Posts by multipharious 306 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Jan 2008
For the same reasons that some of the folks have stated, a lot of organizations I have come in contact with bristle at the idea of any sort of phone home. They simply do not like control or even reporting to be external. Can you blame them? (See the recent McAfee DAT screwup) If the code is comprimised, like this ever happens, then an organization could be seriously inconvenienced if the attacker could ennumerate enough machines...or the right ones.
Just a random speculation, but I wonder if this is a first step before they think about reducing prices and start licensing their processors? Don't pay yearly maintenance? Brick.
If you buy a Home Server, you will find it is a nice simple add-in to your home network, and the remote access functionality is interesting as well. Easy setup...blah..blah..blah. Still does not get around the local or physical loss if something bad happens in your home.
My two cents/pence here: Watch out for the snake oil salesmen in the AV market. There is a vendor out there (Avast) whose uninstall is (was?) so dirty it is hard to believe. Perhaps they corrected this, but where you see one problem... I rebuilt my Home Server after significant problems with an expired Avast demo. I had decided I did not want them, and let it run out. Fine until they locked the Admin console. Excuse me? Disable your own software if you want, but leave the host alone. If you really want/need AV, and things are being downloaded directly from the Internet to the WHS, then consider a major AV brand and spring for an actual server license. In other words don't just test a few. The Avast "value add" is that they scan the clients on the network. No thanks. I do not want post infection detection. I also am not putting anything on the server that has not gone through a client with current defs.
I now immunize the herd and leave the server alone. Be aware though for now the rat screw of a lack of an AV support situation might push you into making a poor decision to put some garbage on there. Resist that urge.
OpenOffice and StarOffice? I cannot send things to customers that might have display issues. As a content consumer, you may understand the display issues, but as a content provider I cannot afford it. I have been using the 2010 Professional beta both at home and work for around a year now (forget when it was made available) and even better: the new Visio. When you have to slam together a network diagram and make it look good you need Visio.
Outlook 2010 can only be experienced by using it in production. For someone that needs to keep a lot of appointments and conversations straight without spending a ton of time, you will like Outlook 2010. You get an invite, and a snippet of your Calendar is displayed in the email so you know immediately if you are free or busy or what needs to be moved. Conversations are intelligently grouped. The couple seconds it saves you here and there begin to add up, and the extra productivity translates into a [insert what you do with extra time here.]
I could keep going on about the why and the various improvements Just test it yourself. You will be sorry you missed the year long beta.
Super. Great excuse: it only has one gear so that is why it is slow. Shall I buy one now?
I get the technology. When electric, hybrid, diesel, squirrel driven, or hydrogen cars get to the point that they deliver what my car does now then I will look at them. I don't really care about what is under the hood, but I have certain expectations for mature implementations. The electric torque band is mighty interesting to me, and you can be sure that I will adopt when the price performance spot in my mind is hit, but it ain't there yet. Do a Wiki search on the Hype Cycle. Applies to most new things.
The Tesla is not designed for the German market or my requirements as a customer. I have something that is two tenths of a second off the stated 0-60 (0-100kmph here) time already, but I certainly do not use that power in the city anyway.
"...groundless, utterly unfounded Apple-bashing."
Sorry man, but when you stick your lower lip out like that and stomp your foot you just make me laugh. It's OK, we didn't say your iPad couldn't join the tea party with Miss Mopsy and Mister Bun.
Seriously though, the library includes in C++ are slightly different than snagging a chunk of code like a rat going after a crumb. Apple may be following the letter of the law with the acknowledgement, but at least in this forum there are a few of us that think a more proactive polite tip of the hat might have been more appropriate...perchance?
It is quite possible that with assistance from Poland that the tide of the war was turned. If you don't know why, then get off your duff and look it up. Machines similar to the Enigma were in use well before the war in banking.
I am still amazed at how the folks that were so widely recruited from all over posed as office staff for years and years and refused en masse any commendation at the end of the war. So many stories of the secret war are fascinating, and a great intro to security. I am a bit surprised this went under Bootnotes.
When they lead off your neighbors, you let out a sigh of relief that it is not you, but you do nothing to stop it. Watch your fellow netizens being exploited and your strategy is "your fault for using it." Just because this does not affect you this instant, does not mean that the implications of this war for control over your private data will not impact you someday. Do nothing and eventually they will be knocking at your door.
A lot of friends and family I know use facebook, and I am not going to sit around quietly while they get screwed.
Why didn't Bay just have her on a trampoline? I wish Megan the best of luck, and she ought to have better roles than ones where she is merely a gratuitous, obviously drawn out, slow motion spectacle...
If it was her decision then it was a good one. If it wasn't then it was a good one for her.
Totally agree. Pot and kettle.
They actually changed their privacy policy back in November, the last two large rollouts (facebook connect and the changes to the info page) are just the software side, and a sign of more to come. If you look at the strategy closely, it appears that Facebook fully intends to use the posts and content to fine tune a better search engine than Google has. Not a bad idea, considering they get more visitors per day than Google as of a week ago.
For them to crow about privacy and security with their current abusive behavior and the rabble of 3rd party applications is rich. There needs to be a major change in the way these companies are permitted to do things, and for one "Opt In" should be the default.
The argument that they are providing a service still does not make users subject to any whim and change of policy, nor does it give them rights over users' data any more than it would permit forced, uncompensated labor simply because that is how they decide to write their terms of service.
I got the luck of getting dragged into helping someone from another 40K end user company (name withheld) when they got zapped. The symptoms popped up rather rapidly. I had time to get Task Manager open after boot, and McAfee console to begin a scan and the 60 second countdown to shutdown popup appeared. The only way McAfee could not have seen this is if they just rolled this update right out the door without even loading it onto a test machine in their QA lab. By the time I got the console open it had already identified svchosts.
IMHO we might as well assume the cockroach principle here: if you see one, how many more are there? In other words, how many other updates have been just going out the door? And that is the end users' and admins' responsibility to test before deployment? There is an implied trust that has been broken here. This is gross negligence.
Finally, what kind of a piss poor response is it they shovel out on their customers who did get affected, all downplaying it so that they can save face in the industry? Only a small number of machines? WTF.
Get the helicopter icon ready, but if this is a popular place for unsigned artists to get their music out there, then is that not EXACTLY what Warner et al might not like about it? In their mind, scratchy margin artists from the wild competing for the consumers' ears. Artists that need to be shoved out of the nest before they potentially starve the chosen siblings. Competition for their dying business model and golden children if only in theory. Maintain the status quo at all costs. The idea just occured to me when coming back to see what had been written, and it truly frightens me if such a bastard move is the reason why this has happened since I would not put it past them.
As a consumer, I met a number of artists and label managers and found a bunch of music on Last.fm. There are other locations to find stuff, but being able to go back and review some stuff after hearing it on a radio station or browsing through and listening after seeing something on some friend's charts was key. And the library is large. Just 30 seconds? Most songs develop and change. This is just value subtraction. They have not commented on the reason either. Bandwidth costs? More expensive to pay for user initiated plays? WTF?
I have done 175,000 miles on a motorcycle, and plenty on bicycles. I am having to re-do my license here in Germany, and in the courses that I am forced to endure they pointed this tidbit out. I honestly never even thought about it. The handlebars are just something I hold onto for stability, and don't exert any directional pressure except at very low speeds. Now unfortunately on my cycle rides, I am paying attention trying to notice it, but cannot. Just seems to me like something I did not ever need to know.
Not to be contrary here, but this is not what you think. Because Apple has total control over the hardware in their walled kingdom, they can do things like chop the motherboard in places so the peripherals like headphone jacks, NIC, USB, and so forth all line up. The cases have been historically prettier. The devices look almost alienly perfect. This is what industrial design is about. Setting specifications in advance. A lot of OEM vendors are starting to pay attention to details like this now, but in the past many if not all cases have had that mass produced Imperial tie fighter look to them with the devices either slapped above or beneath the motherboard. No fit and finish on the seams and so forth. In other words it just looked cobbled together from spare bits and bobs... I hope the shiny laptop case fad passes quickly, but that is one example of how the vendors are already responding to the design issue: Windows laptops are looking better.
Microsoft is taking a stab at end to end design control, which is historically something that it has mostly left to the vendors. I don't like Apple because of their walled kingdom, let's see if Microsoft does a face plant with their version or if they somehow empower the vendors and developers to remain in play. (in the future)
Have you thought that standardization of a particular line might require a bulk purchase with similar if not identical attributes. I am looking at SSD for home use, but it is worse than the fastest processor on the market how SSDs seem to one up each other every other week...and the degradation in performance has my eyebrows arched in mild suspicion.
Back to topic: If one would be designing a test harness for that type of thing to assure quality, then variance in the units beyond a single model would not be good. You could save a lot of time NOT baselining for each new batch that came through.
Not ruling out that they got nabbed, since EMC is a bit gunshy about drawing the ire of El Reg and the analysts when they effectively fail at the fundamental job of running a decent warehouse... (cannot find the Register article but the quote was brilliant)
The EU has already gone up against Google for tracking queries, and won. Unfortunately there is a laissez-faire attitude towards this sort of thing in the States despite the fact that there are what I would consider guidelines for privacy laid out in the US Bill of Rights and subsequent Ammendments. US Court rulings have not been in favor of the individuals' rights, and there are no laws that I am aware of that even suggest a "right" to privacy. Even criminal voyeurism in the States is not cut and dry, and if you are in the workplace you are a slave as far as surveillance of your activity and the lack of ownership of your intellectual property is concerned (see 13th Ammendment.)
Opt out is considered adequate? By whom? Google? That is the fox guarding the henhouse. Google does not give a sh!t about intellectual property. They scan in books without consent of the authors then go "Ooops! Sorry!" when authors complain. That is plagarism. I guess we could list their constant abuse of the public trust for their own profit, but until someone says "enough!" or draws the line it will keep going. How far!? Well the Germans are saying how far, and they have a right to do so and good experience with where "totale Überwachung" leads. When my countrymen in the US and those elsewhere actually stand up for themselves and say enough is enough it will be too late...and the problem is most don't even care.
Guess there is a lot of money to the group that processes the payments. If it is neutral, then Nokia and other handheld manufacturers miss out on the dough. If they step in the middle, ostensibly providing better QoS, then they stand to grab a little of it. Of course that is at the cost of holding up the technology for the consumers. NFC payment is going to happen, and basically they are not going to control the market as long as the credit card companies, mobile network operators, and other mobile vendors are still breathing...and naturally all grabbing for a piece of the pie at the same time. QoS my arse. Pull the other one Nokia.
Since as speed approaches c, relative m increases, I would think that this problem should take care of itself. A normal hull should have significantly more mass under this formula than the atoms it would encounter. Time slowing in the frame of reference is indicative of this. A hull atom or molecule would be much harder to move, and thus more resistant to a particle that is relatively slower.
It would be cool to do some luxury touring. Well since we cannot have our flying cars, I bet a decent alternate pickup line would be, "Hey baby want to go for a ride in my Zeppelin?"
Why we don't use them for freight transport, I wish I knew. Guess we humans are stodgy and pragmatic about that type of risk, and water ships are a proven technology with existing logistical lines of connection to and from. Then again we are flying freight in normal airplanes. And then there is the problem of who pays for development, and how to get helium...
Crap. I don't care. I want one. With the flying equivalent of a Zodiac for my jaunts down to terra firma.
Agreed, but I am not reading this from the UK...or the US for that matter. Interesting to see the trend turn around in the US, and I am waiting on it doing the same over here. On a lighter note, job postings are up here in EMEA. Bide your time and punish your employer for failing to recognize your contributions by jumping ship. The attitude that employers have taken over the last year will be punished by the best leaving for better treatment. This trend unfortunately repeats itself.
What you are looking for here is a proper combination. Do not get more aggressive with your archiving since archives should not be looked at as a replacement of mail servers (more complimentary.) I think just about every archiving vendor out there does SIS independently, so look at it as a way to keep your more active data where it ought to be, and move the dormant stuff out to a lower TCO storage. Take advantage of the larger mailbox size to set a more realistic larger storage limit. This will have the effect of eliminating the end users' need to create PSTs, but you certainly should not look at this as a way to get all the PSTs back in. You could do that with your archive vendor, or just set an organizational policy to freeze them.
Realistically, you just want to be able to hold your Exchange servers to the size of their storage tank so to speak. Plan your DAGs with some realism, and get some help here if you are unsure. Depending on the mail profile of your organization, the DAS story might not be exactly what you are looking for. Balance this on the cost of the managing the storage, the risk of not noticing individual failures, and the current workload of staff. I commented lower on this topic.
The "falling" price of storage meets the immovable object of managing that storage. As to the lower IOPS, how are you planning on combining on-site with off-site replication, and how are you going to deal with it when it runs interminably instead of ever completing successfully? (just discarding the log file at the end and starting another) Then toss a failure into the mix, so now the disks are getting hammered into longer and longer response times (thereby further increasing the risk of failure)...and they are JBOD which scattered data all over the drive in the first place. Then suddenly a physical failure at data center 1 requires a resynch from data center 2, and the log files are not complete due to aforementioned synchronization delay. It might be a Distributed Availability Group, but they still have to maintain database consistency.
While we are at it perhaps we should mention if/when errors start occuring on the disks. How about you wait until the edb's are corrupt since you did not know there was a problem? I am sure we will get a notification in the event logs or SNMP traps about the DAS...right? We knew to look for that right? No worries, we always can resynch from DC2 right? Ooops, larger mailboxes mean more data to send back over the wire.
None of the historical challenges are going away.
There were Server, Site, and Organizational models for SIS in Exchange 5.5. Cannot remember 5.0. Obviously Organizational was barely (read: not) usable if there were a larger number of servers in a distributed topology. Server at least had the benefit of being able to have same server SIS. This disappeared with 2000, but the significant advantage of multiple databases per server was well worth it in terms of centralization. This was during a time when the recommended strategy was to add another Exchange Server to improve branch office performance. At that time I ran into customers with huge numbers of Exchange servers and star hub topology from hell.
Here we go again with the ebb and flow of central versus decentral.
Guess we will see how this all shakes out when the Marketing hits the market.
Normally I get pretty into stuff like this, but this is like calling the Heathrow Express the International. The only thing Galactic about Mister Branson's sub-orbital flyer is that it happens to be on our planet. The name should provide for some good mirth in the history classes.
It's cool as a PoC, and I hope it inspires other ventures with more of a chance of getting me to the Moon, or actually out into orbit for a few days and a bit of zero G mischief.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate_to_1999
Granted these studies are a decade old.
Let's compare two "relatively" similar countries in terms of homicide rate: Germany and Switzerland. Germany has a fairly involved background check and you must belong to a gun club and attend events to get a license. Switzerland, men are required to keep their military service rifle at home, so there is much higher ratio of armed households. Their homicide rate is close, but the firearms homicide number differs slightly. So if you are not shot, you are axed or stabbed in the rare event you are murdered. Neither society seems pre-disposed towards criminal violence in the first place yet there is a substantial difference in the ratio of armed households. Toss England in there and France, and the same sort of picture is portrayed. Similar levels of criminal violence but stark contrast in the number of guns.
All I am saying, and the tables here seem to re-inforce it, is that guns do not CAUSE criminal behavior, violence, and murder. If that is to be fixed, then the root cause needs to be addressed not the convenient thing that can be legislated: making guns illegal.
Sorry Mate, but look at Switzerland. All males are required by law to serve in the military with periodic training, and they keep a rifle in their home. That means it is one of the most heavily armed countries in the world per citizen. Their gun crime is non-existent. This is owing to other factors such as homogenous society, prosperity, strong education, and high standard of living. So high gun crime is not related to stricter laws restricting or mandating their possession, but unfortunately there is an apparent correlation with restriction since as violent crime tends to increase then historically the more guns are restricted (outside of political restriction preceding genocide.) Question: is this due to the opportunistic nature of criminals? Answer that yourself. Oddly when Concealed Weapons Permits are issued another trend appears: lower violent crime in the State. Related? Answer that yourself. If you walk into a store brandishing a shotgun with some thug buddies in some States you might very well be facing a citizen with a lot of range time and an extra clip who happens to be in there.
Criminals are created by societal effects, inequality, poor education, lack of hope for a better future, and desperation. Criminals are not created by possession of firearms (or air powered pellet pistols as in this case,) and you need to work that into your little equation. Watch as those factors appear in a country and violence and crime follows regardless of gun laws. If you think restricting knives in England is going to stop your latest little wave of fun and games then off to the feelies with you and don't forget your soma.
Privacy rights in the USA are atrocious. Due to the overwhelming documentation of our lives by security cameras and even our own, I would say that a review as related to the 5th Ammendment to the Constitution is in order. In addition, while Law Enforcement may view the consent to search and seizure as a Friend acceptance it was not implicitly granted any more than a police officer disguising himself as a plummer and then rifling through drawers once inside your home. It still needs the test of the 4th Ammendment of both probable cause and/or consent. The framers of the Constitution understood the concepts and failings of a government that lead to tyranny, and failure to reasonably protect citizens from testifying against themselves and subjecting them to warrantless searches under duplicitous circumstances would have been damn high on the list.
What it comes down to, and what I find interesting is Germany's take on surveillance: just because you can doesn't mean you should. Total Überwachen is prohibited, and is invoked to block draconian observation.
a race of carnivorous dinosaur-men, the superhuman clone hive-legions of some evil genetic queen-empress, infinite polypantheons of dark nega-deities imprisoned for aeons and hungering to feast upon human souls, a parallel-history victorious Nazi globo-Reich or something of that type.
Brilliant.
On a serious note, I got going on Warped Passages and put it down. I do recommend the two following books though:
Dimensional Structures of Consciousness - a Physical Basis for Immaterialism
and
Faster than Light - Superluminal Loopholes in Physics
Guess I ought to give Warped Passages another chance, I cannot remember why I did not like it. I think it duplicated too much I had already read...nothing wrong with that if you are new to this stuff.
@hahaha AC
Let the competition begin...prices will fall. Do try to keep up with simple economics. Perhaps a Symmetrix is exactly what some customers might want to move towards virtualizing a large part of their data center, or maybe a specific portion. The way I read it the customer could choose more than one of a certain type of Block at the performance point they need. And don't forget with this model the whole thing can be discounted to be more competitive.
You can keep laughing, but it is hard to argue that VMware sucks...or Cisco...or EMC. So you cannot exactly expect them to give it away. I am interested to see how this is going to shake out. HP has already answered... Who is next?
That my friend is competition, and that favors customers not vendors...
It is stunning that in an attempt to be culturally sensitive by using images of diversity that they can so utterly miss the very same goal of being representative in homogenous countries when sending it out to all the subsidiaries. It mocks itself.
Hate to say it because as an ex-pat I am just slamming my countrymen, but get a freaking clue and perhaps a document management system of some sort so the images can be swapped out easily. Whole world out there that doesn't speak a foreign language since to them English is a foreign language. They do not use MM/DD/YYYY. They have their own currency.
Youngster... Make my head spin? :)
Jake, you are very personally attacking someone you don't even know, whose age you have missed by a mile, and whose experience level you have no way of properly gauging but you can safely assume from the history of your abjectly inept guessing that you're wrong. Why are acting like an old bully on the playground? Look at yourself man. What are you doing in the dirt on a comment forum!?
I on the other hand am absolutely pleased to meet you (if this is you,) respectfully tendered. Can you stop being a dick?
As to the word dignification, for this case use proximity. Save yourself the hassle of going through an unabridged dictionary.
You might want to re-read my post. Despite the fact that you quite literally quoted each and every line, you missed it...a little more than slightly. I was not talking about your home network...but you sure like talking about it to boost your street cred. I remember punch cards too there matey, but only barely. Try not breaking paragraphs up into their individual components. It tends to destroy the proximity dignification of the whole and render your aggressive response disconnected.
I used the word telly on one side, and television on the other side of the sentence containing CRT (an acronym which includes televisions too.) I was drawing a parallel between someone that refuses to buy a new TV when models of interest are likely available merely because they have one already, and it is "good enough." I added the HDMI/SCART jest to further said point and provide potential technological justification...but you missed it all. Bravo. Ten points of ten for complete FAIL. You would likely find more parallels of worth in your own gear (which does sound cool) with the random items I chose to represent the idea of classic if you read my post this way.
And no my post was not a slam on anything that has clean code or is stable, but I am certainly not writing this from an old DEC, Vector, IBM pre-clone era, or WYSE machine...and neither are you so try to stay on topic.
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