So as the project grows, people will sell lists of these "open relay's" This way, spammers can use different SMTP servers to send there mail, making them more difficult to track. A few IPs and a few email accounts to check when the spam hole stops working, and they could actually use these to there advantage.
This is one of those grand broad questions with no answer. If you have an entire redundant system to test with, you can patch that instant, test it, and roll it out. But then again the new patch might fail in some way you never expected.
If you are talking a 100+ servers, then you might need to test a group, before you patch your core group.
Then there are the questions you need to ask. Is someone likely to break in? Did it work for someone else? Is it a MS product? What do your clients want? When will have the least effect on service? Did the patch come to you via email? You know, the important questions.
To answer the question though, we patch, after we know the patch works.
Let's face it, we live in a world where the law is un-enforceable, you can't stop file trading any more then you can stop the guy on the street from selling boot legs. You can crack down on it, but never put an end to it. Regrettably, file trading at this point is far too effective and far too accepted. Certain IP laws are about to take a nose dive in the next 50 or so years. Unless of course DMCA supporters start offering you 10,000 to snitch out your CD burning friends.
Perhaps complete robot take over is a little extreme to bet on at this point. However, robots are filling up more and more "people of lesser IQ, and motivation" jobs everywhere. I mean look what's happening to record labels, they are being replaced by file sharing (shameless stab) Seriously though, I do have this eerie feeling the future is more like the movie Gattaca then anything else.
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So as the project grows, people will sell lists of these "open relay's" This way, spammers can use different SMTP servers to send there mail, making them more difficult to track. A few IPs and a few email accounts to check when the spam hole stops working, and they could actually use these to there advantage.
Right.... All this will do is provoke Microsoft to by Vietnam.
This is one of those grand broad questions with no answer. If you have an entire redundant system to test with, you can patch that instant, test it, and roll it out. But then again the new patch might fail in some way you never expected. If you are talking a 100+ servers, then you might need to test a group, before you patch your core group. Then there are the questions you need to ask. Is someone likely to break in? Did it work for someone else? Is it a MS product? What do your clients want? When will have the least effect on service? Did the patch come to you via email? You know, the important questions. To answer the question though, we patch, after we know the patch works.
Recently and regrettably my attorney has informed me to not sell any soles until the pending SCO case is over...
Let's face it, we live in a world where the law is un-enforceable, you can't stop file trading any more then you can stop the guy on the street from selling boot legs. You can crack down on it, but never put an end to it. Regrettably, file trading at this point is far too effective and far too accepted. Certain IP laws are about to take a nose dive in the next 50 or so years. Unless of course DMCA supporters start offering you 10,000 to snitch out your CD burning friends.
Perhaps complete robot take over is a little extreme to bet on at this point. However, robots are filling up more and more "people of lesser IQ, and motivation" jobs everywhere. I mean look what's happening to record labels, they are being replaced by file sharing (shameless stab) Seriously though, I do have this eerie feeling the future is more like the movie Gattaca then anything else.