What about a network that uses a structure like DNS for searching? It would a way to pass server locations/content up the hierarchy (not just queries) and it would need to be able to update the location of the "root" servers to they could be dynamic (or semi-dynamic). Of course, it would also need several nodes at each level so something like the Microsoft DNS disaster doesn't happen with part of the network.;)
The server itself is a Microsoft NT implementation, an operating system notorious for security holes.
It should say, "The server itself is a Microsoft NT implementation, an operating system notorious for poor administration."
99% of the web site hacks on WinNT are becuase some administrator (or desktop-support-person-forced-to-run-the-server) gave anonymous users write access to the website through Frontpage extensions. It's the equivalent of giving 'nobody' write/put permissions on your Apache site. Univeristy departments are probably the worst at this too, so it's no suprise that someone who's "idea of shutting down his computer is kicking it until the light goes off" could upload some webpages.
costs to clean viruses from networks, servers, and client systems; restore lost or damaged files; and the lost productivity of workers caused by system outages and downtime.
How does prevention get included into this? In fact, the maintenance time for virus software and time spent responding to hoaxes and false alarms shouldn't be included in my total either.
Do you include the costs of condoms and birth control with those of raising a child? But if I were impotent, I wouldn't need the birth control...
Well then, you wouldn't have the child either. Would you? Yea, well if I used Linux...
Then you wouldn't even have a girlfriend...and that's what I call prevention.
We pay about $24 per client for anti-virus software, which include server/groupware protection. I would estimate that we only spend 2-3 hours a month (400 user base) maintaining virus software and responding to infections. However, I don't think one can include the cost of the antivirus software in your estimate. Even if there were to CIH, Melissa, or Love Bug, we would still be running the software. It's part of the total data protection plan that includes backups, UPS's, redundant servers and hardware, A/C in the server rooms, and fire protection.
So that's 2 hours per month at $40/hour ==> $960/yr for 400 users.
What in the hell does this story have to do with Microsoft? Does slashdot really need to relate every negative story to something MS has done?
By the way, I just got my $35 rebate from Quicken on Saturday with no problems. It was less that a 2 week turn around, which is pretty good in my book. Maybe if this person got off their lazy ass and when down to Best Buy to get the software (like I did), they wouldn't be having these problems. Beside, BB doesn't hand out it's credit card information....
Apple will start selling OS X on x86 hardware by the end of the year and next year start sueing Dell, Compaq, IBM for selling Apple clones.;)
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...steal code from a company and redistribute it to as many people as possible for free.
Seriously, the only portrayal of open source software was that its free (beer) software....and that's it. What a noble idea that two kids out of college would write this fabulous software all by themselves and then give it away, only asking a few dollars for tech support. What happend to the benifit of the "million eyes" that open source offers?
I guess the producers could easily get this impression of open source software. Most people only use open source software becuase its free (beer), and they could care less about it being open. Look at the number of IE users we have on Slashdot....that just shows where most loyalties lie. Maybe it should be called Free Source instead of Open Source.
Liberum Help Desk is an open source, web-based help desk system. I designed this for use at my university and will probably be putting it in use where i work now. It has just about everything you've requested...except for a user knowledge base. Currently it only has support rep searchable KB, although a user accessed one could be easily written. It is done in ASP for IIS 4/5 and can use Access or SQL as a back-end DB. It's not the Linux/PHP/MySQL system you were probably looking for, but Win 2000 is only $99 for us higher-ed users.
Am I the only one that noticed the near doubling of rec & leisure major from '91 to '92? It would seem to me that this data is inaccurate. Maybe a "growing" major was reclassified during this time period as rec & leisure.
The decline in EE degrees makes sense though. My school saw a decline during that period too. The shift was to Mechanical and Chemical Engineering big time. But now Computer Engineering (my field) is gaining popularity and things will swing back. In fact, well over 50% of my EE graduating class was in Computer Engineering last year.
Your IIS servers are trying to use NTLM authentication with the users. If you don't want this happening, tell you NT admins to uncheck the 'Use NT Authentication' box in IIS.
This isn't acutally a bad thing. It provides a level of encryption for IIS to IE authentication without SSL. Obviously you're not using it, and probably blocking NetBIOS at your firewall....so just disable it.
Most of the news agencies said there were some problem in Palm Beach with Gore supporters accidentaly voting for Buchanan. This happened because they enlarged the font for the candidates names on the ballot, but the circles didn't line up then.
When looking at the numbers, these people that accidentally voted for Buchanan could be the difference. Currently Gore is down by 1,805 votes in Florida. In Palm Beach county, Buchanan recieved 3,407 votes.
So what, you say...that doesn't mean 3,407 should have voted for gore. Ahh...but Palm Beach is a heavily democratic area, and Buchanan recieve 0.79% of the vote there, compared to 0.29% state wide. In fact, nearly 20% of Buchanan's votes in Florida came from Palm Beach county.
If anything, citizens in Palm Beach should be aloud to recast their votes!!
I have never heard of HostPRO until I recieved spam from one of their customers. I forwarded the spam onto their abuse team and recieved this reply:
The message you forwarded involved one of our dedicated customers. Although HostPro
expects our dedicated customers to abide by our Acceptable Use Policy we allow them to
adopt their own procedures for handling complaints.
Does this mean I will be spammed at will with no recourse?
Since when has the education world been bleeding edge in IT? Sure, on the academic side they're researching multi-node, super-parallel, high-availablity, chrome-platted computer-go-fasters....but when it comes to their IT department they're using Windows 3.11, Mac OS 7....and NETSCAPE!
If I'm running a 100% Linux shop, where I am supposed to get a DOS boot disk? Take this up with your OEM's and mobo manufacturers. You can't blame MS because these people decide to rely on DOS boot disks to update a BIOS.
For a Linux/OSS orientated web site,/. certainly has enough Microsoft articles on it. Did we see this much about/. being hacked? No. And that would have actually pertained to a site running open source software....not some script kiddie scanning for trojans (unless QAZ is open source?).
Here's what I can remember from my semiconductor classes back on college. (Note: I'm no longer in the Comp. Engr field, so I'm a little rusty).
The speed that a processor can run at is dependant on how fast a signal can pass through a stage in the pipeline. The "speed" of that signal, going from high to low, or low to high is based on the equivalent capacitance of the circuit. At the.18 and.25 micron levels, the capacitance is primarily from the wires, not the transistors. That wire capacitance is based on many factors, like how close it is to other wires, good substrate connections, etc. None of these factors should change as the processor runs longer....which means capacitance shouldn't change and your relative stability shouldn't either.
Now that's from a text book. From personal experience here's what might be happening: the thermal compound (between cpu and heatsink) warms up and becomes more fluid. This fills all the tiny cracks and imperfections which gives better heatsink contact and stability. How's that sound???
My brother-in-law just finished law school this past year. While we were talking over a few beers one night, he said that the greatest demand is for lawyers with an MD (there only 400 or so in the country) and recently internet/computer law. There apparently aren't very many lawyers with the technical know-how to handle computer related cases (criminal to things like IP).
A lot of system administrators in the Windows World got their start from doing desktop support on Windows 3.x/9x. Then they were promoted to the rank of NT sysadmin when their company finally got a few NT boxes (probably to run SQL for their website).
I find that an extraordinarly large amount of NT admins really don't know what they are doing for this reason. Sure MS should require the sa account's password to be changed...but they didn't. Anyone with half of a clue should know to change the sa password, as they would change the local admin password on their NT boxes.
Incompetence plagues many of these so-called NT system adminitrators....incompetence you wouldn't see in most beginning *nix admins.
Most Windows vulnerabilities could never be exploited if people took even the most basic precautionary steps in securing their systems (i.e. changing a simple password).
Just some food for thought....
Note to Microsoft....it doesn't help having such low standards to obtain an MCSE. Any 12 year old can read a few books and pass the exams.
It was just yesterday that I was looking at a Compaq IPAQ. I just want something small and pretty to sit in my living room for quick internet access. But, the IPAQ only comes with a modem....didn't see anywhere to upgrade it with ethernet. I guess I won't be buying myself one of those.
For all of you monkeys that said MS could not appeal the restrictions that take place in 90 days, here's an article on Techweb on how MS is appealing Jackson's refusal to stay the restrictions. Enjoy.
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Just a thought....
99% of the web site hacks on WinNT are becuase some administrator (or desktop-support-person-forced-to-run-the-server) gave anonymous users write access to the website through Frontpage extensions. It's the equivalent of giving 'nobody' write/put permissions on your Apache site. Univeristy departments are probably the worst at this too, so it's no suprise that someone who's "idea of shutting down his computer is kicking it until the light goes off" could upload some webpages.
How does prevention get included into this? In fact, the maintenance time for virus software and time spent responding to hoaxes and false alarms shouldn't be included in my total either.
Do you include the costs of condoms and birth control with those of raising a child?
But if I were impotent, I wouldn't need the birth control...
Well then, you wouldn't have the child either. Would you?
Yea, well if I used Linux...
Then you wouldn't even have a girlfriend...and that's what I call prevention.
So that's 2 hours per month at $40/hour ==> $960/yr for 400 users.
By the way, I just got my $35 rebate from Quicken on Saturday with no problems. It was less that a 2 week turn around, which is pretty good in my book. Maybe if this person got off their lazy ass and when down to Best Buy to get the software (like I did), they wouldn't be having these problems. Beside, BB doesn't hand out it's credit card information....
Apple will start selling OS X on x86 hardware by the end of the year and next year start sueing Dell, Compaq, IBM for selling Apple clones. ;)
Seriously, the only portrayal of open source software was that its free (beer) software....and that's it. What a noble idea that two kids out of college would write this fabulous software all by themselves and then give it away, only asking a few dollars for tech support. What happend to the benifit of the "million eyes" that open source offers?
I guess the producers could easily get this impression of open source software. Most people only use open source software becuase its free (beer), and they could care less about it being open. Look at the number of IE users we have on Slashdot....that just shows where most loyalties lie. Maybe it should be called Free Source instead of Open Source.
Try out the demo here.
Main features are:
e-mail notification
problems entered by users or reps
users can view the problem status and add additional information
searchable problem database
usage reporting
comment forms
Talking about horror movies...doesn't the person in this photo look a lot like Vincent Price??
MS late? At least they have a RTM product....what's Sun doing?
The decline in EE degrees makes sense though. My school saw a decline during that period too. The shift was to Mechanical and Chemical Engineering big time. But now Computer Engineering (my field) is gaining popularity and things will swing back. In fact, well over 50% of my EE graduating class was in Computer Engineering last year.
This isn't acutally a bad thing. It provides a level of encryption for IIS to IE authentication without SSL. Obviously you're not using it, and probably blocking NetBIOS at your firewall....so just disable it.
When looking at the numbers, these people that accidentally voted for Buchanan could be the difference. Currently Gore is down by 1,805 votes in Florida. In Palm Beach county, Buchanan recieved 3,407 votes.
So what, you say...that doesn't mean 3,407 should have voted for gore. Ahh...but Palm Beach is a heavily democratic area, and Buchanan recieve 0.79% of the vote there, compared to 0.29% state wide. In fact, nearly 20% of Buchanan's votes in Florida came from Palm Beach county.
If anything, citizens in Palm Beach should be aloud to recast their votes!!
Does this mean I will be spammed at will with no recourse?
Since when has the education world been bleeding edge in IT? Sure, on the academic side they're researching multi-node, super-parallel, high-availablity, chrome-platted computer-go-fasters....but when it comes to their IT department they're using Windows 3.11, Mac OS 7....and NETSCAPE!
If I'm running a 100% Linux shop, where I am supposed to get a DOS boot disk? Take this up with your OEM's and mobo manufacturers. You can't blame MS because these people decide to rely on DOS boot disks to update a BIOS.
For a Linux/OSS orientated web site, /. certainly has enough Microsoft articles on it. Did we see this much about /. being hacked? No. And that would have actually pertained to a site running open source software....not some script kiddie scanning for trojans (unless QAZ is open source?).
The speed that a processor can run at is dependant on how fast a signal can pass through a stage in the pipeline. The "speed" of that signal, going from high to low, or low to high is based on the equivalent capacitance of the circuit. At the .18 and .25 micron levels, the capacitance is primarily from the wires, not the transistors. That wire capacitance is based on many factors, like how close it is to other wires, good substrate connections, etc. None of these factors should change as the processor runs longer....which means capacitance shouldn't change and your relative stability shouldn't either.
Now that's from a text book. From personal experience here's what might be happening: the thermal compound (between cpu and heatsink) warms up and becomes more fluid. This fills all the tiny cracks and imperfections which gives better heatsink contact and stability. How's that sound???
My brother-in-law just finished law school this past year. While we were talking over a few beers one night, he said that the greatest demand is for lawyers with an MD (there only 400 or so in the country) and recently internet/computer law. There apparently aren't very many lawyers with the technical know-how to handle computer related cases (criminal to things like IP).
Lesson learned here. Don't even jokingly insult the /. gods (i.e. Linus).
Here's my take on this....
A lot of system administrators in the Windows World got their start from doing desktop support on Windows 3.x/9x. Then they were promoted to the rank of NT sysadmin when their company finally got a few NT boxes (probably to run SQL for their website).
I find that an extraordinarly large amount of NT admins really don't know what they are doing for this reason. Sure MS should require the sa account's password to be changed...but they didn't. Anyone with half of a clue should know to change the sa password, as they would change the local admin password on their NT boxes.
Incompetence plagues many of these so-called NT system adminitrators....incompetence you wouldn't see in most beginning *nix admins.
Most Windows vulnerabilities could never be exploited if people took even the most basic precautionary steps in securing their systems (i.e. changing a simple password).
Just some food for thought....
Note to Microsoft....it doesn't help having such low standards to obtain an MCSE. Any 12 year old can read a few books and pass the exams.
It was just yesterday that I was looking at a Compaq IPAQ. I just want something small and pretty to sit in my living room for quick internet access. But, the IPAQ only comes with a modem....didn't see anywhere to upgrade it with ethernet. I guess I won't be buying myself one of those.
High Availability & 1.0 Don't see those together very often.
For all of you monkeys that said MS could not appeal the restrictions that take place in 90 days, here's an article on Techweb on how MS is appealing Jackson's refusal to stay the restrictions. Enjoy.