I’ve gone a while before making a first purchase. Right now i’m not sure I’m going to be making another one. I purchased a license for my church recently. At a cost(even with my partner discount) equal to 25% of my entire annual IT budget. The key given to me was not the one i needed to create the license. It took a few days(things being over the memorial day holiday) for the US office to get to me..i don’t fault them on that aspect. I finally get my activation key and my upgrade key. I upgrade the church’s license. I then install the new license to the church’s machine. All hades broke loose then. ALL subscriptions come up as invalid. Also my AD link is severed. I am now at a base license because the Astaro says all of my licenses are invalid or expired. I try a reboot and i am locked out of the webadmin. I NEVER leave the local account active(shouldn’t have to in my book) so i now have a dead astaro. I now have to wait until tomorrow for support to fix this. Meanwhile I get to spend an hour or so tonight rebuilding what was once a perfectly working box. I’m going to loose all of my logs, quarantine and everything else. Luckily i have a backup of my config. This is unacceptable form an “enterprise vendor”. Is this the new norm after the sophos takeover? I hope not. I will post updates as they come in.
Category: Vendors
Not only are ATT and Tmobile customers getting hammered in the upcoming merger but land line customers are about to get hammered as well. Some of the regs are legal.. just not ethical.
Several users have written in to note that AT&T is sending out notifications that their terms of service have changed. The update includes a large number of things AT&T users need to be made aware of, including new language addressing AT&T’s new cap and overage plans, mandatory binding arbitration, mandatory migrations from legacy DSL to AT&T U-Verse service, and even language giving AT&T the right to terminate your service should you get angry about any of these changes and take it out on an AT&T representative.
If you are on T-Mobile stick with your current plan and phone until they turn those phones off. ATT is going to effectively jack your prices 25% or more when you “switch”. Read the linked article for an excellent breakdown.
So the list grows. Started by a law firm..at the request of BofA. Unless this was gov’t sanctioned there’s already tons of folks needing to get irons. So far there’s been zero mention of a court order so this is all an illegal attempt. So the question remains. Who’s more dangerous…the “hackers” or the mammoth corporations who apparently can do illegal attacks with near impunity?
Among the files pulled from those 50,000 stolen emails are what appear to be suggestions by the firm and its collaborators about how WikiLeaks could be weakened, sabotaged or shut down. The emails suggest the three security firms were pulled together at the request of the law firm Hunton & Williams. One month into the talks, Booz Allen Hamilton was also brought in as a consultant, as the New York Times reported in January.
HB Gary gets further isolated. One of the two other companies that assisted HB Gary in it’s illegal witch hunt has now apologized and “severed all ties” to HB Gary. My question is…why would anyone do business with these companies now anyway? I understand if you had a court order and were doing this legally. However the previous article i linked clearly shows this was not a legally authorized set of actions. Apologies are good..what about prosecutions for the illegal activities for all of the companies involved? I can tell you had it been my little one man operation that tried something like this the FBI would be ramming my door in to carry me away instantly. So far nothing from these large companies. Let’s go FBI..it’s time for the prosecutions…unless the gov’t really was complicit on this..then there’s a ton of folks that needs to have some irons slapped on them. Here’s the presentation used to “detail” the threat of Wikileaks.
It’s been a long week for security firm HBGary.First the loose hacker group Anonymous retaliated against one of the firm’s employees investigating Anonymous by hacking into the corporation’s servers and spilling 50,000 emails onto the Web. Then a string of those stolen emails revealed a proposal by the firm and two others to launch a campaign of illegal cyberattacks and calculated misinformation against WikiLeaks and its supporters.Now, just a few days later, one of those firms, Palo Alto-based Palantir, has publicly cut ties with HBGary and apologized for its role in the WikiLeaks response plan, essentially verifying the reality of that plan and isolating HBGary further.In a statement to the press, Palantir chief executive Alex Carp writes, “I have directed the company to sever any and all contacts with HBGary.” Karp adds that “Palantir Technologies does not build software that is designed to allow private sector entities to obtain non-public information, engage in so-called ‘cyber attacks’ or take other offensive measures. I have made clear in no uncertain terms that Palantir Technologies will not be involved in such activities.”
I’ve been waiting for this. There’s some performance issues with this latest version while virtualized but Red Hat is very good about fixing regressions like this. I’m waiting the month or two it’ll take for Centos to get their next version done for my future use..:)
You have to read both pages of the article…don’t just scan it. Oracle has been slowly dismantling Sun’s entire portfolio and they are continuing that trend with Java.
Read this article carefully.
It was just a matter of time: As more Americans have become smart phone users, their appetite for Web video, music downloads and other data-intense apps on those phones has increased. And now it’s time for some who are the heaviest users to pay the heaviest price, be it a slowdown in their service, or extra dollars for data.
The only reason they are doing this is because the american market allows them to. I don’t want to see the gov’t step in..i would really love to see americans step out with their wallets. I don’t think that’s going to happen as most americans these days want the gov’t to do everything for them..they don’t want to take any kind of personal responsibility.
Sprint just plain sucks. We’ve been customers for over 10 years..yet they say we’ve only been there for 8. That’s not what irks me. What really irks me is the constant threat of account suicide I have to face anytime i call sprint for anything and they have to so much as look at my account….because… inevitably…something gets hosed. Time to upgrade? Go for it..at your own risk. You’ll spend hours..maybe days on the phone having to troubleshoot things for them. I do this everytime any of us upgrades. Heaven forbid something goes wrong..not only will they NOT fix the original problem but you can count on a new one being added.
Recently I’ve been through issue after issue. First it’s the data plan scam. Finally after 8 years of bad cell coverage they send us a femtocell(they call it the airave). When it works..it’s great…unfortunatly i’ve been dailng with the ensuing account suicide ever since. About 50% of the time the airave siply stop working. About the other half of hte time the mobile light starts flashing. Either time i ahve to powercycle the iditic thing. If it’s not hardware it’s the account usicide. Sometimes the airave works fine but the network then tlels us we are not authoirzed to make clals on the airave…even though the website and customer service show we have hte device properly authoirizedl When htis happens we effectivly have ero service as the phones default to it as it dows act as a cellular tower..of course we then have no service. We’ve been daling with this garbage now for over a month and a half with no end in sight. NO wonder sprint is beelding cusomters. things were ok but the past two years have been orrid. the problem is..t-mobile, att, verizon..they all suck too AND they are more expensive to boot!
I’m looking into other technologies to move my business phone too. This is beyond stupid and frankly if i am the only one who does this fine. However it’s time we stopped standing for this overpriced, putrid cesspool of service and demand something better..even if it’s NOT wireless in nature.