To be honest that sounds like any 24 hour systems support role to me, pretty standard fare. Not a great job but someone has to do it and for that line it is a fact of life. Given a sufficiently large organisation someone is in a position where they're going to be paged at weird hours and depending on how your on call works (different people for different days, different people per week, etc) four nights in a row doesn't sound that hard.

To reasonably extend your analogy, they didn't come in through the front door - they came through the tradesman entrance. Services (trades) were expected to come through this interface not the general public. It is like testing the front door, finding yes you can come in but no you can't have that information and then finding that they left the services door unlocked and decided to waltz through there and get the information they were previous denied. Both are "public" entrances in the sense that they aren't strictly private to the organisation or it's employees (anyone might go up to the services entrance and knock) but not all may enter and it could be considered illegal to enter without permission. They may exist on the same shop front (perhaps a smaller door or slightly to the side) to complete your analogy or they might be better hidden.

Abacus

How does one expect something to be fixed without it being reported? More over was it Joomla! or was it a third party extension?

http://docs.joomla.org/Vulnerable_Extensions_List is the second result in google for "joomla vulnerability list" and lists vulnerability for third party extensions. http://developer.joomla.org/security.html does the same for the Core of Joomla.

Finally have you followed the Security Checklist? http://docs.joomla.org/Category:Security_Checklist

Yes, notes immediately popped into mind because you can track when and where a document was as well as who did what to it. The problem with notes is that the domino management is yet another thing to learn and if you're not using it for email its another chunky client on the desktop.

Like document management, lists, wiki's and information sharing...wait

We are! Apple are now bringing their support for Palm in line with Microsoft: None.

Microsoft never supported PalmOS. Apple did. Apple are now dropping their support for the product of a third party vendor who barely supported their operating system to begin with and has started to abuse their platform. They used to have to write their own drivers for MP3 players to hook into iTunes as well because nobody wanted to support their operating system. Palm have for all of these years been able to write their own conduit for iSync and Palm Desktop but didn't. They barely updated Palm Desktop in the last decade, the last change was to recompile it as universal.

Now Palm are going through the backdoor, being lazy and not writing their own code - instead relying on tricks to use Apple's work with their device. Microsoft never supported PalmOS. Palm barely supported Mac OS X. Apple did the hard yards to make up for Palm and now that Palm have started to subvert their hard work they've decided they're not going to bother.

As someone who is still holding onto his Zire (five years now?) and is about to upgrade to Snow Leopard: this isn't going to impact me because it only changes syncing the Apple calendars and contacts. Sure it would be nice if Apple supported the conduit but I figure it simply: Microsoft never supported ActiveSync for PalmOS, why are people getting concerned when Apple is dropping support for PalmOS since they were the ones writing it themselves not the product vendor? Given Palm's recent bout of laziness in abusing iTunes to support their device, I can't fault Apple for not wanting to support Palm's unsupported proprietary device.

It would be nice if it was all integrated but I'm still going to be able to sync my device using the ancient Palm Desktop tool. There is the Missing Sync which provides support for the Palm under Mac. All that is happening is that Apple isn't shipping some code they wrote probably because it was going to be a pain to port it to 64-bit.

To be quite honest, so far they've gone above and beyond.

And more poetically you will have to upgrade to Vista or Windows 7 because XP can't address all of your RAM either.

This isn't an acknowledgement of Linux, its something to use as ammo to prove that they don't have a monopoly. Don't get the warm fuzzies over Microsoft acknowledging Linux because its just marketing and politics.

Yes, it holds a favourite place for me as well. There is a new one which appears to be even more destructive to the game environment. The first one had the Geo-Mod stuff but it really didn't feature at all beyond a single point where you needed to make a hole around a door - most of the time the game environment was static. Multiplayer was awesome though. But I think what helped it was the combination of weapons that was in it as well as the game play. I was thinking about playing the original just before too!

I had a similar case where the controller decided it wanted to die and started writing spurious data to the disks. RAID won't protect you from the controller itself dying - and that also can occur for software RAID as well, the controller can still bork your data.

Reminds me of the week when we had all sorts of "issues" with our blackberry server. We had a tech who rebuilt our BES system three times in the week only to find out that after the week long blaming of us it was actually a problem on their end. First they claimed it wouldn't work in a whole heap of situations, claimed we didn't build the server right and then claimed that it wouldn't work properly in a virtual machine. This is after we'd had it running smoothly for a few months. Turns out they had a fault network card on one of their authentication servers that you need to talk to otherwise it locks you out of your device which randomly killed our BES servers. Yes, works great for millions. There are other issues with servers dying around the world and taking blackberry devices with them, the last organisation I was with almost always had one device that was being shipped to the manufacturer - perhaps you haven't had enough devices yourself or always received good batches?

A three year old phone with no where near the same features is about half the price of a new iPhone? How is that even a comparison?