heh heh. Am I paranoid if they're really out to get me?:)
No, random guys hunt down my friends on IM or where ever. It's one thing for me to get email from guys who see my posts here, but my friends don't need that. If you were hacking crazy cross-compiling real time code, do you want to answer IMs from a deVry student who found your IM name after hitting my site?
Why? 'Cause you little slashdorks stalk my friends. And I don't want you knowing what I look like.
If you read this and visit my website, please know that yes, I am a girl; yes, I do Linux for a living; yes, I have a boyfriend; yes, he is a geek too. And PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE leave my friends alone.
While this is true in specialty fields, that's not the big outlay for a university IT department's cash. Many of the more expensive per-seat programs even require dongles or hardware verification and have other anti-piracy measures in place. Or site licensing. And what's the chance of finding a copy of ChemDraw or something even more insane on your favorite warez site that runs?
But what's $100,000 in chemistry software when you're paying big money for operating systems to run word processing software, presentation software, and spreadsheets?
Depending on the way the school does its budgets, anyway, much of the department-specific software costs fall to the department that wants them, and those systems aren't paid for out of the general IT budget, aren't available to most students, and are therefore less available for copying.
But if a large campus turns its Windows-based labs and servers into an open source solution, would they need to worry about installing winzip in too many places? about not having enough seats bought for exchange or site server?
No, they would not.
Monitoring machines in the dozens for license compliance is nothing compared to hundreds of public lab machines.
Interesting, but there's a difference: I'm not going to sell someone my data on CD and then say don't collect it from somewhere else.
I'm not mass marketing my private life for the digestion of the masses.
And, there is no potential for Me to profit from random companies having this information. I'm not setting a price on it at all at this point, and benefit not at all. (marketing is not to my benefit)
Another point, in this context, is that I don't always know what data is being collected and disseminated. Do I know that if I purchase the "Wilt Chamberlain Weekend Orgy 128 Pack" of my preferred prophylactic at drugstore.com, that one of the later digestors of that information isn't going to visit my house trying to enlighten me about the sinfulness of my ways?
No one is going to use the production of Crossroads in a witch hunt. The potential for personal harm from information in the hands of the irresponsible is much more dangerous.
And the protection of multi-billion dollar corporations/conglomerates (who are still raking in billions of dollars during a recessive economy) from the general public will continue to be silly until they stop it.
Windows 2000 has approximately 50 million lines of code.
While we know this, how much of this code is new? Or even recent? Microsoft's emergency CYA security end-run isn't going to make up for them spending decade recycling the same code into new versions of the NT-family kernel, dragging along the same NetBIOS problems, the same IP stack vulnerabilities, the same odd approach to which software gets a silly default password and what gets a blank password...
On the flip side, M$ has a lot of manpower to waste. While I doubt the ability of many of their teams to spot blatant security problems, (again, we've been at this for years now) they certainly have the manpower and the time to spend on this kind of silly project. It by no means guarentees that they are going to accomplish anything.
And do you really want a filesystems specialist looking for problems in your video subsystem? In the menuing systems? hmm...might be interesting...
Two months is not a remedy for a quarter-century of employing a lax security paradigm.
sexual anorexia sounds as damaging a problem as anything else they mention in the article.
Sexual anorexics are obsessed with sexual avoidance, and often have other obsessive/compulsive/addictive behavioral problems.
Yeesh. If they're just dropping syndromes, that's a pretty strong one to be using. It's an anorexia because the people who suffer from it act the same way as people with eating disorders, may have the same problems with self-image, may have a history of sexual exploitation or abuse.
...Milla would just do an exercise video like Anna so those of us who were looking for a good sci-fi horror flick wouldn't be sucked into the theater for this tripe.
They spent the whole movie foreshadowing this creepy creature that escapes and then focus on the zombies. I've seen zombies; I go to work on Monday mornings. Give us more scary mutants and bitch computers.
--mandi
who put worchestershire sauce in your embalming fluid today?
Having just started week 2 of my new job after 3.5 months without pay, I thought I'd weigh in on this one. The company still exists, and still owes the employees money, so I've still got my fingers crossed though I've left.
There are a number of reasons to try to hang on at a job that isn't paying. The foremost, for me, was the people I was working with and the company atmosphere. As long as my co-workers were coming in and we were getting something done, then everyone could comiserate, share tips and job leads, play UT for awhile to get everyone's mind off what amounts to a life-altering circumstance.
Another is the job market. It sucks. I started looking for work in September when they first told us that the next major funding deal had fallen through. I finally found something reasonable in February.
The third reason for us was that they were still paying our health benefits. When it comes down to numbers, health benefits cost more than you can collect on unemployment.
Eventually, yes, those things aren't enough to stay for, and you'll find work elsewhere. In my case, most of the staff left, and certain members of the non-development staff were getting increasingly hostile. At that point, no matter how compelled I felt to do a good job, to not burn bridges, to finish my projects, I just couldn't handle being browbeaten by other members of staff and not get paid for it.
So yeah, there are some throw-away jobs out there, but on the off chance you get into a situation you want to stay in, it can be more difficult to leave than to borrow some money and stay.
I'm sorry, but having attempted to get ANY useful timely information out of the crap that is Event Viewer, I will stick with/var/log/*.
Event Viewer is the most useless piece of junk in the Windows world. It's not set up to be truly queried, or use complex filtering, or tag important information based on what the admin wants to see.
It can tell you who logged in to what machine and how many pages they printed to what printer. Yee Haw.
Hopefully these people have more sense than to try to mindlessly copy the Windows paradigm. There is so much going on with system security that real time, query-enhanced auditing with a good set of heuristics combined with a pointy-haired gui, reporting tools, etc., could be very useful.
How they figure logging is keeping Linux out of businesses is beyond me, since a program like Exchange will crash the server if you want to look at the logs.
My roommate senior year was a science ed major from England. While at our school in the US, she took our "Elementary Science" class.
One week was exercises like "find a bunch of stuff that is silver" and "find a bunch of white powders in your kitchen" crap. There was a basic look at weather - clouds, the water cycle, etc, and other basic things.
The American students complained the whole time that the class was too difficult, while the foreign students, also taking a class in advanced microbiology the same semester, hated it.
The same applies to basic math - you have ElEd students getting tutored by math majors so they can figure out enough about fractions and long division to pass an Ed class.
How are they going to teach it if they don't get it themselves???? This is the American "education system" propogating itself over and over. Uneducated teachers can't explain "hard stuff" to their students, who then never learn it, some of whom grow up to be teachers.
Children are inquisitive; they want to know everything about everything, and if you put them in a room for 6 to 8 hours a day with someone who doesn't know anything, what's going to happen? They'll stop asking questions (becuase they know they won't get answers) and then it's all over.
The whole public school system in this country is a horrible disgrace and will continue to be without something radical (hell, the cold war wasn't radical enough to persuade schools to turn out better science students) happening.
Of course, most parents are products of the same half-a$$ed education system as the teachers, so they aren't really in any place to say anything to anyone about how smart their kid is. Every parent thinks their kid is the smartest kid on the block. Only one kid is the smartest, and your kid is probably stealing his or her lunch money.
Heh heh. I actually sent a message to noc@microsoft.com yesterday letting them know that several machines were infected:
-----
To whom it may concern:
Your Windows server(s) at
65.54.225.59
65.54.225.129
65.54.225.180
is/are infected with the Code Red worm.
Please see information about patching your systems at Microsoft's
TechNet:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/defaul t. asp?url=/technet/itsolutions/security/topics/codea lrt.asp
R Walls
Linux Systems Admin
*email removed*
-----
Had I sent it later in the afternoon, two more servers would have been listed there.
Can't wait until one of these has a malicious payload.
Microsoft can and will ignore whomever and whatever they want to, as they have been doing for years.
How long did it take them to pay attention to their own customers and get rid of clippy? Four years? How long did it take them to write an SMTP server that allows for conditional relaying like everyone else instead of all open or all closed relaying? Oh wait; they haven't done that yet.
This is closer to an admittance by Microsoft that other systems exist, and they are unwelcome interlopers in an M$-centric network. Leaving the old LAN Manager authentication in, using the same file sharing technology for years, M$ basically didn't see the need to change anything because, after all, no one was using anything but M$ products, right?
So with a step like this, M$ is saying "We know you're not using our products everywhere, so we're going to try to come up with another way to make you pay for our lousy tech".
So now we need a robust file sharing system that works like SMB/NFS/etc from a web browser - cross platform joyousness for the client, apache on whateveryouwant for the server....
What happens if AOL drops its IE core and goes with a Netscape core for some version n of it's system?
Oops! Suddenly there's a potential for 40 million people to not be able to see your site at all!
Unless, of course, AOL just wanted Netscape so they could dismantle it... Let's hope not.
--mandi
I need about three-fiddy
Impending Middle Management....
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My school Juniata College started working out the kinks for CIS a couple years ago. Basically, the business department wanted it to be a business BS with a web class....
That didn't fly, thank goodness.
Basically, pose these thoughts: 1. Can someone with a BSCIS get a MSCS? At most schools you won't have the pre-reqs. 2. Can someone with a BSCS get an MIS? Dude, you'd know more math than the prof, and you'll probably be bored...
What about MBA? CIS is usually a branch of business. If you want to get an MBA at a well-respected school for MBA-ness, they don't care what your BS is in, they want you to have a couple years' experience in the real world. So you could get the CIS and pay for things you'll probably have to learn later anyway.
But the part that irks me the MOST, that really PISSES ME OFF when I have to work with people, are computer people with the "I don't program" problem. Sys admins, web masters, DBAs, network/router admins... who have NO IDEA how to automate some of the stuff they do everyFREAKINGday. Configging routers, maintaining users, scripted backups, whatever.
It's a set of problem-solving skills that don't get developed while you're taking classes on how to write memos (i swear my roommate had a class like that) or paying to take your certification exams.
Being able to program is a powertool while everyone else is using rocks and sticks.
CS doesn't mean you're going down the road of "building nice big software". It means you use the computer as a tool and a means to make your own tools.
You want a minor? Take some communications classes. That'll open some eyes...
Slashdot Mirror
My site has the IE CSS Vulnerability coded on the front page. :)
--mandi
No, random guys hunt down my friends on IM or where ever. It's one thing for me to get email from guys who see my posts here, but my friends don't need that. If you were hacking crazy cross-compiling real time code, do you want to answer IMs from a deVry student who found your IM name after hitting my site?
probably not... :)
--mandi
Why? 'Cause you little slashdorks stalk my friends. And I don't want you knowing what I look like.
If you read this and visit my website, please know that yes, I am a girl; yes, I do Linux for a living; yes, I have a boyfriend; yes, he is a geek too. And PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE leave my friends alone.
--mandi
Laptop + Bathtub = Hours of Blissful Soaking
CAT5 is okay for that. Wireless acceptible too.
Sorry, I'm taken.
--mandi
And that would be 12:01 Eastern, not 12:01 in that later time zone that contains Michigan.
So Nyah Nyah Nyah!
--mandi
bastards like python, too.
may as well just put hot pokers in my eyes.
--mandi
(fan of purple linux...)
But what's $100,000 in chemistry software when you're paying big money for operating systems to run word processing software, presentation software, and spreadsheets?
Depending on the way the school does its budgets, anyway, much of the department-specific software costs fall to the department that wants them, and those systems aren't paid for out of the general IT budget, aren't available to most students, and are therefore less available for copying.
But if a large campus turns its Windows-based labs and servers into an open source solution, would they need to worry about installing winzip in too many places? about not having enough seats bought for exchange or site server?
No, they would not.
Monitoring machines in the dozens for license compliance is nothing compared to hundreds of public lab machines.
--mandi
I'm not mass marketing my private life for the digestion of the masses.
And, there is no potential for Me to profit from random companies having this information. I'm not setting a price on it at all at this point, and benefit not at all. (marketing is not to my benefit)
Another point, in this context, is that I don't always know what data is being collected and disseminated. Do I know that if I purchase the "Wilt Chamberlain Weekend Orgy 128 Pack" of my preferred prophylactic at drugstore.com, that one of the later digestors of that information isn't going to visit my house trying to enlighten me about the sinfulness of my ways?
No one is going to use the production of Crossroads in a witch hunt. The potential for personal harm from information in the hands of the irresponsible is much more dangerous.
And the protection of multi-billion dollar corporations/conglomerates (who are still raking in billions of dollars during a recessive economy) from the general public will continue to be silly until they stop it.
--mandi
--mandi
While we know this, how much of this code is new? Or even recent? Microsoft's emergency CYA security end-run isn't going to make up for them spending decade recycling the same code into new versions of the NT-family kernel, dragging along the same NetBIOS problems, the same IP stack vulnerabilities, the same odd approach to which software gets a silly default password and what gets a blank password...
On the flip side, M$ has a lot of manpower to waste. While I doubt the ability of many of their teams to spot blatant security problems, (again, we've been at this for years now) they certainly have the manpower and the time to spend on this kind of silly project. It by no means guarentees that they are going to accomplish anything.
And do you really want a filesystems specialist looking for problems in your video subsystem? In the menuing systems? hmm...might be interesting...
Two months is not a remedy for a quarter-century of employing a lax security paradigm.
--mandi
On google, that is..
sexual anorexia sounds as damaging a problem as anything else they mention in the article.
Sexual anorexics are obsessed with sexual avoidance, and often have other obsessive/compulsive/addictive behavioral problems.
Yeesh. If they're just dropping syndromes, that's a pretty strong one to be using. It's an anorexia because the people who suffer from it act the same way as people with eating disorders, may have the same problems with self-image, may have a history of sexual exploitation or abuse.
Oh happy day. :(
--mandi
According to the packages available on verio's site, they moved the domain from "managed hosting" to "dedicated hosting".
Silly unisys. you're so lost.
--mandi
They spent the whole movie foreshadowing this creepy creature that escapes and then focus on the zombies. I've seen zombies; I go to work on Monday mornings. Give us more scary mutants and bitch computers.
--mandi
who put worchestershire sauce in your embalming fluid today?
Mobile Suit Gundam
There are a number of reasons to try to hang on at a job that isn't paying. The foremost, for me, was the people I was working with and the company atmosphere. As long as my co-workers were coming in and we were getting something done, then everyone could comiserate, share tips and job leads, play UT for awhile to get everyone's mind off what amounts to a life-altering circumstance.
Another is the job market. It sucks. I started looking for work in September when they first told us that the next major funding deal had fallen through. I finally found something reasonable in February.
The third reason for us was that they were still paying our health benefits. When it comes down to numbers, health benefits cost more than you can collect on unemployment.
Eventually, yes, those things aren't enough to stay for, and you'll find work elsewhere. In my case, most of the staff left, and certain members of the non-development staff were getting increasingly hostile. At that point, no matter how compelled I felt to do a good job, to not burn bridges, to finish my projects, I just couldn't handle being browbeaten by other members of staff and not get paid for it.
So yeah, there are some throw-away jobs out there, but on the off chance you get into a situation you want to stay in, it can be more difficult to leave than to borrow some money and stay.
--mandi
Anyway, bookpool.com usually has the lowest prices for new tech books.
Event Viewer is the most useless piece of junk in the Windows world. It's not set up to be truly queried, or use complex filtering, or tag important information based on what the admin wants to see.
It can tell you who logged in to what machine and how many pages they printed to what printer. Yee Haw.
Hopefully these people have more sense than to try to mindlessly copy the Windows paradigm. There is so much going on with system security that real time, query-enhanced auditing with a good set of heuristics combined with a pointy-haired gui, reporting tools, etc., could be very useful.
How they figure logging is keeping Linux out of businesses is beyond me, since a program like Exchange will crash the server if you want to look at the logs.
The American students complained the whole time that the class was too difficult, while the foreign students, also taking a class in advanced microbiology the same semester, hated it.
The same applies to basic math - you have ElEd students getting tutored by math majors so they can figure out enough about fractions and long division to pass an Ed class. How are they going to teach it if they don't get it themselves???? This is the American "education system" propogating itself over and over. Uneducated teachers can't explain "hard stuff" to their students, who then never learn it, some of whom grow up to be teachers.
Children are inquisitive; they want to know everything about everything, and if you put them in a room for 6 to 8 hours a day with someone who doesn't know anything, what's going to happen? They'll stop asking questions (becuase they know they won't get answers) and then it's all over.
The whole public school system in this country is a horrible disgrace and will continue to be without something radical (hell, the cold war wasn't radical enough to persuade schools to turn out better science students) happening.
Of course, most parents are products of the same half-a$$ed education system as the teachers, so they aren't really in any place to say anything to anyone about how smart their kid is. Every parent thinks their kid is the smartest kid on the block. Only one kid is the smartest, and your kid is probably stealing his or her lunch money.
Because humans are better than animals, duh.
Humans aren't animals, aren't related to animals, have nothing in common with animals except that the same psychotic diety created them.
And this diety created humans to lord over the animals and abuse them as the humans saw fit.
Because you know humans don't really share 90+ % of their genetic make up with a lowly bunch of apes.
Heh heh. I actually sent a message to noc@microsoft.com yesterday letting them know that several machines were infected:
l t. asp?url=/technet/itsolutions/security/topics/codea lrt.asp
-----
To whom it may concern:
Your Windows server(s) at
65.54.225.59
65.54.225.129
65.54.225.180
is/are infected with the Code Red worm.
Please see information about patching your systems at Microsoft's
TechNet:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/defau
R Walls
Linux Systems Admin
*email removed*
-----
Had I sent it later in the afternoon, two more servers would have been listed there.
Can't wait until one of these has a malicious payload.
--mandi
How long did it take them to pay attention to their own customers and get rid of clippy? Four years? How long did it take them to write an SMTP server that allows for conditional relaying like everyone else instead of all open or all closed relaying? Oh wait; they haven't done that yet.
This is closer to an admittance by Microsoft that other systems exist, and they are unwelcome interlopers in an M$-centric network. Leaving the old LAN Manager authentication in, using the same file sharing technology for years, M$ basically didn't see the need to change anything because, after all, no one was using anything but M$ products, right?
So with a step like this, M$ is saying "We know you're not using our products everywhere, so we're going to try to come up with another way to make you pay for our lousy tech".
So now we need a robust file sharing system that works like SMB/NFS/etc from a web browser - cross platform joyousness for the client, apache on whateveryouwant for the server....
--mandi
Microsoft is probably upset because they can't muck with samba to make their lousy lan manager crap work better.
Nah, that was a company called "invita" that was actually a company in washington state pretending along with the FBI.
Oops! Suddenly there's a potential for 40 million people to not be able to see your site at all!
Unless, of course, AOL just wanted Netscape so they could dismantle it... Let's hope not.
--mandi
I need about three-fiddy
That didn't fly, thank goodness.
Basically, pose these thoughts:
1. Can someone with a BSCIS get a MSCS? At most schools you won't have the pre-reqs.
2. Can someone with a BSCS get an MIS? Dude, you'd know more math than the prof, and you'll probably be bored...
What about MBA? CIS is usually a branch of business. If you want to get an MBA at a well-respected school for MBA-ness, they don't care what your BS is in, they want you to have a couple years' experience in the real world. So you could get the CIS and pay for things you'll probably have to learn later anyway.
But the part that irks me the MOST, that really PISSES ME OFF when I have to work with people, are computer people with the "I don't program" problem. Sys admins, web masters, DBAs, network/router admins... who have NO IDEA how to automate some of the stuff they do everyFREAKINGday. Configging routers, maintaining users, scripted backups, whatever.
It's a set of problem-solving skills that don't get developed while you're taking classes on how to write memos (i swear my roommate had a class like that) or paying to take your certification exams.
Being able to program is a powertool while everyone else is using rocks and sticks.
CS doesn't mean you're going down the road of "building nice big software". It means you use the computer as a tool and a means to make your own tools.
You want a minor? Take some communications classes. That'll open some eyes...
--mandi