And looking at said rate, I would expect my great grandchildren to be able to see the fruits of the labours. Linux is gaining ground but Firefox is a lot more successful than Linux and it still is peanuts compared to the behemoth that MS has on the browser market.
I think you would find that if there was only 1 provider of any product the company would not be motivated to spend money on improving it. Why spend money when no one is going to go elsewhere to get an alternative. Competition is the best thing for the consumer.
With AD in 2003 it gets a bit better where if a site does not justify having a whole new domain (i.e small amount of users or computers and slow link) by and putting a GC is not possible, by enabling Universal Caching will speed up logons.
Designating a specific server to be the bridgehead should only be done manually (opposed to the KCC designating it's own) if there appears to be some impact on one of the DCs during replication. If you specify the bridgehead and it goes down, replication to the opposite site will cease until another server is designated.
Also you don't really specify when the bridgeheads replicate, you specify when replication can occur across the Site Links. Sorry just nitpicking but otherwise what you say is correct.
Well the other nice thing about config files is the ability to have in-line comments and manage the files via CVS or something similar.
The comment thing would be nice however Active Directories gives a lot of power to applying specified configurations to specific computers or groups of computers. Rather than managing the files you just create Group Policies and apply to specific OUs that are necessary. You can also limit which members of the OU (machine or User) that gets it applied by setting specific permissions based on groups.
Damn the HKCU entry got screwed up Essentially HKCU points to a subkey within the HKEY_USERS that corresponds to the SID of the user.
For example if you go into Regedit as the local administrator and look in HKU you will see two subkeys called -500 and -500_Classes. The local Administrator account SID always ends in 500
This is why renaming the admin account is not always a foolproof method of stopping people to hack in as all they need to figure out is what name corresponds to the *500 SID.
No offence but the registry is not that hard to figure out, hell it is easier to figure out than setting up Modelines for a wierd monitor in Xorg. HKLM = Machine specific Settings HKCU = Link to HK_Users\ = User specific settings HK_Classes_Root = Link to HKLM\Classes\Software Classes
In both HKCU and HKLM there are Software subkeys which is where apps are supposed to write and user or machine specific settings
Machine specific System Settings (i.e Services, etc) are located in HKLM\System. In there are CurrentControlSet (curren System Settings) as well as ControlSetx which (I think) are previous settings as well as LastKnownGoodRecovery
Probably the most convoluted section is the Classes but rarely does anyone need to go in there.
It's a little of a different mindset but not that big. The nice thing about Linux is that since they are human readable files there is no singular point of failure (i.e if registry corrupts) but the Registry is still not that daunting and it can be backed up easily by backing up the System state.
Chances are DoD does their own testing of fully blessed patches from MS anyways. This will probably give them a little more time to test than it would before.
My question is if these computers are super critical, why is there a direct path to the Internet? Why aren't they on their own network with very limited access to introducing external data?
ignoring the fact that the *really* critical systems in the U.S. Air Force are proprietary systems Granted the servers are running some version of Unix (I think I have seen Solaris. But I know some of the US client machines are running Windows on a couple of their classified networks. At that level the client machines are considered critical as well as if the user cannot get onto a client machine it doesn't matter if the server is up.
Then fire the admin who didn't take due diligence in testing against known configurations. I worked for Canadian Forces for a couple years until my contract got cut due to the project being on time underbudget and a major success and prior to any hotfix thorough testing was done by the Testing center as well as us prior to push to the site's servers.
You shouldn't take any vendor at his word that the patch won't cause any issues.
That's funny. I have two Maxtor 80G SATA drives in Raid 0 that seem to do the same thing. Every couple of days for about 10 seconds the drives will thrash especially in a game. (no it isn't swapping memory)
As mortgages become more expensive, the number of real estate purchases, will decrease That is happening as we speak here in Ottawa Canada. There was a report out about 2 weeks ago that the number of houses sold last year was lower than the year before but that prices were a tad higher. The huge price increase though seems to have tapered off and people are not getting what they want their houses for or are having to wait longer to get it.
The stupid thing is Ottawa Public Servants. I have been to other cities in Canada and not seen the apathy and laziness (and stupidity) as there is in Ottawa.
The key thing with # 2 is "intent". If you strayed across a questionable site by accident and it gets stuck in your cache they can't do a bloody thing about it. How do you prove it? Well if they start the whole big brother thing then chances are they could look at your logs of where you frequent.
Now if you repeatedly stray upon the site then chances are you may have a problem...
One thing I have noticed is that the media seems to be out of step by at least 6 months with what is going on in the govt.
They will find some document written way back when and publish about it but seem not to find the response to the document that basically negates prior document's issue.
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And looking at said rate, I would expect my great grandchildren to be able to see the fruits of the labours. Linux is gaining ground but Firefox is a lot more successful than Linux and it still is peanuts compared to the behemoth that MS has on the browser market.
(as I post from FF)
Which funny enough is made by Intuit that Microsoft bought a couple years ago.
I think you would find that if there was only 1 provider of any product the company would not be motivated to spend money on improving it. Why spend money when no one is going to go elsewhere to get an alternative. Competition is the best thing for the consumer.
Hell I have 50 invites I can't get rid of.
With AD in 2003 it gets a bit better where if a site does not justify having a whole new domain (i.e small amount of users or computers and slow link) by and putting a GC is not possible, by enabling Universal Caching will speed up logons.
Designating a specific server to be the bridgehead should only be done manually (opposed to the KCC designating it's own) if there appears to be some impact on one of the DCs during replication.
If you specify the bridgehead and it goes down, replication to the opposite site will cease until another server is designated.
Also you don't really specify when the bridgeheads replicate, you specify when replication can occur across the Site Links. Sorry just nitpicking but otherwise what you say is correct.
Well the other nice thing about config files is the ability to have in-line comments and manage the files via CVS or something similar.
The comment thing would be nice however Active Directories gives a lot of power to applying specified configurations to specific computers or groups of computers. Rather than managing the files you just create Group Policies and apply to specific OUs that are necessary. You can also limit which members of the OU (machine or User) that gets it applied by setting specific permissions based on groups.
Damn the HKCU entry got screwed up Essentially HKCU points to a subkey within the HKEY_USERS that corresponds to the SID of the user.
For example if you go into Regedit as the local administrator and look in HKU you will see two subkeys called -500 and -500_Classes. The local Administrator account SID always ends in 500
This is why renaming the admin account is not always a foolproof method of stopping people to hack in as all they need to figure out is what name corresponds to the *500 SID.
No offence but the registry is not that hard to figure out, hell it is easier to figure out than setting up Modelines for a wierd monitor in Xorg.
HKLM = Machine specific Settings
HKCU = Link to HK_Users\ = User specific settings
HK_Classes_Root = Link to HKLM\Classes\Software Classes
In both HKCU and HKLM there are Software subkeys which is where apps are supposed to write and user or machine specific settings
Machine specific System Settings (i.e Services, etc) are located in HKLM\System.
In there are CurrentControlSet (curren System Settings) as well as ControlSetx which (I think) are previous settings as well as LastKnownGoodRecovery
Probably the most convoluted section is the Classes but rarely does anyone need to go in there.
It's a little of a different mindset but not that big. The nice thing about Linux is that since they are human readable files there is no singular point of failure (i.e if registry corrupts) but the Registry is still not that daunting and it can be backed up easily by backing up the System state.
Can't remember where but I saw one a couple days ago. I think it was off a Fark link
I imagine that you could afford a home in Medicine Hat. :)
Funny guy
Dude lighten up it was a joke
Don't forget Poland :)
Chances are DoD does their own testing of fully blessed patches from MS anyways. This will probably give them a little more time to test than it would before.
My question is if these computers are super critical, why is there a direct path to the Internet? Why aren't they on their own network with very limited access to introducing external data?
ignoring the fact that the *really* critical systems in the U.S. Air Force are proprietary systems
Granted the servers are running some version of Unix (I think I have seen Solaris. But I know some of the US client machines are running Windows on a couple of their classified networks. At that level the client machines are considered critical as well as if the user cannot get onto a client machine it doesn't matter if the server is up.
Then fire the admin who didn't take due diligence in testing against known configurations. I worked for Canadian Forces for a couple years until my contract got cut due to the project being on time underbudget and a major success and prior to any hotfix thorough testing was done by the Testing center as well as us prior to push to the site's servers.
You shouldn't take any vendor at his word that the patch won't cause any issues.
True but for some reason they had decided to have 1 legal copy of Wordperfect 9 (I think or was it 10) on 60 workstations
That's funny. I have two Maxtor 80G SATA drives in Raid 0 that seem to do the same thing. Every couple of days for about 10 seconds the drives will thrash especially in a game. (no it isn't swapping memory)
I can't wait. The wife and I want to buy a house...
Can we speed it up some?
As mortgages become more expensive, the number of real estate purchases, will decrease
That is happening as we speak here in Ottawa Canada. There was a report out about 2 weeks ago that the number of houses sold last year was lower than the year before but that prices were a tad higher. The huge price increase though seems to have tapered off and people are not getting what they want their houses for or are having to wait longer to get it.
Something about right to a fair trial....
I think burden of proof would still be needed. Any new lawyer would be able to get someone off (hehe get off) if it was one picture
The stupid thing is Ottawa Public Servants. I have been to other cities in Canada and not seen the apathy and laziness (and stupidity) as there is in Ottawa.
The key thing with # 2 is "intent". If you strayed across a questionable site by accident and it gets stuck in your cache they can't do a bloody thing about it. How do you prove it? Well if they start the whole big brother thing then chances are they could look at your logs of where you frequent.
Now if you repeatedly stray upon the site then chances are you may have a problem...
One thing I have noticed is that the media seems to be out of step by at least 6 months with what is going on in the govt.
They will find some document written way back when and publish about it but seem not to find the response to the document that basically negates prior document's issue.