At work, we have about 400 Macs. We've only had to have RAM replaced on two of them, and it was OEM RAM. I know one other case where this was needed too.
The databases were created to stop terrorism. If they're being used to chase down anyone the government wants for anything, it's another step toward a police state.
I signed up for Google Apps for Domains after reading this. The first account I created does not have IMAP as an option, but the subsequent sub-accounts I created do. I suppose I could delete the first account and make another account with the same name, but for some reason they make you wait 5 days before you can re-create one.
Hey honestly, I would have taken it home with me, but dropping it on the ground was what was suggested to me by a TFL staff member I asked. I'm not from London:P
Public places in London have plenty of trash-cans. They're steel belted cast iron, so any detonation is turned into a shaped charge pointed straight up.
The Underground is a different matter. You are expected to just drop rubbish on the ground. They have an army of low paid workers who go around cleaning up after you. It's a little odd.
See, the problem with convincing slashdot editors that Western Australia doesn't exist goes back to a week in 2003, when Linux.conf.au was held at the supposed University of Western Australia ( see here for a pictures of Hemos at it - http://theducks.org/gallery/daffy/hemos_daffy ). We had to go to a lot of effort to make it look like they were in Western Australia.. we flew them all around in planes for about a day, saying they were going to Australia, but in fact it was really held in rural Florida. We did up a university there with all these fake signs saying "Welcome to The University of Western Australia", had accent coaches for about 1000 people, and it all worked really well.
Aha, but you would have to prove that Microsoft took your picture for financial gain. They would say they did not - they only took a picture of your street and maybe your house (and in fact, you may not be in the same picture as your house, which would make things even more special). Unless you designed your house, and it could be shown they took the picture because of the house, you're unlikely to even get them for that.
There's a number of companies (Amazon, and some real estate data companies, for example) which have done similar things before and not got sued, so you'd have to get over that hurdle too. They also have better lawyers than you, and frankly, if Microsoft can keep the US Government tied up in court for years, don't think they wouldn't do the same to you if you poked them with lawsuits they thought they could win, especially if loss would open them up to thousands more.
Spam botnets now have so many client machines that Joe Spammer only needs to send out 10 or 20 messages per system per day, and he sends them out slowly.
As soon as a solution seems "obvious" to "everyone", the spammers have moved on. I work for a university, looking after IT Security. We still get people ask us why we don't do bayesian filtering on our ~700,000 emails per day (hint: when 85% of your email is spam, it doesn't help much) or OCR (1: CPU load++, 2: spammers now use animated gifs with noise, split in the middle of rows and re-layouted with HTML).
Mmm well. I work in IT Security for a university.. we're used to seeing random PC's get infected with stuff and sending out spam. We were surprised when a few weeks ago we saw our main linux shell machine sending out 14000 spams in an hour. Investigation showed that the spam kiddies had found out login details and setup a perl script to send spam from it. We've also seen it before from MacOS X machines running SSH with weak passwords.
In other words, I suspect it's probably not a great long term plan to be smug about windows vulnerabilities causing all of the problems. It will continue to be one, for sure, but the spammers have other tricks which are contributing to the problem:/
Apple kept going pre-OSX due to good luck, not good business planning and strategy.
Pre-Steve Jobs mk2, they had a huge confusing lineup of machines, some of which could whup the PCs of the day, and some which were boat-anchors when shipped.
Pre-OSX, they were limping along with an operating system that had been dragged through a series of upgrades, kicking and screaming, for 15 years. I mean, yes, I'm glad I could play 1984 era games like StuntCopter on my G4, but I was less pleased by the 3-5 crashes per day when I was actually trying to use the thing.
I think, looking back, it gets down to one thing: Apple survived because of the people who today will pay $900 for an IEC power cable.
Unlimited freedom of speech isn't as great as what you might think. Have a look at all the unpopular cases the ACLU defends because of it. The right of freedom of speech has to be weighed against the responsibility to keep good social order, and that's what happens in Australia.
Allowing the original poster to go on his life in ignorance, using talking points he's heard from those who believe in god over science, that would be harm. Our dear doctor here has merely corrected his knowledge and allowed him to understand that he doesn't know everything in life, and sometimes the things people say are biased to support their causes.
I think your organisation's security people should have a look into the concept of temporary files and do some reading on the US Custom's computer forensics tool of choice, EnCase:)
Let's be honest here though, your only concern with anything apple has shipped post-OSX is the iMac RAM cover. Which I'm sorry, but it's pretty damn easy to get off.
Past performance being what it is, you're effectively saying you don't trust OS X because MacOS 7 crashed on you a lot. Like a lot of people still do. "Oh I used a mac in the late 80s and it sucked"... yeah, things have changed a bit. I'm sorry the computer you bought in 1999 doesn't work so well anymore, but perhaps, just perhaps, 8 years later is a time to consider retiring it.
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Slashdot was a great distraction before twitter, digg, reddit, facebook, googleplus.. :)
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
Yup - we're saving $180k/year on a Sun support contract by keeping spares of all the 6+ year old SPARC equipment we have in production.
My first slashdot password was the same as my dialup account, a randomly capitalised word + number.
At work, we have about 400 Macs. We've only had to have RAM replaced on two of them, and it was OEM RAM. I know one other case where this was needed too.
You don't know the half of it, they're paying AU$38/gb for inbound traffic :)
The databases were created to stop terrorism. If they're being used to chase down anyone the government wants for anything, it's another step toward a police state.
I signed up for Google Apps for Domains after reading this. The first account I created does not have IMAP as an option, but the subsequent sub-accounts I created do. I suppose I could delete the first account and make another account with the same name, but for some reason they make you wait 5 days before you can re-create one.
NDA NDA! ;-)
Wait, that only covers the sessions, not the Yerba Buena evening. (Ozomatli were kinda cool huh?)
I heard similar things, and with regards to Flash too (from Adobe staff..)
Hey honestly, I would have taken it home with me, but dropping it on the ground was what was suggested to me by a TFL staff member I asked. I'm not from London :P
Public places in London have plenty of trash-cans. They're steel belted cast iron, so any detonation is turned into a shaped charge pointed straight up.
The Underground is a different matter. You are expected to just drop rubbish on the ground. They have an army of low paid workers who go around cleaning up after you. It's a little odd.
Looks interesting Mike :-)
(PS: Hi!)
See, the problem with convincing slashdot editors that Western Australia doesn't exist goes back to a week in 2003, when Linux.conf.au was held at the supposed University of Western Australia ( see here for a pictures of Hemos at it - http://theducks.org/gallery/daffy/hemos_daffy ). We had to go to a lot of effort to make it look like they were in Western Australia .. we flew them all around in planes for about a day, saying they were going to Australia, but in fact it was really held in rural Florida. We did up a university there with all these fake signs saying "Welcome to The University of Western Australia", had accent coaches for about 1000 people, and it all worked really well.
Aha, but you would have to prove that Microsoft took your picture for financial gain. They would say they did not - they only took a picture of your street and maybe your house (and in fact, you may not be in the same picture as your house, which would make things even more special). Unless you designed your house, and it could be shown they took the picture because of the house, you're unlikely to even get them for that.
There's a number of companies (Amazon, and some real estate data companies, for example) which have done similar things before and not got sued, so you'd have to get over that hurdle too. They also have better lawyers than you, and frankly, if Microsoft can keep the US Government tied up in court for years, don't think they wouldn't do the same to you if you poked them with lawsuits they thought they could win, especially if loss would open them up to thousands more.
Ok, try this - You have no right to privacy on a public street. It's a well held standard in US courts.
Spammers use your site to send out spam by entering their intended recipent as the from address :)
This is 6 months ago thinking.
Spam botnets now have so many client machines that Joe Spammer only needs to send out 10 or 20 messages per system per day, and he sends them out slowly.
As soon as a solution seems "obvious" to "everyone", the spammers have moved on. I work for a university, looking after IT Security. We still get people ask us why we don't do bayesian filtering on our ~700,000 emails per day (hint: when 85% of your email is spam, it doesn't help much) or OCR (1: CPU load++, 2: spammers now use animated gifs with noise, split in the middle of rows and re-layouted with HTML).
Mmm well. I work in IT Security for a university.. we're used to seeing random PC's get infected with stuff and sending out spam. We were surprised when a few weeks ago we saw our main linux shell machine sending out 14000 spams in an hour. Investigation showed that the spam kiddies had found out login details and setup a perl script to send spam from it. We've also seen it before from MacOS X machines running SSH with weak passwords.
:/
In other words, I suspect it's probably not a great long term plan to be smug about windows vulnerabilities causing all of the problems. It will continue to be one, for sure, but the spammers have other tricks which are contributing to the problem
I did this. It didn't help at all. Maybe whoever is joe-jobbing me is sending all the email to servers that don't have SPF checking. Sigh.
Back in my day we had turn the crankshaft to get the 6502 in our Apple I kits working.
They were Triton and Tranax ATM's - http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/index.blog?entry_ id=1561329 - which are usually operated by small businesses, not banks.
Apple kept going pre-OSX due to good luck, not good business planning and strategy.
Pre-Steve Jobs mk2, they had a huge confusing lineup of machines, some of which could whup the PCs of the day, and some which were boat-anchors when shipped.
Pre-OSX, they were limping along with an operating system that had been dragged through a series of upgrades, kicking and screaming, for 15 years. I mean, yes, I'm glad I could play 1984 era games like StuntCopter on my G4, but I was less pleased by the 3-5 crashes per day when I was actually trying to use the thing.
I think, looking back, it gets down to one thing: Apple survived because of the people who today will pay $900 for an IEC power cable.
It's true, yes, but it's a fairly heavily implied right. See this paper from the parlimentary library of Australia - http://www.aph.gov.au/Library/pubs/rn/2001-02/02rn 42.htm
Unlimited freedom of speech isn't as great as what you might think. Have a look at all the unpopular cases the ACLU defends because of it. The right of freedom of speech has to be weighed against the responsibility to keep good social order, and that's what happens in Australia.
Harm is an interesting term.
Allowing the original poster to go on his life in ignorance, using talking points he's heard from those who believe in god over science, that would be harm. Our dear doctor here has merely corrected his knowledge and allowed him to understand that he doesn't know everything in life, and sometimes the things people say are biased to support their causes.
I think your organisation's security people should have a look into the concept of temporary files and do some reading on the US Custom's computer forensics tool of choice, EnCase :)
Let's be honest here though, your only concern with anything apple has shipped post-OSX is the iMac RAM cover. Which I'm sorry, but it's pretty damn easy to get off.
... yeah, things have changed a bit. I'm sorry the computer you bought in 1999 doesn't work so well anymore, but perhaps, just perhaps, 8 years later is a time to consider retiring it.
Past performance being what it is, you're effectively saying you don't trust OS X because MacOS 7 crashed on you a lot. Like a lot of people still do. "Oh I used a mac in the late 80s and it sucked"