If this were to be manufactured industrially, mounting the projectors inside a sound insulated and cooled enclosure is not a problem. Microsoft already did it with one projector in Surface. Two projectors in a far larger enclosure should not be a major challenge.
Management do not want big changes. They want quick wins. Find somewhere that can show savings fast. If you find several, keep some for next years savings. And sometimes management lose attention to the issue, so talking is enough. Then you can use the same savings next year. Especially if management change. Hell, we presented decommissioning the same server 3 times to various management. Happy managers all the way!
And whatever you du: Do NOT propose anything that require more work. You will not get more staff. You will not get more time to do it. In the end you will be the one paying for the savings.
This comes from the same CPU time that the rest of your computer takes CPU time from. Like the virusscanner. And the job this software needs to do is a lot simpler than an antivirus software. While an antivirus software has to look for millions of patterns, the software in question only needs to look at a handful of structures. Very simple. Also, the scan can be scheduled to run when the good professor is not pounding the keys (lunch break, cofee break, chatting to students, giving a lecture - lots of opportunities).
No need to make up problems. There are enough real problems in this world to keep us all busy.
Why on earth do the scanning on a server? Just deploy the software to the clients and let it run there. Then collect the status: In compliance/not in compliance. Like, is your virus scanning software uploading data to a server for scanning? I thought not.
Considering that Surface OS is based on Vista (or probably 7 by now), don't you think that there may be just a few more applications available by the time this (still vaporware) is launched? There are rumors that Microsoft has created both web browsers, email tools and office software in the past. Who knows. Maybe they can do it again!
The thing that struck me most about the posting was that the sysadmin who got access to the private email actually told others about private stuff he found there. This is extremely unprofessional, bordering on reason to fire the idiot. I have worked many years as a sysadmin and the first rule is: What you see as part of your job as a sysadmin, you should not talk about. That goes for company information as well as private information you get access to. To me, this is an absolute. If you cannot trust your sysadmin to keep his mouth shut, fire him.
I support this. I work in the Oil exploration industry, and more or less the entire industry is moving to Windows 7 (64 bit) as we speak. I am actually a pilot user at our company, and mass deployment is planned for the end of the year.
People may have various preferences, but for the majority of the real world, there seems to be one path now: Windows 7.
Also for an educational institution, is it not better to be ahead of the future employers, instead of being behind?
When I was involved in a tender for MFCs five years ago, this was one of the issues raised... by the vendors. Some claimed they were the only ones that had it, but they were wrong. All the major ones had it. At that time they offered both encryption of all userdata on the local hard drive, and also automatic overwriting of all user data after it was printed. At the time these were options that one needed to pay extra for, but for anybody concerned with privacy issues, it was available.
One can, of course, ask why the above options are not standard. After all, it is just a question of enabling some software options.
>But who but the most dedicated hacker has any real idea about what is going on inside a modern Xerox.
If you talk to your friendly Xerox repairman, he may even give you the password so that you can log in and have a look. Xerox machines run on Linux.
However, in my experience, Xerox will tell you exactly what the machine does. The reason is simple: They have customers who take security seriously, and who know what questions to ask. If the customer finds out that the MFP does something it is not supposed to, what do you think will happen?
Xerox will also let you keep the hard drive of any machine they remove from your premises (if it is in your contract - they will want some $$$ for it, of course).
All the major manufacturers offer options that will delete/overwrite data from the internal hard drive after it has been output. They also offer encryption of all user data on the drives, so that the drive content cannot be read outside of the machine.
As most of the machines in this class now run on Linux, adding that kind of features should be pretty simple.
Because the machine can then print the copies in a different order from the input. As an example: Double sided copy. The machine scans all the pages, then print all the fronts (in reverse order) and store the paper in a temporary drawer. It then print all the backsides. Double sided copy correctly sorted in the output bin. Net gain: A lot faster because the machine does not need to turn every page during copying/printing. Not to mention if you need several copies.
Another example: You want 5 copies of that 100 page report. Scan all pages to disk. Print 5 separate copies. Net result: You get 5 copies nicely sorted without an expensive output sorter.
Another one: You print that bloody big print job that takes ages to render. The machine saves the print to the local drive and render it to disk in the background. If somebody want to print a few pages, or copy something, they do not need to wait for your job to finish, as your print will only start printing after it has been completely rendered.
Secure print: Print with a password. The job is sent to the printer and rendered. When you come to the machine and enter the password, it will print the now rendered job. Fast. And no confidential papers were left at the machine.
Need more?
And the above is not theory. We have done it for almost 10 years at our office. Very nice indeed.
For security, all the major manufacturers offer options that will delete the content from the disk after it has been printed. They also offer encryption of all user data on the drive, which mean that the content will not be readable outside of the machine. I know this for a fact, as it was offered on our MFP (Multi Function Printer) tender 4 years ago. It is now a requirement for new machines in our company.
Some companies actually both understand technology and take information security seriously.
With regards to copiers, there is no standard, but several of the largest manufacturers have an optional feature to delete data from the internal drive after it is used (output rendered). I know this for a fact, as it was a feature offered by some of the suppliers (I specifically remember Xerox and Toshiba, there may have been others as well) the last time we had a tender for MFPs. That is now 4 years ago.
Although not strictly for tracking projects, I recently started using Microsoft OneNote.
I find it really great for keeping lots of notes in a semi structured way. I used to have a lot of files and pieces of paper with notes. Now I have it all in a OneNote file.
It also integrates with other MS products, so you can create an Outlook task directly from some note in onenote.
Don't take my word for it. You can most likely download a time limited trial from Microsoft and check it out, or watch the demos available.
Of course it is from Microsoft and it costs money, but if you can get over those hurdles, it is a good product.
...and if there are similar things out there, let us know. It is not the specific product that is the important, but the functionality.
No. It is a DoS attack. It will not even crash your computer. For the average user, it is harmless.
Quote from MS:
The DoS attack requires a sustained flood of specially crafted TCP packets, and the system will recover once the flood ceases. This makes the severity Low for Windows XP.
As has been pointed out in numerous posts here, with the iLO interfaces (that is the HP name, others may call them something else) you can do all that remotely. And yes, in our company we reimage servers remotely. I actually did it yesterday. Only two floors down this time, but it could have been in another city or on another continent (have done that too).
The only hands on work done is installing the boxes and any physical repair work that needs to be done.
In our company we do all that on our HP servers. Including AD authentication to the iLO interfaces... well you may not find it cheap, but it is worth every $$$ (especially when you are in Norway and the server is in Nigeria...)
Precisely my reaction (yes, we use HP hardware too). In my company we power cycle and reimage servers not only in the server room two floors below, but even on a different continent. And before anybody claim it cannot be done: I have done it. It is actually our standard way of managing servers.
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If this were to be manufactured industrially, mounting the projectors inside a sound insulated and cooled enclosure is not a problem.
Microsoft already did it with one projector in Surface. Two projectors in a far larger enclosure should not be a major challenge.
Management do not want big changes. They want quick wins. Find somewhere that can show savings fast. If you find several, keep some for next years savings. And sometimes management lose attention to the issue, so talking is enough. Then you can use the same savings next year. Especially if management change. Hell, we presented decommissioning the same server 3 times to various management. Happy managers all the way!
And whatever you du: Do NOT propose anything that require more work. You will not get more staff. You will not get more time to do it. In the end you will be the one paying for the savings.
You really know absolutely nothing about software distribution, do you?
No domain wide account need to be used at all. Most software distribution software runs as "Local System" on the PC. Look it up.
This comes from the same CPU time that the rest of your computer takes CPU time from. Like the virusscanner. And the job this software needs to do is a lot simpler than an antivirus software. While an antivirus software has to look for millions of patterns, the software in question only needs to look at a handful of structures. Very simple. Also, the scan can be scheduled to run when the good professor is not pounding the keys (lunch break, cofee break, chatting to students, giving a lecture - lots of opportunities).
No need to make up problems. There are enough real problems in this world to keep us all busy.
Why on earth do the scanning on a server? Just deploy the software to the clients and let it run there. Then collect the status: In compliance/not in compliance. Like, is your virus scanning software uploading data to a server for scanning? I thought not.
No reason to make up non-existent problems.
I thought the phrase "The year of" belonged to the Linux community for all eternity... or at least until it is.
>I don't remember that Microsoft published anything really new the last decade or so.
You should not blame Microsoft for your bad memory.
Considering that Surface OS is based on Vista (or probably 7 by now), don't you think that there may be just a few more applications available by the time this (still vaporware) is launched?
There are rumors that Microsoft has created both web browsers, email tools and office software in the past. Who knows. Maybe they can do it again!
The thing that struck me most about the posting was that the sysadmin who got access to the private email actually told others about private stuff he found there. This is extremely unprofessional, bordering on reason to fire the idiot. I have worked many years as a sysadmin and the first rule is: What you see as part of your job as a sysadmin, you should not talk about. That goes for company information as well as private information you get access to. To me, this is an absolute. If you cannot trust your sysadmin to keep his mouth shut, fire him.
Do you honestly think we care?
I support this. I work in the Oil exploration industry, and more or less the entire industry is moving to Windows 7 (64 bit) as we speak. I am actually a pilot user at our company, and mass deployment is planned for the end of the year.
People may have various preferences, but for the majority of the real world, there seems to be one path now: Windows 7.
Also for an educational institution, is it not better to be ahead of the future employers, instead of being behind?
Well, the only dangerous part was me laughing.... I checked the patent that covers it, and it is (drum roll!) DUCT TAPE.
Yes, people. This is a JOKE.
A good one, in my opinion...
When I was involved in a tender for MFCs five years ago, this was one of the issues raised... by the vendors. Some claimed they were the only ones that had it, but they were wrong. All the major ones had it. At that time they offered both encryption of all userdata on the local hard drive, and also automatic overwriting of all user data after it was printed.
At the time these were options that one needed to pay extra for, but for anybody concerned with privacy issues, it was available.
One can, of course, ask why the above options are not standard. After all, it is just a question of enabling some software options.
>My understanding is that 128 kbps AAC is better than CD quality.
Your understanding is totally wrong. How can a compressed version be better than the original?
After all, most of the source material are CD's.
>But who but the most dedicated hacker has any real idea about what is going on inside a modern Xerox.
If you talk to your friendly Xerox repairman, he may even give you the password so that you can log in and have a look. Xerox machines run on Linux.
However, in my experience, Xerox will tell you exactly what the machine does. The reason is simple: They have customers who take security seriously, and who know what questions to ask. If the customer finds out that the MFP does something it is not supposed to, what do you think will happen?
Xerox will also let you keep the hard drive of any machine they remove from your premises (if it is in your contract - they will want some $$$ for it, of course).
All the major manufacturers offer options that will delete/overwrite data from the internal hard drive after it has been output. They also offer encryption of all user data on the drives, so that the drive content cannot be read outside of the machine.
As most of the machines in this class now run on Linux, adding that kind of features should be pretty simple.
Because the machine can then print the copies in a different order from the input. As an example: Double sided copy. The machine scans all the pages, then print all the fronts (in reverse order) and store the paper in a temporary drawer. It then print all the backsides. Double sided copy correctly sorted in the output bin. Net gain: A lot faster because the machine does not need to turn every page during copying/printing. Not to mention if you need several copies.
Another example: You want 5 copies of that 100 page report. Scan all pages to disk. Print 5 separate copies. Net result: You get 5 copies nicely sorted without an expensive output sorter.
Another one: You print that bloody big print job that takes ages to render. The machine saves the print to the local drive and render it to disk in the background. If somebody want to print a few pages, or copy something, they do not need to wait for your job to finish, as your print will only start printing after it has been completely rendered.
Secure print: Print with a password. The job is sent to the printer and rendered. When you come to the machine and enter the password, it will print the now rendered job. Fast. And no confidential papers were left at the machine.
Need more?
And the above is not theory. We have done it for almost 10 years at our office. Very nice indeed.
For security, all the major manufacturers offer options that will delete the content from the disk after it has been printed. They also offer encryption of all user data on the drive, which mean that the content will not be readable outside of the machine. I know this for a fact, as it was offered on our MFP (Multi Function Printer) tender 4 years ago. It is now a requirement for new machines in our company.
Some companies actually both understand technology and take information security seriously.
With regards to copiers, there is no standard, but several of the largest manufacturers have an optional feature to delete data from the internal drive after it is used (output rendered). I know this for a fact, as it was a feature offered by some of the suppliers (I specifically remember Xerox and Toshiba, there may have been others as well) the last time we had a tender for MFPs. That is now 4 years ago.
Not a new idea, apparently...
Correct. What was Monad during development is now PowerShell, and has been called that for several years.
Although not strictly for tracking projects, I recently started using Microsoft OneNote.
...and if there are similar things out there, let us know. It is not the specific product that is the important, but the functionality.
I find it really great for keeping lots of notes in a semi structured way. I used to have a lot of files and pieces of paper with notes. Now I have it all in a OneNote file.
It also integrates with other MS products, so you can create an Outlook task directly from some note in onenote.
Don't take my word for it. You can most likely download a time limited trial from Microsoft and check it out, or watch the demos available.
Of course it is from Microsoft and it costs money, but if you can get over those hurdles, it is a good product.
No it isn't!
>So, basically, upgrade or you'll be hacked?
No. It is a DoS attack. It will not even crash your computer. For the average user, it is harmless.
Quote from MS:
The DoS attack requires a sustained flood of specially crafted TCP packets, and the system will recover once the flood ceases. This makes the severity Low for Windows XP.
As has been pointed out in numerous posts here, with the iLO interfaces (that is the HP name, others may call them something else) you can do all that remotely. And yes, in our company we reimage servers remotely. I actually did it yesterday. Only two floors down this time, but it could have been in another city or on another continent (have done that too).
The only hands on work done is installing the boxes and any physical repair work that needs to be done.
In our company we do all that on our HP servers. Including AD authentication to the iLO interfaces... well you may not find it cheap, but it is worth every $$$ (especially when you are in Norway and the server is in Nigeria...)
Precisely my reaction (yes, we use HP hardware too).
In my company we power cycle and reimage servers not only in the server room two floors below, but even on a different continent.
And before anybody claim it cannot be done: I have done it. It is actually our standard way of managing servers.