Posts by Griffo 147 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Feb 2015
Maybe i'm misunderstanding the scope, but it appears that this law bans all online prostitution advertisements? Does this mean that Backpage and Craigslist etc can no longer have adult services sections? Doesn't BP make 90% of it's revenues from it's "adult services" sections?
One of my colleagues has a far far far worse story about liquids in a server room.
This server room had been installed in a hospital, and had been in that location for several years. My old mate had just recently installed a couple of new blade centers and storage, and one Monday morning unlocked the door to the room looking forward to a day of playing with shiny new toys.
Unfortunately, over the weekend, there had been a bit of a plumbing leak. What he at the time didn't know, was that in the ceiling above this server room, some bright spark had run a sewerage pipe. From the intensive care unit. Connected to "bed pan disposal unit". This pipe had for some reason popped off. Which meant that for all weekend, all the super disgusting sick person excreta had been dripping through the server room ceiling all over this brand new shiny kit.
Needless to say, while specialists cleaners were called in to clean the room, all the kit was replaced under an insurance claim. Now that's a day you'd never forget.
This is a first step, but the ACCC needs to encode stricter performance targets to prevent crazy over subscription of the CVC.
My mother who can achieve a 32mbit line rate but can't get more than 6mbit down except at 3am in the morning doesn't receive a cent in compo under this plan.
Good question. MS are seeming to indicate that if the Hypervisor is patched, the guest is protected. So will the OS detect that it's running on a patched OS and not "double implement" the memory protection?
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/securing-azure-customers-from-cpu-vulnerability/
If you are getting those speeds, you are not using ADSL. The term "Fibre ADSL" is an oxymoron. I'd suggest it's a marketing term dreamed up by someone at your provider.
The maximum theoretically achievable download speed on ADSL is 24mbits on ADSL2+
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_digital_subscriber_line#ADSL_standards
Apart from AWS, I'm not sure the other VSPP's out there will be that happy to hear AWS bag Microsoft if this way. Pretty much every other hoster runs an environment that hasn't been "engineered by VMWARE". Are they saying all their other hosters are running piles of shit?
Actually, Microsoft has significantly reduced the size and scope of it's software compliance teams. As they move to online services, they don't really care as much as it's pretty easy to tell how much is being used. They also don't seem to care so much about ownership rules etc - as long as somebody is paying, they are happy.
TheReg seems to think that having to be within WiFi range is a huge obstacle:
"For a start, an eavesdropper has to be in wireless range of the target network, and have the time and specialized software to pull off the KRACK technique."
Well.. sure. But from my house I can see about 15 of my neighbours' networks, and at my office I can see an amazing number. So yeah, only a couple of dozen networks that right now are probably wide open to me breaking. But nothing to see here.. move on.
This DC is still running? It would be close to 20 years since i've been to that facility. And yes it's location always made sense. Every other idiot put their DC's in the CBD or in Alexandria right next to the Airport. I mean, CBD's and Airports aren't major at risk sites for large scale attacks right?
Subject context is another item that must make speech recognition very difficult.
A while back, I was reviewing the official police transcript of an interview with a man who was accused of killing his wife during a scuba accident.
Luckily the video of the same interview was available, as the number of Critical mis-transcriptions was amazing. Here was something that a human had transcribed from a very clear AV feed, and had seriously gotten wrong on several occaisions. Why? Because the transcriber had no knowledge of Scuba terms, and had transcribed what he/she thought they had heard.
But what they thought they had heard was not shaped by any knowledge of the subject, so was wrongly transcribed. I
supposed a compute may one day be able to work out the subject and then apply a specific set of industry / subject terms to it (which is why I guess they make medical specific transcription software) but as a human I can never follow along when my wife switches topic 13 times in one conversation, so how will a computer?
I could have written this article 3 months ago. Everyone knows the change is coming, virtually nobody knows what the change is exactly. It's more than just a salesforce re-org, this is supposedly the most serious every re-org. Nobody knows exact job losses as there will be large numbers of redundant positions but also new positions, and people will be able to apply for those roles.
Those who do know the real detail are under strict NDA, and the numbers of these people are seriously limited. For an organisation with a normally very effective grapevine, the lock-down that has occurred with this re-org is quite impressive. The changes will be large, but until you actually have some kind of detail, what's the point of this article?
Any re-breather diver knows all about monitoring O2 concentrations in breathing loops. I'm sure for someone of LM's calibre it should be quite simple to install the 3 x O2 sensors required (using voting logic to avoid issues with a faulty cell) to monitor and potentially automate a failover if they detect the partial pressure of O2 dropping below 0.16 ATA.
Correct. The base directory service is basically 1 of about 100 features in AAD. It's actually a security and identity platform, if people want a (bad) comparison think of comparing it to IBM's TIM/TAM. Comparing AAD to AD is like comparing a GNU/Linux distro with the Linux kernel.
Apart from the directory it has sso, user self password resets, self service group management, MFA, B2B identity federation, B2C identity federation (Facebook etc), application proxying etc.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/active-directory-editions#comparing-generally-available-features
This article seems mostly about O365, so it should be noted that there are limits to the ingestion speed outside of just your network link speed.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn592150(v=exchg.150).aspx#Performance for migration methods
We also find people run into internal performance issues with existing mail archive solutions, as the items need to be de-archived, transmitted, and a chain of custody record stored. All that makes it pretty slow.
PST upload and ingestion is much faster if that's an option.
I think most 3Par shelves take 24 Drives. So they lost half a shelf.
Perhaps someone slid out a shelf for some reason and poor cable management meant that the FC cables fell out of the rear on one side.
Why that resulted in a situation that wasn't easily recoverable is the real question.
It certainly is a big job in bringing back a whole DC. And i mean a real dedicated DC, not a simple computer room. I've been there done that once before. One of the HV feeds into one of our DC's literally exploded causing that drasted thing called a fire. While we had redundant power entry points into the facility, the on-site team took the step to cut all power for safety reasons.
In addition to dead hard-drives, there were also dead power supplies, and some servers that just decided they didn't want to turn back on. That was the simple stuff. Then there were switches and routers that for some reason didn't have the latest configs committed.... or started up with no-config whatsoever. Having to work out the all network configs was a total nightmare. Then the storage systems that came up dirty, the replicated databases that needed to be re-seeded.. you name it, there was just about everything that could possible fail, we had at least one. Across thousands of servers with hundreds of routers, dozens and dozens of SAN's, all kinds of ancillary devices such as robotic tape drives etc, it took us a good 36 hours straight just to get operational, and probably weeks before we could claim it was 100% as good as before the accident. It's no trivial matter.
So a bug in the SMB handler that allowed for remote compromise, and has been there for what, 7 years?
Now if this was a Microsoft piece of software, this forum would be full of people pissing and moaning about Microsoft, decrying closed source software, and claiming this stuff never happens in open source, blah blah blah.
Funny aint it. All software truly does have bugs.
Again, who cares? Not because nobody uses Linux, but because I assume Intel making it royalty free would make it a hell of a lot simpler for either chipset makers or a 3rd party to make a decent driver package without having to worry about license implications, which seems to have driven a lot of the closed-source drivers of the past.
So.. by my counting they are 8 months delinquent, when for most companies 3 months would result in loss of data. In other words MS has already granted them quite a large extension, and instead of using that time to retrieve and backup the data, they have instead lobbed a TRO at them. Gotta love administrators.
Some of my customers with offices in South Africa tell me that the latency to all the public cloud services make it nearly unusable. Again, this is all hearsay, but even with all the cables that land in the country, the Telco market means that overseas bandwidth is extremely scarse and over-subscribed. If MS can offer fast in-country cloud access, they may just dominate the market quite quickly.
SO it's actually based on the OS/2 code-base or is it a dark-room clone? It's not entirely clear to me from the article.
A lot of my late 90's and early 2000's were spent working on OS/2. My first intro was 2.1 where Iearnt just how annoying it was loading the 21 or so disks to get the OS up and running.
I have many fond memories - including how we could run Windows apps on it natively not only more stably, but faster than they ran on a Windows machine. Quite often apps that would crash consistently on Windows would just run smooth as silk under OS/2. Pretty impressive for an emulated environment.
There's an old saying / joke in the car manufacturing industry.
How do you make a small fortune manufacturing cars?
Start with a large one.
I do wish Tesla great things, but i also wish they would show a path to profitibility. Mind you, Amazon spent years doing the same, so I guess the VC's aren't that worried. I do wonder exactly where these VC's seem to get these bottomless piles of cash though.
MS is usually the company that gets bashed on here for dropping security releases for older products, usually after you know, oh 10 or 12 years or so.. I mean how dare they decide they can no longer support a 12 year old code-base.
Oh hang on, this article is about Google dropping security updates after just three? Oh the Irony.
Dude, it was the 1990's. It might have been the time for Guru Josh, but not for Security. Stateful firewalls didnt even exist until 1994 when Checkpoint released FW1, and it was not uncommon at the time to use public IP internally and just plug into the Internet with nothing but the most basic filtering. I'm not even sure NAT was invented yet. So yeah, hard-coded admin passwords were not exactly known to be bad practice at the time.
The article and report say "Microsoft Proxy Server". The last version of MS Proxy 2.0 was released in... 1997. Maybe they meant ISA? Or TMG? Either way, all are old products, and none of them has built in per-use quota management, which is really what caught the perps, so I'm not sure you can have a dig at Microsoft.
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