Does the security enhancements developed by the NSA slow down the kernel? Does it make it harder to set up services such as email or apache? How much more secure is it than a standard vanilla kernel?
I have not had the opportunity to play with SELinux but am interested in how it works, how difficult it is to set up properly and all that fun stuff
I once had an '82 Camaro RS (ok still do but its on blocks) that originally came with a very weak v6 engine. I "accidently" blew the motor... so my dad and me hacked a 350 that came out of a 72 Camaro (nice 4 bolt main... still have that too) into the car. Was fun finding motor mounts, re-wiring, but the coolest part was mating the little 5 speed to it... took some fancy footwork finding the right bellhousing, which finally came off of a camaro, but of course it didnt have the bracket for the hydrolic clutch so we had to fabricate one monster garage style ( was about 11-12 years ago)
Damn that thing could move afterwards. I could spin tires from first to 3rd gear. And with that tranny had excelent gas milage for a carbeurated engine. Always thought I would blow the tranny... but the only thing that went out drivetrain wise was the throwout bearing.
That was a fun ugly car... never lost a street race in it after that... and everyone always wondered how I got that fugly car to move like it did
my dad used to have a small logging operation before the evil democrats shut that down
oh wait not that kind of hacking... ok hacked the chainsaws to hack the trees down... just change this little wire here for more power AR RAR AR (Obligatory Tim the Tool Man Taylor Laugh... copyright ABC (I think))
I used to work at Gateway before thier stocks got flushed down the toilet. I worked at the call center in Rio Rancho, started there about a month after they opened (was part of the second class of techs to hit the floor) and watched our call center go through many stages. When I first started there, we were all about getting everyones problems fixed the first time every time. Call time was important but if you were solving problems, without messing around, then there wasn't any problems. THey were focused on quality not quantity. The year I started Gateway was named #1 by pc magazine for tech support. Everyone was proud and excited to be working for such a company. It was not uncommon to spend the entire day with one client to get certian problems fixed (was rare and only for strange and unique circumstances but it did happen).
Slowly and gradually, things started getting worse and worse. I was gradual enough that we didnt actually notice it at first... basically the frog in boiling water. They started getting tighter and tighter on calltimes, slowly lowering the maximum time. The reason we were given was that before we were running more like a help desk than a tech support call center. I personally didnt see much of a difference, both set up to help people with thier problems. We of course didnt support everything, no 3rd party hardware or software. But they slowly started limiting our scope of support.
Then Ted Waitt stepped down and Jeff Weitzen was named CEO. Talk about going to hell in a hand basket. I dont think it was personally Weitzen's fault, but I could be wrong. All of a sudden we werent a call center, we were a cost center, as we cost money to operate instead of generating revenue for the company. They set up pay support lines for the more obscure stuff and stuff we normally didnt handle. They gave everyone scripts to follow. A lot of us had been there 2-3 years at that point and knew these systems inside and out and could fix problems faster than tier flowsheets allowd us. However, if we didnt follow these guidelines we were punished. Written up, yelled at, etc. By this time I was working laptops, and we had a max call time of about 7 and a half minutes. I think standard desktop support was at about 12 or 13, cant quite remember. I was also working with home networking (anyone remember hpna cards?) so I had a little repreive.
They came up with the great idea of lets have tech support sell people stuff when they finish thier calls. I thought that was a totally bogus idea as before if they needed something like more memory or a bigger hard drive we would just transfer them over to the sales dept. for a quick and easy commisioned sale. Now they were expecting us to sell stuff to people that didnt need it. We didnt get commision, but we had numbers to hit. Now as most of you know, Tech support people dont always make good sales people. I was only able to sell extended warranties when the 1 year (used to be 3 year) warranties were over, and the occasional memory upgrade and hard drive, if it was justified that they really could use one. My manager would get on to me about more sales. I told him that I felt cheap and dirty making sales, as these people trusted us much more than sales, as sales people are there to make a sale and nothing more, but we were there to help them. He said, exactly. They are more open to sales from you because they arent expecting a sale from you. You should be pushing everything you can at them. Well of course that didnt go over very well with me, but at the same time they did a restructuring of the que's
With the que restructure, I now sat idle for hours at a time as I was one of about 12 people in all of gateway (at least in the US) that was still on the home networking que. (The rest were smart enough to get out... at about the time that Gateway outsourced thier IT department) So, I wouldnt take any other calls unless the other ques were hopelessly backed up, but that was rare as if you didnt have wicked fast calltimes you
no need to ask for my pardon... if you lived in Albq and had to go through that then I can understand. I live in Rio Rancho, right up the hill and dont need to worry about it
They already do this in Albuquerque, NM 3 DUI's and they will take the car you are in, regardless of who it belongs to... (I wonder if they would take a rental car that way)
New Mexico has periodic (annual, IIRC) vehicle safety inspections. If your interlock were disabled, you wouldn't get your inspection sticker and couldn't legally drive your car.
New Mexico dosent have any inspections. Bernalillo county (essentially Albuquerque) does have emissions testing which is done every other year, but thats the extent of any testing done in New Mexico
I'm not saying I support this. That is a whole different issue. It sounds more expensive cars and ignition systems that are even more of a bitch to work on. If Mexico wants to give it a try, maybe we can watch and learn and decide whether or not it's effective and should be used elsewhere
Thats NEW MEXICO you insensitive clod... which is a state of the USA. We are not Mexico, Mexico is a totally different country. Yes we share a border with Mexico, but that dosent Make us Mexico, even tho we are New Mexico and it does sound the same, and is the same except we are newer. So remember... New Mexico is one of the 50 states of the union.
Yeah, I have lived here all my life and it really iritates me when others dont realize we are part of the United States, esp when you get mail held up in Washington DC for not having international postage paid...(yes that has really happened to me once)
It is a chip you add... basically it is a programmable interrupt controller that intercepts certian calls and answers back. Not sure on the PS2 but on the original playstation it was easy to install if you had experience with soldering. The chip its self was about the size of a screw that would hold in a vid card or modem in your computer... would just run wires from certian pins on the chip to certian, strategic points all over the board.
they ever turn off the game, as eventually as people move on to others and the playing population dwindles they will most likely be left with a very high percentage of people who may be imbalanced and using the game as an escape, having thier virtual world as the only thing keeping them in check keeping them socially active. Imagine the lawsuits flying from all the parents suing SONY for shutting down the game and causing tons of suicides by people who cannot deal with thier world crashing down on them. Its going to happen, just a matter of time. Eventually EverQuest is going to lose its profitability and they will move on to something eles and it is going to affect the the scragglers left behind.
but the general market is not a big market for servers, usually only businesses will buy a server, and hence chances are real good you talked to someone on the corporate side, or switched the salesman into corporate mode
as absurd as this sounds, the way the legal seems to be working is if he did go to court he would probably end up going to prison, and probably serve a longer sentence than murderers and sex offenders, and I am not even going to into the legal fees that would be involved... if it is not already too late...
what the guy in the picture is wearing is a prototype. More than likely once it hits the market it will be much less intrusive, much less noticable. I would hate to be wearins something blatantly obvious and be mugged for my headset:)
but cheap is different than free. Unfortunately many people out there see free as inferior, otherwise they would be charged for it, even if it is a small amount.... the poor clueless fools
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it's not everyday that 63 municipal police, 39 municipal government officials, and 7 government contractors are accused of conspiracy and corruption.
I guess you've never heard of Chicago.
Or New Mexico
I call shenanigans. Current standard solar cells are more than 0.2% efficient, so a 500x improvement would capture more energy than the sun puts out.
While this could certainly improve the energy budget, it has the minor problem that it violates the laws of physics.
so... you are saying....
"In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!!"?
This is just a load of hogwash... subliminal messages don't work. Now if you will excuse me, I have a hot tip on a stock to buy.
This is a great thing to add to Linux, but is it secure enough to keep even the FBI out of your sensitive information?
Does the security enhancements developed by the NSA slow down the kernel? Does it make it harder to set up services such as email or apache? How much more secure is it than a standard vanilla kernel?
I have not had the opportunity to play with SELinux but am interested in how it works, how difficult it is to set up properly and all that fun stuff
I once had an '82 Camaro RS (ok still do but its on blocks) that originally came with a very weak v6 engine. I "accidently" blew the motor... so my dad and me hacked a 350 that came out of a 72 Camaro (nice 4 bolt main... still have that too) into the car. Was fun finding motor mounts, re-wiring, but the coolest part was mating the little 5 speed to it... took some fancy footwork finding the right bellhousing, which finally came off of a camaro, but of course it didnt have the bracket for the hydrolic clutch so we had to fabricate one monster garage style ( was about 11-12 years ago)
Damn that thing could move afterwards. I could spin tires from first to 3rd gear. And with that tranny had excelent gas milage for a carbeurated engine. Always thought I would blow the tranny... but the only thing that went out drivetrain wise was the throwout bearing.
That was a fun ugly car... never lost a street race in it after that... and everyone always wondered how I got that fugly car to move like it did
my dad used to have a small logging operation before the evil democrats shut that down
oh wait not that kind of hacking... ok hacked the chainsaws to hack the trees down... just change this little wire here for more power AR RAR AR (Obligatory Tim the Tool Man Taylor Laugh... copyright ABC (I think))
I used to work at Gateway before thier stocks got flushed down the toilet. I worked at the call center in Rio Rancho, started there about a month after they opened (was part of the second class of techs to hit the floor) and watched our call center go through many stages. When I first started there, we were all about getting everyones problems fixed the first time every time. Call time was important but if you were solving problems, without messing around, then there wasn't any problems. THey were focused on quality not quantity. The year I started Gateway was named #1 by pc magazine for tech support. Everyone was proud and excited to be working for such a company. It was not uncommon to spend the entire day with one client to get certian problems fixed (was rare and only for strange and unique circumstances but it did happen).
Slowly and gradually, things started getting worse and worse. I was gradual enough that we didnt actually notice it at first... basically the frog in boiling water. They started getting tighter and tighter on calltimes, slowly lowering the maximum time. The reason we were given was that before we were running more like a help desk than a tech support call center. I personally didnt see much of a difference, both set up to help people with thier problems. We of course didnt support everything, no 3rd party hardware or software. But they slowly started limiting our scope of support.
Then Ted Waitt stepped down and Jeff Weitzen was named CEO. Talk about going to hell in a hand basket. I dont think it was personally Weitzen's fault, but I could be wrong. All of a sudden we werent a call center, we were a cost center, as we cost money to operate instead of generating revenue for the company. They set up pay support lines for the more obscure stuff and stuff we normally didnt handle. They gave everyone scripts to follow. A lot of us had been there 2-3 years at that point and knew these systems inside and out and could fix problems faster than tier flowsheets allowd us. However, if we didnt follow these guidelines we were punished. Written up, yelled at, etc. By this time I was working laptops, and we had a max call time of about 7 and a half minutes. I think standard desktop support was at about 12 or 13, cant quite remember. I was also working with home networking (anyone remember hpna cards?) so I had a little repreive.
They came up with the great idea of lets have tech support sell people stuff when they finish thier calls. I thought that was a totally bogus idea as before if they needed something like more memory or a bigger hard drive we would just transfer them over to the sales dept. for a quick and easy commisioned sale. Now they were expecting us to sell stuff to people that didnt need it. We didnt get commision, but we had numbers to hit. Now as most of you know, Tech support people dont always make good sales people. I was only able to sell extended warranties when the 1 year (used to be 3 year) warranties were over, and the occasional memory upgrade and hard drive, if it was justified that they really could use one. My manager would get on to me about more sales. I told him that I felt cheap and dirty making sales, as these people trusted us much more than sales, as sales people are there to make a sale and nothing more, but we were there to help them. He said, exactly. They are more open to sales from you because they arent expecting a sale from you. You should be pushing everything you can at them. Well of course that didnt go over very well with me, but at the same time they did a restructuring of the que's
With the que restructure, I now sat idle for hours at a time as I was one of about 12 people in all of gateway (at least in the US) that was still on the home networking que. (The rest were smart enough to get out... at about the time that Gateway outsourced thier IT department) So, I wouldnt take any other calls unless the other ques were hopelessly backed up, but that was rare as if you didnt have wicked fast calltimes you
no need to ask for my pardon... if you lived in Albq and had to go through that then I can understand. I live in Rio Rancho, right up the hill and dont need to worry about it
They already do this in Albuquerque, NM 3 DUI's and they will take the car you are in, regardless of who it belongs to... (I wonder if they would take a rental car that way)
wow... you didnt know this? where did you go to school, in New Mexico? :-D
New Mexico has periodic (annual, IIRC) vehicle safety inspections. If your interlock were disabled, you wouldn't get your inspection sticker and couldn't legally drive your car.
New Mexico dosent have any inspections. Bernalillo county (essentially Albuquerque) does have emissions testing which is done every other year, but thats the extent of any testing done in New Mexico
I'm not saying I support this. That is a whole different issue. It sounds more expensive cars and ignition systems that are even more of a bitch to work on. If Mexico wants to give it a try, maybe we can watch and learn and decide whether or not it's effective and should be used elsewhere
Thats NEW MEXICO you insensitive clod... which is a state of the USA. We are not Mexico, Mexico is a totally different country. Yes we share a border with Mexico, but that dosent Make us Mexico, even tho we are New Mexico and it does sound the same, and is the same except we are newer. So remember... New Mexico is one of the 50 states of the union.
Yeah, I have lived here all my life and it really iritates me when others dont realize we are part of the United States, esp when you get mail held up in Washington DC for not having international postage paid...(yes that has really happened to me once)
Ray
...at least you didnt find out you are mexican...
Oh great, here comes INS...
Ford unveils thier new Chevy Blazer!!
It is a chip you add... basically it is a programmable interrupt controller that intercepts certian calls and answers back. Not sure on the PS2 but on the original playstation it was easy to install if you had experience with soldering. The chip its self was about the size of a screw that would hold in a vid card or modem in your computer... would just run wires from certian pins on the chip to certian, strategic points all over the board.
oh... so it is a bad thing when you cant read your own writing? my 7th grade english teacher was right? no wonder she put a typewriter on my desk...
they ever turn off the game, as eventually as people move on to others and the playing population dwindles they will most likely be left with a very high percentage of people who may be imbalanced and using the game as an escape, having thier virtual world as the only thing keeping them in check keeping them socially active. Imagine the lawsuits flying from all the parents suing SONY for shutting down the game and causing tons of suicides by people who cannot deal with thier world crashing down on them. Its going to happen, just a matter of time. Eventually EverQuest is going to lose its profitability and they will move on to something eles and it is going to affect the the scragglers left behind.
but the general market is not a big market for servers, usually only businesses will buy a server, and hence chances are real good you talked to someone on the corporate side, or switched the salesman into corporate mode
as absurd as this sounds, the way the legal seems to be working is if he did go to court he would probably end up going to prison, and probably serve a longer sentence than murderers and sex offenders, and I am not even going to into the legal fees that would be involved... if it is not already too late...
what the guy in the picture is wearing is a prototype. More than likely once it hits the market it will be much less intrusive, much less noticable. I would hate to be wearins something blatantly obvious and be mugged for my headset :)
I am guessing he works in Sioux Falls, SD
but cheap is different than free. Unfortunately many people out there see free as inferior, otherwise they would be charged for it, even if it is a small amount.... the poor clueless fools
if you mean the CRT model you are referring to the Astro
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http://www.gateway.com/support/product/astro/35
made for one hell of a tech support call...
Well, so much for sneaking to the barn with the Farmer's daughter... :)