You would not want a switch. Isolating all but broadcast packets to just their destination would stifle creativity. It has to be a hub and bandwidth in a highly-interconnected net may be unimportant.
His statements would have more credibility if he dedicated Microsoft to cease illegal, anti-competitive behavior. You know, a kinder, gentler capitalism.
In wartime, US presidents have often violated the Constitution, citing threat to the republic. Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, Wilson signed the odious Sedition Act of 1918 and Franklin Roosevelt interred citizens unsuspected of crimes. All of these actions were against US citizens who had not acted against the republic.
Bush acted against enemy combatants unidentified with a governmental entity and who are killing US troops. Whether you disagree with this policy or not, the internees are not eligible for constitutional protections under any legal theory with which I am familiar. Please cite the federal statute that provides for these protections so that we may be enlightened.
What is not bright is Japan's future. Their declining birth rate, unfavorable demographic trends and extremely racist attitudes that discourage immigration combine to assure that their society will decline steadily. Unless Japan can increase the birth rate, they will diminish.
Amen, brother. We have just finished a first-stage PLM rollout and were fortunate enough to have a mandate for quality. We had an approximate and flexible timeframe and were able to devote adequate resources to testing and validation. Additionally, we took the opportunity to examine our business processes and streamline them when politically feasible. To date, we have had no serious issues and users are generally pleased with the result.
This is a typically ignorant response to a complex problem. Those who do not understand technology (both strengths and limitations) continually try to apply it in situations where nothing will be accomplished.
The human issues that drive crime will not be solved by surveillance even if every square foot of Chicago is monitored. In this scenario, only the innocent will suffer.
...because the GPL only requires that an offer of source code be distributed along with the application. Have you purchased a copy of their commercial offering?
Please read the following from gnu.org's FAQ:
QUOTE
If I distribute GPL'd software for a fee, am I required to also make it available to the public without a charge?
No. However, if someone pays your fee and gets a copy, the GPL gives them the freedom to release it to the public, with or without a fee. For example, someone could pay your fee, and then put her copy on a web site for the general public.
"In other words, the more a company focuses on beating its competitors, rather than on the bottom line, the worse it is likely to do."
The more a company ignores what their customers really want, by looking only at competitors or the bottom line, the more likely they are to fail. (and deserve it!)
Run the numbers and show your employers that they will more than gain back the investment that they make in training. Do your homework, shop around and show them you have researched the subject. The result might surprise you. But, as some other posters have noted, you should be willing to shoulder some of the burden yourself. Years ago, I set up Redhat at home on an old '486 and taught myself how to run a webserver. The Linux machines that I introduced at my employer eight years ago were the first on their network and would never have been there if I'd had to ask for training. Linux is now an infrastructure mainstay and many of our commodity services run on it. Opportunity is what YOU make of it. Good luck.
One of the reasons I still use PS/2 keyboards is that the keycap covers can easily be removed and cleaned. When I notice the keyboard looking a little dirty, I remove the covers and wash them in warm water and dish detergent. Fifteen minutes on a paper towel and they are ready to reinstall. Now, if I could just remember where they go.
We had a SCSI controller on one of our Dell 220S RAID arrays go bad at 0200 Monday. Unfortunately, as it died, it wrote complete garbage to the mail database and hosed it. Cyrus' recovery utilities laughed at me. I got on the phone to Dell support and swapped in a controller from an offline 220S, forced the drives online and was back up. Dell offered to have another controller there within four hours (per contract) but, since I had another spare, I told them to ship overnight. It arrived today. After restoring from Sunday night's tape, we were back in action by 1400.
The morals of this story are: 1. keep spares 2. pay for hardware support from someone who WILL support you 3. closely monitor your systems with automation
This year we are budgeted to install a SAN and set up clustered failover on critical systems, minimizing the probability of downtime. This incident served to reinforce that need to management.
First of all, yes, we do cost/benefit analyses. Fully burdened bodies with benefits cost a lot more than the small amount saved per unit, even spread over a year. Second, as a Dell "Large Company Account", we pay a LOT less than list and less than you can get under any circumstances. We check frequently against coupon offers and other discounts. We do not take Dell's word for it. We have received rebates when we do catch them. Third, We keep identical units in stock of each type in current use. Most of the time, we can simply swap the hard drive and get the user back up within ten minutes. With what we pay engineers and physicists, that is the cost-effective way to go. Fourth, Dell comes out the next day and (mostly) does exactly what we tell them to do. The exception is servers, when they come out within four hours. We just don't spend that much time with Dell. It is also important that we have a vendor who can supply us with U.S. citizens as onsite support techs. Dell can, you would be surprised at how many cannot. Fifth, When it makes sense, we buy from other vendors. We purchase specialty servers from Monarch Computer when we need them. Commodity servers are Poweredges from Dell. The comment one respondent made about Google is interesting. At some point, it may be beneficial to run your own shop, dedicating personnel who become very efficient at providing that service. At our size, we are not at that point.
I buy ~250k/year of Dell PCs. We do not have the time, staffing or patience to sort through myriad component problems. They are all Dell Optiplex and Latitude machines with three year warranties and Complete Care. If it breaks, it's Dell's problem. We just don't have time for anything else. If some shop has the time to screw with this stuff, they have too many IT staff and are pissing away money for nothing.
...would be a.45 Auto along with the knowledge, skill and will to use it. Doesn't the scenario described presuppose a degree of anarchy? Let's learn from what we saw in New Orleans and put our lives and those of our loved ones ahead of the unconstitutional, draconian laws of NYC.
We are a RADAR development house. The skills we want look a lot like what Ludwig describes. Our emphasis is on scientific and numerical programming, not web skills. It's too bad that Mr. Zambonini cannot find the web monkeys that he wants. The only factor missing here is a strong knowledge of hardware, so we also interview Computer Engineering students or CS majors with Electrical Engineering coursework. Our problem has been that most grads are not particularly knowledgeable or skilled, regardless their degree. We generally want only the top 5-10% and they are sometimes tough to find, especially when we must work through the HR department.
your security plan that must be submitted and approved prior to machine setup. Your company Security Office should be able to supply it. If you do not have one, the hardware is irrelevant.
As to hardware: You must have a minimum of three removable hard drives per machine. One is the "reference" drive, which will serve as template for all subsequent "user" drives. Secondly, you must have an "admin" drive for performing required maintenance on the PC. Thirdly, at least one "user" drive, although there may be many.
All of these are kept in a safe by your security officer when not in use. Ours are not connected to the network and the NICs are BIOS disabled with a BIOS password implemented. The OS' (XP) have all relevant security and auditing procedures enabled.
Above all, the machine must conform to an approved security plan. If not, you're wasting your time.
The present Chinese regime certainly has the experience when it comes to brutally relocating their population and forcing them to live in places and ways they do not want. Maybe they can make it happen, or kill them trying.
"Internet surveillance, 'consumer protection,' and perhaps even the power to tax domain names to pay for 'universal access.'"
If you think the U.S. is heavy-handed and autocratic, wait until the U.N. get their hands on this. The above quote provides three excellent reasons to keep this as far from the U.N. as absolutely possible.
If those are not convincing, read the quotes from Ghana, Brazil and Syria. Does anyone really want Islamic religious or Chinese political agendas shoved down their throats?
The next time a media source tells you that the US is defeated in Iraq or that Kofi Annan is a good guy that the "extreme right" is trying to shaft, think about some of the comments below. Media, both in the US and abroad, are all about shoving propaganda down your throat. Believe little of what they tell you and try to access as many sources as possible, both right and left. The truth is usually somewhere in the middle, but may occasionally be at one extreme. The burden is on you to educate yourself and make intelligent decisions.
The best policy is to assume they are all lying until proven otherwise. Don't act like one of the herd. The major point made here is that the host's behavior is not unusual, it's very much the norm.
In our shop, a mixed Unix/Linux/MS_2003 environment, our management does not expect cross-skill primary administration, but wants emergency backup across platforms. We keep up with each other on critical tasks but are not experts in each other's areas.
For me, it means writing more scripts so the "clickers" can minimize their typing and work from a crib sheet. Doing their MS stuff is just boring and is mainly application-oriented.
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You would not want a switch. Isolating all but broadcast packets to just their destination would stifle creativity. It has to be a hub and bandwidth in a highly-interconnected net may be unimportant.
His statements would have more credibility if he dedicated Microsoft to cease illegal, anti-competitive behavior. You know, a kinder, gentler capitalism.
This is only about turf and jurisdiction. DOJ cares not one whit about your rights or wishes.
In wartime, US presidents have often violated the Constitution, citing threat to the republic. Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, Wilson signed the odious Sedition Act of 1918 and Franklin Roosevelt interred citizens unsuspected of crimes. All of these actions were against US citizens who had not acted against the republic.
Bush acted against enemy combatants unidentified with a governmental entity and who are killing US troops. Whether you disagree with this policy or not, the internees are not eligible for constitutional protections under any legal theory with which I am familiar. Please cite the federal statute that provides for these protections so that we may be enlightened.
What is not bright is Japan's future. Their declining birth rate, unfavorable demographic trends and extremely racist attitudes that discourage immigration combine to assure that their society will decline steadily. Unless Japan can increase the birth rate, they will diminish.
Amen, brother. We have just finished a first-stage PLM rollout and were fortunate enough to have a mandate for quality. We had an approximate and flexible timeframe and were able to devote adequate resources to testing and validation. Additionally, we took the opportunity to examine our business processes and streamline them when politically feasible.
To date, we have had no serious issues and users are generally pleased with the result.
This is a typically ignorant response to a complex problem. Those who do not understand technology (both strengths and limitations) continually try to apply it in situations where nothing will be accomplished.
The human issues that drive crime will not be solved by surveillance even if every square foot of Chicago is monitored. In this scenario, only the innocent will suffer.
...because the GPL only requires that an offer of source code be distributed along with the application. Have you purchased a copy of their commercial offering?
Please read the following from gnu.org's FAQ:
QUOTE
If I distribute GPL'd software for a fee, am I required to also make it available to the public without a charge?
No. However, if someone pays your fee and gets a copy, the GPL gives them the freedom to release it to the public, with or without a fee. For example, someone could pay your fee, and then put her copy on a web site for the general public.
UNQUOTE
"In other words, the more a company focuses on beating its competitors, rather than on the bottom line, the worse it is likely to do."
The more a company ignores what their customers really want, by looking only at competitors or the bottom line, the more likely they are to fail. (and deserve it!)
Since when is the FBI a DOD component? The article referred to DOJ.
Are you guys so eager to discredit the US government that you cannot read?
Run the numbers and show your employers that they will more than gain back the investment that they make in training. Do your homework, shop around and show them you have researched the subject. The result might surprise you.
But, as some other posters have noted, you should be willing to shoulder some of the burden yourself. Years ago, I set up Redhat at home on an old '486 and taught myself how to run a webserver. The Linux machines that I introduced at my employer eight years ago were the first on their network and would never have been there if I'd had to ask for training. Linux is now an infrastructure mainstay and many of our commodity services run on it.
Opportunity is what YOU make of it. Good luck.
One of the reasons I still use PS/2 keyboards is that the keycap covers can easily be removed and cleaned. When I notice the keyboard looking a little dirty, I remove the covers and wash them in warm water and dish detergent. Fifteen minutes on a paper towel and they are ready to reinstall.
Now, if I could just remember where they go.
We had a SCSI controller on one of our Dell 220S RAID arrays go bad at 0200 Monday. Unfortunately, as it died, it wrote complete garbage to the mail database and hosed it. Cyrus' recovery utilities laughed at me. I got on the phone to Dell support and swapped in a controller from an offline 220S, forced the drives online and was back up. Dell offered to have another controller there within four hours (per contract) but, since I had another spare, I told them to ship overnight. It arrived today. After restoring from Sunday night's tape, we were back in action by 1400.
The morals of this story are:
1. keep spares
2. pay for hardware support from someone who WILL support you
3. closely monitor your systems with automation
This year we are budgeted to install a SAN and set up clustered failover on critical systems, minimizing the probability of downtime. This incident served to reinforce that need to management.
First of all, yes, we do cost/benefit analyses. Fully burdened bodies with benefits cost a lot more than the small amount saved per unit, even spread over a year.
Second, as a Dell "Large Company Account", we pay a LOT less than list and less than you can get under any circumstances. We check frequently against coupon offers and other discounts. We do not take Dell's word for it. We have received rebates when we do catch them.
Third, We keep identical units in stock of each type in current use. Most of the time, we can simply swap the hard drive and get the user back up within ten minutes. With what we pay engineers and physicists, that is the cost-effective way to go.
Fourth, Dell comes out the next day and (mostly) does exactly what we tell them to do. The exception is servers, when they come out within four hours. We just don't spend that much time with Dell. It is also important that we have a vendor who can supply us with U.S. citizens as onsite support techs. Dell can, you would be surprised at how many cannot.
Fifth, When it makes sense, we buy from other vendors. We purchase specialty servers from Monarch Computer when we need them. Commodity servers are Poweredges from Dell.
The comment one respondent made about Google is interesting. At some point, it may be beneficial to run your own shop, dedicating personnel who become very efficient at providing that service. At our size, we are not at that point.
I buy ~250k/year of Dell PCs. We do not have the time, staffing or patience to sort through myriad component problems. They are all Dell Optiplex and Latitude machines with three year warranties and Complete Care. If it breaks, it's Dell's problem. We just don't have time for anything else. If some shop has the time to screw with this stuff, they have too many IT staff and are pissing away money for nothing.
Good call. Dual-purpose if you own a revolver, sturdy, reliable and very useful with a carbine barrel (16" BATF approved version, of course).
...would be a .45 Auto along with the knowledge, skill and will to use it. Doesn't the scenario described presuppose a degree of anarchy? Let's learn from what we saw in New Orleans and put our lives and those of our loved ones ahead of the unconstitutional, draconian laws of NYC.
then they ridicule you,
then they fight you,
then you win.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
We are a RADAR development house. The skills we want look a lot like what Ludwig describes. Our emphasis is on scientific and numerical programming, not web skills. It's too bad that Mr. Zambonini cannot find the web monkeys that he wants.
The only factor missing here is a strong knowledge of hardware, so we also interview Computer Engineering students or CS majors with Electrical Engineering coursework.
Our problem has been that most grads are not particularly knowledgeable or skilled, regardless their degree. We generally want only the top 5-10% and they are sometimes tough to find, especially when we must work through the HR department.
your security plan that must be submitted and approved prior to machine setup. Your company Security Office should be able to supply it. If you do not have one, the hardware is irrelevant.
As to hardware:
You must have a minimum of three removable hard drives per machine. One is the "reference" drive, which will serve as template for all subsequent "user" drives. Secondly, you must have an "admin" drive for performing required maintenance on the PC. Thirdly, at least one "user" drive, although there may be many.
All of these are kept in a safe by your security officer when not in use. Ours are not connected to the network and the NICs are BIOS disabled with a BIOS password implemented. The OS' (XP) have all relevant security and auditing procedures enabled.
Above all, the machine must conform to an approved security plan. If not, you're wasting your time.
The present Chinese regime certainly has the experience when it comes to brutally relocating their population and forcing them to live in places and ways they do not want. Maybe they can make it happen, or kill them trying.
Either way, problem solved!
"Internet surveillance, 'consumer protection,' and perhaps even the power to tax domain names to pay for 'universal access.'"
If you think the U.S. is heavy-handed and autocratic, wait until the U.N. get their hands on this. The above quote provides three excellent reasons to keep this as far from the U.N. as absolutely possible.
If those are not convincing, read the quotes from Ghana, Brazil and Syria. Does anyone really want Islamic religious or Chinese political agendas shoved down their throats?
It can't bend strings, it can't play blues, it's not worth a shit.
Next!
The next time a media source tells you that the US is defeated in Iraq or that Kofi Annan is a good guy that the "extreme right" is trying to shaft, think about some of the comments below. Media, both in the US and abroad, are all about shoving propaganda down your throat. Believe little of what they tell you and try to access as many sources as possible, both right and left. The truth is usually somewhere in the middle, but may occasionally be at one extreme. The burden is on you to educate yourself and make intelligent decisions.
The best policy is to assume they are all lying until proven otherwise. Don't act like one of the herd. The major point made here is that the host's behavior is not unusual, it's very much the norm.
In our shop, a mixed Unix/Linux/MS_2003 environment, our management does not expect cross-skill primary administration, but wants emergency backup across platforms. We keep up with each other on critical tasks but are not experts in each other's areas.
For me, it means writing more scripts so the "clickers" can minimize their typing and work from a crib sheet. Doing their MS stuff is just boring and is mainly application-oriented.