if will be unique, presuming you are a single supplier organisation
Even if you're not, sticking a prefix in there to signify the supplier will ensure that if you ever do change supplier the (minute) risk of overlap is eliminated.
I've been through Dubai and I did think it seemed quite strict, security-wise. They didn't do much more than X-ray most people but I wouldn't be at all surprised if you were to find some silly percentage in the 80-90s were "carrying drugs" if you use machinery as sensitive as they do.
Purely out of curiosity, could any aircraft nerds confirm when the last major totally new aircraft (ie. not a refresh of an existing design like the 747-400) was? I'm fairly sure that with the exception of the A380, there hasn't been much new in some time.
Hence the 'more than $10' comment. Thermite is a piece of piss to make and you would probably use less than $1 of it to destroy a hard drive. The cost would be the pit you would need to build, outside of your office building, where you could carry out the cremations.
The article is about something built in the UK. Our population density is fairly high, I'd need to drive several miles to find anywhere appropriate and in this town the average traffic speed is about 6-8 mph.
Have you ever looked into the prices of these card processors? They're astronomical, particularly when you consider that what they do is entirely computerised, has been for decades and once you've actually got the system setup almost certainly costs them an unmeasurably small amount per transaction.
I concede that getting the system setup is the expensive part, but even then I don't think their prices justify it.
There's an enormous amount of information that is nominally in the public domain in most first-world countries. Telephone directories, electoral roll records, births/marriage/death registration, driver licensing and vehicle registration records, land ownership records, company registration documents are all frequently at least partially open to the public.
However, they're seldom gathered together in an easy to assimilate form - maybe that's because the government is running 20 years behind the private sector, maybe that's because they'd far rather sell the information than let it go for free. You have to go to some effort to join the dots.
But what if you didn't? How would those on here who say "You have no privacy. Get used to it." on here feel if you could punch someone's name into Google and reliably get back their home phone number, address, the make, model and registration number of their car, how much they bought their last house for, the names of their parents, spouse and children?
More to the point, how long would such a service work before the government stepped in to "close it down" (read: Close it to the public. You don't think they'd let a tool like that go, do you?)
Indeed - though I believe the initial audit was carried out by a program which simply drills through the source code and looks for the text of some common licenses.
I don't think people are going to go back to rolling their own in the embedded market - anyone with any experience in embedded software development will tell you that Linux makes life a hell of a lot easier because all of a sudden a lot of things you would otherwise have to write from scratch are basically included. And it can be a lot of work to port a userland package developed for Linux to something like VxWorks.
Coming at it from another angle, every couple of years there's an article about how even in the Western world, some absurdly large proportion of companies use pirated software. What makes you think that the GPL will make them suddenly compliant?
What I think is more likely is that companies will start to take licensing seriously. For instance, my current employer is careful to architect our design so that anything we don't want to reveal to the world is a pure user-land tool without GPL dependencies. But in auditing our code, we've come across quite a few open-source projects which have borrowed from each other without first checking that their licenses are cross-compatible.
Most everyone on Capitol Hill is either corrupt or already has their own agenda that the wishes of the American people probably don't fit into. SCOTUS is even less accountable than congress is.
Don't you have a Freedom of Information Act? I'd be tempted to request details of all bribes received.
Some of music you'll find there is quite good. Subjectively, I'd even venture to say the good/bad ratio is better than the major labels.
I'd argue that there's little subjectivity about it. Magnatune and the like don't have the money to spend on cocaine, payola, photoshoots and promotional videos so there's only really one thing left for them to concentrate on.
It's a disk image for Grud's sake. You write it onto a disk. Job done. What's the problem?
Except that you can't necessarily use Acronis to restore an image created with Norton Ghost, nor can you restore such an image with dd.
True block imaging is not actually used that often in most imaging products - in essence the images they create are normally a glorified tarball with details of partition layout, boot record, filesystems etc.
Firstly, the image builder is only half the problem. You also need the resulting images to integrate with the mechanism Dell are using to roll them out - and Dell aren't going to change that just because the images generated can only be applied using a particular program.
Secondly, where Linux generally tends to fall down regarding desktop hardware is with newly-released hardware. It's unusual to find stable drivers available much less than 6 months after the initial release of a new sound chip, for instance. Not ideal if your business processes are set up so you put together the images once when the hardware is first produced and then never touch them for months.
If you don't want to provide Microsoft refunds, do not sell a computer that contains a EULA saying you will provide refunds if the EULA is unacceptable.
ICBW, but the last time I checked it just said "Contact your OEM for a refund". Didn't say anything about how the OEM is obliged to offer one.
They must know how to preinstall different OS easily, since every Dell PC has a big long list of Windows options.
I imagine (though IANAOEM) they have a bunch of images for each machine. If they don't have an image for a given OS/machine combination, they can't ask the factory to install it.
Most network admins want to be trusted - and need to be. Being untrustworthy is the kiss of death in that entire career path.
Mod up about a hundred or so.
I'm in the UK, where it's quite hard for an employer to get away with writing a bad reference. Usually they'll either stick to the facts (person X worked for us from DATE to DATE, when they left their job title was N and their salary was Y) or refuse to write a reference at all. However, the IT industry is a lot smaller than people imagine and if there's any common ground between your CV and someone else the interviewer knows and trusts, they will be asking around.
A few weeks ago I read an investigative report on repair shops in Britain. Aside from over charging and finding non-existant problems they looked at and copied information off the computers that were being serviced.
To be fair, that report was looking at PC World and the like - our answer to the US "Geek squad", if you like.
There is virtually nothing in common with a company that offers outsourced IT support of a professional nature and PC World that hires a 16 year old straight out of school and tells him his job is to look at peoples PCs and try to sell them antivirus software.
Remote access is secure - SSH, RDP, decent VPNs are fine for remote administration.
IME you can't throw encryption at a problem and BANG! everything is now secure.
SSH in its default configuration on most Linux distributions makes no effort to protect you against dictionary attacks and allows root logins from anywhere. Ubuntu is about the only sensible distribution here, blocking root altogether and demanding the use of sudo. Accounts don't get locked after N failed logins, nor do IP addresses get blocked. You're only one person with a weak password away from everyone and his dog being able to get in.
Of course, if you do start locking accounts after N failed logins - particularly if you combine it with a centralised password database like LDAP or AD - you then open yourself up to a DoS. Someone can lock out your staff remotely.
Well, there are distributed databases around and you could always write a web frontend to query one of those. But they're very expensive and not generally well represented in terms of Free (as in beer) products, and you're still left with the problem "how do we turn SELECT * FROM pages WHERE content="%user data%" into a useful set of results?
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if will be unique, presuming you are a single supplier organisation
Even if you're not, sticking a prefix in there to signify the supplier will ensure that if you ever do change supplier the (minute) risk of overlap is eliminated.
There have been a certain number of arrests in circumstances that would be considered absurd in any other country:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-512815/Briton-jailed-years-Dubai-customs-cannabis-weighing-grain-sugar-shoe.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/4200952.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Dubai#Zero_tolerance_drug_policy
I've been through Dubai and I did think it seemed quite strict, security-wise. They didn't do much more than X-ray most people but I wouldn't be at all surprised if you were to find some silly percentage in the 80-90s were "carrying drugs" if you use machinery as sensitive as they do.
Purely out of curiosity, could any aircraft nerds confirm when the last major totally new aircraft (ie. not a refresh of an existing design like the 747-400) was? I'm fairly sure that with the exception of the A380, there hasn't been much new in some time.
Hence the 'more than $10' comment. Thermite is a piece of piss to make and you would probably use less than $1 of it to destroy a hard drive. The cost would be the pit you would need to build, outside of your office building, where you could carry out the cremations.
The article is about something built in the UK. Our population density is fairly high, I'd need to drive several miles to find anywhere appropriate and in this town the average traffic speed is about 6-8 mph.
Have you ever looked into the prices of these card processors? They're astronomical, particularly when you consider that what they do is entirely computerised, has been for decades and once you've actually got the system setup almost certainly costs them an unmeasurably small amount per transaction.
I concede that getting the system setup is the expensive part, but even then I don't think their prices justify it.
There's an enormous amount of information that is nominally in the public domain in most first-world countries. Telephone directories, electoral roll records, births/marriage/death registration, driver licensing and vehicle registration records, land ownership records, company registration documents are all frequently at least partially open to the public.
However, they're seldom gathered together in an easy to assimilate form - maybe that's because the government is running 20 years behind the private sector, maybe that's because they'd far rather sell the information than let it go for free. You have to go to some effort to join the dots.
But what if you didn't? How would those on here who say "You have no privacy. Get used to it." on here feel if you could punch someone's name into Google and reliably get back their home phone number, address, the make, model and registration number of their car, how much they bought their last house for, the names of their parents, spouse and children?
More to the point, how long would such a service work before the government stepped in to "close it down" (read: Close it to the public. You don't think they'd let a tool like that go, do you?)
Indeed - though I believe the initial audit was carried out by a program which simply drills through the source code and looks for the text of some common licenses.
I don't think people are going to go back to rolling their own in the embedded market - anyone with any experience in embedded software development will tell you that Linux makes life a hell of a lot easier because all of a sudden a lot of things you would otherwise have to write from scratch are basically included. And it can be a lot of work to port a userland package developed for Linux to something like VxWorks.
Coming at it from another angle, every couple of years there's an article about how even in the Western world, some absurdly large proportion of companies use pirated software. What makes you think that the GPL will make them suddenly compliant?
What I think is more likely is that companies will start to take licensing seriously. For instance, my current employer is careful to architect our design so that anything we don't want to reveal to the world is a pure user-land tool without GPL dependencies. But in auditing our code, we've come across quite a few open-source projects which have borrowed from each other without first checking that their licenses are cross-compatible.
Whereas those of us who are married spend the weekends drinking and trying to get pussy.
(Just joking, dear)
Most everyone on Capitol Hill is either corrupt or already has their own agenda that the wishes of the American people probably don't fit into. SCOTUS is even less accountable than congress is.
Don't you have a Freedom of Information Act? I'd be tempted to request details of all bribes received.
We should just declare them galactic rulers and do their every bidding.
Don't give them ideas.
Some of music you'll find there is quite good. Subjectively, I'd even venture to say the good/bad ratio is better than the major labels.
I'd argue that there's little subjectivity about it. Magnatune and the like don't have the money to spend on cocaine, payola, photoshoots and promotional videos so there's only really one thing left for them to concentrate on.
It's hardly going to be a significant technical challenge for a company like Dell.
You ever dealt with Dell? Elephants don't gallop.
It's a disk image for Grud's sake. You write it onto a disk. Job done. What's the problem?
Except that you can't necessarily use Acronis to restore an image created with Norton Ghost, nor can you restore such an image with dd.
True block imaging is not actually used that often in most imaging products - in essence the images they create are normally a glorified tarball with details of partition layout, boot record, filesystems etc.
That would be nice, wouldn't it?
I doubt it, however, as RISC OS hasn't had a great deal of development since the early 2000's, and even then the most recent details on the Iyonix website (which I suspect is only up because nobody's bothered to take it down - it says © 2006, FFS) proudly announces "Supports up to 1GB RAM! PCI slots for expansion! 256MB RAM as standard! 80-120GB HDD!"
http://xkcd.com/619/
I think I need say no more.
Firstly, the image builder is only half the problem. You also need the resulting images to integrate with the mechanism Dell are using to roll them out - and Dell aren't going to change that just because the images generated can only be applied using a particular program.
Secondly, where Linux generally tends to fall down regarding desktop hardware is with newly-released hardware. It's unusual to find stable drivers available much less than 6 months after the initial release of a new sound chip, for instance. Not ideal if your business processes are set up so you put together the images once when the hardware is first produced and then never touch them for months.
If you don't want to provide Microsoft refunds, do not sell a computer that contains a EULA saying you will provide refunds if the EULA is unacceptable.
ICBW, but the last time I checked it just said "Contact your OEM for a refund". Didn't say anything about how the OEM is obliged to offer one.
Which is amazing considering the amount of crap most OEMs put on a Windows build.
They must know how to preinstall different OS easily, since every Dell PC has a big long list of Windows options.
I imagine (though IANAOEM) they have a bunch of images for each machine. If they don't have an image for a given OS/machine combination, they can't ask the factory to install it.
Most network admins want to be trusted - and need to be. Being untrustworthy is the kiss of death in that entire career path.
Mod up about a hundred or so.
I'm in the UK, where it's quite hard for an employer to get away with writing a bad reference. Usually they'll either stick to the facts (person X worked for us from DATE to DATE, when they left their job title was N and their salary was Y) or refuse to write a reference at all. However, the IT industry is a lot smaller than people imagine and if there's any common ground between your CV and someone else the interviewer knows and trusts, they will be asking around.
A few weeks ago I read an investigative report on repair shops in Britain. Aside from over charging and finding non-existant problems they looked at and copied information off the computers that were being serviced.
To be fair, that report was looking at PC World and the like - our answer to the US "Geek squad", if you like.
There is virtually nothing in common with a company that offers outsourced IT support of a professional nature and PC World that hires a 16 year old straight out of school and tells him his job is to look at peoples PCs and try to sell them antivirus software.
Remote access is secure - SSH, RDP, decent VPNs are fine for remote administration.
IME you can't throw encryption at a problem and BANG! everything is now secure.
SSH in its default configuration on most Linux distributions makes no effort to protect you against dictionary attacks and allows root logins from anywhere. Ubuntu is about the only sensible distribution here, blocking root altogether and demanding the use of sudo. Accounts don't get locked after N failed logins, nor do IP addresses get blocked. You're only one person with a weak password away from everyone and his dog being able to get in.
Of course, if you do start locking accounts after N failed logins - particularly if you combine it with a centralised password database like LDAP or AD - you then open yourself up to a DoS. Someone can lock out your staff remotely.
Well, there are distributed databases around and you could always write a web frontend to query one of those. But they're very expensive and not generally well represented in terms of Free (as in beer) products, and you're still left with the problem "how do we turn SELECT * FROM pages WHERE content="%user data%" into a useful set of results?
Of course, by posting under your user account, you're not a mod in this thread any more so it's all rather academic.