I was taught that the proper way to store admin passwords for an emergency situation (such as admin gets hit by bus) was to 1. Write each password on an individual piece of paper 2. Seal each piece of paper in an envelope 3. Store the envelopes in a Safe/Deposit box that a limited number of people have access to, (company owner, CTO, CEO, IT Manager) 4. Put policy in place that requires passwords to be changed and re-recorded any time the envelope it is stored in is opened.
It may seem low tech, but it is probably the best solution for a small to medium sized business.
I don't think they were trying to implicate our new President in this with the title, it was more of an implication that those announcing it were trying to announce the breach while most of the nation was distracted by the inauguration in hopes that it might fall under the radar of the news media.
My experience with unions goes like this. First off, several years ago, my mom started working for the county as a public health nurse. When she was offered the option to join the union that represents people in her profession, she declined mostly due to the fact that that union spent some of the dues that members pay supporting political policies that she disagreed with. Fast forward a couple years and her manager approaches her and strongly advises her to join the union because if she isn't a union member and there are budget cuts she would lose her job before union members would, regardless of how long she has worked for the county, so my mom had to start paying union dues that will very likely be spent in part on fighting for things she disagrees with. This is flat out wrong.
Experience number two is this. I have a friend who used to work for Northwest Airlines as a mechanic. This (as all airline jobs are) is a union job. Northwest wasn't doing well financially, so they said "sorry guys but we're going to have to cut your pay and benefits a bit". The union wouldn't have any of that so they got into some real hard core negotiations and I believe even went on strike. The end result of this was that Northwest gave in to the Union demands, but in order to afford the pay and benefits the union demanded, they had to not only cut jobs, but also close down one of the maintenance shops leaving my friend with out a job. Thanks Unions, you all are great.
Keep the previous story in mind next time your flight is delayed due to a maintenance issue and direct your complaints to the Unions who ultimately forced the Airline into a position where they couldn't keep their planes all up and running smoothly and on time.
We can't assume though that ethanol is devouring all this corn and leaving nothing. The creation of ethanol only uses the sugars in the corn. It doesn't touch the protein. One of the major byproducts from making ethanol is an extremely high protein feed additive that can be fed to livestock.
I think what we need to change our focus. So much emphasis is put on migrating existing behemoth environments to Linux. Why don't we focus more on the new startup businesses that aren't currently locked into their current platform by data migration costs, and lack of that one little function that they have come to rely on?
You thought yourself being witty and knocking Intelligent Design in your comment, but you really just did what most Intelligent Design opponents do and only look at the surface and don't dig any deeper. If we dig deeper into your comment we discover that Linux is in fact a product of intelligent design, or is this Linus Torvolds character I keep hearing about just a myth geeks made up to explain the natural phenomenon of electrons, if left alone, will eventually form into bits, and given enough time, will over millions and millions of years result in a very robust computer operating system.
Has Linux adapted and changed over time? Yes
Is it the product of "Evolution"? No
Is it the product of Intelligent Design? Yes
I'm not rich enough to be a Democrat. They insist that I give them most of my money so that they can waste it as they see fit, rather than allowing me to make my own choices about what the best way to spend my money to help the suffering people of this world
My sister came up with this prank tactic a couple years ago. She called it posting. She made it a little more interesting because she would write little notes, sayings or words on each post-it. She posted friends cars and front doors, random convienence stores, teacher's classroom doors. it is probably one of the best pranks i've ever heard of.
This will probably never get read but I want to make a point to anyone who might be reading this far. Why are our representatives able to make so much of thier communications confidential in the first place, This is a democracy isn't it? I want to know what is being discussed, what tactics are being used by my representatives to achieve thier goals. I think these confidential memos and other communications would tell us more about what the people we elected believe than the "promises" they make while on the campaign trail. I say we pull out all the stops and let all those memos flow freely, just think of the accountability that our representatives would be held to if we could see everything they talk about behind closed doors. they might actually start having to represent the people that elected them and not just make the decisions with no consideration to what the people think. The only case i can think of that a document should be kept confidential would be in a case where it may involve the safty of military, fbi, cia operatives that are working to stop the evils of this world. But what am i thinking, this is a fallen, broken world, and even my own ideas are imperfect, all i can do is make the best of this world i am living in and look forward to the day when the Lord Jesus Christ comes back to take me and all the other followers of Christ to be with him in a perfect place for all eternity. That ends my rant, i hope maybe someone reads this and it gets them to think.
...and ask questions later I wonder if these statistics include all the valid email messages that have been blocked by AOL's over zelous blacklisting of servers. I work for one ISP who's mail servers have been getting blacklisted on and off for the past 2 weeks and have a friend that does web hosting and his mail servers got blacklisted. Neither were put on AOL's black list because of spam comming from the servers
I do tech support for an ISP and i don't know how many times i've seen norton firewall puke and start blocking all net traffic. what i want to know is this: is this neat new feature that will make every one want to upgrade to the newest version of Norton Antivirus going to break and start blocking everything? Sounds like bloat ware to me
Why you gottat go and do a stupid thing like that?
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SCO DOS'ed
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Sure SCO is being a prick about this law suit but to have a bunch of vengefull open source/Linux Crusaders attack thier systems just gives the whole opensource community a bad name. Just suck it up and let them sue, cause either we the open source community screwed up and used code we shouldn't have or SCO is blowing smoke and IBM will win the suit.
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What??? Larger chunks??? And lose out on ad impressions? NEVER!
1. Build Website
2. Sell ad space on it
3. Write Article
4. Split it into 90 pieces
5. Post article to said website
6. ???
7. Profit
I was taught that the proper way to store admin passwords for an emergency situation (such as admin gets hit by bus) was to
1. Write each password on an individual piece of paper
2. Seal each piece of paper in an envelope
3. Store the envelopes in a Safe/Deposit box that a limited number of people have access to, (company owner, CTO, CEO, IT Manager)
4. Put policy in place that requires passwords to be changed and re-recorded any time the envelope it is stored in is opened.
It may seem low tech, but it is probably the best solution for a small to medium sized business.
That's my USD$0.02
I don't think they were trying to implicate our new President in this with the title, it was more of an implication that those announcing it were trying to announce the breach while most of the nation was distracted by the inauguration in hopes that it might fall under the radar of the news media.
My experience with unions goes like this. First off, several years ago, my mom started working for the county as a public health nurse. When she was offered the option to join the union that represents people in her profession, she declined mostly due to the fact that that union spent some of the dues that members pay supporting political policies that she disagreed with. Fast forward a couple years and her manager approaches her and strongly advises her to join the union because if she isn't a union member and there are budget cuts she would lose her job before union members would, regardless of how long she has worked for the county, so my mom had to start paying union dues that will very likely be spent in part on fighting for things she disagrees with. This is flat out wrong.
Experience number two is this. I have a friend who used to work for Northwest Airlines as a mechanic. This (as all airline jobs are) is a union job. Northwest wasn't doing well financially, so they said "sorry guys but we're going to have to cut your pay and benefits a bit". The union wouldn't have any of that so they got into some real hard core negotiations and I believe even went on strike. The end result of this was that Northwest gave in to the Union demands, but in order to afford the pay and benefits the union demanded, they had to not only cut jobs, but also close down one of the maintenance shops leaving my friend with out a job. Thanks Unions, you all are great.
Keep the previous story in mind next time your flight is delayed due to a maintenance issue and direct your complaints to the Unions who ultimately forced the Airline into a position where they couldn't keep their planes all up and running smoothly and on time.
-Cheers
IIRC SpammerAssassin is built on JBASH (Jason Bourn Again Shell)
How much does it cost you (on top of licensing fees of course) to have that wonderful dedicated support person standing by?
We can't assume though that ethanol is devouring all this corn and leaving nothing. The creation of ethanol only uses the sugars in the corn. It doesn't touch the protein. One of the major byproducts from making ethanol is an extremely high protein feed additive that can be fed to livestock.
I think what we need to change our focus. So much emphasis is put on migrating existing behemoth environments to Linux. Why don't we focus more on the new startup businesses that aren't currently locked into their current platform by data migration costs, and lack of that one little function that they have come to rely on?
You thought yourself being witty and knocking Intelligent Design in your comment, but you really just did what most Intelligent Design opponents do and only look at the surface and don't dig any deeper. If we dig deeper into your comment we discover that Linux is in fact a product of intelligent design, or is this Linus Torvolds character I keep hearing about just a myth geeks made up to explain the natural phenomenon of electrons, if left alone, will eventually form into bits, and given enough time, will over millions and millions of years result in a very robust computer operating system. Has Linux adapted and changed over time? Yes Is it the product of "Evolution"? No Is it the product of Intelligent Design? Yes
I'm not rich enough to be a Democrat. They insist that I give them most of my money so that they can waste it as they see fit, rather than allowing me to make my own choices about what the best way to spend my money to help the suffering people of this world
Where do I sign up?
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of using tags in my IM conversations and emails. My personal favorite is Seems to work for me.
that is simply pathetic
My sister came up with this prank tactic a couple years ago. She called it posting. She made it a little more interesting because she would write little notes, sayings or words on each post-it. She posted friends cars and front doors, random convienence stores, teacher's classroom doors. it is probably one of the best pranks i've ever heard of.
i thought some of the open source IM clients could already do translations on the fly
This will probably never get read but I want to make a point to anyone who might be reading this far. Why are our representatives able to make so much of thier communications confidential in the first place, This is a democracy isn't it? I want to know what is being discussed, what tactics are being used by my representatives to achieve thier goals. I think these confidential memos and other communications would tell us more about what the people we elected believe than the "promises" they make while on the campaign trail. I say we pull out all the stops and let all those memos flow freely, just think of the accountability that our representatives would be held to if we could see everything they talk about behind closed doors. they might actually start having to represent the people that elected them and not just make the decisions with no consideration to what the people think. The only case i can think of that a document should be kept confidential would be in a case where it may involve the safty of military, fbi, cia operatives that are working to stop the evils of this world. But what am i thinking, this is a fallen, broken world, and even my own ideas are imperfect, all i can do is make the best of this world i am living in and look forward to the day when the Lord Jesus Christ comes back to take me and all the other followers of Christ to be with him in a perfect place for all eternity. That ends my rant, i hope maybe someone reads this and it gets them to think.
...and ask questions later
I wonder if these statistics include all the valid email messages that have been blocked by AOL's over zelous blacklisting of servers. I work for one ISP who's mail servers have been getting blacklisted on and off for the past 2 weeks and have a friend that does web hosting and his mail servers got blacklisted. Neither were put on AOL's black list because of spam comming from the servers
phpWebSite is fairly easy to use.
I do tech support for an ISP and i don't know how many times i've seen norton firewall puke and start blocking all net traffic. what i want to know is this: is this neat new feature that will make every one want to upgrade to the newest version of Norton Antivirus going to break and start blocking everything? Sounds like bloat ware to me
for Half-Life 2.
Sure SCO is being a prick about this law suit but to have a bunch of vengefull open source/Linux Crusaders attack thier systems just gives the whole opensource community a bad name. Just suck it up and let them sue, cause either we the open source community screwed up and used code we shouldn't have or SCO is blowing smoke and IBM will win the suit.
I wonder if this applys to the home shopping networks on TV?