Not really. According to the article, it is the structure that is ideal, not the actual beetle scales. The real breakthrough is that the structure can be found in or created from different materials than diamonds. In this case, the structure is made by nature from fingernail like material, not something you normally associate with crystals.
Having said all that, it is a bit of a disappointment that they have not even created a man-made structure, only that they have confirmed that the structure found naturally on the beetles is the ideal crystal structure.
Actually, check out Anne McCaffrey's Brainships series. Although the first one, "The Ship Who Sang" was written in 1969, several others like "The Ship Who Searched", and "The City Who Fought" were written in the early 1990's. The last one that I know of, "The City and the Ship" came out in 2004.
I realize that the only one written only by Anne McCaffrey was the original, "The Ship Who Sang", and the others were co-written by other authors. (Usually that means written by other authors using McCaffrey's universe and published with her name and by her permission so as to get better sales.) However, that means that there are several other authors that like to write using the "brain in a [jar|box|ship]" theme.
Mesa, AZ is doing the same thing. And the cameras are set for speed as well, and are on all the time. I was heading south on Alma School Road late one night, and some guy sped past me like he was in a hurry to get to an accident. (I was speeding, too, but only about 5 mph over.) As he ran through a green light at Guadalupe Road, the camera flashed. Since he and I were the only ones on the road at the time, he had to set off the camera. And the light was clearly green because I went through the green light a full second later (at a slightly reduced speed, of course.)
While not an "official" definition, this has always worked for me.
Alpha Release - Unfinished software submitted for Internal testing. In other words, the bugs are going to be so bad that only people who have signed non-disclosure agreements are allowed to see them. Alpha is code-speak for "It doesn't work."
Beta Release - Unfinished software submitted to torture those outside the company. In other words, the bugs are ones we can either cover up, or actually admit to. Beta is code-speak for "It STILL doesn't work."
Think about remote entry of vehicles, and look how widely they are being used.
Come to think of it, that would be nice for a door lock. Rather than something implanted, a simple button to push to unlock the door would be nice. I wonder why that isn't done more often?
I know I am in the minority here, but I like Top Posting. Here are the reasons why.
1. Emails are not books. I don't need to read the beginning, middle and end to understand the plot. Normal emails (as apposed to the office politics stuff) do not have a plot. Books are read top to bottom and front to back. Again, email is not a book.
2. The most recent and most relevant info is at the top. If I don't care about the beginning, I don't have to re-read or scroll down to get past the stuff I already know.
3. Yes, if you are added to a conversation after the emails have gone back and forth, top posting makes you start at the bottom and work up. What you are really saying is that your comfort and ease of reading is more important than all the other people who only needed to read the reply since they already remembered the rest of the email.
4. Email is no longer the same as USENET. If you are on an email discussion list, USENET rules still make sense. I can read the last email, top to bottom without having to wade through the other emails. But most emails are not discussion lists. Trying to force all emails to conform to USENET rules is like trying to make all cars use a shifter on the floor board because it made the most sense for early cars. It still makes sense for some cars, but please don't try to force it for everyone.
5. Inline posting makes sense only when replying to portions of emails such as lists of questions. And only when there are a limited number of back and forth conversations. I really, really hate trying to figure out who actually replied to a question, and did they reply before or after Joe's comment that changed the perspective of the original email. And I have seen a couple of times where someone did an inline reply to each and every sentence. It wasn't readable.
Again, just so I am clear, this is just my opinion. Top Posting makes sense for discussion lists, but not for normal emails. Maybe I am lazy. Maybe I am a slob. But I don't always have the luxury of time to correct and bottom post each an every email I reply to. That time is, IMHO, better spent doing other tasks.
The question I want answered is about Worf and Deanna's kids. (You remember, of course, when Worf keeps skipping through the multiple universes?) Do the Betazoid/Klingon children have empathetic qualities? Or Do you have Klingons who KNOW when you are insulting their honor?
It is painfully obvious from the article that this writer was or is a consultant. All of the reasons not to use MySQL are PHB reasons. Not one is based on actual abilities or inabilities of MySQL. He seems to be intent on agreeing with a position that he doesn't understand or didn't want to take. "...I'd be hard-pressed to tell a conservative IT manager making a platform decision for a mission-critical application based on this factor that he's doing the wrong thing." Yes, it does sound like he would be hard-pressed to tell any IT manager that the stupid decision he was making was the wrong thing.
The info at the end of the article says that he guides many projects based on MySQL, but it is hard to believe that he has ever used it. It sounds like all of his research was with PHB's or admins that have never really given MySQL a good try. A good admin knows both the pros and the cons of the software he uses, and hopefully, the good out weighs the bad. Many people that use or even swear by MySQL could give you some good reasons not to use it, under the right circumstances. Obviously, this guy could not find any. Either that, or he did his research in the wrong area.
I realize that this is the CIO magazine, and that some CIO's really are PHB's. However, Tina was able to write a good article on why a CIO should pick MySQL and give good reasons that were understandable to both technical people and PHB's. The only other conclusion I can come to was that Brent was trying to steer people towards MySQL and thought a badly written article against MySQL was the best way to do that.
Yes, RHEL5 does come with KDE version 3.5.4. Since the official stable version on kde.org is 3.5.6, it looks like RHEL5 is only a little bit behind the cutting edge on this one.
I also noticed that it comes with 2113 packages compared to 1570 with RHEL4 update 4. A good portion of them are probably language packages, but it does look like RHEL5 is increasing the number of packages that it supports.
First, let me say I can partially understand where he is coming from. Usually I run into this when I want to replay an RPG over again. As you go through the game you find bigger and better items (weapons, armor, magic, etc.) and when you start over again, you think, "If I could just get the *Light Sword* found at the end of the game, I could kick butt in the beginning of the game and get to the end that much quicker." I know some people who like to hack the game just to give their characters the coveted items early in the game.
Some games deal with this by having shortcuts that you find out after you already need them. The first time though, you go the long way building up experience and learning the shortcuts. If you go through again, you know the shortcuts so you don't spend a lot of time just building experience. The problem with that is that there is a trade off. Once one person knows the shortcut, EVERYBODY knows it. Why do the long way when someone else has found the shortcut for you?
After having said all that, I firmly believe that Role Playing Games are there for you to play a role. What fun is the game if your role is Urak the Unkillable? Do you really want a role where you start out as all powerful and the goal is to lose all your powers and get rid off all your cool stuff? (Maybe I will start a game with that as the premise.) If you don't like the role any more, don't play the game.
As for me, it is true that I don't play nearly as many RPG's as I used to. They do take a lot of time that I don't have any more. There are times that I don't like starting out so low and I want to start out with a bit more of a head start. But I still get a kick out of improving my character(s) and developing him/her/them the way I want. I tend to prefer games where I have lots of control how I build the character. Do I want a wizard or a warrior? A fighter that can do some magic, or a magic user that knows which end of a sword to hold? What are the benefits and drawbacks to a quest?
I know that not everyone likes the same games I do, and not everyone likes the same character development. Furthermore, as time goes on, peoples tastes change. If you don't like spending that much time developing a character, perhaps it is time to either change game styles, or program one that better fits what you want.
At my last company, we had a big problem with spam. But because the company did some online marketing, there were people in our marketing department that WANTED to get some of the spam so they could see what tactics the competition was using. At one point our mail gateways were so clogged, mail was being delayed by up to 4 or 5 hours at our gateway.
We fixed the problem by having postfix discard any mail that was not addressed to a legitimate email account. We ran a script that would pull all valid email addresses from exchange and told postfix to reject anything else. We set that script to run every hour to catch any changes to email addresses. Our emails that went through spamassassin dropped by almost 90%.
Our only trouble was that if we rejected with NDR, there were tens of thousands of Non-Delivery Reports being sent out, and if we rejected without an NDR, people who mispelled email names (sean@domain instead of shawn@domain) never got a report stating that their email did not go through.
Overall, it was a huge success and we didn't have to mess with greylistings or blacklists.
There are many ways to strong passwords that are very easy to remember and very hard to crack. Often, you can even write down a reminder that will remind you of the password, but make no sense whatsoever to anyone else. I will give you an example that I use all the time only as an example. ( I do not use this specific password anywhere.)
First of all, I pick a phrase that I like and will remember but may not make sense to anyone else. In one of my favorite books there is a phrase I have modified to read, "The significant owls hoots twice in the night." I take the first leter of each word to get: Tsohtitn
With a little obfuscation I get: T$0h2!tn
Now I have a strong password that includes upper and lower case letters, numbers and special characters. I can even write down on a sticky, "Sig owl" to remind me of the phrase. Unless anyone else knows the book I am talking about, or the phrase I use, the reminder is completely useless.
Phrases from favorite songs, books, family sayings or even company specific phrases are very good for this type of password encryption. I knew one person who even used phrases from nursery rhymes. (figuring out which phrase was used at the time and which method of obfuscation he used was what made the passwords hard to guess.)
I know that in a former company, the IT deparment had a very hard time making the suits use strong passwords. We solved it when we were doing some research to upgrade the banking system we used to verify credit cards. There were some published standards that needed to be supported if the bank was to continue to verify credit cards for us.
What we told the suits was, if an audit was performed and a bad password was found, that the credit card company could simply stop authorizing credit cards. (While this was published this way, what we didn't tell the suits was that normally the company is given a period of time to fix the problem if it fails the audit.) Since we were taking a lot of money over the Internet, the suits got paranoid and told us to implent the strongest possible security policy. We put one together, got the suits to sign off on it, entered it into the employee handbook and gave training classes on how to have strong passwords. (The suits made these classes mandatory for all employees.)
All you need to do is let them know how it could hurt them financially to not have a strong password policy and they will require the very policy you want.
Knarfling
I heard a story recently about a man from the US who was traveling to South America. As he was visiting different leaders, he asked the question, "Why has the US become such a world leading nation and other countries in America turned out they way they have? Our lands were discovered at about the same time and we have all had similar opportunities." The response, although it is an opinion not to be confused with fact, was very thought-provoking. "Because our ancestors were searching for gold and yours came searching for God."
I realize that Slashdot is not a popular place for religion, so I would like to ask the same question. I know that the U.S. is not perfect and there is much room for improvement. Do you think that the search for God, even if you believe it to be misplaced, is a reason for why we became the way we are?
My star system is in trouble and we need the Supreme Commander of the Universe to save us. The sub-commanders have been completely unhelpful. My government is in exile, and we are trapped on this world. Although we brought enough valuables to sustain ourselves for many years, most of it is trapped in a Nigerian bank.
We realize that Galactic Statutes prevent you from blasting this small country, "Nigeria" into oblivion, but we are hoping you can hellp us liberate this money. If you could send us a few hundred American dollars, we can free this stash along with hundreds of millions of Galactic Credits. Not only will we repay you all the American dollars, but we will reward you with Galactic Credits as well.
For confirmation, please contact us using Galactic Communications Channel ++ Ango Dargnon Ango (GCC++ADA).
Has anyone else noticed that the PDF of the "original report" has nothing to do with the study listed in the article? The article mentions upgrading from one version of the OS to another, while the PDF compares vulnerabilities using different database programs.
In addition the article mentions upgrading SUSE Enterprise 8 to SUSE Enterprise 9 while the PDF talks about using RED HAT EL 3 using MySQL or Oracle. The PDF further states that RH was used because is the "current leading distribution." If it is the current leading distribution, why wasn't it used in the other study as well? Why weren't both used in both studies?
I took the time to look at the PDF because I was curious what the "new business requirements" were. Was it simply the time it took to update to the next OS, or were there other requirements such as installing MS Exchange? If the requirement included specific software, which software was used and why?
I saw this when looking at another slashdot article. I thought it looked nice, and I liked the way it handled conversations. But it was missing a very important feature that ABSOLUTELY have to have. In Exchange it is called Public Folder. The basic function is that I create a mailbox that multiple people have access to. It is nice if it is simply a folder rather than a different mailbox. Usually one person is responsible for the contents of that folder. When that person goes on vacation, I don't have to re-assign their email address to someone else. Nor do I have to give someone else permission to access all of the first person's email account. The second person simply checks the group folder and takes action if needed.
Having the group folder is also helpful if more than one person is assigned to answer emails sent to one address, such as support@(domain). Although there is a small risk of two people working on the same email, there are many different work-arounds to prevent duplication of effort. If I had 10, 20 or 40 people working out of the same folder, I would invest in a CRM that could handle assigning emails, but with only 2 or three dealing with one folder, it is cheaper and simpler to manage them manually.
I have been burned before when an admin uses his personal company email to register a product or list that address as a contact address, only to have the admin leave and not be able to catch and update everywhere his address was used. Then, when an important notice is sent, no one catches it and takes the appropriate action needed at that time. I have long been an advocate of using public or group folders for important emails so that if an admin is no longer employed or simply on vacation, these vital emails do not get missed.
Sadly, the Zimbra software is still missing this group email feature. Until it is there, Zimbra isn't worth a closer inspection to see if it is a viable option.
I have actually had this happen. Actually, option 4 is closest to it, although the time between failures was too short to do anything. We have an older Dell computer (First mistake!) with a SCSI hot swap RAID. One of the drives failed, and we replaced it with the spare and ordered a second drive. About a day later, another drive failed before the replacement arrived. For some reason, the Windows Admin removed the drive even though there was no replacement available. He placed the bad one back in, and within moments, a third drive failed. There is some discussion about whether it was the drives or the backplane, but the system reported that two drives failed within minutes of each other. Fortunately, we were able to restore from tape to another server (slated for a different purpose) and lost only a day's worth of work.
One question. What would happen if some of these novels were re-written in cartoon/comic book form, with language that could be read by a 10 year old, and placed in the kid's section of the library/bookstore? People would complain, and if it happened enough, people would try to introduce legislation to prevent it. Books do have a self-regulation system, in that as a child grows in reading comprehension, more mature topics become available. Video Games do not have that self-regulation. Do the gamecontroller keys get harder to press as the topics become more mature?
Video Games, by their very nature, are mostly targeted toward children and teenagers, because that is what brings in the money. It seems to me that the video game industry wants to have a double standard. "We want to sell to children, teenagers, and adults, so we can get more money, but let's put a 'Mature' rating on it so that we can be protected against people who complain."
Don't get me wrong, I am not saying that it is the government's job to regulate video games, and I do believe that it is a parent's job to teach and raise his/her/their children. But the game industry is not doing a good job of self-regulation, either.
Everyone seems to be forgetting that Marty gave Doc Brown the hoverboard so that he could save himself and his sweetheart. I don't remember what powered the hoverboard, but obviously Doc Brown figured it out.
When you think about it, yep, it is really is the "Bill & Ted" system of temporal mechanics. Instead of you buying the components, you get a young kid to bring them back to you. Now if I could just find where Doc Brown hid/lost the components to the hoverboard...
My first thought at why it would be more expensive for Solaris would be that an experienced Solaris Admin can command a much higher salary. Although we would like to believe that a good Linux Admin can work with all kinds of Unix/Linux varients, there are enough differences between them that an admin with home or small business Linux experience might have a little difficulty on a larger Unix system.
It could also be that because Unix is perceived to be a "big busness" operating system, companies are willing to pay more for someone who has actual Unix experience rather than Linux training.
I realize that I may be feeding the trolls, but can you explain why that is so stupid?
Which machines / OS should I be using instead?
Since you know my business so well, can you tell me how I can get the custom application (which does not run in Linux, btw) ported to another OS without spending $300,000 in programming/development costs?
We actually did do some research on this and even tried to port this over to Linux. I really liked the idea of moving to Linux boxes. Unfortunately, the cost of porting to Linux was even greater that shelling out all that money for the HP boxes and the OS. So we chose the cheaper solution and that makes us stupid???
Just because it was better than the alternatives, doesn't mean I have to like their licensing.
And for all the others, I don't think that HP-UX should be free. HP does deserve to make some money. I just don't like having to pay more for each extra processor.
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A good systems admin can find out just about anything. A great systems admin knows when not to look.
Not really. According to the article, it is the structure that is ideal, not the actual beetle scales. The real breakthrough is that the structure can be found in or created from different materials than diamonds. In this case, the structure is made by nature from fingernail like material, not something you normally associate with crystals.
Having said all that, it is a bit of a disappointment that they have not even created a man-made structure, only that they have confirmed that the structure found naturally on the beetles is the ideal crystal structure.
I, for one, am really, really glad they didn't choose a couple of those names.
"Hey Asperger!! When was the last time you took a look at Chingachgook?"
"I can't have Chingachgook at my place. The walls are thin, and my Mom might hear."
I realize that the only one written only by Anne McCaffrey was the original, "The Ship Who Sang", and the others were co-written by other authors. (Usually that means written by other authors using McCaffrey's universe and published with her name and by her permission so as to get better sales.) However, that means that there are several other authors that like to write using the "brain in a [jar|box|ship]" theme.
Mesa, AZ is doing the same thing. And the cameras are set for speed as well, and are on all the time. I was heading south on Alma School Road late one night, and some guy sped past me like he was in a hurry to get to an accident. (I was speeding, too, but only about 5 mph over.) As he ran through a green light at Guadalupe Road, the camera flashed. Since he and I were the only ones on the road at the time, he had to set off the camera. And the light was clearly green because I went through the green light a full second later (at a slightly reduced speed, of course.)
A credit card is a vehicle for purchasing things you don't need at prices you can't afford with money you don't have.
Any more questions?
While not an "official" definition, this has always worked for me.
Alpha Release - Unfinished software submitted for Internal testing. In other words, the bugs are going to be so bad that only people who have signed non-disclosure agreements are allowed to see them. Alpha is code-speak for "It doesn't work."
Beta Release - Unfinished software submitted to torture those outside the company. In other words, the bugs are ones we can either cover up, or actually admit to. Beta is code-speak for "It STILL doesn't work."
Not really. It is a matter of convenience.
Think about remote entry of vehicles, and look how widely they are being used.
Come to think of it, that would be nice for a door lock. Rather than something implanted, a simple button to push to unlock the door would be nice. I wonder why that isn't done more often?
I know I am in the minority here, but I like Top Posting. Here are the reasons why.
1. Emails are not books. I don't need to read the beginning, middle and end to understand the plot. Normal emails (as apposed to the office politics stuff) do not have a plot. Books are read top to bottom and front to back. Again, email is not a book.
2. The most recent and most relevant info is at the top. If I don't care about the beginning, I don't have to re-read or scroll down to get past the stuff I already know.
3. Yes, if you are added to a conversation after the emails have gone back and forth, top posting makes you start at the bottom and work up. What you are really saying is that your comfort and ease of reading is more important than all the other people who only needed to read the reply since they already remembered the rest of the email.
4. Email is no longer the same as USENET. If you are on an email discussion list, USENET rules still make sense. I can read the last email, top to bottom without having to wade through the other emails. But most emails are not discussion lists. Trying to force all emails to conform to USENET rules is like trying to make all cars use a shifter on the floor board because it made the most sense for early cars. It still makes sense for some cars, but please don't try to force it for everyone.
5. Inline posting makes sense only when replying to portions of emails such as lists of questions. And only when there are a limited number of back and forth conversations. I really, really hate trying to figure out who actually replied to a question, and did they reply before or after Joe's comment that changed the perspective of the original email. And I have seen a couple of times where someone did an inline reply to each and every sentence. It wasn't readable.
Again, just so I am clear, this is just my opinion. Top Posting makes sense for discussion lists, but not for normal emails. Maybe I am lazy. Maybe I am a slob. But I don't always have the luxury of time to correct and bottom post each an every email I reply to. That time is, IMHO, better spent doing other tasks.
The question I want answered is about Worf and Deanna's kids. (You remember, of course, when Worf keeps skipping through the multiple universes?) Do the Betazoid/Klingon children have empathetic qualities? Or Do you have Klingons who KNOW when you are insulting their honor?
It is painfully obvious from the article that this writer was or is a consultant. All of the reasons not to use MySQL are PHB reasons. Not one is based on actual abilities or inabilities of MySQL. He seems to be intent on agreeing with a position that he doesn't understand or didn't want to take. "...I'd be hard-pressed to tell a conservative IT manager making a platform decision for a mission-critical application based on this factor that he's doing the wrong thing." Yes, it does sound like he would be hard-pressed to tell any IT manager that the stupid decision he was making was the wrong thing.
The info at the end of the article says that he guides many projects based on MySQL, but it is hard to believe that he has ever used it. It sounds like all of his research was with PHB's or admins that have never really given MySQL a good try. A good admin knows both the pros and the cons of the software he uses, and hopefully, the good out weighs the bad. Many people that use or even swear by MySQL could give you some good reasons not to use it, under the right circumstances. Obviously, this guy could not find any. Either that, or he did his research in the wrong area.
I realize that this is the CIO magazine, and that some CIO's really are PHB's. However, Tina was able to write a good article on why a CIO should pick MySQL and give good reasons that were understandable to both technical people and PHB's. The only other conclusion I can come to was that Brent was trying to steer people towards MySQL and thought a badly written article against MySQL was the best way to do that.
Yes, RHEL5 does come with KDE version 3.5.4. Since the official stable version on kde.org is 3.5.6, it looks like RHEL5 is only a little bit behind the cutting edge on this one.
I also noticed that it comes with 2113 packages compared to 1570 with RHEL4 update 4. A good portion of them are probably language packages, but it does look like RHEL5 is increasing the number of packages that it supports.
First, let me say I can partially understand where he is coming from. Usually I run into this when I want to replay an RPG over again. As you go through the game you find bigger and better items (weapons, armor, magic, etc.) and when you start over again, you think, "If I could just get the *Light Sword* found at the end of the game, I could kick butt in the beginning of the game and get to the end that much quicker." I know some people who like to hack the game just to give their characters the coveted items early in the game.
Some games deal with this by having shortcuts that you find out after you already need them. The first time though, you go the long way building up experience and learning the shortcuts. If you go through again, you know the shortcuts so you don't spend a lot of time just building experience. The problem with that is that there is a trade off. Once one person knows the shortcut, EVERYBODY knows it. Why do the long way when someone else has found the shortcut for you?
After having said all that, I firmly believe that Role Playing Games are there for you to play a role. What fun is the game if your role is Urak the Unkillable? Do you really want a role where you start out as all powerful and the goal is to lose all your powers and get rid off all your cool stuff? (Maybe I will start a game with that as the premise.) If you don't like the role any more, don't play the game.
As for me, it is true that I don't play nearly as many RPG's as I used to. They do take a lot of time that I don't have any more. There are times that I don't like starting out so low and I want to start out with a bit more of a head start. But I still get a kick out of improving my character(s) and developing him/her/them the way I want. I tend to prefer games where I have lots of control how I build the character. Do I want a wizard or a warrior? A fighter that can do some magic, or a magic user that knows which end of a sword to hold? What are the benefits and drawbacks to a quest? I know that not everyone likes the same games I do, and not everyone likes the same character development. Furthermore, as time goes on, peoples tastes change. If you don't like spending that much time developing a character, perhaps it is time to either change game styles, or program one that better fits what you want.At my last company, we had a big problem with spam. But because the company did some online marketing, there were people in our marketing department that WANTED to get some of the spam so they could see what tactics the competition was using. At one point our mail gateways were so clogged, mail was being delayed by up to 4 or 5 hours at our gateway.
We fixed the problem by having postfix discard any mail that was not addressed to a legitimate email account. We ran a script that would pull all valid email addresses from exchange and told postfix to reject anything else. We set that script to run every hour to catch any changes to email addresses. Our emails that went through spamassassin dropped by almost 90%.
Our only trouble was that if we rejected with NDR, there were tens of thousands of Non-Delivery Reports being sent out, and if we rejected without an NDR, people who mispelled email names (sean@domain instead of shawn@domain) never got a report stating that their email did not go through.
Overall, it was a huge success and we didn't have to mess with greylistings or blacklists.
There are many ways to strong passwords that are very easy to remember and very hard to crack. Often, you can even write down a reminder that will remind you of the password, but make no sense whatsoever to anyone else. I will give you an example that I use all the time only as an example. ( I do not use this specific password anywhere.)
First of all, I pick a phrase that I like and will remember but may not make sense to anyone else. In one of my favorite books there is a phrase I have modified to read, "The significant owls hoots twice in the night." I take the first leter of each word to get:
Tsohtitn
With a little obfuscation I get:
T$0h2!tn
Now I have a strong password that includes upper and lower case letters, numbers and special characters. I can even write down on a sticky, "Sig owl" to remind me of the phrase. Unless anyone else knows the book I am talking about, or the phrase I use, the reminder is completely useless.
Phrases from favorite songs, books, family sayings or even company specific phrases are very good for this type of password encryption. I knew one person who even used phrases from nursery rhymes. (figuring out which phrase was used at the time and which method of obfuscation he used was what made the passwords hard to guess.)
I know that in a former company, the IT deparment had a very hard time making the suits use strong passwords. We solved it when we were doing some research to upgrade the banking system we used to verify credit cards. There were some published standards that needed to be supported if the bank was to continue to verify credit cards for us.
What we told the suits was, if an audit was performed and a bad password was found, that the credit card company could simply stop authorizing credit cards. (While this was published this way, what we didn't tell the suits was that normally the company is given a period of time to fix the problem if it fails the audit.) Since we were taking a lot of money over the Internet, the suits got paranoid and told us to implent the strongest possible security policy. We put one together, got the suits to sign off on it, entered it into the employee handbook and gave training classes on how to have strong passwords. (The suits made these classes mandatory for all employees.)
All you need to do is let them know how it could hurt them financially to not have a strong password policy and they will require the very policy you want. Knarfling
I heard a story recently about a man from the US who was traveling to South America. As he was visiting different leaders, he asked the question, "Why has the US become such a world leading nation and other countries in America turned out they way they have? Our lands were discovered at about the same time and we have all had similar opportunities." The response, although it is an opinion not to be confused with fact, was very thought-provoking. "Because our ancestors were searching for gold and yours came searching for God."
I realize that Slashdot is not a popular place for religion, so I would like to ask the same question. I know that the U.S. is not perfect and there is much room for improvement. Do you think that the search for God, even if you believe it to be misplaced, is a reason for why we became the way we are?
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In addition the article mentions upgrading SUSE Enterprise 8 to SUSE Enterprise 9 while the PDF talks about using RED HAT EL 3 using MySQL or Oracle. The PDF further states that RH was used because is the "current leading distribution." If it is the current leading distribution, why wasn't it used in the other study as well? Why weren't both used in both studies?
I took the time to look at the PDF because I was curious what the "new business requirements" were. Was it simply the time it took to update to the next OS, or were there other requirements such as installing MS Exchange? If the requirement included specific software, which software was used and why?
I saw this when looking at another slashdot article. I thought it looked nice, and I liked the way it handled conversations. But it was missing a very important feature that ABSOLUTELY have to have. In Exchange it is called Public Folder. The basic function is that I create a mailbox that multiple people have access to. It is nice if it is simply a folder rather than a different mailbox. Usually one person is responsible for the contents of that folder. When that person goes on vacation, I don't have to re-assign their email address to someone else. Nor do I have to give someone else permission to access all of the first person's email account. The second person simply checks the group folder and takes action if needed.
Having the group folder is also helpful if more than one person is assigned to answer emails sent to one address, such as support@(domain). Although there is a small risk of two people working on the same email, there are many different work-arounds to prevent duplication of effort. If I had 10, 20 or 40 people working out of the same folder, I would invest in a CRM that could handle assigning emails, but with only 2 or three dealing with one folder, it is cheaper and simpler to manage them manually.
I have been burned before when an admin uses his personal company email to register a product or list that address as a contact address, only to have the admin leave and not be able to catch and update everywhere his address was used. Then, when an important notice is sent, no one catches it and takes the appropriate action needed at that time. I have long been an advocate of using public or group folders for important emails so that if an admin is no longer employed or simply on vacation, these vital emails do not get missed.
Sadly, the Zimbra software is still missing this group email feature. Until it is there, Zimbra isn't worth a closer inspection to see if it is a viable option.
I have actually had this happen. Actually, option 4 is closest to it, although the time between failures was too short to do anything. We have an older Dell computer (First mistake!) with a SCSI hot swap RAID. One of the drives failed, and we replaced it with the spare and ordered a second drive. About a day later, another drive failed before the replacement arrived. For some reason, the Windows Admin removed the drive even though there was no replacement available. He placed the bad one back in, and within moments, a third drive failed. There is some discussion about whether it was the drives or the backplane, but the system reported that two drives failed within minutes of each other. Fortunately, we were able to restore from tape to another server (slated for a different purpose) and lost only a day's worth of work.
One question. What would happen if some of these novels were re-written in cartoon/comic book form, with language that could be read by a 10 year old, and placed in the kid's section of the library/bookstore? People would complain, and if it happened enough, people would try to introduce legislation to prevent it. Books do have a self-regulation system, in that as a child grows in reading comprehension, more mature topics become available. Video Games do not have that self-regulation. Do the gamecontroller keys get harder to press as the topics become more mature?
Video Games, by their very nature, are mostly targeted toward children and teenagers, because that is what brings in the money. It seems to me that the video game industry wants to have a double standard. "We want to sell to children, teenagers, and adults, so we can get more money, but let's put a 'Mature' rating on it so that we can be protected against people who complain."
Don't get me wrong, I am not saying that it is the government's job to regulate video games, and I do believe that it is a parent's job to teach and raise his/her/their children. But the game industry is not doing a good job of self-regulation, either.
Everyone seems to be forgetting that Marty gave Doc Brown the hoverboard so that he could save himself and his sweetheart. I don't remember what powered the hoverboard, but obviously Doc Brown figured it out.
When you think about it, yep, it is really is the "Bill & Ted" system of temporal mechanics. Instead of you buying the components, you get a young kid to bring them back to you. Now if I could just find where Doc Brown hid/lost the components to the hoverboard...
My first thought at why it would be more expensive for Solaris would be that an experienced Solaris Admin can command a much higher salary. Although we would like to believe that a good Linux Admin can work with all kinds of Unix/Linux varients, there are enough differences between them that an admin with home or small business Linux experience might have a little difficulty on a larger Unix system.
It could also be that because Unix is perceived to be a "big busness" operating system, companies are willing to pay more for someone who has actual Unix experience rather than Linux training.
I realize that I may be feeding the trolls, but can you explain why that is so stupid?
Which machines / OS should I be using instead?
Since you know my business so well, can you tell me how I can get the custom application (which does not run in Linux, btw) ported to another OS without spending $300,000 in programming/development costs?
We actually did do some research on this and even tried to port this over to Linux. I really liked the idea of moving to Linux boxes. Unfortunately, the cost of porting to Linux was even greater that shelling out all that money for the HP boxes and the OS. So we chose the cheaper solution and that makes us stupid???
Just because it was better than the alternatives, doesn't mean I have to like their licensing.
And for all the others, I don't think that HP-UX should be free. HP does deserve to make some money. I just don't like having to pay more for each extra processor.