Re: Thanks for a trip down memory lane
Planars, DASDs and AMDs. I miss the days of IBM calling stuff by names no one else used.
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The dilemma is often that the Microsoft platform now encompasses so much of what 75 percent of business users use, want and need, that IT providers are focussing directly on it and deskilling in everything else.
Management will buy Microsoft because it's quite cheap and all works together. Single vendor removes interoperability issues, near universal acceptance of Microsoft as the desktop platform of choice means development and compatibility are good. Conversely it's also the largest attack surface and massively disruptive when it goes down.
We have backed ourselves into this corner, and need to ensure we protect ourselves and our data. The clever ones can still operate their businesses when Microsoft, Google or AWS are down.
I believe a major reputable organisation was still running some code myself and a colleague wrote in a hurry one night on a server room floor right up to 2019, we wrote the code in 1995. It was interfacing a data stream from RS485 and sending it to an AS400. I think we revised it once in that time when the data stream was moved from the RS485 network to ethernet.
During its lifecycle it was P-V and continued to run, in windows 2000 in its last incarnation, 24/7/52.
It was I think mostly VB6...
Am I the only person that thinks that whether or not you consider this acceptable is irrelevant, you should either (a) read all the damned terms and conditions before clicking Accept (along with all the related terms and conditions) or (b) assume that the contract is biased solely in the vendor's favour and they will do what they like with the data and then find something in the 4,000,000 page agreement that covers their behaviour?
If you don't want to be stalked don't have an online presense. If you care about privacy so much then stop using t'internet.
Saw Pester on the news last nigjht, when asked when the systems would be up he replied "I've been told 4 PM but we can't always believe what IT people say".
That's disgraceful. He is CEO, buck stops there. If he can't trust his IT department and leadership then why did he allow the transfer to proceed?
1. Document and inform of the risk
2. Create a transformation project, engage a consultant
3. Create a process, and a test, then re-assess risk
4. Request budget for change.
5. Create methods and scripts for PFYs to follow an implement
6. Await sign off from 2IC to approve the potential downfall of anything AD linked for the whim of a change, then either sit back knowing you've been vindicated because he backs out, or plough on and kick off the change project, knowing that the overtime is coming, and the "I told you so" moment will be glorious.
I've worked for a small hosting company, DDOS on the servers is a nightmare, hard to mitigate, slow to fix and when you're in it it's like being drowned with screaming customers who do not understand that no matter what they do there's nothing that can be done that isn't being done.
I've used FP for years, and they're no worse than the other small providers I use, I'm in no hurry to move my domains away from them based on a DDOS and a few migration issues, those customers of mine who have complained I've explained the situation to and offered to move them to other provision but with the explanation that such action is not a mitigation against re-occurrence.
Hopefully FP will put better plans for communication in place and better mitigation against future attack and maybe spread the DNS around a little more, and publish a statement showing their diligence and what they have improved, and it won't hurt them too much, as it stands today I'm not moving my domains away, about 60% of mine are with them.
Indeed the older cards do support pro. I've had mine ages and for me the best thing is that you can have a mifi running, and with a couple of photographers covering one event the images are backed up as they are shot. I seldom sent RAW that way but to know that if your camera was stolen that the images were safe was a big bonus.