The IP assignment teams like ARIN/APNIC/RIPE etc need to have more powers to stop spammers. There are clauses in many of the agreements that people sign to get an assignment of IPs. so why dont they use that in revoking IPs for people that have problems?
There are ways to do it but as always its a joint effort from everyone. otherwise its too little too late.
This is something that is a great step in the right direction for the consumer. Realistically though it needs to be a federal law that needs to be implemented to make a big difference.
The real problem is that more people need to make a bigger effort against spam. The US fines and stuff imposed on spammers doesnt really make that much of a difference to SPAM world wide. The majority of my spam is now non-us based for the first time in years.
What can we do.. stop routing to those ISPs that have problems. revoke entire ranges of IPs. it will work.. make everyone on that ISP suffer will make the ISP change thier policy very very fast.
These sorts of things are great except that a fair percentage of the spam is now NON US based. The real effort needs to become much more dramatic. Removing the international routes for networks that spam will cause a massive change in what those ISPs believe in.
This would be a great way for intelligence to work out who they need to keep an eye on more closely. The guy with the most computer power the home beowulf computer cluster cracking joe-algorithms;)
The Mp3 tax idea would never halt any sort of piracy on music. It would only provide the goverment with a healthy income until something else comes out in 5-10years or sooner.
At the company that I worked for previously we outsourced one aspect of our computer development to india only to find that the code that came back was never commented it may have been good code but when there is no commenting its trying to save your own job when it comes to debug. because of the nature of the business we worked in (defense) we had to audit every line of code. It took months longer than what it should have because we needed to send the code back to be commented as a part of the requirements. The communications between the different groups / teams often became the biggest problem. Many where ultra educated with clearly no experience and would only write text book code.
Reliving the dream so to speak. I still believe that SGI make some awesome gear. It may not be revered as much as it was in the past but the company still deserves some level of respect. Some of the evolutionary and revolutionary moves the company has made really have helped to shape the computer industry despite what many people like to say bagging out SGI.
They are great for using in a support environment as you can keep server passwords (not ips) etc in them and use them for the datacentres when you goto servers that your not always using. Sync the passwords from the db then go and work on it... works in a secure environment very well.
At the end of the day the patent war really wont benefit the end user as much as many of the companies claim to thier investors/stock holders.
Many software patents really should exist as there is just about no way for the joe-home programmer to know if they are breaching patents the way they are writing code. At the end of the day when you click on the start button in windows or the K icon in KDE does it come up and say.. patent pending or patent xyz... nope.. and really at the end of the day can joe-programmer at home really afford to waste hundreds of hours covering his arse in the long term?.
Software patents benefit profits for the big boys in town and the rest of the industry suffers. Both sides have valid arguments and having a good quality license system will benefit everyone if thats the way it has to go.. in the end software patents should be maximum 5years anyway as the industry moves so fast 5years makes or breaks most companies.
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lets all get security and start looking at turning out computers off..
but on the good side the more issues that are fixed the more secure things become.. I just feel sorry for all those people with 10->100meg+ downloads over a modem.. hrmm oh well the world wont be secure for at least another.... never..
Why dont we use microwave in our houses instead.. the effect would be the same.. directional non direction pff who cares its all radiation.. why not help fry our brains.
Maybe with the reduced staff they could reduce thier support time and costs by simply opening up the service to more normal internet services. Having a simple opt-in rather than a shit service would be better.
Hell.. Redhat and dell as a combination is a nightmare often having massive file system issues with the adaptec perc based raid cards. Raid cards reporting as being 32bit when the card is shown as 64bit in everything except redhat. Kick it with SuSe 64bit with an lspci -vvv
I personally am not a big fan of redhat. But Redhat and dell together is the worst problem ive ever faced as a system administrator. And its not just a one off we have probably 200 servers from dell running linux that are all crap. thankfully we are replacing the dells with HP servers based on operton. So far no problems:) So far no redhat.. (thanks suse).
In summary.. redhat + dell = bad news
dell advising anyone on anything = rubbish
There has been some speculation that the Apple camp was looking at the AMD Processors. I agree it would be a bad move. It was _speculation_ thankfully:)
If I enjoy the web page I will click the banners just out of principal..have a browse through the web page even if I have no intention of buying the product. Its worth supporting good quality resources like slashdot that make the internet more interesting and dynamic.
At the end of the day if Redhat Linux was nearly as robust and industry prooven as Solaris was 5years. Taking into account that Redhat and linux in general has come along long way especially since the introduction of the 2.6 kernel series. Its still not as industry prooven and its support policies at an enterprise level are often more than c*ap.
We have several hundred *nix *bsd and linux of various breeds.. At the end of the day we pay for our Enterprise linux subscription and the only godo thing about that is rhn. but enen that has heavy limitations. Especially when trying to run with Redhat and Dell hardware or VIA motherboard IDE chipsets. Often requiring special kernel compiles etc to make it work correctly.
I personally if it was my choice would remove all redhat systems from our business and replace them with other flavors of linux. Basing this move on
a) way over grown dependancies that clog everything up.
b) shit performance at the top end. Requires heavy modifications to get it to really perform. possibly due to the huge amount of dependancies and large binarys running.
c) support from redhat is crap we support all our own systems in house and have at least 20 high quality unix / linux system administrators. We dont have issues except when we want to get BUGS FIXED. Releasing a bugzilla can take months for what we would classify as critical bugs. With our sun support contract those bugs are often fixed fairly fast or advised how to make the work around to resolve issues.
Im not saying that linux is a crap OS im just saying that Redhats Business model needs alot of improving before becoming what they see themselves as being. Clearly both redhat and sun see themselves through rose colored glasses.
Where is SpamAssassin. Maybe they didnt pay enough money to ZDNET for advertising. We all know its a good solution maybe thier writer has his/her head up thier ass.
ZDNET is just another publishing company that generally have b grade IT writers. Just look at the spam software show down. Hangon.. where is spamassassin.. maybe they didnt pay zdnet enough money to advertise thier product so it wasnt included.
Is this the money that hes getting from the newly developed and public oil wells in iraq. Maybe the binladens are supporting the NASA mission and that will provide them with easy access to space next time there is an issue.
I have to agree with what you say. The entire situation saddens me. With no real alternative to the product line up its very difficult to say.. oh we need to completely rewrite our application to support xyz arch.
Tru64 + Alpha = Awesome
Offshoring IT only makes customers unhappy in the end my service quality in the UK from service providers using indian call centers is crappy.
I have nothing much against indians but when they dont understand the english language thats a huge issue that they need to over come regardless of if they know the product.
If this was to occur this would be one of the best mergers in recent time.
This would give IBM one of the best quality product lineups in the portable / fad market. If this merger went through it would also allow IBM and Apple to boost the PPC system. Perhapse even adopt the AMD-64 as people have reported in the past but its very unlikely.
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The IP assignment teams like ARIN/APNIC/RIPE etc need to have more powers to stop spammers. There are clauses in many of the agreements that people sign to get an assignment of IPs. so why dont they use that in revoking IPs for people that have problems? There are ways to do it but as always its a joint effort from everyone. otherwise its too little too late.
This is something that is a great step in the right direction for the consumer. Realistically though it needs to be a federal law that needs to be implemented to make a big difference.
The real problem is that more people need to make a bigger effort against spam. The US fines and stuff imposed on spammers doesnt really make that much of a difference to SPAM world wide. The majority of my spam is now non-us based for the first time in years. What can we do.. stop routing to those ISPs that have problems. revoke entire ranges of IPs. it will work.. make everyone on that ISP suffer will make the ISP change thier policy very very fast.
These sorts of things are great except that a fair percentage of the spam is now NON US based. The real effort needs to become much more dramatic. Removing the international routes for networks that spam will cause a massive change in what those ISPs believe in.
This would be a great way for intelligence to work out who they need to keep an eye on more closely. The guy with the most computer power the home beowulf computer cluster cracking joe-algorithms ;)
The Mp3 tax idea would never halt any sort of piracy on music. It would only provide the goverment with a healthy income until something else comes out in 5-10years or sooner.
At the company that I worked for previously we outsourced one aspect of our computer development to india only to find that the code that came back was never commented it may have been good code but when there is no commenting its trying to save your own job when it comes to debug. because of the nature of the business we worked in (defense) we had to audit every line of code. It took months longer than what it should have because we needed to send the code back to be commented as a part of the requirements. The communications between the different groups / teams often became the biggest problem. Many where ultra educated with clearly no experience and would only write text book code.
If oracle made products that where affordable then they wouldnt be able to buy peoplesoft.
Reliving the dream so to speak. I still believe that SGI make some awesome gear. It may not be revered as much as it was in the past but the company still deserves some level of respect. Some of the evolutionary and revolutionary moves the company has made really have helped to shape the computer industry despite what many people like to say bagging out SGI.
this would be fantastic. Silicon valley would actually have a use ;) (just kidding.. they already do.. I'm just joking)..
They are great for using in a support environment as you can keep server passwords (not ips) etc in them and use them for the datacentres when you goto servers that your not always using. Sync the passwords from the db then go and work on it... works in a secure environment very well.
At the end of the day the patent war really wont benefit the end user as much as many of the companies claim to thier investors/stock holders. Many software patents really should exist as there is just about no way for the joe-home programmer to know if they are breaching patents the way they are writing code. At the end of the day when you click on the start button in windows or the K icon in KDE does it come up and say.. patent pending or patent xyz... nope.. and really at the end of the day can joe-programmer at home really afford to waste hundreds of hours covering his arse in the long term?. Software patents benefit profits for the big boys in town and the rest of the industry suffers. Both sides have valid arguments and having a good quality license system will benefit everyone if thats the way it has to go.. in the end software patents should be maximum 5years anyway as the industry moves so fast 5years makes or breaks most companies. .
lets all get security and start looking at turning out computers off.. but on the good side the more issues that are fixed the more secure things become.. I just feel sorry for all those people with 10->100meg+ downloads over a modem.. hrmm oh well the world wont be secure for at least another.... never..
Why dont we use microwave in our houses instead.. the effect would be the same.. directional non direction pff who cares its all radiation.. why not help fry our brains.
Maybe with the reduced staff they could reduce thier support time and costs by simply opening up the service to more normal internet services. Having a simple opt-in rather than a shit service would be better.
Hell.. Redhat and dell as a combination is a nightmare often having massive file system issues with the adaptec perc based raid cards. Raid cards reporting as being 32bit when the card is shown as 64bit in everything except redhat. Kick it with SuSe 64bit with an lspci -vvv I personally am not a big fan of redhat. But Redhat and dell together is the worst problem ive ever faced as a system administrator. And its not just a one off we have probably 200 servers from dell running linux that are all crap. thankfully we are replacing the dells with HP servers based on operton. So far no problems :) So far no redhat.. (thanks suse).
In summary.. redhat + dell = bad news
dell advising anyone on anything = rubbish
There has been some speculation that the Apple camp was looking at the AMD Processors. I agree it would be a bad move. It was _speculation_ thankfully :)
If I enjoy the web page I will click the banners just out of principal..have a browse through the web page even if I have no intention of buying the product. Its worth supporting good quality resources like slashdot that make the internet more interesting and dynamic.
At the end of the day if Redhat Linux was nearly as robust and industry prooven as Solaris was 5years. Taking into account that Redhat and linux in general has come along long way especially since the introduction of the 2.6 kernel series. Its still not as industry prooven and its support policies at an enterprise level are often more than c*ap. We have several hundred *nix *bsd and linux of various breeds.. At the end of the day we pay for our Enterprise linux subscription and the only godo thing about that is rhn. but enen that has heavy limitations. Especially when trying to run with Redhat and Dell hardware or VIA motherboard IDE chipsets. Often requiring special kernel compiles etc to make it work correctly. I personally if it was my choice would remove all redhat systems from our business and replace them with other flavors of linux. Basing this move on a) way over grown dependancies that clog everything up. b) shit performance at the top end. Requires heavy modifications to get it to really perform. possibly due to the huge amount of dependancies and large binarys running. c) support from redhat is crap we support all our own systems in house and have at least 20 high quality unix / linux system administrators. We dont have issues except when we want to get BUGS FIXED. Releasing a bugzilla can take months for what we would classify as critical bugs. With our sun support contract those bugs are often fixed fairly fast or advised how to make the work around to resolve issues. Im not saying that linux is a crap OS im just saying that Redhats Business model needs alot of improving before becoming what they see themselves as being. Clearly both redhat and sun see themselves through rose colored glasses.
Where is SpamAssassin. Maybe they didnt pay enough money to ZDNET for advertising. We all know its a good solution maybe thier writer has his/her head up thier ass.
ZDNET is just another publishing company that generally have b grade IT writers. Just look at the spam software show down. Hangon.. where is spamassassin.. maybe they didnt pay zdnet enough money to advertise thier product so it wasnt included.
Is this the money that hes getting from the newly developed and public oil wells in iraq. Maybe the binladens are supporting the NASA mission and that will provide them with easy access to space next time there is an issue.
I have to agree with what you say. The entire situation saddens me. With no real alternative to the product line up its very difficult to say.. oh we need to completely rewrite our application to support xyz arch. Tru64 + Alpha = Awesome
Offshoring IT only makes customers unhappy in the end my service quality in the UK from service providers using indian call centers is crappy. I have nothing much against indians but when they dont understand the english language thats a huge issue that they need to over come regardless of if they know the product.
If this was to occur this would be one of the best mergers in recent time. This would give IBM one of the best quality product lineups in the portable / fad market. If this merger went through it would also allow IBM and Apple to boost the PPC system. Perhapse even adopt the AMD-64 as people have reported in the past but its very unlikely. Go For it!