This kind of behaviour has at least some of the trappings of a ponzi scheme.
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And another in the wings as drizzle - a fork of mysql. This is getting a lot of attention and some parts are considerably cleaner and faster than mysql.
I agree with this, too. The sunrays are excellent.
But I think the OP is still missing something here. The transition to VDI is not just about replacing one box with another doing the same old same old. It is also an opportunity to start to transition away from local storage, login, screen savers, etc. While there are many many advantages at the back end, there are also some significant gains at the front-end, too.
As an example, the sun rays have card readers that allow you to authenticate to the back-end very quickly. Using this feature you can roll out always-on desktops that let your users sit down at a desk, any desk, pop their card in and get their desktop, just as they left it, anywhere. As they get up, their card goes with them. No need for screen savers and the whole thing is very very fast. This kind of facility is a big win for our users. No more logins! No more password resets!
So perhaps consider VDI as a way to seriously improve the end-user experience of computing.
Runs pretty tight (low bandwidth), supports channel encryption and datastore encryption, can even create Bare Metal Recovery disks. I have a server room with LTO3 tape drives that I use to backup my clients' incremental data changes nightly, including Linux, Mac and Windows clients and servers. I have VPN's out to each client, so don't use the built-in channel encryption, but I maintain a keypair for each client.
Backup only, but I/could/ present a maintained volume as a share over the VPN. Bacula supports disk and tape volumes as backup stores. I've personally had no need to do that to date.
We're not talking terabytes here - my ISP would pwn me if that was going on, but I do circa 20G of data changes every night from clients. Some of them are laptops that are not always on or connected. Most are friends and family PC's, so it backs up when it can. I have to do almost no maintenance apart from changing a tape occasionally. The backup client is tiny and unobtrusive, even when running. On Windows it uses VSS, so it is reliable.
I have had a number of panic phone calls (esp from my kids at Uni) who have lost a thesis or the like and are utterly amazed when, after a few clicks over the phone they look at their webmail and yesterday's version is in their inbox. That's what it's all about! I am the god of lost data! Which, of course, works for me.
I can see an emerging market in "stealth printers"(tm) if that happens.
This is likely to go the way of the P4 serial number.
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This should prevent the worm in it's current form from recognising your apache server, even if you are running a vulnerable OpenSSL implementation, but the best solution is to upgrade your OpenSSL. Of course, most of us have done that already...
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This kind of behaviour has at least some of the trappings of a ponzi scheme.
And another in the wings as drizzle - a fork of mysql. This is getting a lot of attention and some parts are considerably cleaner and faster than mysql.
I agree with this, too. The sunrays are excellent.
But I think the OP is still missing something here. The transition to VDI is not just about replacing one box with another doing the same old same old. It is also an opportunity to start to transition away from local storage, login, screen savers, etc. While there are many many advantages at the back end, there are also some significant gains at the front-end, too.
As an example, the sun rays have card readers that allow you to authenticate to the back-end very quickly. Using this feature you can roll out always-on desktops that let your users sit down at a desk, any desk, pop their card in and get their desktop, just as they left it, anywhere. As they get up, their card goes with them. No need for screen savers and the whole thing is very very fast. This kind of facility is a big win for our users. No more logins! No more password resets!
So perhaps consider VDI as a way to seriously improve the end-user experience of computing.
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http://www.bacula.org/
Runs pretty tight (low bandwidth), supports channel encryption and datastore encryption, can even create Bare Metal Recovery disks. I have a server room with LTO3 tape drives that I use to backup my clients' incremental data changes nightly, including Linux, Mac and Windows clients and servers. I have VPN's out to each client, so don't use the built-in channel encryption, but I maintain a keypair for each client.
Backup only, but I /could/ present a maintained volume as a share over the VPN. Bacula supports disk and tape volumes as backup stores. I've personally had no need to do that to date.
We're not talking terabytes here - my ISP would pwn me if that was going on, but I do circa 20G of data changes every night from clients. Some of them are laptops that are not always on or connected. Most are friends and family PC's, so it backs up when it can. I have to do almost no maintenance apart from changing a tape occasionally. The backup client is tiny and unobtrusive, even when running. On Windows it uses VSS, so it is reliable.
I have had a number of panic phone calls (esp from my kids at Uni) who have lost a thesis or the like and are utterly amazed when, after a few clicks over the phone they look at their webmail and yesterday's version is in their inbox. That's what it's all about! I am the god of lost data! Which, of course, works for me.
is standard barcodes and we could do price comparisons in the same way that shazam tags recorded music.
Imagine sending a picture of a barcode to ebay to see if there's an auction for that item running.
to firefox, slashdot will have to fi x the layout for all those extra users.
I can see an emerging market in "stealth printers"(tm) if that happens. This is likely to go the way of the P4 serial number. -- nothing interesting here
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Wondered when the name change would be ratified.
- OpenSSL prior to 0.9.6e, up to and including pre-release 0.9.7-beta2
- OpenSSL pre-release 0.9.7-beta2 and prior with Kerberos enabled
- SSLeay library
From Eric Lubow: "The worm seems to pick its targets by server banners; for Apache, you can set the ServerTokens option to "ProductOnly" to keep it from reporting its operating system and version information."This should prevent the worm in it's current form from recognising your apache server, even if you are running a vulnerable OpenSSL implementation, but the best solution is to upgrade your OpenSSL. Of course, most of us have done that already...
See CERT® Advisory CA-2002-27 Apache/mod_ssl Worm for full details, including how to recognise probes from an infected system.
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