Doubtful - the single digit users were the original cast of editors... who I haven't seen post a comment (unless it was a meta-slashdot story) for years.
Correct. Provided the Aircraft has had EMI testing done, using WiFi isn't a hazard. Using your cellular radio is a waste of time, as you just drain the battery above about 10,000', but WiFi and Bluetooth work nicely.
It's the same reason some airlines (I'm looking at you, Air Canada) now only allow earbud headphones connected to their IFE system during taxi/takeoff/landing. It's so they can get your attention if 'shut goes wrong'.
Look at the downside.
Even the phones on planes tend to use ground towers because of cost.
Actually, most of the phones on planes use Satellites, since, well, there's no ground stations when you're flying over the ocean:) Aircell is the exception, but that only works over the continental US, and IIRC you need to be > 10,000 ft above ground.
I have exactly the same setup - personal MacBook Pro, running an official company sanctioned (and licensed) Windows XP image from the IT Dept. Works quite nicely. The image is backed up to Time Machine, so when I travel for personal reasons, I simply delete it and restore it when I come home.
It could get ugly legally, but with a decent lawyer you should be able to prove the logical separation, and let whomever needs it take the copy of the VM and do whatever they want with it while keeping your personal stuff intact and private. I wouldn't be surprised if this starts to become the norm in the tech industry, as it solves lots of problems for employees who frequently cross the work/home/life balance.
Note that I primarily work from home, which makes things a bit simpler.
I just finished doing a bunch of paperwork for one run by Hackett (we also looked at the other 3 above). There are really too many things to compare, and your question was too vague. Do you want to compare performance (uptime, mttr, etc...), costs (cost per support call, costs per server, etc...), maturity (Standard Operating Procedures, compliance to ITIL, COBIT, etc... ) or maybe all 3?
In any case, the big 4 consulting companies can help with this... like legal advice, Slashdot isn't a good source for comparison:)
Friends of mine have told me about Crumpler bags in the past, but after seeing the Parent post, I decided to check it out in detail. Like you, I need to carry Laptop + DSLR, w/lens, and various other bits of gear.
As it turns out, the Crumpler.ca distribution center isn't too far from me. I rang up Jason there, and asked if I could come by to check out the bags in person. He said no problem, so I hauled my LowePro Slingshot and Timbuk2 messenger bags full of gear down. He unpacked me a Karachi Outpost, and I loaded it up with everything. While it couldn't carry both of my laptops at once (which I rarely need to do), everything else fit with a few compartments to spare. It's definatly a digital pack - there's no slot for papers/folders, however the laptop compartment is designed to hold a 17" laptop. Since I've got the 15" MacBook Pro, I could fit the laptop + paperwork in there with no issues. I'm still fine tuning the compartments a bit to deal my lenses, but I was sold. The exterior has some reinforcement on it, so it doesn't easily push in - something I appreciate with all the glass inside.
Jason indicated the Karachi Outpost was the replacement for Brian's Hot Tub, basically the biggest Photo+Laptop bag they make. The nice thing is that both the Laptop + Camera dividers all come right out, so I could use it as a normal daypack, should I want to leave all my gear at home for awhile.
I walked out with the Karachi Outpost, one of the smaller clip-on bag - and I'll definately be recommending them to others.
Be a bit more carefull these days - they now have usually at least a few cops on it - it's a total cash grab for them, and at end of month it's an easy quota-filler. It's not unusual to see 2 or 3 setup with a speed trap nowadays. I drive it daily on the way into work, and maybe 3 of 5 days I see police cars (including unmarked) waiting for easy bait:)
Actually, we have that in place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Highway 407 charges per km for usage, and takes you the same place the 'free' highways take you. They just sell it as 'faster' (even though the speedlimit is the same) as it's suppose to be less congested.
The government built it, and then sold it to a private company to run. They make millions off it.
I second the Timbuk2 recommendation. My wife and I each swear by them - she has the laptop one, and I've got the plain one with a 3rd party laptop sleeve inside - plenty of space. Get the cell/ipod case for the strap, and put your devices in there. Get 2 if you need them.
Where I live is irrelevent. You can get them anywhere, and if you value your assets, run a company from home, or anything else important you'd probably want one too.
People break into houses *everywhere* in the world, .
I've wanted to dump my land line for about two years, however 2 things stopped me:
1. If you have an alarm system in your house, you need one 2. Insurance company rep said something about 911/emergency services, and needed a phone line for that.
I think #2 is probably FUD, but I wasn't able to get around #1, so I've still got a land line.
However, I just route it into my Asterisk PBX, and let it email me any time someone calls
Bingo! I've already ordered 2, one for me, one for my Mom. No more de-spyware/worm/virus-ing the PC once a month, and the added bonus of preventing my niece who is over once a month from installing her Disney games that never uninstall completely, and leave bits of cute-but-annoying crap everywhere.
If it works for my Mom, I'm going to do my grandparents next.
Sorry, but completed your research before spouting off links and quotes.
2.6 has an IPsec kernel layer implementation. There are two part to IPsec - the kernel layer, and the key management (IKE) portion. The IKE daemons are userland, and without them, you don't have a complete IPsec implementation.
Thus, they have ported isakmpd/racoon to Linux, or you can run Openswan's userland tool (aka pluto).
There are still bugs in the KAME IPsec stack that is integrated into the Linux 2.6 series of kernels, and will be for another few months, I suspect.
Look at the recent posts on the netfilter lists, for instance - doing secure firewalling with 26sec is still a real pain. There's a set of 6 patches now, but they aren't integrated into the kernel yet, and some may not be for some time.
Also, there's some network configurations that work fine under 2.4/Openswan, but will not work at all in 2.6. One of these configs I use daily (subnet extrusion), so I've been unable to update any of my production machines to the new stack, even though I'm one of the Openswan developers.
I hope to see about solving some of this at LinuxTag in a few days, since there will be a large contingent of developers present, and putting the right people in a room together gets things resolved very quickly:)
I was the maintainer of Super FreeS/WAN, and am now the release manager of Openswan.
We're currently working on a whole new set of documentation, in DocBook/XML format to boot. It's slow, since we all know how much developers love to write documentation, but it's coming. For now, you can see The Wiki which will probably get slashdotted.
You just contradicted yourself. You state there are tools to patch his software, and then in the next sentence state they don't need to be patched or updated.
I agree with the distros: If I can't patch it and ship it, I don't ship it.
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Doubtful - the single digit users were the original cast of editors... who I haven't seen post a comment (unless it was a meta-slashdot story) for years.
Did somebody make a sound?
Token post from low ID user here...
Correct. Provided the Aircraft has had EMI testing done, using WiFi isn't a hazard. Using your cellular radio is a waste of time, as you just drain the battery above about 10,000', but WiFi and Bluetooth work nicely. It's the same reason some airlines (I'm looking at you, Air Canada) now only allow earbud headphones connected to their IFE system during taxi/takeoff/landing. It's so they can get your attention if 'shut goes wrong'.
Look at the downside. Even the phones on planes tend to use ground towers because of cost.
Actually, most of the phones on planes use Satellites, since, well, there's no ground stations when you're flying over the ocean :) Aircell is the exception, but that only works over the continental US, and IIRC you need to be > 10,000 ft above ground.
The sat phone might not... but on the Iridium network you can get 2400bps of data (ppp). And yes, I've read + posted twitter updates over this.
It could get ugly legally, but with a decent lawyer you should be able to prove the logical separation, and let whomever needs it take the copy of the VM and do whatever they want with it while keeping your personal stuff intact and private. I wouldn't be surprised if this starts to become the norm in the tech industry, as it solves lots of problems for employees who frequently cross the work/home/life balance.
Note that I primarily work from home, which makes things a bit simpler.
I just finished doing a bunch of paperwork for one run by Hackett (we also looked at the other 3 above). There are really too many things to compare, and your question was too vague. Do you want to compare performance (uptime, mttr, etc...), costs (cost per support call, costs per server, etc...), maturity (Standard Operating Procedures, compliance to ITIL, COBIT, etc... ) or maybe all 3?
:)
In any case, the big 4 consulting companies can help with this... like legal advice, Slashdot isn't a good source for comparison
Friends of mine have told me about Crumpler bags in the past, but after seeing the Parent post, I decided to check it out in detail. Like you, I need to carry Laptop + DSLR, w/lens, and various other bits of gear.
As it turns out, the Crumpler.ca distribution center isn't too far from me. I rang up Jason there, and asked if I could come by to check out the bags in person. He said no problem, so I hauled my LowePro Slingshot and Timbuk2 messenger bags full of gear down. He unpacked me a Karachi Outpost, and I loaded it up with everything. While it couldn't carry both of my laptops at once (which I rarely need to do), everything else fit with a few compartments to spare. It's definatly a digital pack - there's no slot for papers/folders, however the laptop compartment is designed to hold a 17" laptop. Since I've got the 15" MacBook Pro, I could fit the laptop + paperwork in there with no issues. I'm still fine tuning the compartments a bit to deal my lenses, but I was sold. The exterior has some reinforcement on it, so it doesn't easily push in - something I appreciate with all the glass inside.
Jason indicated the Karachi Outpost was the replacement for Brian's Hot Tub, basically the biggest Photo+Laptop bag they make. The nice thing is that both the Laptop + Camera dividers all come right out, so I could use it as a normal daypack, should I want to leave all my gear at home for awhile.
I walked out with the Karachi Outpost, one of the smaller clip-on bag - and I'll definately be recommending them to others.
Be a bit more carefull these days - they now have usually at least a few cops on it - it's a total cash grab for them, and at end of month it's an easy quota-filler. It's not unusual to see 2 or 3 setup with a speed trap nowadays. I drive it daily on the way into work, and maybe 3 of 5 days I see police cars (including unmarked) waiting for easy bait :)
Actually, we have that in place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Highway 407 charges per km for usage, and takes you the same place the 'free' highways take you. They just sell it as 'faster' (even though the speedlimit is the same) as it's suppose to be less congested.
The government built it, and then sold it to a private company to run. They make millions off it.
I second the Timbuk2 recommendation. My wife and I each swear by them - she has the laptop one, and I've got the plain one with a 3rd party laptop sleeve inside - plenty of space. Get the cell/ipod case for the strap, and put your devices in there. Get 2 if you need them.
Where I live is irrelevent. You can get them anywhere, and if you value your assets, run a company from home, or anything else important you'd probably want one too.
People break into houses *everywhere* in the world, .
I've wanted to dump my land line for about two years, however 2 things stopped me:
1. If you have an alarm system in your house, you need one
2. Insurance company rep said something about 911/emergency services, and needed a phone line for that.
I think #2 is probably FUD, but I wasn't able to get around #1, so I've still got a land line.
However, I just route it into my Asterisk PBX, and let it email me any time someone calls
Bingo! I've already ordered 2, one for me, one for my Mom. No more de-spyware/worm/virus-ing the PC once a month, and the added bonus of preventing my niece who is over once a month from installing her Disney games that never uninstall completely, and leave bits of cute-but-annoying crap everywhere.
If it works for my Mom, I'm going to do my grandparents next.
Ironically, that one uses FreeS/WAN too, IIRC.
I wrote the interop howto, at http://www.freeswan.ca/docs/BEFVP41/
Ken (Openswan Developer)
I prefer jwz's saying "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."
meep! meep!
Probably Debian Familiar based - see handhelds.org I think, or look for the OpenEmbedded/OpenZaurus distro.
Sorry, but completed your research before spouting off links and quotes.
2.6 has an IPsec kernel layer implementation. There are two part to IPsec - the kernel layer, and the key management (IKE) portion. The IKE daemons are userland, and without them, you don't have a complete IPsec implementation.
Thus, they have ported isakmpd/racoon to Linux, or you can run Openswan's userland tool (aka pluto).
I've done Openswan interop with Cisco... 17xx's, 36x, 72xx's and 30xx series VPN Concentrators.
So, details please... it works nicely for me.
There are still bugs in the KAME IPsec stack that is integrated into the Linux 2.6 series of kernels, and will be for another few months, I suspect.
:)
Look at the recent posts on the netfilter lists, for instance - doing secure firewalling with 26sec is still a real pain. There's a set of 6 patches now, but they aren't integrated into the kernel yet, and some may not be for some time.
Also, there's some network configurations that work fine under 2.4/Openswan, but will not work at all in 2.6. One of these configs I use daily (subnet extrusion), so I've been unable to update any of my production machines to the new stack, even though I'm one of the Openswan developers.
I hope to see about solving some of this at LinuxTag in a few days, since there will be a large contingent of developers present, and putting the right people in a room together gets things resolved very quickly
Ken
Hi,
I was the maintainer of Super FreeS/WAN, and am now the release manager of Openswan.
We're currently working on a whole new set of documentation, in DocBook/XML format to boot. It's slow, since we all know how much developers love to write documentation, but it's coming. For now, you can see The Wiki which will probably get slashdotted.
Ken
You just contradicted yourself. You state there are tools to patch his software, and then in the next sentence state they don't need to be patched or updated.
I agree with the distros: If I can't patch it and ship it, I don't ship it.
We have an experimental CP IKE patch sitting around that would perhaps let you connect.
ken@xelerance.com