It appears the U.S patent system requires some modification. At this stage, I think the more patent they grant the better. It's not until everyone with or without a petent is entangled in some lawsuit the power that be will not realise that the system is broken. Hopefully, it won't be too long before someone realises that things are getting out of control.
One of the biggest mistake that IT manager make is to assume that their job is 100% technical. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Their job is to ensure that their users are adequately cared for (training, hand holding etc) and perform their business can funtion. As IT managers tend to be more tuned into technology than people, they will find it especially difficult dealing with people. Stop the whining (your linux box is not going to crash if you're not at the kb 24x7) and get talking to people/users/luser etc.
the size of this sp make it quite inaccessible for anyone on a dialup. hopefully those of us that bought the cd and registered it will receive a free copy of this patch in the via FedEx the day before it's released to the public on the internet.
There will always be FUD coming from one corner or another. M$ are good at it. To an extent our self righteous belief that Free OS/Software are better are also FUD against M$. We spend too much time and energy justifying our own position. Let them do what they like and while we keep on coding a more secure and stable computing environment. Justifying unsubstantiated claims only endorse their credibility.
Most/.er are law abiding people with an opinion. More often than not, it is based upon more information than most people ever bother to find out about.
This may have little to do with free trade as oppose to viable and sustainable policy. In simple term, as the government and people's use of computer increases, they do not want a M$ to come in at some later stages and demand million of $ for the software which they could not afford in the first place.
Unfortunately, I think that in enforcing such a strict regime of software, they may end up making M$ the COOL thing to have and a new symbol of wealth within personal computing. Hence the new Merc of computers are the ones running M$ OS/app.
OK... I guess that I am also surprised that Windows RPC did not make "The Twenty Most Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities" given the recent impact that it had.
It does indeed... I appreciate your view.
What my comment was should they not balance this against what can cause the most detrimental impact on the internet as a whole.
I think the list missed the point a bit. Although have listed the most vulnerable apps, it should be ordered to balance against what is most likely to cause the most detrimental effect to the internet and not just what application is vulnerable if they were accessible over the internet.
Bind, if the current version is vulnerable (AFAIK it is not) then that should be at the top of the list.
OpenSSH - patch available almost immediately and firewall configured already to accept only traffic from known hosts.
As for the rest - I have to base my judgement based upon my experience over the last year or so. In this case, I have been affected most by worms such as Code Red and MSBlaster etc.. Even though I have not been infected by these worms personally, the traffic which they generated on the internet has caused the most problem in securing system and ensuring availability.
Most linux/*bsd buff can build one of these on any given sunday. But it is great to see a consumer oriented device targetted at home (mainly windows) users that offers what was once only available to geeks to the mass market... well I for one hope it takes off anyway.
"Any competent sysadmin already had their systems patched against that one."
Any competent sysadmin would not have M$ Windows directly connected to the internet or afford the downtime of a reboot that each patch require. Competent sysadmin have moved on know more about securing (against intrusion and ensuring availability) network/systems and worry less about CD storage.
Logic has no relevenace to a pissed off man! Give it a few days and I'll will certainly send him an email to thank him for the services provided. Right now - I'm still pissed off.
I do agree with this! However I strongly disagree wht the action that he has taken. It would have been more logical to unblock everything or to take the system down rather than blocking the whole world.
I maintain a few smtp servers and use the osirusoft quite extensively. This kind of things really hurts when I lost a hell of a lot of emails because the admin can't be bothered to publish the fact that he is blocking the entire flaming world and only finding out about from people that are trying to email me and/.
So god sake, blocking the world is worst than not blocking at all. The decent thing to do was to either take the service down (rbl client times out) or unblock everything. This is just plainly vindictive behaviour. This pisses me off more than bloody spammers.
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It appears the U.S patent system requires some modification. At this stage, I think the more patent they grant the better. It's not until everyone with or without a petent is entangled in some lawsuit the power that be will not realise that the system is broken. Hopefully, it won't be too long before someone realises that things are getting out of control.
One of the biggest mistake that IT manager make is to assume that their job is 100% technical. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Their job is to ensure that their users are adequately cared for (training, hand holding etc) and perform their business can funtion. As IT managers tend to be more tuned into technology than people, they will find it especially difficult dealing with people. Stop the whining (your linux box is not going to crash if you're not at the kb 24x7) and get talking to people/users/luser etc.
"know your own place"
.... etc".
I beg to differ to this statement - I believe it should be "everyone know they have a place in society regardless of race, colour
the size of this sp make it quite inaccessible for anyone on a dialup. hopefully those of us that bought the cd and registered it will receive a free copy of this patch in the via FedEx the day before it's released to the public on the internet.
There will always be FUD coming from one corner or another. M$ are good at it. To an extent our self righteous belief that Free OS/Software are better are also FUD against M$. We spend too much time and energy justifying our own position. Let them do what they like and while we keep on coding a more secure and stable computing environment. Justifying unsubstantiated claims only endorse their credibility.
Most /.er are law abiding people with an opinion. More often than not, it is based upon more information than most people ever bother to find out about.
Math and/or logic has does not feature in the *AA or BSA calculation. You are only confusing the issue for the masses.
OS to block I.E. Nice thought.
Does this bring into question such things as LDAP, M$ roaming profiles?
I agree with you on all points with the exception of "Odds are people who have computers in Vietnam are already driving Mercs anyway."
This is one of the primary reason as to why they need to cut th ecost of entry into this particular area.
This may have little to do with free trade as oppose to viable and sustainable policy. In simple term, as the government and people's use of computer increases, they do not want a M$ to come in at some later stages and demand million of $ for the software which they could not afford in the first place.
Unfortunately, I think that in enforcing such a strict regime of software, they may end up making M$ the COOL thing to have and a new symbol of wealth within personal computing. Hence the new Merc of computers are the ones running M$ OS/app.
OK... I guess that I am also surprised that Windows RPC did not make "The Twenty Most Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities" given the recent impact that it had.
It does indeed... I appreciate your view. What my comment was should they not balance this against what can cause the most detrimental impact on the internet as a whole.
did indeed... read it again just now too.
I think the list missed the point a bit. Although have listed the most vulnerable apps, it should be ordered to balance against what is most likely to cause the most detrimental effect to the internet and not just what application is vulnerable if they were accessible over the internet.
Bind, if the current version is vulnerable (AFAIK it is not) then that should be at the top of the list.
OpenSSH - patch available almost immediately and firewall configured already to accept only traffic from known hosts.
As for the rest - I have to base my judgement based upon my experience over the last year or so. In this case, I have been affected most by worms such as Code Red and MSBlaster etc.. Even though I have not been infected by these worms personally, the traffic which they generated on the internet has caused the most problem in securing system and ensuring availability.
Most linux/*bsd buff can build one of these on any given sunday. But it is great to see a consumer oriented device targetted at home (mainly windows) users that offers what was once only available to geeks to the mass market... well I for one hope it takes off anyway.
I find the sound is also somewhat distorted after drinking (a few) beer.
"Any competent sysadmin already had their systems patched against that one."
Any competent sysadmin would not have M$ Windows directly connected to the internet or afford the downtime of a reboot that each patch require. Competent sysadmin have moved on know more about securing (against intrusion and ensuring availability) network/systems and worry less about CD storage.
They monitor everything from their own citizen but anonymize everything from Iran.... ?
Logic has no relevenace to a pissed off man! Give it a few days and I'll will certainly send him an email to thank him for the services provided. Right now - I'm still pissed off.
I do agree with this! However I strongly disagree wht the action that he has taken. It would have been more logical to unblock everything or to take the system down rather than blocking the whole world.
And as I said, lesson learnt.
As I stated before... lesson learnt. Not a lesson that I will forget. Thank you.
Lesson learnt! Unfortunately the best lesson is always be learnt in the hardest way.
I maintain a few smtp servers and use the osirusoft quite extensively. This kind of things really hurts when I lost a hell of a lot of emails because the admin can't be bothered to publish the fact that he is blocking the entire flaming world and only finding out about from people that are trying to email me and /.
So god sake, blocking the world is worst than not blocking at all. The decent thing to do was to either take the service down (rbl client times out) or unblock everything. This is just plainly vindictive behaviour. This pisses me off more than bloody spammers.
They are not going to get you on the comm tax, but you might want to get more health insurance given how much transmission is in your house.