quote from the article: Scheduled for deployment in Spring 2004, CAPPS II will require airline ticket buyers to give more identifying information -- full name, birth date, home phone number and address. This information will be run against private credit-rating and government watch list databases to "verify you are who you say you are," Rosenker said
What in the hell? I was under the impression that having a credit check actually hurts your credit history [as in, you shouldn't have too many credit checks in.] Now they're going to be checking that every time I fly?
I always hated flying, now I'm starting to hate air lines...
The hell with moms&pops stores. Really. I have wall-mart supercenter closer to me than any of those little dinky stores, that charge me more for everything. Wall-mart is one and a half miles from me, and so far EVERYTHING I need I always find cheaper at wall-mart. Don't even mention time wasting - if you need one single item, like your dinky coolant, go to your little dinky auto-zone or something. I get my oil change, hair cut, and grocery shopping done in an hour at wally world.
This week I got plenty of plants and plant pots, for half of the money I would have at any other place around here, and yes, I've checked before. In fact, often times I do check the prices, and so far wall-mart saves me at least 30% on all my monthly shopping.
Want to talk about the receipts? Sure. Two weeks ago I decided to buy a big fancy toaster, along with other things. 24$ for the toaster, and I left it in the darn parking lot cart. I was ready to declare it as 'gone forever', until my girlfriend asked me few times to check the customer service. I went there, and said 'I know it's a long shot, but did anybody return a toaster, I purchased one two days ago, and I left it at the bottom of the cart'. Before I finished, customer service clerk told me if I had a receipt, I said - yes. [I do save all my receipts, don't you?]. The clerk told me to go pick one from the store, and bring it back. When I got back with the same toaster model, they gave me a new receipt, bag, and send me on my merry way. Is that not good enough for you?
Yes, wall-mart may be using some not-so-nice tactics with regards to other businesses. Guess what: I do NOT care. I am not a dinky-things store owner/clerk. I do not make a truck load of money, and wall-mart surely lets me keep more than I would with those darn moms&pops stores. The only cheaper place in town is a ymca thrift store, and sometimes it's still cheaper to get things at wall-mart [furniture].
The problem with anti-virus software is that it relies on the vendor to create and distribute filter definitions. It can take DAYS or WEEKS for vendors to identify a new virus, and create a definition, and for people to download the new rule set. This lag time is deadly. Antivirus software is a LAYER of security on email, but to rely on it alone is not enough.
amen. real life example from this week: on sunday afternoon my e-mail server was notifing me about tons of.pifs and.scrs being stripped out from incoming e-mail. nothing alarming, but the number of those alerts was unusually high. by 11pm est, when sophos released new virus definition files, and our mail server automatically installed those, i was notified about sobig-c viruses being stripped out. if i would have relied only on the sophos engine, i would have a network infested with sobig-c. however, by being a BOFH and stripping all.pif/.scr/etc, not one infected e-mail got in.
so on monday morning, all i had to do was to make myself a cup of cocoa, sit back, and relax. the only inconvinience was a couple of phone calls from people who got e-mail warnings, since sobig-c used forged reply-to addresses. those phone calls quickly disappeared, after i sent out an e-mail that 'everything is ok, we didn't get hit, calm down, get back to your work:)'.
yes, having an antivirus engine helps, but darnit, strip out all those pesky attachments that shouldn't be sent anyway
they were flash-bang thingies. it's the goddamn press. first they put a big spin on it, eventhough pentagon didn't really admit to much, then they're putting a huge spin down [such as emphasising that there were no military at the hospital, yet the goddamn hospital crew says that military was stationed there up to few hours before the rescue, then they abandoned their place].
and to say it was faked, is even more ignorant than what the media says.
uhmm, what's the point of having such large sans, if you can't afford to have them in a raid setup? when drives die on occasion in my san, the only thing i notice is a phone call from an ibm tech, who tells me that he'll be on site in an hour to replace them.
and like somebody else already said: what you have is redundant setup, not a backup.
Before peoiple start asking, there is NO official iso for rc1 yet. However, plenty of people make them, and if you're interested, you can visit #slackware on irc.freenode.net, or some other slackware channel. I'll be happy to provide you with the iso i make on a regular basis.
In addition, slackware.com has very limited bandwith. Be gentle with it, use one of the mirrors. It's hard for those mirrors to sync the updates regularly as it is.
For those who wonder, if upgrading from 8.1 to 9.0rc1 is possible - yes, it is. I don't think there's an official document that specifically talks about 8.x to 9.0 upgrade. If you're interested, please be careful, and backup of course. [i just upgraded live 8.1 to 9.0rc1 two days ago, and here are few things to keep in mind:
- upgradepkg [--install-new sometimes] is your friend - upgradepkg/a/glibc* first - next couple packages to upgrade are/a/sed*,/a/elflibs*,/a/pkgtools* - keep couple terminals open, with some tools in memory, say midnight commander. they may save your life if needed - for people with nvidia cards, if you upgrade xfree to 4.3, you probably should also recompile the nvidia drivers, and install nvidia glx stuff. for that, you'll have to have kernel compiled with your fresh new compiler [gcc3.2.2].
To sum it up, if you're interested, visit #slackware on irc.freenode.net, and somebody may answer your questions. Slackware 9.0rc1 works well, and as slackware goes - it is very stable, simple and elegant.
slackware is a good starting point. it's clean, simple, and easy to build upon. that's what i use for our linux workstations [with the addition of systemimager].
This is a long shot, but I wonder if cop/ambulance lights could trigger it. They claim that nothing but a flash can set this one off, but those damn strobe things on a police car seem like would be able to pull this off too. And that would be the last thing you want - your licence plate flashing, while a cop car drives by...
Before I went to work today, I was watching CNN Headlines. They specifically said that Microsoft was affected by the worm, that they had problems, etc, etc. In addition to that, CNN mentioned the inside e-mail that was circulating within Microsoft regarding this problem.
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So when can we expect IMAP filtering in Kmail?:) [that's the only thing I really could use on a daily basis]. Overall I have to admit, great work folks. In fact, Kmail in kde 3.1 fixed some problems with IMAP that I had in 3.0.x [such as topics of e-mail messages still showing up in my main Inbox, after moving them to another imap folder].
I just installed kde 3.1, looks great, feels great, yet one feature missing from kmail that I've been waiting for the longest time: filtering with imap mailboxes. It would be so nice to have this feature, without the need to switch to a different imap server, that supports filtering.
here's the bug thread:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40647
It's funny to see this story, while riaa.org's webserver has been cracked yet again, and the crackers provided nice links to download kazaa. ohh the irony...
[dunno how fast they'll patch it. as of 4:41pm EST, it still shows the cracked page]
yes, they're better off, because you don't need to do jack on the computational nodes. no, they're not better off, because where is your swap going to be? or temporary data generated by individual jobs?
i run a 100 node computational cluster. the nodes boot with pxe, then if they are already installed, they simply boot to their local scsi drives. only/home is mounted via nfs from a disk array, so each individual node has access to the users' programs. we use fast ethernet for that, since it doesn't put that much strain on the network, and myrinet for the computational nodes to exchange data. i've had more problems with ram and myrinet than the 'moving parts', aka drives.
Good god, when will those companies understand, that they ought to make their equipment look nice? This could bring them more money, indirectly. Let me illustrate
1) We buy product X from company Y. We put it in our data center. Company Y got their cash, everything is dandy.
2) Once in awhile, we have to show off our data center to our . Half of the time, the people who are in charge of giving us money are not very technical. They may understand some concepts of this big box has XXX giga/mega/zilion bytes of storage, etc, but in most cases they are like me looking at an airplane engine: ohhh, look it here, it has something cool attached to another neat thing! Ohh, and this little thing is moving! Neato!. Please bear in mind, that I am not making fun of those people, this is just how things work. When somebody doesn't work in your field, they often will focus on things less important than you would. If something moves or blinks, it catches the eye of a viewer. Heck, when we have to give tours around our data center, people spend most time around the robotic tape library, or the cluster of boxes, where there is lots of blinking lights, and it simply looks neat. Our 15k does not compare.
3) When those folks, who give us money, see how neat our data center looks, how spiffy things are, they are usually impressed. What follows is: hey, they are doing well. we spent our money well. heck, we may even let them keep their budget, or maybe we'll add more.. Yes folks, the better your data center looks, the better chances of keeping the job:)
4) Because of the fact that product X looked so nice, we were given the budget to buy more product X's. Company Y profits.
{God, this made sense in my head when i was thinking, dunno if it makes sense now:)].
Anyway, I know that appearance does not make that big of a difference to a sys admin. But as a sys admin, I'd like if the product X that performs well, would also look nice. It helps me, when the PR department asks me to give a tour of our data center. [or at least assist in answering the questions, I think they learned enough buzz words by now, that they can give the tours themselves:) ]
Uhmm, I can safely assume that you have NOT seen all the different products they offer, for Windows. So please, before you jump into conclusions, check your facts.
According to sophos, this virus/worm/whatever_you_want_to_call_it tries to spread itself over the network shares, etc. One of the thing it does it tries to connect to printers, and all you get is the bugbear trying to print out itself:)
Anyway, kudos to sophos. I use their anti-virus with mailscanner on our linux e-mail server. We used the mailscanner's auto-update script, which we set to contact sophos once an hour, and download the latest IDE's for our scanner. This way, when on September 30'th I received e-mail alert from sophos about bugbear spreading like fire, I checked our server, and guess what - it already had the IDE files. Makes my life as a sys admin much easier:). As a side note, we didn't get any bugbear hits until October 4th.
I know that scanning e-mail attachements, etc, is not the total protection [we also use av software on each desktop], but it surely helps a lot. In addition to using sophos to scan our e-mail, we use it to scan all the shared samba drives, which reside on another box. Overall, i can sleep better.
ps) I think sophos also released some cleaning tool for bugbear.
i was just watching cnn headlines, and i a small caption about imaginary numbers, ig awards and those two companies. had to check slashdot to see if this was true:)
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quote from the article: Scheduled for deployment in Spring 2004, CAPPS II will require airline ticket buyers to give more identifying information -- full name, birth date, home phone number and address. This information will be run against private credit-rating and government watch list databases to "verify you are who you say you are," Rosenker said
.] Now they're going to be checking that every time I fly?
What in the hell? I was under the impression that having a credit check actually hurts your credit history [as in, you shouldn't have too many credit checks in
I always hated flying, now I'm starting to hate air lines...
The hell with moms&pops stores. Really. I have wall-mart supercenter closer to me than any of those little dinky stores, that charge me more for everything. Wall-mart is one and a half miles from me, and so far EVERYTHING I need I always find cheaper at wall-mart. Don't even mention time wasting - if you need one single item, like your dinky coolant, go to your little dinky auto-zone or something. I get my oil change, hair cut, and grocery shopping done in an hour at wally world.
This week I got plenty of plants and plant pots, for half of the money I would have at any other place around here, and yes, I've checked before. In fact, often times I do check the prices, and so far wall-mart saves me at least 30% on all my monthly shopping.
Want to talk about the receipts? Sure. Two weeks ago I decided to buy a big fancy toaster, along with other things. 24$ for the toaster, and I left it in the darn parking lot cart. I was ready to declare it as 'gone forever', until my girlfriend asked me few times to check the customer service. I went there, and said 'I know it's a long shot, but did anybody return a toaster, I purchased one two days ago, and I left it at the bottom of the cart'. Before I finished, customer service clerk told me if I had a receipt, I said - yes. [I do save all my receipts, don't you?]. The clerk told me to go pick one from the store, and bring it back. When I got back with the same toaster model, they gave me a new receipt, bag, and send me on my merry way. Is that not good enough for you?
Yes, wall-mart may be using some not-so-nice tactics with regards to other businesses. Guess what: I do NOT care. I am not a dinky-things store owner/clerk. I do not make a truck load of money, and wall-mart surely lets me keep more than I would with those darn moms&pops stores. The only cheaper place in town is a ymca thrift store, and sometimes it's still cheaper to get things at wall-mart [furniture].
The problem with anti-virus software is that it relies on the vendor to create and distribute filter definitions. It can take DAYS or WEEKS for vendors to identify a new virus, and create a definition, and for people to download the new rule set. This lag time is deadly. Antivirus software is a LAYER of security on email, but to rely on it alone is not enough. .pifs and .scrs being stripped out from incoming e-mail. nothing alarming, but the number of those alerts was unusually high. by 11pm est, when sophos released new virus definition files, and our mail server automatically installed those, i was notified about sobig-c viruses being stripped out. if i would have relied only on the sophos engine, i would have a network infested with sobig-c. however, by being a BOFH and stripping all .pif/.scr/etc, not one infected e-mail got in.
:)'.
yes, having an antivirus engine helps, but darnit, strip out all those pesky attachments that shouldn't be sent anyway
amen. real life example from this week: on sunday afternoon my e-mail server was notifing me about tons of
so on monday morning, all i had to do was to make myself a cup of cocoa, sit back, and relax. the only inconvinience was a couple of phone calls from people who got e-mail warnings, since sobig-c used forged reply-to addresses. those phone calls quickly disappeared, after i sent out an e-mail that 'everything is ok, we didn't get hit, calm down, get back to your work
they were flash-bang thingies. it's the goddamn press. first they put a big spin on it, eventhough pentagon didn't really admit to much, then they're putting a huge spin down [such as emphasising that there were no military at the hospital, yet the goddamn hospital crew says that military was stationed there up to few hours before the rescue, then they abandoned their place].
and to say it was faked, is even more ignorant than what the media says.
your logic is flawed. just because nvidia's drivers may suck for you, does not result in ati's drivers sucking less.
uhmm, what's the point of having such large sans, if you can't afford to have them in a raid setup? when drives die on occasion in my san, the only thing i notice is a phone call from an ibm tech, who tells me that he'll be on site in an hour to replace them.
and like somebody else already said: what you have is redundant setup, not a backup.
good idea, but honestly, i haven't used any p2p since napster. it would take me awhile to figure it out.
Before peoiple start asking, there is NO official iso for rc1 yet. However, plenty of people make them, and if you're interested, you can visit #slackware on irc.freenode.net, or some other slackware channel. I'll be happy to provide you with the iso i make on a regular basis.
/a/glibc* first /a/sed*, /a/elflibs*, /a/pkgtools*
In addition, slackware.com has very limited bandwith. Be gentle with it, use one of the mirrors. It's hard for those mirrors to sync the updates regularly as it is.
For those who wonder, if upgrading from 8.1 to 9.0rc1 is possible - yes, it is. I don't think there's an official document that specifically talks about 8.x to 9.0 upgrade. If you're interested, please be careful, and backup of course. [i just upgraded live 8.1 to 9.0rc1 two days ago, and here are few things to keep in mind:
- upgradepkg [--install-new sometimes] is your friend
- upgradepkg
- next couple packages to upgrade are
- keep couple terminals open, with some tools in memory, say midnight commander. they may save your life if needed
- for people with nvidia cards, if you upgrade xfree to 4.3, you probably should also recompile the nvidia drivers, and install nvidia glx stuff. for that, you'll have to have kernel compiled with your fresh new compiler [gcc3.2.2].
To sum it up, if you're interested, visit #slackware on irc.freenode.net, and somebody may answer your questions. Slackware 9.0rc1 works well, and as slackware goes - it is very stable, simple and elegant.
so far slack was always on one cd [i don't count the source/extra cd]. the 9.0rc1 i was also able to fit on one cd.
slackware is a good starting point. it's clean, simple, and easy to build upon. that's what i use for our linux workstations [with the addition of systemimager].
This is a long shot, but I wonder if cop/ambulance lights could trigger it. They claim that nothing but a flash can set this one off, but those damn strobe things on a police car seem like would be able to pull this off too. And that would be the last thing you want - your licence plate flashing, while a cop car drives by...
Before I went to work today, I was watching CNN Headlines. They specifically said that Microsoft was affected by the worm, that they had problems, etc, etc. In addition to that, CNN mentioned the inside e-mail that was circulating within Microsoft regarding this problem.
So when can we expect IMAP filtering in Kmail? :) [that's the only thing I really could use on a daily basis]. Overall I have to admit, great work folks. In fact, Kmail in kde 3.1 fixed some problems with IMAP that I had in 3.0.x [such as topics of e-mail messages still showing up in my main Inbox, after moving them to another imap folder].
I just installed kde 3.1, looks great, feels great, yet one feature missing from kmail that I've been waiting for the longest time: filtering with imap mailboxes. It would be so nice to have this feature, without the need to switch to a different imap server, that supports filtering. here's the bug thread: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40647
It's funny to see this story, while riaa.org's webserver has been cracked yet again, and the crackers provided nice links to download kazaa. ohh the irony...
[dunno how fast they'll patch it. as of 4:41pm EST, it still shows the cracked page]
to keep the OTHERS out of the geek room...
yes, they're better off, because you don't need to do jack on the computational nodes.
/home is mounted via nfs from a disk array, so each individual node has access to the users' programs. we use fast ethernet for that, since it doesn't put that much strain on the network, and myrinet for the computational nodes to exchange data.
no, they're not better off, because where is your swap going to be? or temporary data generated by individual jobs?
i run a 100 node computational cluster. the nodes boot with pxe, then if they are already installed, they simply boot to their local scsi drives. only
i've had more problems with ram and myrinet than the 'moving parts', aka drives.
the 'jedi mind tricks didn't work' quote made it to cnn headlines :)
[i came home after work, turned on cnn headlines, and the first thing i hear is: 'and according to slashdot website, jedi mind tricks didn't work' ]
Good god, when will those companies understand, that they ought to make their equipment look nice? This could bring them more money, indirectly. Let me illustrate
:)
:)].
:) ]
1) We buy product X from company Y. We put it in our data center. Company Y got their cash, everything is dandy.
2) Once in awhile, we have to show off our data center to our . Half of the time, the people who are in charge of giving us money are not very technical. They may understand some concepts of this big box has XXX giga/mega/zilion bytes of storage, etc, but in most cases they are like me looking at an airplane engine: ohhh, look it here, it has something cool attached to another neat thing! Ohh, and this little thing is moving! Neato!. Please bear in mind, that I am not making fun of those people, this is just how things work. When somebody doesn't work in your field, they often will focus on things less important than you would. If something moves or blinks, it catches the eye of a viewer. Heck, when we have to give tours around our data center, people spend most time around the robotic tape library, or the cluster of boxes, where there is lots of blinking lights, and it simply looks neat. Our 15k does not compare.
3) When those folks, who give us money, see how neat our data center looks, how spiffy things are, they are usually impressed. What follows is: hey, they are doing well. we spent our money well. heck, we may even let them keep their budget, or maybe we'll add more.. Yes folks, the better your data center looks, the better chances of keeping the job
4) Because of the fact that product X looked so nice, we were given the budget to buy more product X's. Company Y profits.
{God, this made sense in my head when i was thinking, dunno if it makes sense now
Anyway, I know that appearance does not make that big of a difference to a sys admin. But as a sys admin, I'd like if the product X that performs well, would also look nice. It helps me, when the PR department asks me to give a tour of our data center. [or at least assist in answering the questions, I think they learned enough buzz words by now, that they can give the tours themselves
Uhmm, I can safely assume that you have NOT seen all the different products they offer, for Windows. So please, before you jump into conclusions, check your facts.
According to sophos, this virus/worm/whatever_you_want_to_call_it tries to spread itself over the network shares, etc. One of the thing it does it tries to connect to printers, and all you get is the bugbear trying to print out itself :)
:). As a side note, we didn't get any bugbear hits until October 4th.
Anyway, kudos to sophos. I use their anti-virus with mailscanner on our linux e-mail server. We used the mailscanner's auto-update script, which we set to contact sophos once an hour, and download the latest IDE's for our scanner. This way, when on September 30'th I received e-mail alert from sophos about bugbear spreading like fire, I checked our server, and guess what - it already had the IDE files. Makes my life as a sys admin much easier
I know that scanning e-mail attachements, etc, is not the total protection [we also use av software on each desktop], but it surely helps a lot. In addition to using sophos to scan our e-mail, we use it to scan all the shared samba drives, which reside on another box. Overall, i can sleep better.
ps) I think sophos also released some cleaning tool for bugbear.
i was just watching cnn headlines, and i a small caption about imaginary numbers, ig awards and those two companies. had to check slashdot to see if this was true :)
mandrake 9.0 would be probably a good choice for that.
Slackware 8.1 has libsafe as one of the packages in /extra directory.
As far as I knew, we didn't use any campus links, only for backup :)