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Here here my good man, I second the motion. The reasons for porting yet another ss to Linux seem spurious. Perhaps it's just them beginning an effort to seriously build functional crossover apps. Full AutoCAD, AVID, and that abortion of an email server, Exchange are but a few of the apps. I'd find useful and pay for on Linux.
This an interesting idea, but are you willing to pay 2 to 4 times more to bring the system and admin staff online? If so, are you going to mind slower access speeds (there is overhead involved in grabbing and analyzing packets)?
And what do you do about the poor, disabled, indigent, and retired users, exclude them from payment? If so, are you willing to pay 4-8 times your current access rate?
There are too many negatives already, and we haven't even touched on intent, prosecution or enforcement yet.
Wholly crap man! As long as you know none of your company's data is secure, no harm done eh?
Setting up firewall rules to allow for virus updates is a pretty f*cking minor job (30 seconds?), I'd give it a little priority.
That server setup is a complete disaster. I suppose they didn't even setup mirrored drives incase things go tits up... arghh! (Hint: Sooner or later you will lose all of your data, I can damn near guarantee it.)
The frustrating thing is that hardware is so inexpensive now, a redundant secure solution is cheap! (Dirt cheap in the US.) Obviously the problem is finding the expertise to package and support it.
"For the protection of our customers, Apple does not disclose, discuss or confirm security issues until a full investigation has occurred and any necessary patches or releases are available." Sounds reasonable.
It's only a little worrisome because that's a pretty good summary of MS's 'security through obscurity' scheme, which works so well. Unfortunately, history has shown every time you hide these bugs, shitheads start cranking code to exploit your innocent customers, who are oblivious to the threat. The talent which could help you harden the OS is left out in the cold. Great use of resources.
Is it really necessary to iterate over this design flaw in endless permutations? I'm sick of it already.
Wow, you really need to educate your IT guys. If you're not filtering for bugs on the front end of the mail server, and restricting all SMTP traffic to that server via firewall rules, you're pretty well screwed from the start. (Of course that doesn't stop vip's from infecting their laptops and dragging them back into the 'secured' network anyway, but it's a nice start.)
You've gotta remember MS has enough cash saved to give away it's operating system for a few years if the shareholders don't kill anyone. So barring continued infection from viri/worms, there's no absolute threat to their position on the desktop.
Still, if Ballmer is starting to sweat stuff like Open Office, you've gotta wonder 'why now?'. What's changed in the past year that makes the CEO voice stupid concerns internally? It's gotta have something to do with MSs valuation.
It's a negative reaction to the piece of shit MS has turned HM into. It's nostalgia for days of yore when HotMail wasn't an endless commercial. The UI is now so completely overwhelmed by what MS thinks you might be interested in if you literally had shit for brains that considerate, thinking people take offense.
The reality is that they are going to plunge headfirst into more of this horse shit unless the userbase drops precipitously. I think they should just remove the email functionality and see how many idiots keep using it.
I'm sure you're not an idiot, just wanted to make sure you didn't swoop in to save the day and loose your job for it.
About a fifth of our staff have administrative access purely because they think their job title demands it. (Managing Director, Company Secretary et al. ) Despite the fact that the MD has already been hit by at least twenty separate viruses, because he's a fuckwit.
Yep, what the hell's that all about? I see this far too often. Frankly, as a contractor it just means more money for my co., but I'm busy enough with actual work to not want the servers downed by users who are innocently trying to get their own shit done. "Hey, we made Supervisor Bob (of janitorial services division) an admin on the Exchange server so he can access his email account!" Brilliant.
It's serious enough we're looking at subcontracting the 'who the hell is this admin, and why does he have those rights?' part of the job out to a psychologist or sociologist. 'Executives' never seem to understand you're just trying to save them from themselves. And which poor admin in his right mind is going to stop one of those egomaniacs on a power trip bender?
As for the IT situation, those f*ckers keep us in business. I've actually trained contractors from competing companies on the job just to keep them from FUBARing the client. My partners claim this is sabotage, but if the client keeps his assets, they have more $ to pay us for actually moving them foreward instead of fixing screwups.
I've even had to beat the truth out of other contractors for doing stupid shit, I can imagine you're at wits end. (DBA dumped the accounting tables at end of quarter cuz he thought they were his web app's tables, then claimed he hadn't done it when logs showed it was his sorry ass. And no, I sure as hell didn't grant him dump priveleges on the entire damned database, that was a previous contracting corp.)
I'd just be satisfied if their licensing didn't exempt them from financial liability so they'd perhaps take the failure of 'security through obscurity' seriously.
Three weeks seems like a lot of time until you realize that most businesses / departments don't have fully dedicated labs setup with dedicated personel and clients actively shredding the servers to make sure the patches won't kill some critical service. I've read the EULA several times, and nowhere does it state that you need those types of resources to run MS in a secure networked environment.
So you can blame the admins for not immediately applying patches or affecting a workaround in the hypothetical world where they have no responsibilities other than to ensure the latest patch from MS won't hose their systems. But I'm certain that MS has a hell of a lot of blame to shoulder for the shitty reality they've stuck their userbase and admins with.
Now, for something completely different, let's discuss what the REAL cost of owning an MS setup is...
Err, before you do the sysadmin's job for him, make sure the patches won't break any of the critical services that box is providing.
Once upon a time, I had a smart assed accounting exec who did just this, and brought down the company's email 8:01 am Monday. Unfortunately, he didn't survive the fallout. Unless you've done the research or own the company, think twice.
MS is more broken than you may be able to imagine.
Pop a tile and crawl under the raised flooring. Push up on a tile in the cage of your choice, snag the wics, shove them in an anti-static bag, crawl back to your cage, shove them in your equipment and voila!
Warning: The power runs under the flooring, so don't try this while wet.
Uhmm, colon, brain and skin cancer. I could go on, but you've seen those poor chemo patients who are shadows of their past selves, trapped in hospital administravia which they no longer have the strength to fight off. Whacking yourself before you reach that point beats the other options.
A college student with his life in front of him doesn't make much sense though. But rugby's a tough assed game. Maybe he was always suicidal, and disappointed in the games' inability to destroy him.
yum and apt both use rpm repositories by default, so there's no need to force them to only use RPMs.
up2date doesn't use the RHN on Fedora anyway, so what you do is change the RPM repositories in up2date config (/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources) to match those in yum (/etc/yum.conf). Then the crazy little update icon will turn red and alert you to available updates, and obviously they will be in synch with each other. The sources file has a pretty good explanation of this, so crack it open and RTFM. Check Fedora News for tips and FAQs on yum and up2date. (You will want to find the closest, fastest RPM repository to use for your configs.)
apt-get has a different architecture, so I don't know if it can readily use the same package repositories that up2date and yum use. I have used it early in the FC 1 release, and never had a problem with the RPM database.
2) Okay, the jokes over. Bring back Clinton. He never would have [pulled UN support troops and watched while Hutu's hacked 800,000 Tutsi's to death with machetes, then dalied over the semantics of 'genocide'.] Whoops! I guess we should bring Clinton back after we arm the Sunni's and Shiite's with machetes? Or maybe if we need to carpet bomb Iraq to draw attention away from his latest blowjob?
All joking aside, your wish for the US to get the hell out of the Mid East is smart, but it's far too late. Talk to your terrorist pals and let them know that America will be invading their favorite host countries for generations to come because of one fucking idiot: Osama Bin Laden. You can also thank OBL for giving Sharon a blank check signed by the good ol' US of A. Go ahead and smear a wad of credit on Yasser and Hamas concurrently.
If you really want the US the hell out of that mess, just convince radical Islamic elements to stop blowing up innocent civilians, and to carry out their disagreements via discussion, argumentation and or treaty. Take some goddamned responsibility for stupid acts of terrorism, bring it to a halt, and and US public opinion will force an immediate withdrawl. Otherwise, it doesn't matter which party is in power, we're there to stay.
Wouldn't sending random connections at a server (whatever qualifies as a 'knock') interfere with anyone else completing a pattern to open a port?
No. knock tracks by host IP, port knocking sequence in specified # of seconds. It couldn't work on a server providing any other net services if it didn't track by IP.
I don't want or need a gun, but when people are at risk of being mugged for stupid trinkets, I want them to be able to defend themselves.
After all, most men can kill pretty easily by brute force alone. What hope does a woman have in a one on one mugging situation? None, as far as most muggers are concerned. But if even a small minority of women were carrying concealed weapons, the hazard penalty goes way up for the average criminal, and he/she/it has to factor getting a nut blown off for a stupid trinket into the 'let's rob the shills' job de jour.
Panacea? Hopefuly it's pragmatic. I don't know if people who are too socially brainwashed to poke a pencil in your eye in the name of defense are more likely to be hurt during such an exchange though.
Thank God someone with intellect and grace has politely enummerated the complete supidity of manimals in space.
Manned space flight only has meaning if: a) You can mine and manufacture construction materials. b) Said materials can be pre-assembled into large habitations. c) Said habitations can be presurized and relatively self sustaining. d) Large #'s of robots and rovers can be deployed to massively increase the range of observation, collection, and manufacturing.
So far, we're only managing basic observation. But we'll need to deploy technicians, engineers and scientists for 1 - 5 year stints in order to make the unbelievable expense of transportation non-prohibitive.
We've found martian asteroids at the poles.
Earth has been creamed by asteroids every ~100 million years.
Therefore, microbes have been spread around the universe hitching a ride on ejectile material since life began here.
So salt water on mars is interesting, but we should expect to at least find microbial life everywhere there's liquid water, not prance about like moronic school girls screaming about a rat turd from ET.
Obviously, this shats on the concerns of those who don't want to contaminate other planets. Coming from a species that live by consuming innocent plants and animals, it's bizzare.
Seeing that we have found Martian asteroids at the poles, proving life developed independently rather than being contaminated from earth is a long shot. Surely some of the ejectile material from dinosaur killing type asteroids made it throughout the solar system and beyond. Considering an estimated 95% of the bugs and bacteria in soil have not been discovered yet, the odds are good some undocumented extreme-ophiles are dormant on Mars.
Learning how to cope when the evil wind blows is critical.
Your point is terrific if we actually kill fewer people per mission. But maybe the lesson we're supposed to glean from this is that until we have efficient and reliable launch vehicles, it makes much more sense to expand our robotic exploration of the universe with those resources. The mars rovers experience indicates that we're just scratching the surface there. But we should note that even with insane QOS on the rover assembly, they still reached Mars with bad RAM assembling just %.01 of the # of shuttle parts. Sure, they hacked a fix, but it lost more than 10% of the mission's expected lifetime.
IMHO, most of what we learn is obviated by the order of magnitude complexity that get's added to following missions. The 5 jointed grinding arm on Spirit & Opportunity is a great example. Surely a locked extension with a rotating swivel joint could have accomplished the same thing.
Apparently KISS is what gets done to the PHB's ass, not the design process.
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All upper case are [insert color here].
Sys admins would hate it though, because if users are smart enough to figure that out, they can walk through the MCSE, CCNA, CCNP, LPI, RHCE's too.
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This point accentuates the stupidity of not learning a decent mnemonic method. Why torture yourself learning the table of elements, atomic weight, etc., when you can easily create mnemonic shortcuts and then begin to understand the deeper meaning of s, p, and f valence shells and chemical reactions?
Unless of course, you're a teacher in the US who is happy continually hobbling your students with moronic repetition rather than inspiring them with the deeper meaning surrounding the subject matter...
Harry Lorayne gives a fairly easy method wherein the following cards:
two-hearts, jack-spades, and six-diamonds
are represented by a hen, a spade, and a dash. While the outlined method is interesting, Harry's allowed me to memorize a deck of cards within a few days of first learning visual association.
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Here here my good man, I second the motion. The reasons for porting yet another ss to Linux seem spurious. Perhaps it's just them beginning an effort to seriously build functional crossover apps. Full AutoCAD, AVID, and that abortion of an email server, Exchange are but a few of the apps. I'd find useful and pay for on Linux.
This an interesting idea, but are you willing to pay 2 to 4 times more to bring the system and admin staff online? If so, are you going to mind slower access speeds (there is overhead involved in grabbing and analyzing packets)?
And what do you do about the poor, disabled, indigent, and retired users, exclude them from payment? If so, are you willing to pay 4-8 times your current access rate?
There are too many negatives already, and we haven't even touched on intent, prosecution or enforcement yet.
Wholly crap man! As long as you know none of your company's data is secure, no harm done eh?
Setting up firewall rules to allow for virus updates is a pretty f*cking minor job (30 seconds?), I'd give it a little priority.
That server setup is a complete disaster. I suppose they didn't even setup mirrored drives incase things go tits up... arghh! (Hint: Sooner or later you will lose all of your data, I can damn near guarantee it.)
The frustrating thing is that hardware is so inexpensive now, a redundant secure solution is cheap! (Dirt cheap in the US.) Obviously the problem is finding the expertise to package and support it.
Best of luck man, you do need it.
"For the protection of our customers, Apple does not disclose, discuss or confirm security issues until a full investigation has occurred and any necessary patches or releases are available." Sounds reasonable.
It's only a little worrisome because that's a pretty good summary of MS's 'security through obscurity' scheme, which works so well. Unfortunately, history has shown every time you hide these bugs, shitheads start cranking code to exploit your innocent customers, who are oblivious to the threat. The talent which could help you harden the OS is left out in the cold. Great use of resources.
Is it really necessary to iterate over this design flaw in endless permutations? I'm sick of it already.
Wow, you really need to educate your IT guys. If you're not filtering for bugs on the front end of the mail server, and restricting all SMTP traffic to that server via firewall rules, you're pretty well screwed from the start. (Of course that doesn't stop vip's from infecting their laptops and dragging them back into the 'secured' network anyway, but it's a nice start.)
You've gotta remember MS has enough cash saved to give away it's operating system for a few years if the shareholders don't kill anyone. So barring continued infection from viri/worms, there's no absolute threat to their position on the desktop.
Still, if Ballmer is starting to sweat stuff like Open Office, you've gotta wonder 'why now?'. What's changed in the past year that makes the CEO voice stupid concerns internally? It's gotta have something to do with MSs valuation.
will probably service to crush your average poor, lawyerless, open-source programmer. No contest.
Which open-source program got squashed by the evil patent weilding satanic cult? I must've slept in that day.
It's a negative reaction to the piece of shit MS has turned HM into. It's nostalgia for days of yore when HotMail wasn't an endless commercial. The UI is now so completely overwhelmed by what MS thinks you might be interested in if you literally had shit for brains that considerate, thinking people take offense.
The reality is that they are going to plunge headfirst into more of this horse shit unless the userbase drops precipitously. I think they should just remove the email functionality and see how many idiots keep using it.
I'm sure you're not an idiot, just wanted to make sure you didn't swoop in to save the day and loose your job for it.
About a fifth of our staff have administrative access purely because they think their job title demands it. (Managing Director, Company Secretary et al. ) Despite the fact that the MD has already been hit by at least twenty separate viruses, because he's a fuckwit.
Yep, what the hell's that all about? I see this far too often. Frankly, as a contractor it just means more money for my co., but I'm busy enough with actual work to not want the servers downed by users who are innocently trying to get their own shit done. "Hey, we made Supervisor Bob (of janitorial services division) an admin on the Exchange server so he can access his email account!" Brilliant.
It's serious enough we're looking at subcontracting the 'who the hell is this admin, and why does he have those rights?' part of the job out to a psychologist or sociologist. 'Executives' never seem to understand you're just trying to save them from themselves. And which poor admin in his right mind is going to stop one of those egomaniacs on a power trip bender?
As for the IT situation, those f*ckers keep us in business. I've actually trained contractors from competing companies on the job just to keep them from FUBARing the client. My partners claim this is sabotage, but if the client keeps his assets, they have more $ to pay us for actually moving them foreward instead of fixing screwups.
I've even had to beat the truth out of other contractors for doing stupid shit, I can imagine you're at wits end. (DBA dumped the accounting tables at end of quarter cuz he thought they were his web app's tables, then claimed he hadn't done it when logs showed it was his sorry ass. And no, I sure as hell didn't grant him dump priveleges on the entire damned database, that was a previous contracting corp.)
Better luck to you skipper!
I don't see what else MS could be expected to do.
I'd just be satisfied if their licensing didn't exempt them from financial liability so they'd perhaps take the failure of 'security through obscurity' seriously.
Three weeks seems like a lot of time until you realize that most businesses / departments don't have fully dedicated labs setup with dedicated personel and clients actively shredding the servers to make sure the patches won't kill some critical service. I've read the EULA several times, and nowhere does it state that you need those types of resources to run MS in a secure networked environment.
So you can blame the admins for not immediately applying patches or affecting a workaround in the hypothetical world where they have no responsibilities other than to ensure the latest patch from MS won't hose their systems. But I'm certain that MS has a hell of a lot of blame to shoulder for the shitty reality they've stuck their userbase and admins with.
Now, for something completely different, let's discuss what the REAL cost of owning an MS setup is...
Err, before you do the sysadmin's job for him, make sure the patches won't break any of the critical services that box is providing.
Once upon a time, I had a smart assed accounting exec who did just this, and brought down the company's email 8:01 am Monday. Unfortunately, he didn't survive the fallout. Unless you've done the research or own the company, think twice.
MS is more broken than you may be able to imagine.
Pop a tile and crawl under the raised flooring. Push up on a tile in the cage of your choice, snag the wics, shove them in an anti-static bag, crawl back to your cage, shove them in your equipment and voila!
Warning: The power runs under the flooring, so don't try this while wet.
Uhmm, colon, brain and skin cancer. I could go on, but you've seen those poor chemo patients who are shadows of their past selves, trapped in hospital administravia which they no longer have the strength to fight off. Whacking yourself before you reach that point beats the other options.
A college student with his life in front of him doesn't make much sense though. But rugby's a tough assed game. Maybe he was always suicidal, and disappointed in the games' inability to destroy him.
yum and apt both use rpm repositories by default, so there's no need to force them to only use RPMs.
up2date doesn't use the RHN on Fedora anyway, so what you do is change the RPM repositories in up2date config (/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources) to match those in yum (/etc/yum.conf). Then the crazy little update icon will turn red and alert you to available updates, and obviously they will be in synch with each other. The sources file has a pretty good explanation of this, so crack it open and RTFM. Check Fedora News for tips and FAQs on yum and up2date. (You will want to find the closest, fastest RPM repository to use for your configs.)
apt-get has a different architecture, so I don't know if it can readily use the same package repositories that up2date and yum use. I have used it early in the FC 1 release, and never had a problem with the RPM database.
2) Okay, the jokes over. Bring back Clinton. He never would have [pulled UN support troops and watched while Hutu's hacked 800,000 Tutsi's to death with machetes, then dalied over the semantics of 'genocide'.] Whoops! I guess we should bring Clinton back after we arm the Sunni's and Shiite's with machetes? Or maybe if we need to carpet bomb Iraq to draw attention away from his latest blowjob?
All joking aside, your wish for the US to get the hell out of the Mid East is smart, but it's far too late. Talk to your terrorist pals and let them know that America will be invading their favorite host countries for generations to come because of one fucking idiot: Osama Bin Laden. You can also thank OBL for giving Sharon a blank check signed by the good ol' US of A. Go ahead and smear a wad of credit on Yasser and Hamas concurrently.
If you really want the US the hell out of that mess, just convince radical Islamic elements to stop blowing up innocent civilians, and to carry out their disagreements via discussion, argumentation and or treaty. Take some goddamned responsibility for stupid acts of terrorism, bring it to a halt, and and US public opinion will force an immediate withdrawl. Otherwise, it doesn't matter which party is in power, we're there to stay.
Wouldn't sending random connections at a server (whatever qualifies as a 'knock') interfere with anyone else completing a pattern to open a port?
No. knock tracks by host IP, port knocking sequence in specified # of seconds.
It couldn't work on a server providing any other net services if it didn't track by IP.
I don't want or need a gun, but when people are at risk of being mugged for stupid trinkets, I want them to be able to defend themselves.
After all, most men can kill pretty easily by brute force alone. What hope does a woman have in a one on one mugging situation? None, as far as most muggers are concerned. But if even a small minority of women were carrying concealed weapons, the hazard penalty goes way up for the average criminal, and he/she/it has to factor getting a nut blown off for a stupid trinket into the 'let's rob the shills' job de jour.
Panacea? Hopefuly it's pragmatic. I don't know if people who are too socially brainwashed to poke a pencil in your eye in the name of defense are more likely to be hurt during such an exchange though.
Thank God someone with intellect and grace has politely enummerated the complete supidity of manimals in space.
Manned space flight only has meaning if: a) You can mine and manufacture construction materials. b) Said materials can be pre-assembled into large habitations. c) Said habitations can be presurized and relatively self sustaining. d) Large #'s of robots and rovers can be deployed to massively increase the range of observation, collection, and manufacturing.
So far, we're only managing basic observation. But we'll need to deploy technicians, engineers and scientists for 1 - 5 year stints in order to make the unbelievable expense of transportation non-prohibitive.
We've found martian asteroids at the poles.
Earth has been creamed by asteroids every ~100 million years.
Therefore, microbes have been spread around the universe hitching a ride on ejectile material since life began here.
So salt water on mars is interesting, but we should expect to at least find microbial life everywhere there's liquid water, not prance about like moronic school girls screaming about a rat turd from ET.
Obviously, this shats on the concerns of those who don't want to contaminate other planets. Coming from a species that live by consuming innocent plants and animals, it's bizzare.
If life did orginate independently on Mars
Seeing that we have found Martian asteroids at the poles, proving life developed independently rather than being contaminated from earth is a long shot. Surely some of the ejectile material from dinosaur killing type asteroids made it throughout the solar system and beyond. Considering an estimated 95% of the bugs and bacteria in soil have not been discovered yet, the odds are good some undocumented extreme-ophiles are dormant on Mars.
Learning how to cope when the evil wind blows is critical.
Your point is terrific if we actually kill fewer people per mission. But maybe the lesson we're supposed to glean from this is that until we have efficient and reliable launch vehicles, it makes much more sense to expand our robotic exploration of the universe with those resources. The mars rovers experience indicates that we're just scratching the surface there. But we should note that even with insane QOS on the rover assembly, they still reached Mars with bad RAM assembling just %.01 of the # of shuttle parts. Sure, they hacked a fix, but it lost more than 10% of the mission's expected lifetime.
IMHO, most of what we learn is obviated by the order of magnitude complexity that get's added to following missions. The 5 jointed grinding arm on Spirit & Opportunity is a great example. Surely a locked extension with a rotating swivel joint could have accomplished the same thing.
Apparently KISS is what gets done to the PHB's ass, not the design process.
The teeth are probably bent at slight angle?
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All upper case are [insert color here].
Sys admins would hate it though, because if users are smart enough to figure that out, they can walk through the MCSE, CCNA, CCNP, LPI, RHCE's too.
This point accentuates the stupidity of not learning a decent mnemonic method. Why torture yourself learning the table of elements, atomic weight, etc., when you can easily create mnemonic shortcuts and then begin to understand the deeper meaning of s, p, and f valence shells and chemical reactions?
Unless of course, you're a teacher in the US who is happy continually hobbling your students with moronic repetition rather than inspiring them with the deeper meaning surrounding the subject matter...
Harry Lorayne gives a fairly easy method wherein the following cards:
two-hearts, jack-spades, and six-diamonds
are represented by a hen, a spade, and a dash. While the outlined method is interesting, Harry's allowed me to memorize a deck of cards within a few days of first learning visual association.