Wow, insulting me because I said it was no suprise. Who pissed in your corn flakes?
I didn't say every machine was a 'junk' machine, but if you have any experience at Universities, you often will see departments 'doing their own thing' when it comes to departmental servers, where the IT department of the University is not involved in their administration at all other than supplying an IP-address/DNS. The IT department's 'security model' is usually for machines directly under their control. Not the computers in every department. That's reality. It happens.
In any competently run University IT dept, the IT folks running the machines with sensitive information would keep those machines firewalled off from the rest of the University. Besides unpatched departmental 'junk' servers, the network is also full of undergrad laptops, etc, with who knows what spypare/malware on them. And some of the undergrads may be hackers themselves. Any competent folks would treat the main University LAN as just as hostile of an environment as the Internet. I would never want you to administer *my* network if you don't understand that. Bub.
In case you aren't familiar with what often happen
No kidding. Shocker. He found some machines at Universities, etc, that hadn't been patched in a long time.
How is that surprising? Does he think that never does some department set up a small server for itself, then in a couple years, the person admining it leaves, and since the machine is still 'working', people continue to let it run/use-it. After a while, running with no admin, it gets way out of date on patches and is vulnerable to anybody. Happens all the time. And it's got absolutely nothing to do with an active and competent admin worrying about 0-day exploits on the boxes that they ARE taking care of.
Hmm, hack a box, steal credit card info, identity info, then plant kiddie porn and tip off cops. The patsy is busy with a trial followed by a long trip to jail, leaving no time for him to find mysterious credit card/mortgages/loans charged to his identity. Sounds like the way to get a long lead when your job is identity theft. Scary.
It's the same with any optical drive for your computer. I've had 3 of 3 sony DVD+/-RW's fail on me in the past year. NEC's, etc, keep on working. I've had a policy for years to not buy any of Sony's hardware/software with "us-only" proprietary formats, but I assumed their optical drives would at least be of good quality. Bad assumption. I'll never buy another sony product.
Right. "We won't take any money! Oh, you want to invest early Mr. not-too-bight-but-greedy VC? Well, maybe we'll make a little exception for you. But, shhhhhhhh. Don't tell anyone."
There is no better bait for the suckers than getting in on the sly on something that other folks are locked out of.
Seriously. If they had any real academics look at this, and there was any real effect, it would already be published in a peer-reviewed journal. Why isn't there one after 3 years? Because it's bogus. Suddenly they are calling for it now, rather than have any of those 'independent' folks who have already looked at it publish on it?
Here's a hint. When you want some academics to look at and prove your invention works, you talk directly to some academics and let them see it.
What don't you do? Take out a big advertisement in the 'Economist' magazine.
Let's see. What publication would I publish an add in if I want to get a bunch of geeky types to look at my invention? 'Nature'? 'Science'? No, no, I know 'Economist' magazine. Yeah, they all read that.
I'm sure they didn't pick that magazine because it's most likely to be read by VC's. Nah. I'm sure you are right. It doesn't sound like a scam at all </sarcasm meter off scale>
Sigh. Of course not all Venture Capitalists are complete idiots. Many are mucho smart. Some, however, were either lucky, got good advice from others (but might not every time), or inherited their money.
Smart venture captialists will always be around. But so will stupid ones for the above reasons.
Yep. The voice acting is terrible. It seems like the one guy (is it the guy who reads the harry potter books for books on tape?) does at least half the male voices. How about some variety instead of one guy trying to do 20 'accents'?
Why not hire more voice actors? Seriously. It doesn't take that much skill to read a few lines and put in some proper inflection. They shouldn't cost that much to have a few more people do it, and they don't need extensive training/experience.
Hmm, interesting. You still didn't name your source for that 99% fact. How come? Maybe because it's crap that you pulled from your ass? It might be how YOU use VM's, but it isn't how lots of the rest of us use them.
"In theory the first for reasons could theoretically be solved with a chroot jail. Except windows doesn't do that". So, when one of the points was specifically about running IE in windows, then this theory is rubbish. Scrath that. And if your base system is Windows, scratch it for all of them.
And I hate to burst your bubble, but not all windows apps run ok in Wine.
And your arguement doesn't hold up for cluttering up the OS. I don't want to worry about dll hell on windows or library hell on *nix. If I install it on a VMWare machine, I can run it as needed, and when not needed keep the VMWare machine in offline storage.
As for the fifth reason, see the above about library hell. Config files aren't everything needed in LOTS of cases. Plus if it happens to be a windows server, moving a few config files isn't going to do it at all.
Besides all those uses, I often set up a number of VMs to model networks before implementing any changes to pf config files on the routers/firewalls. A single OS on a single machine just doesn't work for that.
but the fact is, 99% of the time, you're using VMWare because you have to run two different OSes, not because you want to.
Really? Where exacty did you get this little factoid? Out of your ass maybe?
I want to run VMWare with the same OS a lot.
Sometimes I want to keep the primary OS uncluttered.
Sometimes I'm installing stuff to try that I just want to test and don't want to install on my real machine until I know the software.
Sometimes I'm installing untrusted software (something off bittorrent perhaps).
Sometimes I'm visiting untrusted websites that require IE, and if my host machine is windows I don't want to open it up to possible IE expoits.
Sometimes I'm just trying to keep my individual server apps isolated so that I can move them to different hardware if any of the apps starts getting used more and consume more resources than available on the host computer.
Personally, although I use a number of different OS's, all my machines tend to run more copies of the same OS as the host OS than of a different OS.
I can't find the latest stats, or any specific for congress, but...
Last I knew, the average US family had 2.4 kids.
If each congressman has 2.4 kids on average, and 5% off congressmen have 1 child in the military, that's just over 2% of the congressmen's total number of kids, which would be lower than the average volunteerism rate for the US if that is really 3%.
I do just figure at the very worst, it gives me an excuse to go shopping and buy some new clothes, and other stuff.
You may need an excuse to go shopping, but I don't. I consider shopping for clothes, let alone toiletries, etc, a chore. Not something I want to spend my vacation time on.
I've never understood people that tried bringing ALL of their belongings into the cabin with them...
Who said I wanted to bring ALL my belongings with me into the cabin? I bring my toiletries (about the size of a brick. No big deal to put inside a small backpack) in a small carry-on, along with a pair of jeans/socks/underwear/shirt so I have an extra set of clothes in case they lose my baggage.
Don't know much about airline hijacking history eh?
The vast vast majority of the time when someone would try to take over a plane, they would demand it fly to some other country that the hijackers wanted to go to. Usually it ended up with the airplane going to a very unscheduled destination, and the other passengers had themselves a little adventure. Usually just costing them several hours or an extra day of travel. Not something you want to happen, but hardly worth getting into a knife fight over. So almost certainly most of the passengers on the 3 planes that crashed into buildings let them do what they were doing, thinking an extended flight to an exotic location was the worst likely outcome. If they had know what the hijackers intentions were, they would have tried fighting back, just as those on the flight that crashed in PA had (because they heard what had happened to the other flights).
If someone were to try to take over a plane again in that manner, everyone would fight back, just as you have stated you would. The different reaction of the passengers on the first 3 planes makes perfect sense if you know the history of airline hijackings.
Apparently you've never had them lose your luggage. I have. Keeping your toiletries in your carry-on is a good idea (if they will let you nowadays...)
Yeah, most places you land will have a store you could get most/all of the stuff in, but usually when I travel for business I'm busy with meetings, and don't have time for shopping. And when I travel for vacation, I'm there for vacation, not shopping. I don't travel hundreds/thousands of miles and burn vacation days, just so I can shop at the local K-Mart.
Funny, I'm sitting here working on a 1920x1200 Dell inspiron 8600, and it seems plenty bright and clear. I don't notice any blurring, or horrible glare. Oh, and I've got an Apple Powerbook here as well. I have never noticed that it's screen was vastly (or at all) better.
Why would any one want a high resolution laptop? Maybe some of us have a lot of data we want to see at the same time. I'd think you would understand that working in a 'graphics research lab'...
It's a parasite. The strange thing is their claim that after dog bites these "cancer cells clog up the jaw, and the poor animals die of starvation".
I can see how a parasite like this might get a free ride in the genital tract, but in the case if bites like this, the host dog's immune system should recognize these 'cancer' cells as foreign material and destroy them.
Have to hope? I sure *hope* you have test servers and clients set up, and that you have already installed and are testing the patches to make sure that they don't break any applications you are running. And I hope that as soon as you are confident that the patches don't break anything, you get them installed on the production servers.
That's a much better *hope*. Otherwise, I hope your administrator has his resume up to date.
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Wow, insulting me because I said it was no suprise. Who pissed in your corn flakes?
I didn't say every machine was a 'junk' machine, but if you have any experience at Universities, you often will see departments 'doing their own thing' when it comes to departmental servers, where the IT department of the University is not involved in their administration at all other than supplying an IP-address/DNS. The IT department's 'security model' is usually for machines directly under their control. Not the computers in every department. That's reality. It happens.
In any competently run University IT dept, the IT folks running the machines with sensitive information would keep those machines firewalled off from the rest of the University. Besides unpatched departmental 'junk' servers, the network is also full of undergrad laptops, etc, with who knows what spypare/malware on them. And some of the undergrads may be hackers themselves. Any competent folks would treat the main University LAN as just as hostile of an environment as the Internet. I would never want you to administer *my* network if you don't understand that. Bub.
In case you aren't familiar with what often happen
No kidding. Shocker. He found some machines at Universities, etc, that hadn't been patched in a long time.
How is that surprising? Does he think that never does some department set up a small server for itself, then in a couple years, the person admining it leaves, and since the machine is still 'working', people continue to let it run/use-it. After a while, running with no admin, it gets way out of date on patches and is vulnerable to anybody. Happens all the time. And it's got absolutely nothing to do with an active and competent admin worrying about 0-day exploits on the boxes that they ARE taking care of.
You don't think so? Just because you've never used something doesn't mean it doesn't exist and that other folks don't use it.
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Hmm, hack a box, steal credit card info, identity info, then plant kiddie porn and tip off cops.
The patsy is busy with a trial followed by a long trip to jail, leaving no time for him to find mysterious credit card/mortgages/loans charged to his identity. Sounds like the way to get a long lead when your job is identity theft. Scary.
It's the same with any optical drive for your computer. I've had 3 of 3 sony DVD+/-RW's fail on me in the past year. NEC's, etc, keep on working. I've had a policy for years to not buy any of Sony's hardware/software with "us-only" proprietary formats, but I assumed their optical drives would at least be of good quality. Bad assumption. I'll never buy another sony product.
Yeah, but I mean, the universe is only 6,000 years old according to my bible school teacher, so it just didn't have time to heat up yet, right?
(laugh, it's a joke)
Right. "We won't take any money! Oh, you want to invest early Mr. not-too-bight-but-greedy VC? Well, maybe we'll make a little exception for you. But, shhhhhhhh. Don't tell anyone."
There is no better bait for the suckers than getting in on the sly on something that other folks are locked out of.
Seriously. If they had any real academics look at this, and there was any real effect, it would already be published in a peer-reviewed journal. Why isn't there one after 3 years? Because it's bogus. Suddenly they are calling for it now, rather than have any of those 'independent' folks who have already looked at it publish on it?
Here's a hint. When you want some academics to look at and prove your invention works, you talk directly to some academics and let them see it.
What don't you do? Take out a big advertisement in the 'Economist' magazine.
Let's see. What publication would I publish an add in if I want to get a bunch of geeky types to look at my invention? 'Nature'? 'Science'? No, no, I know 'Economist' magazine. Yeah, they all read that.
I'm sure they didn't pick that magazine because it's most likely to be read by VC's. Nah. I'm sure you are right. It doesn't sound like a scam at all </sarcasm meter off scale>
Sigh. Of course not all Venture Capitalists are complete idiots. Many are mucho smart. Some, however, were either lucky, got good advice from others (but might not every time), or inherited their money.
Smart venture captialists will always be around. But so will stupid ones for the above reasons.
No. It sounds like they are looking to do some advertising, so they can rope in some not-too-smart-but-greedy venture captial investors.
What ever happened to their plans to release an OS for it based on BeOS? That thing should have ruled the handheld world by now...
The two main points in favor of this type unit over an old PC?
1) Space
2) Electric bill
Yep. The voice acting is terrible. It seems like the one guy (is it the guy who reads the harry potter books for books on tape?) does at least half the male voices. How about some variety instead of one guy trying to do 20 'accents'?
Why not hire more voice actors? Seriously. It doesn't take that much skill to read a few lines and put in some proper inflection. They shouldn't cost that much to have a few more people do it, and they don't need extensive training/experience.
Hmm, interesting. You still didn't name your source for that 99% fact. How come? Maybe because it's crap that you pulled from your ass? It might be how YOU use VM's, but it isn't how lots of the rest of us use them.
"In theory the first for reasons could theoretically be solved with a chroot jail. Except windows doesn't do that".
So, when one of the points was specifically about running IE in windows, then this theory is rubbish. Scrath that.
And if your base system is Windows, scratch it for all of them.
And I hate to burst your bubble, but not all windows apps run ok in Wine.
And your arguement doesn't hold up for cluttering up the OS. I don't want to worry about dll hell on windows or library hell on *nix. If I install it on a VMWare machine, I can run it as needed, and when not needed keep the VMWare machine in offline storage.
As for the fifth reason, see the above about library hell. Config files aren't everything needed in LOTS of cases. Plus if it happens to be a windows server, moving a few config files isn't going to do it at all.
Besides all those uses, I often set up a number of VMs to model networks before implementing any changes to pf config files on the routers/firewalls. A single OS on a single machine just doesn't work for that.
Really? Where exacty did you get this little factoid? Out of your ass maybe?
I want to run VMWare with the same OS a lot.
Sometimes I want to keep the primary OS uncluttered.
Sometimes I'm installing stuff to try that I just want to test and don't want to install on my real machine until I know the software.
Sometimes I'm installing untrusted software (something off bittorrent perhaps).
Sometimes I'm visiting untrusted websites that require IE, and if my host machine is windows I don't want to open it up to possible IE expoits.
Sometimes I'm just trying to keep my individual server apps isolated so that I can move them to different hardware if any of the apps starts getting used more and consume more resources than available on the host computer.
Personally, although I use a number of different OS's, all my machines tend to run more copies of the same OS as the host OS than of a different OS.
Wait, you mean he's the bastard who has been keeping Duke Nukem from me for the last decade plus?
String him up boys!
Not everyone flies to only decent sized cities. Not everyone flies to only 1st world countries.
I can't find the latest stats, or any specific for congress, but...
Last I knew, the average US family had 2.4 kids.
If each congressman has 2.4 kids on average, and 5% off congressmen have 1 child in the military, that's just over 2% of the congressmen's total number of kids, which would be lower than the average volunteerism rate for the US if that is really 3%.
So your arguement doesn't seem to stand up.
Not everwhere in the world has a 7-eleven.
If you don't like it, then don't fly.
If you don't like reading my posts, then piss-off. What? We both have other choices and don't have to take the orders of the other poster???
That's what the terrorists really want, for all of us to stop flying.
Then why the hell did you tell me to stop flying? Are you with the terrorists?
Lucky you.
I do just figure at the very worst, it gives me an excuse to go shopping and buy some new clothes, and other stuff.
You may need an excuse to go shopping, but I don't. I consider shopping for clothes, let alone toiletries, etc, a chore. Not something I want to spend my vacation time on.
I've never understood people that tried bringing ALL of their belongings into the cabin with them...
Who said I wanted to bring ALL my belongings with me into the cabin? I bring my toiletries (about the size of a brick. No big deal to put inside a small backpack) in a small carry-on, along with a pair of jeans/socks/underwear/shirt so I have an extra set of clothes in case they lose my baggage.
Don't know much about airline hijacking history eh?
The vast vast majority of the time when someone would try to take over a plane, they would demand it fly to some other country that the hijackers wanted to go to. Usually it ended up with the airplane going to a very unscheduled destination, and the other passengers had themselves a little adventure. Usually just costing them several hours or an extra day of travel. Not something you want to happen, but hardly worth getting into a knife fight over. So almost certainly most of the passengers on the 3 planes that crashed into buildings let them do what they were doing, thinking an extended flight to an exotic location was the worst likely outcome. If they had know what the hijackers intentions were, they would have tried fighting back, just as those on the flight that crashed in PA had (because they heard what had happened to the other flights).
If someone were to try to take over a plane again in that manner, everyone would fight back, just as you have stated you would. The different reaction of the passengers on the first 3 planes makes perfect sense if you know the history of airline hijackings.
Apparently you've never had them lose your luggage. I have. Keeping your toiletries in your carry-on is a good idea (if they will let you nowadays...)
Yeah, most places you land will have a store you could get most/all of the stuff in, but usually when I travel for business I'm busy with meetings, and don't have time for shopping. And when I travel for vacation, I'm there for vacation, not shopping. I don't travel hundreds/thousands of miles and burn vacation days, just so I can shop at the local K-Mart.
Funny, I'm sitting here working on a 1920x1200 Dell inspiron 8600, and it seems plenty bright and clear. I don't notice any blurring, or horrible glare. Oh, and I've got an Apple Powerbook here as well. I have never noticed that it's screen was vastly (or at all) better.
Why would any one want a high resolution laptop? Maybe some of us have a lot of data we want to see at the same time. I'd think you would understand that working in a 'graphics research lab'...
What the hell kind of troll is this? You forgot to say how folks should just stop using vi and agree to all work on emacs...
And no mention of distro X vs distry Y. tsk, tsk.
It's a parasite. The strange thing is their claim that after dog bites these "cancer cells clog up the jaw, and the poor animals die of starvation".
I can see how a parasite like this might get a free ride in the genital tract, but in the case if bites like this, the host dog's immune system should recognize these 'cancer' cells as foreign material and destroy them.
Have to hope? I sure *hope* you have test servers and clients set up, and that you have already installed and are testing the patches to make sure that they don't break any applications you are running. And I hope that as soon as you are confident that the patches don't break anything, you get them installed on the production servers.
That's a much better *hope*. Otherwise, I hope your administrator has his resume up to date.