Do you see the beauty in a well-designed UI? The pleasure of using a properly designed input screen? Is art a value proposition? YES! So what's the value proposition in IT? Greater value to the organization? Compliance with the laws and regs? Zero-Day Start?
If you do really, really well, and solve problems before anyone notices that a problem was coming, do you get recognition? Is that the creativity gap?
It's hard for me to see the creativity option in technical analysis. I respond to problems, resolve the issues, get my clients back to work. Even when I determine the root cause and send the developers off to fix the product, I feel more like the Angel of Death than the Deliverer. My manager encourages me to be 'proactive'. Like, do I ask my clients to break stuff so I can offer them the fix I already have waiting? Do I call them and ask why they aren't having trouble?
IT can be creative. When your CEO demands a logging tool so he can know who is surfing pr0n on work time, you can get creative and recommend first publishing a top-ten or top-hundred list of sites visited. Things measured improve...
Of course, those opportunities are rare. I suppose even Monet had slow days...
Well, I'm former military (before cell phones and the Internet), but the concept of supporting an encrypted cell call and then transmitting it UNencrypted either over VOIP or a data link is both elementary and obvious. Woops.
I don't doubt you were asking this question because you consider our military marginally competent. But yer mistaken, I bet.
I oughta RTFA 'cause I bet again that somewhere it mentions how this box ultimately connects to the real world. That's the link that needs to be encrypted, though it doesn't *need* to be. An encrypted call could just as easily be carried over the public network and stay encrypted.
Or to put it more bluntly, if the original call was encrypted, then all this box has to do is *NOT* DEcrypt it, but pass it along.
Then again, maybe in this case we won't know all the details. Make the enemy try at least, huh? If Google and/. is all they need, we are deader than Elvis.
Dis Vines all you want, but it did stuff Microsoft didn't get right for a decade. NetWare NDS didn't do much more than Vines had already done.
I still use CICS daily. It works. SNA worked too.
Appletalk seemed to suffer more from the problems with localtalk than anything, and if m0r0ns had read the guides, they might not have spliced cables together so often and hozed it up.
Next thing, you're gonna dis Token Ring and ARCnet, both of which were stable in the days when Ethernet couldn't handle a flourescent lamp next to the cable. And both could actually deliver the traffic they were claiming to.
A lot of that old stuff worked damned well. We don't have to back to message switches and uucopy, but lessons back then should be remembered, not learned again.
ps- I'm not in favor of a 'new Internet from scratch'. We have no idea the problems we'll cause with a 'new Internet'. I'm willing to live with the current ones for a while yet.
Windows Live Mail might be e-mail, but it's a service. The rules change.
In an SOA world, you don't get a mail server. You get a mail service.
You don't get POP, SMTP, or IMAP. You get your mail.
You use the service. That's the 'S' part. You don't get to choose the underpinnings of the service either. If you want control, get yer own service.
I can see why WLM is attractive to lots of universities and large organizations:
- No caring for Exchange servers, which is a royal pain. Just keeping them up is sometimes a joy. And someone asking for deleted messages to be restored makes your day a weekend.
- If you haven't used scalable, manageable, reliable mail servers, you're looking for a way out.
- User administration is so much easier if you let the service tie into your systems, or send over a flat file with the account info, or just let people sign up with a secret code. No dealing with the ID10T errors. Well, not much. Uh, maybe just not too much more.
- Pricing can be atrractive, especially for students. 3 bucks a head a month, hey, just tack in onto the Activities Fee. Paid for. Nice.
Now, I'd rather have mail I can forward out of my institutional account into my 'personal' account too. I figure as a student that some day I will either graduate, screw up, or forget to pay a bill, and *poof*, years of mail gone. Crap. But let's also admit to something. Maybe these organizations are figuring that they spend a fair amount of $ for email systems that mostly go for personal messages of students on the 7-year plan. Let them find an account elsewhere.
Yep, if you need to correspond with someone via your 'official' school account, you're stuck with it. But it was never as simple as signing up and letting the school bear the costs.
I kinda hope they don't jack up tuition too much tho. WLM isn't worth it.
Just my opinion. If the school wanted to save money and get better mail they coulda used GroupWise, or even better Postfix. Maybe dbMail. But none of those alternatives would ingratiate them with Microsoft, or earn a bigger discount on other products.
...to those of you who haven't managed 24x7x365 servers very much. And little news to those of you who have a computer at all.
I expect most desktop drives to last 5 years max. MAX. No manufacturer has an edge. It's just the way it is. MTBF is fiction.
For an always-on server, I expect failures about every 3-4 years. For my clients who cared enough to pay for the very best, I replaced the drives in the 3rd year without waiting. No failures costa a bit more.
My experience is that Seagate and Fujitsu are my best server drives. IBM was also on the list, but I'm watching Hitachi. No decision.
The losers: Quantum (thankfully gone), Samsung (until recently), Maxtor. Not my opinion, my experience.
Now, in fairness, these are some of my historical losers:
Seagate: Early IDE drives and the 'stiction' problem. Remember banging drives to get them started?
Quantum 'Bigfoot' drives: popular in Compaq machines, the 5.25".7" thin piece of junk. died often. Even Compaq admitted these were bad.
Seagate SCSI drives: Many different types had a bad habit of going off-line for no apparent reason. Your Novell server would log the 'device deactivated to a non-media defect' error. Just restarting the bus controller would sometimes wake them up. Sometimes repowering the drives. Would happen every few months. Usually when I was elsewhere...
And then there was Miniscribe.
But MTBF numbers are universally fiction. Imagine trying to sell the idea of a wave bearing lasting 16 years to an engineer with real-world experience. I figure MTBF numbers come out of the marketing department.
... 'cause I'm past my contract (which feels soooo good, being free to jump if I wanna) and I'm not seeing any restraints yet.
I and my wife use Blackberry 7105t's, with Unlimited data plans. I use Google Maps, Opera Mini and an SSH midlet. Yeah. running scripts, restarting services, even rebooting my Fedora box 1800 miles away on my phone. My cubicle mate thinks I'm wierd, but HE's trying to get through to Customer Service to get his mySQL tables reloaded on his hosted server while I'm writing another Spamassassin rule to foil the spammers a little more. But I have no problems using whatever I want so far. In Phoenix, as of today, the network is fine. No restrictions. SO far.
T-Mobile hasn't posted or sent to me new TOS or contract terms. At least today, I'm not affected.
Of course, I'll be asking the Blackberry group to unlock our phones. They're past warranty, past contract, and free agents. And I don't really see anything else I want except for some Sony Ericssons that I can't get from a carrier in the US, so it's time for me to finish my app and get a freebie from them. If I'm incredibly lucky.
Still, this article sounds a little like a false alarm for me. Maybe some phones they want to cripple. I sure understand that. I used a Siemens S46 for a year and a half. You think you got problems? Bahahahahaha!
Actually, the Debian server was updating as routine maintenance. All the trouble came because of some updated packages that changed file locations, apparently. My FC3 server just didn't recognize the installed versions of stuff.
Neither of my examples involved messages warning of removing anything.
And some of us have to actually work with our servers. We don't always have the luxury of reinstalling, unless forced to by complete failure. And then without delay - our customers don't pay for downtime.
Every once in a while, I consider going back to Windows for these servers, to avoid the hell of myriad patches and failed updates.
Then I come to my senses. There is no respite from Redmond.
"^&*(#$% sucks. I tried to $%^^ the $$#$ and it #$&6^ my system!"
Oh yeah... I know, baby.
Just got done listening to my sometimes co-admin rail on about how some small update to his Debian install fritzed the VPN, iptables, and the default route is coming and going at its own pleasure, after years of flawless performance. He's going to Ubuuntu as well...
As an analogy, I drive a 1985 Ford Explorer, with about 238,000 miles on the original transmission, no repairs. In most forums, people call me out - it's 'not possible'. Yeah whatever. There are horror stories for everything I think, except maybe oatmeal.
How many years until we hear that 'Ubunntu sucks', and Debian or whatever is Raymond's new choice.
He does make a valid and important point though. There isn't a single distro that I trust completely. I had to force a mySQL update from v3 to v5, because yum and rpm both didn't recognize that I had the needed php already installed. And pear. And something else I've forgotten the name of. It survived, but there was no fix.
And don't get me started on documentation in general. Ugh.
I'm glad he changed when the pain was too much. If only I could swap out my Windows XP for something else that *worked* and let me do the work I need to do. No, silly, Vista ain't it...
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If the police could teach a satellite the 'fingerprint' of your car. And then track you any time you were within view. Dozens at a time. Hundreds. Thousands. Would this be just egregious as snapping a GPS box to your ride?
Me? I'm not really too worried. I suspect (clever choice of words eh?) that the police are just busy enough with 'real' criminals that they really don't have time to watch me unless they think I'm up to something. And I'm not.
Of course the police make mistakes all the time. They don't need technology to screw up your day.
True - as a bootable floppy image, only one partition.
Hint #2 - We started out trying to format a 1.2M partition and make it bootable. never quite worked. Then we learned to make the key A: under Windows and let the driver utilities see it as a blank disk. Format-HO!
Either assign the key to drive letter A: or run SUBST F: A: in CMD... F: being your key, use the correct designation.
I did not follow through on this, but we knew we could mod the imaging CD and add the SUBST so that we could mount a key with whichever RAID drivers were applicable to the hardware, either 360s, 380s, 580s, or Itanium servers. But the client was so anal about security, we would have needed 6 weeks to test the image, and the project was due in 5 weeks.
Well, I've used two different HP USB Drive Key utilities, and both let me create a bootable key. The latest one will format and create a very minimal Linux boot key that handles BIOS updates for some systems. I've made plenty booting Win98, and then copied the Ghost stuff in and Voila! Ghost on a key. I've even added config menus to allow choosing to support CD-ROMs and DVDs for disc-based images, SCSI drivers, RAID, and one that would support ICH6 drivers though it promptly wrote trash to the array - unreadable. I guess that was a failure. Ghost is terribly easy to do this with.
You can even put the EBCD and WinPE discs into keys with the bootable utility. Too slick.
And EBCD means you never have to pay the evil Sysadmin you just fired again.:-)
Yes, you can, and yes, I can tell you how. I did it to 20+ Compaq servers for a project. if XP only wants a foppy for the drivers, I expect this trick will work for that, too. After all, it's just a floppy as far as Windows knows.
Hint: format the USB key as a 1.2MB floppy. If you ask nice, I'll tell you how. If you ask naughty, go Google it yersef. I did. Took me most of an hour to figure it out, and most of a day to get it approved. Slick.
Of course, WIN Server 2K/2K3 and the F6 floppy idea still rots, but it's NOT impossible.
"That was yesterday....We'll be sending you the updated specs soon."
So you can not meet the new spec pretty much the same way you didn't meet the old spec.
I'm watching a failing attempt to replace a VB - based application with a Javascript/Java browser - based solution. We just started our second attempt to get it into beta testing, and it looks like a crucial function is failing. And if this function fails, there is *no* point to the application. Like a spreasheet app that can't add a column of numbers, or a word processing app that can't save your work. Literally, that basic.
But it's only a year late, 100% over budget, and cannot possibly meet 40% of the original specs. If you ranked the specs according to important, or 'weight', it would miss about 60% of the specs.
If I can figure out how to sanitize the details, it will make a great magazine article, a cse study in how not to do 'IT'.
The best part - It's intended to reduce support costs, among other things. I'm pretty new in the support department. None of the experienced analysts believe it will do anything but INCREASE support costs for the forseeable future.
So I'm not sure I'm too disappointed. At least I'll have a job.
If the survey asked for age, I'd expect that to be prima facie in the court case complaining.
Google isn't incompetent in this. I would be surprised of the survey even asked for age or sex. Let the answers do the work.
Or, put another way, if the survey can't select well by measuring a candidate's attitudes, aptitudes, experience, and personality, why bother with the survey?
ps -- IANAL.
pps -- If I answer the experience questions with '>25 years', have I given them my age unwittingly? Probably the legal defense is to limit experience times to something less and below most age discrimination limits, say 8-10 years... After all, if you're not good at it after 8 years, maybe it's time to learn how to bag fries...
I assume that more than a few botnets will use this for command channels, if not to deliver payloads. So did the botnets learn this from Skype et al, or did Skype, etc. learn this from botnets?
If the latter, the only useful thing to come from botnets is this slick trick. Of course, as useful as teaching the telemarketers to use wardialers.
Like Spamcop that m0r0ns use to blacklist some of my favorite newsletter servers. Usually because the lamer is too lazy to unsubscribe. Then I have to take the time to whitelist what I want and they don't.
Spamcop even listed CNet the other day. Sheesh. Does CNet spam anyone without their permission? Maybe.
Ack. Nevermind. Ranting about RBLs is passe. We oughta be smacking the spammers, but more to the point, we oughta be smacking the ADVERTISERS!
From then on, I find out that tags in tires were a response to warranty fraud, the T.R.E.A.D. act mandating earlier identification of defects, and inventory management. No government conspiracy needed.
Then, common sense began to intrude. For the US governemnt to track my movements from the tags in my tires, two important things have to happen:
1. The government needs sales records that include the tag GUID and my name, and something else. Credit card might do. Address helps also.
2. The government needs to put up readers and some form of near-real-time communication.
Consider the challenges here. At 40MPH, my car is going about 211,200 fph, 58fps... Sound fast doesn't it?
Now if the practical range is 48 inches (TWICE the published range), my vehicle is in range for about 0.8 seconds. Assuming I'm withing 24 inches of the reader, going through the Transpass gate. 40MPH I do through those without trouble.
Read in less than a second? Don't ask me. Ask someone in the business. I bet not.
Also consider that the T.R.E.A.D. act was enacted in 2000. Not in response to the Firestone/Ford problems, which were serious before that. And the T.R.E.A.D. act doesn't even include the word 'VIN'. And the act doesn't per se involve domestic vehicles, but foreign vehicles and components, intending to force carmakers to disclose problems with foreign models that may be related to similar problems with similar domestic production. Good idea. But only the rule-making could twist this into the device the poster claims, and he doesn't post any of the rulemaking that indicates that. Perhaps he should be asked to provide evidence. I suspect the answer will be 'it's secret'.
Sorry, I took a look. His posts don't add up, IMHO. The story about someone getting returning a defective tire to Nordstrom's was more credible than this post.
Sorry, DeadChobi, but I need more.
Now, RFID readers on the New York throughways make sense. Most containers have tags now, and many fleet vehicles do also. Might be useful to read tags, spot one registered to a tanker dedicated to hazardous waste, and realize it's headed down the freeway where hazmat is prohibited.
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Too late...
Creativity?
Do you see the beauty in a well-designed UI? The pleasure of using a properly designed input screen? Is art a value proposition? YES! So what's the value proposition in IT? Greater value to the organization? Compliance with the laws and regs? Zero-Day Start?
If you do really, really well, and solve problems before anyone notices that a problem was coming, do you get recognition? Is that the creativity gap?
It's hard for me to see the creativity option in technical analysis. I respond to problems, resolve the issues, get my clients back to work. Even when I determine the root cause and send the developers off to fix the product, I feel more like the Angel of Death than the Deliverer. My manager encourages me to be 'proactive'. Like, do I ask my clients to break stuff so I can offer them the fix I already have waiting? Do I call them and ask why they aren't having trouble?
IT can be creative. When your CEO demands a logging tool so he can know who is surfing pr0n on work time, you can get creative and recommend first publishing a top-ten or top-hundred list of sites visited. Things measured improve...
Of course, those opportunities are rare. I suppose even Monet had slow days...
-rick
Well, I'm former military (before cell phones and the Internet), but the concept of supporting an encrypted cell call and then transmitting it UNencrypted either over VOIP or a data link is both elementary and obvious. Woops.
/. is all they need, we are deader than Elvis.
I don't doubt you were asking this question because you consider our military marginally competent. But yer mistaken, I bet.
I oughta RTFA 'cause I bet again that somewhere it mentions how this box ultimately connects to the real world. That's the link that needs to be encrypted, though it doesn't *need* to be. An encrypted call could just as easily be carried over the public network and stay encrypted.
Or to put it more bluntly, if the original call was encrypted, then all this box has to do is *NOT* DEcrypt it, but pass it along.
Then again, maybe in this case we won't know all the details. Make the enemy try at least, huh? If Google and
*sigh*
Dis Vines all you want, but it did stuff Microsoft didn't get right for a decade. NetWare NDS didn't do much more than Vines had already done.
I still use CICS daily. It works. SNA worked too.
Appletalk seemed to suffer more from the problems with localtalk than anything, and if m0r0ns had read the guides, they might not have spliced cables together so often and hozed it up.
Next thing, you're gonna dis Token Ring and ARCnet, both of which were stable in the days when Ethernet couldn't handle a flourescent lamp next to the cable. And both could actually deliver the traffic they were claiming to.
A lot of that old stuff worked damned well. We don't have to back to message switches and uucopy, but lessons back then should be remembered, not learned again.
ps- I'm not in favor of a 'new Internet from scratch'. We have no idea the problems we'll cause with a 'new Internet'. I'm willing to live with the current ones for a while yet.
-rick
Yeah. I won't hold them to task for not remembering Balance of Power, but why not Avatar?
Oh yeah, that's right. It wasn't for Windows.
-rick
...doesn't seem like it would be doing much system checking.
Of course, bad RAM is pretty much a thing of the past.
-rick
Welcome to the world of SOA.
Windows Live Mail might be e-mail, but it's a service. The rules change.
In an SOA world, you don't get a mail server. You get a mail service.
You don't get POP, SMTP, or IMAP. You get your mail.
You use the service. That's the 'S' part. You don't get to choose the underpinnings of the service either. If you want control, get yer own service.
I can see why WLM is attractive to lots of universities and large organizations:
- No caring for Exchange servers, which is a royal pain. Just keeping them up is sometimes a joy. And someone asking for deleted messages to be restored makes your day a weekend.
- If you haven't used scalable, manageable, reliable mail servers, you're looking for a way out.
- User administration is so much easier if you let the service tie into your systems, or send over a flat file with the account info, or just let people sign up with a secret code. No dealing with the ID10T errors. Well, not much. Uh, maybe just not too much more.
- Pricing can be atrractive, especially for students. 3 bucks a head a month, hey, just tack in onto the Activities Fee. Paid for. Nice.
Now, I'd rather have mail I can forward out of my institutional account into my 'personal' account too. I figure as a student that some day I will either graduate, screw up, or forget to pay a bill, and *poof*, years of mail gone. Crap. But let's also admit to something. Maybe these organizations are figuring that they spend a fair amount of $ for email systems that mostly go for personal messages of students on the 7-year plan. Let them find an account elsewhere.
Yep, if you need to correspond with someone via your 'official' school account, you're stuck with it. But it was never as simple as signing up and letting the school bear the costs.
I kinda hope they don't jack up tuition too much tho. WLM isn't worth it.
Just my opinion. If the school wanted to save money and get better mail they coulda used GroupWise, or even better Postfix. Maybe dbMail. But none of those alternatives would ingratiate them with Microsoft, or earn a bigger discount on other products.
Darn.
-rick
...to those of you who haven't managed 24x7x365 servers very much. And little news to those of you who have a computer at all.
.7" thin piece of junk. died often. Even Compaq admitted these were bad.
I expect most desktop drives to last 5 years max. MAX. No manufacturer has an edge. It's just the way it is. MTBF is fiction.
For an always-on server, I expect failures about every 3-4 years. For my clients who cared enough to pay for the very best, I replaced the drives in the 3rd year without waiting. No failures costa a bit more.
My experience is that Seagate and Fujitsu are my best server drives. IBM was also on the list, but I'm watching Hitachi. No decision.
The losers: Quantum (thankfully gone), Samsung (until recently), Maxtor. Not my opinion, my experience.
Now, in fairness, these are some of my historical losers:
Seagate: Early IDE drives and the 'stiction' problem. Remember banging drives to get them started?
Quantum 'Bigfoot' drives: popular in Compaq machines, the 5.25"
Seagate SCSI drives: Many different types had a bad habit of going off-line for no apparent reason. Your Novell server would log the 'device deactivated to a non-media defect' error. Just restarting the bus controller would sometimes wake them up. Sometimes repowering the drives. Would happen every few months. Usually when I was elsewhere...
And then there was Miniscribe.
But MTBF numbers are universally fiction. Imagine trying to sell the idea of a wave bearing lasting 16 years to an engineer with real-world experience. I figure MTBF numbers come out of the marketing department.
-rick
All your music are crappy to us....
(insert rim shot here)
-rick
... 'cause I'm past my contract (which feels soooo good, being free to jump if I wanna) and I'm not seeing any restraints yet.
I and my wife use Blackberry 7105t's, with Unlimited data plans. I use Google Maps, Opera Mini and an SSH midlet. Yeah. running scripts, restarting services, even rebooting my Fedora box 1800 miles away on my phone. My cubicle mate thinks I'm wierd, but HE's trying to get through to Customer Service to get his mySQL tables reloaded on his hosted server while I'm writing another Spamassassin rule to foil the spammers a little more. But I have no problems using whatever I want so far. In Phoenix, as of today, the network is fine. No restrictions. SO far.
T-Mobile hasn't posted or sent to me new TOS or contract terms. At least today, I'm not affected.
Of course, I'll be asking the Blackberry group to unlock our phones. They're past warranty, past contract, and free agents. And I don't really see anything else I want except for some Sony Ericssons that I can't get from a carrier in the US, so it's time for me to finish my app and get a freebie from them. If I'm incredibly lucky.
Still, this article sounds a little like a false alarm for me. Maybe some phones they want to cripple. I sure understand that. I used a Siemens S46 for a year and a half. You think you got problems? Bahahahahaha!
-Rick
WiFi included? What? My Blackberry Unlimited plan doesn't mention WiFi at all.
How do I get the WiFi thing?
-rick
Actually, the Debian server was updating as routine maintenance. All the trouble came because of some updated packages that changed file locations, apparently. My FC3 server just didn't recognize the installed versions of stuff.
Neither of my examples involved messages warning of removing anything.
And some of us have to actually work with our servers. We don't always have the luxury of reinstalling, unless forced to by complete failure. And then without delay - our customers don't pay for downtime.
Every once in a while, I consider going back to Windows for these servers, to avoid the hell of myriad patches and failed updates.
Then I come to my senses. There is no respite from Redmond.
grrr....
...and they pretty much all sound the same:
"^&*(#$% sucks. I tried to $%^^ the $$#$ and it #$&6^ my system!"
Oh yeah... I know, baby.
Just got done listening to my sometimes co-admin rail on about how some small update to his Debian install fritzed the VPN, iptables, and the default route is coming and going at its own pleasure, after years of flawless performance. He's going to Ubuuntu as well...
As an analogy, I drive a 1985 Ford Explorer, with about 238,000 miles on the original transmission, no repairs. In most forums, people call me out - it's 'not possible'. Yeah whatever. There are horror stories for everything I think, except maybe oatmeal.
How many years until we hear that 'Ubunntu sucks', and Debian or whatever is Raymond's new choice.
He does make a valid and important point though. There isn't a single distro that I trust completely. I had to force a mySQL update from v3 to v5, because yum and rpm both didn't recognize that I had the needed php already installed. And pear. And something else I've forgotten the name of. It survived, but there was no fix.
And don't get me started on documentation in general. Ugh.
I'm glad he changed when the pain was too much. If only I could swap out my Windows XP for something else that *worked* and let me do the work I need to do. No, silly, Vista ain't it...
-rick
Yes.
Root Cause Analysis: Idiot editors.
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Recommended Fix: Editor Approvals
Workaround: Edit the Editors.
Likelihood of Success: Poor.
Alternative: None.
If the police could teach a satellite the 'fingerprint' of your car. And then track you any time you were within view. Dozens at a time. Hundreds. Thousands. Would this be just egregious as snapping a GPS box to your ride?
Me? I'm not really too worried. I suspect (clever choice of words eh?) that the police are just busy enough with 'real' criminals that they really don't have time to watch me unless they think I'm up to something. And I'm not.
Of course the police make mistakes all the time. They don't need technology to screw up your day.
True - as a bootable floppy image, only one partition. Hint #2 - We started out trying to format a 1.2M partition and make it bootable. never quite worked. Then we learned to make the key A: under Windows and let the driver utilities see it as a blank disk. Format-HO! Either assign the key to drive letter A: or run SUBST F: A: in CMD... F: being your key, use the correct designation. I did not follow through on this, but we knew we could mod the imaging CD and add the SUBST so that we could mount a key with whichever RAID drivers were applicable to the hardware, either 360s, 380s, 580s, or Itanium servers. But the client was so anal about security, we would have needed 6 weeks to test the image, and the project was due in 5 weeks.
Well, I've used two different HP USB Drive Key utilities, and both let me create a bootable key. The latest one will format and create a very minimal Linux boot key that handles BIOS updates for some systems. I've made plenty booting Win98, and then copied the Ghost stuff in and Voila! Ghost on a key. I've even added config menus to allow choosing to support CD-ROMs and DVDs for disc-based images, SCSI drivers, RAID, and one that would support ICH6 drivers though it promptly wrote trash to the array - unreadable. I guess that was a failure. Ghost is terribly easy to do this with. You can even put the EBCD and WinPE discs into keys with the bootable utility. Too slick. And EBCD means you never have to pay the evil Sysadmin you just fired again. :-)
You had me at 'really'...
Yes, you can, and yes, I can tell you how. I did it to 20+ Compaq servers for a project. if XP only wants a foppy for the drivers, I expect this trick will work for that, too. After all, it's just a floppy as far as Windows knows.
Hint: format the USB key as a 1.2MB floppy. If you ask nice, I'll tell you how. If you ask naughty, go Google it yersef. I did. Took me most of an hour to figure it out, and most of a day to get it approved. Slick.
Of course, WIN Server 2K/2K3 and the F6 floppy idea still rots, but it's NOT impossible.
-rick
"That was yesterday....We'll be sending you the updated specs soon."
So you can not meet the new spec pretty much the same way you didn't meet the old spec.
I'm watching a failing attempt to replace a VB - based application with a Javascript/Java browser - based solution. We just started our second attempt to get it into beta testing, and it looks like a crucial function is failing. And if this function fails, there is *no* point to the application. Like a spreasheet app that can't add a column of numbers, or a word processing app that can't save your work. Literally, that basic.
But it's only a year late, 100% over budget, and cannot possibly meet 40% of the original specs. If you ranked the specs according to important, or 'weight', it would miss about 60% of the specs.
If I can figure out how to sanitize the details, it will make a great magazine article, a cse study in how not to do 'IT'.
The best part - It's intended to reduce support costs, among other things. I'm pretty new in the support department. None of the experienced analysts believe it will do anything but INCREASE support costs for the forseeable future.
So I'm not sure I'm too disappointed. At least I'll have a job.
-rick
If the survey asked for age, I'd expect that to be prima facie in the court case complaining.
Google isn't incompetent in this. I would be surprised of the survey even asked for age or sex. Let the answers do the work.
Or, put another way, if the survey can't select well by measuring a candidate's attitudes, aptitudes, experience, and personality, why bother with the survey?
ps -- IANAL.
pps -- If I answer the experience questions with '>25 years', have I given them my age unwittingly? Probably the legal defense is to limit experience times to something less and below most age discrimination limits, say 8-10 years... After all, if you're not good at it after 8 years, maybe it's time to learn how to bag fries...
I haven't been to Usenet since alt.tasteless went all to hell.
I've *never* been to Yahoo! discussion boards. If I wanted meaningless, I'd go to, well, Usenet...
ps- British Parliament is hilarious. Back-benchers make it all worthwhile. Almost like a CNN forum...
I assume that more than a few botnets will use this for command channels, if not to deliver payloads. So did the botnets learn this from Skype et al, or did Skype, etc. learn this from botnets?
If the latter, the only useful thing to come from botnets is this slick trick. Of course, as useful as teaching the telemarketers to use wardialers.
-Rick
CDMA - Code Division Multiple Access
GSM is derived somewhat from TDMA - Time Division Multiple Access
Even *I* know this.
Like Spamcop that m0r0ns use to blacklist some of my favorite newsletter servers. Usually because the lamer is too lazy to unsubscribe. Then I have to take the time to whitelist what I want and they don't.
Spamcop even listed CNet the other day. Sheesh. Does CNet spam anyone without their permission? Maybe.
Ack. Nevermind. Ranting about RBLs is passe. We oughta be smacking the spammers, but more to the point, we oughta be smacking the ADVERTISERS!
-rick
I got skeptical when the post claimed the US forced tire makers to put these chips in, and especially after 9/11/2001.
a tions/files/E6IDSHOWSP/AIAGSTAND_final.pdf I found out that the AIAG was working on this in 2000, and was making major choices for the standard in February 2001. Read slide 40.
So here, https://mows.aiag.org/scriptcontent/event_present
From then on, I find out that tags in tires were a response to warranty fraud, the T.R.E.A.D. act mandating earlier identification of defects, and inventory management. No government conspiracy needed.
Then, common sense began to intrude. For the US governemnt to track my movements from the tags in my tires, two important things have to happen:
1. The government needs sales records that include the tag GUID and my name, and something else. Credit card might do. Address helps also.
2. The government needs to put up readers and some form of near-real-time communication.
Consider the challenges here. At 40MPH, my car is going about 211,200 fph, 58fps... Sound fast doesn't it?
Now if the practical range is 48 inches (TWICE the published range), my vehicle is in range for about 0.8 seconds. Assuming I'm withing 24 inches of the reader, going through the Transpass gate. 40MPH I do through those without trouble.
Read in less than a second? Don't ask me. Ask someone in the business. I bet not.
Also consider that the T.R.E.A.D. act was enacted in 2000. Not in response to the Firestone/Ford problems, which were serious before that. And the T.R.E.A.D. act doesn't even include the word 'VIN'. And the act doesn't per se involve domestic vehicles, but foreign vehicles and components, intending to force carmakers to disclose problems with foreign models that may be related to similar problems with similar domestic production. Good idea. But only the rule-making could twist this into the device the poster claims, and he doesn't post any of the rulemaking that indicates that. Perhaps he should be asked to provide evidence. I suspect the answer will be 'it's secret'.
Sorry, I took a look. His posts don't add up, IMHO. The story about someone getting returning a defective tire to Nordstrom's was more credible than this post. Sorry, DeadChobi, but I need more.
Now, RFID readers on the New York throughways make sense. Most containers have tags now, and many fleet vehicles do also. Might be useful to read tags, spot one registered to a tanker dedicated to hazardous waste, and realize it's headed down the freeway where hazmat is prohibited.
That I expect.