometimes...
Because, unless your ultra mega open source man, you'll probably want a Checkpoint on Nokia, or Cisco PIX, or Netscreen, or whatever the case may be. That will get your users to stop using Kazaa, etc al during the day (should also be desktop policy that they cannot install software and enforced through proper security settings), and in case they do get infected help prevent someone from connecting to the port it opens to listen to remote control/do whatever to the system.
And with the way mass mailing worms are going about, you may want a URI... something like websense or another to block all the third party email sites, so people aren't infecting themselves despite all your efforts to protect YOUR mail servers.
After that you are probably going to want to talk to F-Prot, NAI, or Symantec about a site license for VirusScan, integrated mail scanner (yes yes you can use postfix, spamassassin, amavis, and whichever virusscan you prefer for a lot less) and hopefully implement something like e-Policy Orchestrator (NAI product) so that you can send a wakeup call to the desktops telling them to update the new DAT's you just downloaded on the server, instead of waiting for the next whatever-random-day-you-chose-to-have-the-machine- update-that-will-be-too-late
You'll also maybe want something like a SUS server, or SMS, or whatever you plan to get updates to your Windows PC's with. SUS is free, but as with each you'll probably want another piece of hardware and a good ole' Windows license.
Sooo.... ya, you are talking multiple thousands of dollars for each item; $10,000+ alone for just the firewall; it adds up quickly. And lets not forget salaries. And yes if this were the ONLY virus you were trying to stop I'd believe those numbers. But there are lots of things you need to defend from, and so the cost is kind of dispersed amongst them.
Don't tell the hippies; then what will they eat and wear? Who wants to see a bunch of filthy, scrawny, naked hippies running about telling everyone to eat dirt.
If he is using RAID 5 I'm assuming that he is using DL380's as you can only cram 2 disks into the DL360 without using some kind of external storage (which would probably jack the price up even beyond that of a DL380); so I'll ASSuME that much...
With that, the Compaq DL380 G3 uses an Ultra 320 SCSI card that can, theoretically, transfer 320 megabytes per second (160 per channel).
Now I would agree that a 32-bit PCI slot peaks somewhere around 133 MB/s, which would certainly be a bottleneck, BUT the DL380 G3 uses a 64-bit PCI (peaks out ~512 MB/s) interface for the Compaq Smart Array 5i PLUS (least that what I'm gathering from my reading) and so should theoretically be able to keep up with the bandwidth requirements
that said the Xserves still strike me as pretty cool (I've never even touched a Mac unless your counting IIgs' [think that was it] but, being a true techy at heart, am interested in all things computer, and would love to get my hands on one. The price for a truly entry level system does seem to be very appealing, and I'm sure that's where Apple intends to make the moment, until they can (hopefully) expand upward and onward.
That's what I loved about Syndicate Wars. Granted the graphics were nowhere near what the graphics of Duke Nukem Forever will be, but it was still cool; shoot anything long and hard enough and it will go down.
...playing violent games, and I continue to play them. So far I'm an OK person; certainly haven't murdered anyone in cold blood or otherwise.
Has it eluded everyone that half the things we do 'for fun' are aggressive and violent? Boxing, wrestling, and my favorite paintball. Have you even watched a game of football lately?
Look at the majority of your better video games as well. Falcon 3.0, Jane's Longbow Apache, and a slew of Flight sims on up from then, the Dooms, the Quakes, Unreals, Rainbow Sixes, Ghost Recons, Everquest & Co., the Starcraft and Warcraft collections, BattleField 1942, and Battlefield Vietname to come; who here isn't going to play Half Life 2? Yes I play GTA3 VC, and I LIKE IT. Even frikkan Space Invaders I played as a child was violent.
Look at great movies. Full Metal Jacket. Aliens, The Thing (who likes the Kurt Russell remake better; raise your hands), Predator, Terminator, Terminator II, Clockwork Orange, Snatch, Scanners, Scarface, Gladiator, Matrix, LOTR, the Godfather Movies; I dunno I could sit here for an hour so I digress. Bloody VIOLENT.
Sure there are exceptions; lots of peaceful happy games, where no one rips out a shotgun or fuel air explosive bomb on the other guys; Lemmings was a right fine game. A lot of people would argue that bridges of madison county is a good movie. I sure as hell wouldn't, but others would...
You know why it's all there? It's in our freakin nature. And as soon as we realize it and accept it we'll be better off.
I went out in the frigid weather Sunday with some friends and we tore up the place in some nice paintball matches. Now I'm fairly destressed and it's Tuesday even.
Go out, tear something up in a civilized fashion, whether through video game, movie, or sport, have fun doing it, come back with your aggression worked out, and be a member of society again.
Go ahead; have everyone sit in their car listening to classical music; nothing violent or aggressive to work out their stress on. It'll be good for a few months. Wait until they start 'popping' though. You'll be sorry...
I did catch the part about the sound queues, and did disable them. I was just mentioning that they annoy me and thus I disable them; leaving me (with my head up my ass and) without any sort of queue.
I did install the beta on one PC and didn't notice the visual queue yet again; so that means I missed it twice... ya one of those days...
well that fixes that anyway. I'll have to check it again when I get into work tomorrow and see if I see it looking squarely at where it should be.
I still want an override key; or am I just missing something again?
IE Pop-up blocker needs two things; an override key and a visual queue.
With google toolbar i just hold the ctrl key while clicking and the pop-up is permitted. It's very useful for sites like www.showcasecinemas.com where you click to bring up a list of showings and it comes in a second window.
Sound queues annoy me too; and for the less anal retentive they may be unavailable (that's less likely these days; but still possible); again something like the visual queue google gives.
The allow pop ups for a specific site is a nice addition though.
According to http://dictionary.reference.com/ (and my old boss who used to bug me about it) "irregardless" is "...considered a blunder for decades and will probably continue to be so."
They make no similar mention of the word "matrixes" on the site, so I will continue to use it. Now, I know you're probably going to say something about http://dictionary.reference.com/ hardly being an authority on the matter, and that is OK. But I'm not paying for a dictionary with all the free resources on the web; if you want to front the money for one (and one that says "matrixes" is not a proper word at that) then feel free.
Drink more. Seriously; coffee has never been known to kill anyone, except possibly Honore De Balzac. It, without a doubt, makes you more lucid, and gives you the ability to carry on longer. It may even provide health benefits in that it may fight
Colon Cancer and Alzheimer's. And in this job, a lot of us are sitting on our asses prime for feasting on candy and junk food; having a cup of coffee keeps my hand off the snacks, leaving me relatively thin.
A bonus if you like the taste as I do.
So yes, it is a vice. But considering all the other vices you could have, gluttony, smoking, gambling, sloth, excessive drinking, and so on, I figure coffee/caffiene addiction is pretty low on the totem pole.
A friend and I purchased Sun Ultra 5's off ebay to do some learning. We were interested in Solaris, OpenBoot, and so on. We figured if we each purchased one along with Linux PC's backing our adventures we could get pretty into it.
Anyway, I received mine and it looked pristine; literally like they had just pulled it out of the box. The 'scratch' that they had listed on the auction was actually more of a mark on the side.
My friend wasn't so lucky. He received his and it looked like it survived operation in a bunker during WWII somewhere in the Pacific theatre. To top it all off we couldn't 'see' the disk. Anyway after seeing probe-scsi listed as a command we adapted and overcame -- typed probe-ide and from the output (forget the specifics) it was blatantly obvious the HDD had blown its brains out. I've never seen a PC BIOS diagnose a disk quite like that; so we replaced the disk with a spare sitting around and the battle hardened little box loaded solaris and booted fine.
All in all I had a healthy respect for OB from that point on and it was only the beginning of monkeying with the system. I must say just on that experience alone I'd rather see something like OB on the PC rather than EFI.
...but the only sad thing to come out of this story is that it was an old geezer who had a chance to breed and raise his retard children before Darwin got to him. Lets hope next time it's soemone younger that gets nailed; before they have a chance to proliferate their fouled DNA.
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It is also cheap to snag on eBay. So are U2's, but well beggars can't be choosers. And if I remember what started all these posts on OS News, it was someone snagging a U5 on ebay or some such. I might be making that up; but i seem to recall. Anyway, for someone wanting to learn about Sparc, Solaris, OpenBoot, and just plain mess around with something different, it is not a bad place to start. And not caring too much about performance what's it matter if he does it on a U5 or U2, and the U5's come in under the U2's a lot of the time. Ya I'm a baised whore cause that's how I got my U5, but then I can also tell you price was a problem, and when I wanted and UltraSparc to learn about Solaris 8/9 and OpenBoot on I got my hands on a beautiful looks like its fresh out of the U5 for $200. I ear the U10's are flaky, but I don't know I've never used one and cannot say myself, but whatever. I tend to think the U5 is just fine for what he's doing without inserting the 'you're using a cheap loser system' type snobbery.
Now this BOFH article takes a serious note: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/30/36116.html
This wouldn't be a bad thing. Except allow them to just that one page with a list of (and access to)every AV company under the sun whether free or not. Then they can still download AV programs & updates. Gives them just enough breathing room to fix the computer before calling to get their service hooked back up.
A case of oil, some new tools, anything else it looks like I might need in the forseable future.
Usually I hate paying for this stuff, but it will be a little sweeter knowing that at least some of it will go towards fighting off SCO.
Seriously, most of the time you can diagnose a problem with simple methodical logical thinking. Somethings not working? What are the possible causes. Isolate and eliminate.
Now you said diagnostic tools, so I wont tell you adaware/spybot, av, a knoppix disc and so on. Besides you have enough people listing enough good ideas.
The simple truth is, if you replace the memory and the system starts booting, why do you need to know what's wrong with the memory? It's no working and you can not fix it. If you/the customer is lucky you can send it back on a warranty and get it replaced.
Nope screw the diag software. The best thing you can do is buy and or acucmulate lots of spare parts like some people have suggested. Think it might be this? Replace it or put that in another system and (try to) prove it conclusively one way or another.
I know in rare cases you get really F'ed up behaviour and just CANNOT figure out what it is even after replacing everything (two recent events in my experience come to mind...); but I seriously doubt any piece of software is going to tell me what was causing those problems. If they did it would be a first and I would definately recommend them...
... I haven't downloaded this stuff, but I've heard a lot of people stating that there are tons of empty .eml files, suggesting it was taken from a system infected with Nimda.
.eml files then it sounds like this source may have been copied from one to another, and without some more conclusive evidence, who is to say which it was actually stolen from...
And now we have a core dump files from a Linux PC....
If no one has been able to explain the
It's amazing how they're getting a slashdotting but still up. OK it's slow as hell; but it's still working. Don't see that too often.
As an example in the article, most people want cell phones that do one thing - make calls. Yet phones come with games, instant messaging, cameras, etc. You can't even buy a simple cell phone any more.
This drives me insane. I want a phone. I want it to do THAT one thing. And I want to leave out ALL the CRAP so they can make it fit in my wallet about like a credit card. Can I get that? Hell No. Americas F'ed up sometimes...
Because, unless your ultra mega open source man, you'll probably want a Checkpoint on Nokia, or Cisco PIX, or Netscreen, or whatever the case may be. That will get your users to stop using Kazaa, etc al during the day (should also be desktop policy that they cannot install software and enforced through proper security settings), and in case they do get infected help prevent someone from connecting to the port it opens to listen to remote control/do whatever to the system.
- update-that-will-be-too-late
And with the way mass mailing worms are going about, you may want a URI... something like websense or another to block all the third party email sites, so people aren't infecting themselves despite all your efforts to protect YOUR mail servers.
After that you are probably going to want to talk to F-Prot, NAI, or Symantec about a site license for VirusScan, integrated mail scanner (yes yes you can use postfix, spamassassin, amavis, and whichever virusscan you prefer for a lot less) and hopefully implement something like e-Policy Orchestrator (NAI product) so that you can send a wakeup call to the desktops telling them to update the new DAT's you just downloaded on the server, instead of waiting for the next whatever-random-day-you-chose-to-have-the-machine
You'll also maybe want something like a SUS server, or SMS, or whatever you plan to get updates to your Windows PC's with. SUS is free, but as with each you'll probably want another piece of hardware and a good ole' Windows license.
Sooo.... ya, you are talking multiple thousands of dollars for each item; $10,000+ alone for just the firewall; it adds up quickly. And lets not forget salaries. And yes if this were the ONLY virus you were trying to stop I'd believe those numbers. But there are lots of things you need to defend from, and so the cost is kind of dispersed amongst them.
You laugh, but I shit you not, when I went to Moscow the radio in my room was a Penasonic.
Uh first comment like this in the story; redundant fuck wad?
His Apple-Mobile was just /.'ed
Don't tell the hippies; then what will they eat and wear? Who wants to see a bunch of filthy, scrawny, naked hippies running about telling everyone to eat dirt.
If he is using RAID 5 I'm assuming that he is using DL380's as you can only cram 2 disks into the DL360 without using some kind of external storage (which would probably jack the price up even beyond that of a DL380); so I'll ASSuME that much...
With that, the Compaq DL380 G3 uses an Ultra 320 SCSI card that can, theoretically, transfer 320 megabytes per second (160 per channel). Now I would agree that a 32-bit PCI slot peaks somewhere around 133 MB/s, which would certainly be a bottleneck, BUT the DL380 G3 uses a 64-bit PCI (peaks out ~512 MB/s) interface for the Compaq Smart Array 5i PLUS (least that what I'm gathering from my reading) and so should theoretically be able to keep up with the bandwidth requirements
that said the Xserves still strike me as pretty cool (I've never even touched a Mac unless your counting IIgs' [think that was it] but, being a true techy at heart, am interested in all things computer, and would love to get my hands on one. The price for a truly entry level system does seem to be very appealing, and I'm sure that's where Apple intends to make the moment, until they can (hopefully) expand upward and onward.
That's what I loved about Syndicate Wars. Granted the graphics were nowhere near what the graphics of Duke Nukem Forever will be, but it was still cool; shoot anything long and hard enough and it will go down.
...playing violent games, and I continue to play them. So far I'm an OK person; certainly haven't murdered anyone in cold blood or otherwise.
Has it eluded everyone that half the things we do 'for fun' are aggressive and violent? Boxing, wrestling, and my favorite paintball. Have you even watched a game of football lately?
Look at the majority of your better video games as well. Falcon 3.0, Jane's Longbow Apache, and a slew of Flight sims on up from then, the Dooms, the Quakes, Unreals, Rainbow Sixes, Ghost Recons, Everquest & Co., the Starcraft and Warcraft collections, BattleField 1942, and Battlefield Vietname to come; who here isn't going to play Half Life 2? Yes I play GTA3 VC, and I LIKE IT. Even frikkan Space Invaders I played as a child was violent.
Look at great movies. Full Metal Jacket. Aliens, The Thing (who likes the Kurt Russell remake better; raise your hands), Predator, Terminator, Terminator II, Clockwork Orange, Snatch, Scanners, Scarface, Gladiator, Matrix, LOTR, the Godfather Movies; I dunno I could sit here for an hour so I digress. Bloody VIOLENT.
Sure there are exceptions; lots of peaceful happy games, where no one rips out a shotgun or fuel air explosive bomb on the other guys; Lemmings was a right fine game. A lot of people would argue that bridges of madison county is a good movie. I sure as hell wouldn't, but others would...
You know why it's all there? It's in our freakin nature. And as soon as we realize it and accept it we'll be better off.
I went out in the frigid weather Sunday with some friends and we tore up the place in some nice paintball matches. Now I'm fairly destressed and it's Tuesday even.
Go out, tear something up in a civilized fashion, whether through video game, movie, or sport, have fun doing it, come back with your aggression worked out, and be a member of society again.
Go ahead; have everyone sit in their car listening to classical music; nothing violent or aggressive to work out their stress on. It'll be good for a few months. Wait until they start 'popping' though. You'll be sorry...
I did catch the part about the sound queues, and did disable them. I was just mentioning that they annoy me and thus I disable them; leaving me (with my head up my ass and) without any sort of queue.
I did install the beta on one PC and didn't notice the visual queue yet again; so that means I missed it twice... ya one of those days...
well that fixes that anyway. I'll have to check it again when I get into work tomorrow and see if I see it looking squarely at where it should be.
I still want an override key; or am I just missing something again?
IE Pop-up blocker needs two things; an override key and a visual queue.
With google toolbar i just hold the ctrl key while clicking and the pop-up is permitted. It's very useful for sites like www.showcasecinemas.com where you click to bring up a list of showings and it comes in a second window.
Sound queues annoy me too; and for the less anal retentive they may be unavailable (that's less likely these days; but still possible); again something like the visual queue google gives.
The allow pop ups for a specific site is a nice addition though.
According to http://dictionary.reference.com/ (and my old boss who used to bug me about it) "irregardless" is "...considered a blunder for decades and will probably continue to be so."
They make no similar mention of the word "matrixes" on the site, so I will continue to use it. Now, I know you're probably going to say something about http://dictionary.reference.com/ hardly being an authority on the matter, and that is OK. But I'm not paying for a dictionary with all the free resources on the web; if you want to front the money for one (and one that says "matrixes" is not a proper word at that) then feel free.
I know it isn't the answer you're looking for...
Drink more. Seriously; coffee has never been known to kill anyone, except possibly Honore De Balzac. It, without a doubt, makes you more lucid, and gives you the ability to carry on longer. It may even provide health benefits in that it may fight Colon Cancer and Alzheimer's. And in this job, a lot of us are sitting on our asses prime for feasting on candy and junk food; having a cup of coffee keeps my hand off the snacks, leaving me relatively thin.
A bonus if you like the taste as I do.
So yes, it is a vice. But considering all the other vices you could have, gluttony, smoking, gambling, sloth, excessive drinking, and so on, I figure coffee/caffiene addiction is pretty low on the totem pole.
what's the statute of limitations?
she says the picture is one year before that...
who can argue beyond reasonable doubt without witnesses?
and let the chips fall where they may
not to mention the reference to Fight Club. It is very Tyler Durden afterall.
A friend and I purchased Sun Ultra 5's off ebay to do some learning. We were interested in Solaris, OpenBoot, and so on. We figured if we each purchased one along with Linux PC's backing our adventures we could get pretty into it.
Anyway, I received mine and it looked pristine; literally like they had just pulled it out of the box. The 'scratch' that they had listed on the auction was actually more of a mark on the side.
My friend wasn't so lucky. He received his and it looked like it survived operation in a bunker during WWII somewhere in the Pacific theatre. To top it all off we couldn't 'see' the disk. Anyway after seeing probe-scsi listed as a command we adapted and overcame -- typed probe-ide and from the output (forget the specifics) it was blatantly obvious the HDD had blown its brains out. I've never seen a PC BIOS diagnose a disk quite like that; so we replaced the disk with a spare sitting around and the battle hardened little box loaded solaris and booted fine.
All in all I had a healthy respect for OB from that point on and it was only the beginning of monkeying with the system. I must say just on that experience alone I'd rather see something like OB on the PC rather than EFI.
Milloy noted that despite all the chemicals, the overall U.S. population is living longer and healthier.
Must be the preservatives in the shite we call food and formaldehyde in the cigarettes.
...but the only sad thing to come out of this story is that it was an old geezer who had a chance to breed and raise his retard children before Darwin got to him. Lets hope next time it's soemone younger that gets nailed; before they have a chance to proliferate their fouled DNA.