A lot of people here in Slashdot are programmers. Im surprised to see that amount of people who think Cisco would just sit on a problem for months. As a programmer, you probably know that everytime you change even 1 line of a code in a program, it still means much greater time in QA. I cant imagine what recurssion tests on Cisco's routers must be like, due to the complexity they now posesses. Just because the code is not suppose to change other functionality, doesnt mean you dont test it. I can easily see 1 week of code turning into 1 montht of QA at Cisco.
Talk about scape-goating. If its not web-surfing its playing minesweeper or solitaire. If its not those things, its doodling on a paper. The problem with reports like these is then PHB want to ban the interweb from the company, as if that will raise productivity, when the real problem is either inferior project management or unchallenging tasks.
I worked as the General Manager of UC Irvine's radio station, which interesting enough is considered a premier college radio station due to the ecclectic playlist.
College students make up a very small minority of our listeners. Gauging the average college student's music choices based on college radio station's playlists will give you a very, very incorrect assessment of the college music market. A better assessor would be CD/record sales at on-campus music stores, which undoubtly will match general population top 40.
Not trying to be flamebait, but aren't most of the new windows-based vulnerabiities through email attachments (and people who continually open/execute them?) or flaws in the IE browser? If this is a version of windows that is well patched, RPC and other extraneous services are disabled, uses a personal firewall, is it really going to be that vulnerable?
I know you posted to be humorous. But I can understand this topic very well. I dont believe I have an addictive personality, I dont smoke, overly drink, etc re: your typical vices, however I can easily dwindle away hours on end playing video games.
Luckily, the fact that I want to keep my wife, my job, maintain my house, eat, see friends, etc gets me off the couch and involved in other things. I beleive a lot of this stems from the pressure of dealing with real life. If you dont have a lot of self-confidence, its easier to sit by yourself and play video games rather than go outside and try to deal with real people.
I have never been a true engineer, although I am somewhat of a technologist. I now work as a Product Marketing manager of a technology company.
The most difficult aspect of my job is coming up with ways to describe how our technology creates value for our customers. The industry, and so many other companies, have killed so many words by overusing them for multiple purposes. The feature-list is dead, or at least of no use, because everyone has the same "features" or at least the same checkboxes, but its of course how those checkboxes are implemented that completely changes if a product is useful or not. My constant challenge is to describe our product in a way that is a) unique, b) accurate, and c) derives value.
When you look at product materials off the web or at a trade show - what are you looking for to dig beneath the marketing fluff and get to what is important?
I agree, a comprehensive approach on a number of fronts will work. Also, need to keep the user-experience intact - employees/home users alike just want to get on and get to what they need.
How many people are playing with network-based scan utilities like Nessus to find end-user client devices with vulnerabilities on their networks?
I blame customized corporate apps. Many companies build a customzied app for their business, then find it is not compatible with a newer version of Microsoft's OS. Rather than spend the time/$ to update their app to work with the new OS, its cheaper to not do anything and continue to use the old OS.
Achem, except that they are plugging their wireless access point into the University Network.
Sure, if students wanted to create a Local Wireless Network, that did not connect to the University's network in any form, perhaps the students could be protected by the FCC. But that is not what is happening.
This is just like an enterprise telling employees not to plugin wireless access points into the enterprise network. The IT dept cannot monitor, manage, and ensure security on a "rogue" access point. The University has deployed wireless access points - so its not like the students do not have that as a service.
I don't see the story here. Universities, enterprises, hospitals, etc are banning "rogue" APs to ensure the use of sanctioned, managed access points. Seems like logical sense to me.
I have seen a lot of half-truths in responses here.
PEAP is not an open standard. But there are Linux clients available for PEAP. Meetinghouse sells one, for example.
Cisco and Microsoft competed for different PEAP standards, while Funk Software competed with PEAP using a EAP-TTLS standard.
PEAP (protected EAP) is suppose to be the succecessor for LEAP (light EAP, which may explain why Cisco has not released any type of update for LEAP yet.
Also, Cisco is also releasing an EAP-FAST to help with secure hand-offs with their 7290 wifi phones.
All variants of EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol) were designed to create an encrypted authentication using the IEEE 802.1x standard./seth
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You may be just paranoid;) I have worked with Corp Tech, they have offices in Minneapolis and Fargo and are a value-added reseller of networking gear, etc. It is a legitimate company, and as stated on John Klein's website this is a project for one of the clients.
I absolutely agree that the curriculum needs to endorse and support the laptop program in order to be successfull. However - the expectation cannot be that teachers can do this overnight.
When we implemented a laptop program for graduate students in 1990 at UC Irvine's Graduate School of Management, it definitely took some time for faculty to understand how to best use the new technology for their curriculum. Obviously, some professors took to it faster than others, some may never take advantage of the fact their students have laptops. IMO it took a 3-5 years for the faculty to understand how to best utilize the laptop program for their curriculum.
The campus at Akron has over 1000 access points for full coverage in and outside of buildinds. I know of other universities around the US (Tulane, UofTenesee) that also easily have that many as well. As you start doing the site planning the numbers of APs can easily start to add up. The 1000 number for Case does not seem unrealistic to me.
There are two ways to solve any problem: time and money.
In this case, time is not available, therefore we go to money.
The client has made a request to make the project deadline. Fine, then the project jsut became more expensive.
No, the extra money isnt to pay you to work double-overtime. Its to increase your headcount.
Bring in more project workers, outsource to India, spend the money effeciently and wisely to increase the productivity to your firm to make the deadline.
Afterall, otherwise you have just told your client you are a small company and are only good for small projects, and when they need important and bigger projects they should go to someone else.
And, if you really are a small company and you cant take on the project - then you should walk away.
Otherwise, you are going to work like a maniac and you are going to turn in a shit project and the client will never work with you again anyway.
What if it was possible to use the extra-cost to energy as a tax write-off as a charitable donation?
Well, OK, given how everyone is now very suspicious of corp financials, at the very least you could use the work for PR. e.g. Company A uses spare computer resources to help fight cancer, etc etc.
Why is creating your own requirements/projects software a good idea? This to me does not make any sense.
1) Outside the team's core competency. Presumably the development team was picked in order to compliment each other in terms of the products or services of the company. (e.g. just because I know JAVA, doesnt mean Im familiar with SWING or I like doing socket networking)
2) Time and more importantly Focus. The team wants to work on the real project, not get all muddled up in trying to write from scratch software just to get the project started
3) Resource management. Sorry all you technologist here on Slashdot, but buying vrs building your own is a business decision, not a technological one. Is it worth it to me to spend X amount of dollars or Y amount of time. I would make the assumption, since the poster here wants an open source project to start, that money is a concern. Time is more costly than cash! Having my team of developers spend their time working on a software solution means that as a manager I am a) paying their salary during that time and b) delaying when I can get the real project started, getting that product/service to market, or using whatever effeciency that product/service was intended to give me.
When you bank on a wired network, do you use SSL? Why do you use SSL? Is it because otherwise someone could intercept your packet and get your banking info? Do you think, if you were using a wireless network, you would continue to use SSL? Do you think SSL would continue to protect your banking information from anyone who could intercept your packet?
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A lot of people here in Slashdot are programmers. Im surprised to see that amount of people who think Cisco would just sit on a problem for months. As a programmer, you probably know that everytime you change even 1 line of a code in a program, it still means much greater time in QA. I cant imagine what recurssion tests on Cisco's routers must be like, due to the complexity they now posesses. Just because the code is not suppose to change other functionality, doesnt mean you dont test it. I can easily see 1 week of code turning into 1 montht of QA at Cisco.
Talk about scape-goating. If its not web-surfing its playing minesweeper or solitaire. If its not those things, its doodling on a paper. The problem with reports like these is then PHB want to ban the interweb from the company, as if that will raise productivity, when the real problem is either inferior project management or unchallenging tasks.
I worked as the General Manager of UC Irvine's radio station, which interesting enough is considered a premier college radio station due to the ecclectic playlist.
College students make up a very small minority of our listeners. Gauging the average college student's music choices based on college radio station's playlists will give you a very, very incorrect assessment of the college music market. A better assessor would be CD/record sales at on-campus music stores, which undoubtly will match general population top 40.
Sure the technology will be there (vonage, skype with 802.11 phones)...
but the jitter as your packet is relayed via satellite back to firma terra will be enough to discourage most calls (i have to imagine).
Still... real-time data connectivity while in the air will greatly increase my productivity while flying.
Now United needs to offer power injectors at each economy plus seat
That is not in the realm of science fiction. Malaysian man's finger cut off so thieves can steal his car using fingerprint technology
Not trying to be flamebait, but aren't most of the new windows-based vulnerabiities through email attachments (and people who continually open/execute them?) or flaws in the IE browser? If this is a version of windows that is well patched, RPC and other extraneous services are disabled, uses a personal firewall, is it really going to be that vulnerable?
I know you posted to be humorous. But I can understand this topic very well. I dont believe I have an addictive personality, I dont smoke, overly drink, etc re: your typical vices, however I can easily dwindle away hours on end playing video games.
Luckily, the fact that I want to keep my wife, my job, maintain my house, eat, see friends, etc gets me off the couch and involved in other things. I beleive a lot of this stems from the pressure of dealing with real life. If you dont have a lot of self-confidence, its easier to sit by yourself and play video games rather than go outside and try to deal with real people.
I have never been a true engineer, although I am somewhat of a technologist. I now work as a Product Marketing manager of a technology company.
The most difficult aspect of my job is coming up with ways to describe how our technology creates value for our customers. The industry, and so many other companies, have killed so many words by overusing them for multiple purposes. The feature-list is dead, or at least of no use, because everyone has the same "features" or at least the same checkboxes, but its of course how those checkboxes are implemented that completely changes if a product is useful or not. My constant challenge is to describe our product in a way that is a) unique, b) accurate, and c) derives value.
When you look at product materials off the web or at a trade show - what are you looking for to dig beneath the marketing fluff and get to what is important?
I agree, a comprehensive approach on a number of fronts will work. Also, need to keep the user-experience intact - employees/home users alike just want to get on and get to what they need.
How many people are playing with network-based scan utilities like Nessus to find end-user client devices with vulnerabilities on their networks?
I blame customized corporate apps. Many companies build a customzied app for their business, then find it is not compatible with a newer version of Microsoft's OS. Rather than spend the time/$ to update their app to work with the new OS, its cheaper to not do anything and continue to use the old OS.
Achem, except that they are plugging their wireless access point into the University Network.
Sure, if students wanted to create a Local Wireless Network, that did not connect to the University's network in any form, perhaps the students could be protected by the FCC. But that is not what is happening.
This is just like an enterprise telling employees not to plugin wireless access points into the enterprise network. The IT dept cannot monitor, manage, and ensure security on a "rogue" access point. The University has deployed wireless access points - so its not like the students do not have that as a service.
I don't see the story here. Universities, enterprises, hospitals, etc are banning "rogue" APs to ensure the use of sanctioned, managed access points. Seems like logical sense to me.
Hello? Have you installed MIRC lately? IRC is not at all hard to connect to and use.
I have seen a lot of half-truths in responses here.
PEAP is not an open standard. But there are Linux clients available for PEAP. Meetinghouse sells one, for example.
Cisco and Microsoft competed for different PEAP standards, while Funk Software competed with PEAP using a EAP-TTLS standard.
PEAP (protected EAP) is suppose to be the succecessor for LEAP (light EAP, which may explain why Cisco has not released any type of update for LEAP yet.
Also, Cisco is also releasing an EAP-FAST to help with secure hand-offs with their 7290 wifi phones.
All variants of EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol) were designed to create an encrypted authentication using the IEEE 802.1x standard.
My ultrastore 14f SCSI card still is the I/O card for my CD burner. GO Ultrastore!
You may be just paranoid ;) I have worked with Corp Tech, they have offices in Minneapolis and Fargo and are a value-added reseller of networking gear, etc. It is a legitimate company, and as stated on John Klein's website this is a project for one of the clients.
I absolutely agree that the curriculum needs to endorse and support the laptop program in order to be successfull. However - the expectation cannot be that teachers can do this overnight.
When we implemented a laptop program for graduate students in 1990 at UC Irvine's Graduate School of Management, it definitely took some time for faculty to understand how to best use the new technology for their curriculum. Obviously, some professors took to it faster than others, some may never take advantage of the fact their students have laptops. IMO it took a 3-5 years for the faculty to understand how to best utilize the laptop program for their curriculum.
The campus at Akron has over 1000 access points for full coverage in and outside of buildinds. I know of other universities around the US (Tulane, UofTenesee) that also easily have that many as well. As you start doing the site planning the numbers of APs can easily start to add up. The 1000 number for Case does not seem unrealistic to me.
There are two ways to solve any problem: time and money.
In this case, time is not available, therefore we go to money.
The client has made a request to make the project deadline. Fine, then the project jsut became more expensive.
No, the extra money isnt to pay you to work double-overtime. Its to increase your headcount.
Bring in more project workers, outsource to India, spend the money effeciently and wisely to increase the productivity to your firm to make the deadline.
Afterall, otherwise you have just told your client you are a small company and are only good for small projects, and when they need important and bigger projects they should go to someone else.
And, if you really are a small company and you cant take on the project - then you should walk away.
Otherwise, you are going to work like a maniac and you are going to turn in a shit project and the client will never work with you again anyway.
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No linux support? Just like there is no linux support for 802.3, right?
What if it was possible to use the extra-cost to energy as a tax write-off as a charitable donation?
Well, OK, given how everyone is now very suspicious of corp financials, at the very least you could use the work for PR. e.g. Company A uses spare computer resources to help fight cancer, etc etc.
Why is creating your own requirements/projects software a good idea? This to me does not make any sense.
1) Outside the team's core competency. Presumably the development team was picked in order to compliment each other in terms of the products or services of the company. (e.g. just because I know JAVA, doesnt mean Im familiar with SWING or I like doing socket networking)
2) Time and more importantly Focus. The team wants to work on the real project, not get all muddled up in trying to write from scratch software just to get the project started
3) Resource management. Sorry all you technologist here on Slashdot, but buying vrs building your own is a business decision, not a technological one. Is it worth it to me to spend X amount of dollars or Y amount of time. I would make the assumption, since the poster here wants an open source project to start, that money is a concern. Time is more costly than cash! Having my team of developers spend their time working on a software solution means that as a manager I am a) paying their salary during that time and b) delaying when I can get the real project started, getting that product/service to market, or using whatever effeciency that product/service was intended to give me.
Come'on, it sparks some humorous creativity
CU Boulder has been wireless with 802.11b for over 4 years now. Security by MAC filters.
When you bank on a wired network, do you use SSL? Why do you use SSL? Is it because otherwise someone could intercept your packet and get your banking info? Do you think, if you were using a wireless network, you would continue to use SSL? Do you think SSL would continue to protect your banking information from anyone who could intercept your packet?
Ok, thought so.
Stop believing the wireless 'non'security hype!