I think it will be hard to sell a technology that shows up as a blue lego brick on the simpleton device of choice... and then there is the (in)security of Flash... but it's still to be determined how that plays out in HTML5 with their device access and local storage...
Believe it or not, I use Microsoft Security Essentials - I figured since most antiviruses are useless at detecting new threats anyways (bad guys can access the same antiviruses and make sure that they don't catch their new malware), I'm better off letting the guys who created my operating system, protect it. I've used Avast! and COMODO in the past and they were all good, but MSE has a very low footprint, updates well, and I'm pretty sure will be the first to protect against zero day vulnerabilities that Microsoft discovers... Next, I will try Panda Cloud AV.
"Coders are like writers", haha, yeah right. Why don't you "writers" use some of that inspiration of yours to comment your code when you do spend 20 minutes of your day, between eating bagels and drinking coffee, to actually write a few lines of exploit-infested, non-sanitized-SQL-input-riddled "code"... so that us IT guys don't have to spend 3 days digging through your scribbles, trying to find that memory leak or unchecked loop that's hanging that particular w3wp.exe process on a server shared by 120 of you guys, all blaming IT for it while chatting in the hallway with each-other. Thanks.
In all honesty, with the quality of free coffee one would find in IT departments, I'd rather have no free coffee - I'm always buying or bringing my own coffee anyways.
On the other hand - no free coffee means lower productivity. No really, it does. Ask Wally.
Patches? What patches? In order to release the patch you would actually have to have the developers to write it and since EA shut down Pandemic studios and fired its 200 employees shortly before they released the game... well you can draw the conclusions on whether there will be any patches any time soon.
Basically if you want to enjoy being an IT worker (especially as an intern or a new employee, for a few 3-5 years), leave your dreams of high pay and recognition for your efforts behind. Nobody needs IT when things work, and the only reason things break is because IT was touching them. You-know-what always flows downhill, so just do your best at ignoring it and just enjoy doing what you like doing best. I suggest finding time to work on some proccess or system improvement in your idle time (implement a Nagios monitoring system or a splunk syslog server) - to have something work related and personally rewarding to turn to in times when "the web server is down" situation gets you down again.
It doesn't have to be running water - although it would definitely be cheaper to just pick up cold water from the pipeline and dump the hot water into the drain, chances are - systems like that will operate on a closed loop, which would mean virtually one-time costs of obtaining water. However I am a lot more inclined to believe that data centers will become external-air cooled, with which Intel is experimenting right now, rather than liquid-cooled... especially in colder climates.
In all honesty, this being a cool concept and all, it would not work in the real world because a) it cannot be retrofitted to existing systems and b) it requires the use of proprietory, unknown hardware. How many large companies are going to switch from tried and trusted server providers (like HP, IBM, Dell and as of late Cisco) in favor of something that, well, looks nifty. Their only shot at this not becoming vaporware is to try and sell the technology to a major server manufacturer, and even then I doubt it will work - imagine all the effort it would require to retrofit your existing data center for liquid cooling... liquids and server rooms don't go well together.
There are numerous free programs out there that allow you to encrypt your online activities by using VPN. I've been using Hotspot Shield and Tor. Give those a try, hopefully they are not blocked by your college's IT infrastructure. Also, use OpenDNS - this will bypass simple DNS filtering and protect you against worms such as Conficker.
I think the bigger contradiction here is that a "netbook" OS is going to eat up some of the "PC" OS market share.
Only difference between "Netbook" OS and a PC OS is features and resource requirements. When Google search engine first emerged, one could be skeptical how their simple "search box" is going to compete with such established Internet portals as Yahoo and Altavista that have been doing it for 3 years then... Google's baby step into mobile OS world is already giving Microsoft a run for its money and has definitely surpassed other "smartphone" operating systems... It's not hard to draw parallels to see where this "Netbook OS" you refer to so dismissively is going to be taken by Google in a couple of years.
Unless you're willing to spend hundreds/thousands of dollars you're better off if you come up with a new name for your business. Use the Web 2.0 domain name generator, you get great suggestions like Leendo and Twivee.
Let's be honest here, if open source products weren't free - enterprises would have no interest in them. If cost/resources were involved, enterprises would just buy a commercial product with all the support that comes with it. If anything - open source community is getting a great userbase, with brand recognition and bug reporting that comes with it when their products get noticed and picked up by enterprise IT. Force them to pay, and you will end up with a handfull of home users trying out your products when they're bored, resulting in them just taking up space on the web until they die off due to the lack of interest. If anything - enterprise users are keeping opens source projects alive, take a look at Nagios for example...
Really, how is this a story? This should be tagged "duh", it has been repeated and restated so many times. Yes it's not going away, yes the enterprises love it - get over this already, please. How about we start writing about possible ways of making the transition easier, instead of continuing to carry the same whining torch around? Thank you.
You know what I don't get? Why is Microsoft being slapped with all sorts of antitrust lawsuits for IE, but Apple that not only "bundles" Safari with every system they sell but also has little support for competition, is in the clear? Someone sue them!
I have tried the keystroke dynamics authentication systems for example, and my personal opinion is that they don't work. In my opinion, if one human can implement a solution - another human will be able to implement a bot to bypass it. The only way you will be able to defeat bots is to create something that constantly permutates and advances, making development of bots that can defeat it in its current form if not impossible, then at least inefficient. Anything more permanent, will eventually be defeated as we can see on example of CAPTCHA, DVD and BluRay (the latter actually might have something going for it).
I can confirm first-hand that old Cat5 wiring over about 100 feet long (even though it is certified for over 300 feet) will not carry 1Gbps signal, even if you use a powered switch to "boost" signal on the other end. Last time I tried that, I saw a signal degradation so bad that the connection speed was more like dial-up than full duplex 1Gbps. Even though it might work all right for 100 Mbps connections, they are virtually unacceptable by the enterprise userbase now. The tolerance for latency is very low nowadays.
Be VERY careful running it on your network, this is from the NMAP smb-check-vulns.nse script description:
WARNING: These checks are dangerous, and are very likely to bring down a server. These should not be run in a production environment unless you (and, more importantly, the business) understand the risks!
As a system administrator, performing these kinds of checks is crucial, because a lot more damage can be done by a worm or a hacker using this vulnerability than by a scanner. Penetration testers, on the other hand, might not want to use this script -- crashing services is not generally a good way of sneaking through a network.
If you set the script parameter 'unsafe', then scripts will run that are almost (or totally) guaranteed to crash a vulnerable system; do NOT specify unsafe in a production environment! And that isn't to say that non-unsafe scripts will not crash a system, they're just less likely to.
MS08-067 -- Checks if a host is vulnerable to MS08-067, a Windows RPC vulnerability that can allow remote code execution. Checking for MS08-067 is very dangerous, as the check is likely to crash systems. On a fairly wide scan conducted by Brandon Enright, we determined that on average, a vulnerable system is more likely to crash than to survive the check. Out of 82 vulnerable systems, 52 crashed.
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I think it will be hard to sell a technology that shows up as a blue lego brick on the simpleton device of choice... and then there is the (in)security of Flash... but it's still to be determined how that plays out in HTML5 with their device access and local storage...
Believe it or not, I use Microsoft Security Essentials - I figured since most antiviruses are useless at detecting new threats anyways (bad guys can access the same antiviruses and make sure that they don't catch their new malware), I'm better off letting the guys who created my operating system, protect it. I've used Avast! and COMODO in the past and they were all good, but MSE has a very low footprint, updates well, and I'm pretty sure will be the first to protect against zero day vulnerabilities that Microsoft discovers... Next, I will try Panda Cloud AV.
"Coders are like writers", haha, yeah right. Why don't you "writers" use some of that inspiration of yours to comment your code when you do spend 20 minutes of your day, between eating bagels and drinking coffee, to actually write a few lines of exploit-infested, non-sanitized-SQL-input-riddled "code"... so that us IT guys don't have to spend 3 days digging through your scribbles, trying to find that memory leak or unchecked loop that's hanging that particular w3wp.exe process on a server shared by 120 of you guys, all blaming IT for it while chatting in the hallway with each-other. Thanks.
In all honesty, with the quality of free coffee one would find in IT departments, I'd rather have no free coffee - I'm always buying or bringing my own coffee anyways. On the other hand - no free coffee means lower productivity. No really, it does. Ask Wally.
You have 30 people in IT staff for a company of 500 people?! You lucky bastard!
Patches? What patches? In order to release the patch you would actually have to have the developers to write it and since EA shut down Pandemic studios and fired its 200 employees shortly before they released the game... well you can draw the conclusions on whether there will be any patches any time soon.
Basically if you want to enjoy being an IT worker (especially as an intern or a new employee, for a few 3-5 years), leave your dreams of high pay and recognition for your efforts behind. Nobody needs IT when things work, and the only reason things break is because IT was touching them. You-know-what always flows downhill, so just do your best at ignoring it and just enjoy doing what you like doing best. I suggest finding time to work on some proccess or system improvement in your idle time (implement a Nagios monitoring system or a splunk syslog server) - to have something work related and personally rewarding to turn to in times when "the web server is down" situation gets you down again.
It doesn't have to be running water - although it would definitely be cheaper to just pick up cold water from the pipeline and dump the hot water into the drain, chances are - systems like that will operate on a closed loop, which would mean virtually one-time costs of obtaining water. However I am a lot more inclined to believe that data centers will become external-air cooled, with which Intel is experimenting right now, rather than liquid-cooled... especially in colder climates.
In all honesty, this being a cool concept and all, it would not work in the real world because a) it cannot be retrofitted to existing systems and b) it requires the use of proprietory, unknown hardware. How many large companies are going to switch from tried and trusted server providers (like HP, IBM, Dell and as of late Cisco) in favor of something that, well, looks nifty. Their only shot at this not becoming vaporware is to try and sell the technology to a major server manufacturer, and even then I doubt it will work - imagine all the effort it would require to retrofit your existing data center for liquid cooling... liquids and server rooms don't go well together.
There are numerous free programs out there that allow you to encrypt your online activities by using VPN. I've been using Hotspot Shield and Tor. Give those a try, hopefully they are not blocked by your college's IT infrastructure. Also, use OpenDNS - this will bypass simple DNS filtering and protect you against worms such as Conficker.
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I think the bigger contradiction here is that a "netbook" OS is going to eat up some of the "PC" OS market share.
Only difference between "Netbook" OS and a PC OS is features and resource requirements. When Google search engine first emerged, one could be skeptical how their simple "search box" is going to compete with such established Internet portals as Yahoo and Altavista that have been doing it for 3 years then... Google's baby step into mobile OS world is already giving Microsoft a run for its money and has definitely surpassed other "smartphone" operating systems... It's not hard to draw parallels to see where this "Netbook OS" you refer to so dismissively is going to be taken by Google in a couple of years.
Unless you're willing to spend hundreds/thousands of dollars you're better off if you come up with a new name for your business. Use the Web 2.0 domain name generator, you get great suggestions like Leendo and Twivee.
I'm sure you can arrange your "therapy" cheaper than Mark, even more so if you go to Taiwan.
Let's be honest here, if open source products weren't free - enterprises would have no interest in them. If cost/resources were involved, enterprises would just buy a commercial product with all the support that comes with it. If anything - open source community is getting a great userbase, with brand recognition and bug reporting that comes with it when their products get noticed and picked up by enterprise IT. Force them to pay, and you will end up with a handfull of home users trying out your products when they're bored, resulting in them just taking up space on the web until they die off due to the lack of interest. If anything - enterprise users are keeping opens source projects alive, take a look at Nagios for example...
Really, how is this a story? This should be tagged "duh", it has been repeated and restated so many times. Yes it's not going away, yes the enterprises love it - get over this already, please. How about we start writing about possible ways of making the transition easier, instead of continuing to carry the same whining torch around? Thank you.
Still, it's an ATI... I'll just wait a couple days for nVidia to come out with a better card.
You know what I don't get? Why is Microsoft being slapped with all sorts of antitrust lawsuits for IE, but Apple that not only "bundles" Safari with every system they sell but also has little support for competition, is in the clear? Someone sue them!
It's simple. Take a poll. How many of you are using wireless vs wired RIGHT NOW, to read this article? That's what I thought.
Who cares about eBay and MySpace... tell me about the major players! What is Google running?
I have tried the keystroke dynamics authentication systems for example, and my personal opinion is that they don't work. In my opinion, if one human can implement a solution - another human will be able to implement a bot to bypass it. The only way you will be able to defeat bots is to create something that constantly permutates and advances, making development of bots that can defeat it in its current form if not impossible, then at least inefficient. Anything more permanent, will eventually be defeated as we can see on example of CAPTCHA, DVD and BluRay (the latter actually might have something going for it).
I can confirm first-hand that old Cat5 wiring over about 100 feet long (even though it is certified for over 300 feet) will not carry 1Gbps signal, even if you use a powered switch to "boost" signal on the other end. Last time I tried that, I saw a signal degradation so bad that the connection speed was more like dial-up than full duplex 1Gbps. Even though it might work all right for 100 Mbps connections, they are virtually unacceptable by the enterprise userbase now. The tolerance for latency is very low nowadays.
This is not a hoax, this is real you guys... I'm cereal!
This is less believable than Google's internet-over-toilet April Fools joke... I want 5 minutes of my life back please.
WARNING: These checks are dangerous, and are very likely to bring down a server. These should not be run in a production environment unless you (and, more importantly, the business) understand the risks!
As a system administrator, performing these kinds of checks is crucial, because a lot more damage can be done by a worm or a hacker using this vulnerability than by a scanner. Penetration testers, on the other hand, might not want to use this script -- crashing services is not generally a good way of sneaking through a network.
If you set the script parameter 'unsafe', then scripts will run that are almost (or totally) guaranteed to crash a vulnerable system; do NOT specify unsafe in a production environment! And that isn't to say that non-unsafe scripts will not crash a system, they're just less likely to.
MS08-067 -- Checks if a host is vulnerable to MS08-067, a Windows RPC vulnerability that can allow remote code execution. Checking for MS08-067 is very dangerous, as the check is likely to crash systems. On a fairly wide scan conducted by Brandon Enright, we determined that on average, a vulnerable system is more likely to crash than to survive the check. Out of 82 vulnerable systems, 52 crashed.