I think the poster was actually referring to enterprise SATA drives, like WD's raptor drives.
These are rated at 10K and come in 36 and 72GB sizes like SCSI drives. The MTBF is measured for 24x7 use like SCSI (unlike normal SATA which is not for sustained usage). They only cost 2/3 of the price of a SCSI drive, however.
You could send the torrent over any encrypted tunnel, think SSH tunnels. There is more overhead, but there is no way to know what data is being transferred. In fact, there's nothing to stop people doing that right now.
Using an open protocol is really the only way to be sure you're getting what you think you're getting. Security by obscurity doesn't work. Please think about it for a second, and I'm sure you'll understand.
It is only relevant if someone managed to gain access to information they shouldn't have, the whole point is 'sensitive data'. I have no doubt that CPU cycles on the machine could be 'borrowed' for any reason whatsoever. I was alerted to the fact that the password was changed, as would any changes to system files.
I don't know anyone that would keep the key together with an encrypted file. I typically keep a key with me on a USB key or floppy and passphrase in my head.
I've got the passphrase written down, but I'm more likely to forget where I put the paper its written on than I am to forget the passphrase itself.
Yes, I have forgotten passwords to useless boxes on a number of occasions, but only because I know I don't have to know them.
The box in question didn't have any sensitive data, so it's not really relevant. (general access web-broswing PC)
That said, I encryt sensitive data on any box that people I don't trust have access to. It would take someone a long time to decrypt, by which time it wouldn't be sensitive anyway.
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It really pisses me off every time I hear the 'butterfly effect' used like this.
The intended meaning is that if you had a complete model of the world and factored everything in, but forgot a single butterfly, your model would be so useless that you could fail to predict a tornado.
The butterfly didn't 'cause' the tornado, but leaving it out of the model made it useless.
Have a look at wikipedia for a better explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect
So the butterfly effect isn't really valid here, because Linus is responsible for Linux directly.
On a locked-down box, you will not get any 'sensitive' data, even with physical access. Some distros (Suse is one I'm sure of) require the root password even in runlevel 1, out of the box.
I lost the root password to a suse box and had to knoppix boot to fix. (And then tripwire notified me of this quicksmart when things were going again.)
Slashdot: Where "12 yr old without any experience about corporate LANs" rant about other equally inept 12 year olds.
Any *decent* corporate network will be VLAN-ed well enough that a break-out will not affect the whole network. There's plenty of monitoring/centralised administration stuff out there that can force updates to remote hosts or even block infected clients from network access.
Any sysadmin that can't see this after the blaster deserves what they have coming.
I'm scared that people actually think that corporate LAN security == personal firewall.
I've had a lot of problems with automatically switching networks with anything less than excellent signal strength (regardless of SSID broadcast), this sounds like your problem.
If your interpretation of the MS article is correct, you shouldn't get an association with the access point at all, it should default to the SSID broadcasting network from the beginning.
Either way, I'd still look at the automatically connect to non-preferred networks option, which will fix your problem for sure.
If you haven't already applied 826942 then I would do that as well, it fixes a few weird problems I've seem.
The microsoft KB article refers to PREFERED networks, not any network.
In basic terms: if you have two networks on your preferred list, one with SSID broadcast and one without, you will connect to the one with SSID broadcast (regardless of the order in which you have specified them).
BTW, the $ symbol tells everyone it is US currency, hence the US is redundant in your price post.
Yep, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Hong Kong, the Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Eastern Caribbean, Fiji, Jamaica, Singapore, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, and probably some others I'm not aware of, have STOLEN the name of the AMERICAN currency!
This is one of the funniest things I have seen on/. in a long time, because it was serious. My sig is aimed at people like you.
No, you're not the first to think of that. What about the scene where Mr. Anderson is in the boss' office getting the 'you have a problem' speech while 2 guys wash the window? Look closely, and the soap/water pattern on the windows looks a lot like matrix code.
You're looking at it from the wrong way. Sure, crypto export limitations have been overturned (i think), but the lack of crypto in the kernel is because not everywhere else in the rest of the world is ok with it. Crypto is still illegal in some counties, and linux aims to be as usable by as many people as possible.
I can accept a few then/than mistakes from Taco, but grammar this bad is crazy. Maybe someone needs to do a study to see if playing computer games makes grammar worse.
So which part of "So assuming that you don't have a built compiler" dont you understand? And gcc comes with it's own compiler (also not built), just to compile the compiler. funny actually.
So assuming that you don't have a built compiler (and thus require GCC)... what do you do? This is the only thing that I can understand needing binaries for, and it there isn't any. This don't make sense to me.
Are you sure about that? I made a web site for a company that has one registered COMPANY name, but has just changed the BUSINESS name, thus still owns both, and has both domain names for the BUSINESS.
I remember watching nasubi (which means egg-plant in japanese - aparently he (was it his hair?) resembles an eggplant in some way). It was a funny show. I didn't watch it that often, but sometimes I turned it on and had a laugh.
It would be nice for this story to be backed up by facts. I was under the impression that nasubi was aware of what was going to happen to him (or at least aware that he was going be "up-shit-creek-without-a-paddle" for a very long time), and he voulunteered. So do not take this seriously. As much as the writer of the article wants you to believe, NTV (and Japan as a whole) is not *that* cruel.
Nasubi enjoyed what he did. He enjoyed the attention he got after it as well. He could of chosen to back out at any time, and he didn't.
Japan has some bad tv shows. It has shows that people risk injury to win prizes. But, it is all closely monitored. The producers know what's going on. They know they'll be screwed if something bad happens to anyone. People like the attention. They are getting what they want. That is the real problem here, people doing stupid things to be famous for a day.
Yes, your points may be true, but have you lived in Japan? Have you seen the results of these points you argue?
Have you seen the way the average male just expects the female to get beer, or cook food for him?
Have you tried to get Japanese citizenship? (the only people who get citizenship are famous sports players - mostly sumo) Have you seen the way that people just stare at you, just because you have blond hair? Or talk about you, right to your face, because you're a forginer, you can't possibly understand Japanene?
And have you seen the realationship between students or even workers, the senpai/kouhai (junior/senior) relationship that happens everywhere?
These issues have not disappeared, or somehow got magically better. The government is slowly adapting to change. The people, even slower. Japan has been around for just as long, or longer than most countries. It has had time to change.
Talk to any Japanese person about change, and you will begin to understand. Most people think "if it ain't broke, don't fix it", and don't realise that their system *is* broken. I'm not just talking about big issues like these, I get it every day, from a lot of people.
No, Japan is not changing. I come from a country with only 200 years history, and we changed a lot in those 200 years. True, we had a big head start, but compared to Japan the change happens a lot faster.
I actually think you're proving my point. The Japan you see today still hasn't changed from what it was a few hundred or even thousand years ago. It has embraced some external features, that were compatible with the old lifestyle, but it hasn't changed.
Women are still second rate. Age means everything. Forigners are still outsiders.
True, they have brought technology into their culture and worked with it well (thanks to the japanese culture fitting in with quality manufacturing - Demming, Juran, et al. made sure of this in the 60-80's IIRC). So yes, I guess Japan has changed. But, only slowly evolved into something compatible with it's old lifestyle.
Without going into too much detail about Japan's social problems, I think Japan's history is catching up. As you say, the fact that their society functions at all is impressive. But it's hard to say if Japan can keep up with the change without changing attitude it's been keeping
The original idea, is that you get one job. You never leave it. If you get harassed, you put up with it. You stick with that one job. The males have it lucky, they will get promoted up through the ranks over time, but women do not have huge promotion prospects. Like I said, that is the original idea. It's changed a bit now
The reason the companies don't hire people who left their previous job, is that they don't like the thought that they will leave them as well. So, if you have reason to leave your previous job: they went out of business, extra study, settling down in a more permanent location, a reason that they see as not deserting your previous company, they will find that acceptable and possibly hire you.
There is a lot more to it than just that, but it can't be summed up easily in a single/. comment.
The next job my girlfriend got the same story, very close but rejected again. Following that, she didn't tell them about the previous job. She got the next job she applied for.
Bringing this back on topic, the reason these people are worried their employees might leave them is because game programmers are rare. This is where the system breaks down. The company wants them there, but can't see that they need to give them more incentive. A lifetime job should be good enough.
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We're lucky to get that one. Oracle have publicly stated that there wont be any updates to Java 6 post February 2012. http://java.com/en/download/faq/java_6.xml
Google released Chrome for Business in the last few months, add that to the policy settings and you're pretty set.
Unless you really try, windows file protection (under XP at least) wont let you do that. Talk about making what you need to do impossible.
These are rated at 10K and come in 36 and 72GB sizes like SCSI drives. The MTBF is measured for 24x7 use like SCSI (unlike normal SATA which is not for sustained usage). They only cost 2/3 of the price of a SCSI drive, however.
I don't agree.
You could send the torrent over any encrypted tunnel, think SSH tunnels. There is more overhead, but there is no way to know what data is being transferred. In fact, there's nothing to stop people doing that right now.
Using an open protocol is really the only way to be sure you're getting what you think you're getting. Security by obscurity doesn't work. Please think about it for a second, and I'm sure you'll understand.
It is only relevant if someone managed to gain access to information they shouldn't have, the whole point is 'sensitive data'. I have no doubt that CPU cycles on the machine could be 'borrowed' for any reason whatsoever.
I was alerted to the fact that the password was changed, as would any changes to system files.
I don't know anyone that would keep the key together with an encrypted file. I typically keep a key with me on a USB key or floppy and passphrase in my head.
I've got the passphrase written down, but I'm more likely to forget where I put the paper its written on than I am to forget the passphrase itself.
Yes, I have forgotten passwords to useless boxes on a number of occasions, but only because I know I don't have to know them.
The box in question didn't have any sensitive data, so it's not really relevant. (general access web-broswing PC)
That said, I encryt sensitive data on any box that people I don't trust have access to. It would take someone a long time to decrypt, by which time it wouldn't be sensitive anyway.
It really pisses me off every time I hear the 'butterfly effect' used like this.
The intended meaning is that if you had a complete model of the world and factored everything in, but forgot a single butterfly, your model would be so useless that you could fail to predict a tornado.
The butterfly didn't 'cause' the tornado, but leaving it out of the model made it useless.
Have a look at wikipedia for a better explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect
So the butterfly effect isn't really valid here, because Linus is responsible for Linux directly.
On a locked-down box, you will not get any 'sensitive' data, even with physical access.
Some distros (Suse is one I'm sure of) require the root password even in runlevel 1, out of the box.
I lost the root password to a suse box and had to knoppix boot to fix. (And then tripwire notified me of this quicksmart when things were going again.)
Slashdot: Where "12 yr old without any experience about corporate LANs" rant about other equally inept 12 year olds.
Any *decent* corporate network will be VLAN-ed well enough that a break-out will not affect the whole network. There's plenty of monitoring/centralised administration stuff out there that can force updates to remote hosts or even block infected clients from network access.
Any sysadmin that can't see this after the blaster deserves what they have coming.
I'm scared that people actually think that corporate LAN security == personal firewall.
I've had a lot of problems with automatically switching networks with anything less than excellent signal strength (regardless of SSID broadcast), this sounds like your problem.
If your interpretation of the MS article is correct, you shouldn't get an association with the access point at all, it should default to the SSID broadcasting network from the beginning.
Either way, I'd still look at the automatically connect to non-preferred networks option, which will fix your problem for sure.
If you haven't already applied 826942 then I would do that as well, it fixes a few weird problems I've seem.
The microsoft KB article refers to PREFERED networks, not any network.
In basic terms: if you have two networks on your preferred list, one with SSID broadcast and one without, you will connect to the one with SSID broadcast (regardless of the order in which you have specified them).
Fuckhead. You want to use the car analogy?
If you put the wrong oil in your car and something happens, then it's my fault? If you want your oil changed, let me do it.
Drive how you like, but if I have to keep it running 24/7, you aren't going to lift the hood.
Yep, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Hong Kong, the Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Eastern Caribbean, Fiji, Jamaica, Singapore, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, and probably some others I'm not aware of, have STOLEN the name of the AMERICAN currency!
This is one of the funniest things I have seen on /. in a long time, because it was serious. My sig is aimed at people like you.
No, you're not the first to think of that. What about the scene where Mr. Anderson is in the boss' office getting the 'you have a problem' speech while 2 guys wash the window? Look closely, and the soap/water pattern on the windows looks a lot like matrix code.
You're looking at it from the wrong way. Sure, crypto export limitations have been overturned (i think), but the lack of crypto in the kernel is because not everywhere else in the rest of the world is ok with it. Crypto is still illegal in some counties, and linux aims to be as usable by as many people as possible.
"Hey its just a study, but its amusing."
I can accept a few then/than mistakes from Taco, but grammar this bad is crazy. Maybe someone needs to do a study to see if playing computer games makes grammar worse.So which part of "So assuming that you don't have a built compiler" dont you understand? And gcc comes with it's own compiler (also not built), just to compile the compiler. funny actually.
So assuming that you don't have a built compiler (and thus require GCC)... what do you do? This is the only thing that I can understand needing binaries for, and it there isn't any. This don't make sense to me.
Are you sure about that? I made a web site for a company that has one registered COMPANY name, but has just changed the BUSINESS name, thus still owns both, and has both domain names for the BUSINESS.
He *meant* business, I'm sure. You need to be a registered business, not a company. Or else the businesses I've registered are not looking too good.
It would be nice for this story to be backed up by facts. I was under the impression that nasubi was aware of what was going to happen to him (or at least aware that he was going be "up-shit-creek-without-a-paddle" for a very long time), and he voulunteered. So do not take this seriously. As much as the writer of the article wants you to believe, NTV (and Japan as a whole) is not *that* cruel.
Nasubi enjoyed what he did. He enjoyed the attention he got after it as well. He could of chosen to back out at any time, and he didn't.
Japan has some bad tv shows. It has shows that people risk injury to win prizes. But, it is all closely monitored. The producers know what's going on. They know they'll be screwed if something bad happens to anyone. People like the attention. They are getting what they want. That is the real problem here, people doing stupid things to be famous for a day.
Have you seen the way the average male just expects the female to get beer, or cook food for him?
Have you tried to get Japanese citizenship? (the only people who get citizenship are famous sports players - mostly sumo) Have you seen the way that people just stare at you, just because you have blond hair? Or talk about you, right to your face, because you're a forginer, you can't possibly understand Japanene?
And have you seen the realationship between students or even workers, the senpai/kouhai (junior/senior) relationship that happens everywhere?
These issues have not disappeared, or somehow got magically better. The government is slowly adapting to change. The people, even slower. Japan has been around for just as long, or longer than most countries. It has had time to change.
Talk to any Japanese person about change, and you will begin to understand. Most people think "if it ain't broke, don't fix it", and don't realise that their system *is* broken. I'm not just talking about big issues like these, I get it every day, from a lot of people.
No, Japan is not changing. I come from a country with only 200 years history, and we changed a lot in those 200 years. True, we had a big head start, but compared to Japan the change happens a lot faster.
Women are still second rate. Age means everything. Forigners are still outsiders.
True, they have brought technology into their culture and worked with it well (thanks to the japanese culture fitting in with quality manufacturing - Demming, Juran, et al. made sure of this in the 60-80's IIRC). So yes, I guess Japan has changed. But, only slowly evolved into something compatible with it's old lifestyle.
Without going into too much detail about Japan's social problems, I think Japan's history is catching up. As you say, the fact that their society functions at all is impressive. But it's hard to say if Japan can keep up with the change without changing attitude it's been keeping
The reason the companies don't hire people who left their previous job, is that they don't like the thought that they will leave them as well. So, if you have reason to leave your previous job: they went out of business, extra study, settling down in a more permanent location, a reason that they see as not deserting your previous company, they will find that acceptable and possibly hire you.
There is a lot more to it than just that, but it can't be summed up easily in a single /. comment.
The next job my girlfriend got the same story, very close but rejected again. Following that, she didn't tell them about the previous job. She got the next job she applied for.
Bringing this back on topic, the reason these people are worried their employees might leave them is because game programmers are rare. This is where the system breaks down. The company wants them there, but can't see that they need to give them more incentive. A lifetime job should be good enough.