what the fuck is the relation between the avian flu and the IT department...
The artice refers to bird flu specifically because its jsut the latest big thing happening at the moment, but, an IT deprtment should have a disaster recovery plan Anyway. Fire, water damage... anything can happen to mess up your building.
True, its not just the IT department that should have a disaster recovery plan but HR, Facilities/General Affairs should be involved. HR need to organise and inform the troops, in the case of an alternative site transport may have to be organised, facilities will be busy with a million little things.
Make sure you have an alternative site and a disaster recovery plan that everyone is aware of.
Make sure your PBX can re-route deskphone to user's homes like Asterix can.
Centralied computing solutions such as Citrx or Tarantella's make working from home as simple as possible.
VPN solutions can be distributed from a website in an emergency for home workers.
Hardware 2-factor tokens can be tough to distribute in an emergency, software tokens are handy in these situations.
Make sure you know your telco's lead time to get a line up and running from your data centre to your site B.
Sure web pages are getting larger but telecoms costs are decreasing too (at least in my part of the world), albeit not in direct proportion.
Invest in a proxy adblocker, such as http://www.privoxy.org/. This is easy to justify to management, it really doesn't interfere with legitimate web usage in my experience. Create a group policy for Outlook that disables the ability to change the automatic picture downloading in Outlook2003.
Adjust you user's Exchange delivery restrictions to something sensible. Does anyone need to send something larger than 5Mb? If so then they can use the FTP server that you've kindly provided, they may decide they didn't need to send it after all when its not as simple as sending a mail.
This will drop your bandwith usage by a significant margin.
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Freedom in a rivalrous commons brings ruin to all.
Lawrence Lessig
I dunno, maybe you could find the algorithm on the net somewhere?...if only there was some kinda searchable code database of some sort...
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2. the government denies the right to advertise that a publisher publishes or that a store sells AO games (as happens widely in Europe), or
Huh, widely happens in europe? Speaking as a european, living in Holland, where not only can I walk down around the corner to streets of legalised prostitution while smoking a joint and go home and watch daytime TV that shocks every USian I've ever met here. Where on earth did you get the idea that the 'government' prevents publishers from advertising that they publish in Europe? Or from a store advertising that it sells AO games? Christ I can barely avoid nudity during the day on TV let alone, simple ads for games. Linkage please?!
Now what point are you going to make in order to avoid reality?
Wow, a reply! I rarely post so its something of a novelty to have a conversation on slashdot rather than just passively reading other people's comments. Thanks for taking the time. Re-reading my post I think I was a bit vague.
I didn't really intend to disparage smoothwall, especially since I didn't get to try it. It's just that the story is about running on older hardware, many of these boxes will not support for this method of installation or at least, may find it awkward (lots of non el-torito drives out there). My intention was only to point out that it was not 'dead easy' in my case. Personally I much prefer their method of distribution and philosophy to some other OSS projects' who are inclined to give the user a tarball and vague instructions to "figure it out." While that's fine for a hobby project, it's a crummy way to make a product -- even one you're giving away for free.
True true, but in my case I found this particular method (booting from a cd) of installing s/w crummy, especially finding a readme that has one line of text pointing to a website and the faq could do without referring to other docs (even without hyperlinking). That said, it's not fair to single out smoothwall for this type of behaviour, I've come across this type of poor documentation from innumerable foss folks over the years.
I understand this probably boils down to some very basic disagreement over the philosophy of software and OSS in particular
Again not at all! I wasn't considering OSS philosophy, was just having a little rant. Since I mention that it was GPL'ed I should've realised that the source would be made available and I could build it from there.
http://www.smoothwall.org/get/build.html
Wow, this posting thing could get addictive! I think I first need to work on my paranoia and defensiveness a bit though.;-)
I just downloaded smoothwall to give it a go, I'm running slack 10.2 on a Toshiba Portege 7100 (500Mhz, 320Mb). Since the cd drive gave up the ghost a long time ago and I've only got a floppy for it, getting any OS installed is...interesting. (USBHD mounted from the slack root disks). Smoothwall only provides isos for installation, the documentation http://downloads.smoothwall.org/pdf/docs/SmoothWal l_FAQ.PDF/ is annoying, the faq answers many questions with "The answer for this question is covered in another document" and even if I mount the iso, in/mnt/cdrom there's nothing I can do with it... oh wait there's a tarball which probably contains a mini live distro and a readme that contains the text "Please see http://www.smoothwall.org/ for documentation".
Sorry but that's an rm -R Smoothwall. Anything but Dead simple.
I know this sounds like a whine but that last 10 minutes really annoyed me. Its GPL s/w for chrissakes, just gimmee a tarball!... whew, now I feel better.
What are slackintosh's highlights. I feel like I know the answer, hence my reply and I hardly ever post but I read your blog recently and read the post re perens commenting on your comment etc. and feel like I owe you one, but I'm not very... good at...articulating a response cos i'm pretty drunk. Here goes anyway.
Simplicity, I've tried many a distro in my time, trying to recover the awe and love I felt for Unix V I used back in 94 in Uni. Slack is just so damn simple.
Slackware feels like Unix in many ways, you won't find any Red Hats on your KDE menu, you won't ever see any commercial aggravation happening with the distro. You won't have to update often or worry about security updates (using slapt-get or swaret).
Its not for the kids, its not soley for eye candy or for cred or for performance or for cool or any one sligle thing, its just a simple (But modern) OS for your laptop or desktop.
Well maintained, well community supported. There's nothing to complain about with this distro, nothing distro-specific will annoy you because there's so little that's specific. OpenOffice might annoy you or KDE might annoy you but slackware won't. A simple package manager, and if you don 't like it you can always comile a tar.gz, no biggie.
Some kids will go nuts about which updater is better, slapt-get or swaret or others but some go nuts about emacs or vi or kde or gnome. I can't understand it.
Basically, once you've outgrown all that childish tribalism (assuming you haven't already), give slackware a try and the only reason you could want to go elsewhere will be for something specialised, like yoper for performance or something man i've got souble vision, im going to bed.
"Yet apparently many believe that the sector will regain its past glory and blistering growth rates."
I must say that I can't recall anyone ever intimating that such a thing would happen.
You have to pay for a front-end to MySQL ?
The world's most popular open source database doesn't have a free front-end?
em... sorry, I just didn't know this and am exclaiming out loud... please move along.
I intentionally infected my work XP machine with spyware about a month ago. Why? well, the amount of requests I was getting from friends, landladies etc to "just take a quick look" at their dell to see why it had gone so slow and IE takes forever to load pages etc. When I get there to take a "quick" look, it inevitably ends up with an OS reinstall and reinstalling office etc... then there's the, "but I had Office2k+1", "Where's the cd?", "well it was a friend that put it on for me! Why isn't it there anymore, what did you do?", "I told ya you'd lose whatever I didn't back up!", "But can't you just put it back?", "Well, you know, you don't have a licence...", "Yeah but no-one does, can't you just put it back? *wink*". Grr.. do someone a favour...
Anyway, I'd prefer to just remove the spyware. S&D and Adaware just don't cut it. I was wondering if stopping startup items with msconfig and silentrunners would be enough... but anyway to cut a long story short. My work PC got worse and worse, seems some spyware was installing others, D/l'ed the beta of MS Antispyware yesterday and after about 30 mins IE was working ahgain everthing looks clean and its now my antispyware of choice, even if it is still in beta. I'll be deflecting my friend's friends with "download this , install and run and see you later"
. welcome our new bsa overlords... would like to remind them that I can be useful in rounding up others to further the cause of FOSS s/w by making the general public eventually realise that the s/w they're running/distributing IS NOT licenced to them and that what they're doing IS immo^H^H^H^H uneth^H^H^H^H not cool. Was I the only one here that read who read that newsforge article today?
Stop complaining about your rights getting trampled, feds can get a warrant to search your house, read you post etc. Nothing new here, nothing unconsitutional either.
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Please mod this down as offtopic. thank you, now move along.
what the fuck is the relation between the avian flu and the IT department ...
...and so on.
The artice refers to bird flu specifically because its jsut the latest big thing happening at the moment, but, an IT deprtment should have a disaster recovery plan Anyway. Fire, water damage... anything can happen to mess up your building.
True, its not just the IT department that should have a disaster recovery plan but HR, Facilities/General Affairs should be involved. HR need to organise and inform the troops, in the case of an alternative site transport may have to be organised, facilities will be busy with a million little things.
Make sure you have an alternative site and a disaster recovery plan that everyone is aware of.
Make sure your PBX can re-route deskphone to user's homes like Asterix can.
Centralied computing solutions such as Citrx or Tarantella's make working from home as simple as possible.
VPN solutions can be distributed from a website in an emergency for home workers. Hardware 2-factor tokens can be tough to distribute in an emergency, software tokens are handy in these situations.
Make sure you know your telco's lead time to get a line up and running from your data centre to your site B.
coming from the ireland where we have Thirty-one words for seaweed, I don't find it difficult to believe that Eskimos would havy many for snow.
Sure web pages are getting larger but telecoms costs are decreasing too (at least in my part of the world), albeit not in direct proportion.
Invest in a proxy adblocker, such as http://www.privoxy.org/. This is easy to justify to management, it really doesn't interfere with legitimate web usage in my experience.
Create a group policy for Outlook that disables the ability to change the automatic picture downloading in Outlook2003.
Adjust you user's Exchange delivery restrictions to something sensible. Does anyone need to send something larger than 5Mb? If so then they can use the FTP server that you've kindly provided, they may decide they didn't need to send it after all when its not as simple as sending a mail.
This will drop your bandwith usage by a significant margin.
--
Freedom in a rivalrous commons brings ruin to all.
Lawrence Lessig
I dunno, maybe you could find the algorithm on the net somewhere? ...if only there was some kinda searchable code database of some sort...
2. the government denies the right to advertise that a publisher publishes or that a store sells AO games (as happens widely in Europe), or
Huh, widely happens in europe? Speaking as a european, living in Holland, where not only can I walk down around the corner to streets of legalised prostitution while smoking a joint and go home and watch daytime TV that shocks every USian I've ever met here.
Where on earth did you get the idea that the 'government' prevents publishers from advertising that they publish in Europe? Or from a store advertising that it sells AO games? Christ I can barely avoid nudity during the day on TV let alone, simple ads for games. Linkage please?!
Now what point are you going to make in order to avoid reality?
Wow, a reply! I rarely post so its something of a novelty to have a conversation on slashdot rather than just passively reading other people's comments. Thanks for taking the time. Re-reading my post I think I was a bit vague. ;-)
I didn't really intend to disparage smoothwall, especially since I didn't get to try it. It's just that the story is about running on older hardware, many of these boxes will not support for this method of installation or at least, may find it awkward (lots of non el-torito drives out there). My intention was only to point out that it was not 'dead easy' in my case.
Personally I much prefer their method of distribution and philosophy to some other OSS projects' who are inclined to give the user a tarball and vague instructions to "figure it out." While that's fine for a hobby project, it's a crummy way to make a product -- even one you're giving away for free.
True true, but in my case I found this particular method (booting from a cd) of installing s/w crummy, especially finding a readme that has one line of text pointing to a website and the faq could do without referring to other docs (even without hyperlinking). That said, it's not fair to single out smoothwall for this type of behaviour, I've come across this type of poor documentation from innumerable foss folks over the years.
I understand this probably boils down to some very basic disagreement over the philosophy of software and OSS in particular
Again not at all! I wasn't considering OSS philosophy, was just having a little rant. Since I mention that it was GPL'ed I should've realised that the source would be made available and I could build it from there. http://www.smoothwall.org/get/build.html
Wow, this posting thing could get addictive! I think I first need to work on my paranoia and defensiveness a bit though.
I just downloaded smoothwall to give it a go, I'm running slack 10.2 on a Toshiba Portege 7100 (500Mhz, 320Mb). Since the cd drive gave up the ghost a long time ago and I've only got a floppy for it, getting any OS installed is ...interesting. (USBHD mounted from the slack root disks). Smoothwall only provides isos for installation, the documentation http://downloads.smoothwall.org/pdf/docs/SmoothWal l_FAQ.PDF/ is annoying, the faq answers many questions with "The answer for this question is covered in another document" and even if I mount the iso, in /mnt/cdrom there's nothing I can do with it... oh wait there's a tarball which probably contains a mini live distro and a readme that contains the text "Please see http://www.smoothwall.org/ for documentation".
Sorry but that's an rm -R Smoothwall. Anything but Dead simple . ... whew, now I feel better.
I know this sounds like a whine but that last 10 minutes really annoyed me. Its GPL s/w for chrissakes, just gimmee a tarball!
Hey it's not just Japan! http://www.epsondevelopers.com/linux
What are slackintosh's highlights. I feel like I know the answer, hence my reply and I hardly ever post but I read your blog recently and read the post re perens commenting on your comment etc. and feel like I owe you one, but I'm not very... good at ...articulating a response cos i'm pretty drunk. Here goes anyway.
Simplicity, I've tried many a distro in my time, trying to recover the awe and love I felt for Unix V I used back in 94 in Uni. Slack is just so damn simple.
Slackware feels like Unix in many ways, you won't find any Red Hats on your KDE menu, you won't ever see any commercial aggravation happening with the distro. You won't have to update often or worry about security updates (using slapt-get or swaret).
Its not for the kids, its not soley for eye candy or for cred or for performance or for cool or any one sligle thing, its just a simple (But modern) OS for your laptop or desktop.
Well maintained, well community supported. There's nothing to complain about with this distro, nothing distro-specific will annoy you because there's so little that's specific. OpenOffice might annoy you or KDE might annoy you but slackware won't. A simple package manager, and if you don 't like it you can always comile a tar.gz, no biggie.
Some kids will go nuts about which updater is better, slapt-get or swaret or others but some go nuts about emacs or vi or kde or gnome. I can't understand it.
Basically, once you've outgrown all that childish tribalism (assuming you haven't already), give slackware a try and the only reason you could want to go elsewhere will be for something specialised, like yoper for performance or something man i've got souble vision, im going to bed.
Like charge you ~800 bucks for a licence?
Midday eh? You do realise that the world is round, don't you?
This discovery was made in 1999 at Trinity College Dublin? http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:GzTA7YEzxLgJ: www.trinitybiotech.com/data/press/17_07_00.doc+pyl ori+trinity&hl=en&lr=lang_en
What's been done here that's any different?
Apple? A good company? Be careful what you say about them, they may sue.
"Yet apparently many believe that the sector will regain its past glory and blistering growth rates." I must say that I can't recall anyone ever intimating that such a thing would happen.
bypass the tax, buy a Zen micro! An ipod is an mp3 player but not all mp3 players are ipods.
You have to pay for a front-end to MySQL ? The world's most popular open source database doesn't have a free front-end? em... sorry, I just didn't know this and am exclaiming out loud... please move along.
I don't understand. psshhhh-kapoooo! is a perfectly cromulent sound effect?
I intentionally infected my work XP machine with spyware about a month ago. Why? well, the amount of requests I was getting from friends, landladies etc to "just take a quick look" at their dell to see why it had gone so slow and IE takes forever to load pages etc. When I get there to take a "quick" look, it inevitably ends up with an OS reinstall and reinstalling office etc... then there's the, "but I had Office2k+1", "Where's the cd?", "well it was a friend that put it on for me! Why isn't it there anymore, what did you do?", "I told ya you'd lose whatever I didn't back up!", "But can't you just put it back?", "Well, you know, you don't have a licence...", "Yeah but no-one does, can't you just put it back? *wink*". Grr.. do someone a favour... Anyway, I'd prefer to just remove the spyware. S&D and Adaware just don't cut it. I was wondering if stopping startup items with msconfig and silentrunners would be enough... but anyway to cut a long story short. My work PC got worse and worse, seems some spyware was installing others, D/l'ed the beta of MS Antispyware yesterday and after about 30 mins IE was working ahgain everthing looks clean and its now my antispyware of choice, even if it is still in beta. I'll be deflecting my friend's friends with "download this , install and run and see you later"
. welcome our new bsa overlords... would like to remind them that I can be useful in rounding up others to further the cause of FOSS s/w by making the general public eventually realise that the s/w they're running/distributing IS NOT licenced to them and that what they're doing IS immo^H^H^H^H uneth^H^H^H^H not cool. Was I the only one here that read who read that newsforge article today? Stop complaining about your rights getting trampled, feds can get a warrant to search your house, read you post etc. Nothing new here, nothing unconsitutional either.
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!