Perfect. Another "abuser" who so easily gave up her name. Let me go see here... Clickity, click, click, clack... Ahhh, yes. Let me see here. hmmm... looks like all her current programming work is being done out of her home directory. Click, click, clack.... Too bad it just suffered a disk failure. And lets go look for those backup tapes so I can perform the recovery. Lets see here, yes, tape103842. Lets just put it in the specially built "custom" DLT drive (you know the one that I modified the read/write head so that it actually writes the binary converted DC electric sine wave from the power supply to the tape when trying to "restore" a file). That will get things back in order. Let me also go connect my "special network patch cord" in for Libby's computer (the one that connects to the 240V 40Amp plug back here with the other end being her computer's NIC). Bzzzzz... POP! Yes, another satisfied customer.
... is that the education level is almost equivlent at some schools.
The high school basic/standard curriculum that we still use today in the USA is wholly inadequate for the job market in the country. It is entirely based around strict adherence to institutional instruction. We still spend too much time teaching basics that should have been taught in grade school (grammar school/middle school/junior high). Part of the problem is in passing students along up to the next level when they are not ready to move to the next level.
What is the purpose of teaching a curriculum that was designed to produce factor workers in a nation that has so little actual manufacturing infrastructure still operational? We continue to cut the arts in school more and more, but those skills are becomming more and more important in this nation due to the fact that they teach you "how to think outside the box" which leads directly to "innovation" and "invention". We are a country dependent on our creating of "intellectual property". Following directions will not create new technologys, becuase there are no directions for making improvements. Improvements are generated by analizing and creative thinking.
The high school diploma is very close to being a useless document other then its ability to let you start taking classes in a college to start learning the skills that will allow you to get a job. We no longer need 30 million factory workers, foundry workers, miners, metal workers, and carpenters in this nation (we still need some and need highly skilled ones at that). But now what we need are 30 million inventors, scientists, researchers, engineers, programmers, designers, artists (visual, musical, and performance), and story tellers. These are what we need to be prepairing our students to become.
It is just that plain simple. Most any hardware/software protections will have weaknesses in them that can be bypassed. Eventually someone will need to have access to the data that it is "protecting" and that person will still be at risk of the same issues you are asking to protect against. The administrators will absolutely need to know how to use the hardware/software inside and out if you expect them to be able to do their job and keep the system working properly. There is almost always a way to get to the data, trust me on this. The best way you can keep this from happening is to treat your employees with respect, pay them fairly, and keep the work environment in proper order. If your employees are happy to work for you, they are much less likely to engage in an activity that will hurt their company.
If however you do go to a hardware/software solution, well, all you have done is add complication to your environment; added extra places where your critical data can be forced offline and unaccessible; added new unknown equipment/software that your staff will need to be trained how to use and maintaine. All this will do is drive home the fact that the company does not trust its employees and makes those employees feel unappreciated and untrusted. This will simply cause the moral to drop in the affected departments making it more likely that someone may consider doing the exact thing you are trying to prevent.
Hey mods next time look at the timestamp before you mod redundant. Just because the other posts replied to a post before mine doesn't mean that the information contained in those replies came before my information did.
The solid state portion of the drives are really only good for data that will not change often. That section suffers from limited number of re-writes before the data integrity degrades. The hybrid disks work well mainly for the primary system OS disk and that is really just about it. The kernel and main OS components will rarely change (patches and kernel updates are the only times). This is why boot times are increased using these disks, because the OS and kernel is contained on the faster solid state memory...
Again, in an environment where data is constantly being written and deleted, these disks will fail a lot sooner.
As the title says, forget about security. First off it is a hard enough position to get involved in due to the overall responsibility. A computer security position requires an extremely diligent and knowlegible person who is familiar with just about every piece of software that is deployed on a company network and can analize and debug at the code level in many cases especially when in-house developed software is in place. Debugging software is actually harder then writing it because a) you personally didn't write the code, so the methods that are used may very well be completely different then the method(s) you would have writen to do the same job, which means you need to have a deep understanding of the language itself, the madrid number of ways to do different things, as well as the compiler/interpreter that runs the code, and any possible flaws in the execution of said machine code on the processor/architecture envirement that it runs on. In other words, to truly do system security, you need to have very good knowledge of how things work exactly on your systems. That is, unless you simply want to be the peon at the bottom of the chain who is simply told what to go do, what optional flags to have added to a config file, install patches that someone told you were important and read log files all day...
However, where you can possibly go fairly far is in AI research, robotics, and automation. HCI (Human Computer Interaction) is probably another place where you could do well. Having a Psyc degree will actually get you in the door in those fields. Maybe add a technical minor in CS or even a few certifications in different languages (C++ at a minimum and LISP if you really want to get a job). I will warn you about LISP, if you hated math, well, to an extent, you will hate LISP. It is litterally built on the mathematical structure that makes programming possible in the first place (lambda calculus). The reason for its great popularity in AI work is due to the fact that it can actually alter and generate its own programming code on the fly, something that C++ and many other languages can not do (that need to be recompiled to create totally new instructions not already contained within their origional code). Again, this is an area that frequently hires many psycologists due to their training in understanding behavior and knowledge of the human brain and its workings as this is the defacto standard of what we consider intelligence.
Yes, shelve them, but in a rack. Just about any system out there is either rack-mountible or capable of being placed on a shelf in a rack. Shelve them yes.
So lets see, 3 desktop sized servers and their UPSes should easily fit in a rack. Just make sure you get shelves that can handle the weight of the UPSes (unless the UPS is already rack-mountible, in which case, just get the rack kit for them). Get yourself a good slimline rack-mount KVM to place in there as well.
For item storage, get yourself a rolling cage bin. Something like this would work very well. You can get 2 or 3 of them and have that lined up right next to each other if you had wheels on them (at option), and then when you need to get to the other ones, just roll the ones in front of it out of the way.
I agree with others that say no deskspace in there. Maybe a temporary work area for doing a quick system setup/build, but not as a true "office cubicle" where you will have someone stationed in the room. Which brings up the actual need for an ergo table. There is no point in having an ergo table in a room like this asside from to waste space. You might want an ESD bench like this so that you can safely work on your computer equipment.
I would also look into getting a second rack for expansion room/capacity and make sure the KVM you purchase has room for at least 8-12 systems, that way you should really only need that one KVM to connect to every major system in the room. A second spare monitor/keyboard can be purchased with extention cords so you can connect that to a second system if need be (and as backup to the KVM in the room).
Yes, that is true, but if you notice he asked for a flat panel that can possibly be wall mounted.... With LCoS and DLP projectors, he would need to either take up floor space, or cut out part of the wall and have a wallbox built to house the set.
As the subject title says, Sharp has a 65" LCD. It even has a DVI input so your computers will be able to easily interface... It is pricy though, but if you don't want burn-in then it is your best option. Can be found for around $18k.
So you can see, just using the right search term comes up with several. I know I have owned one that looks exactly like the "Easy Cat II" (it may have been the original since I have had it since 1994).
We support them very well. We have specific ports in all buildings that are "vendor" ports. They are isolated on their own subnets/vlans and have very limited access to services (i.e. proxied connection to the internet, no connection at all to internal intra-net). As for tools to connect to servers, etc., well, the simple truth is, you don't get connection from that system. Viruses, backdoors, spy-ware, etc., are all too much of a security risk to allow any system of unknown configuration to touch your network.
For the ones who don't have admin on their system, well they can browse the internet and get their email since you do not need to be admin to change your proxies.
If the contractor system must be connected to one of our systems to run the diagnostic, we will do a direct connect using crossover cables to a network port on the system it is connecting to . If no free network ports are on the system, one of the used ones will be appropriated or a private network is setup for the connection to occur through.
Now if you are the contractor, and you show up running linux, well, it would be expected that you first know how to use it and will be able to make the configuration changes needed to connect. The other alternative is that you simply will not have network access from that system and will simply be relegated to using another asset to connect to the net and transfer the files using CD, DVD, or thumbdrive.
Well, first thing you want to have are good site network layouts in a CAD program, preferably done in scale. Do not worry about every single wire (it is nice though at least for the pulls from the floor to the closet's patch panels) but get the major items, devices, and closet feeds.
As for what connects where, well, that needs to be part of your asset management system to be really effective. Some type of database which contains records for each class of object (like computers, servers, switches, routers, etc., which also has fields for location and network port connectivity. Obviously you would want a relational style database, with one to many relationships for network connectivity since you may have multiple network interfaces on different devices. Now the hard part, actually making this part of your processes. You need to have this updated, and really the best way is to make sure that people have to go through the process in order to get on the network. What this means is that you absolutely must use something like "port security". If regular people can move a system from one location to another and just disconnect one device and connect this one and it works, you will never be able to keep any tracking/management system up-to-date. It will be up-to-date for a whole 5 minutes after you do an inventory of that cube/office/location before someone somewhere decides that they are taking over the room down the hall because it is closer to the window, or is next to the exit...
I can't state that enough, you need to FORCE EVERYONE TO USE THE SYSTEM. If one person doesn't use it, then everything he/she does will be under the radar and not detected which makes having such a system pointless because it doesn't contain valid data, and you might as well have done "/dev/random > my_network_layout".
And too bad that wireless network is a shared, half duplex network. Get much more then 20-40 systems that are in a closed area (like, I don't know, any standard cube farm) and your network just ground to a halt. Heck we hit limits of G networks in a laptop equiped presentation room with only 30 people in it. It seemed that a virus was going around at the time and the laptops needed to get a patch on boot up, which is not an uncommon event in a corporate environment. Well needless to say not a single laptop had even finished getting the update during the 2 hour presentation.
Wireless is meant to be used in addition to a wired network to expand your capabilities when a wire is not available. It is still no where near being a replacement yet.
The new dictonary cracker will first start out using regular words, but then they start doing things like words+numbers, numbers+words+numbers, numbers+words+numbers+words, numbers+words+numbers+words+numbers, symbols+numbers, etc., etc. And you can tune them pretty well, especially if you know the length of the passwords, it doesn't take long to run through all combinations of words and numbers and symbols that are only 8 characters in length...
Now a truely secure password is something like "h3$xF1@", but memorizing those is very hard on a standard user group. But for an account that has a high level of access, it should be mandated that passwords be like that (i.e. mix of upper case, lower case, numbers and symbols with no words or l337 speak).
This clearly cuts both ways - those ISPs also bill mine! And guess who pays? Me. This is just a big zero-sum game. When there is more traffic, customers pay more. Period. The current buffet-style concept is on the way out.
That is perfectly fine by me if the buffet-style all you can eat bandwidth is on the way out, but the problem is that the companies KEEP ON ADVERTISING ALL YOU CAN EAT BUFFETS!!! You see, they tried the pay by the minute, pay by the hour, pay by the packet, and pay by the megabyte styles before. And you know what happened? Everone left and went to the all you can eat buffet that was down on the corner. It is not my fault that the all you can eat buffet has not found what price they need to charge in order to stay profitible. If they feal that the cost of data per megabyte is too high for their cost for the all you can eat, they need to raise their price, but they don't want to do that because there are so many other places that offer an all you can eat buffet for that same price. Now here is the real meat and heart of the matter. What they are trying to do instead of raising their price, they are limiting the menu. In a regular sense (and in the resturaunt theme that we have going here), normally that would be a viable option. They may loose a few customers who like "beef with broccolli", but everyone who still has their favorite item will be able to stay around and not pay more money to essentially still get the what they wanted. But that is where this analagy ends, an ISP is like a Resturaunt only that far. The problem is that an ISP is NOT like a Resturaunt in the case that everyone who needs to walk on the sidewalk that goes past the Resturaunt doesn't have to stop and wait for the people who want "Moo Shoo" to go into the resturant, eat and come out again, before they can continue going to a place that has "beef with broccolli". In the ISP, all data that goes into that network will be prioritized by that ISP's standards, not the priority that was given to the data when it was first requested.
This is a misconception? OK, let's do a trade. I will send you any picture in my personal collection (at least one whole megabyte). In return, I will ask for just a few kilobytes of data. You are getting a steal - a ratio of hundreds to one. The data I would like includes your SS number and driver's license number, your home phone and address, your work phone and address, date of birth, location of birth, all your credit card and bank account numbers, and your mother's maiden name. Thanks.
You take my quote out of context. The context that I was speaking in was the context that since the Internet is a transportation medium, all data transported over it needs to be given equal weight of importance since all data is ultimitely paid for by the megabyte, even if you yourself do not pay the by the megabyte, the ISP pays for its upstream provider in that fashion. The same goes for the Resturaunt analogy again. The Resturaunt buys its ingredients from another store which is most likely a resturaunt supply store. They buy in bulk and get a good deal on the rate as a result. But again in this case, the ISP only has one product to buy, and that is megabytes of bandwidth. They also only have one thing to sell, and again, that it megabytes of bandwidth, but the ISP's have felt that they get a better return by selling as a buffet because they get to charge all the people who only use 30 megabytes of bandwidth a month a price that could have purchased 30GB's of bandwidth in that same month, with all the rest going to profit. They felt that there are more people that will make them money on this scheme then what they will loose on some people who actually believed the fact that they purchased an "all you can eat" connection and took them up on the offer.
Again, I say go look at how the TRUE economics work in the Internet. Look at how ISP's bill and get billed for their connection(s). Look at how the backbones charge the people on the ends of their for the data that go
Fair enough. It doesn't change the fact that the vast amounts of porn and P2P that are trying to pass through these junctions are pushing them towards their limits, with no signs of slowing in volume.
Huh? No they really are not. Did you ever hear about something call truncating and load-sharing? If there ever comes a time when your ISP (or any in the line between you and your data), they can and will simply upgrade their connection. You see, they are actually be PAID to transmit/carry that data. The more data that flows through their "pipes", the more they can "bill" OTHER ISP's that connect through them. So whenever they have an edge router that starts hitting its limits, it is always in their own best interests to replace/upgrade/load-share/truncate that connection so that they can bill even more money to the people around them. Maybe there are vast amount of data going through those pipe because of porn and p2p applications, but you know what that means to the compaines? They have more data to BILL other companies with to get more money for the service they provide by allowing that data to use the network infrastructure.
In the meantime, all the legit stuff is in threat of getting caught up in a porn jam.
I say "huh?" and "what?" again. You are under the misconception that some data is more important then other data. You see you are falling into the biggest trap there is when dealing with an entity like the internet. You will almost always be "biased" toward what you want to use the internet for. So your particular "types" of data you feel should get priority. Well the problem is that the person next to you will have a completely different set of priorities, and the next one, and the next, and so on and so forth. There are probably thousands of people out there who feel that their NTP traffic should have "realtime" priority over everything. Now imagine if we actually started to try and do things like this. Well, your ISP will because you are so happy to pay extra for it, will prioritize on http traffic, email, and maybe VOIP (assuming you use "their" VOIP and not someone elses). But the people you wish to connect to are not using your same ISP, instead they are using one that results in your traffic crossing, lets say "three" other ISP's inbetween yours and theirs. Let us also greatly assume that because you are not on those other 3 ISP's, they will most likely NOT have the exact same priorities. Why? Because you aren't the one paying them directly. One their network, they have paying customers that want different things, so they prioritize differently as a result. Now, back to my case here, ISP "A" has a priority of http, email and ftp, but VOIP is not considered a priority because they also own a POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) network, so VOIP is a direct competition to their phone services, and they do not want anything to do with it. ISP "B" has a priority of http, ftp, and VOIP. Email is not high priority on ISP "B" because they feel that email should be handled the way it was origionally intended, as a simple, unreliable delivery mechanism. ISP "C" prioritizes p2p, ftp, and VOIP because their main business is "content" delivery. They have a major customer who has a p2p video delivery system which uses ftp connections to get the data out first to several servers and then uses them to seed the data into a custom p2p network.
Now your problem is that you want to connect to someone else, and your network connection path goes through all those other ISPs, well, your optimized connection inside your ISP, just have every one of your critical uses degraded and and relegated to transmittion only when there was nothing else occuring through those other ISP networks. This is what WILL happen. Your money isn't enough to change the immediate priorities of every ISP in the world or even the immediate world around your ISP.
You know what? My legitimate downloads or VoIP should get priority over your illegal
One of the things that's interesting about why Eisenhower pushed for the highway system was that he saw the Autobahn system in Germany during the occupation post-WWII and knew that that was one of the things that United States needed to develop.
Just too bad it is STILL one of the things that the United States needs to develop. The Autobahn is a meticulessly well maintained super-highway with engineered drive surfaces, well gradiated turns, and minimal obstructions of view to drivers. The surface itself is designed to remove water from contact with tires, which greatly enhanses performance in wet weather. With almost no "small hills" to obstruct/obscure the view in front of the driver, situations do not exist for a slowdown that is over a blind hill to cause an accident since drivers always have more then enough warning of traffic slowdowns, accidents, or broken-down vehicles in their lane to either change lanes, slow down, or otherwise avoid the problem. This is also the reason why parts of the Autobahn system have no speed limits, only strict rules for which lane to be in and rules to let vehicles traveling faster then you to pass you... We STILL don't have ANYTHING NEAR LIKE THAT.
I bought it about 1 1/2 years ago now. Personally it is the best computer/desk chair I have ever had. It is extremely comfortable and the use of the fabric stuff makes it breath very well. Depending on which model you get you can have different types of back/lumbar support. I picked up a fully adjustable model with lumbar support, a leather arms (I didn't pay for the crome model though, look great but was not worth it since it was in my upstairs bedroom). You still need to set it up properly for good back/ergonomic support and use it that way. But I really just set it up for comfort:)
In anycase, they are at the very least using the wrong pictures, since that is an IBM travelstar labled drive. IBM hasn't made a hard drive for 2 years now...
These payments go to the "named" parties in the lawsuit, i.e. the people who origionally went and found lawyers who then took on the case(s), which then recieved class status.
That said, how do you fight those who are above the law when you are constrained to play by the rules? Consider that the administration stopped the Justice department investigation into the NSA by refusing to issue clearances to the Justice Department. Any ideas on how to deal with this when the legal system has been co-opted by those who are committing the mis-deeds? Does legality have any meaning in this case?
Well, I don't think this is entirely true. They stopped issuing ALL clearances, not just to these few lawyers. There are thousands of clearance requests that are backlogged, and there was no funding to continue operating, so a moritorium was enacted on all clearance requests until funding was appropriated. That issue was resolved about a week or two ago and clearances are being granted again. However, the backlog is worse then it has ever been in recent years, including when they upgraded part of the system back in 1998, which caused over a 6-8month delay in issuing new clearances. We are probably looking at a 8-9month delay for a request to be completed at this point in time.
Ok it had to be said. MS tried to do this, but they had hard deadlines of last year so that they would be the first to market in the "next-gen" race. The delays killed that idea. Personally if I had to choose between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray wins every time simply because it is better technology. Does this mean that Sony made the right decision? Well, time will tell. Personally this is how I feel, I am most definitely buying the Wii the day is it out. I "might" buy a PS3 if/when the price drops. I will NOT buy a XBox360 (its still a freaking PC, I already have one of them which is much more upgradible).
Yes, the flip side of that coin can happen. That is one of the reasons why it is also important to do anual/bi-anual reviews of the agreement and have both the IT staff themselves as well as the end users themselves involved in the process, not just the management. Not everything needs to have a specific process in place, but the more common items should most definitely have a process flow created. This can really be the only way to show both the importance of the IT department as well as show the quality work that they do all the time behind the scenes. IT is probably the most under-appreciated responsibility in a company. Most non-technical management has no idea what is occuring, they simply know things work until the are broken. The IT staff gets yelled at when things break and they can't fix it in 5 minutes, and the get questioned as to why they keep the amount of IT staff when things are running smoothly (in other words, when the IT department is doing their job and being proactive about problems, non-technical management think they are wasting money on all the IT professionals they have, not realizing that the reason things ARE running smoothly is due to that group of people).
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Perfect. Another "abuser" who so easily gave up her name. Let me go see here... Clickity, click, click, clack... Ahhh, yes. Let me see here. hmmm... looks like all her current programming work is being done out of her home directory. Click, click, clack.... Too bad it just suffered a disk failure. And lets go look for those backup tapes so I can perform the recovery. Lets see here, yes, tape103842. Lets just put it in the specially built "custom" DLT drive (you know the one that I modified the read/write head so that it actually writes the binary converted DC electric sine wave from the power supply to the tape when trying to "restore" a file). That will get things back in order. Let me also go connect my "special network patch cord" in for Libby's computer (the one that connects to the 240V 40Amp plug back here with the other end being her computer's NIC). Bzzzzz... POP! Yes, another satisfied customer.
... is that the education level is almost equivlent at some schools.
The high school basic/standard curriculum that we still use today in the USA is wholly inadequate for the job market in the country. It is entirely based around strict adherence to institutional instruction. We still spend too much time teaching basics that should have been taught in grade school (grammar school/middle school/junior high). Part of the problem is in passing students along up to the next level when they are not ready to move to the next level.
What is the purpose of teaching a curriculum that was designed to produce factor workers in a nation that has so little actual manufacturing infrastructure still operational? We continue to cut the arts in school more and more, but those skills are becomming more and more important in this nation due to the fact that they teach you "how to think outside the box" which leads directly to "innovation" and "invention". We are a country dependent on our creating of "intellectual property". Following directions will not create new technologys, becuase there are no directions for making improvements. Improvements are generated by analizing and creative thinking.
The high school diploma is very close to being a useless document other then its ability to let you start taking classes in a college to start learning the skills that will allow you to get a job. We no longer need 30 million factory workers, foundry workers, miners, metal workers, and carpenters in this nation (we still need some and need highly skilled ones at that). But now what we need are 30 million inventors, scientists, researchers, engineers, programmers, designers, artists (visual, musical, and performance), and story tellers. These are what we need to be prepairing our students to become.
And in that case, you yourself are not actually accepting the EULA, but the government body which you work for is saying, "Yes we accept this change."
It is just that plain simple. Most any hardware/software protections will have weaknesses in them that can be bypassed. Eventually someone will need to have access to the data that it is "protecting" and that person will still be at risk of the same issues you are asking to protect against. The administrators will absolutely need to know how to use the hardware/software inside and out if you expect them to be able to do their job and keep the system working properly. There is almost always a way to get to the data, trust me on this. The best way you can keep this from happening is to treat your employees with respect, pay them fairly, and keep the work environment in proper order. If your employees are happy to work for you, they are much less likely to engage in an activity that will hurt their company.
If however you do go to a hardware/software solution, well, all you have done is add complication to your environment; added extra places where your critical data can be forced offline and unaccessible; added new unknown equipment/software that your staff will need to be trained how to use and maintaine. All this will do is drive home the fact that the company does not trust its employees and makes those employees feel unappreciated and untrusted. This will simply cause the moral to drop in the affected departments making it more likely that someone may consider doing the exact thing you are trying to prevent.
Hey mods next time look at the timestamp before you mod redundant. Just because the other posts replied to a post before mine doesn't mean that the information contained in those replies came before my information did.
The solid state portion of the drives are really only good for data that will not change often. That section suffers from limited number of re-writes before the data integrity degrades. The hybrid disks work well mainly for the primary system OS disk and that is really just about it. The kernel and main OS components will rarely change (patches and kernel updates are the only times). This is why boot times are increased using these disks, because the OS and kernel is contained on the faster solid state memory...
Again, in an environment where data is constantly being written and deleted, these disks will fail a lot sooner.
However, where you can possibly go fairly far is in AI research, robotics, and automation. HCI (Human Computer Interaction) is probably another place where you could do well. Having a Psyc degree will actually get you in the door in those fields. Maybe add a technical minor in CS or even a few certifications in different languages (C++ at a minimum and LISP if you really want to get a job). I will warn you about LISP, if you hated math, well, to an extent, you will hate LISP. It is litterally built on the mathematical structure that makes programming possible in the first place (lambda calculus). The reason for its great popularity in AI work is due to the fact that it can actually alter and generate its own programming code on the fly, something that C++ and many other languages can not do (that need to be recompiled to create totally new instructions not already contained within their origional code). Again, this is an area that frequently hires many psycologists due to their training in understanding behavior and knowledge of the human brain and its workings as this is the defacto standard of what we consider intelligence.
So lets see, 3 desktop sized servers and their UPSes should easily fit in a rack. Just make sure you get shelves that can handle the weight of the UPSes (unless the UPS is already rack-mountible, in which case, just get the rack kit for them). Get yourself a good slimline rack-mount KVM to place in there as well.
For item storage, get yourself a rolling cage bin. Something like this would work very well. You can get 2 or 3 of them and have that lined up right next to each other if you had wheels on them (at option), and then when you need to get to the other ones, just roll the ones in front of it out of the way.
I agree with others that say no deskspace in there. Maybe a temporary work area for doing a quick system setup/build, but not as a true "office cubicle" where you will have someone stationed in the room. Which brings up the actual need for an ergo table. There is no point in having an ergo table in a room like this asside from to waste space. You might want an ESD bench like this so that you can safely work on your computer equipment.
I would also look into getting a second rack for expansion room/capacity and make sure the KVM you purchase has room for at least 8-12 systems, that way you should really only need that one KVM to connect to every major system in the room. A second spare monitor/keyboard can be purchased with extention cords so you can connect that to a second system if need be (and as backup to the KVM in the room).
Yes, that is true, but if you notice he asked for a flat panel that can possibly be wall mounted.... With LCoS and DLP projectors, he would need to either take up floor space, or cut out part of the wall and have a wallbox built to house the set.
As the subject title says, Sharp has a 65" LCD. It even has a DVI input so your computers will be able to easily interface... It is pricy though, but if you don't want burn-in then it is your best option. Can be found for around $18k.
Laptop-like touch pads (I've looked but haven't found any)?
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Well, first link under the google search "touchpad mouse" found this: http://www.askergoworks.com/shopdisplayproducts.a
The google ad supplied link was this: http://www.google.com/url?sa=L&ai=BQGSCbw63RKr6EJ
So you can see, just using the right search term comes up with several. I know I have owned one that looks exactly like the "Easy Cat II" (it may have been the original since I have had it since 1994).
We support them very well. We have specific ports in all buildings that are "vendor" ports. They are isolated on their own subnets/vlans and have very limited access to services (i.e. proxied connection to the internet, no connection at all to internal intra-net). As for tools to connect to servers, etc., well, the simple truth is, you don't get connection from that system. Viruses, backdoors, spy-ware, etc., are all too much of a security risk to allow any system of unknown configuration to touch your network.
For the ones who don't have admin on their system, well they can browse the internet and get their email since you do not need to be admin to change your proxies.
If the contractor system must be connected to one of our systems to run the diagnostic, we will do a direct connect using crossover cables to a network port on the system it is connecting to . If no free network ports are on the system, one of the used ones will be appropriated or a private network is setup for the connection to occur through.
Now if you are the contractor, and you show up running linux, well, it would be expected that you first know how to use it and will be able to make the configuration changes needed to connect. The other alternative is that you simply will not have network access from that system and will simply be relegated to using another asset to connect to the net and transfer the files using CD, DVD, or thumbdrive.
Well, first thing you want to have are good site network layouts in a CAD program, preferably done in scale. Do not worry about every single wire (it is nice though at least for the pulls from the floor to the closet's patch panels) but get the major items, devices, and closet feeds.
As for what connects where, well, that needs to be part of your asset management system to be really effective. Some type of database which contains records for each class of object (like computers, servers, switches, routers, etc., which also has fields for location and network port connectivity. Obviously you would want a relational style database, with one to many relationships for network connectivity since you may have multiple network interfaces on different devices. Now the hard part, actually making this part of your processes. You need to have this updated, and really the best way is to make sure that people have to go through the process in order to get on the network. What this means is that you absolutely must use something like "port security". If regular people can move a system from one location to another and just disconnect one device and connect this one and it works, you will never be able to keep any tracking/management system up-to-date. It will be up-to-date for a whole 5 minutes after you do an inventory of that cube/office/location before someone somewhere decides that they are taking over the room down the hall because it is closer to the window, or is next to the exit...
I can't state that enough, you need to FORCE EVERYONE TO USE THE SYSTEM. If one person doesn't use it, then everything he/she does will be under the radar and not detected which makes having such a system pointless because it doesn't contain valid data, and you might as well have done "/dev/random > my_network_layout".
And too bad that wireless network is a shared, half duplex network. Get much more then 20-40 systems that are in a closed area (like, I don't know, any standard cube farm) and your network just ground to a halt. Heck we hit limits of G networks in a laptop equiped presentation room with only 30 people in it. It seemed that a virus was going around at the time and the laptops needed to get a patch on boot up, which is not an uncommon event in a corporate environment. Well needless to say not a single laptop had even finished getting the update during the 2 hour presentation.
Wireless is meant to be used in addition to a wired network to expand your capabilities when a wire is not available. It is still no where near being a replacement yet.
Now a truely secure password is something like "h3$xF1@", but memorizing those is very hard on a standard user group. But for an account that has a high level of access, it should be mandated that passwords be like that (i.e. mix of upper case, lower case, numbers and symbols with no words or l337 speak).
That is perfectly fine by me if the buffet-style all you can eat bandwidth is on the way out, but the problem is that the companies KEEP ON ADVERTISING ALL YOU CAN EAT BUFFETS!!! You see, they tried the pay by the minute, pay by the hour, pay by the packet, and pay by the megabyte styles before. And you know what happened? Everone left and went to the all you can eat buffet that was down on the corner. It is not my fault that the all you can eat buffet has not found what price they need to charge in order to stay profitible. If they feal that the cost of data per megabyte is too high for their cost for the all you can eat, they need to raise their price, but they don't want to do that because there are so many other places that offer an all you can eat buffet for that same price. Now here is the real meat and heart of the matter. What they are trying to do instead of raising their price, they are limiting the menu. In a regular sense (and in the resturaunt theme that we have going here), normally that would be a viable option. They may loose a few customers who like "beef with broccolli", but everyone who still has their favorite item will be able to stay around and not pay more money to essentially still get the what they wanted. But that is where this analagy ends, an ISP is like a Resturaunt only that far. The problem is that an ISP is NOT like a Resturaunt in the case that everyone who needs to walk on the sidewalk that goes past the Resturaunt doesn't have to stop and wait for the people who want "Moo Shoo" to go into the resturant, eat and come out again, before they can continue going to a place that has "beef with broccolli". In the ISP, all data that goes into that network will be prioritized by that ISP's standards, not the priority that was given to the data when it was first requested.
This is a misconception? OK, let's do a trade. I will send you any picture in my personal collection (at least one whole megabyte). In return, I will ask for just a few kilobytes of data. You are getting a steal - a ratio of hundreds to one. The data I would like includes your SS number and driver's license number, your home phone and address, your work phone and address, date of birth, location of birth, all your credit card and bank account numbers, and your mother's maiden name. Thanks.
You take my quote out of context. The context that I was speaking in was the context that since the Internet is a transportation medium, all data transported over it needs to be given equal weight of importance since all data is ultimitely paid for by the megabyte, even if you yourself do not pay the by the megabyte, the ISP pays for its upstream provider in that fashion. The same goes for the Resturaunt analogy again. The Resturaunt buys its ingredients from another store which is most likely a resturaunt supply store. They buy in bulk and get a good deal on the rate as a result. But again in this case, the ISP only has one product to buy, and that is megabytes of bandwidth. They also only have one thing to sell, and again, that it megabytes of bandwidth, but the ISP's have felt that they get a better return by selling as a buffet because they get to charge all the people who only use 30 megabytes of bandwidth a month a price that could have purchased 30GB's of bandwidth in that same month, with all the rest going to profit. They felt that there are more people that will make them money on this scheme then what they will loose on some people who actually believed the fact that they purchased an "all you can eat" connection and took them up on the offer.
Again, I say go look at how the TRUE economics work in the Internet. Look at how ISP's bill and get billed for their connection(s). Look at how the backbones charge the people on the ends of their for the data that go
Huh? No they really are not. Did you ever hear about something call truncating and load-sharing? If there ever comes a time when your ISP (or any in the line between you and your data), they can and will simply upgrade their connection. You see, they are actually be PAID to transmit/carry that data. The more data that flows through their "pipes", the more they can "bill" OTHER ISP's that connect through them. So whenever they have an edge router that starts hitting its limits, it is always in their own best interests to replace/upgrade/load-share/truncate that connection so that they can bill even more money to the people around them. Maybe there are vast amount of data going through those pipe because of porn and p2p applications, but you know what that means to the compaines? They have more data to BILL other companies with to get more money for the service they provide by allowing that data to use the network infrastructure.
In the meantime, all the legit stuff is in threat of getting caught up in a porn jam.
I say "huh?" and "what?" again. You are under the misconception that some data is more important then other data. You see you are falling into the biggest trap there is when dealing with an entity like the internet. You will almost always be "biased" toward what you want to use the internet for. So your particular "types" of data you feel should get priority. Well the problem is that the person next to you will have a completely different set of priorities, and the next one, and the next, and so on and so forth. There are probably thousands of people out there who feel that their NTP traffic should have "realtime" priority over everything. Now imagine if we actually started to try and do things like this. Well, your ISP will because you are so happy to pay extra for it, will prioritize on http traffic, email, and maybe VOIP (assuming you use "their" VOIP and not someone elses). But the people you wish to connect to are not using your same ISP, instead they are using one that results in your traffic crossing, lets say "three" other ISP's inbetween yours and theirs. Let us also greatly assume that because you are not on those other 3 ISP's, they will most likely NOT have the exact same priorities. Why? Because you aren't the one paying them directly. One their network, they have paying customers that want different things, so they prioritize differently as a result. Now, back to my case here, ISP "A" has a priority of http, email and ftp, but VOIP is not considered a priority because they also own a POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) network, so VOIP is a direct competition to their phone services, and they do not want anything to do with it. ISP "B" has a priority of http, ftp, and VOIP. Email is not high priority on ISP "B" because they feel that email should be handled the way it was origionally intended, as a simple, unreliable delivery mechanism. ISP "C" prioritizes p2p, ftp, and VOIP because their main business is "content" delivery. They have a major customer who has a p2p video delivery system which uses ftp connections to get the data out first to several servers and then uses them to seed the data into a custom p2p network.
Now your problem is that you want to connect to someone else, and your network connection path goes through all those other ISPs, well, your optimized connection inside your ISP, just have every one of your critical uses degraded and and relegated to transmittion only when there was nothing else occuring through those other ISP networks. This is what WILL happen. Your money isn't enough to change the immediate priorities of every ISP in the world or even the immediate world around your ISP.
You know what? My legitimate downloads or VoIP should get priority over your illegal
One of the things that's interesting about why Eisenhower pushed for the highway system was that he saw the Autobahn system in Germany during the occupation post-WWII and knew that that was one of the things that United States needed to develop. Just too bad it is STILL one of the things that the United States needs to develop. The Autobahn is a meticulessly well maintained super-highway with engineered drive surfaces, well gradiated turns, and minimal obstructions of view to drivers. The surface itself is designed to remove water from contact with tires, which greatly enhanses performance in wet weather. With almost no "small hills" to obstruct/obscure the view in front of the driver, situations do not exist for a slowdown that is over a blind hill to cause an accident since drivers always have more then enough warning of traffic slowdowns, accidents, or broken-down vehicles in their lane to either change lanes, slow down, or otherwise avoid the problem. This is also the reason why parts of the Autobahn system have no speed limits, only strict rules for which lane to be in and rules to let vehicles traveling faster then you to pass you... We STILL don't have ANYTHING NEAR LIKE THAT.
I bought it about 1 1/2 years ago now. Personally it is the best computer/desk chair I have ever had. It is extremely comfortable and the use of the fabric stuff makes it breath very well. Depending on which model you get you can have different types of back/lumbar support. I picked up a fully adjustable model with lumbar support, a leather arms (I didn't pay for the crome model though, look great but was not worth it since it was in my upstairs bedroom). You still need to set it up properly for good back/ergonomic support and use it that way. But I really just set it up for comfort :)
Has MS's PR/relations department EVER heard of Trusted Solaris? I guess not if they are making claims such as this one.
In anycase, they are at the very least using the wrong pictures, since that is an IBM travelstar labled drive. IBM hasn't made a hard drive for 2 years now...
These payments go to the "named" parties in the lawsuit, i.e. the people who origionally went and found lawyers who then took on the case(s), which then recieved class status.
Well, I don't think this is entirely true. They stopped issuing ALL clearances, not just to these few lawyers. There are thousands of clearance requests that are backlogged, and there was no funding to continue operating, so a moritorium was enacted on all clearance requests until funding was appropriated. That issue was resolved about a week or two ago and clearances are being granted again. However, the backlog is worse then it has ever been in recent years, including when they upgraded part of the system back in 1998, which caused over a 6-8month delay in issuing new clearances. We are probably looking at a 8-9month delay for a request to be completed at this point in time.
Ok it had to be said. MS tried to do this, but they had hard deadlines of last year so that they would be the first to market in the "next-gen" race. The delays killed that idea. Personally if I had to choose between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray wins every time simply because it is better technology. Does this mean that Sony made the right decision? Well, time will tell. Personally this is how I feel, I am most definitely buying the Wii the day is it out. I "might" buy a PS3 if/when the price drops. I will NOT buy a XBox360 (its still a freaking PC, I already have one of them which is much more upgradible).
Yes, the flip side of that coin can happen. That is one of the reasons why it is also important to do anual/bi-anual reviews of the agreement and have both the IT staff themselves as well as the end users themselves involved in the process, not just the management. Not everything needs to have a specific process in place, but the more common items should most definitely have a process flow created. This can really be the only way to show both the importance of the IT department as well as show the quality work that they do all the time behind the scenes. IT is probably the most under-appreciated responsibility in a company. Most non-technical management has no idea what is occuring, they simply know things work until the are broken. The IT staff gets yelled at when things break and they can't fix it in 5 minutes, and the get questioned as to why they keep the amount of IT staff when things are running smoothly (in other words, when the IT department is doing their job and being proactive about problems, non-technical management think they are wasting money on all the IT professionals they have, not realizing that the reason things ARE running smoothly is due to that group of people).