But a person could use a stongly encrypted filesystem with the key on a USB drive. If someone comes looking to take your data, just smash the drive and flush it.
The vast majority of the comments up until now have been pointing out other things that happened on this date. It could be because it's the anniversary of this or that, blah blah blah. I was hoping for a technical discussion of the possible impact of this virus coming to life. Are we looking at another Melissa or ILoveYou scenario or another non-event? Anyone have any insight?
"I don't know if it's just coincidence or if they are related," he said. "It's very hard to prove this scientifically, but it's just as hard to disprove it."
I believe this also holds true for Flying Spaghetti Monster.
I think someone beat you to this idea, like more than 5 years ago. Microsoft utilizes dynamic DNS for service location in Windows 2000+ Active Directory domains. Even BIND supports DDNS. It's done all over the place within private networks, it's just not widely supported on the Internet at large.
Okay, the only responses to your post are tearing you to pieces and here's why... A single Netware server can handle the load you're talking about and without really breaking much of a sweat. I've done it myself, it works, and it's not all that hard if you know what you're doing. Don't flame Netware, you don't know it or understand it. Whoever is running your envirmonment is doing something severely wrong. Get a Windows adminstrator doing something severely wrong and you'll be in pain too.
Your blame is misplaced, or in other words, yor collage netwerk wud suk az bad if yor wind0ze adminz wur foolz.
EMC is obsolete. Their customers just haven't discovered it yet.
Great! Please build me a 100TB storage array with 128GB of cache in your garage. Not shared cache, please allocate it intelligently per logical device I create. Also, please make sure I have 64 front end fibre channel ports so I can attach this storage to my server farm. Oh, and also have it dial your house when a drive fails and be at my site within 4 hours to replace it.
I may want to connect my mainframe to it as well. While you're at it, build me a second one so I can synchronously or asynchronously mirror logical devices to my datacenter across town. I may want to do cloning and snapshotting to make copies of my production database, so throw in those capabilites too.
Please let me know when it's ready so I can drop my obsolete storage vendor.
Without knowing what the storage is to be used for I don't think you can reasonably assume that Centera would fit the bill. It's not simple disk you just lay a filesystem on top of, it's an object-based archival solution. You can put about 100TB of ATA storage into a single Clariion. The new DMX-3 line will scale much larger than that.
Admittedly, these solutions aren't cheap, but as other people have pointed out the cheap route has enormous pitfalls when you start talking about this much storage.
I used to work for a University's Internet helpdesk. Knowing all the ins and outs of Trumpet Winsock and MacSLIP/MacTCP was my job. There was also a DOS based internet suite called Minuet, some of you may have used it. I think it had its own dialer, mail, news, and FTP all built in (on a floppy disk, no less).
If you had a US Robotics 14.4kbps modem I knew that in order to connect to our modem pool you needed to use initialization string "AT&F&C1&D2". I used to be able to rattle off a bunch of those. Glad we don't need to do that sort of thing anymore. Yuck.
You can have your 1Gbps net connection or your network of 10,000 zombies out there. It seems to me that if you were trying to cause a cellular outage to a large region via this method (like a city), you'd quickly DOS the SMS or Email-to-text gateway before you'd ever cause an actual voice cell outage.
One would think the guys and gals that set these systems up have thought of such things and keep their eyes open for it (think message throttling). A text-message outage wouldn't have nearly the impact of a voice outage.
Not sure about the +5 Insightful here. SAN virtualization isn't as far from the OS level as you might thing.
The OS emulation part of vmware workstation really has nothing to do with storage.
Perhaps not for VMWare Workstation. EMC was probably a lot more interested in the VMWare ESX Server product. See VMWare's VMotion. Moving live virtual servers from one physical server to another without downtime. This is a beautiful thing if you've ever managed a large server farm. Oh, and it requires a SAN back end.
Slackware and Debian are the only commercial distros I'd suggest using, for a (linux) production environment.
Yes, Slack and Debian for my business critical production environment. When it all goes to hell it sure is great to have UseNet and IRC to fall back on.
Kidding aside, I agree with the sentiment of having intimate knowledge of what you're running, but I doubt you find many people betting their enterprise on a distribution without an official support channel. Your statement "advanced users know to steer-clear of commercialized distros" should be changed to "advanced hobbyists," or perhaps "advanced users who don't have their livelihood on the line."
People are very good at pointing out times when 911 would or could be important. Sure there will be those rare times. But I don't live where hurricanes are a problem. I'm not 90 years old. I've got a cell phone. My high speed internet service has been reliable for 4 years. Throw as many oddball scenarios out there as you like, VOIP is a good fit for a lot of us out here.
I read Slashdot regularly, and I at least skim every headline that comes across. I must notice just about every duplicate article with simple skimming.
I'm not nearly as annoyed as a lot of folks when I see a dupe, but my question is this:
Do the editors of Slashdot actually read the site regularly? If not, should they be posting articles to the front page?
You will be able to order the 10.4.1 preview for Intel today.
If you'll need a proprietary machine, I'm not sure what you're supposed to run your 10.4.1 preview on then.
Even so, I'd be willing to bet you'd still be able to get MacOS to run on your commodity Intel box at near-native speeds with a clever modification or two to Mac On Linux (MOL). Okay, I don't write code so it might not be that simple, but it sounds reasonable, no?
What about "trust" and other drugs?
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Has this sort of test been done with other drugs? I'd be willing to bet that a lot of drugs could have the same properties as this one with regard to trust. If a person is doped up on codeine for pain, prozac for depression, or alcohol/marijuana for fun, I'd be willing to bet that their level of trust in people wavers quite a bit. It'd be very interesting to see this test done along with several other drugs as well, rather than a simple control group. Maybe they found what they were looking simply because they started looking for it.
Think hotrod! You've seen those cars with the hole cut in the hood for the blower to stick out. Same deal. Paint some racing stripes on the case and you're the man...
The USA, like Mexico, is a very large place. There are very few areas where I'd feel uncomfortable walking around at night. I imagine Mexico City has a "bad part of town" as do larger American cities. I can tell you that we in the United States are not all diving to the ground and taking cover when cars drive by at night. We are not scared. We do not fear for our lives on a daily basis. We are not all depressed, impoverished and paranoid. And believe it or not, we're not all armed.
You're making sweeping generalizations here. I can think of some that are commonly made about Mexico and its citizens that you would probably refute as well.
Ugh. Xeon is already constantly pronounced as "Xenon" in my workplace. It drives me crazy. I imagine I'm not the only one who has heard this. That fact in and of itself is enough to make Xenon a bad name choice for IBM.
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But a person could use a stongly encrypted filesystem with the key on a USB drive. If someone comes looking to take your data, just smash the drive and flush it.
Right you are, Ken.
Am I the only one who had to look up inculcate?
The vast majority of the comments up until now have been pointing out other things that happened on this date. It could be because it's the anniversary of this or that, blah blah blah. I was hoping for a technical discussion of the possible impact of this virus coming to life. Are we looking at another Melissa or ILoveYou scenario or another non-event? Anyone have any insight?
"I don't know if it's just coincidence or if they are related," he said. "It's very hard to prove this scientifically, but it's just as hard to disprove it."
I believe this also holds true for Flying Spaghetti Monster.
I think someone beat you to this idea, like more than 5 years ago. Microsoft utilizes dynamic DNS for service location in Windows 2000+ Active Directory domains. Even BIND supports DDNS. It's done all over the place within private networks, it's just not widely supported on the Internet at large.
I might not have figured it out if you hadn't given it away. :)
Your blame is misplaced, or in other words, yor collage netwerk wud suk az bad if yor wind0ze adminz wur foolz.
Great! Please build me a 100TB storage array with 128GB of cache in your garage. Not shared cache, please allocate it intelligently per logical device I create. Also, please make sure I have 64 front end fibre channel ports so I can attach this storage to my server farm. Oh, and also have it dial your house when a drive fails and be at my site within 4 hours to replace it.
I may want to connect my mainframe to it as well. While you're at it, build me a second one so I can synchronously or asynchronously mirror logical devices to my datacenter across town. I may want to do cloning and snapshotting to make copies of my production database, so throw in those capabilites too.
Please let me know when it's ready so I can drop my obsolete storage vendor.
Admittedly, these solutions aren't cheap, but as other people have pointed out the cheap route has enormous pitfalls when you start talking about this much storage.
"If you ask the average slashdotter how many women he's dated, 1 is a huge number."
If you had a US Robotics 14.4kbps modem I knew that in order to connect to our modem pool you needed to use initialization string "AT&F&C1&D2". I used to be able to rattle off a bunch of those. Glad we don't need to do that sort of thing anymore. Yuck.
"Bad news everyone. We received a letter from the NTP lawyers today. They're threatening us with RIM-job."
One would think the guys and gals that set these systems up have thought of such things and keep their eyes open for it (think message throttling). A text-message outage wouldn't have nearly the impact of a voice outage.
Dude, your grandma has pierced body parts? Yuck.
The OS emulation part of vmware workstation really has nothing to do with storage.
Perhaps not for VMWare Workstation. EMC was probably a lot more interested in the VMWare ESX Server product. See VMWare's VMotion. Moving live virtual servers from one physical server to another without downtime. This is a beautiful thing if you've ever managed a large server farm. Oh, and it requires a SAN back end.
Yes, Slack and Debian for my business critical production environment. When it all goes to hell it sure is great to have UseNet and IRC to fall back on.
Kidding aside, I agree with the sentiment of having intimate knowledge of what you're running, but I doubt you find many people betting their enterprise on a distribution without an official support channel. Your statement "advanced users know to steer-clear of commercialized distros" should be changed to "advanced hobbyists," or perhaps "advanced users who don't have their livelihood on the line."
People are very good at pointing out times when 911 would or could be important. Sure there will be those rare times. But I don't live where hurricanes are a problem. I'm not 90 years old. I've got a cell phone. My high speed internet service has been reliable for 4 years. Throw as many oddball scenarios out there as you like, VOIP is a good fit for a lot of us out here.
Funny, that reminds me of my frustrated dad typing "GO TO HELL" in BASIC on our old TI99. As I recall the response was "CANNOT DO THAT".
Do the editors of Slashdot actually read the site regularly? If not, should they be posting articles to the front page?
Followup question: Isn't this common sense?
If you'll need a proprietary machine, I'm not sure what you're supposed to run your 10.4.1 preview on then.
Even so, I'd be willing to bet you'd still be able to get MacOS to run on your commodity Intel box at near-native speeds with a clever modification or two to Mac On Linux (MOL). Okay, I don't write code so it might not be that simple, but it sounds reasonable, no?
Has this sort of test been done with other drugs? I'd be willing to bet that a lot of drugs could have the same properties as this one with regard to trust. If a person is doped up on codeine for pain, prozac for depression, or alcohol/marijuana for fun, I'd be willing to bet that their level of trust in people wavers quite a bit. It'd be very interesting to see this test done along with several other drugs as well, rather than a simple control group. Maybe they found what they were looking simply because they started looking for it.
Think hotrod! You've seen those cars with the hole cut in the hood for the blower to stick out. Same deal. Paint some racing stripes on the case and you're the man...
You're making sweeping generalizations here. I can think of some that are commonly made about Mexico and its citizens that you would probably refute as well.
Ugh. Xeon is already constantly pronounced as "Xenon" in my workplace. It drives me crazy. I imagine I'm not the only one who has heard this. That fact in and of itself is enough to make Xenon a bad name choice for IBM.