This is a monumentally bad decision. Punching holes in countless devices WILL become a security nightmare. I imagine that there are hundreds to thousands of people currently attempting to determine the means and methods of remote administration and how they can take advantage of it.
I question the health of an organization which decides (as a whole) that enforcing a remote administration hole is a good idea.
I cannot in good conscience recommend any cisco device to the plethora of friends and family who ask such things of me. I would expose them to greatly increased risk, not only from the exposed remote administration, but from legal action concerning the sites/locations that they visit should any such activity raise eyebrows.
As a systems engineer who often has input into data center needs, I will have to think long and hard about using the products of a company which exhibits such poor judgement, lest such management overreach extend into other products/departments. This may seem extreme, but a home router is primarily a security device and if a company cannot enforce basic security practices there, how long before such poor decisions begin to infect enterprise devices?
My old linksys router is elderly and I have concidered replacing it, my list of options just shrank.
actually, high end audio cables used to be worth it. Its not noticeable when replacing a cable or two in a complex setup which, back in those days (15-20 years ago and all analog) meant more cables than some small datacenters I've been at. However, replacing all low end audio cables with the outrageously overpriced ones meant much less hiss/buzz/crackles and much greater frequency range. Mostly it was due to the gold plugs and not the cables themselves, which are always the weak link. Essentially the cumulative affect was large.
Wait, you said high-end "digital" cables. Crap, I'm clearly getting old:) High end digital cables are totally worth it, especially if they have pretty lights!;)
Lots of people with IPhones have considerable investment in apps and, ever moreso, in itunes music. Recently having gotten a droid, I can say that it has become my main portable music player. How can anyone say to simply return the Iphone4 when its clearly more complicated than that? Will a return come with an app that will allow a different phone to play music from itunes?/s
Finally, my early on decision not to take part in any of these f*cked up drm schemes is sounding like a very wise decision.
It doesn't help that before vista was released there were vids of compiz/beryl doing things that vista didn't, and still cannot do.
When I show my coworkers impressive eyecandy running on an older, single core system that would not run vista well, if at all...
Or inform them that I get 3 hours battery time with XP, and 4-4.5 with Ubuntu (when the battery was new, still a discrepancy but subtract an hour from all to account for battery age;) )
Or when someone asks about some random piece of software that may be useful, and I apt-get it and am looking at it in minutes.
One thing running MS was really good for though, new systems. See, linux runs really really well on this older laptop and it becomes difficult to justify upgrades to that kick ass quad core 4GB RAM dual 120GB drives when your old system still runs really well.
Time for more water glasses in the kill zone I guess...
Why anyone would expect silverlight to work well with anything but the "preferred platform" of a Windows box running Internet Explorer is beyond me.
No, not in the first 2-3 years, but when there is any kind of market saturation. How long before any support for Mac or linux is limited (or any FF plugins for it, for that matter), if not dropped. Granted, I haven't found the fabled linux support at all, but even if it comes, Microsoft has an interest in making it less functional/stable/usable for any non MS platforms, the same would be true of any mac version. Even a community driven version will be broken because MS won't really tell of all the changes to their "new" update/upgrade.
You can argue, but MS has already shown a propensity for this behavior in the past. Many, many times.
More than one ticketmaster? GOOD. Maybe they'll spend their time beating the hell out of each other instead of their clients and customers.
Why is ticketmaster a bunch of crap? Do the math. Take Sears Center for example. 11,000 tickets means a sold out show gains ticketmaster $110,000 for a $10 dollar per ticket service fee. ONE SHOW!
I dare you to try to say that a $25 product sold on the web incurs and addition $10 "convenience" cost just to be sold on the web. A $40 dollar product! And if you try to tell me that the backend is any more complex than any of the larger online stores, then have I got news for you.
If any company had an out of the box solution, or even a hosted solution, a venue could buy a month or two of managed hosting on a very nice farm for that amount, and still have money for a big app support contract. And that is based on what ticketmaster makes on ONE SHOW. Unfortunately, they can't afford to lose the network of promoters that ticketmasters has exclusive contracts with.
You are apparently content being ripped off and having no other options.
I on the other hand, am not happy being obviously ripped off and not even having the option of shopping around.
You do realize that Ticketmaster sells tickets exclusively (not including box office) for the vast majority of major venues across the US, don't you? You do realize what would happen to any act that challenged those fees, don't you?
Watch the number of venues available to your act in vanish.
No, TM doesn't get to pick any old fee to charge, but when a 600 pound, angry looking Gorilla says gimme, you gimme.
So let us know, is ignorance bliss?
This is MS hearing as I have, that everyday people are curious about Linux/Macs after hearing about what a disaster Vista is becoming. MS just wants to put off people having their geeky nephew put in a Linux desktop in until the air clears, which MS will make sure will not happen anytime soon.
Hate to surprise anyone, but since XP came out I've had a landslide of friends and family asking me what other OS options there are. They didn't care before that. Some ask me about linux directly and without knowing that I know about linux at all, only knowing that I work with "computers". With Vista coming out, the questions have become much more persistant.
Easily the best free (oss) game in existence is Tremulous!
http://www.tremulous.net/
Check the demo if you don't believe me
http://mods.moddb.com/3449/tremulous/
Windows and Linux clients, as well as an independent Mac client, 100+ servers, all free.
And the wallwalking ROX!
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This is a monumentally bad decision. Punching holes in countless devices WILL become a security nightmare. I imagine that there are hundreds to thousands of people currently attempting to determine the means and methods of remote administration and how they can take advantage of it.
I question the health of an organization which decides (as a whole) that enforcing a remote administration hole is a good idea.
I cannot in good conscience recommend any cisco device to the plethora of friends and family who ask such things of me. I would expose them to greatly increased risk, not only from the exposed remote administration, but from legal action concerning the sites/locations that they visit should any such activity raise eyebrows.
As a systems engineer who often has input into data center needs, I will have to think long and hard about using the products of a company which exhibits such poor judgement, lest such management overreach extend into other products/departments. This may seem extreme, but a home router is primarily a security device and if a company cannot enforce basic security practices there, how long before such poor decisions begin to infect enterprise devices?
My old linksys router is elderly and I have concidered replacing it, my list of options just shrank.
actually, high end audio cables used to be worth it. Its not noticeable when replacing a cable or two in a complex setup which, back in those days (15-20 years ago and all analog) meant more cables than some small datacenters I've been at. However, replacing all low end audio cables with the outrageously overpriced ones meant much less hiss/buzz/crackles and much greater frequency range. Mostly it was due to the gold plugs and not the cables themselves, which are always the weak link. Essentially the cumulative affect was large. Wait, you said high-end "digital" cables. Crap, I'm clearly getting old :) High end digital cables are totally worth it, especially if they have pretty lights! ;)
Lots of people with IPhones have considerable investment in apps and, ever moreso, in itunes music. Recently having gotten a droid, I can say that it has become my main portable music player. How can anyone say to simply return the Iphone4 when its clearly more complicated than that? Will a return come with an app that will allow a different phone to play music from itunes? /s
Finally, my early on decision not to take part in any of these f*cked up drm schemes is sounding like a very wise decision.
It doesn't help that before vista was released there were vids of compiz/beryl doing things that vista didn't, and still cannot do.
;) )
When I show my coworkers impressive eyecandy running on an older, single core system that would not run vista well, if at all...
Or inform them that I get 3 hours battery time with XP, and 4-4.5 with Ubuntu (when the battery was new, still a discrepancy but subtract an hour from all to account for battery age
Or when someone asks about some random piece of software that may be useful, and I apt-get it and am looking at it in minutes.
One thing running MS was really good for though, new systems. See, linux runs really really well on this older laptop and it becomes difficult to justify upgrades to that kick ass quad core 4GB RAM dual 120GB drives when your old system still runs really well.
Time for more water glasses in the kill zone I guess...
Why anyone would expect silverlight to work well with anything but the "preferred platform" of a Windows box running Internet Explorer is beyond me. No, not in the first 2-3 years, but when there is any kind of market saturation. How long before any support for Mac or linux is limited (or any FF plugins for it, for that matter), if not dropped. Granted, I haven't found the fabled linux support at all, but even if it comes, Microsoft has an interest in making it less functional/stable/usable for any non MS platforms, the same would be true of any mac version. Even a community driven version will be broken because MS won't really tell of all the changes to their "new" update/upgrade. You can argue, but MS has already shown a propensity for this behavior in the past. Many, many times.
More than one ticketmaster? GOOD. Maybe they'll spend their time beating the hell out of each other instead of their clients and customers.
Why is ticketmaster a bunch of crap? Do the math. Take Sears Center for example. 11,000 tickets means a sold out show gains ticketmaster $110,000 for a $10 dollar per ticket service fee. ONE SHOW!
I dare you to try to say that a $25 product sold on the web incurs and addition $10 "convenience" cost just to be sold on the web. A $40 dollar product! And if you try to tell me that the backend is any more complex than any of the larger online stores, then have I got news for you.
If any company had an out of the box solution, or even a hosted solution, a venue could buy a month or two of managed hosting on a very nice farm for that amount, and still have money for a big app support contract. And that is based on what ticketmaster makes on ONE SHOW. Unfortunately, they can't afford to lose the network of promoters that ticketmasters has exclusive contracts with.
You are apparently content being ripped off and having no other options.
I on the other hand, am not happy being obviously ripped off and not even having the option of shopping around.
You do realize that Ticketmaster sells tickets exclusively (not including box office) for the vast majority of major venues across the US, don't you? You do realize what would happen to any act that challenged those fees, don't you? Watch the number of venues available to your act in vanish. No, TM doesn't get to pick any old fee to charge, but when a 600 pound, angry looking Gorilla says gimme, you gimme. So let us know, is ignorance bliss?
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This is MS hearing as I have, that everyday people are curious about Linux/Macs after hearing about what a disaster Vista is becoming. MS just wants to put off people having their geeky nephew put in a Linux desktop in until the air clears, which MS will make sure will not happen anytime soon.
When hotmail runs %100 on exchange on windows, I'll give a damn about hotmail. As long as I have to suffer with their crap, they had better be.
I don't think the number should be posted, I've put a write up about it on my site! http://www.nelson-techonline.com/09-F9-11-02-9D-74 -E3-5B-D8-41-56-C5-63-56-88-C0/index.html
Hate to surprise anyone, but since XP came out I've had a landslide of friends and family asking me what other OS options there are. They didn't care before that. Some ask me about linux directly and without knowing that I know about linux at all, only knowing that I work with "computers". With Vista coming out, the questions have become much more persistant.
Easily the best free (oss) game in existence is Tremulous! http://www.tremulous.net/ Check the demo if you don't believe me http://mods.moddb.com/3449/tremulous/ Windows and Linux clients, as well as an independent Mac client, 100+ servers, all free. And the wallwalking ROX!