If they could match the money, or come close, and trade a day of telecommute, it might be worth staying. 5k and monday or friday at home might well be an even trade for 7k and a reduced daily commute.
You were at war with the nationalist government of China, which fled to Taiwan in exile after Mao and the Communist Party won their guerrilla insurrection and took over the mainland. Taiwan was known as Formosa and was definitely part of China. I only split Taiwan out in my original comment because it exists, more or less, as an independent state today, and also because until Nixon wanted to attempt to isolate the Soviet Union, we recognized Taiwan as "China" and they held the seat on the UN Security Council. But hey, your story is good, too.
The reason that Germany and Japan didn't win WW2, other than having Italy drag them down and open up another front of attack, is US industrial production. Before we entered the war, we were able to supply Britain and Russia. When we entered the war, we could out-produce everyone. Imagine if we were heavily dependent on China, Taiwan, etc for production of good back then? We'd be stuck -- not because we were at war with them, but because Japan was and had them cut off. You have to think about that, too. Anything that threatens your supply chain threatens you and will, eventually, lead to loss of life. That's just how it works,
I was going to mod, but I decided to post instead. I used to work at one of the companies mentioned, and what I hear through my channels is kind of retarded. One of the so-called "admins", who really ought to have known better, set up a tunnel from a personal VPS to an internal machine which had no internet-accessible address -- just the tunnel. The VPS got popped and that gave them access to an internal machine which had SSH keys as root to every single VM node and shared hosting box, as well as every dedicated machine on which the customer didn't have root access.
All the VPS accounts were vulnerable, because the host nodes were compromised, so even if a VPS customer had root, they were vulnerable, too. However, that was the kind of irresponsible, non-professional crap that I saw going on there and is why I left about 2 years ago: I assumed that the longer I stayed, the more likely it was to tarnish my reputation and ruin my career. Well, that and the fact they paid for shit and worked my like a salve tied to a shift bench on a factory floor. But then, I don't really know what anyone can expect web hosting is pretty much the fast food of it, and that's the level of talent that one can reasonably expect to retain for very long, or attract in the first place in most cases.
Some how the VPS that I left hosted there didn't get whacked, though. I guess they just forgot about me.
I live just a bit North of DC now, and grew up in Virginia. In my whole life, I have never felt an earth quake. Frankly, I don't blame anyone who thought there was an explosion or something. It took me a few seconds to realize what was going on -- first I thought my co-workers were pranking me -- because, seriously, who the hell thinks "earthquake" on the east coast?
Well, I just watched the video on CNN. The "models" were 1/10 scale replicas of an F4 Phantom and an F86 Sabre. The plan was to use them as drones, and the explosions were mostly just a decoy. He and his helpers would then use the assault rifles to fire on people while they left the buildings, since you can bet your butt the pentagon and, especially, the Capitol building have evacuation procedures and that people would be coming out.
Besides, the goals of "terrorism," ever since the Anglo-Irish War, has always been to cause the enemy to grossly over-react, thus causing domestic support for your oppressors to erode. Example: in 1922, the IRA assassinated 6 British special police within the span of about an hour. The auxiliary police and army then shot up a gaelic football match, killing civilians. There was then backlash in England and a loss of support for continued occupation of Ireland.
This plan really wasn't that bad, all things considered -- especially when you realize that any semblance of a successful attack on those two targets would bring down a crack-down on civil liberties so fast we'd all start reminiscing about when we had all those freedoms left under the PATRIOT ACT.
I actually really like Office, even Office 2010 believe it or not. I find Google Docs to be horrible and cause more problems than anything else. Open/Libre Office just isn't there yet. I'm not saying it couldn't be, I'm just saying that its the type of project that requires corporate sponsorship and paid coders because office suites aren't "cool".
Star Office fell by the wayside and got turned into Open Office in a Netscape-like death-throw. Word Perfect could have won the word processor game, but they sat on their asses too long and now no one but lawyers and weirdos uses it anymore. Say what you want about Microsoft from a techie/nerdy perspective, but face it -- when it comes to business and productivity applications, they really have their ducks in a row. Viso is sine qua non, and there is nothing else that touches it. The ribbon in Office takes some time to get used to, but I wouldn't really want to go back to the old interface at this point.
My office subscribes to google docs, largely for email and calendar. the actual "docs" part of google docs is a piece of crap that no one can work with, but not for the fact that half the people in engineering use Linux and everyone not in engineering has a Mac. I have Linux and FreeBSD in VMs and run Windows as a host because I can't live without Visio and Google Docs pisses me the fuck off when I'm trying to write documentation or project proposals. I even use Office on my MBP because, lets face it, iWork is for degenerate hippies.
When Google Docs or Open Office can open a doc or docx without exploding for the formatting all over the place and making the document unusable until you jigger it back into more-or-less the same way it was supposed to be, only to be completely broken for the original party when you send it back, then maybe it would make sense to consider them. Until then, I really think they're only good for situations where you're not actually doing work for money and needing to inter-operate between many different people, some of whom are not using them.
I would be willing to bet that the people who will have this phone issued to them will have even less personal privacy on the device than normal cell phone users. After all, what good is securing the device from evesdropping by foreign intelligence if you can't catch people who are spying from the inside? State security and personal privacy aren't the same thing, not that the difference justifies fucking us, as citizens, over in the name of stopping turrerism.
It's not so much that it is "safer", per se. Forcing users to login as themselves and then use sudo allows you to restrict access to groups based on roles, as well as leaving an audit trail that allows for greater accountability. If everyone can go all willie-nilly around acting as root, then you're screwed when no one owns up to fucking something up. Of course, this also means needing to disable 'sudo su' for all but the lead admin or a couple of other seniors for the policy to be really enforced. However, it doesn't sound like this guy needs to do all of that, and in fact would probably take a while to figure out how to configure his sudoers file properly, since apparently he has no experience with Unix or Linux systems.
As to his question though, I really like RHEL and am using it a lot at work these days. I used to work at a web hosting company that ran on CentOS, and its ok, but they've really dropped the ball with the 6.x series. I have one CentOS 6 server at work running PostgreSQL and MongoDB for some projects, and the core system packages don't get updated when the RHEL systems do. Additionally, you'll want EPEL and RPMFusion added to your Yum repos to get most of the "good" stuff that gets left out of core packages, like tmux, which whips screen's ass so hard it isn't even funny. After so many years using Free/Open BSD and Red Hat (well before RHEL), I honestly can't stand Ubuntu server. It is completely counter-intuitive for me. If you don't have anything to unlearn, it's probably ok, and not needing to add additional repositories would be a bonus.
It really sounds like he should just buy some cheap shared hosting that has something like cPanel and automated software installers and skip all of this, unless he's really, really interested in learning and taking the time to do it right.
It will let him see where traffic is going, what protocol it is using, etc. You can then use the data to make policy decisions and take action. Frankly, I don't think that he's going to be able to find free/floss product that does this, because this isn't the sort of thing that floss people want to volunteer to do, is it? That means, he's either going to have to pay to realize that it's not so much a technical problem as it is a management issue and that gathering intelligence about network usage will not only allow him to get a better handle on what steps he can take, but also provide the data to management that they need to take appropriate action on their end.
Yes, but it was the next-hop route of a darknet collector looking for traffic that shouldn't be. I've also used it for netflow analysis. It could use some improvements, but depending on what you need and what you have available, your mileage will vary.
ntop (http://www.ntop.org) should be able to do more or less what you want, but you might have to tweak a few things. However, it would also help you get a better handle on all your network usage in general, so I'd look into it anyway if I were in your situation.
No, I think I might have to more or less agree with ge7 on this one. However, the larger issue to me seems to be that many people, especially on slashdot, seem to be personally offended by corporations acting like corporations, but look the other way when "their team" does the same thing. It's almost like some sort of economic gladiatorial combat -- people pick a favorite, root for their guy, and take any excuse they can to justify being against the other guy while watching the two beat each other up using whatever weapons they have -- patents, trademarks, actual innovation/invention, etc.
Frankly, why should I or anyone else really care that MS was convicted of monopoly behaviour back in the 90s? It didn't stop me from building my own systems and not putting Windows on them back then. I never had to pay the "windows tax". I've owned Apples, even recent ones, but I've never been that impressed by them. I prefer my 3-month-old Thinkpad to my 2-month-old work-provided 15" MBP. I have my Thinkpad running Windows 7 and Linux in FreeBSD in VMs. My desktop workstation at work is Windows 7 with Linux and FreeBSD VMs, and all my servers are Linux and FreeBSD. I couldn't be happier with this arraingement.
I don't give a crap about crusading or causes or whatever have you with regards to software anymore, and I'm not going to try and run a "desktop" linux and then act indignant because I decided to put myself in 4% of the market and then complain with the big vendors don't pay attention to me. Frankly, it seems like a lot of people who are just starting out with Linux are doing -- giving themselves a reason to be indignant and feel morally superior to the big, bad Microsoft. That's why I find it ironic that so many *nix-types love Apple so damned much. Apple is just as bad as MS ever was, and worse in some cases -- even technically. it took until Lion for DEP and ASLR to be properly implemented, for instance.
I can understand if people are frustrated for having to work with MS products at work, but I have had plenty of jobs where I didn't have to do anything at all with MS products -- those jobs aren't that hard to find, if people want to avoid working with Windows. I'm not a Windows admin, I'm a Unix admin in a security research group and I like it. However, I find Windows to be a perfectly acceptable desktop operating system. Office beats the shit out of OOo, and I haven't found anything that can touch Visio. A lot of people like it, most people know how to use it, and that should be that. Why the hell does Linux have to have world domination? I don't get it.
If Microsoft is anything to judge by, this very well may be a huge mistake, just like when Gates resigned as CEO and put Ballmer in charge. Let's just hope the Cook is better than Balmer at steering the company and not just counting the beans.
Unfortunately, if there are vSphere clients that run on something other than Windows, I am apparently incapable of finding them on VMWare's website. I think vSphere 5 will have a Linux client though. So, the best he could hope for it using a VM and then resetting it back to a snapshot after use.
You must be joking because anyone capable of coming up with such an elaborate plan would be smart enough to post a confession on a public forum. At least, I like to think so.
I left my laptop in my hotel (did not stay at the Rio), only used the hardwire network while in my room, and used the VPN to do anything remotely important by way of my office. To the conference, I only brought a pen and a pad to take notes (most of the talks were total ass this year, although I did enjoy the asian apt tactics talk) and made no calls that weren't just trying to locate co-workers in the crowds between sessions, otherwise BBM only, and I would turn the thing off when I wasn't actually planning on using it.
One of my coworkers had turned off wifi on his android, but still managed to have his twitter password grabbed and his account hijacked for a while, and we all had assumed that he was connecting to a rogue cell tower, particularly after the UAV-based rogue GSM tower thing.
That's not the point. The point is that Apple is doing quite fine without even worrying about success in the "enterprise" market. The consumer market is where they are focusing and it is totally paying out for them. It's sort of the opposite of the strategy that Microsoft took.
the oath is to defend the constitution but also to obey the orders of the President, who is Commander in Chief, and the Officers, who serve as the President's representative at various levels of the chain of command (technically, all commissioned officers are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, but that all pretty much happens in batches through bureaucracy these days). Here are the full texts of the oaths of enlistment and of officers:
No, I'm pretty sure is the ice cream-related diabetes that gimped them. However, apparently he does GIMP them. The difference is subtle, yet profound:)
I hope the defendant doesn't give in. Personally, I'd rather sit in jail on contempt of court charges than go to big boy prison for whatever the state were investigating me for. At least with the contempt of court charges, I run the chance of becoming a cause celeb for standing up for principles, which is way better than being convicted of a crime.
I got into an argument about this very case with my (non-American) girlfriend the other day. She honestly doesn't get the fifth amendment and assumes that anyone who invokes it is basically admitting guilt, which isn't the case. She's from central America. You would think that people down in that part of the world would have some recent memory of unjust laws. Just because something is the law, doesn't make it right, and it is better for all of us that we keep the fifth amendment intact for cases when the law is not just than to violate it just so that someone can get convicted of fraud, murder or anything else.
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If they could match the money, or come close, and trade a day of telecommute, it might be worth staying. 5k and monday or friday at home might well be an even trade for 7k and a reduced daily commute.
You were at war with the nationalist government of China, which fled to Taiwan in exile after Mao and the Communist Party won their guerrilla insurrection and took over the mainland. Taiwan was known as Formosa and was definitely part of China. I only split Taiwan out in my original comment because it exists, more or less, as an independent state today, and also because until Nixon wanted to attempt to isolate the Soviet Union, we recognized Taiwan as "China" and they held the seat on the UN Security Council. But hey, your story is good, too.
The reason that Germany and Japan didn't win WW2, other than having Italy drag them down and open up another front of attack, is US industrial production. Before we entered the war, we were able to supply Britain and Russia. When we entered the war, we could out-produce everyone. Imagine if we were heavily dependent on China, Taiwan, etc for production of good back then? We'd be stuck -- not because we were at war with them, but because Japan was and had them cut off. You have to think about that, too. Anything that threatens your supply chain threatens you and will, eventually, lead to loss of life. That's just how it works,
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I was going to mod, but I decided to post instead. I used to work at one of the companies mentioned, and what I hear through my channels is kind of retarded. One of the so-called "admins", who really ought to have known better, set up a tunnel from a personal VPS to an internal machine which had no internet-accessible address -- just the tunnel. The VPS got popped and that gave them access to an internal machine which had SSH keys as root to every single VM node and shared hosting box, as well as every dedicated machine on which the customer didn't have root access.
All the VPS accounts were vulnerable, because the host nodes were compromised, so even if a VPS customer had root, they were vulnerable, too. However, that was the kind of irresponsible, non-professional crap that I saw going on there and is why I left about 2 years ago: I assumed that the longer I stayed, the more likely it was to tarnish my reputation and ruin my career. Well, that and the fact they paid for shit and worked my like a salve tied to a shift bench on a factory floor. But then, I don't really know what anyone can expect web hosting is pretty much the fast food of it, and that's the level of talent that one can reasonably expect to retain for very long, or attract in the first place in most cases.
Some how the VPS that I left hosted there didn't get whacked, though. I guess they just forgot about me.
I live just a bit North of DC now, and grew up in Virginia. In my whole life, I have never felt an earth quake. Frankly, I don't blame anyone who thought there was an explosion or something. It took me a few seconds to realize what was going on -- first I thought my co-workers were pranking me -- because, seriously, who the hell thinks "earthquake" on the east coast?
Well, I just watched the video on CNN. The "models" were 1/10 scale replicas of an F4 Phantom and an F86 Sabre. The plan was to use them as drones, and the explosions were mostly just a decoy. He and his helpers would then use the assault rifles to fire on people while they left the buildings, since you can bet your butt the pentagon and, especially, the Capitol building have evacuation procedures and that people would be coming out.
Besides, the goals of "terrorism," ever since the Anglo-Irish War, has always been to cause the enemy to grossly over-react, thus causing domestic support for your oppressors to erode. Example: in 1922, the IRA assassinated 6 British special police within the span of about an hour. The auxiliary police and army then shot up a gaelic football match, killing civilians. There was then backlash in England and a loss of support for continued occupation of Ireland.
This plan really wasn't that bad, all things considered -- especially when you realize that any semblance of a successful attack on those two targets would bring down a crack-down on civil liberties so fast we'd all start reminiscing about when we had all those freedoms left under the PATRIOT ACT.
I actually really like Office, even Office 2010 believe it or not. I find Google Docs to be horrible and cause more problems than anything else. Open/Libre Office just isn't there yet. I'm not saying it couldn't be, I'm just saying that its the type of project that requires corporate sponsorship and paid coders because office suites aren't "cool".
Star Office fell by the wayside and got turned into Open Office in a Netscape-like death-throw. Word Perfect could have won the word processor game, but they sat on their asses too long and now no one but lawyers and weirdos uses it anymore. Say what you want about Microsoft from a techie/nerdy perspective, but face it -- when it comes to business and productivity applications, they really have their ducks in a row. Viso is sine qua non, and there is nothing else that touches it. The ribbon in Office takes some time to get used to, but I wouldn't really want to go back to the old interface at this point.
My office subscribes to google docs, largely for email and calendar. the actual "docs" part of google docs is a piece of crap that no one can work with, but not for the fact that half the people in engineering use Linux and everyone not in engineering has a Mac. I have Linux and FreeBSD in VMs and run Windows as a host because I can't live without Visio and Google Docs pisses me the fuck off when I'm trying to write documentation or project proposals. I even use Office on my MBP because, lets face it, iWork is for degenerate hippies.
When Google Docs or Open Office can open a doc or docx without exploding for the formatting all over the place and making the document unusable until you jigger it back into more-or-less the same way it was supposed to be, only to be completely broken for the original party when you send it back, then maybe it would make sense to consider them. Until then, I really think they're only good for situations where you're not actually doing work for money and needing to inter-operate between many different people, some of whom are not using them.
I would be willing to bet that the people who will have this phone issued to them will have even less personal privacy on the device than normal cell phone users. After all, what good is securing the device from evesdropping by foreign intelligence if you can't catch people who are spying from the inside? State security and personal privacy aren't the same thing, not that the difference justifies fucking us, as citizens, over in the name of stopping turrerism.
It's not so much that it is "safer", per se. Forcing users to login as themselves and then use sudo allows you to restrict access to groups based on roles, as well as leaving an audit trail that allows for greater accountability. If everyone can go all willie-nilly around acting as root, then you're screwed when no one owns up to fucking something up. Of course, this also means needing to disable 'sudo su' for all but the lead admin or a couple of other seniors for the policy to be really enforced. However, it doesn't sound like this guy needs to do all of that, and in fact would probably take a while to figure out how to configure his sudoers file properly, since apparently he has no experience with Unix or Linux systems.
As to his question though, I really like RHEL and am using it a lot at work these days. I used to work at a web hosting company that ran on CentOS, and its ok, but they've really dropped the ball with the 6.x series. I have one CentOS 6 server at work running PostgreSQL and MongoDB for some projects, and the core system packages don't get updated when the RHEL systems do. Additionally, you'll want EPEL and RPMFusion added to your Yum repos to get most of the "good" stuff that gets left out of core packages, like tmux, which whips screen's ass so hard it isn't even funny. After so many years using Free/Open BSD and Red Hat (well before RHEL), I honestly can't stand Ubuntu server. It is completely counter-intuitive for me. If you don't have anything to unlearn, it's probably ok, and not needing to add additional repositories would be a bonus.
It really sounds like he should just buy some cheap shared hosting that has something like cPanel and automated software installers and skip all of this, unless he's really, really interested in learning and taking the time to do it right.
It will let him see where traffic is going, what protocol it is using, etc. You can then use the data to make policy decisions and take action. Frankly, I don't think that he's going to be able to find free/floss product that does this, because this isn't the sort of thing that floss people want to volunteer to do, is it? That means, he's either going to have to pay to realize that it's not so much a technical problem as it is a management issue and that gathering intelligence about network usage will not only allow him to get a better handle on what steps he can take, but also provide the data to management that they need to take appropriate action on their end.
Yes, but it was the next-hop route of a darknet collector looking for traffic that shouldn't be. I've also used it for netflow analysis. It could use some improvements, but depending on what you need and what you have available, your mileage will vary.
ntop (http://www.ntop.org) should be able to do more or less what you want, but you might have to tweak a few things. However, it would also help you get a better handle on all your network usage in general, so I'd look into it anyway if I were in your situation.
No, I think I might have to more or less agree with ge7 on this one. However, the larger issue to me seems to be that many people, especially on slashdot, seem to be personally offended by corporations acting like corporations, but look the other way when "their team" does the same thing. It's almost like some sort of economic gladiatorial combat -- people pick a favorite, root for their guy, and take any excuse they can to justify being against the other guy while watching the two beat each other up using whatever weapons they have -- patents, trademarks, actual innovation/invention, etc.
Frankly, why should I or anyone else really care that MS was convicted of monopoly behaviour back in the 90s? It didn't stop me from building my own systems and not putting Windows on them back then. I never had to pay the "windows tax". I've owned Apples, even recent ones, but I've never been that impressed by them. I prefer my 3-month-old Thinkpad to my 2-month-old work-provided 15" MBP. I have my Thinkpad running Windows 7 and Linux in FreeBSD in VMs. My desktop workstation at work is Windows 7 with Linux and FreeBSD VMs, and all my servers are Linux and FreeBSD. I couldn't be happier with this arraingement.
I don't give a crap about crusading or causes or whatever have you with regards to software anymore, and I'm not going to try and run a "desktop" linux and then act indignant because I decided to put myself in 4% of the market and then complain with the big vendors don't pay attention to me. Frankly, it seems like a lot of people who are just starting out with Linux are doing -- giving themselves a reason to be indignant and feel morally superior to the big, bad Microsoft. That's why I find it ironic that so many *nix-types love Apple so damned much. Apple is just as bad as MS ever was, and worse in some cases -- even technically. it took until Lion for DEP and ASLR to be properly implemented, for instance.
I can understand if people are frustrated for having to work with MS products at work, but I have had plenty of jobs where I didn't have to do anything at all with MS products -- those jobs aren't that hard to find, if people want to avoid working with Windows. I'm not a Windows admin, I'm a Unix admin in a security research group and I like it. However, I find Windows to be a perfectly acceptable desktop operating system. Office beats the shit out of OOo, and I haven't found anything that can touch Visio. A lot of people like it, most people know how to use it, and that should be that. Why the hell does Linux have to have world domination? I don't get it.
If Microsoft is anything to judge by, this very well may be a huge mistake, just like when Gates resigned as CEO and put Ballmer in charge. Let's just hope the Cook is better than Balmer at steering the company and not just counting the beans.
Millions of people are wrong about most things. But yeah, that doesn't mean that any random person can be counted on to really know any better.
Probably because everyone who is skilled in the art of software spends all day on the internet bitching about the patent office?
Suicide bombers don't really need to plan on evasion and escape. Just sayin'.
Unfortunately, if there are vSphere clients that run on something other than Windows, I am apparently incapable of finding them on VMWare's website. I think vSphere 5 will have a Linux client though. So, the best he could hope for it using a VM and then resetting it back to a snapshot after use.
You must be joking because anyone capable of coming up with such an elaborate plan would be smart enough to post a confession on a public forum. At least, I like to think so.
I left my laptop in my hotel (did not stay at the Rio), only used the hardwire network while in my room, and used the VPN to do anything remotely important by way of my office. To the conference, I only brought a pen and a pad to take notes (most of the talks were total ass this year, although I did enjoy the asian apt tactics talk) and made no calls that weren't just trying to locate co-workers in the crowds between sessions, otherwise BBM only, and I would turn the thing off when I wasn't actually planning on using it.
One of my coworkers had turned off wifi on his android, but still managed to have his twitter password grabbed and his account hijacked for a while, and we all had assumed that he was connecting to a rogue cell tower, particularly after the UAV-based rogue GSM tower thing.
That's not the point. The point is that Apple is doing quite fine without even worrying about success in the "enterprise" market. The consumer market is where they are focusing and it is totally paying out for them. It's sort of the opposite of the strategy that Microsoft took.
the oath is to defend the constitution but also to obey the orders of the President, who is Commander in Chief, and the Officers, who serve as the President's representative at various levels of the chain of command (technically, all commissioned officers are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, but that all pretty much happens in batches through bureaucracy these days). Here are the full texts of the oaths of enlistment and of officers:
http://www.history.army.mil/html/faq/oaths.html
No, I'm pretty sure is the ice cream-related diabetes that gimped them. However, apparently he does GIMP them. The difference is subtle, yet profound :)
I hope the defendant doesn't give in. Personally, I'd rather sit in jail on contempt of court charges than go to big boy prison for whatever the state were investigating me for. At least with the contempt of court charges, I run the chance of becoming a cause celeb for standing up for principles, which is way better than being convicted of a crime.
I got into an argument about this very case with my (non-American) girlfriend the other day. She honestly doesn't get the fifth amendment and assumes that anyone who invokes it is basically admitting guilt, which isn't the case. She's from central America. You would think that people down in that part of the world would have some recent memory of unjust laws. Just because something is the law, doesn't make it right, and it is better for all of us that we keep the fifth amendment intact for cases when the law is not just than to violate it just so that someone can get convicted of fraud, murder or anything else.