We have client contracts worth many $$$, a simple $15 a seat license stops our users forwarding on some infested file. Money well spent imo, it costs near nothing to have and we don't have to deal with our clients going nuts at us - and potentially losing a contract.
We actually have a pretty good setup running, every comp authenticates against Open Directory - and noone outside of IT has admin access - so no sudo etc. Noone can write to the filesystem outside of their home and that is Filevaulted. All of the desktops have been built from a image that was prehardened along the lines of the Apple guidelines, and a lot of stuff is enforced at login time by a script.
All of the Macs I admin have a copy of Virex on them, and it's pretty good about catching the infected emails and documents that occasionally find their way onto our network. Whilst the Viruses have no impact on our Macs, we'd rather not be sending them off to our partners and customers - it just looks unprofessional.
We update our virus dat files get updated weekly - they are the same ones as used in VirusScan on Windows.
I hope they get some group calendaring stuff going soon, it's a real thorn in our side at the moment - and iCal in its current state certainly isn't the solution.
I have Apache 2, PHP5, PostgreSQL and mod_ssl all running happily on my desktop, wasn't really any harder than getting it running on *nix except for the ssl part.
I am a Linux/Unix admin professionaly and I recently went from OpenOffice back to MS-Office.
The cost of "free" software is too damn high when you cant share documents properly. My CV kept causing everyone elses Word to crash, thats a cost I couldn't afford to pay as a jobseeker.
whats with the sudden splurge of articles about women in games? They play games just as much as us, just the ones they play are all called Chuzzle or Sims or something.
I'm just waiting for the first DS9 like wormhole to the delta quadrant to be discovered. Hell I'd settle for the most nasal starship captain that doesn't have a clue.
Wtf? Get a sense of fucking realism here, why is the shit spewed by Bill Gates puppet company of any less value than the shit spewed by Rupert Murdochs company? Well probably because Mr Gates is the biggest fucking philanthropist in the world and not interested in directing editorial content.
Honestly, I swear you people would worship Mugabe if he was under the fucking GNU license.
The updating issue really doesnt figure into it. On Windows I configure windowsupdate to update, on gentoo there is emerge sync && emerge -uD world running on cron.
As one of those people that have adminned Linux and Windows (and FreeBSD and Solaris) professionally, I don't see many great differences. My end users working in marketing or whatever prefer Windows/Office. They do think differently than us geeks, and aren't willing to spend hours dealing with archaic command lines. Windows performs admirably there.
Now if I could get my users using MacosX then everyone would be happier.
"Testing using OpenGL Doom 3, we selected in total 32 different cards. 14 were NVIDIA cards and 18 were ATI cards, while 19 cards were AGP and 13 cards were PCI-Express."
But you didn't have enough understanding of what you were doing to be able to draw *any* conclusions, and instead figured 5 pages of really crappy graphs of a game noone plays would suffice.
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We have client contracts worth many $$$, a simple $15 a seat license stops our users forwarding on some infested file. Money well spent imo, it costs near nothing to have and we don't have to deal with our clients going nuts at us - and potentially losing a contract.
We actually have a pretty good setup running, every comp authenticates against Open Directory - and noone outside of IT has admin access - so no sudo etc. Noone can write to the filesystem outside of their home and that is Filevaulted. All of the desktops have been built from a image that was prehardened along the lines of the Apple guidelines, and a lot of stuff is enforced at login time by a script.
nope, but i don't think it has any ports open by default either.
All of the Macs I admin have a copy of Virex on them, and it's pretty good about catching the infected emails and documents that occasionally find their way onto our network. Whilst the Viruses have no impact on our Macs, we'd rather not be sending them off to our partners and customers - it just looks unprofessional.
We update our virus dat files get updated weekly - they are the same ones as used in VirusScan on Windows.
A lot of those services are actually in OSX Tiger Server. They are hidden, and undocumented but there.
Isn't the job of the CEO to be head salesman? If it isn't sack him, and get the replacement to rewrite the job spec.
They ported Doom?
I hope they get some group calendaring stuff going soon, it's a real thorn in our side at the moment - and iCal in its current state certainly isn't the solution.
I have Apache 2, PHP5, PostgreSQL and mod_ssl all running happily on my desktop, wasn't really any harder than getting it running on *nix except for the ssl part.
The "underlayment" is not FreeBSD. Some bits and pieces were taken from BSD and built on top of the Mach kernel.
> Hasn't Linux for the desktop been 5 years away for the last 10 years?
It was only 3 years away 10 years ago.
dragging on what? the vacuum surrounding the earth?
dont go to fucking leicester square then.
I could use one.
kjholdich at yahoo dot co dot uk
They made a good choice.
I am a Linux/Unix admin professionaly and I recently went from OpenOffice back to MS-Office.
The cost of "free" software is too damn high when you cant share documents properly. My CV kept causing everyone elses Word to crash, thats a cost I couldn't afford to pay as a jobseeker.
Or you could click on the link in the article and get the torrent from there.
You havent been here long have you?
whats with the sudden splurge of articles about women in games? They play games just as much as us, just the ones they play are all called Chuzzle or Sims or something.
Tatooine doesnt exist, does this?
I'm just waiting for the first DS9 like wormhole to the delta quadrant to be discovered. Hell I'd settle for the most nasal starship captain that doesn't have a clue.
Wtf? Get a sense of fucking realism here, why is the shit spewed by Bill Gates puppet company of any less value than the shit spewed by Rupert Murdochs company? Well probably because Mr Gates is the biggest fucking philanthropist in the world and not interested in directing editorial content.
Honestly, I swear you people would worship Mugabe if he was under the fucking GNU license.
Yet somehow Epic manages to make Engines and Games at the same time, and to better quality on both fronts than iD.
The updating issue really doesnt figure into it. On Windows I configure windowsupdate to update, on gentoo there is emerge sync && emerge -uD world running on cron.
As one of those people that have adminned Linux and Windows (and FreeBSD and Solaris) professionally, I don't see many great differences. My end users working in marketing or whatever prefer Windows/Office. They do think differently than us geeks, and aren't willing to spend hours dealing with archaic command lines. Windows performs admirably there.
Now if I could get my users using MacosX then everyone would be happier.
I think the problem isn't that of gravity, rather the lack of magnetic field that prevents the Solar Wind ripping the atmosphere off.
Mythic hired him to do PR for DAoC
"Testing using OpenGL Doom 3, we selected in total 32 different cards. 14 were NVIDIA cards and 18 were ATI cards, while 19 cards were AGP and 13 cards were PCI-Express."
But you didn't have enough understanding of what you were doing to be able to draw *any* conclusions, and instead figured 5 pages of really crappy graphs of a game noone plays would suffice.
Nothing original and different apart from say Second Life or that Egyptian crafting MMOG that are both hugely succesful.