I spent four years as a Secure Communications tech (that's CRYPTO to you, ground rat) and a year in turkey between 98-99 when were you there? Drop me a line laslo slineyp at hotmail dot com...
Anyway, I concurr with theses guys. I learned a lot, i wouldn't trade it for anything, would i have stayed in, no. did I make the right choice in joining, yes. It was a valuable experience. Besides.. you skills might not always be matched it's said. BUT..... If you go to the recruiter SPECIFICALLY knowing what career code you want, you can wait to get it, or just walk on the deal. They NEED people like you VERY badly right now. They'll make exceptions. if it's air force, go for the 3c0x1 or 3c3x1 fields. Someone correct me if the AFSC codes have changed.
Alright, I'll take your advice and post rather than modding.
I still think you're wrong. And possibly trolling.
"We need to stop making new tools, even if they can be used for legal purposes." That is just patently ridiculous. If people had that attitude, then Nuclear research would have stopped before it started. Sure, we wouldn't have nukes, but then we'd also have nothing like chemo therapy and the advanced Diagnostic imaging techniques we do now.
Forgot the other caveat: Beware utiliztion creep!
Some figures place effective disk utilization at 35%.
Check out vitualization products. They can allow you to slice/dice/julianne that disk to any OS, device, environmet. It can make the IT manager a savior because they effective double the storage capacity of that huge RAID box you just paid $Million for.
sighup stated earlier, but it bears elaboration: What are you looking for? When you are looking for storage, what are your design goals? Do you just need to expand file storage? NAS may be the answer.. Do you need complete control of your environment and HA? Then SAN is the way to go. (Despite the detractor, SAN _is_ here, and I've seen a few successful implementations) Your design goals will determine what environment you need (you do have those, right? or did Ye Olde PHB decide he wanted "one of those SANS thingies".
There are several caveats, of course. There is no market leader in SAN (there are only leaders from other markets, trying to get into san (compaq, sun, etc). Some vendors claim to work with others, but in truth, it's a very narrow window of compatibility. If you have a large, complex, heterogenous environment, then it really pays to have an experienced solution provider asess your environment. (semi-plug) I sysadmin for a small san solution company. Email me with a description of your environment. I'll sit down with our engineers and knock heads. The market and sales droids won't see it.
I'm not disclosing the name of the company and I do not speak for them.
Retinal scans are a nice whizz-bang toy, but consider... what is that scan of your retina.. it's your password. Your password has to be converted to a key of some sort and stored for authentication. Well, what's the preferred method of entering a system? Not by brute forcing the passwords, but by getting a hold of current user's passwords... that little file that is the representation of your retina. (probably offtopic, but still something to consider.)
Defeated by a "wiley hacker"..... if your rythm is recorded, use a steady rythm, say, one keystroke every other second. Suddenly their "ingenious protection technology" is about as useful as the old X-wing method.
Unfortuately, they kept the ones the finger in the lens, and then those crazy shots of the after-party at the Best Western (TM) with that wacky intern, Matilda from the UK (maybe they can get the nubmers right now)
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I spent four years as a Secure Communications tech (that's CRYPTO to you, ground rat) and a year in turkey between 98-99 when were you there? Drop me a line laslo slineyp at hotmail dot com...
Anyway, I concurr with theses guys. I learned a lot, i wouldn't trade it for anything, would i have stayed in, no. did I make the right choice in joining, yes. It was a valuable experience. Besides.. you skills might not always be matched it's said. BUT..... If you go to the recruiter SPECIFICALLY knowing what career code you want, you can wait to get it, or just walk on the deal. They NEED people like you VERY badly right now. They'll make exceptions. if it's air force, go for the 3c0x1 or 3c3x1 fields. Someone correct me if the AFSC codes have changed.
Alright, I'll take your advice and post rather than modding.
I still think you're wrong. And possibly trolling.
"We need to stop making new tools, even if they can be used for legal purposes." That is just patently ridiculous. If people had that attitude, then Nuclear research would have stopped before it started. Sure, we wouldn't have nukes, but then we'd also have nothing like chemo therapy and the advanced Diagnostic imaging techniques we do now.
Think about your logic before you post.
Forgot the other caveat: Beware utiliztion creep! Some figures place effective disk utilization at 35%. Check out vitualization products. They can allow you to slice/dice/julianne that disk to any OS, device, environmet. It can make the IT manager a savior because they effective double the storage capacity of that huge RAID box you just paid $Million for.
sighup stated earlier, but it bears elaboration: What are you looking for? When you are looking for storage, what are your design goals? Do you just need to expand file storage? NAS may be the answer.. Do you need complete control of your environment and HA? Then SAN is the way to go. (Despite the detractor, SAN _is_ here, and I've seen a few successful implementations) Your design goals will determine what environment you need (you do have those, right? or did Ye Olde PHB decide he wanted "one of those SANS thingies". There are several caveats, of course. There is no market leader in SAN (there are only leaders from other markets, trying to get into san (compaq, sun, etc). Some vendors claim to work with others, but in truth, it's a very narrow window of compatibility. If you have a large, complex, heterogenous environment, then it really pays to have an experienced solution provider asess your environment. (semi-plug) I sysadmin for a small san solution company. Email me with a description of your environment. I'll sit down with our engineers and knock heads. The market and sales droids won't see it. I'm not disclosing the name of the company and I do not speak for them.
Anyone, Anywhere in the valley, actually. cryptopimp at uswest dot net To email me, use your brain.
Retinal scans are a nice whizz-bang toy, but consider... what is that scan of your retina.. it's your password. Your password has to be converted to a key of some sort and stored for authentication. Well, what's the preferred method of entering a system? Not by brute forcing the passwords, but by getting a hold of current user's passwords... that little file that is the representation of your retina. (probably offtopic, but still something to consider.)
Defeated by a "wiley hacker"..... if your rythm is recorded, use a steady rythm, say, one keystroke every other second. Suddenly their "ingenious protection technology" is about as useful as the old X-wing method.
So far my only luck has been in schmoozing the instructor for a copy of cisco's sim.
Unfortuately, they kept the ones the finger in the lens, and then those crazy shots of the after-party at the Best Western (TM) with that wacky intern, Matilda from the UK (maybe they can get the nubmers right now)
Oooh ooh ooh! Let's try to duplicate the action and flow of MYST! yeah, and make it even harder this....oh wait, nevemind..