Then might I suggest you look for a new place to earn a living. The key to automation is that laziness is a virtue. Sure all that info is in the database, you know where, you have to run this query, get the results, then run a sub-query on all those results and click click click, ah there's the answer. You want to do three queries then manually do umteen more queries to get your answer? Are you being employed to do queries or to find answers?
What you have to ask yourself is, "What am I doing every single time I am looking for information X?" If you do it more than 5 times, you should have sensed a pattern. Once you recognize the pattern, make the computer do it. I for one hate doing things that the computer should know how to do, or should do it for me. The only difference is no one has told the computer how to do it. If you do automate, you will find you spend alot more time answering questions than you do looking for the answer. Management, schmanagement. Find something management is taking too much time on and automate it. When someone comes to the table and says, "This used to take you an hour a day, now it takes a few minutes of your time each day, and everyone can do it," you will find yourself promoted in no time.
You say you have no time. Make that time by automating all the time sapping tasks you do each day. It's a positive feedback loop, you save yourself time on tasks so you can free up time to save yourself more time on more tasks.
At one workplace, some guy took PostIts to the extreme. He had the complete outer edge of his 17" monitor covered in PostIts. I once remarked to our manager while standing next to his desk, that if we got him a 19" or 21" monitor, we could improve his productivy immensely.
I believe the price of software was fixed back in the 60's in a desk drawer at the MIT AI lab. All those other knuckleheads just have a flawed business model. Unless suing is the new model...
Have you figured out exactly why a few infected computers is bringing down your whole network? I could see if they are scanning local subnets, you would have a lot of broadcast ARP packets. If they are scanning remote network IPs, you may be filling up a cache on the outbound router. Are you sure you don't have a few people just playing with NMAP? Is it inbound traffic or outbound? Identify the nature of the traffic when the network implodes, look for a pattern, and see if you can mitigate that. Use ethereal for that.
This is a *switched* network isn't it? Hopefully yes, and with a firewall also. I really can't see why someone would need inbound tcp/135,137,138,139,445,1025 or udp/135,1026-1029 nowadays. That would prevent malware that is not spread by email or Explorer. I won't recommend you dictate the browser or email client people use, but it's a possibility to have a outbound web proxy not forward any requests from IE.
You might also want to look into snort, you could at least have it alert you when the problem starts, or shut down ports, but sounds like you have not had much luck with that. Note rather than drop people off the face of the earth, at least make sure they can get to antivirus sites and microsoft updates. This is tough without access to the infrastructure but would improve things.
Another suggestion is if you do not have alot of room to room traffic, and you do not have a 100mb conenction to the net, configure all ports to 10mb. At least that way it takes more than 10 users to flood your 100mbit backbone. And users accessing the net are always throttled by your outbound connection so they won't know the difference.
I assume you volunteered for this because you like like this stuff. Note that if you *did* spend more time on this problem than your schoolwork, and came up with a solution, you might not even need to finish school.
GTA San Andreas is coming out for XBox in June last I heard, so there may be one more killer app. I will probably rent it first, I was not nearly as impressed with San Andreas as Vice City. If they do it in 480p and have decent sound and textures plus have the custom radio stations, it's a buy.
I don't know what's more hilarious, seeing that pop up from time to time, or reading all the replies from people who decided to try it.
As an aside, I will gladly correct this problem for anyone if they just reply with their IP, username and password. Oh, I need root access too. And a.bashrc with something useful for the newbies that will be in your box about an hour later.
If there were peds in the shared games, you could just cruise down the sidewalk on foot all slow, acting like a dumb game bot, then when you realized there was a real player near you, quickly switch to the rocket laucher and BOOOM!!!
I totally agree with you, the graphics in GTA:SA on the PS2 leave something to be desired. I suppose that is a sign we are ready for the next-gen consoles, a few developers certainly are.
I would also like to take a moment to thank whatever person(s) decided to drop DTS support for San Andreas. The only reason I have surround sound in the first place is to be able to tell where helicopters are coming from. In fact, let me just say the weapon sounds in San Andreas SUCK compared to Vice City. I settled for no DTS in the xbox version of Vice City only because of the custom soundtrack feature and the graphics were so superior. Sorry for the rants but I don't think I have seen a single review that has pointed that out, with everyone so caught up in the excitement and all.
There is also another useful network of fixed bouys run by the NOAA at the National Data Bouy Center. They have bouys fixed at certain locations off the coasts and they record wind velocity and direction, swell height and period, air temperature and pressure and water temp. Things like wind direction and velocity can be very useful for people on boats out in the oceans, and the history on the site let you understand prevailing conditions of a given area. So if you friend says the waves were 5 feet overhead, or we had 15 foot swells out on the boat last weekend, you can actually check. You can even call a number on our cell phone and read data the bouys have collected.
The article mentions the game beating the release of a harry potter movie. that got me thinking. when you buy a movie ticket, you get a two hour experience for about the same price considering what a large popcorn costs.
When you buy a DVD, you get that same experience, only on a smaller screen and for the same two hours. and unless it is a film, you will get less and less out of the movie each time you watch it. so maybe 20-30 hours at the most of duplicate entertainment.
With GTA SA I get hundreds of hours of playing time. each time you play it, whats happening on screen will be completely different. when you discuss it with your friends, it's the same people and locations but the story is different. There's a familiarity in the discussion as there would be between two people that have seen the same movie, but there is also a new story you haven't heard.
I for one welcome our new entertainment overlords.
Well first thing that ran through my mind is that I should toss any resume from anyone what has a BS from Brown University. And you are full of it.
Then I saw it was for your disseration. Silly me.
So lets see if we could find a position for you, assuming you are not a professional troll.
1. Cisco is not the only network equipment vendor. And you can get wire speed IPv6 performance with Cisco or other "lesser" vendors, it depends on the product, not the 2506 you leaned on while overhearing "talking-points." Maybe Purchasing?
2. You are short sighted, so that rules out Planning or Management. Your NAT decode is fubar. There are not 4 billion addresses available if you exclude RFC 1918 non routables and class D and E are likewise unallocated as sources. But a more convincing point would have been that networks 89-126 aren't even allocated yet. Thats about 654 million addresses we still have not even handed out, and that is just the biggest chunk.
3. 56 bit ethernet addresses huh? Not going there. Massive routing tables? Have you read anything about IPv6 routing and TLA heirarchy, or come across the term aggregation in your 92.5 seconds of research? Since you can't remember numbers, and dont know what an RFC is after doing a dissertation, I'm afraid Accounting is not for you and Engineering means reading and understanding specs, so ixnay there.
4. Bloated? We went from 2x32bit addresses to 2x128bit addresses in the header, a 4x increase, yet the overall header only increased by 2x? That is not bloating, that's good engineering. Bloat is when you increase the address size 4x and the whole header grows 16x. I'm afraid you definitely are not cut out for engineering.
Since you did manage to get some buzzwords in there (some in the right order too), and seem to do reasonably well at calculating percentages, and you were able to make a nice sequentially numbered list and even do bold headers, I have the perfect career for you: Marketing.
Hint: Don't worry if you get some facts wrong in that big Powerpoint presentation to the customer. When they call and say they don't want your product afterall, you can always say, "Well what better place than the meeting room to address these points," at which point someone with a brain gets called into another stupid meeting to undo all your "talking-points."
And really, isn't the submariner term the real source of the internet acronym?
Packet Inter Net Groper.
As long as the hairs are splitting, I would never ping a port, but I might try to open a connection to it. You ping a host, you connect to a port. UDP is another story.
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Then might I suggest you look for a new place to earn a living. The key to automation is that laziness is a virtue. Sure all that info is in the database, you know where, you have to run this query, get the results, then run a sub-query on all those results and click click click, ah there's the answer. You want to do three queries then manually do umteen more queries to get your answer? Are you being employed to do queries or to find answers?
What you have to ask yourself is, "What am I doing every single time I am looking for information X?" If you do it more than 5 times, you should have sensed a pattern. Once you recognize the pattern, make the computer do it. I for one hate doing things that the computer should know how to do, or should do it for me. The only difference is no one has told the computer how to do it. If you do automate, you will find you spend alot more time answering questions than you do looking for the answer. Management, schmanagement. Find something management is taking too much time on and automate it. When someone comes to the table and says, "This used to take you an hour a day, now it takes a few minutes of your time each day, and everyone can do it," you will find yourself promoted in no time.
You say you have no time. Make that time by automating all the time sapping tasks you do each day. It's a positive feedback loop, you save yourself time on tasks so you can free up time to save yourself more time on more tasks.
Don't forget Windows NT coming out at v3.50. And Win 2k is based on that New Technology Technology. Fancy stuff, that MS ware.
In america I think the government, television, and the schools do.
At one workplace, some guy took PostIts to the extreme. He had the complete outer edge of his 17" monitor covered in PostIts. I once remarked to our manager while standing next to his desk, that if we got him a 19" or 21" monitor, we could improve his productivy immensely.
I believe the price of software was fixed back in the 60's in a desk drawer at the MIT AI lab. All those other knuckleheads just have a flawed business model. Unless suing is the new model...
3. Emptying a can of Raid into their (running) computer and tossing in a match.
all those other excellent suggestions and the most flammable spray you could come up with was Raid?
and just to make sure I don't get flamed, I tried it, and it's not that flammable. But I did have to finish this post on my other PC...
Have you figured out exactly why a few infected computers is bringing down your whole network? I could see if they are scanning local subnets, you would have a lot of broadcast ARP packets. If they are scanning remote network IPs, you may be filling up a cache on the outbound router. Are you sure you don't have a few people just playing with NMAP? Is it inbound traffic or outbound? Identify the nature of the traffic when the network implodes, look for a pattern, and see if you can mitigate that. Use ethereal for that.
This is a *switched* network isn't it? Hopefully yes, and with a firewall also. I really can't see why someone would need inbound tcp/135,137,138,139,445,1025 or udp/135,1026-1029 nowadays. That would prevent malware that is not spread by email or Explorer. I won't recommend you dictate the browser or email client people use, but it's a possibility to have a outbound web proxy not forward any requests from IE.
You might also want to look into snort, you could at least have it alert you when the problem starts, or shut down ports, but sounds like you have not had much luck with that. Note rather than drop people off the face of the earth, at least make sure they can get to antivirus sites and microsoft updates. This is tough without access to the infrastructure but would improve things.
Another suggestion is if you do not have alot of room to room traffic, and you do not have a 100mb conenction to the net, configure all ports to 10mb. At least that way it takes more than 10 users to flood your 100mbit backbone. And users accessing the net are always throttled by your outbound connection so they won't know the difference.
I assume you volunteered for this because you like like this stuff. Note that if you *did* spend more time on this problem than your schoolwork, and came up with a solution, you might not even need to finish school.
GTA San Andreas is coming out for XBox in June last I heard, so there may be one more killer app. I will probably rent it first, I was not nearly as impressed with San Andreas as Vice City. If they do it in 480p and have decent sound and textures plus have the custom radio stations, it's a buy.
Thats nearly as bad as when the kids watch the beginning of Raiders of the Lost Ark and say, "Hey, thats from the Simpsons!"
I don't know what's more hilarious, seeing that pop up from time to time, or reading all the replies from people who decided to try it.
.bashrc with something useful for the newbies that will be in your box about an hour later.
As an aside, I will gladly correct this problem for anyone if they just reply with their IP, username and password. Oh, I need root access too. And a
you must be from Indiana...
A whole room full of NASA Engineers went, "Oh shit."
Gotta be pong!
If there were peds in the shared games, you could just cruise down the sidewalk on foot all slow, acting like a dumb game bot, then when you realized there was a real player near you, quickly switch to the rocket laucher and BOOOM!!!
Probably not HD, but at least 420p. :)
I totally agree with you, the graphics in GTA:SA on the PS2 leave something to be desired. I suppose that is a sign we are ready for the next-gen consoles, a few developers certainly are.
I would also like to take a moment to thank whatever person(s) decided to drop DTS support for San Andreas. The only reason I have surround sound in the first place is to be able to tell where helicopters are coming from. In fact, let me just say the weapon sounds in San Andreas SUCK compared to Vice City. I settled for no DTS in the xbox version of Vice City only because of the custom soundtrack feature and the graphics were so superior. Sorry for the rants but I don't think I have seen a single review that has pointed that out, with everyone so caught up in the excitement and all.
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Quick, go download this game, play with your real name, and get your ass fragged at least 20 times a day.
There is also another useful network of fixed bouys run by the NOAA at the National Data Bouy Center. They have bouys fixed at certain locations off the coasts and they record wind velocity and direction, swell height and period, air temperature and pressure and water temp. Things like wind direction and velocity can be very useful for people on boats out in the oceans, and the history on the site let you understand prevailing conditions of a given area. So if you friend says the waves were 5 feet overhead, or we had 15 foot swells out on the boat last weekend, you can actually check. You can even call a number on our cell phone and read data the bouys have collected.
...who's sueing game companies?
just "lawyer" isn't enough for you?
haha, ironically that was your first stop in Vice City.
Grand Theft Wookie?
we can tell that from your user id. your email address is a hint also.
but then again, this is slashdot games, not core slashdot, so you get off with a warning this time.
Quite an amazing piece of gear; if you ever get the chance to get up close to one, take it.
take it? and where the heck am I gonna go with a big noisy windmill sticking out of my pocket?
The article mentions the game beating the release of a harry potter movie. that got me thinking. when you buy a movie ticket, you get a two hour experience for about the same price considering what a large popcorn costs.
When you buy a DVD, you get that same experience, only on a smaller screen and for the same two hours. and unless it is a film, you will get less and less out of the movie each time you watch it. so maybe 20-30 hours at the most of duplicate entertainment.
With GTA SA I get hundreds of hours of playing time. each time you play it, whats happening on screen will be completely different. when you discuss it with your friends, it's the same people and locations but the story is different. There's a familiarity in the discussion as there would be between two people that have seen the same movie, but there is also a new story you haven't heard.
I for one welcome our new entertainment overlords.
Well first thing that ran through my mind is that I should toss any resume from anyone what has a BS from Brown University. And you are full of it.
Then I saw it was for your disseration. Silly me.
So lets see if we could find a position for you, assuming you are not a professional troll.
1. Cisco is not the only network equipment vendor. And you can get wire speed IPv6 performance with Cisco or other "lesser" vendors, it depends on the product, not the 2506 you leaned on while overhearing "talking-points." Maybe Purchasing?
2. You are short sighted, so that rules out Planning or Management. Your NAT decode is fubar. There are not 4 billion addresses available if you exclude RFC 1918 non routables and class D and E are likewise unallocated as sources. But a more convincing point would have been that networks 89-126 aren't even allocated yet. Thats about 654 million addresses we still have not even handed out, and that is just the biggest chunk.
3. 56 bit ethernet addresses huh? Not going there. Massive routing tables? Have you read anything about IPv6 routing and TLA heirarchy, or come across the term aggregation in your 92.5 seconds of research? Since you can't remember numbers, and dont know what an RFC is after doing a dissertation, I'm afraid Accounting is not for you and Engineering means reading and understanding specs, so ixnay there.
4. Bloated? We went from 2x32bit addresses to 2x128bit addresses in the header, a 4x increase, yet the overall header only increased by 2x? That is not bloating, that's good engineering. Bloat is when you increase the address size 4x and the whole header grows 16x. I'm afraid you definitely are not cut out for engineering.
Since you did manage to get some buzzwords in there (some in the right order too), and seem to do reasonably well at calculating percentages, and you were able to make a nice sequentially numbered list and even do bold headers, I have the perfect career for you: Marketing.
Hint: Don't worry if you get some facts wrong in that big Powerpoint presentation to the customer. When they call and say they don't want your product afterall, you can always say, "Well what better place than the meeting room to address these points," at which point someone with a brain gets called into another stupid meeting to undo all your "talking-points."
+5 funny?
how about +5 informative???
Talk like a Pyrate Day website
And if ye live in southern california, I have a suggestion for where to set sail next weekend.
And really, isn't the submariner term the real source of the internet acronym?
Packet Inter Net Groper.
As long as the hairs are splitting, I would never ping a port, but I might try to open a connection to it. You ping a host, you connect to a port. UDP is another story.