If I'm not mistaken, SuSE comes with LVM-support (Atleast 9.1 did). That's about all you need for a snapshot backup, without needing to shut down anything. What you do with the snapshot volume is ofcourse your choice... You can "dd" it somewhere, you can use tar, afio, cpio, rm -rf/... whatever beats your meat.
There's no "click-n-drool" interface backup, no. Maybe it's because there are so incredibly many ways to back up the system.. I dunno. But it wouldn't take me long to set up a proper backup system in SuSE. All it takes is a google search or two (Google is *still* your friend! (Or Yagohoogle)).
The point of GNU/Linux hasn't been user-friendlyness. It's flexibility, power and reliability. Linux still sucks on the desktop, and will continue to do so for atleast five years.
Microsoft now provides a solution that possibly gets close to the power and flexibility of unix backup systems. But it probably has a UI that makes it a lot easier to set up.
Both sides have their advantages. Setting up a server is quicker with windows. Setting up a *good* server is easier with *nix. Same will probably apply for backup systems.
Gah... I gotta stop raving on about this. Sorry for the inconvenience people. I'm stopping now;)
The the pin is not stored on the card. You can copy the card as much as you want, but it won't be of any use as long as you don't have the pin.
The pin could probably be read with interference, but that'd require some hefty equipment. That's not something your ordinary wallet-thief will have access to.
The tradeoff is simple. Replace your battery often, or pay through the nose for good ones you won't have to replace for a long time. I'd go for the first option (Yeah, I'm cheap), but I understand those who opt for the second choice;)
I thought that Google did no evil, and followed standards:)
That domainname doesn't comply with RFC 1035. "The labels must follow the rules for ARPANET host names. They must start with a letter, end with a letter or digit, and have as interior characters only letters, digits, and hyphen. There are also some restrictions on the length. Labels must be 63 characters or less."
Contrary to popular opinion, Stallman is the last person in the entire Free Software/Open Source movement that I would expect doing something due to an ego issue.
I've met him. I've eaten pizza with him. I disagree.
Heh, yeah. You trust software "limits" to keep software from undoing them. There's one serious flaw there. If a local user can gain root access, he can do whatever to the system. That also includes *overwriting* the relevant parts of the running kernel.
Sorry, but what the fuck would be the point? Since when could the ADMINISTRATOR user be trusted on Windows systems? Do you think it'll be more secure after palladium? If a user can do something on a system, software can do it as well.
That post is irrelevant. It deals with KEYS bought online. The reason they don't want that is that people could just warez the game, then buy a used key. Which would cut their earnings, and they'd end up with a load of unsold boxes. The poster *has* the original game, and he also has a *valid* CD-key that is *not* in use (It has been, but that is irrelevant). Tell me *one* good reason Blizzard shouldn't unfuck this?
IE is a bigger target, ie. a much more attractive target for malware writers. If I wanted to write something that installed malware through the browser, I'd target IE browser for that simple reason. Besides, a few security holes are found by "accident". That is, the browser behaves oddly on a page, and some geek tries to figure out why and stumbles over a hole.
lists everyone's favorite browser Internet Explorer with 15 flaws and Mozilla with only 7.
Well now.. Of course IE has more known security issues than mozilla. IE is used on 94% of all PC's (IIRC). Mozilla-based browsers thus account for less than 6% (Seem to remember Opera being two percent, which brings Mozilla to max 4%).
I don't use IE. I don't like IE. But this is like comparing apples and oranges. The number of security flaws found in mozilla would probably be a lot higher if it had the same installed user-base. Why can't people get this simple fact? Why are we so dependent on bashing "the great enemy"? Get a life people...
/me watches as karma drops to previously unknown levels
Have you ever noticed the fact that ATX motherboards power the NIC even when the power is off? (Unless you yank out the power cable, that'd basically give the same result as yanking the network cable)
The point being, the machines I am responsible for, *I* am responsible for (We're actually a team, but I'll ignore the rest of them right now). Users, no matter how knowledgeable, should not yank out cable/open the case.
I'd know by mail and SMS the second after you unplug that network cable. Security'd be at your desk within a minute. I *seriously* doubt you would be able to even open the case before they get there.
Places like hospitals and the army does ban laptops. Banning usb-keys isn't that easy, since it's rather easy to conceal (Stuff it up your ass, if you like that).
Because the iPod uses USB. Disabling USB in general disables a lot more than removable media. This has NOTHING to do with the iPod. That's just some geek being annoyed that the IT manager can remove his possibility to leech MP3's at work.
No, not all IT departmens care that much about USB-keys. They probably don't care that much about CD-Writers either. They probably don't have that much valuable data to steal.
First of all, if you're paranoid about data theft, you remove users possibility to: 1. Send mail with attachments. 2. http POST
But it's nearly impossible to actually secure a network with an internet connection.
Don't you think it's a Good Thing(TM) that MicroSoft has figured out what Linux/MacOs/YourHobbyistOsHere already has done? The only thing this actually does is add some flexibility.
Your security team is apparently *NOT* good at what they do. Blocking outgoing SSH via http-proxy is dead simple. It takes a couple of minutes to set up squid as a transparent proxy, which will very simply thwart your attempts.
Any admin that has to prevent data theft from a company would disable booting from *any* removable media/network. And password the bios.
Spoofing would be possible, yes. Make a "fake" USB-printer for instance. Print all the secret documents to that. Of course, your admin should already have disabled the possiblity for you to install a printer locally, but he *might* have missed that part. The only problem with that is actually tricking a usb-disk into acting like a printer...
An iPod/USB drive is not that much different from a floppy/zip/CD-RW. Possibly except size.
IT administrators have been blocking floppies/zip's/cd-rws before. But blocking USB also blocks a heap of *useful* devices.
If you tried that on my network, I'd get a notice as soon as the network cable was unplugged or the case opened. There are anti-theft devices for PC's too, you know.
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I though the cle266 drivers has been included in the kernel for a while? VIA opensourced them a while back IIRC.
For the clueless: Godwin's law describing the effect of comparing something in a thread to Nazi Germany.
Of course, both the grandparent, parent and me have now lost the discussion.
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Of course, that's because of /.'s lame space-in-url-idiocy. Anyways, the LoC is actually approx. 20TB.
If I'm not mistaken, SuSE comes with LVM-support (Atleast 9.1 did). That's about all you need for a snapshot backup, without needing to shut down anything. What you do with the snapshot volume is ofcourse your choice... You can "dd" it somewhere, you can use tar, afio, cpio, rm -rf /... whatever beats your meat.
;)
There's no "click-n-drool" interface backup, no. Maybe it's because there are so incredibly many ways to back up the system.. I dunno. But it wouldn't take me long to set up a proper backup system in SuSE. All it takes is a google search or two (Google is *still* your friend! (Or Yagohoogle)).
The point of GNU/Linux hasn't been user-friendlyness. It's flexibility, power and reliability. Linux still sucks on the desktop, and will continue to do so for atleast five years.
Microsoft now provides a solution that possibly gets close to the power and flexibility of unix backup systems. But it probably has a UI that makes it a lot easier to set up.
Both sides have their advantages. Setting up a server is quicker with windows. Setting up a *good* server is easier with *nix. Same will probably apply for backup systems.
Gah... I gotta stop raving on about this. Sorry for the inconvenience people. I'm stopping now
Uhmm. DUH?
The the pin is not stored on the card. You can copy the card as much as you want, but it won't be of any use as long as you don't have the pin.
The pin could probably be read with interference, but that'd require some hefty equipment. That's not something your ordinary wallet-thief will have access to.
The tradeoff is simple. Replace your battery often, or pay through the nose for good ones you won't have to replace for a long time. I'd go for the first option (Yeah, I'm cheap), but I understand those who opt for the second choice ;)
I thought that Google did no evil, and followed standards :)
That domainname doesn't comply with RFC 1035. "The labels must follow the rules for ARPANET host names. They must start with a letter, end with a letter or digit, and have as interior characters only letters, digits, and hyphen. There are also some restrictions on the length. Labels must be 63 characters or less."
Contrary to popular opinion, Stallman is the last person in the entire Free Software/Open Source movement that I would expect doing something due to an ego issue. I've met him. I've eaten pizza with him. I disagree.
Heh, yeah. You trust software "limits" to keep software from undoing them. There's one serious flaw there. If a local user can gain root access, he can do whatever to the system. That also includes *overwriting* the relevant parts of the running kernel.
Sorry, but what the fuck would be the point? Since when could the ADMINISTRATOR user be trusted on Windows systems? Do you think it'll be more secure after palladium?
If a user can do something on a system, software can do it as well.
Googles suggestion when searching for SCOXE is nice as well... "Did you mean SCORE?"
That post is irrelevant. It deals with KEYS bought online. The reason they don't want that is that people could just warez the game, then buy a used key. Which would cut their earnings, and they'd end up with a load of unsold boxes.
The poster *has* the original game, and he also has a *valid* CD-key that is *not* in use (It has been, but that is irrelevant).
Tell me *one* good reason Blizzard shouldn't unfuck this?
Yes, he's freaking annoying. After a couple of hours of play you've heard everything. Go into the menus and switch him off. It's not that hard ;)
I believe the controller vibrates when you hit a cheat.
IE is a bigger target, ie. a much more attractive target for malware writers. If I wanted to write something that installed malware through the browser, I'd target IE browser for that simple reason.
Besides, a few security holes are found by "accident". That is, the browser behaves oddly on a page, and some geek tries to figure out why and stumbles over a hole.
Well now.. Of course IE has more known security issues than mozilla. IE is used on 94% of all PC's (IIRC). Mozilla-based browsers thus account for less than 6% (Seem to remember Opera being two percent, which brings Mozilla to max 4%).
I don't use IE. I don't like IE. But this is like comparing apples and oranges. The number of security flaws found in mozilla would probably be a lot higher if it had the same installed user-base. Why can't people get this simple fact? Why are we so dependent on bashing "the great enemy"? Get a life people...
Allowing https is not a good idea. They don't need access to a site using https outside the local network anyway.
Have you ever noticed the fact that ATX motherboards power the NIC even when the power is off? (Unless you yank out the power cable, that'd basically give the same result as yanking the network cable)
The point being, the machines I am responsible for, *I* am responsible for (We're actually a team, but I'll ignore the rest of them right now). Users, no matter how knowledgeable, should not yank out cable/open the case.
*sigh*
I'd know by mail and SMS the second after you unplug that network cable. Security'd be at your desk within a minute. I *seriously* doubt you would be able to even open the case before they get there.
Places like hospitals and the army does ban laptops. Banning usb-keys isn't that easy, since it's rather easy to conceal (Stuff it up your ass, if you like that).
Because the iPod uses USB. Disabling USB in general disables a lot more than removable media. This has NOTHING to do with the iPod. That's just some geek being annoyed that the IT manager can remove his possibility to leech MP3's at work.
No, not all IT departmens care that much about USB-keys. They probably don't care that much about CD-Writers either. They probably don't have that much valuable data to steal.
First of all, if you're paranoid about data theft, you remove users possibility to :
1. Send mail with attachments.
2. http POST
But it's nearly impossible to actually secure a network with an internet connection.
Don't you think it's a Good Thing(TM) that MicroSoft has figured out what Linux/MacOs/YourHobbyistOsHere already has done? The only thing this actually does is add some flexibility.
Your security team is apparently *NOT* good at what they do. Blocking outgoing SSH via http-proxy is dead simple. It takes a couple of minutes to set up squid as a transparent proxy, which will very simply thwart your attempts.
Any admin that has to prevent data theft from a company would disable booting from *any* removable media/network. And password the bios.
Spoofing would be possible, yes. Make a "fake" USB-printer for instance. Print all the secret documents to that. Of course, your admin should already have disabled the possiblity for you to install a printer locally, but he *might* have missed that part.
The only problem with that is actually tricking a usb-disk into acting like a printer...
An iPod/USB drive is not that much different from a floppy/zip/CD-RW. Possibly except size.
IT administrators have been blocking floppies/zip's/cd-rws before. But blocking USB also blocks a heap of *useful* devices.
If you tried that on my network, I'd get a notice as soon as the network cable was unplugged or the case opened. There are anti-theft devices for PC's too, you know.