I work in the IT department of a huge Hospital "chain", if you will. I estimate over 90% of the passwords are either "password" or the six letter name of the company. The users that have actually changed their password have gone to other words, for example, jones or celtics. Nothing tricky at all. While we don't allow any "generic" accounts, if you know the first initial, middle initial, and their lastname there is a good chance you can login as them just by using password. How ironic, eh? Makes it easier for us IT folks, but does nothing for our security. Currently my service area is migrating to Lotus Notes for our messaging platform, moving from Microsoft Exchange. I have heard that the main reason for this was the increased security LN provides. The user ids come with wonderful upper and lower case 8 digit long passwords. What do we do when we get the id and start setting up the user? Change the password for a cryptic one, to, can you guess, "password". Thus defeating the whole benefit of going to lotus notes. Ah, well, whatever administration wants.
I can't help but comment on this. I was home schooled from 2nd grade to 12th. I was bored in school and the principal at my school suggested home schooling as they couldn't provide anything more challenging to me. I am currently 18, having finished high school last December, and am now in college. Now, on to the problems with interaction; to give you an idea of how socially inept I am after having been home schooled for 10 years, I was hired by a major health care provider this January, I am working in the IT division making more than most people many years older than I. I am routinely asked to fix problems for administration "bigwig" people, because I get along with everyone so well. I am the "go to" guy in our department of about 15 because I am always willing to help and very knowledgeable. Very inept, eh? Home schooling is a viable and wonderful alternative to our wonderful public school system. Don't let anyone tell you different.
How interesting, Dalnet has been being DDoS'd for about 2 weeks now, at times they are hitting almost every single server, while the ones that are left alone have to take up the slack of the other servers. "Too many users" is what you'll see a lot of the time. Perhaps it's kill all irc servers month?
"...ought to frighten the broadband providers into pushing at least simple firewall software themselves perhaps."
To a point this is true, but I don't want Big Brother ISP protecting me from myself either. I get that enough from the government. Though having them supply something like Zonealarm (which is free) wouldn't be too bad. As long as it went no further.
Napster is not the be all, end all of mp3 music "sharing." Long before napster came around there was www.oth.net and it's ftp listings. If they do start charging a monthly fee, no I would not pay it. There are enough other places to get music that are not any harder than napster.
The Linux Mandrake ftp mirror page (http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftp.php3) has removed all the 7.1 mirrors and has added this message: "Linux-Mandrake 7.1 is not yet available. Please wait"
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I have many DVDs that start playing the FBI warning as soon as it's put in the drive.
I work in the IT department of a huge Hospital "chain", if you will. I estimate over 90% of the passwords are either "password" or the six letter name of the company. The users that have actually changed their password have gone to other words, for example, jones or celtics. Nothing tricky at all. While we don't allow any "generic" accounts, if you know the first initial, middle initial, and their lastname there is a good chance you can login as them just by using password. How ironic, eh? Makes it easier for us IT folks, but does nothing for our security. Currently my service area is migrating to Lotus Notes for our messaging platform, moving from Microsoft Exchange. I have heard that the main reason for this was the increased security LN provides. The user ids come with wonderful upper and lower case 8 digit long passwords. What do we do when we get the id and start setting up the user? Change the password for a cryptic one, to, can you guess, "password". Thus defeating the whole benefit of going to lotus notes. Ah, well, whatever administration wants.
I believe I read this at some point in Reader's Digest also.
I can't help but comment on this. I was home schooled from 2nd grade to 12th. I was bored in school and the principal at my school suggested home schooling as they couldn't provide anything more challenging to me. I am currently 18, having finished high school last December, and am now in college. Now, on to the problems with interaction; to give you an idea of how socially inept I am after having been home schooled for 10 years, I was hired by a major health care provider this January, I am working in the IT division making more than most people many years older than I. I am routinely asked to fix problems for administration "bigwig" people, because I get along with everyone so well. I am the "go to" guy in our department of about 15 because I am always willing to help and very knowledgeable. Very inept, eh? Home schooling is a viable and wonderful alternative to our wonderful public school system. Don't let anyone tell you different.
How interesting, Dalnet has been being DDoS'd for about 2 weeks now, at times they are hitting almost every single server, while the ones that are left alone have to take up the slack of the other servers. "Too many users" is what you'll see a lot of the time. Perhaps it's kill all irc servers month?
"...ought to frighten the broadband providers into pushing at least simple firewall software themselves perhaps." To a point this is true, but I don't want Big Brother ISP protecting me from myself either. I get that enough from the government. Though having them supply something like Zonealarm (which is free) wouldn't be too bad. As long as it went no further.
Napster is not the be all, end all of mp3 music "sharing." Long before napster came around there was www.oth.net and it's ftp listings. If they do start charging a monthly fee, no I would not pay it. There are enough other places to get music that are not any harder than napster.
Not the regular version, there is a 486 7.0 iso on the download page.
The Linux Mandrake ftp mirror page (http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftp.php3) has removed all the 7.1 mirrors and has added this message: "Linux-Mandrake 7.1 is not yet available. Please wait"
this has some, if they are real or not is your guess. Certianly no mansion:)http://www.principality-sealand.net/en501 .html
Didn't one of the pages say he was once the British's youngest major? Perhaps that is where.