ahem... first generation ipods and almost all mini dv camcorders sold over the last decade and a half as well as home studio recording equipment.... add it all up and there's a lot out there both in professional and prosumer space. Not to say it is as common as usb by a long shot, but most high end pcs and macs shipped with support for many years and cables did not cost $50 as the devices contained the chipset instead of the cable. Just replace firewire with scsi and you will realize how ridiculous this all is. No, not everyone and their dumb cousin know what firewire or scsi or any other connector is called. Ask someone for a d-sub connector at best buy and they will look at you funny, but they will be happy to point you to the computer monitor cables... people are dumb.
The bigger issue here is the cable cost, which I would argue may be apple doing everyone a favor - you have one thunderbolt port, but several peripherals to use with it. If you buy 1 cable that has $20 in chips in it that is still less than adding $10 to the base price of every peripheral device and having a dumb cable with more expensive devices. That said cables break more often than the connected devices, so at the end of the day I say ehhh... who cares wait for it to die or become ubiquitous.
seriously, use mesh wherever possible (this would me more intelligent, as devices near each other could communicate and decide when to ramp up energy use for things like dryers so two neighbors don't both start dryers/hot water/dishwashers etc when they are in energy saving mode and would also limit the local ground noise for ham/short wave). For anything too far out of way to use mesh use power line communication.
I'm guessing they aren't old at all. They probably just like making problems by "defending" people that didn't ask for "protectors." They must think grandma is really frail and can't stand up for herself.
Yes, and it did break stuff. Sure, it shouldn't have been done that way, but out of the box removing IE would break lots of stuff without other modifications to the OS. That is also why it was such a security nightmare - it was far too integrated with the OS.
not really, their competitors do the same thing. It is standard industry practice. Been to microsoft's site lately everything bing goes to microsoft and everything microsoft goes to bing. It is a self eating watermelon.
yep, lots of tp-link routers from a major geek-from-an-egg online retailer that have fcc codes that don't match the fcc licensing database. They work more reliably in my experience than the "cisco" home wireless routers do though. I guess the regulatory body labels don't mean much whether they are fake or real anymore. *shrug*
forget just slashdot and web 2.0 you can't even load google's encrypted search page with this thing enabled in any form. Google: at the very least test with your own site before releasing to the entire friggin' world!
Welllll I suspect there is some middle ground between taking the server(s) the data is on and taking an entire rack... Clearly this wasn't a colocated rack or it wouldn't have had other people's info on it too, so take the part that is relevant and leave the rest alone.
You fail. The proper answer is "There is no way we can do this internally, have you considered using the cloud. I hear it works well and we won't have to hire anyone new." It puts and end to that crap really quick.
Use that to your advantage. I have a client that has downsized their IT department out of existence. It is now completely outsourced to me and "the cloud". The reason? It would take literally *years* of arm twisting to get anything done internally.... there was always a reason it couldn't be done. Sometimes (but only sometimes) the reasons were legitimate. The difference between the IT staff that got fired and me, is when it could be done I did it and completed things on schedule. When it couldn't be done I told them why and provided other options. If they have an unrealistic expectation tell them that, but also tell them what their alternatives are: spend more money now, use "cloud" (aka rented) resources ad pay later. Show them the cost projections for the service versus the acquisition for 1 year versus 3 or 5 years. The company I mentioned earlier now uses a combination of hosted/cloud services and (locally) outsourced IT to manage their internal infrastructure. Their costs are a fraction of what they were 3 years ago, and I guarantee if you ask anyone there they will tell you that they are happier with the quality, reliability and types of services they have now versus 3 years ago. Sure some companies are run by morons who will save a buck now and find themselves in a nice steaming pile of IT infrastructure meltdown later, but a decent number of companies are just tired of lazy, socially inept IT employees holding back the entire company.
Because most of america prefers privacy... you realize that is below median income right? Or you haven't realized you are getting screwed by coding for minimum wage in your mother's basement?
the real money is in feed. We won't be willing to eat it (directly), but cows, pigs, chickens and every other farm animal will. Probably better than what we are eating second hand now...
they do offer this if you run windows server update services (wsus). It is called system center updates publisher (scup). Saves a lot of time and hassle for windows domain admins. adobe, hp, dell, and many other big vendors are compatible. It doesn't cover every piece of software under the sun, but it covers most of the ones likely to cause havoc due to 0 day exploits.
The difference, is that with the RSA hack, while badly handled nothing was completely compromised. They only got a free pass on the extra security, but most if not all of these systems also have good password policy enforcement, which is why the threat was identified and stopped. It is pretty pointless to count on just the SecureID for security, as it can be physically stolen, it is just an extra layer of protection like properly implemented biometric checks.
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ahem... first generation ipods and almost all mini dv camcorders sold over the last decade and a half as well as home studio recording equipment.... add it all up and there's a lot out there both in professional and prosumer space. Not to say it is as common as usb by a long shot, but most high end pcs and macs shipped with support for many years and cables did not cost $50 as the devices contained the chipset instead of the cable. Just replace firewire with scsi and you will realize how ridiculous this all is. No, not everyone and their dumb cousin know what firewire or scsi or any other connector is called. Ask someone for a d-sub connector at best buy and they will look at you funny, but they will be happy to point you to the computer monitor cables... people are dumb.
The bigger issue here is the cable cost, which I would argue may be apple doing everyone a favor - you have one thunderbolt port, but several peripherals to use with it. If you buy 1 cable that has $20 in chips in it that is still less than adding $10 to the base price of every peripheral device and having a dumb cable with more expensive devices. That said cables break more often than the connected devices, so at the end of the day I say ehhh... who cares wait for it to die or become ubiquitous.
Is that why my phone calls stopped making that click noise?
so nokia isn't a major handset manufacturer?
sfc /scannow
Was that so hard?
seriously, use mesh wherever possible (this would me more intelligent, as devices near each other could communicate and decide when to ramp up energy use for things like dryers so two neighbors don't both start dryers/hot water/dishwashers etc when they are in energy saving mode and would also limit the local ground noise for ham/short wave). For anything too far out of way to use mesh use power line communication.
Ask and you shall receive: http://frontmotion.com
It offers a free community version and a paid packaging service. Group policies work fine.
I'm guessing they aren't old at all. They probably just like making problems by "defending" people that didn't ask for "protectors." They must think grandma is really frail and can't stand up for herself.
Yes, and it did break stuff. Sure, it shouldn't have been done that way, but out of the box removing IE would break lots of stuff without other modifications to the OS. That is also why it was such a security nightmare - it was far too integrated with the OS.
not really, their competitors do the same thing. It is standard industry practice. Been to microsoft's site lately everything bing goes to microsoft and everything microsoft goes to bing. It is a self eating watermelon.
nice summary. which I had mod points for you.
yep, lots of tp-link routers from a major geek-from-an-egg online retailer that have fcc codes that don't match the fcc licensing database. They work more reliably in my experience than the "cisco" home wireless routers do though. I guess the regulatory body labels don't mean much whether they are fake or real anymore. *shrug*
forget just slashdot and web 2.0 you can't even load google's encrypted search page with this thing enabled in any form. Google: at the very least test with your own site before releasing to the entire friggin' world!
Perhaps someone is just sniffing their email They send all the password plain text! WTF mate?
Welllll I suspect there is some middle ground between taking the server(s) the data is on and taking an entire rack... Clearly this wasn't a colocated rack or it wouldn't have had other people's info on it too, so take the part that is relevant and leave the rest alone.
Stick with carrots. you can eat carrots.
nice.
still slow?
You fail. The proper answer is "There is no way we can do this internally, have you considered using the cloud. I hear it works well and we won't have to hire anyone new." It puts and end to that crap really quick.
Use that to your advantage. I have a client that has downsized their IT department out of existence. It is now completely outsourced to me and "the cloud". The reason? It would take literally *years* of arm twisting to get anything done internally.... there was always a reason it couldn't be done. Sometimes (but only sometimes) the reasons were legitimate. The difference between the IT staff that got fired and me, is when it could be done I did it and completed things on schedule. When it couldn't be done I told them why and provided other options. If they have an unrealistic expectation tell them that, but also tell them what their alternatives are: spend more money now, use "cloud" (aka rented) resources ad pay later. Show them the cost projections for the service versus the acquisition for 1 year versus 3 or 5 years. The company I mentioned earlier now uses a combination of hosted/cloud services and (locally) outsourced IT to manage their internal infrastructure. Their costs are a fraction of what they were 3 years ago, and I guarantee if you ask anyone there they will tell you that they are happier with the quality, reliability and types of services they have now versus 3 years ago. Sure some companies are run by morons who will save a buck now and find themselves in a nice steaming pile of IT infrastructure meltdown later, but a decent number of companies are just tired of lazy, socially inept IT employees holding back the entire company.
Because most of america prefers privacy... you realize that is below median income right? Or you haven't realized you are getting screwed by coding for minimum wage in your mother's basement?
You're thinking of mad cow disease which is from prions.
the real money is in feed. We won't be willing to eat it (directly), but cows, pigs, chickens and every other farm animal will. Probably better than what we are eating second hand now...
which means that all your apps don't get patched until windows says it is ok. That's a great idea.
they do offer this if you run windows server update services (wsus). It is called system center updates publisher (scup). Saves a lot of time and hassle for windows domain admins. adobe, hp, dell, and many other big vendors are compatible. It doesn't cover every piece of software under the sun, but it covers most of the ones likely to cause havoc due to 0 day exploits.
The difference, is that with the RSA hack, while badly handled nothing was completely compromised. They only got a free pass on the extra security, but most if not all of these systems also have good password policy enforcement, which is why the threat was identified and stopped. It is pretty pointless to count on just the SecureID for security, as it can be physically stolen, it is just an extra layer of protection like properly implemented biometric checks.