Sort the drivers and the rest will come. It's great for server stuff ( and for many others ), but the driver shortage is still noticeable.
The features are there, and there's no reason why kit can't be used with, say, Ubuntu ( my preferred flavour along with Damn Small Linux ). But without those drivers you're in trouble. A reliability factor windows still has a-plenty. Tip that balance and stuff will start to happen as it rightly should. Linux is a pleasure to work with in so many other ways, but if your off the shelf printer or scanner won't have it Joe Public will not look.
Now I'm pretty sure you yanks ( sorry, limey over here;) ) have thought of an intranet and keeping the interface between it and the internet as small as possible. Add to that selective levels of network to control data flow even more. Here's the thing.
If you go target a Chinese node and take it down, that could be construed as an act of war. If it's just cyber us non-combatants get to sit around and wonder why You Tube is running a bit slow, but if it escalates we have a real problem. So a good offensive is not the best defence. Sitting behind a defence so good no offence can get in is the best defence. Then you keep logs and simply ask china why these IP's in their patch are doing naughty things. Nothing like a decent papertrail and all that.
As a qualified electrician the best bet is simply to not be connected. No connection, no signal get's through. And no chance of server failure leaving you with your pants down ( english definition ). Problem is how do those pesky emails get to where they need to be? Manual transfer. KVM switches to jump between desktops, and a flash drive on a key to transfer the data manually. No direct connection and the data still get's to the right inbox in the end.
Simple eh? The problem is when you have a network with multiple firewalls. Sure it's multi-layered ( and let's face it discs in the post are not the best of plans ) but it can still be hacked. With manual transfer of data the two machines on their separate networks can be sat next to each other, with one monitor, keyboard, and mouse. How easy is that. Use a decent size flash drive and warn staff there will be delays in mails getting to destination. Do a transfer every half hour by copy and paste. You could even auto-create an archive to shift stuff over as one file. Get it built into the mail servers by some aspiring geek.
Just a thought, but if they can't get in they can't get in. And then you are the one being provoked, not the provoker.
By the way I'm not good enough to build this, but an electricians best friend is a plug you can simply pull out.
Greetings form Blighty:)
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Sort the drivers and the rest will come. It's great for server stuff ( and for many others ), but the driver shortage is still noticeable. The features are there, and there's no reason why kit can't be used with, say, Ubuntu ( my preferred flavour along with Damn Small Linux ). But without those drivers you're in trouble. A reliability factor windows still has a-plenty. Tip that balance and stuff will start to happen as it rightly should. Linux is a pleasure to work with in so many other ways, but if your off the shelf printer or scanner won't have it Joe Public will not look.
Now I'm pretty sure you yanks ( sorry, limey over here ;) ) have thought of an intranet and keeping the interface between it and the internet as small as possible. Add to that selective levels of network to control data flow even more. Here's the thing.
If you go target a Chinese node and take it down, that could be construed as an act of war. If it's just cyber us non-combatants get to sit around and wonder why You Tube is running a bit slow, but if it escalates we have a real problem. So a good offensive is not the best defence. Sitting behind a defence so good no offence can get in is the best defence. Then you keep logs and simply ask china why these IP's in their patch are doing naughty things. Nothing like a decent papertrail and all that.
As a qualified electrician the best bet is simply to not be connected. No connection, no signal get's through. And no chance of server failure leaving you with your pants down ( english definition ). Problem is how do those pesky emails get to where they need to be? Manual transfer. KVM switches to jump between desktops, and a flash drive on a key to transfer the data manually. No direct connection and the data still get's to the right inbox in the end.
Simple eh? The problem is when you have a network with multiple firewalls. Sure it's multi-layered ( and let's face it discs in the post are not the best of plans ) but it can still be hacked. With manual transfer of data the two machines on their separate networks can be sat next to each other, with one monitor, keyboard, and mouse. How easy is that. Use a decent size flash drive and warn staff there will be delays in mails getting to destination. Do a transfer every half hour by copy and paste. You could even auto-create an archive to shift stuff over as one file. Get it built into the mail servers by some aspiring geek.
Just a thought, but if they can't get in they can't get in. And then you are the one being provoked, not the provoker.
By the way I'm not good enough to build this, but an electricians best friend is a plug you can simply pull out.
Greetings form Blighty :)