can the storage format your putting your data on stand up to the heat?
Rather than just looking for a standard Office Depot fireproof safe, you need to get a "media" rated fireproof safe. The same manufacturers make them, but you probably won't see it on shelves. I had to order them, and had them delivered.
Lately, I've been using a safe-deposit box at my bank to store my home backups. That seems to be a decent solution.
"And this is a good thing for the music industry. In order to make this happen we will do anything within our power - whether you like it or not."
And when sales plummet due to a rise in consumer problems with their "copy protection" and/or general discontent...will you still think it is a good thing for the music "industry?"
You know, thinking about it, you're partly right..it will be good for music as it will eventually cause a shake up within the so-called industry part that leeches off of it.
By your statement i should be able to sue the stockmarket, 401k plans and social security plans.
They smell like a bank, look like a bank, hold my money like a bank, transfer my money like a bank, but aren't insured like a bank. Heck, i can loose every dime i have and someone owes me!
Umm...no. Each of the items you mention ARE in fact regulated in some fashion. If you're invested in a Mutual Fund, and the MF Manager makes off with your money (ie. doesn't invest it, but actually makes off with it!) you bet your ass there is something you can do about it in the legal system.
I mean...think, man, think, before posting!;)
I'm so happy the tipjar was broken into, and i certainly wish paypal wouldn't have given in. Sometimes a dose of the real world is what alot of people need.
Welp, that's awfully mean of you. That's like saying I hope you get mugged tomorrow. I don't, and I hope it doesn't. Decency is a good quality, not a bad one, and I don't think it's unreasonable to give it, and expect it in return. Not that it gives you and excuse to not be prepared for when you don't receive it, but still...
PayPal is not a bank. It's not run like a bank, it's not regulated like a bank, and deposits are not insured like a bank.
PayPal looks like a bank, smells like a bank, and sounds like a bank. The fact that they are not regulated nor insured doesn't mean they're not a bank--only that they've not yet been busted as such. Write your congress critters to take note. PP all but ignores a large amount of fraud, simply because it's cheaper to do so--most people won't do the leg work necessary to get their, usually, smaller amounts of cash back.
Regulation will come eventually. PP/e-bay will put that date off as long as possible for sure, however.
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ditto for buying pc's in bulk. What is the point when the blade costs (blades + chassis needed) matches stand alone?
The point is that you can run many many more of them in a smaller space, for less power. And, in RLX's case, with far less administration overhead.
That's what I was referring to when I mentioned the "economies of scale."
So, yes...if you want to run a small number of servers, blades are probably not for you. If you have a cluster of hundreds, the savings in operational costs are very compelling.
'nough said, me thinks.
(Since it's been a few messages since I've said it--disclaimer: I work for RLX.)
Wow! I was just called a girl. Well, I guess with a nym like buffy, I should expect no less. Funny thing is that for as many years as I've been reading/., that's the first.;)
Anyways...the quick answer is, that would be a difficult prospect for a business to make money at. For now, it's probably best to focus on what we do, and do it better than anyone else.
Just my $0.02. Not that I don't like the idea!;)
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That bundle includes a lot more than just 5 blades. It includes a chassis (the 1U chassis) and control tower software, plus the 5 blades. Economies of scale quickly kick in once you've bought a chassis (like the 3U) or two. Plus you only need one CT blade to manage a LOT of servers.
Like I said before...it's all in the configuration. Same can be said for ANY vendor...not just RLX, not just blade servers.
I can buy a 1U server for about $1K, or I can configure it so it costs $5K.
Also, the chassis don't have motherboards--they generally just have the midplane, power supplies, and networking hookups. It's the blade servers themselves that are what would be recognized as a motherboard. The market is young...to young for a true standard to exist.
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Here's a link directly to a page w/in LANL and just for the heck of it a little something from google.
Standard Disclaimer + I work for RLX.
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5 blades do NOT cost $10K. It's all in how you configure stuff. Plus the savings kicks in when you aggregate the purchasing costs of larger quantities, and the reduced operating costs. I'm not just talking about power and cooling, either.
Before I continue--I'm the lead IT architecture guy at RLX, not in marketing or sales. One of the the things I do is give our products (both hardware and software) a spin as a "customer" of RLX. With control tower I'm able to manage a HUGE number of servers per administrator--many times over the industry standard (ie. the textbook ratios of 8-to-1 windows servers, etc...) And these are NOT in a cluster configuration...they do different things like web serving, DHCP, DNS, printing, IDS, firewalls, etc... We've got 81 servers in our primary NOC being managed by two administrators (well...one admin, plus 1/2 my time.) Plus with CT, provisioning servers (new ones, or for ones that have failed) is a snap--and takes mere minutes. Can you install a fully configured Win2K server in less than 10 minutes?
It's the savings on operational costs which are really compelling for all blade servers, but, yes, it _is_ a hard sell to some. The funny thing is, once most see a demo of our management software in real life--their jaw drops. This is the stuff that originally attracted me to RLX (in TX of all places!) over two years ago, before you (the wider "you") even heard the term "blade server."
Anyways...I tried to keep the propaganda to a minimum, but had to jump in with a reply there. Like I said, I'm in IT, so I don't have the price list handy. If you want, get the sales number off our web site, and give them a call to find out. We DO have demo gear, too--if you're really serious about checking it out.
(Now, I need to duck from the things that our sales & support folks will be throwing at my noggin!)
The usual applies--these are my opinions. It's the weekend, so my employer didn't pay me for them so they're mine, damnit!
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280+ servers in a rack
280? feh. We do 336.
Not that I'm biased or anything (I'm an employee of RLX), but to top that off--IMHO our management software beats the pants off of that of *cough* *cough* others.
The point in obtaining a patent is to protect your idea/invention, and give you the option of pursuing legal options should someone infringe upon your idea. If you don't patent it, you have no option.
So, the thread re: having to defend or pursue your patent rights is really missing the point. The original parent was simply asking for an economical route to obtain a patent, which is not necessarily related to legal proceedings down the road. With a patent, you have options. Without--you don't.
An editorial in the WorldTechTribute argues that Sun's education-market giveaway is exactly the sort of behavior that Microsoft has been attacked for in the past.
Perhaps the difference, however, is that Microsoft is a judicially declared Monopoly, whereas Sun is not. So, the anti-competitive..nay...competitive behaviour of Sun is NOT on par with the same behaviour of Microsoft. This fact is one of the big reasons Microsoft fought such a declaration so hard--they kept saying, to the effect, "we're just competing in the marketplace."
From a certain perspective this actually may seem unfair to Microsoft, but remember that the determination that MS was a monopoly was based, in no small part, due to the illegal activities that they were engaged in to obtain/maintain an unfair market advantave. So, punitive actions are certainly justified to try to bring it back into line and even the competitive landscape--to give other companies such as Sun the opportunity to succeed that they were previously denied by Microsoft's behaviour.
At a panel on Palladium at the USENIX Security Conference in August, Microsoft representatives claimed that there was no way Palladium could be used to enforce Digital Rights Management. In response, Lucky Green invented a bunch of ways Palladium could be used to enforce DRM and then filed for a patent.
Ok...that absolutely ROCKS! I certainly hope that Lucky is issued this patent(s). The glory of catching Microsoft in such a catch-22 PR nightmare is quite satisfying, I'm sure.
It'll be interesting to see how MS handles the situation. My bet is that they will either: 1) somehow massage the process to make sure the patent isn't granted, or 2) will ignore it if it is granted, hoping the Lucky won't notice, or won't have the ability to follow through on the enformement of the patent--hopefully, a big mistake in judgement on their part.
You keep setting these "proprietary" schemes up, and we'll keep knocking them down. Only after these companies have lost enough money will they learn the basic tenet that information will be free.
I've seen lots of mentions of Pelican cases, but not mention of the grand daddy of hw survival gear: anvil cases.
These are the boxes that you see bands transporting their gear in. Some of their models can be configured just like the Pelican cases, but more interesting are the boxes which are essentially portable rack mounts.
So, what I did was build a 2U computer box into an anvil case, and included a rack mount 12-port switch. Also, for convenience a rack mount power strip, and a light bar, that has little pop out lights so I can see the front panel in darkness, and it looks really cool.
With that, I've got a complete computing rig in a very durable frame. All you'd need is one of the previously mentioned slings for the LCD panel.
Certainly not the most compact solution, but it is definitly very survivable, and looks pretty cool.
You're comparing apples to oranges. ET, Star Wars...these all were the original product.
Peter Jackson and crew have an difficult challenge in the making of the LOTR movies--they are NOT the original product. They are a rendition of the original printed materials--books that are remarkable in their depth and detail. That is one of the reasons so many people have fallen in love with the story.
A commerical movie is bound by time, and of course, stuff has to be cut out. The 4-disc set allows Jackson to meet the demand of so many viewers to see the additional content that only true Tolkien lovers would appreciate.
One of the extras on the 2-disc set includes a "behind the scenes" preview of The Towers, which include interview bits with Jackson. He expresses a dislike for the term "Director's Cut" since it implies that the original theatrical edition is not what the Director wanted to portray. In the case of FOTR, this is not the case. The 4-disc set is a Special Edition, to statisfy the needs of all the Tolkien fans in the world to simply see more of that world, and the visual development of the characters within.
Given that they spent the time to capture all this stuff, and that there is obviously a commercial demand to see it, I think that the decision to present the additional edition is smart. I also don't think Jackson and crew are stupid--they know the types of cricism that they may recieve for the two editions, and are more than going to make up for it in content.
If you're not a Tolkien fan who has repeatedly read the books, and seen the first movie several times (gads, just calculate the amount of time you've probably spent) then simply don't buy it.
Dude, the 2-disc edition is on sale for $15 at Best Buy right now. Go buy it, watch it, examine all the goodies.
Then, in November, but the 4-disc edition.
It's only money.
And no, I'm not being insensitive to our unemployed brethren (and sisthren.) I'm only saying, if you liked the movie, we're not talking about hundreds and hundreds of dollars.
Think about it, you probably spend a lot more money on sillier things, so why not.
I've never really cared about watching my Karma, but I'd taken a recent jump into the high 40s. I did a quick calculation in my head and figured I was easily +50, so I went to check and what do I see... Karma: Excellent.
Damnit! I never even got to see it!
Actually, I just figured at the time that once you hit the "cap" it switched to "Excellent" rather than a numeric value. It wasn't until this little thread that I became aware that a change had, in fact, been made.
Oh well...never cared about Karma before...not going to start now.
How long before these types of services start streaming over port 80? Are they going to examine the actual packets to make sure they are valid web traffic, or do you think they would actually block all port 80 traffic?? Feel free to pick any port used by some other service instead of port 80 (or better yet, just stream valid html back and forth over port 80, with a web file sharing service gateway out on the net)
It is not necessary to block port 80 to impose these kind of restrictions. If you run a transparent proxy (say squid) you can easily monitor traffic being passed on the http port. Once that's in place, it's not difficult to pick out unweb'ish apps. I can easily see which of my users use AIM, just by the number of repeat connections to a limited number of hosts--it sticks out like a sore thumb.
Were a sharing app like kazaa to start streaming over port 80, it would be the same. You wouldn't be able to identify based on server, like the above AIM example, since it is peer-to-peer, but the client making the connections would stick out pretty readily.
Basically it keeps a line of communication open so that if there is an update on the windows.com website
That is just silly.
Ok, I can understand if an occasional connection is made to see if any updates are available, but I really doubt it is as you describe. Just think of it this way, just what kind of machine (or machines) would you need to have on the other end to handle a permanent keep-alive connection from every freaking PC on the planet? That just isn't realistic.
More likely, the user happened to see the connection open while the agent was talking (or had just completed and the connection was in a TCP CLOSE_WAIT state.)
In the past year and a half strides have been made in building anomoly-based detection systems that do not necessarily suffer the weakness of rule lag that signature-based systems do. These systems go about the process a little bit more intelligently by reporting on traffic outside the "norm."
The catch with such a system is that you have to be very careful about measuring what your "norm" is. If you capture a profile on a very noisy network, then a lot of potentially dangerous traffic could go unreported.
As with most things in security and system administration, your solution will only be as good as the person or persons who design, implement and support a system. If you don't have a trained analyst evaluating and tweaking your IDS solution, you're in trouble. There's currently no such thing as a true IDS appliance.
The tendency has always been to blame the interface and ultimately the engineers who designed it but isn't there a point where users have got to share some of the blame? Why do today's software and consumer electronics users expect to be able to fire up their new toy and magically have a complete understanding of how to use it?"
It's called Consumer Economics. You can expect the consumer demand for high tech gadgets to continue (increasing), however their technical abilities will not scale to match.
This means that although consumers will want fancier toys, they don't have the patience the invest the necessary time to become an expert in any given device or technology. They just want it, and they want it now. This fact really hasn't changed in quite a bit of time (say...since the consumer economy was born.)
We, as engineers, know that this pretty much sucks. However, if we (or the companies that we work for) want to make a buck (and they do) this is the reality that must be dealt with.
However, there is a segment of this consumer population where the above is not true--us. We want tech, we want it now...and we don't mind if it's complicated. Understand however, that we're not the target market that is going to make our companies millions of dollars.
We, as engineers, have to come to grips with the fact that we're not the target consumer population, and that we do, in fact, have to build for the lowest common denominator.
Sucks. Get over it. Or, just keep posting silly Ask Slashdot questions, and not getting the answers you're hoping to hear.
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Rather than just looking for a standard Office Depot fireproof safe, you need to get a "media" rated fireproof safe. The same manufacturers make them, but you probably won't see it on shelves. I had to order them, and had them delivered.
Lately, I've been using a safe-deposit box at my bank to store my home backups. That seems to be a decent solution.
And when sales plummet due to a rise in consumer problems with their "copy protection" and/or general discontent...will you still think it is a good thing for the music "industry?"
You know, thinking about it, you're partly right..it will be good for music as it will eventually cause a shake up within the so-called industry part that leeches off of it.
Just my $0.02. -db
Oh come on, who moderated this down as a troll? Please mod up!
They smell like a bank, look like a bank, hold my money like a bank, transfer my money like a bank, but aren't insured like a bank. Heck, i can loose every dime i have and someone owes me!
Umm...no. Each of the items you mention ARE in fact regulated in some fashion. If you're invested in a Mutual Fund, and the MF Manager makes off with your money (ie. doesn't invest it, but actually makes off with it!) you bet your ass there is something you can do about it in the legal system.
I mean...think, man, think, before posting! ;)
I'm so happy the tipjar was broken into, and i certainly wish paypal wouldn't have given in. Sometimes a dose of the real world is what alot of people need.
Welp, that's awfully mean of you. That's like saying I hope you get mugged tomorrow. I don't, and I hope it doesn't. Decency is a good quality, not a bad one, and I don't think it's unreasonable to give it, and expect it in return. Not that it gives you and excuse to not be prepared for when you don't receive it, but still...
PayPal looks like a bank, smells like a bank, and sounds like a bank. The fact that they are not regulated nor insured doesn't mean they're not a bank--only that they've not yet been busted as such. Write your congress critters to take note. PP all but ignores a large amount of fraud, simply because it's cheaper to do so--most people won't do the leg work necessary to get their, usually, smaller amounts of cash back.
Regulation will come eventually. PP/e-bay will put that date off as long as possible for sure, however.
The point is that you can run many many more of them in a smaller space, for less power. And, in RLX's case, with far less administration overhead.
That's what I was referring to when I mentioned the "economies of scale."
So, yes...if you want to run a small number of servers, blades are probably not for you. If you have a cluster of hundreds, the savings in operational costs are very compelling.
'nough said, me thinks.
(Since it's been a few messages since I've said it--disclaimer: I work for RLX.)
Wow! I was just called a girl. Well, I guess with a nym like buffy, I should expect no less. Funny thing is that for as many years as I've been reading /., that's the first. ;)
;)
Anyways...the quick answer is, that would be a difficult prospect for a business to make money at. For now, it's probably best to focus on what we do, and do it better than anyone else.
Just my $0.02. Not that I don't like the idea!
That bundle includes a lot more than just 5 blades. It includes a chassis (the 1U chassis) and control tower software, plus the 5 blades. Economies of scale quickly kick in once you've bought a chassis (like the 3U) or two. Plus you only need one CT blade to manage a LOT of servers.
Like I said before...it's all in the configuration. Same can be said for ANY vendor...not just RLX, not just blade servers.
I can buy a 1U server for about $1K, or I can configure it so it costs $5K.
Also, the chassis don't have motherboards--they generally just have the midplane, power supplies, and networking hookups. It's the blade servers themselves that are what would be recognized as a motherboard. The market is young...to young for a true standard to exist.
cnn article
infoworld article
Here's a link directly to a page w/in LANL and just for the heck of it a little something from google.
Standard Disclaimer + I work for RLX.
Before I continue--I'm the lead IT architecture guy at RLX, not in marketing or sales. One of the the things I do is give our products (both hardware and software) a spin as a "customer" of RLX. With control tower I'm able to manage a HUGE number of servers per administrator--many times over the industry standard (ie. the textbook ratios of 8-to-1 windows servers, etc...) And these are NOT in a cluster configuration...they do different things like web serving, DHCP, DNS, printing, IDS, firewalls, etc... We've got 81 servers in our primary NOC being managed by two administrators (well...one admin, plus 1/2 my time.) Plus with CT, provisioning servers (new ones, or for ones that have failed) is a snap--and takes mere minutes. Can you install a fully configured Win2K server in less than 10 minutes?
It's the savings on operational costs which are really compelling for all blade servers, but, yes, it _is_ a hard sell to some. The funny thing is, once most see a demo of our management software in real life--their jaw drops. This is the stuff that originally attracted me to RLX (in TX of all places!) over two years ago, before you (the wider "you") even heard the term "blade server."
Anyways...I tried to keep the propaganda to a minimum, but had to jump in with a reply there. Like I said, I'm in IT, so I don't have the price list handy. If you want, get the sales number off our web site, and give them a call to find out. We DO have demo gear, too--if you're really serious about checking it out.
(Now, I need to duck from the things that our sales & support folks will be throwing at my noggin!)
The usual applies--these are my opinions. It's the weekend, so my employer didn't pay me for them so they're mine, damnit!
280? feh. We do 336. Not that I'm biased or anything (I'm an employee of RLX), but to top that off--IMHO our management software beats the pants off of that of *cough* *cough* others.
patent != copyright != trademark
The point in obtaining a patent is to protect your idea/invention, and give you the option of pursuing legal options should someone infringe upon your idea. If you don't patent it, you have no option.
So, the thread re: having to defend or pursue your patent rights is really missing the point. The original parent was simply asking for an economical route to obtain a patent, which is not necessarily related to legal proceedings down the road. With a patent, you have options. Without--you don't.
Perhaps the difference, however, is that Microsoft is a judicially declared Monopoly, whereas Sun is not. So, the anti-competitive..nay...competitive behaviour of Sun is NOT on par with the same behaviour of Microsoft. This fact is one of the big reasons Microsoft fought such a declaration so hard--they kept saying, to the effect, "we're just competing in the marketplace."
From a certain perspective this actually may seem unfair to Microsoft, but remember that the determination that MS was a monopoly was based, in no small part, due to the illegal activities that they were engaged in to obtain/maintain an unfair market advantave. So, punitive actions are certainly justified to try to bring it back into line and even the competitive landscape--to give other companies such as Sun the opportunity to succeed that they were previously denied by Microsoft's behaviour.
Just my $0.02.
At a panel on Palladium at the USENIX Security Conference in August, Microsoft representatives claimed that there was no way Palladium could be used to enforce Digital Rights Management. In response, Lucky Green invented a bunch of ways Palladium could be used to enforce DRM and then filed for a patent.
Ok...that absolutely ROCKS! I certainly hope that Lucky is issued this patent(s). The glory of catching Microsoft in such a catch-22 PR nightmare is quite satisfying, I'm sure.It'll be interesting to see how MS handles the situation. My bet is that they will either: 1) somehow massage the process to make sure the patent isn't granted, or 2) will ignore it if it is granted, hoping the Lucky won't notice, or won't have the ability to follow through on the enformement of the patent--hopefully, a big mistake in judgement on their part.
Lucky, bravo!
Actually, I made no comment as to the legality of knocking them down. It'll happen if it's legal or not--we'll either be criminals, or not.
You keep setting these "proprietary" schemes up, and we'll keep knocking them down. Only after these companies have lost enough money will they learn the basic tenet that information will be free.
Silly rabbits..
These are the boxes that you see bands transporting their gear in. Some of their models can be configured just like the Pelican cases, but more interesting are the boxes which are essentially portable rack mounts.
So, what I did was build a 2U computer box into an anvil case, and included a rack mount 12-port switch. Also, for convenience a rack mount power strip, and a light bar, that has little pop out lights so I can see the front panel in darkness, and it looks really cool.
With that, I've got a complete computing rig in a very durable frame. All you'd need is one of the previously mentioned slings for the LCD panel.
Certainly not the most compact solution, but it is definitly very survivable, and looks pretty cool.
You're comparing apples to oranges. ET, Star Wars...these all were the original product.
Peter Jackson and crew have an difficult challenge in the making of the LOTR movies--they are NOT the original product. They are a rendition of the original printed materials--books that are remarkable in their depth and detail. That is one of the reasons so many people have fallen in love with the story.
A commerical movie is bound by time, and of course, stuff has to be cut out. The 4-disc set allows Jackson to meet the demand of so many viewers to see the additional content that only true Tolkien lovers would appreciate.
One of the extras on the 2-disc set includes a "behind the scenes" preview of The Towers, which include interview bits with Jackson. He expresses a dislike for the term "Director's Cut" since it implies that the original theatrical edition is not what the Director wanted to portray. In the case of FOTR, this is not the case. The 4-disc set is a Special Edition, to statisfy the needs of all the Tolkien fans in the world to simply see more of that world, and the visual development of the characters within.
Given that they spent the time to capture all this stuff, and that there is obviously a commercial demand to see it, I think that the decision to present the additional edition is smart. I also don't think Jackson and crew are stupid--they know the types of cricism that they may recieve for the two editions, and are more than going to make up for it in content.
If you're not a Tolkien fan who has repeatedly read the books, and seen the first movie several times (gads, just calculate the amount of time you've probably spent) then simply don't buy it.
Just my $0.02.
Dude, the 2-disc edition is on sale for $15 at Best Buy right now. Go buy it, watch it, examine all the goodies.
Then, in November, but the 4-disc edition.
It's only money.
And no, I'm not being insensitive to our unemployed brethren (and sisthren.) I'm only saying, if you liked the movie, we're not talking about hundreds and hundreds of dollars.
Think about it, you probably spend a lot more money on sillier things, so why not.
Doubly frustrating...
I've never really cared about watching my Karma, but I'd taken a recent jump into the high 40s. I did a quick calculation in my head and figured I was easily +50, so I went to check and what do I see... Karma: Excellent.
Damnit! I never even got to see it!
Actually, I just figured at the time that once you hit the "cap" it switched to "Excellent" rather than a numeric value. It wasn't until this little thread that I became aware that a change had, in fact, been made.
Oh well...never cared about Karma before...not going to start now.
Because Linus doesn't work for Intel, silly.
It is not necessary to block port 80 to impose these kind of restrictions. If you run a transparent proxy (say squid) you can easily monitor traffic being passed on the http port. Once that's in place, it's not difficult to pick out unweb'ish apps. I can easily see which of my users use AIM, just by the number of repeat connections to a limited number of hosts--it sticks out like a sore thumb.
Were a sharing app like kazaa to start streaming over port 80, it would be the same. You wouldn't be able to identify based on server, like the above AIM example, since it is peer-to-peer, but the client making the connections would stick out pretty readily.
Just my $0.02.
That is just silly.
Ok, I can understand if an occasional connection is made to see if any updates are available, but I really doubt it is as you describe. Just think of it this way, just what kind of machine (or machines) would you need to have on the other end to handle a permanent keep-alive connection from every freaking PC on the planet? That just isn't realistic.
More likely, the user happened to see the connection open while the agent was talking (or had just completed and the connection was in a TCP CLOSE_WAIT state.)
In the past year and a half strides have been made in building anomoly-based detection systems that do not necessarily suffer the weakness of rule lag that signature-based systems do. These systems go about the process a little bit more intelligently by reporting on traffic outside the "norm."
The catch with such a system is that you have to be very careful about measuring what your "norm" is. If you capture a profile on a very noisy network, then a lot of potentially dangerous traffic could go unreported.
As with most things in security and system administration, your solution will only be as good as the person or persons who design, implement and support a system. If you don't have a trained analyst evaluating and tweaking your IDS solution, you're in trouble. There's currently no such thing as a true IDS appliance.
-buffy
It's called Consumer Economics. You can expect the consumer demand for high tech gadgets to continue (increasing), however their technical abilities will not scale to match. This means that although consumers will want fancier toys, they don't have the patience the invest the necessary time to become an expert in any given device or technology. They just want it, and they want it now. This fact really hasn't changed in quite a bit of time (say...since the consumer economy was born.)
We, as engineers, know that this pretty much sucks. However, if we (or the companies that we work for) want to make a buck (and they do) this is the reality that must be dealt with.
However, there is a segment of this consumer population where the above is not true--us. We want tech, we want it now...and we don't mind if it's complicated. Understand however, that we're not the target market that is going to make our companies millions of dollars.
We, as engineers, have to come to grips with the fact that we're not the target consumer population, and that we do, in fact, have to build for the lowest common denominator.
Sucks. Get over it. Or, just keep posting silly Ask Slashdot questions, and not getting the answers you're hoping to hear.