Just send me the address of the artists. They're the ones who deserve the cash. I prefer to avoid funding anymore RIAA-funded "superstars" like N'suck and Hitme Spears.
I worked for EDS. Just got hired by the client when EDS incompetently lost the contract. Four of us were approached by the client, so we just kept quiet when the company kept asking about our next assignments. For us it was go on the road for NMCI or quit. We quit together, all got the same jobs we had before, but for a better boss and much more respectable company.
My network was getting a data stream from our parent data center on the Thursday before the Slammer hit. The target server of the data stream was our SQL box. After some talk with my colleagues at our other companies, they were hit with the same issue on the same day. We think the worm was preparing to attack and was propagating to trust SQL servers for a wider data stream. When the moment came on that Saturday morning, my SQL box went nuts, nailing every IP it could reach with packets.
I think Symantec was getting reports of some weired data streams on client's SQL servers and issued some prior warnings about a potential threat.
No way did this thing propagate in ten minutes. It's just not possible.
Forget all this bullshit about productivity and smoke breaks and inappropriate web content. I have a subscription filtering system (be jealous, I work for a defense contract with IT money to burn) and we don't worry about what you're trying to browse on the clock. I could care less about you surfing over to cozycoeds.com. What I'm more concerned about are the uninformed user masses who assumed every pop-up they encounter is okay for them to explore. If not for a decent (and none are perfect) filter, Lord knows what trash my systems would be exposed to.
But even with filters and firewalls, I still manage to have some dumbasses screw up my network. Excellent case in point, some web-clinker decides it's okay to d/l things on his own, load his own software, despite my best restrictions on Windohs. Turns out he causes this huge bottleneck on my network since his machine is consuming more bandwidth than my Exchange, SQL and file/print servers COMBINED! Users are 90% idiots. Bring on the filters.
Look, I only see a few people in this discussion really hitting the point of this whole conversion: to allow the Navy to communicate between points A and Z without having to going through every site between them. I worked on a Navy project at NAVICP helping the civilian support get an RFP for a demand planning COTS to replace the thirty systems they currently use. Just mapping interaction between systems took me three weeks to complete.
The goal is not to supplant Naval combat systems with Microcrock components, but to fix the communications barrier between Naval systems. In fact I know some folks still coding ship systems from scratch and their work will continue. It's the desktop they're working on. Every Naval site has its own system(s), many hand-crafted code from the eighties or even earlier. Does it work? Sure it does, in fact very well. Will it talk to the base forty miles down the road? Hell no, it won't. At least not without coding up some custom interface for the two systems. But we're not talking about two systems, we're looking at hundreds, not to mention the 100,000 legacy programs spread over the globe.
Is EDS the king of efficiency? Well, no. Are they trying? Probably better than most. Most techno's out there cringe at AD forcing them to use standard issue desktops, screen savers, and browsers. I understand that annoyance, but as an admin, if you let the techies have control, anybody can have control, including the morons who think removing a program is as simple as the delete button. Scale that up to the 150,000 seats on this project and mayhem prevails. It's no secret most major corps use the same tactics on their employees desktops.
You wanna be a code monkey for the military? Then get in a lab and use the proper tools, not the piece-o-crap IBM being doled out by EDS. It's an ego blow that some folks, the non-coders mind you, don't get to have unlimited web access, DVD burners, and play UT during lunch. Well too bad, bucko, welcome to the real world. You don't write the programs, you don't run the network, you don't get the goodies. And if you code the programs, why the hell are you connected to an intranet with the rest of the desk jockeys? It's the govt, so requisition a T3 for the back room.
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Just send me the address of the artists. They're the ones who deserve the cash. I prefer to avoid funding anymore RIAA-funded "superstars" like N'suck and Hitme Spears.
I worked for EDS. Just got hired by the client when EDS incompetently lost the contract. Four of us were approached by the client, so we just kept quiet when the company kept asking about our next assignments. For us it was go on the road for NMCI or quit. We quit together, all got the same jobs we had before, but for a better boss and much more respectable company.
Middle management sucks!
My network was getting a data stream from our parent data center on the Thursday before the Slammer hit. The target server of the data stream was our SQL box. After some talk with my colleagues at our other companies, they were hit with the same issue on the same day. We think the worm was preparing to attack and was propagating to trust SQL servers for a wider data stream. When the moment came on that Saturday morning, my SQL box went nuts, nailing every IP it could reach with packets.
I think Symantec was getting reports of some weired data streams on client's SQL servers and issued some prior warnings about a potential threat.
No way did this thing propagate in ten minutes. It's just not possible.
Forget all this bullshit about productivity and smoke breaks and inappropriate web content. I have a subscription filtering system (be jealous, I work for a defense contract with IT money to burn) and we don't worry about what you're trying to browse on the clock. I could care less about you surfing over to cozycoeds.com. What I'm more concerned about are the uninformed user masses who assumed every pop-up they encounter is okay for them to explore. If not for a decent (and none are perfect) filter, Lord knows what trash my systems would be exposed to. But even with filters and firewalls, I still manage to have some dumbasses screw up my network. Excellent case in point, some web-clinker decides it's okay to d/l things on his own, load his own software, despite my best restrictions on Windohs. Turns out he causes this huge bottleneck on my network since his machine is consuming more bandwidth than my Exchange, SQL and file/print servers COMBINED! Users are 90% idiots. Bring on the filters.
Look, I only see a few people in this discussion really hitting the point of this whole conversion: to allow the Navy to communicate between points A and Z without having to going through every site between them. I worked on a Navy project at NAVICP helping the civilian support get an RFP for a demand planning COTS to replace the thirty systems they currently use. Just mapping interaction between systems took me three weeks to complete.
The goal is not to supplant Naval combat systems with Microcrock components, but to fix the communications barrier between Naval systems. In fact I know some folks still coding ship systems from scratch and their work will continue. It's the desktop they're working on. Every Naval site has its own system(s), many hand-crafted code from the eighties or even earlier. Does it work? Sure it does, in fact very well. Will it talk to the base forty miles down the road? Hell no, it won't. At least not without coding up some custom interface for the two systems. But we're not talking about two systems, we're looking at hundreds, not to mention the 100,000 legacy programs spread over the globe.
Is EDS the king of efficiency? Well, no. Are they trying? Probably better than most. Most techno's out there cringe at AD forcing them to use standard issue desktops, screen savers, and browsers. I understand that annoyance, but as an admin, if you let the techies have control, anybody can have control, including the morons who think removing a program is as simple as the delete button. Scale that up to the 150,000 seats on this project and mayhem prevails. It's no secret most major corps use the same tactics on their employees desktops.
You wanna be a code monkey for the military? Then get in a lab and use the proper tools, not the piece-o-crap IBM being doled out by EDS. It's an ego blow that some folks, the non-coders mind you, don't get to have unlimited web access, DVD burners, and play UT during lunch. Well too bad, bucko, welcome to the real world. You don't write the programs, you don't run the network, you don't get the goodies. And if you code the programs, why the hell are you connected to an intranet with the rest of the desk jockeys? It's the govt, so requisition a T3 for the back room.