More significantly you can apply all the patches in SPn before you attach your PC to the internet. I did a recent new build of Win2K PC and, even after SP4 it was on the internet and not patched to the latest levels for half an hour or so while downloading the patches.
I once read that an unpatched PC will be attacked with 20 mins of connecting to the internet - I don't know if this is true but I want it to be as patched as posible before I connect it.
I once read in Accidental Empires? that there are three types of coders - and the terms are not mine
Code bashers - these are people who bash out endless lines of cobol (probaly VB nowadays) with no real feel for the craft
Hippies - Hippies write good code badly. Once the problem of how to code this task is resolved they lose interest so the actual transformation of the concept to the written code is poorly executed
Nerds - Nerds write bad code very well. Nerds become obsessed with particular techniques and will use that techniqu whether it is relevant or not. However their attention to detail means that the code is well executed
Looks like you, like me, are a hippie under these definitions.
When the scared little boy comes out from behind that wall of 'superiority' that he has put in front of him he'll find that people, all people, is what it's all about.
You can keep your generator(s) running indefinitely. Certainly longer than any predictable power outage, but if you're running on batteries you're against the clock. What are you going to do when they start to run down - nip over to the 7-11 and buy all the AAs they've got?
Report to PHB version 1:- This software is so poor it threw up many false positives PHB:- This software get's positive results. We'll buy it!
Report to PHB version 2:- This software is so bad it confuses Barbara Striesland and Shrek PHB:- My kid wouldn't get those two confused. We won't buy it.
A 'good' report depends on it's audience. For most/.ers we would want to inspect the data and see a proper statistical breakdown of the results. To catch the public's attention, however, you need to add a few celebs and put your results into newspaper headlines.
I still can't get them to download it or install it.
I wait until their PC is toally virus/adware ridden and they call me in to help. That's when the now will you believe me when I advise Firefox starts to work. Admittedly this is a slow, user by user, transfer but once converted they never return.
People complaining == good?
No people complaining == bad?
Whoa.
Given that no-one is ever totally happy with their lot forever the natural state is to have a grouse or two. So, if people are not complaining it implies that they do not feel able to complain. So, to rephrase
So, lemme get this straight...
People complaining == people having the freedom to complain == good?
No people complaining == people being afraid to complain == bad?
The age of religious-controlled nations dominating information is coming to a close.
I'm not sure how you justify this. The examples from the Middle East where religious control is rising are too numerous to mention and, closer to home, we're seeing the evangelical Christian right have a huge say in the current administration of the US of A.
But, if you want to live in a democracy you have to accept that your minority viewpoint will not win enough votes at the polls to count. I've heard democracy described as the opression of the minority by the majority, and, yes, it does have major failings. However it is better than all the other options. Live with it or move on.
In the US, the problem is that the parties keep putting incompetent (and worse) people up for election. Consequently the American people, having no effective way of dealing with the two-party monopoly upon government seats of power, keeps voting these incompetents into congress and the senate.
So form your own party, see how well you can do it. Remember that democracy is the worst posible political system, except for all the others.
Maybe you need to expand your imagination more - or relax your difinition of a hand. Very few functional, as opposed to recreational, robots look humanoid. We are well evolved (but not designed!) for doing what humans do but that doesn't mean the humanoid shape is appropriate for every solution.
I bet it doesn't say 'Danger Will Robinson either'!
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On the contrary
Those of us who have problems persuading PHB's to go the Linux route will have another way to make them wake up and smell the coffee. A move like this will help kill the old 'Linux is only used by nerds' prejudices and further establish it's place in the datacentre. Today the datacentre, tomorrow the desktop (cue marching bands playing Souza, fireworks, cheerleaders, etc. )
you can drop one of these off at the local telco peering point and wham! instant local presence.
You've never dealt with BT. It would be more like you can drop one of these off at the local telco peering point and wham! instant mindblowing beaurocracy (please hold while I con...)
On the other hand, if your relocating your datacentre to India, where your support staff are now located....
The otherside of the arguement is that the proposed Vista lockout would leave M$ as the only suppliers of anti malware (Ok, so Symantic don't seem to agree, but I'm stating McAfee's aguement, not mine) and we are all aware of the dangers of a monoculture, especially one run by Seatle's finest.
What I want, if at all posible, is the choice to run which anti malware systems I choose.
Thanks Han Wen - a very interesting paper. I'd mod you up if I had the points.
For those who want a quick answer the worst case scenario for Monochristaline Si based systems under 'Mediterranean conditions' is nine years (p22 of the paper) - and that was 9 years ago so the technology would probably have improved since then. I would guestimate that the Google campus is reasonably equivalent to the Med
It's not that I disbelieve either you, or the GP, but with one saying black and the other saying white, it leaves the interested but uninformed confused. Do you have any authorities to quote - Wikipedia is no help at all, and Google throws up too many trees to see the wood.
Maybe you mean that the person who decides that an e-mail server which is 75% loaded is underutilised, despite being made aware of the risks involved, should be fired. I'll tell the CIO that an AC from/. says he should be fired, I'm sure he'll take it well!
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You only do jail time for hosting BitTorrent sites
It goes to show that one shouldn't listen to the Anti Malware manufacturers scare stories!
I once read that an unpatched PC will be attacked with 20 mins of connecting to the internet - I don't know if this is true but I want it to be as patched as posible before I connect it.
- Code bashers - these are people who bash out endless lines of cobol (probaly VB nowadays) with no real feel for the craft
- Hippies - Hippies write good code badly. Once the problem of how to code this task is resolved they lose interest so the actual transformation of the concept to the written code is poorly executed
- Nerds - Nerds write bad code very well. Nerds become obsessed with particular techniques and will use that techniqu whether it is relevant or not. However their attention to detail means that the code is well executed
Looks like you, like me, are a hippie under these definitions.Good point. Have you seen 'The Dish'
You can keep your generator(s) running indefinitely. Certainly longer than any predictable power outage, but if you're running on batteries you're against the clock. What are you going to do when they start to run down - nip over to the 7-11 and buy all the AAs they've got?
Knows how to break IT security, but no longer needs to.
Indeed - we could replace all celebraties with computer generated images. Or, there again, maybe the human touch does add a little something.
Repeat after me It is better to relate to a human being than to a machine.
Report to PHB version 1:- This software is so poor it threw up many false positives :- This software get's positive results. We'll buy it!
:- My kid wouldn't get those two confused. We won't buy it.
/.ers we would want to inspect the data and see a proper statistical breakdown of the results. To catch the public's attention, however, you need to add a few celebs and put your results into newspaper headlines.
PHB
Report to PHB version 2:- This software is so bad it confuses Barbara Striesland and Shrek
PHB
A 'good' report depends on it's audience. For most
So, lemme get this straight...
People complaining == people having the freedom to complain == good?
No people complaining == people being afraid to complain == bad?
Got it now?
It looks like we're going to have to change all those In Soviet Russia... jokes to In North Korea...
Coke will never be part of a healthy diet and should stop pretending.
But, if you want to live in a democracy you have to accept that your minority viewpoint will not win enough votes at the polls to count. I've heard democracy described as the opression of the minority by the majority, and, yes, it does have major failings. However it is better than all the other options. Live with it or move on.
I bet it doesn't say 'Danger Will Robinson either'!
Those of us who have problems persuading PHB's to go the Linux route will have another way to make them wake up and smell the coffee. A move like this will help kill the old 'Linux is only used by nerds' prejudices and further establish it's place in the datacentre. Today the datacentre, tomorrow the desktop (cue marching bands playing Souza, fireworks, cheerleaders, etc. )
you can drop one of these off at the local telco peering point and wham! instant mindblowing beaurocracy (please hold while I con...)
On the other hand, if your relocating your datacentre to India, where your support staff are now located....
in parent post s/Symantec/Sophos/
The otherside of the arguement is that the proposed Vista lockout would leave M$ as the only suppliers of anti malware (Ok, so Symantic don't seem to agree, but I'm stating McAfee's aguement, not mine) and we are all aware of the dangers of a monoculture, especially one run by Seatle's finest.
What I want, if at all posible, is the choice to run which anti malware systems I choose.
For those who want a quick answer the worst case scenario for Monochristaline Si based systems under 'Mediterranean conditions' is nine years (p22 of the paper) - and that was 9 years ago so the technology would probably have improved since then. I would guestimate that the Google campus is reasonably equivalent to the Med
Thanks