On the other hand, maybe your company wants to deploy proximity ID badges in 14 offices in 10 countries, and you want to know who makes systems that are compatible/compliant/etc across all of them. Unless you make/sell badge readers as your primary business, you probably don't know much about them. If you were securing one office with one door, maybe you wouldn't care and would just pick a random vendor with a cheap price. However, even a high-level overview of the field could save you a lot of money, and trying to figure out what info online is good/bad would probably be tough.
This is exactly the value add of Gartner. Besides their vendor ratings, hype cycles, magic quadrants, they provide a large knowledge base of best practices, studies. methodologies et cetera. Sure, Google and friends can provide tons of links, but using Gartner for specific types of queries can be more efficient.
You'll have to get used to the interface (ctrl + R is your friend for updating the relationships) and the export functions are a bit different, but I used it for a project last month, and I didnt miss MS project.
This is the same situation as in Holland. The new Dutch passport also contains RFID technology and security experts cracked the system even before it was released. See this article.
Weak encryption keys are the part of the problem.
Anyway, this project cost some millions euros, and solves nothing. It only creates new problems making identity theft much easier to accomplice.
From their website:
"SightSpeed, Inc. is the leading provider of free and premium Internet video and voice communications services (VVoIP and VoIP). The SightSpeed community and software enable consumers and small businesses to make the best quality video and voice calls and to send video mail over the Internet. SightSpeed's award winning service turns a PC or Mac into an easy-to-use video phone to communicate with friends, family and colleagues around the world."
The Dutch version of Grouphug is named Vergeefmij. It has almost the same concept as Grouphug: visitors can post confessions anonymously. However on Vergeefmij it's also possible for other visitors to leave comments on those confessions. Since a short while it also offers a forum, where one has to register first to publish topics. For people who really need to post anonymous should use their confession form. Vergeefmij also offers a secure SSL form to enter confessions.
Confessions, and comments, are first moderated by the Vergeefmij staff before being published. The site is doing well for over two years now, I've been a vivid reader of it since it came online. I think there's a trend. For instance there are a lot of teens dealing with self mutilation and anorexia, posting their thoughts online using the confession form. On other forums they won't dare to posts them, because of the need to register with an email account first. Vergeefmij supplies a solution for people who are in need to posts their thoughts quick, without any hazzle and offering online counseling. When people allow other people to comment on their confessions, which is an option on the webform, discussions can be hard and fierce but most of the time people really try to support eachother.
As you already use the Drupal CMS you probably don't want to switch to another CMS. However if you do, you may want to take a look at these other options:
Both are open source packages, and both are very feature rich. I also believe both offer some form of work flow management. I'm not sure because during my evaluation I noticed both packages had too many features for my use. I ended up using Drupal.
I just started to play with Drupal too, and I think it's a very nice solution for the problem mentioned. I really like the extra modules like forum, private messaging, galleries, uploads etc. etc. good stuff.
Every one who hasn't read Orwell's 1984, please do so now. Still is scary. Such a database is just an accident in the waiting. I would like to run some queries on the beast.
My point:
There are other ways to keep out illegal workers. The problems aren't the workers, the employers are. Those business keep hiring illegal immigrants. Driven by low salaries. And higher profits. And the consumers have to realise low prices in the shops, mean low salaries for the people making those products.
Start with pulling back the 6000 national guards from the mexican borders and let them just check on the workfloor. See who has legal documents and who hasn't. I don't buy it when he says it's hard to spot a fake id. Then give the employers ridiculous high fines. I know places where it can cost an employer up to 5000 euros for one illegal worker.
'He also notes that the addslashes function was deprecated in PHP 4.0 due to security risks, but a "distressing" number of PHP applications continue to use the function.'
How come the php documentation doesn't mention this?
I've had a lot of trouble managing 100 workstations from the KAV management interface. Maybe it was something I did wrong, something in my pc images, or something else, but be sure to have a good relationship with their support desk.
"In short, a server with ENUM support will lookup a dialled telephone number in DNS to see if there's alternate ways to set up the call instead of just calling out on the PSTN telephone line. ENUM may contain a reference to a SIP URL, a telephone number to dial, a web page or an e-mail address. "
hi, everone already has given their opinion about openvpn. so here's mine:
i've run an openvpn solution between corporate LAN and datacenter, and it worked okay but i'll take a look at some dedicated hardware box for the next implementation. maybe netscreen or so.
why?
Well first off, when one doesnt yet have a linux router/fw available one has to buy that. this'll probably cost as much as a cheap netscreen box.
second, when running openvpn on a nondedicated box openvpn has to fight over resources with other services on that box. with a netscreen box this is not a problem.
Anyone who is looking for a PHP port of Ruby on Rails has to take a look at Symfony.
Based on the best practices of web development, thoroughly tried on several active websites, symfony aims to speed up the creation and maintenance of web applications, and to replace the repetitive coding tasks by power, control and pleasure.
If you have been looking for a Rails/Django-like framework for PHP projects with features such as:
* simple templating and helpers
* cache management
* multiple environments support
* deployment management
* scaffolding
* smart URLs
* multilingual and I18N support
* object model and MVC separation
* Ajax support
It's all about double standards. The US runs double agents in Russia too. So it's okay for the us the have double agents, but are shocked when russia does the same thing?
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On the other hand, maybe your company wants to deploy proximity ID badges in 14 offices in 10 countries, and you want to know who makes systems that are compatible/compliant/etc across all of them. Unless you make/sell badge readers as your primary business, you probably don't know much about them. If you were securing one office with one door, maybe you wouldn't care and would just pick a random vendor with a cheap price. However, even a high-level overview of the field could save you a lot of money, and trying to figure out what info online is good/bad would probably be tough.
This is exactly the value add of Gartner. Besides their vendor ratings, hype cycles, magic quadrants, they provide a large knowledge base of best practices, studies. methodologies et cetera. Sure, Google and friends can provide tons of links, but using Gartner for specific types of queries can be more efficient.
Take a lookt at http://ganttproject.biz/
You'll have to get used to the interface (ctrl + R is your friend for updating the relationships) and the export functions are a bit different, but I used it for a project last month, and I didnt miss MS project.
The site looks good, and I like the idea.
Does anybody know what software package Brainstorm is running on? Is this an open source software itself?
This is the same situation as in Holland. The new Dutch passport also contains RFID technology and security experts cracked the system even before it was released. See this article.
Weak encryption keys are the part of the problem.
Anyway, this project cost some millions euros, and solves nothing. It only creates new problems making identity theft much easier to accomplice.
Take a look at Sightspeed.
From their website: "SightSpeed, Inc. is the leading provider of free and premium Internet video and voice communications services (VVoIP and VoIP). The SightSpeed community and software enable consumers and small businesses to make the best quality video and voice calls and to send video mail over the Internet. SightSpeed's award winning service turns a PC or Mac into an easy-to-use video phone to communicate with friends, family and colleagues around the world."
I know Linux Questions just started out with an job market place.
BTW: I haven't used it myself.
The Dutch version of Grouphug is named Vergeefmij.
It has almost the same concept as Grouphug: visitors can post confessions anonymously. However on Vergeefmij it's also possible for other visitors to leave comments on those confessions. Since a short while it also offers a forum, where one has to register first to publish topics. For people who really need to post anonymous should use their confession form. Vergeefmij also offers a secure SSL form to enter confessions.
Confessions, and comments, are first moderated by the Vergeefmij staff before being published. The site is doing well for over two years now, I've been a vivid reader of it since it came online. I think there's a trend. For instance there are a lot of teens dealing with self mutilation and anorexia, posting their thoughts online using the confession form. On other forums they won't dare to posts them, because of the need to register with an email account first. Vergeefmij supplies a solution for people who are in need to posts their thoughts quick, without any hazzle and offering online counseling. When people allow other people to comment on their confessions, which is an option on the webform, discussions can be hard and fierce but most of the time people really try to support eachother.
Btw Vergeefmij means 'Forgive Me' in Dutch.
As you already use the Drupal CMS you probably don't want to switch to another CMS. However if you do, you may want to take a look at these other options:
* http://www.mmbase.org/
* http://typo3.com/
Both are open source packages, and both are very feature rich. I also believe both offer some form of work flow management.
I'm not sure because during my evaluation I noticed both packages had too many features for my use. I ended up using Drupal.
I just started to play with Drupal too, and I think it's a very nice solution for the problem mentioned. I really like the extra modules like forum, private messaging, galleries, uploads etc. etc. good stuff.
Every one who hasn't read Orwell's 1984, please do so now. Still is scary. Such a database is just an accident in the waiting. I would like to run some queries on the beast.
My point:
There are other ways to keep out illegal workers. The problems aren't the workers, the employers are. Those business keep hiring illegal immigrants. Driven by low salaries. And higher profits. And the consumers have to realise low prices in the shops, mean low salaries for the people making those products.
Start with pulling back the 6000 national guards from the mexican borders and let them just check on the workfloor. See who has legal documents and who hasn't. I don't buy it when he says it's hard to spot a fake id. Then give the employers ridiculous high fines. I know places where it can cost an employer up to 5000 euros for one illegal worker.
The company I used to work for, a top 10 Dutch e-commerce business, used Onestat. The marketing managers went crazy over it. They liked it a lot.
On the downside: it was expensive and sometimes the backend was very slow.
On the upside: it was possible to measure the visitors on a very low as wel all high level.
'He also notes that the addslashes function was deprecated in PHP 4.0 due to security risks, but a "distressing" number of PHP applications continue to use the function.'
How come the php documentation doesn't mention this?
I've had a lot of trouble managing 100 workstations from the KAV management interface.
Maybe it was something I did wrong, something in my pc images, or something else, but be sure to have a good relationship with their support desk.
That system is not called ENID , but ENUM.
"In short, a server with ENUM support will lookup a dialled telephone number in DNS to see if there's alternate ways to set up the call instead of just calling out on the PSTN telephone line. ENUM may contain a reference to a SIP URL, a telephone number to dial, a web page or an e-mail address. "
see also http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/13/17 16227
hi, everone already has given their opinion about openvpn. so here's mine:
i've run an openvpn solution between corporate LAN and datacenter, and it worked okay but i'll take a look at some dedicated hardware box for the next implementation. maybe netscreen or so.
why?
Well first off, when one doesnt yet have a linux router/fw available one has to buy that. this'll probably cost as much as a cheap netscreen box.
second, when running openvpn on a nondedicated box openvpn has to fight over resources with other services on that box. with a netscreen box this is not a problem.
nice job! very funny stuff.
Do you also use SMP? How does it perform?
OT: Who's running OpenBSD on Dell poweredge servers?
Take a look at http://otrs.org/.
It even has autoresponders and a webinterface for customers.
Integrates with procmail or POP3 accounts.
Anyone who is looking for a PHP port of Ruby on Rails has to take a look at Symfony.
Based on the best practices of web development, thoroughly tried on several active websites, symfony aims to speed up the creation and maintenance of web applications, and to replace the repetitive coding tasks by power, control and pleasure.
If you have been looking for a Rails/Django-like framework for PHP projects with features such as:
* simple templating and helpers
* cache management
* multiple environments support
* deployment management
* scaffolding
* smart URLs
* multilingual and I18N support
* object model and MVC separation
* Ajax support
In holland C&W used to own widexs hosting. They sold it to ion-ip hosting company. ion-ip is running most / or all of c & w hosting services.
the article talks about the XM29.
Wasn't that one called: return to the eagle's nest or something? My favorite C64 game.
It's all about double standards. The US runs double agents in Russia too. So it's okay for the us the have double agents, but are shocked when russia does the same thing?