It does not have airplay 2 (yet?). So it is not the product it was supposed to be in many important ways,. It is a while after release... airplay 2 must be hard to engineer.
Many are saying Apple Pay offers nothing to the merchant. Tell that to the former CEO of target ( http://www.startribune.com/bus... ) While tracking marketing data for customers is important to merchants, not having expensive data breaches is more important. Also, everyone seems to be ignoring that POS systems can be programmed to allow customers to enter their membership card first (or type in their phone number) enabling _plenty_ of customer tracking. Walgreens does this, and they use Apple Pay. The get all the customer-tracky goodness without the PCI-just-isn't-good-enough-any-more credit card information business danger.
If you consider CentOS, have you considered Oracle Linux.
Why I've used RedHat: I use software packages not supported under CentOS.
Those packages (including Oracle database software) are supported under Oracle linux. With Oracle Linux, you can choose to go a very-much-like CentOS path and not get support and not pay, or you can choose to pay and get support where you need it. Real support, not the "it is better to get help from the community than expect actual help from the company you are paying" kinds of support.
I am NOT an Oracle linux user. I am evaluating this issue right now.
I do not want my TV directly getting internet services. I do not want streaming direct to my TV. I like using a Wii, Roku, Apple TV, etc. to hook up to my TV to do that for me. I hate the idea that my TV could be a security problem. TV manufacturers are not known for frequent firmware updates or their ability to understand the possible impact of being internet accessible.
I am thinking of trying the alphagrip keyboard. http://www.alphagrips.com/
I was looking for the "gripped in your palm" type keyboard and ran across this.
Google will not allow me to put my own ad engine to work on their site. Since when does an anti-trust investigation start when a service or product is not even on the market? This is at best premature. iphones do not rule the internet, and if Apple wants to experiment with different service offerings, then let 'em.
LTO4 tapes... Cost around $30 each for.8-1.6TB depending on your data. They are cheaper than "a Fry's disk" - they cost at most 1/3 the price of really cheap disk. If you have the infrastructure, they can even be encrypted. Tape wears better when being driven around. Costs 15% or 1/7 as much, roughly, as a disk to disk solution. Admittedly tapes do take up more personnel time, however.
For everyone who says backup to disk, I say it is great if you have the money. If I need to keep one full backup per week for 1 month, and one full backup per month for 1 year, I have about 16 copies. Doing this to disk requires, typically, for data I deal with, at least 2 disks for backup for each original disk of data. Often it might be more. Then, to do it right, you need to put another copy in another location - so to be generous, you now have 4 disks in addition to the original one. Enterprise storage costs around 10x a cheap disk, meaning the disk solution, with 4 extra disks per disk of data, is 4x10=40 units vs a tape is 1/3 the cost of cheap disk... 16/3=6... 40/6=6.666666 times as expensive - 1/6.66666 =.15 meaning tape costs 15% the cost of disk.
Yes, people still backup to tape. LTO4 tapes are: 1) cheap - 1-2TB encrypted compressed for about $35/tape (cheaper than a Fry's disk!). 2) Easy to keep for a long time (I can keep a backup for 2+ years. That can be hard (or expensive) to do with a disk-to-disk based solution. If I want to use disk-to-disk and keep, say, one monthly backup for a year, I need at least 3-4x the disk space in my local disk-to-disk solution, and another copy in a remote location - 6-8x my disk space total. That costs a lot.
Many people still use tape and will continue to do so.
Apple negotiated the current AT&T customer contract concept for the iphone - not an easy thing to do. It has brought AT&T millions of new users, and brought smart phones into the hands of millions of new users, redefining the "smart phone market". AT&T has so many new expensive data plan users to whom it was unable to sell before. People are not leaving the platform much due to problems. Yes it is expensive to run, but this whole discussion of reasons this is bad is missing the point. It has been a phenomenal success. As much as some people like to say AT&T's reputation is being ruined, I applaud them for moving forward as they have. AT&T's reputation has improved by offering such a service with such a great device. However, If I could not have an unlimited usage plan, I would not have an iphone. If it cost more than it does, I would not have bought a second phone for a family member. Requiring the data plan for the phone means AT&T has some users who pay and do not actually use the plan much. If AT&T made me pay more for higher use, and then I had problems, I would be incredibly upset and would refuse to pay for what I was not getting anyway. As a side note I have found it interesting that AT&T has not been willing to make tethering available for the iphone at any price - there are people who would pay much for it, and I can tether on a separate device with AT&T for $60/month.
A DVD weight is normally 0.034 lbs and a blue ray disc can hold 50GB. 1 petabyte = 1,048,576 GB / 50GB = 20,972 blue ray discs, which weighs approximately 713 lbs. Its not at all unwieldy, really!
So I read the... not the article. The forums. Yeah. Before they inevitably vanish.
Too many jokes are going through my brain.
-- I see comments about open source licenses are already going.
-- Jokes about the cracking scene are hopping
-- jokes about Ubi (being soft on this issue, etc)
Argh.
do something like 5.8Ghz phones and spread spectrum - use LOTS of "random" ports, initiate them from behind the firewall to make sure they'll get back through and boom comcast has more fun to work against!
First, your company must have a policy. SSN's are sensitive data.
Second, your company must have a contract with any folks not working for your company requiring that this data be protected in a manner compliant with your company policies.
Third, the recommendation to have the consultant work on site or work with the data on site is appropriate. Requiring that the data NOT leave your site sounds very reasonable. If they are remote use 2-factor authentication to get into such sensitive data and administration of systems.
How do you get the cable across the wide expanse? arrow + thin rope pulls thicker rope? Did someone have to start on the other side somehow - like from a long trek? These questions went unaddressed.
When I think about an ITIL toolset, or any IT toolset, I look at open and not so open tools...
Service Desk -- phone system + ticketing system integrated with email -- I don't know about the open source space here
Incident Management -- a non-technology system like ICS is very helpful, but then using a general tracking/ticketing system to record stuff is crucial - remedy, bugzilla, rt... they all work
Configuration Management -- you just need a database - excel can perform the function sometimes, but later mysql, oracle, heck, even ldap can be useful
Release Management -- to me, this is mainly documentation, for which wikis, html, and yes, even word documents can be useful. This ties in with financial management strongly - it is an asset database too, or close to it.
Service Level Management -- Making sure the other tools you use let you track this is about all you generally need. On the reporting front, well, you need integration of tools - more on that later...
Capacity Management -- mrtg/cacti let you look at how much your systems are getting used, and you need some method to load up your systems to your mrtg/cacti, in a test environment, can tell you how much capacity you have
Problem Management -- use the same tracking for incident and problem management to make it easy... bugzilla or rt for example
Change Management -- 2 main bits - have a policy - that's documentation (wiki, html with apache, heck, even word docs can work) with plans and docs about the changes to be made.
Continuity Management -- planning (docs)
Availability Management -- ties strongly to SL management - monitoring is a big part of this - nagios is a great open source monitoring tool with a little help to have it handle different kinds of escalations you might wanna do.
Financial Management -- I generally take this back to configuration management, some documentation about policy...
Security Management -- configuration management database is a biggie here of course, but further than that there are myriads of tools (snort with extra stuff for intrusion prevention, for example)
The biggie in the end open source or purchased, is work-flow and tying it all together. Do your systems get in your way or help you out? If they get in your way for the most part, then that is all wrong! If people using the systems hate them, that's a clear sign that it is all wrong, even if some managementy folks like aspects of them.
You have to do custom work with any of these systems, purchased, open source, or home-grown, to tie them together and help you do what you need done.
ITIL is just a framework to make sure you don't forget anything. If you do anything often enough, you need to proceduralize, document, and automate it so you don't have to any more or so it is easy.
This tying together helps connect other bits - like for reporting. You have to get reports using your monitoring with load generation tools to see about capacity reporting. SLA reporting comes from monitoring reports, but outages and tracking for problem management requires looking at, categorizing those incidents...
How likely will it be that my ipod in my pocket will be partially erased when I get it near the magnetic induction to charge wireless devices?
Does anyone know the science on this one - how vulnerable are memory sticks, ipods, and the like, to low level magnetic fields?
How small a magnetic field are we talking about here?
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It does not have airplay 2 (yet?). So it is not the product it was supposed to be in many important ways,. It is a while after release... airplay 2 must be hard to engineer.
Many are saying Apple Pay offers nothing to the merchant. Tell that to the former CEO of target ( http://www.startribune.com/bus... ) While tracking marketing data for customers is important to merchants, not having expensive data breaches is more important. Also, everyone seems to be ignoring that POS systems can be programmed to allow customers to enter their membership card first (or type in their phone number) enabling _plenty_ of customer tracking. Walgreens does this, and they use Apple Pay. The get all the customer-tracky goodness without the PCI-just-isn't-good-enough-any-more credit card information business danger.
If you consider CentOS, have you considered Oracle Linux. Why I've used RedHat: I use software packages not supported under CentOS. Those packages (including Oracle database software) are supported under Oracle linux. With Oracle Linux, you can choose to go a very-much-like CentOS path and not get support and not pay, or you can choose to pay and get support where you need it. Real support, not the "it is better to get help from the community than expect actual help from the company you are paying" kinds of support. I am NOT an Oracle linux user. I am evaluating this issue right now.
I do not want my TV directly getting internet services. I do not want streaming direct to my TV. I like using a Wii, Roku, Apple TV, etc. to hook up to my TV to do that for me. I hate the idea that my TV could be a security problem. TV manufacturers are not known for frequent firmware updates or their ability to understand the possible impact of being internet accessible.
I am thinking of trying the alphagrip keyboard. http://www.alphagrips.com/ I was looking for the "gripped in your palm" type keyboard and ran across this.
Google will not allow me to put my own ad engine to work on their site. Since when does an anti-trust investigation start when a service or product is not even on the market? This is at best premature. iphones do not rule the internet, and if Apple wants to experiment with different service offerings, then let 'em.
LTO4 tapes... Cost around $30 each for .8-1.6TB depending on your data. They are cheaper than "a Fry's disk" - they cost at most 1/3 the price of really cheap disk. If you have the infrastructure, they can even be encrypted. Tape wears better when being driven around. Costs 15% or 1/7 as much, roughly, as a disk to disk solution. Admittedly tapes do take up more personnel time, however.
For everyone who says backup to disk, I say it is great if you have the money. If I need to keep one full backup per week for 1 month, and one full backup per month for 1 year, I have about 16 copies. Doing this to disk requires, typically, for data I deal with, at least 2 disks for backup for each original disk of data. Often it might be more. Then, to do it right, you need to put another copy in another location - so to be generous, you now have 4 disks in addition to the original one. Enterprise storage costs around 10x a cheap disk, meaning the disk solution, with 4 extra disks per disk of data, is 4x10=40 units vs a tape is 1/3 the cost of cheap disk... 16/3=6 ... 40/6=6.666666 times as expensive - 1/6.66666 = .15 meaning tape costs 15% the cost of disk.
Seriously, does anyone backup to tape anymore?
Yes, people still backup to tape. LTO4 tapes are: 1) cheap - 1-2TB encrypted compressed for about $35/tape (cheaper than a Fry's disk!). 2) Easy to keep for a long time (I can keep a backup for 2+ years. That can be hard (or expensive) to do with a disk-to-disk based solution. If I want to use disk-to-disk and keep, say, one monthly backup for a year, I need at least 3-4x the disk space in my local disk-to-disk solution, and another copy in a remote location - 6-8x my disk space total. That costs a lot. Many people still use tape and will continue to do so.
Apple negotiated the current AT&T customer contract concept for the iphone - not an easy thing to do. It has brought AT&T millions of new users, and brought smart phones into the hands of millions of new users, redefining the "smart phone market". AT&T has so many new expensive data plan users to whom it was unable to sell before. People are not leaving the platform much due to problems. Yes it is expensive to run, but this whole discussion of reasons this is bad is missing the point. It has been a phenomenal success. As much as some people like to say AT&T's reputation is being ruined, I applaud them for moving forward as they have. AT&T's reputation has improved by offering such a service with such a great device. However, If I could not have an unlimited usage plan, I would not have an iphone. If it cost more than it does, I would not have bought a second phone for a family member. Requiring the data plan for the phone means AT&T has some users who pay and do not actually use the plan much. If AT&T made me pay more for higher use, and then I had problems, I would be incredibly upset and would refuse to pay for what I was not getting anyway. As a side note I have found it interesting that AT&T has not been willing to make tethering available for the iphone at any price - there are people who would pay much for it, and I can tether on a separate device with AT&T for $60/month.
A DVD weight is normally 0.034 lbs and a blue ray disc can hold 50GB. 1 petabyte = 1,048,576 GB / 50GB = 20,972 blue ray discs, which weighs approximately 713 lbs. Its not at all unwieldy, really!
Why shouldn't the olympics take the .org and leave him with the .com? Are the olympics listed officially as a for-profit business?
So I read the... not the article. The forums. Yeah. Before they inevitably vanish. Too many jokes are going through my brain. -- I see comments about open source licenses are already going. -- Jokes about the cracking scene are hopping -- jokes about Ubi (being soft on this issue, etc) Argh.
do something like 5.8Ghz phones and spread spectrum - use LOTS of "random" ports, initiate them from behind the firewall to make sure they'll get back through and boom comcast has more fun to work against!
First, your company must have a policy. SSN's are sensitive data. Second, your company must have a contract with any folks not working for your company requiring that this data be protected in a manner compliant with your company policies. Third, the recommendation to have the consultant work on site or work with the data on site is appropriate. Requiring that the data NOT leave your site sounds very reasonable. If they are remote use 2-factor authentication to get into such sensitive data and administration of systems.
stage the data elsewhere in a read-only copy that is updated daily. Let them paw through that. I do that, and it works well.
I believe this is a breach of HIPAA federal regulations as well.
How do you get the cable across the wide expanse? arrow + thin rope pulls thicker rope? Did someone have to start on the other side somehow - like from a long trek? These questions went unaddressed.
When I think about an ITIL toolset, or any IT toolset, I look at open and not so open tools...
Service Desk -- phone system + ticketing system integrated with email -- I don't know about the open source space here
Incident Management -- a non-technology system like ICS is very helpful, but then using a general tracking/ticketing system to record stuff is crucial - remedy, bugzilla, rt... they all work
Configuration Management -- you just need a database - excel can perform the function sometimes, but later mysql, oracle, heck, even ldap can be useful Release Management -- to me, this is mainly documentation, for which wikis, html, and yes, even word documents can be useful. This ties in with financial management strongly - it is an asset database too, or close to it.
Service Level Management -- Making sure the other tools you use let you track this is about all you generally need. On the reporting front, well, you need integration of tools - more on that later...
Capacity Management -- mrtg/cacti let you look at how much your systems are getting used, and you need some method to load up your systems to your mrtg/cacti, in a test environment, can tell you how much capacity you have
Problem Management -- use the same tracking for incident and problem management to make it easy... bugzilla or rt for example
Change Management -- 2 main bits - have a policy - that's documentation (wiki, html with apache, heck, even word docs can work) with plans and docs about the changes to be made.
Continuity Management -- planning (docs)
Availability Management -- ties strongly to SL management - monitoring is a big part of this - nagios is a great open source monitoring tool with a little help to have it handle different kinds of escalations you might wanna do.
Financial Management -- I generally take this back to configuration management, some documentation about policy...
Security Management -- configuration management database is a biggie here of course, but further than that there are myriads of tools (snort with extra stuff for intrusion prevention, for example)
The biggie in the end open source or purchased, is work-flow and tying it all together. Do your systems get in your way or help you out? If they get in your way for the most part, then that is all wrong! If people using the systems hate them, that's a clear sign that it is all wrong, even if some managementy folks like aspects of them.
You have to do custom work with any of these systems, purchased, open source, or home-grown, to tie them together and help you do what you need done.
ITIL is just a framework to make sure you don't forget anything. If you do anything often enough, you need to proceduralize, document, and automate it so you don't have to any more or so it is easy.
This tying together helps connect other bits - like for reporting. You have to get reports using your monitoring with load generation tools to see about capacity reporting. SLA reporting comes from monitoring reports, but outages and tracking for problem management requires looking at, categorizing those incidents...
How likely will it be that my ipod in my pocket will be partially erased when I get it near the magnetic induction to charge wireless devices? Does anyone know the science on this one - how vulnerable are memory sticks, ipods, and the like, to low level magnetic fields? How small a magnetic field are we talking about here?