To me, the owner of any electronic device that is password protected should not disclose the password to the device unless the authority has a warrant out for that person.
What I would do is configure a laptop to run DRBL or Windows Deployment Services (WDS). Both will give you PXE boot options and can boot whatever Linux (DRBL) or WinPE (WDS) utilities you want to use. WDS is a part of Windows Server 2008 R2 and for what you are going to need it for, you shouldn't have to purchase a license since the evaluation period should be sufficient time for you to complete your process. My suggestion would be to customize a Windows PE image to run a backup utility to capture all the data and write it to wherever you are putting it at, then run Gdisk32, which is a part of Norton Ghost to wipe the drive once the backup is complete and verified. You should be able to script this so it runs automatically once the PXE boot completes off a WDS server. I'm sure there's a way to do the same thing with DBAN if you're going to use DRBL instead.
I wrote my own ticketing system in MS Access almost two years ago. In my system, there are only three tables, and two relations between the tables. The first table is the list of businesses using our services, the second is the employees that can be dispatched, and the third is the list of tickets reported in. When a ticket comes in, a new record is created in the tickets table, and the record is viewable from the business that reported the trouble. The tech then can add his name to the ticket and enter in the work done, and you end up with a complete case history for a company. Although this was quick and dirty, this system suited our needs. Build from this, and you should have a halfway decent system.
This all started when the last employer I worked for went bankrupt. A co-worker of mine managed to get hired on permanently with one of the clients he and I supported. Since I didn't have that type of luck, I had to go the traditional route of blasting out resumes to recruiters and employers advertising positions. I did manage to score a few small setup and support gigs in between, but the craziness started while I was working on setting up a domain and a Exchange 2000 server for a small law office. One evening, I got a call from a staffing agency asking me about a position near where I live doing desktop support. Naturally, I agreed to the position. I had a series of phone interviews with the recruiter and with the company (Company A) I'll be contracted to. One of the things they had me do was to take an evaluation on my knowledge of WinXP. They contacted me stating they sent me an e-mail with the link to the evaluation. Since I was in the middle of the job of setting up the Exchange server, I couldn't do it right away. They contacted me again asking if I had a chance to complete it. I then asked the client I was setting up the server for if I could use the server as a means of getting to the evaluation. They agreed to it and I completed the evaluation. I contacted the recruiter and they said that I scored a perfect score on it and they wanted me to interview again with Company A offering the position. I completed that interview, and by that time, my cell phone was about to die, and I needed to access my e-mail again. By this time, I had left the law office to go to a temporary job doing retail sales for a wireless company. I couldn't use their phone or their computer, so I had to use the library across the street. Went over there and found out that I couldn't use a computer since all of them were in use by other people and there was one ahead of me who just signed in. Only other option was to charge up my phone and call the recruiter stating that I would have to wait until later that evening to get to the information that he e-mailed me that afternoon. I returned home after completing my temp job shift and completed whatever it was that got sent out to me. I also made sure that my cell phone got charged up as well. The next day, I got a call from the recruiter while I was finishing up a configuration on a computer to have it talk to the Exchange server at the law office stating that they want to bring me on. I told them they could, and I had myself a temp-to-perm position starting after Memorial Day 2005. My wife and I were going out of town that weekend and I got a call on the day we left from the recruiter asking if I could start that Friday. I had to explain to him that my wife and I were on the road going to Michigan and I wouldn't be back until that following Tuesday. All of this was just the beginning of what was to come.
About a month into my new job, I get notified via e-mail that Company A I was contracted with would be withdrawing job offers due to it's decision to not further pursue the business that it would have earned through a contract win. This left a lot of people raising questions about their future working for the company on the contract they were to be assigned to. Only thing we could do was to continue working under the direction of our managers while a solution was worked out. In the meantime, Company B, the organization that previously held the support contract with the business I was doing work for renegotiated a new contract to last until 2009. Although that was good news for Company B employees, Company A people were still left in the dark about their future. Thankfully, my manager for Company A stated that his job was that everyone that was working with him today has a job going forward. For me that meant one of two things. Either Company B acquires the rights to my talent through a contract buyout or direct hire through contract expiration, or I am retained by Company A and reassigned to another contract. It was decided around November that I was to be
I drink XS on a regular basis, which around one can per day in the morning. Only brand that I know of that comes in 8 different flavors, two of which are caffeine-free. It's not sold in stores, so the only way to find it is to come in contact with someone who does.
I do web development on the side and I use MySQL and PHP running off of Windows' IIS (WIMP). Only problems I see with portability is making sure the username/password and DB name for the database gets changed between my test environment and the production environment (Linux in most cases) and (in one instance) the code works with an earlier version of PHP that was never upgraded by the hosting provider.
Could it be that the head coach of the football team is going to be replaced by a quantum computer because the team can't finish in the Top 25, let alone beat Ohio State?
I would tell Symantec that their product must be able to run as advertised on additional hardware and software platforms. If poorly designed and implemented, there will be a huge detrimental impact to consumers who will get angry with their online banks, merchants, or even their ISP and could very well stick it to these companies and Symantec where it counts...the pocketbook.
I'm not a big fan of unions either. Where I work, certain tasks that I know how to do (such as assigning IP addresses to printers) can only be done by union employees. On top of that, I've had instances where some jobs that only union employees can do were not done in order to close out a work order as complete. I believe it was in Rich Dad, Poor Dad where author Robert Kiyosaki writes that a union is good if you are a specialist, but if you have a diversified skill set, then a union is useless.
If you are constantly griping about getting screwed over when the owners and shareholders are reaping the profit rewards, then now would be a good time to look at buying stock in the company you work for.
My wife was telling me that the hospital she works at uses a thin client solution where none of the desktop workstations have any type of removable storage, whether it be on floppy, USB drive, or optical media. All the applications and data are kept on blade servers in the data center. If your company has the money available in the budget, I'd go with at minimum a remote desktop solution and have the security policy configured that no data can be copied from the server to a workstation. Only thing left to worry about is the integrity of the employee who has access to the data.
I remember reading on/. a while back that MS decided that it would treat a dual-core processor as a single processor in licensing its software on a per-processor basis. I thought with MS pretty much dictating what goes in IT, all other vendors would follow suit.
If you want a 'Cisco tea party', you would need to throw the telco's routing equipment into the water.
I agree that money from this tax should be invested back into the infrastructure to extend broadband services to rural parts and in turn, the VoIP companies that acquire new potential customers would then pay in the money to improve the QoS in the rural parts (i.e. bigger downstream/upstream pipe).
This stuff happens all the time. I'm sure that people are still using VHS tapes to record their favorite shows and loaning the tape out to their friends. Heck, if I knew that I was going to miss **insert random TV show here** on a given night and my wife wanted to record something that aired on the same night at the same time on a different channel, heck, I'd find a friend of mine who would either record onto tape or DVR the show and give me the copy on tape or DVD. When will the **AA farknuts learn?
One time I accidentally left my 256MB Memorex USB drive in my pants pocket prior to washing them in a load of clothes. I find my drive still in the pocket of the same pants as I took them out of the dryer. To my surprise, the drive still worked, and I was glad it did since I had a lot of crucial data on it.
And it could mean job security for me and the company I work for. We set up several doctor's offices to where most of their patient data is scanned in and stored electronically (two using Open Source software). I know that one practice we set up is totally paperless after the last set of hardware we deployed at the end of the year.
I know the system does need fixing overall because some of the billing people that I work with on a regular basis at each of the client sites are always complaining that all of their claims are being rejected by insurance companies for various reasons, and it's becoming a time-waster to sit on the phone with the insurance company to try to get the mess sorted out. As a result, sometimes it's hard to collect our consulting fees because the money that's due us is not there because insurance hasn't paid the clinic what was charged for patient care.
As for the job security in my opinion, I'll most likely be asked to learn what the standards are, what hardware needs to be deployed, and what regulations in addition to HIPPA need to be followed.
I've read several books by author and enterpreneur Robert Kiyosaki. A lot of what's mentioned in this thread is echoed in Kiyosaki's writings. One of his books titled The Business School talks about using network marketing (AKA multi-level marketing) as a means of getting a business education. Part of the reason why I got hired at the two jobs that I worked at was because during my second interview where I met the owners of the companies I worked for, they were impressed with the fact that I have some knowledge of business and have a fairly successful and growing network of people. I don't spend much more than a few hours a week developing my network marketing business, but the time I do invest in it will pay greater dividends in the long term. What was more important was the lessons learned in managing relations with customers and your team of people (my downline in the case of my business, and my co-workers at my job).
Anyways, just my $0.02 on the topic. Feel free to flame me for being a MLMer.
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To me, the owner of any electronic device that is password protected should not disclose the password to the device unless the authority has a warrant out for that person.
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What I would do is configure a laptop to run DRBL or Windows Deployment Services (WDS). Both will give you PXE boot options and can boot whatever Linux (DRBL) or WinPE (WDS) utilities you want to use. WDS is a part of Windows Server 2008 R2 and for what you are going to need it for, you shouldn't have to purchase a license since the evaluation period should be sufficient time for you to complete your process. My suggestion would be to customize a Windows PE image to run a backup utility to capture all the data and write it to wherever you are putting it at, then run Gdisk32, which is a part of Norton Ghost to wipe the drive once the backup is complete and verified. You should be able to script this so it runs automatically once the PXE boot completes off a WDS server. I'm sure there's a way to do the same thing with DBAN if you're going to use DRBL instead.
I'd rather spend this amount and trade in my car for FOUR WHEELS OF FURY!!!!!
Once more people realize what the RIAA is up to, all this insanity will stop.
On a side noe, don't we do 'First Post!' around here anymore?
I guess this now makes two items of which one must be met in order for hell to freeze over
* Cleveland is named an Intelligent Community.
* Browns win the Super Bowl
I wrote my own ticketing system in MS Access almost two years ago. In my system, there are only three tables, and two relations between the tables. The first table is the list of businesses using our services, the second is the employees that can be dispatched, and the third is the list of tickets reported in. When a ticket comes in, a new record is created in the tickets table, and the record is viewable from the business that reported the trouble. The tech then can add his name to the ticket and enter in the work done, and you end up with a complete case history for a company. Although this was quick and dirty, this system suited our needs. Build from this, and you should have a halfway decent system.
This all started when the last employer I worked for went bankrupt. A co-worker of mine managed to get hired on permanently with one of the clients he and I supported. Since I didn't have that type of luck, I had to go the traditional route of blasting out resumes to recruiters and employers advertising positions. I did manage to score a few small setup and support gigs in between, but the craziness started while I was working on setting up a domain and a Exchange 2000 server for a small law office. One evening, I got a call from a staffing agency asking me about a position near where I live doing desktop support. Naturally, I agreed to the position. I had a series of phone interviews with the recruiter and with the company (Company A) I'll be contracted to. One of the things they had me do was to take an evaluation on my knowledge of WinXP. They contacted me stating they sent me an e-mail with the link to the evaluation. Since I was in the middle of the job of setting up the Exchange server, I couldn't do it right away. They contacted me again asking if I had a chance to complete it. I then asked the client I was setting up the server for if I could use the server as a means of getting to the evaluation. They agreed to it and I completed the evaluation. I contacted the recruiter and they said that I scored a perfect score on it and they wanted me to interview again with Company A offering the position. I completed that interview, and by that time, my cell phone was about to die, and I needed to access my e-mail again. By this time, I had left the law office to go to a temporary job doing retail sales for a wireless company. I couldn't use their phone or their computer, so I had to use the library across the street. Went over there and found out that I couldn't use a computer since all of them were in use by other people and there was one ahead of me who just signed in. Only other option was to charge up my phone and call the recruiter stating that I would have to wait until later that evening to get to the information that he e-mailed me that afternoon. I returned home after completing my temp job shift and completed whatever it was that got sent out to me. I also made sure that my cell phone got charged up as well. The next day, I got a call from the recruiter while I was finishing up a configuration on a computer to have it talk to the Exchange server at the law office stating that they want to bring me on. I told them they could, and I had myself a temp-to-perm position starting after Memorial Day 2005. My wife and I were going out of town that weekend and I got a call on the day we left from the recruiter asking if I could start that Friday. I had to explain to him that my wife and I were on the road going to Michigan and I wouldn't be back until that following Tuesday. All of this was just the beginning of what was to come.
About a month into my new job, I get notified via e-mail that Company A I was contracted with would be withdrawing job offers due to it's decision to not further pursue the business that it would have earned through a contract win. This left a lot of people raising questions about their future working for the company on the contract they were to be assigned to. Only thing we could do was to continue working under the direction of our managers while a solution was worked out. In the meantime, Company B, the organization that previously held the support contract with the business I was doing work for renegotiated a new contract to last until 2009. Although that was good news for Company B employees, Company A people were still left in the dark about their future. Thankfully, my manager for Company A stated that his job was that everyone that was working with him today has a job going forward. For me that meant one of two things. Either Company B acquires the rights to my talent through a contract buyout or direct hire through contract expiration, or I am retained by Company A and reassigned to another contract. It was decided around November that I was to be
I drink XS on a regular basis, which around one can per day in the morning. Only brand that I know of that comes in 8 different flavors, two of which are caffeine-free. It's not sold in stores, so the only way to find it is to come in contact with someone who does.
I do web development on the side and I use MySQL and PHP running off of Windows' IIS (WIMP). Only problems I see with portability is making sure the username/password and DB name for the database gets changed between my test environment and the production environment (Linux in most cases) and (in one instance) the code works with an earlier version of PHP that was never upgraded by the hosting provider.
Could it be that the head coach of the football team is going to be replaced by a quantum computer because the team can't finish in the Top 25, let alone beat Ohio State?
I would tell Symantec that their product must be able to run as advertised on additional hardware and software platforms. If poorly designed and implemented, there will be a huge detrimental impact to consumers who will get angry with their online banks, merchants, or even their ISP and could very well stick it to these companies and Symantec where it counts...the pocketbook.
I'm not a big fan of unions either. Where I work, certain tasks that I know how to do (such as assigning IP addresses to printers) can only be done by union employees. On top of that, I've had instances where some jobs that only union employees can do were not done in order to close out a work order as complete. I believe it was in Rich Dad, Poor Dad where author Robert Kiyosaki writes that a union is good if you are a specialist, but if you have a diversified skill set, then a union is useless.
If you are constantly griping about getting screwed over when the owners and shareholders are reaping the profit rewards, then now would be a good time to look at buying stock in the company you work for.
is to give students in MBA school an assignment to work on prior to graduation. Their grade would be based on how well their business plan is written.
My wife was telling me that the hospital she works at uses a thin client solution where none of the desktop workstations have any type of removable storage, whether it be on floppy, USB drive, or optical media. All the applications and data are kept on blade servers in the data center. If your company has the money available in the budget, I'd go with at minimum a remote desktop solution and have the security policy configured that no data can be copied from the server to a workstation. Only thing left to worry about is the integrity of the employee who has access to the data.
I remember reading on /. a while back that MS decided that it would treat a dual-core processor as a single processor in licensing its software on a per-processor basis. I thought with MS pretty much dictating what goes in IT, all other vendors would follow suit.
Georgia Tech takes Crazy J to Athens (Georgia, not Greece) and watches it get wizzed on by Uga VI. Now that would be a darn good dawg.
Reminds me of the Tech Support skit by 3 Dead Trolls in a Baggie.
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The link below is more detailed information of the phpBB exploit.
http://www.phpfreaks.com/articles/245/0.php
If you want a 'Cisco tea party', you would need to throw the telco's routing equipment into the water.
I agree that money from this tax should be invested back into the infrastructure to extend broadband services to rural parts and in turn, the VoIP companies that acquire new potential customers would then pay in the money to improve the QoS in the rural parts (i.e. bigger downstream/upstream pipe).
This stuff happens all the time. I'm sure that people are still using VHS tapes to record their favorite shows and loaning the tape out to their friends. Heck, if I knew that I was going to miss **insert random TV show here** on a given night and my wife wanted to record something that aired on the same night at the same time on a different channel, heck, I'd find a friend of mine who would either record onto tape or DVR the show and give me the copy on tape or DVD. When will the **AA farknuts learn?
while (!President)
{
recount(votes, "Florida");
whine();
sue("Republicans");
}
and when executed
"Segmentation fault (Gore dumped)"
One time I accidentally left my 256MB Memorex USB drive in my pants pocket prior to washing them in a load of clothes. I find my drive still in the pocket of the same pants as I took them out of the dryer. To my surprise, the drive still worked, and I was glad it did since I had a lot of crucial data on it.
And it could mean job security for me and the company I work for. We set up several doctor's offices to where most of their patient data is scanned in and stored electronically (two using Open Source software). I know that one practice we set up is totally paperless after the last set of hardware we deployed at the end of the year.
I know the system does need fixing overall because some of the billing people that I work with on a regular basis at each of the client sites are always complaining that all of their claims are being rejected by insurance companies for various reasons, and it's becoming a time-waster to sit on the phone with the insurance company to try to get the mess sorted out. As a result, sometimes it's hard to collect our consulting fees because the money that's due us is not there because insurance hasn't paid the clinic what was charged for patient care.
As for the job security in my opinion, I'll most likely be asked to learn what the standards are, what hardware needs to be deployed, and what regulations in addition to HIPPA need to be followed.
I've read several books by author and enterpreneur Robert Kiyosaki. A lot of what's mentioned in this thread is echoed in Kiyosaki's writings. One of his books titled The Business School talks about using network marketing (AKA multi-level marketing) as a means of getting a business education. Part of the reason why I got hired at the two jobs that I worked at was because during my second interview where I met the owners of the companies I worked for, they were impressed with the fact that I have some knowledge of business and have a fairly successful and growing network of people. I don't spend much more than a few hours a week developing my network marketing business, but the time I do invest in it will pay greater dividends in the long term. What was more important was the lessons learned in managing relations with customers and your team of people (my downline in the case of my business, and my co-workers at my job).
Anyways, just my $0.02 on the topic. Feel free to flame me for being a MLMer.