It's almost useful. Quite nice (in a 60 second review). I would not use it.
I simply dont use sites that open new windows when you follow links. If I wanted it in a different browser window I would right click "new tab" or "new window".
The real question becomes the actual power of the search engine behind the singing and dancing starting point - but thats not the point of this article.
That hot PA that got a little tipsy and thought she would give all the guys a Xmas present sits on the photo copier (xerox machine) to bring them some Xmas joy. After all they have been perving at her all year.
Not that I have been at one of those parties, but the future holds some interesting prospects for those that will.
In general the majority of users do not know how to properly maintain and service their vehicles (as most people do not properly maintain and service their cars). As there are check points to ensure vehicle saftey is appropriate checks need to be put in place for computers.
The down side is that computer saftey is a contanstly moving target. It most certainly is not reasonable to constantly scan every machine on a network to see if it is vilnerable to a new security issue, or has been reverted and is vulnerable to an old issue. Then comes the question if the network guys are scanning all these machines and testing exploits they then need to manage the lock outs, lets face it false positives are something that is going to plague such a system. Lets not even get on to theoretical weaknesses that no known exploit code exists.
Reasonably why not throw a small service on a windows box, when it is plugged into the network the network says, give me a list of patches and your AV engine/pattern versions. Compares that to current and updates if needed.
While in a utopian world people would do this themselves vigilantly, but this is earth - people dont, people want to start their copy of BORG Word and write their thesis, they do not give 2 hoots about viruses or security as they most likely siffer the common thought of "It won't happen to me".
Here in Australia I know of a few large networks brought down due to poorly maintained machine combined with viruses that were effectly shutdown for several days to 2 weeks. Not really acceptable now is it?
The fact of the matter is networks need to protect themselves and reactionary measures are just NOT working. Cutting someone off once they are infected to too bloody late, as one infected is likely to be 10 is likely to be 100 etc. Cutting someone off after they become a spambot is too late as they nay have already sent enough messages to be noticed by a blacklist - especially bad if the messages go through the university mail relays. Cuting someone off after they have been hacked is also pointless, not you have to go on hunt to see if the hacker(s) got into anything useful.
Remeber the more time the IT department has to spend monitoring tracking cutting people of, reinstating peoples access is also more money they spend on something that is likely to be able to be easily and cheaply managed with a small agent on each machine.
On a side note I wonder if this is the Trend Micro System I had them in my office a short while ago trying to sell us something very similar. From a network admin/system admin perspective it seemed very cool:)
We have quite an extensive agreement with Novell (not something I use myself, but it is used here) and part of that agreement was amended to include Suse licenses for servers (not desktop), so for a $0 we can use Suse, while we will look at it first if it does not meet our expectations, we will look at RedHat next I guess.
Thats servers sort of covered - gotta fugure out what to do with my desktop now....maybe a boiled carrot and some post it notes;)
After reading this we are now discussing what distro to look at? I don't feel like fighting with management about another distro - Debian was so good that the battle with them was worth it, we just found out we have Suse licenses, so that could be the go - plus we will actually have a big red support button - running 20 servers and I have never had a support button before, that'll be different.
Seriously Debian is great, but, this is a ?harsh? reminder that Debian is not developed for users - never has been - it is developed for the developers making Debian.
However, I see a possible bonus here for those commercial distro's using Debian as they will be able to insert the non-free stuff into their own distro's. From what I saw it seems alot of people would start with something like progeny, but end up migrating to Debian proper - maybe this will give those companies a fighting chance to keep their linux users.
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http://www.xbox.com/en-AU/Live/Foxtel/
It's almost useful. Quite nice (in a 60 second review). I would not use it.
I simply dont use sites that open new windows when you follow links. If I wanted it in a different browser window I would right click "new tab" or "new window".
The real question becomes the actual power of the search engine behind the singing and dancing starting point - but thats not the point of this article.
That hot PA that got a little tipsy and thought she would give all the guys a Xmas present sits on the photo copier (xerox machine) to bring them some Xmas joy. After all they have been perving at her all year.
Not that I have been at one of those parties, but the future holds some interesting prospects for those that will.
In general the majority of users do not know how to properly maintain and service their vehicles (as most people do not properly maintain and service their cars). As there are check points to ensure vehicle saftey is appropriate checks need to be put in place for computers.
The down side is that computer saftey is a contanstly moving target. It most certainly is not reasonable to constantly scan every machine on a network to see if it is vilnerable to a new security issue, or has been reverted and is vulnerable to an old issue. Then comes the question if the network guys are scanning all these machines and testing exploits they then need to manage the lock outs, lets face it false positives are something that is going to plague such a system. Lets not even get on to theoretical weaknesses that no known exploit code exists.
Reasonably why not throw a small service on a windows box, when it is plugged into the network the network says, give me a list of patches and your AV engine/pattern versions. Compares that to current and updates if needed.
While in a utopian world people would do this themselves vigilantly, but this is earth - people dont, people want to start their copy of BORG Word and write their thesis, they do not give 2 hoots about viruses or security as they most likely siffer the common thought of "It won't happen to me".
Here in Australia I know of a few large networks brought down due to poorly maintained machine combined with viruses that were effectly shutdown for several days to 2 weeks. Not really acceptable now is it?
The fact of the matter is networks need to protect themselves and reactionary measures are just NOT working. Cutting someone off once they are infected to too bloody late, as one infected is likely to be 10 is likely to be 100 etc. Cutting someone off after they become a spambot is too late as they nay have already sent enough messages to be noticed by a blacklist - especially bad if the messages go through the university mail relays. Cuting someone off after they have been hacked is also pointless, not you have to go on hunt to see if the hacker(s) got into anything useful.
Remeber the more time the IT department has to spend monitoring tracking cutting people of, reinstating peoples access is also more money they spend on something that is likely to be able to be easily and cheaply managed with a small agent on each machine.
On a side note I wonder if this is the Trend Micro System I had them in my office a short while ago trying to sell us something very similar. From a network admin/system admin perspective it seemed very cool
We have quite an extensive agreement with Novell (not something I use myself, but it is used here) and part of that agreement was amended to include Suse licenses for servers (not desktop), so for a $0 we can use Suse, while we will look at it first if it does not meet our expectations, we will look at RedHat next I guess.
;)
Thats servers sort of covered - gotta fugure out what to do with my desktop now....maybe a boiled carrot and some post it notes
After reading this we are now discussing what distro to look at? I don't feel like fighting with management about another distro - Debian was so good that the battle with them was worth it, we just found out we have Suse licenses, so that could be the go - plus we will actually have a big red support button - running 20 servers and I have never had a support button before, that'll be different.
Seriously Debian is great, but, this is a ?harsh? reminder that Debian is not developed for users - never has been - it is developed for the developers making Debian.
However, I see a possible bonus here for those commercial distro's using Debian as they will be able to insert the non-free stuff into their own distro's. From what I saw it seems alot of people would start with something like progeny, but end up migrating to Debian proper - maybe this will give those companies a fighting chance to keep their linux users.
Cheers,
Stewart