They did it that way back then because computers were obscenely expensive and rare.
Now they're plentiful and cheap, but expensive to administer effectively... there's still an economy of scale there, especially for smaller businesses.
Except for the aliases; if the authoritative hostnames are chosen in a way to not reveal the role of the machine, the aliases usually make it clear. That's something you may not want people knowing, although if your aliases are blindingly obvious they could still probe for them with a dictionary attack.
My father worked for Imperial Oil (aka Esso) at a bulk transfer plant, and they had really, REALLY fun switches there. Gas-powered switches that you pumped up then triggered, so they would throw the blades at an insanely fast speed to minimize the chance of sparking (and therefore minimize the chance of going WOOMF). They sounded like a freaking gunshot. Great stuff.
I've certainly come to know the auditor's presence as a normal thing, but that may largely be because of SOX compliance for our American clients, etc. We have to demonstrate (among many other things) paper trails for system access, process and procedures (both defined and verified as followed), etc.
Just imagine how fast the 32-bit ID pointer would roll over on a database for close calls between cars.... Somehow I suspect that even with the number of close calls in the air and on the runway, the planes are safer per capita than cars.
I take it you're not on any discussion mailing lists, then?
All MS is doing is cranking up bandwidth costs now. Instead of one copy being sent to all 68 subscribers on the server, my listserv now has to send them 68 copies of the same damned thing. Incredibly inefficient, but the subscribers want the email, so that's what'll happen.
Er... Yes, actually. And so it has been with every mobile I've ever owned. Shut. Not shut off. As in "close your RAZR". It would be rather stupid if my clamshell-style phone turned off whenever I closed it.
Considering there's a pretty trivial user-side workaround for that bug I'd be a bit surprised if it was really the one impacting these Vista-using Swedes. The articles make it sound like no matter what the Vista users do, they're out of luck.
You're right, the rest of the world has just had to put up with the US and Russia pointing enough missiles at each other for the residual damage to wipe out humanity multiple times over, for decades. We couldn't possibly understand how scary it was for you to have a few missiles in place in Cuba for a few months.
There's a big difference between being ignorant (novice) and being stupid (idiot).
The ignorant person will still ask the right kinds of questions, and have a half a clue which direction they should be looking. The stupid person will either sit there and wait to be spoon-fed, or charge off randomly trying things that have no relevance to the issue at hand, mucking things up worse.
It's all about the way the person thinks. A person with a sharp mind and good general troubleshooting skills can pick up the details easily; the dullard will never excel and only achieves mediocrity with herculean effort by trainers.
what if one of the bugs was that authentication wasn't checked when it should be? Users hate entering passwords, and fixing that bug would REALLY annoy them.
Some UAT would have helped on that, though. The OP wasn't clear if the complaints happened after release, or during pre-release user acceptance testing.
No, I believe he means the parallels to people who want to see the source code for the Diebold voting machines (proprietary scoring format), and who wins the elections (contract).
Arguably, I would think that part of the problem that leads to the long outages is the rarity of the systems.
As the systems become more common, you are more likely to have a sufficient supply of trained technicians, because their cost gets spread over more units. I would think that with only one garage, they keep the number of techies to an absolute minimum.
The only thing I found in XP that wasn't in 2K, and which drove me to upgrade my work laptop, was mixed-resolutions on multiple monitors. Under 2K, even with the special ATI drivers, I couldn't have different resolutions on the laptop screen and on the external monitor. Given that the internal could only do 1024x768, that really sucked.
The problem with the rules is that these people set their own salaries. Well, not literally their own, but birds of a feather are setting salaries for each other. Of course they scratch each other's backs while not recognizing the work that is done in jobs they've never held.
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Frankly, if it makes sense, why not?
They did it that way back then because computers were obscenely expensive and rare.
Now they're plentiful and cheap, but expensive to administer effectively... there's still an economy of scale there, especially for smaller businesses.
Except for the aliases; if the authoritative hostnames are chosen in a way to not reveal the role of the machine, the aliases usually make it clear. That's something you may not want people knowing, although if your aliases are blindingly obvious they could still probe for them with a dictionary attack.
My father worked for Imperial Oil (aka Esso) at a bulk transfer plant, and they had really, REALLY fun switches there. Gas-powered switches that you pumped up then triggered, so they would throw the blades at an insanely fast speed to minimize the chance of sparking (and therefore minimize the chance of going WOOMF). They sounded like a freaking gunshot. Great stuff.
I've certainly come to know the auditor's presence as a normal thing, but that may largely be because of SOX compliance for our American clients, etc. We have to demonstrate (among many other things) paper trails for system access, process and procedures (both defined and verified as followed), etc.
Just imagine how fast the 32-bit ID pointer would roll over on a database for close calls between cars.... Somehow I suspect that even with the number of close calls in the air and on the runway, the planes are safer per capita than cars.
I take it you're not on any discussion mailing lists, then?
All MS is doing is cranking up bandwidth costs now. Instead of one copy being sent to all 68 subscribers on the server, my listserv now has to send them 68 copies of the same damned thing. Incredibly inefficient, but the subscribers want the email, so that's what'll happen.
I fail to see the part of law where he's guaranteed to have a business model that works no matter what may compete with him.
Er... Yes, actually. And so it has been with every mobile I've ever owned.
Shut. Not shut off. As in "close your RAZR". It would be rather stupid if my clamshell-style phone turned off whenever I closed it.
Considering there's a pretty trivial user-side workaround for that bug I'd be a bit surprised if it was really the one impacting these Vista-using Swedes. The articles make it sound like no matter what the Vista users do, they're out of luck.
Which applies to troops in uniform, of nations who are signatories to the convention.
Which last I checked, included the US Army and the United States.
It's not a bilateral agreement. Your side can still be in violation even if the other side is not a signatory.
By "weed-removing attachments" they better mean lasers, or I'm going to be mighty disappointed.
You're right, the rest of the world has just had to put up with the US and Russia pointing enough missiles at each other for the residual damage to wipe out humanity multiple times over, for decades. We couldn't possibly understand how scary it was for you to have a few missiles in place in Cuba for a few months.
There's a big difference between being ignorant (novice) and being stupid (idiot).
The ignorant person will still ask the right kinds of questions, and have a half a clue which direction they should be looking. The stupid person will either sit there and wait to be spoon-fed, or charge off randomly trying things that have no relevance to the issue at hand, mucking things up worse.
It's all about the way the person thinks. A person with a sharp mind and good general troubleshooting skills can pick up the details easily; the dullard will never excel and only achieves mediocrity with herculean effort by trainers.
Yes and no...
what if one of the bugs was that authentication wasn't checked when it should be? Users hate entering passwords, and fixing that bug would REALLY annoy them.
Some UAT would have helped on that, though. The OP wasn't clear if the complaints happened after release, or during pre-release user acceptance testing.
No, I believe he means the parallels to people who want to see the source code for the Diebold voting machines (proprietary scoring format), and who wins the elections (contract).
I'm pretty sure that Sun, IBM, and HP sell their UNIX systems to the government, and centrally develop those too.
He didn't specify Linux, he said UNIX.
Arguably, I would think that part of the problem that leads to the long outages is the rarity of the systems.
As the systems become more common, you are more likely to have a sufficient supply of trained technicians, because their cost gets spread over more units. I would think that with only one garage, they keep the number of techies to an absolute minimum.
Good grief, you actually got the capitalization right! ;)
T&E means "testing and evaluation"... the thing you do with ten or twenty of them BEFORE you buy 15,000 of them.
I shoot her. Immediately.
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Possibly one of the best typos ever.
The only thing I found in XP that wasn't in 2K, and which drove me to upgrade my work laptop, was mixed-resolutions on multiple monitors. Under 2K, even with the special ATI drivers, I couldn't have different resolutions on the laptop screen and on the external monitor. Given that the internal could only do 1024x768, that really sucked.
The implied message to your posts comes across as "Since somebody will screw it up, why even bother". Odd attitude.
If you really want to take the foolish step of turning it into an analogy, then your light one is fundamentally flawed.
The purpose of a WAP is for wireless network access, the purpose of a light is illumination.
If people are using the WAP for it's purpose, then you can't try to springboard a desire for illumination into B&E and trespass.
A more equivalent analogy would be somebody standing outside your window, reading something by the light that's spilling out.
The problem with the rules is that these people set their own salaries. Well, not literally their own, but birds of a feather are setting salaries for each other. Of course they scratch each other's backs while not recognizing the work that is done in jobs they've never held.