Yeah, forgot about Firebug. Definately a neat tool
Sadly, with Microsoft not supporting WebGL, its possible that the technology won't take off. You might want to check out the angel project, http://code.google.com/p/angleproject/ which translates WebGL into Direct X 9 calls, but I am not sure how that would work, and would require you to have two versions of whatever you are coding.
You mean, something like http://simple-adblock.com/ It works pretty well on IE7 and IE8. It says it works on IE9, but haven't tried it on the final release yet.
I agree, I am a hardcore Firefox user, and LOVE Firefox 4, but, DAMN, IE9 is FAST! Runs great on my work computer with 2 gig of ram, Windows Vista 32 bit, and a multi-core Intel processor. Can't wait to get home and install it in Windows 7 Business 64-bit on a 6-core AMD, 8 gig of ram and an nVidia - GPU. Shoot, the release candidate ran circles around Firefox 4 RC, and this seems to somehow be even faster!
Add to that the people who care more about hugging trees than helping humanity, then the party that cares more about complaining about everything over a cup of tea or pizza rather than offering up any real working solutions, and the people who are secretly lazy jackasses, but want to make everyone happy, so they pretend that they don't care
Technically, the US is neither a true democracy or a true republic. We have taken ideas from both, and modified them into, well, something, that kinda sorta works.
"The early adoptors of today are using what main steam users will be using in a couple of years!" OMG, Stop the presses, I have NEVER heard that before!
Hopefully your A/V vendor will have released a new dat file before you send the user back out there.The example I gave, it took our vendor about 3 weeks to release a fit, which is why we were yelling and screaming
You are assuming that a company only has one image, or an individual user gets special treatment. Each person's configuration is due to which department they work in. If you create an image for the department, there should be no reason to custom configure the machine. Granted, you then have multiple images you have to maintain, but seriously, all you got to do is, if you need to update something, grab the old image, update it, sysprep, you got your new image. Saves tons of time.
This isn't just for system admins, but the entire IT department. I have moved form desktop support to desktop security. Let's take the simple example of a user getting a virus (hopefully rare, hopefully your enterprise virus software is functioning correctly, but it still happens). Now, let's say the virus is one I hadn't seen before, and its really nasty little bugger too. Now, I can spend time crawling through Windows files, registry keys, configuration files, and whatnot, trying to get rid of it, with some help through Google. This could take several hours - possibly a couple of days.
Point is, I know the problem, I now have a fix. In the meantime, the user has been on a loaner laptop for two days. It takes, what, a few minutes to a few hours to back up the users data, about 15-45 minutes to reimage, and maybe another couple of hours to reinstall programs (depending on your enviornment). Point is, I can come in and pick up a laptop at 7:30, and have it reimaged and back to the user by their 10AM meeting with a reimage.
Now, lets say its a REALLY nasty virus, and its infecting multiple people - like we are getting 10-20 of these a day. Now, it may be worth the time to research the issue and find a fix. However, I know one virus I dealt with about 3 years ago that I was getting about 2 a day on. I had a fix, it completely got rid of the virus, and I could get away without doing a reimage. However, it took about 4-5 hours a computer to get rid of, as I was going through multiple, time-consuming steps. I had the knowledge of how the virus worked, I knew EXACTLY what was causing the virus to come in, and I was yelling and screaming at both our Antivirus software company and Microsoft for not patching it. Good for me. However, I could reimage said computer and have it back to the user in under 2 hours.
So, please, tell me, what is wrong with a reimage?
It tells me Deutsche Telecom offers 10Mbps service in my area. Um, this is the USA here, there is no Deutsche Telecom here.
It states AT&T offers 10Mbps in my area, but the fastest advertised speed in my area is 6. It also states that Charter's maximum speed is 10Mbps, but I have 30Mbps (their next to the top speed), and my actual speed is slightly FASTER than the advertised 30.
I can't pull up the article - web category blocked, so maybe this is explained in the article, but why are local police getting involved in these hacking cases? Shouldn't this be a job for federal investigators - ie, FBI or similar organization, depending on country? This isn't the first story I have seen like this. It seems to me that local police are overstepping the bounds of their jurisdiction in cases such as this. Just a thought.
Boing boing posted a few stories today about different ISPs offering free dialup to people throughout the Middle East, as apparently international phone calls are not being limited at this time. Slow and expensive, but you should be able to access Twitter and Facebook.
They can call themselves whatever they want, but Westboro Baptist Church is completely independant, and not associated with any known Baptist associations, and their actions and views are not shared or endorsed by any Baptist association or church. And as they promote certain political views from the pulpit, technically they cannot qualify for tax exemptions for being a church.
In response to the article, quite frankly, I am actually surprised no one ever has DDoSed the site.
In fact, I cannot even access their page from work at a government subcontractor - the site is categorized as being Violent and Hate Speech
I'm no server admin by any depth of the imagination, but even I know a few of these. Seriously, why are you in networking if you do not understand closing up unused services and ports? I had a test OSX server at my last job I was at. Pretty much closed all ports except for 80 and whatever port Apple RDP ran on (actually, I closed that down at first, oops, had take a macbook into the server room to fix that), then opened up ports as needed. Seriously, if they are leaving things like Telnet open, they shouldn't be in IT, let alone be a server admin.
BTW, why shouldn't you use sudo? My understanding is that was perferable over logging in as root?
And in response to another post, I've done a few 777s, but I don't think I would be stupid enough to do it on a server.
Its more than that. I live in the suburbs, and its still pretty dark out on those streets before the time shift in fall, now that they moved it back a couple of hours. As far as I am concerned, its a safty issue - you don't know how many times I have nearly hit kids walking to the bus stop because I simply couldn't see them. People tend to wear darker clothes in the cooler months, and with it dark outside - bad combination.
And, shoot, doesn't the UK ALREADY stay daylight until 10 or 11 at night in the summer?
As someone who has to go into work early in the morning, the idea of it still being daylight outside when I am going to bed is a bit unnerving.
Truthfully, I think this very much reflects our modern mindset too much. Our grandparents would get up at the crack of dawn, and wanted those extra hours in the morning. Modern society prefers to stay up late and sleep in.
Thanks for the response. I'm not so worried about recommending it to people now. I like OO, I just like Outlook and the Ribbon interface of MS Office, and I picked it up for a decent price. It wasn't free, but I have no problem paying a REASONABLE price for software, and felt that $99 for a full office suite was a decent price. But all my friends and family are on OO, cause all they needed was a word processor that they may fire up a couple of times a year, and OO met their needs just fine.
Come to think of it, while most industries use MS, I know many more people running OO at home than MS (shoot, probably 3x as many). OO has definately made an impression on home users on FOSS software, probably more than any other product I know.
The problem is, the master key signs software, so the console things its legit. It uses the same key that is on official products. So, how will Sony know if someone is running a legit game, or one that was homebrewed and then signed? The answer - they can't. So as far as I am concerned, this statement is just scare tactics that Sony can't enforce.
Not that I really care. I use my PS3 for Blu-Rays, Netflix, and the ocassional old PSX or PS2 game I have in my collection. I have my PS3 to be a media console, not a gaming device, and really have no desire to run pirated games or Linux on it - I got a PC for that (linux, that is).
I, myself, haven't used OO in about 3 years, having completely gone over to the dark side and embracing Office 2007 and now 2010. I still recommend it, and install it, for many friends who need a simple office suite at home (mainly an easy to use, free word processor). But I like Outlook first and foremost (no, Evolution is NOT the same, and neither is Thunderbird - I have tried both), and I like the Interface of PowerPoint 2007 / 2010 over Impress (In fact, I am one of those crazy people who LOVES the ribbon).
However, the article said that both suites had poor support for the Microsoft xml formats, especially with.docx and pptx files. Can anyone confirm this? The industry as a whole has largely migrated to Office 2007 and many are upgrading to 2010 (we plan to start rolling out 2010 to our 30k+ users before the end of the year). If its true that OpenOffice and LibreOffice have poor support for Office 2007 and 2010 formats, that is going to be a MAJOR stumbling block against many people migrating. No company in their right mind is going to migrate if they are going to loose document-compatability with their clients.
Since when did anyone confess by a burning bush? God spoke to Moses through the bush, never did Moses confess His sins through said bush.
I don't understand why Catholics think they have to confess to a person anyways. Forgiveness comes from God, through the blood of Jesus, and only He can dish out forgiveness of sin. Therefore, logic dictates that you should dictate your sins directly to God / Jesus.
I know that it is the first two paragraphs from the Yahoo story as well, but if you read into it, it sounds like this was a settlement outside of court. As such, that wouldn't be a court precidence.
While cool, its not all THAT uncommon. There are tons of these scattered around the US and other countries. Shoot, I know someone who owns one, and moved his electronics company there. Been in it a few times.
Problem is, these bunkers are usually out in the middle of nowhere, and not in the best of condition. Once you purchase from the US government, you have to fix it up (my friend had several water pumps to pump out where water leaked into it), then you have to pay a buttload to get halfway decent internet out there. If you are going to be running an ISP, you are probably going to be sinking twice the amount of the bunker, or more, into retrofitting and fiber lines to the nearest major city.
Most people who have these simply have them for the "whoa, cool" factor.
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Yeah, forgot about Firebug. Definately a neat tool
Sadly, with Microsoft not supporting WebGL, its possible that the technology won't take off. You might want to check out the angel project, http://code.google.com/p/angleproject/ which translates WebGL into Direct X 9 calls, but I am not sure how that would work, and would require you to have two versions of whatever you are coding.
You mean, something like http://simple-adblock.com/ It works pretty well on IE7 and IE8. It says it works on IE9, but haven't tried it on the final release yet.
I agree, I am a hardcore Firefox user, and LOVE Firefox 4, but, DAMN, IE9 is FAST! Runs great on my work computer with 2 gig of ram, Windows Vista 32 bit, and a multi-core Intel processor. Can't wait to get home and install it in Windows 7 Business 64-bit on a 6-core AMD, 8 gig of ram and an nVidia - GPU. Shoot, the release candidate ran circles around Firefox 4 RC, and this seems to somehow be even faster!
Nah nah, na na nah na na nah nah, nah Katamari Damacy!
Add to that the people who care more about hugging trees than helping humanity, then the party that cares more about complaining about everything over a cup of tea or pizza rather than offering up any real working solutions, and the people who are secretly lazy jackasses, but want to make everyone happy, so they pretend that they don't care
Technically, the US is neither a true democracy or a true republic. We have taken ideas from both, and modified them into, well, something, that kinda sorta works.
"The early adoptors of today are using what main steam users will be using in a couple of years!" OMG, Stop the presses, I have NEVER heard that before!
You obviously have not discovered MetroPCS, Cricket, or Boost
Hopefully your A/V vendor will have released a new dat file before you send the user back out there.The example I gave, it took our vendor about 3 weeks to release a fit, which is why we were yelling and screaming
You are assuming that a company only has one image, or an individual user gets special treatment. Each person's configuration is due to which department they work in. If you create an image for the department, there should be no reason to custom configure the machine. Granted, you then have multiple images you have to maintain, but seriously, all you got to do is, if you need to update something, grab the old image, update it, sysprep, you got your new image. Saves tons of time.
This isn't just for system admins, but the entire IT department. I have moved form desktop support to desktop security. Let's take the simple example of a user getting a virus (hopefully rare, hopefully your enterprise virus software is functioning correctly, but it still happens). Now, let's say the virus is one I hadn't seen before, and its really nasty little bugger too. Now, I can spend time crawling through Windows files, registry keys, configuration files, and whatnot, trying to get rid of it, with some help through Google. This could take several hours - possibly a couple of days.
Point is, I know the problem, I now have a fix. In the meantime, the user has been on a loaner laptop for two days. It takes, what, a few minutes to a few hours to back up the users data, about 15-45 minutes to reimage, and maybe another couple of hours to reinstall programs (depending on your enviornment). Point is, I can come in and pick up a laptop at 7:30, and have it reimaged and back to the user by their 10AM meeting with a reimage.
Now, lets say its a REALLY nasty virus, and its infecting multiple people - like we are getting 10-20 of these a day. Now, it may be worth the time to research the issue and find a fix. However, I know one virus I dealt with about 3 years ago that I was getting about 2 a day on. I had a fix, it completely got rid of the virus, and I could get away without doing a reimage. However, it took about 4-5 hours a computer to get rid of, as I was going through multiple, time-consuming steps. I had the knowledge of how the virus worked, I knew EXACTLY what was causing the virus to come in, and I was yelling and screaming at both our Antivirus software company and Microsoft for not patching it. Good for me. However, I could reimage said computer and have it back to the user in under 2 hours.
So, please, tell me, what is wrong with a reimage?
It tells me Deutsche Telecom offers 10Mbps service in my area. Um, this is the USA here, there is no Deutsche Telecom here.
It states AT&T offers 10Mbps in my area, but the fastest advertised speed in my area is 6. It also states that Charter's maximum speed is 10Mbps, but I have 30Mbps (their next to the top speed), and my actual speed is slightly FASTER than the advertised 30.
I can't pull up the article - web category blocked, so maybe this is explained in the article, but why are local police getting involved in these hacking cases? Shouldn't this be a job for federal investigators - ie, FBI or similar organization, depending on country? This isn't the first story I have seen like this. It seems to me that local police are overstepping the bounds of their jurisdiction in cases such as this. Just a thought.
Boing boing posted a few stories today about different ISPs offering free dialup to people throughout the Middle East, as apparently international phone calls are not being limited at this time. Slow and expensive, but you should be able to access Twitter and Facebook.
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/02/22/free-dial-up-isp-for.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+(Boing+Boing)
and
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/02/21/operation-libya-whit.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+(Boing+Boing)
:-p
They can call themselves whatever they want, but Westboro Baptist Church is completely independant, and not associated with any known Baptist associations, and their actions and views are not shared or endorsed by any Baptist association or church. And as they promote certain political views from the pulpit, technically they cannot qualify for tax exemptions for being a church.
In response to the article, quite frankly, I am actually surprised no one ever has DDoSed the site.
In fact, I cannot even access their page from work at a government subcontractor - the site is categorized as being Violent and Hate Speech
I'm no server admin by any depth of the imagination, but even I know a few of these. Seriously, why are you in networking if you do not understand closing up unused services and ports? I had a test OSX server at my last job I was at. Pretty much closed all ports except for 80 and whatever port Apple RDP ran on (actually, I closed that down at first, oops, had take a macbook into the server room to fix that), then opened up ports as needed. Seriously, if they are leaving things like Telnet open, they shouldn't be in IT, let alone be a server admin.
BTW, why shouldn't you use sudo? My understanding is that was perferable over logging in as root?
And in response to another post, I've done a few 777s, but I don't think I would be stupid enough to do it on a server.
Its more than that. I live in the suburbs, and its still pretty dark out on those streets before the time shift in fall, now that they moved it back a couple of hours. As far as I am concerned, its a safty issue - you don't know how many times I have nearly hit kids walking to the bus stop because I simply couldn't see them. People tend to wear darker clothes in the cooler months, and with it dark outside - bad combination.
And, shoot, doesn't the UK ALREADY stay daylight until 10 or 11 at night in the summer?
As someone who has to go into work early in the morning, the idea of it still being daylight outside when I am going to bed is a bit unnerving.
Truthfully, I think this very much reflects our modern mindset too much. Our grandparents would get up at the crack of dawn, and wanted those extra hours in the morning. Modern society prefers to stay up late and sleep in.
Thanks for the response. I'm not so worried about recommending it to people now. I like OO, I just like Outlook and the Ribbon interface of MS Office, and I picked it up for a decent price. It wasn't free, but I have no problem paying a REASONABLE price for software, and felt that $99 for a full office suite was a decent price. But all my friends and family are on OO, cause all they needed was a word processor that they may fire up a couple of times a year, and OO met their needs just fine.
Come to think of it, while most industries use MS, I know many more people running OO at home than MS (shoot, probably 3x as many). OO has definately made an impression on home users on FOSS software, probably more than any other product I know.
The problem is, the master key signs software, so the console things its legit. It uses the same key that is on official products. So, how will Sony know if someone is running a legit game, or one that was homebrewed and then signed? The answer - they can't. So as far as I am concerned, this statement is just scare tactics that Sony can't enforce.
Not that I really care. I use my PS3 for Blu-Rays, Netflix, and the ocassional old PSX or PS2 game I have in my collection. I have my PS3 to be a media console, not a gaming device, and really have no desire to run pirated games or Linux on it - I got a PC for that (linux, that is).
I, myself, haven't used OO in about 3 years, having completely gone over to the dark side and embracing Office 2007 and now 2010. I still recommend it, and install it, for many friends who need a simple office suite at home (mainly an easy to use, free word processor). But I like Outlook first and foremost (no, Evolution is NOT the same, and neither is Thunderbird - I have tried both), and I like the Interface of PowerPoint 2007 / 2010 over Impress (In fact, I am one of those crazy people who LOVES the ribbon).
However, the article said that both suites had poor support for the Microsoft xml formats, especially with .docx and pptx files. Can anyone confirm this? The industry as a whole has largely migrated to Office 2007 and many are upgrading to 2010 (we plan to start rolling out 2010 to our 30k+ users before the end of the year). If its true that OpenOffice and LibreOffice have poor support for Office 2007 and 2010 formats, that is going to be a MAJOR stumbling block against many people migrating. No company in their right mind is going to migrate if they are going to loose document-compatability with their clients.
[i]which kick in when our more recently evolved genes that keep them in check break down.[/i]
So..... Are they suggesting that a cure to cancer could be as simple as gene therapy? That is, simply replacing these genes that break down?
Since when did anyone confess by a burning bush? God spoke to Moses through the bush, never did Moses confess His sins through said bush.
I don't understand why Catholics think they have to confess to a person anyways. Forgiveness comes from God, through the blood of Jesus, and only He can dish out forgiveness of sin. Therefore, logic dictates that you should dictate your sins directly to God / Jesus.
I know that it is the first two paragraphs from the Yahoo story as well, but if you read into it, it sounds like this was a settlement outside of court. As such, that wouldn't be a court precidence.
- Or Scottish government, or UK government, or whatever they are, in the case of this story
While cool, its not all THAT uncommon. There are tons of these scattered around the US and other countries. Shoot, I know someone who owns one, and moved his electronics company there. Been in it a few times.
Problem is, these bunkers are usually out in the middle of nowhere, and not in the best of condition. Once you purchase from the US government, you have to fix it up (my friend had several water pumps to pump out where water leaked into it), then you have to pay a buttload to get halfway decent internet out there. If you are going to be running an ISP, you are probably going to be sinking twice the amount of the bunker, or more, into retrofitting and fiber lines to the nearest major city.
Most people who have these simply have them for the "whoa, cool" factor.