The bigger places have electricity. Shanty towns sometimes have electricity, but all of them have a 'battery charging' infrastructure. Someone with electricity or a generator, will charge heaps of car batteries. These gets delivered by donkey cart to power all kinds of things: Television sets, phones, radios, ghetto blasters, cash registers and so on. It is really amazing to see.
Well, wireless systems are really wireless. They use microwave wireless back-haul.
Namibia is the world's oldest desert. It has very few people - about a million. It has very few roads - one going north-south and another going east-west and that is about it. It has one power station and imports half its electricity from its neighbours. Most of Namibia consists of nothing but rocks and sand and connecting the few places that have something besides rocks and sand is very hard indeed.
The two things Namibia has an over abundance of is wind and sunshine.
It is Africa. In Africa *anything* gets stolen, unless it is too big and heavy to carry off, in which case, it gets loused up so badly that no-one will even want to poke the poor thing with a ten foot pole afterwards. Most Africans are still firmly in the pre-stone age...
Namibia used to deploy anti-personnel land-mines around high tension power pylons. I don't know whether they still need to do that, but I won't be surprised if the cell base stations also have those, in addition to the electrified fences.
From TFA: "SEC Chairman Christopher Cox said that not even the investor protection agency is immune to the onslaught of stock-related spam. He said the SEC's public affairs director, John Nester, received an e-mail touting the stock of one of the 35 companies."
That would explain the crackdown...
So tie the IP to the MAC address and use DHCP to dish out fixed addresses - fixed till you decide to change it that is. This way, all IP addresses are in the DHCP configuration file.
Hmm, the problem is not user acceptance or training. The problem is IT personnel acceptance and training.
All a typical corporate user need in terms of training is a one page cheat sheet. However, the IT guys need to figure out how to make Linux work with MS Active Directory, learn how to configure Samba, figure out how to make Gnome Meeting work cross country and futz around till they have Linux going with some wacky Citrix applications and so on. Each problem is not insurmountable in its own right, but lumped together it becomes a huge head-ache.
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Running your applications on someone else's properly maintained Linux servers, may be much better than running your applications on your own virus ridden Windows servers. The 1970s Computer Beuros are coming back...
MS is pursuing large corporations and government departments who wish them to provide support for the whole nine yards - Windows, Linux, whatever. Basically, they are trying to become more like IBM. If they succeed, then their stock will eventually go up again. If not, they'll fade slowly, like DEC, Wang and others who once were great.
The problem is that even at $75 for Vista and Office 2007 combined, the problems still don't go away. WinXP with Office 2003 was also overpriced, but at least it worked reasonably well.
I have evaluated those. OpenNMS works very well, but it is Java based, so it requires Tomcat, making it hard to install. Nagios works, but I didn't quite like like it - it was still somewhat incomplete back then. Zabbix is nice, small, quick, quite complete.
The conclusion I came to, is that if you wish to track thousands or even tens of thousands of machines, then OpenNMS is the way to go. Zabbix is for small installations and Nagios is for something in between with a few hundred up to a thousand machines.
'Hope this helps someone.
documents were created with typewriters or written by hand. Then Wordstar happened. No-one gave a shit about layout and preservation of fonts when converting to/from WordPerfect. It was good enough if the text contents got transferred during a transfer. It still applies today.
The fact is that the exact layout and preservation thereof during a transfer is nice to have, but not essential.
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The bigger places have electricity. Shanty towns sometimes have electricity, but all of them have a 'battery charging' infrastructure. Someone with electricity or a generator, will charge heaps of car batteries. These gets delivered by donkey cart to power all kinds of things: Television sets, phones, radios, ghetto blasters, cash registers and so on. It is really amazing to see.
Well, wireless systems are really wireless. They use microwave wireless back-haul. Namibia is the world's oldest desert. It has very few people - about a million. It has very few roads - one going north-south and another going east-west and that is about it. It has one power station and imports half its electricity from its neighbours. Most of Namibia consists of nothing but rocks and sand and connecting the few places that have something besides rocks and sand is very hard indeed. The two things Namibia has an over abundance of is wind and sunshine.
It is Africa. In Africa *anything* gets stolen, unless it is too big and heavy to carry off, in which case, it gets loused up so badly that no-one will even want to poke the poor thing with a ten foot pole afterwards. Most Africans are still firmly in the pre-stone age...
Namibia used to deploy anti-personnel land-mines around high tension power pylons. I don't know whether they still need to do that, but I won't be surprised if the cell base stations also have those, in addition to the electrified fences.
"The solar/wind tower also runs the protective fencing around the site" This really sounds like good old Africa to me - sigh.
Get a copy of Prof Hawkins' "A brief History of Time". He explains it all really well and there is only one formula in the book.
From TFA: "SEC Chairman Christopher Cox said that not even the investor protection agency is immune to the onslaught of stock-related spam. He said the SEC's public affairs director, John Nester, received an e-mail touting the stock of one of the 35 companies." That would explain the crackdown...
How about spamradio: http://www.spamradio.com/ A whole pro-spam broadcasting system.
Assign fixed addresses based on the MACs. Don't have a free pool.
Neat. I wasn't aware of fping and I like quick and dirty solutions.
So tie the IP to the MAC address and use DHCP to dish out fixed addresses - fixed till you decide to change it that is. This way, all IP addresses are in the DHCP configuration file.
Most probably Oracle and MS 2003 servers. The Canadian gov is a total MS and Oracle shop.
Hmm, the problem is not user acceptance or training. The problem is IT personnel acceptance and training. All a typical corporate user need in terms of training is a one page cheat sheet. However, the IT guys need to figure out how to make Linux work with MS Active Directory, learn how to configure Samba, figure out how to make Gnome Meeting work cross country and futz around till they have Linux going with some wacky Citrix applications and so on. Each problem is not insurmountable in its own right, but lumped together it becomes a huge head-ache.
One word: SSH
Dat's all folks...
"independent analysts to offer dramatic improvements in security"
Allow or Deny?
That, I guess is the new 'Abort, Retry or Fail?'.
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Shut your fucking face uncle fucka
You're a cock sucking ass licking uncle fucka
You're an uncle fucka, yes its true
Nobody fucks uncles quite like you
Shut your fucking face uncle fucka
You're the one that fucked your uncle, uncle fucka
You dont eat or sleep or mow the lawn,
You just fuck your uncle all day long
Uhmm - 'nuf sed...
You hit the nail on the head there. The problem is not user training - the problem is IT staff training.
Running your applications on someone else's properly maintained Linux servers, may be much better than running your applications on your own virus ridden Windows servers. The 1970s Computer Beuros are coming back...
MS is pursuing large corporations and government departments who wish them to provide support for the whole nine yards - Windows, Linux, whatever. Basically, they are trying to become more like IBM. If they succeed, then their stock will eventually go up again. If not, they'll fade slowly, like DEC, Wang and others who once were great.
Hijackers simply start shooting passengers until they remotely fly him where he wants to go.
Fanatics are irrational by design...
Does this host water system ship with Starbucks or Nabob?
The problem is that even at $75 for Vista and Office 2007 combined, the problems still don't go away. WinXP with Office 2003 was also overpriced, but at least it worked reasonably well.
would be sufficient for me. I don't like the 'Windows tied selling', which is kinda illegal in many states anyway.
provided of course, that he is really dead. - Voltaire.
I have evaluated those. OpenNMS works very well, but it is Java based, so it requires Tomcat, making it hard to install. Nagios works, but I didn't quite like like it - it was still somewhat incomplete back then. Zabbix is nice, small, quick, quite complete. The conclusion I came to, is that if you wish to track thousands or even tens of thousands of machines, then OpenNMS is the way to go. Zabbix is for small installations and Nagios is for something in between with a few hundred up to a thousand machines. 'Hope this helps someone.
documents were created with typewriters or written by hand. Then Wordstar happened. No-one gave a shit about layout and preservation of fonts when converting to/from WordPerfect. It was good enough if the text contents got transferred during a transfer. It still applies today. The fact is that the exact layout and preservation thereof during a transfer is nice to have, but not essential.