It is not hard to imagine that at some point in the future they can contract for IT services they way they do for other utilities.
They already do and I have to say waiting 30 minutes for me to cross the city so I can get into their server room to diagnose a problem or replace disks in a RAID pack is definitely within the realms of acceptability. Especially if they need a full rebuild of a server from backups.
The sort of place that does actually have a plumber in house is the sort of place that needs to have a plumber in house. One of my clients operates a largish factory and they have their own in-house electricians. The sparkies are more important than the I.T. so they outsource to me, and keep the sparkies on full time. True there may be a time when not as many places have a full time department for us, but I can't see it any time soon. Perhaps the current generation of 15-21yrolds will do it... but considering the intelligence I see so many of them exhibit, I doubt it.
computers are still relatively new, and eventually you won't need a whole staff of IT gurus to keep a network up and running
I like the rest of your argument but this I have to slap you for. The amount of people I come across in my day to day work (I'm a contract network administrator) who run "MS SBS" or "Red Hat ES" and think they can "network" and be a helldesk is phenomenal. There will always be a need for IT, just like there is always a need for plumbers. The whole concept of making the systems easier to manage is what is killing us properly - home users think they can do it because they hooked their TV up to their laptop just fine, so why should it be hard when they're at the office.
So... some sort of shielding to prevent reflection making it down onto earth and some servo controllers to rotate said shielding to ensure no light reflection would be a bad idea then?
Just strikes me as a very virus vs anti-virus type argument, they keep building them, amateurs keep detecting them - somewhere along the line some genius is going to work it out...
It's continuing slightly off topic but I have a rule: If I google it and find nothing bad, the company obviously wastes too much money on their lawyers, and not enough on the product. It's a good rule.
Note: Internode provide me with excellent service. I run a hosting farm at their co-lo site in the Adelaide Bank. They're just screwing me around on my home gear.
Doesn't it read a bit more like they're trying to block google analytics? Not that they're taking a direct shot at any particular company of course... maybe I'm just overly paranoid.
Move to Australia. I'm fighting tooth and nail with both Internode and Telstra to upgrade the local exchange (I'm in one of the state capitols) so I can do better than 31.2k dialup.
I would suggest that adding a pac.localdomain to DNS might (might mind) be better. Write a proxy auto-configuration file and don't permit any access to the outside world (i.e. turn off ip4_forward and use iptables rules to enforce just in case). That way you don't have to worry about transparent connections (which sometimes cause issues with certain pages - like "submit" on/. every now and then for me here) and you can sort-of monitor HTTPS connections as well.
What about chain of trust a-la PGP keys? You invite twelve mates, who invite a few of their mates. Everyone must know everyone else. That way you don't have to know them to trust them, because you "trust" the chain.
A superlative suggestion sir, with only two minor drawbacks: one, we don't have enough boys from the dwarf and two, we don't have enough boys from the dwarf. I know that technically that's only one drawback, but I thought it was such a big one it was worth mentioning twice.
True but unless you are dealing with the really really insane murder tends to be a crime of passion. You are generally not all that passionate about people you dont know. The majority of murder victims do have a relationship to the killer.
We're talking about serial killers. There is usually a pattern, but knowing the victim probably isn't it (beyond the learn-everything-about-them knowing)
Perhaps they become worth it in this sort of environment though. A Fibre channel is probably the best bet though. It becomes a trade off between what you want to spend and what you really need.
Bullshit it does. None of the OS's have it right. I hate Apple more than life itself and I have to (grudgingly) admit that they have it down better than any of the rest - but only because you're generally required to buy Apple hardware to go with Apple Software. I just finished building a desktop with Windows and spent hours searching for the right CD's for drivers and sound card utilities and all the other crap I have to go through.
If anything Linux does it better than Windows for a small part of the setup, in that installers generally detect your network card - thus giving you the chance to pull crap off the web as needed. Neither is any better in the installation department than the other in-my-sysadmin-opinion.
Create a widget they can access from their desk that shows them numbers generated from the database that hardly matter.
I have an RRD graph titled "Processed Internet Packets" that just graphs/dev/random every 5 minutes. The Manager I built it for contentedly uses the graph for all sorts of things, and I can get back to my work.
Let's just solve the problem and stick them in a vacuum?
Personally I see nothing but military and criminal applications for this. The minor case where hiding from a murderer doesn't seem to justify the idea - it's not like one could hide the car (otherwise we'd get a lot more accidents).
And to throw out a meme: I for one welcome my new unseen, unheard, unsmelt, unfelt over-lords.
A CD-ROM sector contains 2352 bytes, divided into 98 24-byte frames. The CD-ROM is, in essence, a data disk, which cannot rely on error concealment, and therefore requires a higher reliability of the retrieved data. In order to achieve improved error correction and detection, a CD-ROM has a third layer of Reed-Solomon error correction.[1] A Mode-1 CD-ROM, which has the full three layers of error correction data, contains a net 2048 bytes of the available 2352 per sector. In a Mode-2 CD-ROM, which is mostly used for video files, there are 2336 user-available bytes per sector. The net byte rate of a Mode-1 CD-ROM, based on comparison to CDDA audio standards, is 44.1k/s×4B×2048/2352 = 153.6 kB/s. The playing time is 74 minutes, or 4440 seconds, so that the net capacity of a Mode-1 CD-ROM is 682 MB.
Lister: Lemon juice? (holds up canister)
Cat: What the hell is that?
Lister: It's a syringe.
Cat: What kind of syringe?
Lister: It's for cows -- artificial insemination.
HDM doesn't need publicity. Anyone who cares about this (i.e. the geek/security community) already knows who the hell he is. It'd be about as useful as Fyodor putting up an advisory to say his hosts had been port scanned by Nmap.
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It is not hard to imagine that at some point in the future they can contract for IT services they way they do for other utilities.
They already do and I have to say waiting 30 minutes for me to cross the city so I can get into their server room to diagnose a problem or replace disks in a RAID pack is definitely within the realms of acceptability. Especially if they need a full rebuild of a server from backups.
The sort of place that does actually have a plumber in house is the sort of place that needs to have a plumber in house. One of my clients operates a largish factory and they have their own in-house electricians. The sparkies are more important than the I.T. so they outsource to me, and keep the sparkies on full time. True there may be a time when not as many places have a full time department for us, but I can't see it any time soon. Perhaps the current generation of 15-21yrolds will do it... but considering the intelligence I see so many of them exhibit, I doubt it.
computers are still relatively new, and eventually you won't need a whole staff of IT gurus to keep a network up and running
I like the rest of your argument but this I have to slap you for. The amount of people I come across in my day to day work (I'm a contract network administrator) who run "MS SBS" or "Red Hat ES" and think they can "network" and be a helldesk is phenomenal. There will always be a need for IT, just like there is always a need for plumbers. The whole concept of making the systems easier to manage is what is killing us properly - home users think they can do it because they hooked their TV up to their laptop just fine, so why should it be hard when they're at the office.
That rant, however, is for another time.
So... some sort of shielding to prevent reflection making it down onto earth and some servo controllers to rotate said shielding to ensure no light reflection would be a bad idea then?
Just strikes me as a very virus vs anti-virus type argument, they keep building them, amateurs keep detecting them - somewhere along the line some genius is going to work it out...
Right? They do have genius' there... oh god...
You're lucky your company aren't complete bastards like the networks I admin, and disable all your external peripheral ports.
...we're having the same issues we did when we stopped using dialup and moved to broadband?
From TFA:
A man who chose "Lloyds is pants" as his telephone banking password said he found it had been changed by a member of staff to "no it's not"
They can't store that clear text if they want to verify it.
It's continuing slightly off topic but I have a rule: If I google it and find nothing bad, the company obviously wastes too much money on their lawyers, and not enough on the product. It's a good rule.
Adelaide. Thanks for the URL
Note: Internode provide me with excellent service. I run a hosting farm at their co-lo site in the Adelaide Bank. They're just screwing me around on my home gear.
Doesn't it read a bit more like they're trying to block google analytics? Not that they're taking a direct shot at any particular company of course... maybe I'm just overly paranoid.
Move to Australia. I'm fighting tooth and nail with both Internode and Telstra to upgrade the local exchange (I'm in one of the state capitols) so I can do better than 31.2k dialup.
I am 10 minutes from the CBD.
I would suggest that adding a pac.localdomain to DNS might (might mind) be better. Write a proxy auto-configuration file and don't permit any access to the outside world (i.e. turn off ip4_forward and use iptables rules to enforce just in case). That way you don't have to worry about transparent connections (which sometimes cause issues with certain pages - like "submit" on /. every now and then for me here) and you can sort-of monitor HTTPS connections as well.
Just a thought, annihilate at will.
What about chain of trust a-la PGP keys? You invite twelve mates, who invite a few of their mates. Everyone must know everyone else. That way you don't have to know them to trust them, because you "trust" the chain.
Ah, so both about as useful ;)
We need more Red Dwarf references...
A superlative suggestion sir, with only two minor drawbacks: one, we don't have enough boys from the dwarf and two, we don't have enough boys from the dwarf. I know that technically that's only one drawback, but I thought it was such a big one it was worth mentioning twice.
/dev/random will block.
Only if you use a Linux system. FreeBSD /dev/random doesn't block.
True but unless you are dealing with the really really insane murder tends to be a crime of passion. You are generally not all that passionate about people you dont know. The majority of murder victims do have a relationship to the killer.
We're talking about serial killers. There is usually a pattern, but knowing the victim probably isn't it (beyond the learn-everything-about-them knowing)
Perhaps they become worth it in this sort of environment though. A Fibre channel is probably the best bet though. It becomes a trade off between what you want to spend and what you really need.
Windows does this
Bullshit it does. None of the OS's have it right. I hate Apple more than life itself and I have to (grudgingly) admit that they have it down better than any of the rest - but only because you're generally required to buy Apple hardware to go with Apple Software. I just finished building a desktop with Windows and spent hours searching for the right CD's for drivers and sound card utilities and all the other crap I have to go through.
If anything Linux does it better than Windows for a small part of the setup, in that installers generally detect your network card - thus giving you the chance to pull crap off the web as needed. Neither is any better in the installation department than the other in-my-sysadmin-opinion.
Create a widget they can access from their desk that shows them numbers generated from the database that hardly matter.
I have an RRD graph titled "Processed Internet Packets" that just graphs /dev/random every 5 minutes. The Manager I built it for contentedly uses the graph for all sorts of things, and I can get back to my work.
I don't know for sure but are share/stock options included in what a "market cap" is?
Damnit I'm in IT not beancounting!
Just off hand, if I posted some "compliance" information about MSSQL from the Microsoft website would you have believed it?
Let's just solve the problem and stick them in a vacuum?
Personally I see nothing but military and criminal applications for this. The minor case where hiding from a murderer doesn't seem to justify the idea - it's not like one could hide the car (otherwise we'd get a lot more accidents).
And to throw out a meme: I for one welcome my new unseen, unheard, unsmelt, unfelt over-lords.
A CD-ROM sector contains 2352 bytes, divided into 98 24-byte frames. The CD-ROM is, in essence, a data disk, which cannot rely on error concealment, and therefore requires a higher reliability of the retrieved data. In order to achieve improved error correction and detection, a CD-ROM has a third layer of Reed-Solomon error correction.[1] A Mode-1 CD-ROM, which has the full three layers of error correction data, contains a net 2048 bytes of the available 2352 per sector. In a Mode-2 CD-ROM, which is mostly used for video files, there are 2336 user-available bytes per sector. The net byte rate of a Mode-1 CD-ROM, based on comparison to CDDA audio standards, is 44.1k/s×4B×2048/2352 = 153.6 kB/s. The playing time is 74 minutes, or 4440 seconds, so that the net capacity of a Mode-1 CD-ROM is 682 MB.
I'd say that's a yes.
Lister: Lemon juice? (holds up canister)
Cat: What the hell is that?
Lister: It's a syringe.
Cat: What kind of syringe?
Lister: It's for cows -- artificial insemination.
HDM doesn't need publicity. Anyone who cares about this (i.e. the geek/security community) already knows who the hell he is. It'd be about as useful as Fyodor putting up an advisory to say his hosts had been port scanned by Nmap.