This ISP doesn't seem to know their ass from a hole in the ground when it comes to security.
A Quote from a zdnet article. (Which you can find at http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/16/ns-15055.html) : "The personal details -- including addresses, home telephone numbers and email details -- of everyone who has signed up for BTopenworld's broadband service have inadvertently been left on BT's Web site.
A plain text file containing the personal details of nearly 7,000 consumers and business users who have registered online for the service has been exposed."
For the theregister's take on it, take a look at http://www.theregister.co.uk/000427-000028.html.
And then there was last month's similar blunder: http://www.theregister.co.uk/000327-000008.html.
I don't know about anyone else, but I personally would not feel comfortable using a provider that had these types of problem BEFORE they even start offering the service.
Yup, a friend of mine bought one of those Apple Network Server boxes this week and we were playing around with it last night. I believe ou meant to say AIX only, though.. I thought AU/X only ran on 68k hardware.
I was reading some of the training manuals that came with it.. interesting stuff. It was talking about secure dynamic DNS.. which made me wonder what all the hype is about with W2k, when it was available in AIX in 1996. (maybe before then, I don't know)
When I first started my current job, I was salaried, but paid for overtime. It was kind of nice that way. But I hit the 6 month mark last week, and now I'm full salaried, which means that I get paid a lot more, but I don't get overtime. But, if I am working more than I feel I should (my contract states a work week of about 40 hours), then I can renegotiate without much hassle.
But, basically I prefer salary because it's a steady amount of money.. doesn't matter how business is going for them, i get paid on holidays (I don't know if normal hourly people get paid for that or not, actually), and for me it's a lot more flexible.. If I'm doing a large job that I have to do at night, I can tell them I don't wanna come in until noon the next day.. thigns like that. Plus I get a bonus depending on how much money I bill quarterly, and then annually, as well.
When I first started my current job, I was salaried, but paid for overtime. It was kind of nice that way. But I hit the 6 month mark last week, and now I'm full salaried, which means that I get paid a lot more, but I don't get overtime. But, if I am working more than I feel I should (my contract states a work week of about 40 hours), then I can renegotiate without much hassle.
But, basically I prefer salary because it's a steady amount of money.. doesn't matter how business is going for them, i get paid on holidays (I don't know if normal hourly people get paid for that or not, actually), and for me it's a lot more flexible.. If I'm doing a large job that I have to do at night, I can tell them I don't wanna come in until noon the next day.. thigns like that. Plus I get a bonus depending on how much money I bill quarterly, and then annually, as well.
I really hope this means it will come with parts of Interix integrated into newer releases of Windows (such as 2000). I would imagine this will help with the interoperability of NT and things like Cygwin32.
Interix currently has a fairly good product. I used it a while back (it came with another product called Easy Spooler, which was ported from Unix to NT and required Interix to run) and it seemed pretty solid to me. It was also great to have all the good old commands around that I've grown to love from using various Unix systems.
But, if it was integrated (i.e. you don't have to spend $2000 more per server to get it) with NT, it would be quite a bit easier to port all the GNU programs you can't live without. Anyway, this looks to be a good thing.
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This ISP doesn't seem to know their ass from a hole in the ground when it comes to security.
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A Quote from a zdnet article. (Which you can find at http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/16/ns-15055.html
"The personal details -- including addresses, home telephone numbers and email details -- of everyone who has signed up for BTopenworld's broadband service have inadvertently been left on BT's Web site.
A plain text file containing the personal details of nearly 7,000 consumers and business users who have registered online for the service has been exposed."
For the theregister's take on it, take a look at http://www.theregister.co.uk/000427-000028.html.
And then there was last month's similar blunder: http://www.theregister.co.uk/000327-000008.html.
I don't know about anyone else, but I personally would not feel comfortable using a provider that had these types of problem BEFORE they even start offering the service.
Yup, a friend of mine bought one of those Apple Network Server boxes this week and we were playing around with it last night. I believe ou meant to say AIX only, though.. I thought AU/X only ran on 68k hardware.
I was reading some of the training manuals that came with it.. interesting stuff. It was talking about secure dynamic DNS.. which made me wonder what all the hype is about with W2k, when it was available in AIX in 1996. (maybe before then, I don't know)
Yeah I thought that was pretty wack myself.
I wanna know what it does..
When I first started my current job, I was salaried, but paid for overtime. It was kind of nice that way. But I hit the 6 month mark last week, and now I'm full salaried, which means that I get paid a lot more, but I don't get overtime. But, if I am working more than I feel I should (my contract states a work week of about 40 hours), then I can renegotiate without much hassle.
But, basically I prefer salary because it's a steady amount of money.. doesn't matter how business is going for them, i get paid on holidays (I don't know if normal hourly people get paid for that or not, actually), and for me it's a lot more flexible.. If I'm doing a large job that I have to do at night, I can tell them I don't wanna come in until noon the next day.. thigns like that. Plus I get a bonus depending on how much money I bill quarterly, and then annually, as well.
When I first started my current job, I was salaried, but paid for overtime. It was kind of nice that way. But I hit the 6 month mark last week, and now I'm full salaried, which means that I get paid a lot more, but I don't get overtime. But, if I am working more than I feel I should (my contract states a work week of about 40 hours), then I can renegotiate without much hassle.
But, basically I prefer salary because it's a steady amount of money.. doesn't matter how business is going for them, i get paid on holidays (I don't know if normal hourly people get paid for that or not, actually), and for me it's a lot more flexible.. If I'm doing a large job that I have to do at night, I can tell them I don't wanna come in until noon the next day.. thigns like that. Plus I get a bonus depending on how much money I bill quarterly, and then annually, as well.
I really hope this means it will come with parts of Interix integrated into newer releases of Windows (such as 2000). I would imagine this will help with the interoperability of NT and things like Cygwin32.
Interix currently has a fairly good product. I used it a while back (it came with another product called Easy Spooler, which was ported from Unix to NT and required Interix to run) and it seemed pretty solid to me. It was also great to have all the good old commands around that I've grown to love from using various Unix systems.
But, if it was integrated (i.e. you don't have to spend $2000 more per server to get it) with NT, it would be quite a bit easier to port all the GNU programs you can't live without. Anyway, this looks to be a good thing.
I remembering hearing at some point that quake 3 was multithreaded? Is it now, or will it be?(supposedly?) thanks