I buy that, except the last part. basing a temperature scale on water really has nothing to do with anything, so on that point, F is just as good as C.
Not quite, but close.
You wouldn't want 2700+ new servers, that would defeat the purpose of using ESX.
What you would want, is to take a smaller number (perhaps 500) of more powerful, large multiprocessor systems and use those. Multiple existing instances (zones, regions, whatever they are) would run on each. With vmotion, you can move an instance and it's containing virtual machine to a different host machine at will, so the objective would be to consolidate the "quiet" areas: put many of them on a single host. This would leave the "busy" areas with a dedicated or nearly dedicated host, which we've already established to be more powerful than the existing systems. It could all be done for less electrical and maintenance costs, as well as saving colo space.
I won't say it will be cheaper. ESX with vmotion is not inexpensive. Large multiprocessor machines are not inexpensive, although without knowing existing workloads it's hard to say just how beefy they would need to be. Perhaps 2x dual core blades would do. Even so, it's 10k plus per box, with ESX in the mix.
How does that work? The attacker would have to IMMEDIATELY capture your pad and prevent the login you were attempting. once you login, that pad is worthless to them. That seems to be a recipe for suspicion if you ask me.
More to the point, the attacker would have to know right away you had tried a login and login themselves at that point in time, before you figured out something was wrong and called the bank.
One time pads cannot be reused. once a login happens, it's dead. Certainly less trivial than anything out there today.
Theres a fair number of decent alternatives out there. It all comes down to the stencils. The time it would take to create new ones invalidates the value of any "free" alternative, even if you must have a dedicated windows machine just for Visio.
If MS turned around and said "The next version of Visio will only run on windows 2012 Server Enterprise edition and will cost $1000" I'd still have to buy it.:(
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There is still no viable, functionally equivalent alternative to Visio. Someone call me when there is.
In my eyes, this functional equivalence would need to include the ability to use Visio stencils, or a replacement for all the existing stencils already in use. This isn't likely to happen anytime soon, I'm afraid.
Don't forget, you may have to cool that extra 380 watts worth of power too... not an issue during winter but thats probably going to translate into a fair heat output in warm months. Turn up those ACs!!!
Forwarding misspelled domains to your.com is a HORRIBLE idea. Here's why:
Lets say you are citibank, you own citibank.com, and your forward citybank.com. Your "setting the expectation" that a forward will happen, in the customers mind. When they go to city-bank.com, and it looks the same, to them, as citybank or citibank (but it's actually phisher owned), they're sunk.
What NEEDS to happen instead, if registering alternate spellings or typos is part of a security strategy, you need to inform the customer on that page with an informative message. "You appear to be looking for citibank.com. To prevent fishing, citibank has registered this and several other names. Please type 'citibank.com' into your browser address bar to continue."
Why no click through link? Whats to keep the fisher from making a fake "bad domain name page" linking to their site? Then they've got you hook, line, and sinker...
performing this caused firefox to crash. Interesting.
However, the "reload session" brought me back to where I was. Pretty sweet, but why the crash on changing a setting? After doing it AGAIN, the close button is back where it belongs.
Or http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ ultravnc, which is windows only but includes both encryption and integrated windows authentication (local or domain).
Hint: Install the disk controller driver for the new mainboard before you install the new mainboard. It might take some digging to find it, but it's well worth avoiding the reinstall.
The error you get (which is almost certainly "unmountable boot device") is caused by windows inability to talk to the disks. The bootloader can, but failing to load an appropriate driver, windows cannot. Solution: have the driver available.
Better support for flat panel displays. (ClearType)
WHAT?!? Maybe you need ClearType if you have some cheap LCD display that is not running in it's native resolution and has horrible image scaling (most cheap LCDs have this problem). But it's kind of pointless to run an LCD panel in anything but it's native resolution, and with good LCD displays this is a non-issue. ClearType is over rated.
ClearType has absolutely nothing to do with scaling, using a non-native resolution, or anything similar. It's sub-pixel manipulation/rendering and it is a good thing. While I hate to tout anything Steve Gibson, he has a great article on the topic http://www.grc.com/ctwhat.htm/
To summerize, since an LCD panel is made into subpixels next to each other (as opposed to CRT style triangular groups) and an LCD panel can directly address each (red, green, or blue)subpixel, greater horizontal resolutions can be achieved for black and white text.
You've hit it on the head there. Consider this.
The Indians in question get paid well above the average for what they would if they worked at locally generated jobs. So they're well off. Why then, would they take the bait on something like this? Who knows. But perhaps they'll take a bribe for a few tens of thousands to hand over some confidential information. After all, hey, thats a few years of pay to him! He'll be a rich man!
A mid level manager at a US company might take a bribe for several hundred thousand to hand over some confidential information. After all, hey, thats a few years pay to him! He'll be a rich man!
A (decimal) order of magnitude difference to the "offering" party, but really no difference to the "recieving" party. If your the offerer, who would you go to?
"The study was based on comScore's regular panels for measuring Internet audiences, rather than MySpace's registration information, where users often lie about their age.'"
check out http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/power toys/xppowertoys.mspx the taskswitch powertoy at this link.
It gives you a small graphic of the window inside the alt-tab interface, so you can see what your switching to, if for example, you have a handful of firefox windows open, or any other "several of the same" windows. It really changed the way I felt about alt-tab.
Why though, by state? Why not lines connecting major metropolitan areas, and less dense (IE, same line serving a larger geographical area) lines connecting other regions? New York City and Jersey City hardly need to be on seperate backbone lines, for example.
Dividing things by state seems... quite arbitrary.
I've done this recently with a linux iscsi target, for proof of concept. Used the shared storage to build a 2 node windows cluster, on 2 different vmware server hosts. It runs nicely but with a few quirks.
Theres already CPUs around with ALOT more than 1M per core.
For example...
IBM's p595 has over 100MB per. And these are 8 core chips. Yummy.
Standard configurations
Microprocessors 16 POWER5 1.65 or 1.9 GHz processors or POWER5+ 2.1 or 2.3 GHz processors (two 8-core MCMs)
L2 cache 7.6MB / MCM
L3 cache 144MB / MCM
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/p/hardware/highend/5 95/specs.html
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I buy that, except the last part. basing a temperature scale on water really has nothing to do with anything, so on that point, F is just as good as C.
Not quite, but close.
You wouldn't want 2700+ new servers, that would defeat the purpose of using ESX.
What you would want, is to take a smaller number (perhaps 500) of more powerful, large multiprocessor systems and use those. Multiple existing instances (zones, regions, whatever they are) would run on each. With vmotion, you can move an instance and it's containing virtual machine to a different host machine at will, so the objective would be to consolidate the "quiet" areas: put many of them on a single host. This would leave the "busy" areas with a dedicated or nearly dedicated host, which we've already established to be more powerful than the existing systems. It could all be done for less electrical and maintenance costs, as well as saving colo space.
I won't say it will be cheaper. ESX with vmotion is not inexpensive. Large multiprocessor machines are not inexpensive, although without knowing existing workloads it's hard to say just how beefy they would need to be. Perhaps 2x dual core blades would do. Even so, it's 10k plus per box, with ESX in the mix.
How does that work? The attacker would have to IMMEDIATELY capture your pad and prevent the login you were attempting. once you login, that pad is worthless to them. That seems to be a recipe for suspicion if you ask me.
More to the point, the attacker would have to know right away you had tried a login and login themselves at that point in time, before you figured out something was wrong and called the bank.
One time pads cannot be reused. once a login happens, it's dead. Certainly less trivial than anything out there today.
Theres a fair number of decent alternatives out there. It all comes down to the stencils. The time it would take to create new ones invalidates the value of any "free" alternative, even if you must have a dedicated windows machine just for Visio. :(
If MS turned around and said "The next version of Visio will only run on windows 2012 Server Enterprise edition and will cost $1000" I'd still have to buy it.
There is still no viable, functionally equivalent alternative to Visio. Someone call me when there is.
In my eyes, this functional equivalence would need to include the ability to use Visio stencils, or a replacement for all the existing stencils already in use. This isn't likely to happen anytime soon, I'm afraid.
Approach one of the CC companies. They'll do it. I have, long ago, to add CC processing to a DOS application.
Don't forget, you may have to cool that extra 380 watts worth of power too... not an issue during winter but thats probably going to translate into a fair heat output in warm months. Turn up those ACs!!!
Perhaps we should regulate against George Bush being George Bush? Seems that would be a more effective solution, to a lot of things.
Forwarding misspelled domains to your .com is a HORRIBLE idea. Here's why:
Lets say you are citibank, you own citibank.com, and your forward citybank.com. Your "setting the expectation" that a forward will happen, in the customers mind. When they go to city-bank.com, and it looks the same, to them, as citybank or citibank (but it's actually phisher owned), they're sunk.
What NEEDS to happen instead, if registering alternate spellings or typos is part of a security strategy, you need to inform the customer on that page with an informative message. "You appear to be looking for citibank.com. To prevent fishing, citibank has registered this and several other names. Please type 'citibank.com' into your browser address bar to continue."
Why no click through link? Whats to keep the fisher from making a fake "bad domain name page" linking to their site? Then they've got you hook, line, and sinker...
performing this caused firefox to crash. Interesting.
However, the "reload session" brought me back to where I was. Pretty sweet, but why the crash on changing a setting? After doing it AGAIN, the close button is back where it belongs.
Link please?
Or http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ ultravnc, which is windows only but includes both encryption and integrated windows authentication (local or domain).
Will the 75 popup blockers block the popups that the 219 non-popup blocking toolbars produce?
The error you get (which is almost certainly "unmountable boot device") is caused by windows inability to talk to the disks. The bootloader can, but failing to load an appropriate driver, windows cannot. Solution: have the driver available.
To summerize, since an LCD panel is made into subpixels next to each other (as opposed to CRT style triangular groups) and an LCD panel can directly address each (red, green, or blue)subpixel, greater horizontal resolutions can be achieved for black and white text.
You've hit it on the head there. Consider this. The Indians in question get paid well above the average for what they would if they worked at locally generated jobs. So they're well off. Why then, would they take the bait on something like this? Who knows. But perhaps they'll take a bribe for a few tens of thousands to hand over some confidential information. After all, hey, thats a few years of pay to him! He'll be a rich man! A mid level manager at a US company might take a bribe for several hundred thousand to hand over some confidential information. After all, hey, thats a few years pay to him! He'll be a rich man! A (decimal) order of magnitude difference to the "offering" party, but really no difference to the "recieving" party. If your the offerer, who would you go to?
One more thing to assure the availability of?
Why not vmware? Server is free. http://www.vmware.com/products/free_virtualization .html
There's ads on slashdot? Oh wow... your right! Never noticed those...
check out http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/power toys/xppowertoys.mspx the taskswitch powertoy at this link.
It gives you a small graphic of the window inside the alt-tab interface, so you can see what your switching to, if for example, you have a handful of firefox windows open, or any other "several of the same" windows. It really changed the way I felt about alt-tab.
Why though, by state? Why not lines connecting major metropolitan areas, and less dense (IE, same line serving a larger geographical area) lines connecting other regions? New York City and Jersey City hardly need to be on seperate backbone lines, for example. Dividing things by state seems... quite arbitrary.
I've done this recently with a linux iscsi target, for proof of concept. Used the shared storage to build a 2 node windows cluster, on 2 different vmware server hosts. It runs nicely but with a few quirks.
Nice knowing you ;)
Theres already CPUs around with ALOT more than 1M per core. For example... IBM's p595 has over 100MB per. And these are 8 core chips. Yummy. Standard configurations Microprocessors 16 POWER5 1.65 or 1.9 GHz processors or POWER5+ 2.1 or 2.3 GHz processors (two 8-core MCMs) L2 cache 7.6MB / MCM L3 cache 144MB / MCM http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/p/hardware/highend/5 95/specs.html