While a pretty comprehensive article, nowhere do they actually talk about reliablity and longevity of these drives in their value calculations. That's a pretty important factor for me, and has been one of the reasons (besides price) that I haven't seriously considered one yet.
My thoughts exactly. I'll also add: net value. Let's say you bought GTA IV on the 360 right when it came out: $60. Resell it when it's still that price, you might get $45-50. I just bought it on Steam this week for $7. Yes it's DRM'd, yes I can't resell it, and yes it's 2+ years old now, -BUT- I've netted less on it then if I bought the physical media at launch, plus I still own it indefinitely, can re-download it as many times as I want, and can use it on any PC that has Steam installed. I'd say I came out ahead.
...I seem to remember something about Apple posting job openings for antenna engineers, coincidentally at the same time the antenna problems hit the media. I guess now, since Apple figured out it was a sensor problem instead, they can hire their old engies back. Right?
I wouldn't want a.xxx suffix - it would make it even easier for firewalls and parental controls to filter/block my site's content. If anything, I'd register it as a supplement to my.com or.net URL.
Why bother spending all that money on infratstructure to extract those resources when you can just continue to profit from poppies and opiate production? God knows there will never cease to be a demand for that.
This might be a bit extreme and would require some infrastructure re-org, but you could use virtualization with VMWare ESXi or XenServer to snapshot your entire box. The software is free and the scheduling is pretty robust. It doesn’t directly help with the restore of individual files, but hell, you could restore entire servers independent of your production servers and pull the files that require restoration. I know, it’s a pretty roundabout solution, but, of course, server virtualization provides all kinds of other benefits beyond this. Plus, it wouldn’t matter what kernel you’re running.
Max Payne was a missed opportunity - the movie was practically written for the writers/director thanks to the comic cutscenes. But like every other VG movie, they didn't bother to play it, they invented their own story which made no sense, they took out any of Max's reflections and hallucenations, then mixed in all sorts of weird demonic crap. I just don't get it. I was really disappointed with that film.
This is all very good advice, but it's not good enough, especially when you're trying to protect computers in a corporate environment. Telling your users to follow these best practices and having them actually follow that advice are two entirely different things. Human nature dictates that over a long enough stretch of time, someone will, knowingly or unknowingly, click that flashy banner to download smiley faces. That's where AV comes in, provided your latest DAT didn't just pwn you.
There are plenty of AV apps out there with a small(ish) memory footprint. We're using Avira's corporate solution, and of the commercial apps, it's among the smallest out there - last I checked, it uses about 12MB at idle. Compare that to how much memory XP/Vista/7 use by themselves at idle, and it's not that much of a performance hit. So, in a sense, I guess you could say that _some_ virus scanners are the devil, and I wouldn't disagree with that sentiment where McAfee is concerned. Aside from this DAT debacle, it's bloated, the scan is painfully slow, and without some tweakage, the false positive rate is off the scale. I spent five years managing a McAfee server and I'm still glad it's gone.
Answer: no one. Microsoft has the only browser that can be centrally managed by an organization trying to remove the weak link of the end-user out of the equation. I'm not trying to say that IE on its own is safer than Firefox or Chrome or the rest. I'm also not saying that Joe Everyman has an enterprise backend managing his IE hotfixes. But if you're a business running Windows on workstations, there's no reason not to manage your IE hotfixes with WSUS and/or GPO's. At the very least, I'd argue that it's safer for the business/government/academic world, where AD dominates the backend.
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While a pretty comprehensive article, nowhere do they actually talk about reliablity and longevity of these drives in their value calculations. That's a pretty important factor for me, and has been one of the reasons (besides price) that I haven't seriously considered one yet.
I'm coding an exploit right now that will produce drinkable pee at twice the rate of the ISS device.
My thoughts exactly. I'll also add: net value. Let's say you bought GTA IV on the 360 right when it came out: $60. Resell it when it's still that price, you might get $45-50. I just bought it on Steam this week for $7. Yes it's DRM'd, yes I can't resell it, and yes it's 2+ years old now, -BUT- I've netted less on it then if I bought the physical media at launch, plus I still own it indefinitely, can re-download it as many times as I want, and can use it on any PC that has Steam installed. I'd say I came out ahead.
...I seem to remember something about Apple posting job openings for antenna engineers, coincidentally at the same time the antenna problems hit the media. I guess now, since Apple figured out it was a sensor problem instead, they can hire their old engies back. Right?
Wait for build 1729.
I wouldn't want a .xxx suffix - it would make it even easier for firewalls and parental controls to filter/block my site's content. If anything, I'd register it as a supplement to my .com or .net URL.
Why bother spending all that money on infratstructure to extract those resources when you can just continue to profit from poppies and opiate production? God knows there will never cease to be a demand for that.
This might be a bit extreme and would require some infrastructure re-org, but you could use virtualization with VMWare ESXi or XenServer to snapshot your entire box. The software is free and the scheduling is pretty robust. It doesn’t directly help with the restore of individual files, but hell, you could restore entire servers independent of your production servers and pull the files that require restoration. I know, it’s a pretty roundabout solution, but, of course, server virtualization provides all kinds of other benefits beyond this. Plus, it wouldn’t matter what kernel you’re running.
Max Payne was a missed opportunity - the movie was practically written for the writers/director thanks to the comic cutscenes. But like every other VG movie, they didn't bother to play it, they invented their own story which made no sense, they took out any of Max's reflections and hallucenations, then mixed in all sorts of weird demonic crap. I just don't get it. I was really disappointed with that film.
Well played - you beat me to the punch on the obligatory Korea joke.
Turns out he's not actually a professor at all!
This is all very good advice, but it's not good enough, especially when you're trying to protect computers in a corporate environment. Telling your users to follow these best practices and having them actually follow that advice are two entirely different things. Human nature dictates that over a long enough stretch of time, someone will, knowingly or unknowingly, click that flashy banner to download smiley faces. That's where AV comes in, provided your latest DAT didn't just pwn you.
There are plenty of AV apps out there with a small(ish) memory footprint. We're using Avira's corporate solution, and of the commercial apps, it's among the smallest out there - last I checked, it uses about 12MB at idle. Compare that to how much memory XP/Vista/7 use by themselves at idle, and it's not that much of a performance hit. So, in a sense, I guess you could say that _some_ virus scanners are the devil, and I wouldn't disagree with that sentiment where McAfee is concerned. Aside from this DAT debacle, it's bloated, the scan is painfully slow, and without some tweakage, the false positive rate is off the scale. I spent five years managing a McAfee server and I'm still glad it's gone.
Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
Answer: no one. Microsoft has the only browser that can be centrally managed by an organization trying to remove the weak link of the end-user out of the equation. I'm not trying to say that IE on its own is safer than Firefox or Chrome or the rest. I'm also not saying that Joe Everyman has an enterprise backend managing his IE hotfixes. But if you're a business running Windows on workstations, there's no reason not to manage your IE hotfixes with WSUS and/or GPO's. At the very least, I'd argue that it's safer for the business/government/academic world, where AD dominates the backend.