Go back to the basement nerd. You are trying to justify a RAID setup with 12-14 small drives that are non hot swap and used. If you bought them from a retailer, I might believe they were refurb, but they were bought on ebay.
Oh, and where did I even mention the RAID controller? I was talking strictly about the array itself.
That setup runs hot, sucks back too much power, and cannot have failed drives swapped out live.
It is not cool, it is not news worthy, and it is not cutting edge.
This is not economical, cutting edge, cool, nor is it practical. Why?
1) The drives are used. If you want to impress us, do it with new components with warranties (even refurb). Used makes it impractical and unreliable, even moreso because you didn't use hot swap. 2) It is only 500GB. This can be achieved in a RAID5 configuration with 3 NEW UNDER WARRANTY 250GB drives. 3) Heat. This negates the whole "cool" (both figurative and literal) label. 4) Power. Old drives suck up alot of power. Putting alot of them in a single case is going to draw a major stupid amount of power. Fewer drives can achieve the same effect with a reduced power draw. Did you take a page out of the AMD and 3dfx design methodolgy when you thought up this project?
With any load balancing solution, if a server goes down with an active connection, that connection gets reset. It doesn't matter if you are using LVS, pen or pound, the level of transparancy isn't quite there yet.
Personally, I am an advocate of pound for http/s load balancing, because its simple, has central logging, and handles ssl authentication itself (thereby keeping the back end servers simple)
Ronald Reagan pushed his Star Wars plan at around the same time (rough estimation) that Episode VI was released, and Bush is pushing Star Wars part II at the same time that Episode 3 is being released. Coincidence? I think not!
Its a caching proxy server for crying out loud. It caches web pages and feeds you the cached version. This is not new nor is it surprising, especially for a new service offering.
keylogging has been around for some time, in fact I'm sure many posters here have writen their own rudimentary keyloggers at highschool just for shits and giggles. I fail to see why this is news worthy. Pretty soon they'll be talking about how these "phishers" are exploiting javascript vulnerabilities. Oh wait.....
Phishers are virus writers with a financial motive, nothing more. In fact, most virus writers these days are financially motivated (like setting up zombie networks for extortion attempts). Why differentiate? Just call them criminals.
Joke email weren't included when I tried to calculate the amount of time wasted. The only emails which I used to calculate that number were the replies, which ranged anyware from a single sentence to 5 full (!) paragraphs.
Any company would be foolish NOT to implement some sort of email monitoring or archival. Why?
1) Liability. If something is sent by company equipment, by a company employee, it becomes the companys responsibility. At my current employer, we had a customer service rep go rogue and send a nasty, racist email to a customer via yahoo mail, using our equipment. We narrowly escaped a lawsuit by doing some serious sucking up. thankfully, we kept logs of all web based activity and were able to prove who it was and fire their ass in a quick and apparantly pleasing manner (to the victim at least). 2) Productivity. Believe it or not, but email can be used to do some serious slacking off. At my previous employer, I was asked to implement an email monitoring system and figure out precisely how much time was wasted by the employees. The worst offender was found to have 48% non work related emails by volume. That translated into approximately 2 hours of wasted time PER DAY. 3) Theft. I have been witness to two attempts at theft using email. The first one, we had insufficient evidence. The second one however was nailed inside of 2 hours. She was stealing confidential customer lists on behalf of the former sales manager who, unbeknownest to me, was having an illicit extramarital affair with her. If there was no monitoring, she would have gotten away with it.
The lack of any real world knowledge or experience is quite apparant in the person who submitted this story. Email monitoring is, unfortunately, a necessary evil. HAving said that, I would like to emphasize that I am talking about MONITORING, and not BLOCKING. Using word filters is dumb. Its better for them to send it and catch them after the fact than to prevent them from sending it in the first place. Better for them (the ones likely to abuse company resources) to think they can get away with it and nail their ass, then to force them to get all sneaky and find ways around the monitoring.
Thank you. I will admit that my statement was quite broad and simplistic, but lets be honest here, this is slashdot. Broad and simplistic is all these people can handle.
So based on your experience, would you agree that Excel is an integral component of your firm? A component which would benefit from "professional excel development"?
"Professional Excel Development? Isn't that an oxymoron?"
"Professional Excel Development is like painting a house with tomatoe paste"
The entire financial sector bases its existance on Excel. Brokers, bankers, and virtually every banking or stock related position has a deep dependance on Excel. Laugh all you like at the thought of a professional excel developer, but I highly doubt that these firms will simply drop Excel in favour of some smelly nerds coding in C#.
It'd be nice if they eventually integrate this with IEs integrated history. Is it possible to have this level of integration centralized, so for example, if I wanted to monitor my users browsing histories I could do it?
Every credible study analyzed the effect of sharing music and movies that has already been released to the general public, NOT prerelease material.
This is what so many of your rabid antiRIAA zealots fail to clue into. There IS a line that can be crossed. Sharing music thats already for sale is great, you can justify the piracy by saying it boosts sales because there IS something to buy if you choose to. With prerelease material, you are not able to go out and purchase the product until its released, and that could be weeks or months away. You, in effect, fall into a trap of your own design. You are, essentially, justifying the RIAAs and MPAAs position that downloading costs them money, because your logic of "it helps boost sales" doesn't work.
I download music. I download movies. I also buy music and movies.
Having said that, I agree with this law. Why? Because it is specifically targetting the ones who ARE depriving the studios and artists of revenue. Releasing something that hasn't hit the streets yet SHOULD be illegal. I can only hope that they do not use this as a stepping stone to get all copyright infringement turned into a criminal act, instead of the current civil status.
Alternatively, you can use freeVRRPD and pound. freeVRRPD for the failover, and pound for the SSL authentication and load balancing. An added bonus is that pound logs all hits and misses (in an apache format), so the logging is centralized. While the CPU utilization is higher due to the SSL authentication, it makes things much simpler as all you need in the web farm is a relatively simple HTTP server (be it apache or, ugh, IIS) with no need to worry about SSL authentication.
Why should it be the responsibility of the patent office or ourselves to prove prior art, when it is the companies themselves who should be responsible for doing due diligence? Why sohuld they offload their costs onto us? Yes, patent reform is necessary, but the onus should be placed squarely on the patent applicants and not us.
How can you blame MAPS when you should be blaming the ISPs and other email administrators for subscribing to a blacklisted that has no checks or balances?
While MAPS (or SPEWS) may be overzealous and entirely destructive in their obsessive quest to stamp out SPAM, it is ultimately the email administrators responsibility for using them. Blame them for not doing their job right.
Setting aside my hatred for asp and the web services plafrom it runs on, I have to admit that this post made me laugh. You hit it straight on the head.
Today, technicians are a dime a dozen, and it shows. With so many wannabe "technicians" flooding the market, it is only natural for people to base their opinion on what they see: A whole bunch of incompetent boobs claiming to be experts when they are nothing more than hobbiests with a screwdriver and a shit attitude.
Further to that, geek is now chic. This means there are many posers who are diluting the true meaning of the word, because they want to look hip and trendy.
Its sad, really. We are a victim of our own desires, to be accepted by society as a whole instead of relegated to the computer and AV rooms of the world.....
Virtually every company in the IT world is connected to each other. Its like a big stupid beowulf cluster of beaurocracy that uses IPX instead of IP for its communciation protocol.
Welcome to the techo-appalachians, where everyone is related to everyone else in some manner.
So you either store the information locally, and run the risk of a local exploit thanks to the latest and greatest security hole, or you store the information online, and run the risk of the central site being compromised. The first will be more common but limit the data theft to only a single person, whereas the second will be much less frequent but will limit the data theft to the entire customer base.
In the grand scheme of things, they are both as flawed, just in differing ways.
However, the FAQ also notes that circumvention for the purposes of private copying will not be permitted, meaning people may find themselves paying for a CD and paying a levy on blank CD yet unable to make the copy of the underlying CD.
If I buy a CD, I have every right to make a backup copy of that. Its called fair use. If I have to circumvent security to exercise my rights as a citizen and consumer, then I am circumventing a system which is trying to PREVENT me from exercising my rights. So what takes precendence? Fair use or DRM, which will take a higher precedence in a Canadian Court of law?
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Go back to the basement nerd. You are trying to justify a RAID setup with 12-14 small drives that are non hot swap and used. If you bought them from a retailer, I might believe they were refurb, but they were bought on ebay.
Oh, and where did I even mention the RAID controller? I was talking strictly about the array itself.
That setup runs hot, sucks back too much power, and cannot have failed drives swapped out live.
It is not cool, it is not news worthy, and it is not cutting edge.
This is not economical, cutting edge, cool, nor is it practical. Why?
1) The drives are used. If you want to impress us, do it with new components with warranties (even refurb). Used makes it impractical and unreliable, even moreso because you didn't use hot swap.
2) It is only 500GB. This can be achieved in a RAID5 configuration with 3 NEW UNDER WARRANTY 250GB drives.
3) Heat. This negates the whole "cool" (both figurative and literal) label.
4) Power. Old drives suck up alot of power. Putting alot of them in a single case is going to draw a major stupid amount of power. Fewer drives can achieve the same effect with a reduced power draw. Did you take a page out of the AMD and 3dfx design methodolgy when you thought up this project?
With any load balancing solution, if a server goes down with an active connection, that connection gets reset. It doesn't matter if you are using LVS, pen or pound, the level of transparancy isn't quite there yet.
Personally, I am an advocate of pound for http/s load balancing, because its simple, has central logging, and handles ssl authentication itself (thereby keeping the back end servers simple)
Check it out:
http://www.apsis.ch/pound
Ronald Reagan pushed his Star Wars plan at around the same time (rough estimation) that Episode VI was released, and Bush is pushing Star Wars part II at the same time that Episode 3 is being released. Coincidence? I think not!
Wah, it uses Java. Its portable and its available in source form. Would you rather they use .net?
Its a caching proxy server for crying out loud. It caches web pages and feeds you the cached version. This is not new nor is it surprising, especially for a new service offering.
keylogging has been around for some time, in fact I'm sure many posters here have writen their own rudimentary keyloggers at highschool just for shits and giggles. I fail to see why this is news worthy. Pretty soon they'll be talking about how these "phishers" are exploiting javascript vulnerabilities. Oh wait.....
Phishers are virus writers with a financial motive, nothing more. In fact, most virus writers these days are financially motivated (like setting up zombie networks for extortion attempts). Why differentiate? Just call them criminals.
is to slaughter all the idiotic characters introduced in episodes I and II in as painful and drawn out way as possible.
Oh wait, they really fuck up Anakin. Ok, 1 down, now throw in some serious Jar Jar retribution. Think "exploding frog".
Joke email weren't included when I tried to calculate the amount of time wasted. The only emails which I used to calculate that number were the replies, which ranged anyware from a single sentence to 5 full (!) paragraphs.
In short, I did it right.
Any company would be foolish NOT to implement some sort of email monitoring or archival. Why?
1) Liability. If something is sent by company equipment, by a company employee, it becomes the companys responsibility. At my current employer, we had a customer service rep go rogue and send a nasty, racist email to a customer via yahoo mail, using our equipment. We narrowly escaped a lawsuit by doing some serious sucking up. thankfully, we kept logs of all web based activity and were able to prove who it was and fire their ass in a quick and apparantly pleasing manner (to the victim at least).
2) Productivity. Believe it or not, but email can be used to do some serious slacking off. At my previous employer, I was asked to implement an email monitoring system and figure out precisely how much time was wasted by the employees. The worst offender was found to have 48% non work related emails by volume. That translated into approximately 2 hours of wasted time PER DAY.
3) Theft. I have been witness to two attempts at theft using email. The first one, we had insufficient evidence. The second one however was nailed inside of 2 hours. She was stealing confidential customer lists on behalf of the former sales manager who, unbeknownest to me, was having an illicit extramarital affair with her. If there was no monitoring, she would have gotten away with it.
The lack of any real world knowledge or experience is quite apparant in the person who submitted this story. Email monitoring is, unfortunately, a necessary evil. HAving said that, I would like to emphasize that I am talking about MONITORING, and not BLOCKING. Using word filters is dumb. Its better for them to send it and catch them after the fact than to prevent them from sending it in the first place. Better for them (the ones likely to abuse company resources) to think they can get away with it and nail their ass, then to force them to get all sneaky and find ways around the monitoring.
Thank you. I will admit that my statement was quite broad and simplistic, but lets be honest here, this is slashdot. Broad and simplistic is all these people can handle.
So based on your experience, would you agree that Excel is an integral component of your firm? A component which would benefit from "professional excel development"?
To quote the first two:
"Professional Excel Development? Isn't that an oxymoron?"
"Professional Excel Development is like painting a house with tomatoe paste"
The entire financial sector bases its existance on Excel. Brokers, bankers, and virtually every banking or stock related position has a deep dependance on Excel. Laugh all you like at the thought of a professional excel developer, but I highly doubt that these firms will simply drop Excel in favour of some smelly nerds coding in C#.
It'd be nice if they eventually integrate this with IEs integrated history. Is it possible to have this level of integration centralized, so for example, if I wanted to monitor my users browsing histories I could do it?
I did, and all you are doing is baiting behind the clock of anonymity. Prove me wrong, or quietly go elsewhere.
Every credible study analyzed the effect of sharing music and movies that has already been released to the general public, NOT prerelease material.
This is what so many of your rabid antiRIAA zealots fail to clue into. There IS a line that can be crossed. Sharing music thats already for sale is great, you can justify the piracy by saying it boosts sales because there IS something to buy if you choose to. With prerelease material, you are not able to go out and purchase the product until its released, and that could be weeks or months away. You, in effect, fall into a trap of your own design. You are, essentially, justifying the RIAAs and MPAAs position that downloading costs them money, because your logic of "it helps boost sales" doesn't work.
I download music. I download movies. I also buy music and movies.
Having said that, I agree with this law. Why? Because it is specifically targetting the ones who ARE depriving the studios and artists of revenue. Releasing something that hasn't hit the streets yet SHOULD be illegal. I can only hope that they do not use this as a stepping stone to get all copyright infringement turned into a criminal act, instead of the current civil status.
Alternatively, you can use freeVRRPD and pound. freeVRRPD for the failover, and pound for the SSL authentication and load balancing. An added bonus is that pound logs all hits and misses (in an apache format), so the logging is centralized. While the CPU utilization is higher due to the SSL authentication, it makes things much simpler as all you need in the web farm is a relatively simple HTTP server (be it apache or, ugh, IIS) with no need to worry about SSL authentication.
Why should it be the responsibility of the patent office or ourselves to prove prior art, when it is the companies themselves who should be responsible for doing due diligence? Why sohuld they offload their costs onto us? Yes, patent reform is necessary, but the onus should be placed squarely on the patent applicants and not us.
How can you blame MAPS when you should be blaming the ISPs and other email administrators for subscribing to a blacklisted that has no checks or balances?
While MAPS (or SPEWS) may be overzealous and entirely destructive in their obsessive quest to stamp out SPAM, it is ultimately the email administrators responsibility for using them. Blame them for not doing their job right.
Christ, if you are going to post an april fools joke, at least MAKE IT FUNNY. Y'know, zombie pope funny.
Setting aside my hatred for asp and the web services plafrom it runs on, I have to admit that this post made me laugh. You hit it straight on the head.
Today, technicians are a dime a dozen, and it shows. With so many wannabe "technicians" flooding the market, it is only natural for people to base their opinion on what they see: A whole bunch of incompetent boobs claiming to be experts when they are nothing more than hobbiests with a screwdriver and a shit attitude.
Further to that, geek is now chic. This means there are many posers who are diluting the true meaning of the word, because they want to look hip and trendy.
Its sad, really. We are a victim of our own desires, to be accepted by society as a whole instead of relegated to the computer and AV rooms of the world.....
Virtually every company in the IT world is connected to each other. Its like a big stupid beowulf cluster of beaurocracy that uses IPX instead of IP for its communciation protocol.
Welcome to the techo-appalachians, where everyone is related to everyone else in some manner.
So you either store the information locally, and run the risk of a local exploit thanks to the latest and greatest security hole, or you store the information online, and run the risk of the central site being compromised. The first will be more common but limit the data theft to only a single person, whereas the second will be much less frequent but will limit the data theft to the entire customer base.
In the grand scheme of things, they are both as flawed, just in differing ways.
However, the FAQ also notes that circumvention for the purposes of private copying will not be permitted, meaning people may find themselves paying for a CD and paying a levy on blank CD yet unable to make the copy of the underlying CD.
If I buy a CD, I have every right to make a backup copy of that. Its called fair use. If I have to circumvent security to exercise my rights as a citizen and consumer, then I am circumventing a system which is trying to PREVENT me from exercising my rights. So what takes precendence? Fair use or DRM, which will take a higher precedence in a Canadian Court of law?