The machines infected most likely would have been ok with AV. The initial infection occurred after a fresh copy of win2k3 was installed (which we later identified because of an excess of SMB traffic on the network). They were then patched up to date, but however that did NOT get rid of the virus, it only got rid of the vulnerability allowing infection. Luckily after about 2 months the windows malicious software removal tool started cleaning out conficker, which is when we really realized we had a problem.
We had a single NAS that everyone had forgotten about get nailed because it ran a version of win2k called "Windows Powered!" which was basically windows 2000 for storage servers. The issue? You can't run service packs, or patches on it that aren't provided by the manufacturer. The manufacturer hasn't released a patch in 4 years. So we essentially had a 1TB NAS sitting there sharing out a virus that we had no way to patch. Once we located it we isolated it, copied everything to a new nas running windows 2k3 storage server via crossover, and then verified the 2k3 box was clean. However that old nas easily infected 20 other machines - including machines which were shipped to hospitals because they will not allow us to install virus scanners (they want to use their own managed scanners). Further, most QA(quality assurance) workstations which are attached to MR, CR, XR, US, NM and other units tend to be running OLD copies of windows with no virus scanners. You can blame konica, kodak, fuji, and the other imaging companies for that idiotic choice.
Same here. There are times when its easier to go with premade (IE: a customer needs to rewire a datacenter STAT and we don't have time to make and test the 200+ cables they need), and there are times when its easier to make your own (making a picture perfect trade show rack with premade cables - they need to be cut to proper length so you can make it pretty without gobs of extra wire). Also, wire runs longer than 50 feet tend to give you less and less choices. Last I checked belkin cables jumped from 50 feet to 100 feet. What happens if you need a 51 foot cable? That's a TON of cat5 wasted in a coil sitting there mashing up EMR.
Um, no. Irony is when the opposite of the expected happens. Or an incongruency between the actual and expected result. That's just a funny cooincidence. Sorry to be a PITA:(
Try getting an ATI card to work with both desktop compositing and 3d rendering and you'll understand the hell I went through:) You can have one, but not the other (well you can have both, just don't expect 3d rendering to look nice at all). Plus the ATI drivers flat out didn't work. The built in ones said I had 3d acceleration, but glxgears disagreed. It took me a whole weekend and after that I gave up. The last time I had 3d acceleration was 7.10. 8.4 basically kicked it out the window:(
To me the big difference is that with windows xp, you simply download the drivers, double click, click next a few times, and you have working sound. In linux, the driver installation can be hellish to say the very least. I enjoy linux, however I agree with the parent. Driver support needs a firm look. It's inexcusable that trying to get something as simple as basic 3d acceleration can take a solid weekend of reading and posting on forums, and still not have any real luck. That's why I stopped using ubuntu. I also had had it working, until I ran a system update and suddenly everything was broken. I've worked in IT for 15 years. I'm not Joe User. If I can't figure something out, its not going to be "usable" for the common folk.
I totally agree. Conficker is really kind of a marvel, and for a long time I couldn't decide whether I'd want to shake the author's hand, or kick him square in the nads. Though honestly I think some of the media drama helped.
Exactly. People seem to think that musicians have always gotten paid for albums, however it wasn't until the early 50's that it started. Before then musicians got almost all money from live performances, the same place current musicians do. The sole profiteer in most cases back then, and even now, is the production company. Take a basic jazz class and learn about the music business before you act like musicians are just business people with a different skillset.
Ok, now who in all of these open source packages will support me on the phone at 3am when a major hospital customer goes down, hmm? Oh wait, they won't. I'll have to go on a forum. For each package. And I have to pray that whoever I speak to is capable of speaking proper English. And be familiar with connecting all of these packages together. While I'm dodging angry users, and praying to god there's no trauma calls. I'm not an idiot, I'm realistic. If our servers go down, people die. So I'll trust the x86 with the hardware and pretty interface.
Big-IP products are not just SSL accelerators. If you want an SSL accelerator go on ebay and pick up an ncipher card for cheap.
Big-IP products are used for their load balancing abilities, and can be used to build content delivery networks based on pools of application resources/servers. They're for sites that simply cannot go down, because downtime would be tremendously costly. Think military. Think medical. Think ebay or amazon. That's a pretty big farking far cry from a simple SSL accelerator. The only comparable device is a module from Cisco that currently slips my mind.
The summary is drivel, it compares apples to oranges. You pay the price tag for f5 because it includes training, two units (they will not sell a single unit, period, for redundancy purposes). I have two of them on my desk right now that I have to learn, and they're some pretty effing awesome pieces of kit.
Why, oh why did you invoke the super mario brothers movie? Now I'm going to have Jump For My Love stuck in my head all damn day. Don't you have any conscience?
Seriously, everyone knows that human wants and needs are more important than some stupid fish being able to hear. Its not like they need sound for anything.
Just curious, is Christopher Pike the captain of the enterprise? I saw some guy introduce himself as Kirk in the trailer. However since this is supposed to be predating the early series, Kirk wouldn't be captain yet. Pike would. Or is this yet another one of the billion plot holes?
Further, from what I'm gathering they're talking about adding cells. Adding cells is far different from an active virus. A virus will continue to inject its genetic material into every cell it can so long as it exists. In the case of HIV, that's pretty much indefinite. Cells on the other hand will have an active period, and eventually perish. So I'm guessing after being given a dose there will be a halflife and the effects will taper off accordingly. It is like a mini-infection of HIV though, very interesting work. Maybe we'll luck out and get some insight into how situations that are analogous to an HIV infection behave to gain some better insight into the real thing?
Are you kidding me? That's completely wrong. My housemate is a graphic designer/programmer for Tribune Media, aka the Tribune newspapers. 99% of their revenue does come from advertising, but hardcopy sales have been dropping for years, and with them, hardcopy advertising prices. At this point almost all of their advertising revenue comes from online advertising. Yes news aggregators show a short blurb, but to read the full article you are sent to the original website. Check Google News yourself and click a link. You don't read it on google news. That means if you're interested enough to actually glace beyond the headline, you're going to be exposed to all the ads on their site when you are directed there via the link. Granted, the newspaper may lose the exposures on their front page, but seriously - how likely do you think it is that someone from Philadelphia would randomly pull up the LATimes website just to browse the headlines? What about even lesser publicized small town newspapers? Not very likely unless I have family there. Because of aggregators I see an interesting headline and go there no matter what area the site provides news coverage for. This provides tons of extra views to these sites from people who would otherwise be completely in the dark about the site's existance. Views, in turn, mean advertising money. Advertising money means they don't go bankrupt. Marketing motherf*cker, do you speak it?
Also as an interesting sidenote, the best place to advertise with a newspaper is the obituaries. They average over 100-1000x more hits than any other page, both hardcopy and web. Just a tidbit.
Most of these are from desktop linux, but because of them I've feared installing linux on any of our servers. First, there is no dependency control. Because everything is built using other libraries, software can be broken regularly by running the system update. If you run the official software update of a distrobution, it should NOT break your software. I don't have time to memorize every single library on my system, and then cross reference version numbers against a database of what software requires what, investigate whether or not there are updates to said software, etc. I run a system update, and suddenly a bunch of apps don't work. That is a problem. It makes it look unreliable, unmaintainable, and amateur. Change control!
Second, fix the damn graphics already. All three of the major graphics vendors have open sourced their drivers. All have linux releases of drivers. Why can I not get some modicom of 3d functionality out of the box? Even with the latest distros getting 3d acceleration to function correctly involves 2 nights of struggling, and half a case of red bull. Say what you want about "tailoring" but I don't need it to be tailored to me out of the box - I need it to work out of the box. This can be extended to all other drivers. I can't depend on hardware to work with it because the driver may require certain libraries. See complaint number 1. I can't have my fiber card suddenly not be able to access my SAN because someone decided to make a bug fix and change how a function gets used.
You know, its amazing to think how much progress has been destroyed, avoided, or never attained because of stupid, idiotic, invisible little lines drawn up by a bunch of dead men. Maybe that's why I love the internet? It's kind of above this bullshit.
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Wireless only runs in half duplex. That's reason enough to use wired.
The machines infected most likely would have been ok with AV. The initial infection occurred after a fresh copy of win2k3 was installed (which we later identified because of an excess of SMB traffic on the network). They were then patched up to date, but however that did NOT get rid of the virus, it only got rid of the vulnerability allowing infection. Luckily after about 2 months the windows malicious software removal tool started cleaning out conficker, which is when we really realized we had a problem.
We had a single NAS that everyone had forgotten about get nailed because it ran a version of win2k called "Windows Powered!" which was basically windows 2000 for storage servers. The issue? You can't run service packs, or patches on it that aren't provided by the manufacturer. The manufacturer hasn't released a patch in 4 years. So we essentially had a 1TB NAS sitting there sharing out a virus that we had no way to patch. Once we located it we isolated it, copied everything to a new nas running windows 2k3 storage server via crossover, and then verified the 2k3 box was clean. However that old nas easily infected 20 other machines - including machines which were shipped to hospitals because they will not allow us to install virus scanners (they want to use their own managed scanners). Further, most QA(quality assurance) workstations which are attached to MR, CR, XR, US, NM and other units tend to be running OLD copies of windows with no virus scanners. You can blame konica, kodak, fuji, and the other imaging companies for that idiotic choice.
Same here. There are times when its easier to go with premade (IE: a customer needs to rewire a datacenter STAT and we don't have time to make and test the 200+ cables they need), and there are times when its easier to make your own (making a picture perfect trade show rack with premade cables - they need to be cut to proper length so you can make it pretty without gobs of extra wire). Also, wire runs longer than 50 feet tend to give you less and less choices. Last I checked belkin cables jumped from 50 feet to 100 feet. What happens if you need a 51 foot cable? That's a TON of cat5 wasted in a coil sitting there mashing up EMR.
That's a fib. Cables over 100m are verboten.
Um, no. Irony is when the opposite of the expected happens. Or an incongruency between the actual and expected result. That's just a funny cooincidence. Sorry to be a PITA :(
Try getting an ATI card to work with both desktop compositing and 3d rendering and you'll understand the hell I went through :) You can have one, but not the other (well you can have both, just don't expect 3d rendering to look nice at all). Plus the ATI drivers flat out didn't work. The built in ones said I had 3d acceleration, but glxgears disagreed. It took me a whole weekend and after that I gave up. The last time I had 3d acceleration was 7.10. 8.4 basically kicked it out the window :(
To me the big difference is that with windows xp, you simply download the drivers, double click, click next a few times, and you have working sound. In linux, the driver installation can be hellish to say the very least. I enjoy linux, however I agree with the parent. Driver support needs a firm look. It's inexcusable that trying to get something as simple as basic 3d acceleration can take a solid weekend of reading and posting on forums, and still not have any real luck. That's why I stopped using ubuntu. I also had had it working, until I ran a system update and suddenly everything was broken. I've worked in IT for 15 years. I'm not Joe User. If I can't figure something out, its not going to be "usable" for the common folk.
I totally agree. Conficker is really kind of a marvel, and for a long time I couldn't decide whether I'd want to shake the author's hand, or kick him square in the nads. Though honestly I think some of the media drama helped.
Exactly. People seem to think that musicians have always gotten paid for albums, however it wasn't until the early 50's that it started. Before then musicians got almost all money from live performances, the same place current musicians do. The sole profiteer in most cases back then, and even now, is the production company. Take a basic jazz class and learn about the music business before you act like musicians are just business people with a different skillset.
I suppose this truly marks the end of our beginning?
Ok, now who in all of these open source packages will support me on the phone at 3am when a major hospital customer goes down, hmm? Oh wait, they won't. I'll have to go on a forum. For each package. And I have to pray that whoever I speak to is capable of speaking proper English. And be familiar with connecting all of these packages together. While I'm dodging angry users, and praying to god there's no trauma calls. I'm not an idiot, I'm realistic. If our servers go down, people die. So I'll trust the x86 with the hardware and pretty interface.
Big-IP products are used for their load balancing abilities, and can be used to build content delivery networks based on pools of application resources/servers. They're for sites that simply cannot go down, because downtime would be tremendously costly. Think military. Think medical. Think ebay or amazon. That's a pretty big farking far cry from a simple SSL accelerator. The only comparable device is a module from Cisco that currently slips my mind.
The summary is drivel, it compares apples to oranges. You pay the price tag for f5 because it includes training, two units (they will not sell a single unit, period, for redundancy purposes). I have two of them on my desk right now that I have to learn, and they're some pretty effing awesome pieces of kit.
Why, oh why did you invoke the super mario brothers movie? Now I'm going to have Jump For My Love stuck in my head all damn day. Don't you have any conscience?
Seriously, everyone knows that human wants and needs are more important than some stupid fish being able to hear. Its not like they need sound for anything.
I believe RA is in fact part of canon. I just know that in the Cage Pike hands off the enterprise to Kirk :)
What exactly does not following large metal guns have to do with anything? Badum-ching!
Just curious, is Christopher Pike the captain of the enterprise? I saw some guy introduce himself as Kirk in the trailer. However since this is supposed to be predating the early series, Kirk wouldn't be captain yet. Pike would. Or is this yet another one of the billion plot holes?
Further, from what I'm gathering they're talking about adding cells. Adding cells is far different from an active virus. A virus will continue to inject its genetic material into every cell it can so long as it exists. In the case of HIV, that's pretty much indefinite. Cells on the other hand will have an active period, and eventually perish. So I'm guessing after being given a dose there will be a halflife and the effects will taper off accordingly. It is like a mini-infection of HIV though, very interesting work. Maybe we'll luck out and get some insight into how situations that are analogous to an HIV infection behave to gain some better insight into the real thing?
Also as an interesting sidenote, the best place to advertise with a newspaper is the obituaries. They average over 100-1000x more hits than any other page, both hardcopy and web. Just a tidbit.
But that doesn't preclude her from calling me daddy, now does it? ;)
Yep, I was going to post about it earlier but I enjoyed the irony as it was :)
Second, fix the damn graphics already. All three of the major graphics vendors have open sourced their drivers. All have linux releases of drivers. Why can I not get some modicom of 3d functionality out of the box? Even with the latest distros getting 3d acceleration to function correctly involves 2 nights of struggling, and half a case of red bull. Say what you want about "tailoring" but I don't need it to be tailored to me out of the box - I need it to work out of the box. This can be extended to all other drivers. I can't depend on hardware to work with it because the driver may require certain libraries. See complaint number 1. I can't have my fiber card suddenly not be able to access my SAN because someone decided to make a bug fix and change how a function gets used.
You, good sir, get huge kudos points for the Strangelove reference. Bravissimo!
You know, its amazing to think how much progress has been destroyed, avoided, or never attained because of stupid, idiotic, invisible little lines drawn up by a bunch of dead men. Maybe that's why I love the internet? It's kind of above this bullshit.