VNC is not the pinnacle of security to begin with, unless they changed it, the default password limitation in VNC use to be at least only 8 characters. And if they haven't it just gives a much easier method of compromising a system.
I think it's the articles problem, because it didn't go into details. But NAND Flash and DRAM are Apples to Oranges. You couldn't run NAND Flash as RAM because it must transfer to RAM before execution. The more likely is the mixture of the 2, and it might be something as simple as say an 80G SSD for the OS and Swap, or even a smaller NAND SSD for just the Swap.
My suggestion from well before kernel modules era. One thing that is needed for the Linux, is a seperation of the drivers from the base of Linux. To do this, create a standard interface for the kernel and drivers to communicate. Probably through the use of Stub drivers in the kernel. This would allow some level of standardization of the kernels, would allow for 3rd party drivers (I know I will get killed for this one), and more importantly is that urgent fixes in drivers could be pushed before the kernel, and may ultimately reduce the size of the distributions, as they would only have to push what drivers have changed.
My personal opinion would be that the html standards needs to be changed. One change would be to create a session header, that does not write, and is cryptographically modified after each page access. This would prevent the websites from accidently storing session data, such as the recent linkedin session problem. Also I would change this so that only one session may be stored unlike cookies.
Cookies then can be used for what they were intended, the storage of information relating to the site, such as preferences. This then can be user definable as if you want to store them, not store them, not accept them, etc.
There are a few issues at stake.
#1) Some locations may have manditory over time levels, so after 8 hours they must be paid over time, or face civil suits, and fines.
#2) Some employees will burn out, and burn out fast.
#3) Unhappy employees = Lower Quality, which ultimately equates to higher long term costs.
#4) Loss of employees, and high turn around rates, which will also add to long term costs.
#5) Most programmers I know, will work at their leisure after hours anyways, from the comfort of their home.
All of these, will ultimately cost more money, in the long term, and possibly more then hiring a few more programmers. But if they are not profitable, they really have to look at what is their core requirements, and services. Once you have these defined, redefine the organization for these, and streamline and possibly reduce the staffing to a level that can support these items. Remember many of the dot.coms in the late 90's went away for one of 2 reasons, a bad business plan, or trying to do too much with too little. The ones that survived, did 1 thing, and did that 1 thing well.
Up here in the northern climes of the world, most of the leafy plants loose their leaves. This would mean each year for about half of the year there would be no lighting. Then unless it's spliced into the plant to produce these particles, the plant would have to be re-doped with gold nano-particles every year.
I do like the idea of UV lighting especially in cars, as many clothes as well as some of the animal furs do reflect UV light back as visible light, and will cause some fluorescing from a greater distance then the regular lights available in cars, and this can be tied in with fluorescent paints, and fluorescing materials in clothes and such to augment the standard car lights. It would also be easier on other drivers then those damn HID lights, in the car that always seems to be behind me, those damn lights seem to cause reflective signs to appear from about half a mile away.
One product that should possibly be used would be the Extricom. Their product line should be capable of doing this, but one must remember the recommended number of users/AP is about 10 to 20.
The requirement for extricom, would be that you must purchase their switch with the AP, as the Switch manages the AP's to provide continuous coverage.
For the house you can go with many different locking systems, such as a kwikset deadbolt, they are vulnerable to bumping and picking though for the average house, this is sufficient because they would go through the window instead. Though many houses just have the knob locks, these have an added vulnerability, which is to use a jack to spread the door frame, the frame can often move more then the latch is deep. High security locks can be vulnerable to being kicked in or being jacked open, even when they are very difficult if not impossible to bump or pick open.
So as with doors, encryption requires the implementation to be done properly. AES256 would be a high security lock, but from what I can understand on what was written, someone left the key under the door mat.
Build multiple smaller arrays of drives and with the right file system, you then pool the storage, eg ZFS, LVM, btrfs, and many others.
In theory as well (and practicality), you could do raid of raids of raids... etc. (eg raid 5 array consiting of raid 5 arrays)
You also can have something like hadoop, or the various other solutions coming, which allows for clustering across your infrastructure.
Remember google does not have one single big massive array of disks running, to serve all of us peons.
Your first point, I can not state anything about it, but documentation and code entering could be improved with touch typing.
As for comfort, you just have to find the right keyboard, and keyboard location. And the ones who suffer carple tunnel, are often people who type a great deal, each day.
Learning the keyboard location is very important, even for touch typing, but at this moment, I can type without looking, which is great even when someone is standing at my desk asking me questions, as I can look at them while I am typing. But for most after learning the basics we learn short cuts, like learning not to return to home row, but to move towards the next letter we are going to type, with that finger (so yes you must think ahead).
If you want to improve even more, you can learn dvorak simplified keyboard layout, as letters usually typed by both hands, and the most common letters are on home row, and the least common are on the lower row. It also has single hand, and programmer versions. This is also a great deal of fun, if you do not change the layout on the keyboard, and someone tries to use your computer (or you go and change a co-workers keyboard).
I personally started to learn typing from my mother when I was 6, who was a typist. But since then I have learned how to touch type, hell, I am typing this at this moment while watching TV no less (so no I am not watching the screen as I type). Since I became proficient at touch typing, I have learned to dicta-type, which is by far the hardest thing to do.
But I agree the earlier you learn, the better it is, and you will probably type faster. It would probably be a benefit for children to learn Dvorak though (but this will probably never happen), because of efficiency, and I would no doubt think it's easier on the hands and arms. (keyboards are the only thing that ergonomics have not really changed in the work place).
Learning to touch type is easy, it requires something as simple as repitition, to learn the key position.
Requirements for touch typing is to learn to think at least a few letters or words a head, because this way you do not return to home row, but to move your fingers to the next letter that you are going to type. If you are really good, you might be a whole sentence a head of where you are typing, and you actually gain a great deal of speed, because you are already prepared to type many letters at a time. With Dvorak, you might gain even more speed as you don;t move your fingers at all.
I have created codec that beats all of the others out of the water, and it's free and it's been around for a long time. Its called GTFO, and it's so simple to use. To use it, all you need to do is get your butt up outta that chair, and Go The G* Outside!
I just assume that any event capable of destroying my ability to transmit said passwords to my successor also destroys any ability to give a damn about my job. Problem solved.
One issue that does come up, depending on where you are, is potential criminal and civil liabilities without passing on that information, also if you don't read the fine print, there could be contract law issues to deal with, that exist past the end date of the job.
Here there is one thing, each password is on a seperate card in a seperate envelope, and stored in a safe, the second part for me each card is wrapped in tin foil. And if I am really being paranoid, the seams are glued down with a construction adhesive, and the whole thing is lacquered. But that's true paranoia.
As for the safe, it could be done with a Depository Money Safe, these allow people to put in envelopes, but only the person(s) with the key or combination may retrieve things from it. Also make sure you have security keys, with a key audit system, so you know who has keys. If you have the money, you can also go with time based safes, and lock out non-work hours.
It was me, that day I had 2 bean burritos, and happened to be in the area when I had a major attack of gas. And the extinction of the dinosaurs that was me again. I really need to stop it with the bean burritos but they are just so damn good.
The problem isn't the Fiber, it's the copper to the homes. With the distances involved, it's not as cost effective. In the cities FTTH is doable, though, it's usually only done in New Communities where the infrastucture can be installed before much of the infrastucture is in place.
The only other way that FTTH is being done here, is when the Hydro Companies (Hamilton is doing this) is doing work for you, they can run fiber for you.
Now outside of the major cities, FTTH is very difficult, because of distances, in some areas you could have only a dozen or so people served in an 80km range.
Now if you go to Northern Canada, you are dealing with the Canadian Shield, which at the surface is just large plains granite with very little soil above it.
Our 3 territories are no more then 100,000 people for nearly half of the area of Canada, so in these areas FTTH is probably not cost effective.
Only 2 provinces have over 5 million people. But we must remember about 75% of Canadian's live within 100km of the US border. So in these areas FTTH is doable but it's getting the land and facilities to do such things.
It's the number of new sockets, that have been released, and manufacturing for all of these sockets must be a financial drain for the company, to maintain manufacturing for many different sockets, it might be wise to design 2, one for desktop/server platforms, and one for mobile.
I will give them one positive push, the new AM3 processors are backwards compatible to the older AM2+ sockets, but this is what the AM2+ sockets were created for. But if they overdesign the socket with unused pins, they can grow for new features.
But that is just me. Though I will give VIA one thumbs up the new NANO is pin compatible with the C7, but the problem with them, is that they are soldered on, so for us end users it's pointless.
If I recall, one of the HD manufacturers were planning to use glass or ceramics for the platters. That would solve all of the problems, run them through a device that grinds them into powder.
Other options, through them into a nuclear reactor, even if they could read the data off of it, they might die before getting anything useful off of it.
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VNC is not the pinnacle of security to begin with, unless they changed it, the default password limitation in VNC use to be at least only 8 characters. And if they haven't it just gives a much easier method of compromising a system.
I think it's the articles problem, because it didn't go into details. But NAND Flash and DRAM are Apples to Oranges. You couldn't run NAND Flash as RAM because it must transfer to RAM before execution. The more likely is the mixture of the 2, and it might be something as simple as say an 80G SSD for the OS and Swap, or even a smaller NAND SSD for just the Swap.
My suggestion from well before kernel modules era. One thing that is needed for the Linux, is a seperation of the drivers from the base of Linux. To do this, create a standard interface for the kernel and drivers to communicate. Probably through the use of Stub drivers in the kernel. This would allow some level of standardization of the kernels, would allow for 3rd party drivers (I know I will get killed for this one), and more importantly is that urgent fixes in drivers could be pushed before the kernel, and may ultimately reduce the size of the distributions, as they would only have to push what drivers have changed.
Does it live in a pineapple under the sea?
My personal opinion would be that the html standards needs to be changed. One change would be to create a session header, that does not write, and is cryptographically modified after each page access. This would prevent the websites from accidently storing session data, such as the recent linkedin session problem. Also I would change this so that only one session may be stored unlike cookies.
Cookies then can be used for what they were intended, the storage of information relating to the site, such as preferences. This then can be user definable as if you want to store them, not store them, not accept them, etc.
There are a few issues at stake.
#1) Some locations may have manditory over time levels, so after 8 hours they must be paid over time, or face civil suits, and fines.
#2) Some employees will burn out, and burn out fast.
#3) Unhappy employees = Lower Quality, which ultimately equates to higher long term costs.
#4) Loss of employees, and high turn around rates, which will also add to long term costs.
#5) Most programmers I know, will work at their leisure after hours anyways, from the comfort of their home.
All of these, will ultimately cost more money, in the long term, and possibly more then hiring a few more programmers. But if they are not profitable, they really have to look at what is their core requirements, and services. Once you have these defined, redefine the organization for these, and streamline and possibly reduce the staffing to a level that can support these items. Remember many of the dot.coms in the late 90's went away for one of 2 reasons, a bad business plan, or trying to do too much with too little. The ones that survived, did 1 thing, and did that 1 thing well.
Up here in the northern climes of the world, most of the leafy plants loose their leaves. This would mean each year for about half of the year there would be no lighting. Then unless it's spliced into the plant to produce these particles, the plant would have to be re-doped with gold nano-particles every year. I do like the idea of UV lighting especially in cars, as many clothes as well as some of the animal furs do reflect UV light back as visible light, and will cause some fluorescing from a greater distance then the regular lights available in cars, and this can be tied in with fluorescent paints, and fluorescing materials in clothes and such to augment the standard car lights. It would also be easier on other drivers then those damn HID lights, in the car that always seems to be behind me, those damn lights seem to cause reflective signs to appear from about half a mile away.
The Fucking Shit my Dad says. or The Poop my dad says.
What, bathroom stall graffiti isn't reliable? Now where will I go, when I am looking for a good time?
One product that should possibly be used would be the Extricom. Their product line should be capable of doing this, but one must remember the recommended number of users/AP is about 10 to 20. The requirement for extricom, would be that you must purchase their switch with the AP, as the Switch manages the AP's to provide continuous coverage.
For the house you can go with many different locking systems, such as a kwikset deadbolt, they are vulnerable to bumping and picking though for the average house, this is sufficient because they would go through the window instead. Though many houses just have the knob locks, these have an added vulnerability, which is to use a jack to spread the door frame, the frame can often move more then the latch is deep. High security locks can be vulnerable to being kicked in or being jacked open, even when they are very difficult if not impossible to bump or pick open. So as with doors, encryption requires the implementation to be done properly. AES256 would be a high security lock, but from what I can understand on what was written, someone left the key under the door mat.
Build multiple smaller arrays of drives and with the right file system, you then pool the storage, eg ZFS, LVM, btrfs, and many others. In theory as well (and practicality), you could do raid of raids of raids ... etc. (eg raid 5 array consiting of raid 5 arrays)
You also can have something like hadoop, or the various other solutions coming, which allows for clustering across your infrastructure.
Remember google does not have one single big massive array of disks running, to serve all of us peons.
Your first point, I can not state anything about it, but documentation and code entering could be improved with touch typing. As for comfort, you just have to find the right keyboard, and keyboard location. And the ones who suffer carple tunnel, are often people who type a great deal, each day. Learning the keyboard location is very important, even for touch typing, but at this moment, I can type without looking, which is great even when someone is standing at my desk asking me questions, as I can look at them while I am typing. But for most after learning the basics we learn short cuts, like learning not to return to home row, but to move towards the next letter we are going to type, with that finger (so yes you must think ahead). If you want to improve even more, you can learn dvorak simplified keyboard layout, as letters usually typed by both hands, and the most common letters are on home row, and the least common are on the lower row. It also has single hand, and programmer versions. This is also a great deal of fun, if you do not change the layout on the keyboard, and someone tries to use your computer (or you go and change a co-workers keyboard).
I personally started to learn typing from my mother when I was 6, who was a typist. But since then I have learned how to touch type, hell, I am typing this at this moment while watching TV no less (so no I am not watching the screen as I type). Since I became proficient at touch typing, I have learned to dicta-type, which is by far the hardest thing to do. But I agree the earlier you learn, the better it is, and you will probably type faster. It would probably be a benefit for children to learn Dvorak though (but this will probably never happen), because of efficiency, and I would no doubt think it's easier on the hands and arms. (keyboards are the only thing that ergonomics have not really changed in the work place). Learning to touch type is easy, it requires something as simple as repitition, to learn the key position. Requirements for touch typing is to learn to think at least a few letters or words a head, because this way you do not return to home row, but to move your fingers to the next letter that you are going to type. If you are really good, you might be a whole sentence a head of where you are typing, and you actually gain a great deal of speed, because you are already prepared to type many letters at a time. With Dvorak, you might gain even more speed as you don;t move your fingers at all.
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Why do I have a feeling there is now going to be some "Why did the chicken cross the road" jokes to start because of this?
I have created codec that beats all of the others out of the water, and it's free and it's been around for a long time. Its called GTFO, and it's so simple to use. To use it, all you need to do is get your butt up outta that chair, and Go The G* Outside!
I just assume that any event capable of destroying my ability to transmit said passwords to my successor also destroys any ability to give a damn about my job. Problem solved.
One issue that does come up, depending on where you are, is potential criminal and civil liabilities without passing on that information, also if you don't read the fine print, there could be contract law issues to deal with, that exist past the end date of the job.
Here there is one thing, each password is on a seperate card in a seperate envelope, and stored in a safe, the second part for me each card is wrapped in tin foil. And if I am really being paranoid, the seams are glued down with a construction adhesive, and the whole thing is lacquered. But that's true paranoia. As for the safe, it could be done with a Depository Money Safe, these allow people to put in envelopes, but only the person(s) with the key or combination may retrieve things from it. Also make sure you have security keys, with a key audit system, so you know who has keys. If you have the money, you can also go with time based safes, and lock out non-work hours.
It was me, that day I had 2 bean burritos, and happened to be in the area when I had a major attack of gas. And the extinction of the dinosaurs that was me again. I really need to stop it with the bean burritos but they are just so damn good.
The problem isn't the Fiber, it's the copper to the homes. With the distances involved, it's not as cost effective. In the cities FTTH is doable, though, it's usually only done in New Communities where the infrastucture can be installed before much of the infrastucture is in place. The only other way that FTTH is being done here, is when the Hydro Companies (Hamilton is doing this) is doing work for you, they can run fiber for you. Now outside of the major cities, FTTH is very difficult, because of distances, in some areas you could have only a dozen or so people served in an 80km range. Now if you go to Northern Canada, you are dealing with the Canadian Shield, which at the surface is just large plains granite with very little soil above it. Our 3 territories are no more then 100,000 people for nearly half of the area of Canada, so in these areas FTTH is probably not cost effective. Only 2 provinces have over 5 million people. But we must remember about 75% of Canadian's live within 100km of the US border. So in these areas FTTH is doable but it's getting the land and facilities to do such things.
Have Tim "The Toolman" Taylor, strap a V8 to it.
I will give them one positive push, the new AM3 processors are backwards compatible to the older AM2+ sockets, but this is what the AM2+ sockets were created for. But if they overdesign the socket with unused pins, they can grow for new features. But that is just me. Though I will give VIA one thumbs up the new NANO is pin compatible with the C7, but the problem with them, is that they are soldered on, so for us end users it's pointless.
If I recall, one of the HD manufacturers were planning to use glass or ceramics for the platters. That would solve all of the problems, run them through a device that grinds them into powder. Other options, through them into a nuclear reactor, even if they could read the data off of it, they might die before getting anything useful off of it.
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