these are 1% errors, not 1% critical errors. It's more like you're walking out the door and you leave your keys behind. Result: you go and get your keys, you car doesn't blow up.
In TFA it's more like 33% errors leading to 1% failures.
He assigned an extra nurse to make sure that the others followed the checklist. At first the nurse was just an observer, but when the trial period results revealed serious omissions in some incredibly high percentage of cases (ISTR 33%), the nurses were authorized to intervene and tell the doctor to respect the procedure.
Going from a year-old memory, he did the trial in one ward, the the hospital, then a number of hospitals in the state (but not *all*, ISTR it was voluntary, or it was all the hospitals with XYZ insurance company since the insurance company backed him up)
But if it isn't being done yet, a reminder won't do any harm!
The most significant thing I find (going from a year-old memory) is that they had to get the bean-counters to increase the amounts of disinfectant and protection sheets they bought, since these amounts increased VERY significantly when check-lists were used!
I know at least one other company that GPL'd a product that was nice but didn't excite enough monied clients : Solsoft GPL'd Net Security Master, an application-level proxy.
When *I* kill a peering, the traffic is rerouted through the Internet. Please don't tell me Cogent and Sprint don't use BGP! So why did traffic stop flowing?
You don't need funds to register the domains. You simply lean on the domain registrar.
I'm a registrar. I have no problem whatsoever refusing to register domain names that match a certain algorithm, in fact I'm trying to find the algorithm to do just that.
*BUT* there are lots of registrars (I'm number 616, I think the counter is over the thousand-mark now). You'd need to lean on the registry, and maybe on ICANN. If you do I'm certain that a change to the algorithm will be pushed before you accomplish anything.
Since people know where the servers are, don't just cut off the packet stream, but go in there, launch real hardware-level forensics on the computers (RAM memory decay...) to get whatever private keys there are, sniff to see where the upstream commands are coming from, find out who PAID for the servers, whatever, go UP the food chain and imprison the real physical people who are doing this!
Depends on whether they modify the source code and/or release the modifications!
A big French service provider just got sued for providing a box containing GPL'd programs. When the accustions were first made 2 years ago, the service provider in question maintains that the programs are not modified and/or are permitted under GPLv2 (but not GPLv3), and that the accusations were fed by competitors.
The books "Darwin's Radio" and "Darwin's Children" by Greg Bear hypothesize a virus the mutates the host's DNA. There's even a reading list (of scientific papers) at the end.
There's a DLZ-bind mod out there, but it executes at least one SQL query for every DNS query; which can't handle even moderate load.
That's their problem. PowerDNS rocks. No more pesky start-up times, no more wondering if the syntax is OK so everything can start up again after a reload, let client have a web interface to his zone using simple SQL...
not exactly what it was asked but one of the best open source ticket tracking tools over there I think is OTRS (no SVN integration and Perl based, though).
I use OTRS every day but I dislike the layout. I prefer the interface choices made by RT. The problem is that RT is getting to be a really heavy beast, and the mail->ticket interface could be made to lose tickets:-(
But it's so very heavy that . . . google . . . yes, a search on RT + subversion returns discussions about integration, things like "if your commit log looks like this:
RT-Ticket: 23 RT-Status: resolved
this is a commit log
then RT will add the commit log to ticket 23, resolve ticket 23 and make ticket 23 "link" to the transaction. Linking to the transaction doesn't currently do much, but in the future, it should like to viewcvs or some other similar tool"
The user has a lot of privileges. He can read all his files, delete them, whatever.
But there is absolutely no reason that mplayer ou xpdf should have any rights whatsoever except to read (-only) the file you give to it, and to use some real estate attributed to it by the window manager.
(xpdf had some buffer overflows recently...)
So you can run an untrusted program, even jokes sent in e-mail, since they are confined, and your MUA is confined anyway in case there is an interpretation problem in the subject (remember those % and.. in URLs?)
With a cap-aware window manager (that is also developed, and even works), this becomes natural.
Well, I worked for a company who did just that, so naturally I don't consider it too far-fetched.
"We have this wonderful new product we want to spend all our time on, but we also have this product that has some really big maintenance-paying customers, just not enough to turn a profit. So since we don't want to pull the rug on clients that are relying on our old product, we open-source it."
Now, if they decide to stop and give back the money, will they release the code as GPL?
Forget the maths, same article speaks of CS prize
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The Nevanlinna Prize for computer science research goes to Madhu Sudan of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. [...] Sudan's work in developing "error-correcting (computer) codes" could play "an enormous role in securing the reliability and quality of all kinds of information transmission, from music recorded on CDs . . . to satellite transmissions."
Pity, I use Dell rack servers with RH Linux, and it saves me quite a bit of time having the OS installed... with the RAID drivers fixed up, with the formatting done, etc.
Of course I could do it, and I would if it was for me, but it'd take me an hour or so, and my company would prefer paying Dell extra, and having me get some more work done!
> The company will not promote the new models > heavily, let alone make them easy to purchase.... > N-series PCs will cost the same as PCs that > ship with Windows, a Dell representative said.
So on one hand Dell will get more margin, but they don't want to sell more of them? They could just pay Microsoft for Windows, and not put it in the box:-)
... is not to search public fora for it, but to trick people into giving it.
This scam is one thing. Mitnick telephoning people to tell them there's a problem with their server is another example. E-mail hoaxes (tell all your friends and everyone you care about!!!) is yet another example. It's called social engineering, and isn't new, but new applications are found every day. Education is the only answer.
Who is saying "Sarge"'s system was compromised ? The guy who put the troyan. Why should we believe him ?
If the goal was to crack into systems, the guy could have done a much better job of it. TCP out is useful, but why not open a port to the outside too? Make a little worm, a little network controlled by the first socket to try? Hell, controlled by the guy who has the private key . . . It's not as if the troyan had restraints in size, or that it had to be difficult to find!
At the *very* least, the IP should have been some unadministered korean server that would have taken weeks to track down. Round-robin several of them, too.
No, the IP belongs to someone on the OpenSSH team, guaranteed to be one of the very first people alerted.
Who is taking bets that port 6667 on his machine never was open at all, and that this is just a(nother) move to make OpenBSD look bad?
And, umm, who'll take a bet that OpenBSD.org FAQ number 8.18 (Why does www.openbsd.org run on Solaris?) will change radically:-)
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these are 1% errors, not 1% critical errors. It's more like you're walking out the door and you leave your keys behind. Result: you go and get your keys, you car doesn't blow up.
In TFA it's more like 33% errors leading to 1% failures.
He assigned an extra nurse to make sure that the others followed the checklist. At first the nurse was just an observer, but when the trial period results revealed serious omissions in some incredibly high percentage of cases (ISTR 33%), the nurses were authorized to intervene and tell the doctor to respect the procedure.
Going from a year-old memory, he did the trial in one ward, the the hospital, then a number of hospitals in the state (but not *all*, ISTR it was voluntary, or it was all the hospitals with XYZ insurance company since the insurance company backed him up)
But if it isn't being done yet, a reminder won't do any harm!
The most significant thing I find (going from a year-old memory) is that they had to get the bean-counters to increase the amounts of disinfectant and protection sheets they bought, since these amounts increased VERY significantly when check-lists were used!
I know at least one other company that GPL'd a product that was nice but didn't excite enough monied clients : Solsoft GPL'd Net Security Master, an application-level proxy.
http://www.hsc.fr/societe/produits/index.html.en
I worked for Solsoft at the time :-)
When *I* kill a peering, the traffic is rerouted through the Internet. Please don't tell me Cogent and Sprint don't use BGP! So why did traffic stop flowing?
You don't need funds to register the domains. You simply lean on the domain registrar.
I'm a registrar. I have no problem whatsoever refusing to register domain names that match a certain algorithm, in fact I'm trying to find the algorithm to do just that.
*BUT* there are lots of registrars (I'm number 616, I think the counter is over the thousand-mark now). You'd need to lean on the registry, and maybe on ICANN. If you do I'm certain that a change to the algorithm will be pushed before you accomplish anything.
Since people know where the servers are, don't just cut off the packet stream, but go in there, launch real hardware-level forensics on the computers (RAM memory decay...) to get whatever private keys there are, sniff to see where the upstream commands are coming from, find out who PAID for the servers, whatever, go UP the food chain and imprison the real physical people who are doing this!
Depends on whether they modify the source code and/or release the modifications!
A big French service provider just got sued for providing a box containing GPL'd programs. When the accustions were first made 2 years ago, the service provider in question maintains that the programs are not modified and/or are permitted under GPLv2 (but not GPLv3), and that the accusations were fed by competitors.
http://www.freenews.fr/nat/6369-societe-free-assigne-pour-violation-presumee-de-la-licence-gnu-gpl.html
Mod parent up . . . architecture should be considered if she likes design and creativity and such . . . what DOES she like? You didn't say . . .
The books "Darwin's Radio" and "Darwin's Children" by Greg Bear hypothesize a virus the mutates the host's DNA. There's even a reading list (of scientific papers) at the end.
What sort of load can the DB backend handle?
Enough.
Does it use caching?
Yes.
There's a DLZ-bind mod out there, but it executes at least one SQL query for every DNS query; which can't handle even moderate load.
That's their problem. PowerDNS rocks. No more pesky start-up times, no more wondering if the syntax is OK so everything can start up again after a reload, let client have a web interface to his zone using simple SQL...
not exactly what it was asked but one of the best open source ticket tracking tools over there I think is OTRS (no SVN integration and Perl based, though).
I use OTRS every day but I dislike the layout. I prefer the interface choices made by RT. The problem is that RT is getting to be a really heavy beast, and the mail->ticket interface could be made to lose tickets :-(
But it's so very heavy that . . . google . . . yes, a search on RT + subversion returns discussions about integration, things like "if your commit log looks like this:
RT-Ticket: 23
RT-Status: resolved
this is a commit log
then RT will add the commit log to ticket 23, resolve ticket 23 and make ticket 23 "link" to the transaction.
Linking to the transaction doesn't currently do much, but in the future, it should like to viewcvs or some other similar tool"
This was in 2004!
* And that is exactly the point! *
The user has a lot of privileges. He can read all his files, delete them, whatever.
But there is absolutely no reason that mplayer ou xpdf should have any rights whatsoever except to read (-only) the file you give to it, and to use some real estate attributed to it by the window manager.
(xpdf had some buffer overflows recently...)
So you can run an untrusted program, even jokes sent in e-mail, since they are confined, and your MUA is confined anyway in case there is an interpretation problem in the subject (remember those % and
With a cap-aware window manager (that is also developed, and even works), this becomes natural.
EROS was distributed under GPL (eventually). One can hope that it will be the same here.
Site says that the lisp-like syntax is to describe the language, and that a C-like syntax could be written.
> If they can't sell it, what makes you think
> that it would have any value under the GPL?
Value under the GPL??
Certainly more than it would have on a CD-ROM archive in a closet.
Well, I worked for a company who did just that, so naturally I don't consider it too far-fetched.
"We have this wonderful new product we want to spend all our time on, but we also have this product that has some really big maintenance-paying customers, just not enough to turn a profit. So since we don't want to pull the rug on clients that are relying on our old product, we open-source it."
Now there's a dotcom the other way around!
Now, if they decide to stop and give back the money, will they release the code as GPL?
Excerpt:
The Nevanlinna Prize for computer science research goes to Madhu Sudan of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. [...] Sudan's work in developing "error-correcting (computer) codes" could play "an enormous role in securing the reliability and quality of all kinds of information transmission, from music recorded on CDs . . . to satellite transmissions."
New CRC? Do we need it?
So maybe 100 years ago, factoring into primes had no practical use ? Certainly nothing like it has today...
Pity, I use Dell rack servers with RH Linux, and it saves me quite a bit of time having the OS installed... with the RAID drivers fixed up, with the formatting done, etc.
Of course I could do it, and I would if it was for me, but it'd take me an hour or so, and my company would prefer paying Dell extra, and having me get some more work done!
Excerpt:
...
:-)
> The company will not promote the new models
> heavily, let alone make them easy to purchase.
> N-series PCs will cost the same as PCs that
> ship with Windows, a Dell representative said.
So on one hand Dell will get more margin, but they don't want to sell more of them? They could just pay Microsoft for Windows, and not put it in the box
... is not to search public fora for it, but to trick people into giving it.
This scam is one thing. Mitnick telephoning people to tell them there's a problem with their server is another example. E-mail hoaxes (tell all your friends and everyone you care about!!!) is yet another example. It's called social engineering, and isn't new, but new applications are found every day. Education is the only answer.
I just don't believe this.
:-)
Who is saying "Sarge"'s system was compromised ? The guy who put the troyan. Why should we believe him ?
If the goal was to crack into systems, the guy could have done a much better job of it. TCP out is useful, but why not open a port to the outside too? Make a little worm, a little network controlled by the first socket to try? Hell, controlled by the guy who has the private key . . . It's not as if the troyan had restraints in size, or that it had to be difficult to find!
At the *very* least, the IP should have been some unadministered korean server that would have taken weeks to track down. Round-robin several of them, too.
No, the IP belongs to someone on the OpenSSH team, guaranteed to be one of the very first people alerted.
Who is taking bets that port 6667 on his machine never was open at all, and that this is just a(nother) move to make OpenBSD look bad?
And, umm, who'll take a bet that OpenBSD.org FAQ number 8.18 (Why does www.openbsd.org run on Solaris?) will change radically