They think they can't find enough qualified applicants. Easy
The truth is the CEO's have no clue what the director or jr VP 3 levels down did to cut costs to raise the share price. OUTSOURCED! If the CEO asks the jr VP of finance says well Mr. CEO we couldn't find enough qualified applicants to keep our systems up. We had no choice but to use WIPRO.
SMoke is soo blown up asses at that level which many do not know what the reality is. This is why undercover boss was popular on TV. The CEO undercover will visit typically an underperforming and an overperforming store so he or she can see firsthand what is going on. Or they will go through their whole supply chain to see something and figure out how this sh*t works from the production floor to the customer.
Back before it was considered an evil cost center, tech was once used as a tool and process engineering. You need internet, email, spreadsheets, databases, business intelligence, statistics, social media marketing, etc.
The newer companies GET IT. You want to sell more product? Don't do silly commercials. Go to facebook, twitter, and use analytics from these to find out what your customers want and to support fan driven sites. That is just one example.
The NFL gets it! THe dying companies do not and are reactive and view IT as plumbing and only spend money AFTER something fails.
Dude? It's not Linux. It's Freebsd and no it's not a distro by some fat guy in a basement either. It's part of the Freebsd project and foundation. Get with the program!
It is. They sell racks with pfsense loaded on. I was reading maximumpc which is now owned by pcgamer last year from an editor who tried 10 GBS internet for his own. Guess what?
I saw a screenshot of his rack in his garage and I recognized the pfsense screen:&). Comcast uses the same equipment for load balancing and routing fast Ethernet and bundled it for him. He bought the rack as nothing consumer grade could handle greater than 2 gigs as a router and VPN for his home. Pfsense is actually owned by the FreeBSD project too so it's not fully private.
I use it at home for my virtual machines for my silly mcse exams. I used server 2k3 as a router for my virtual networks previously. Anyway I have a cloned image of pfsense for VMware and Hyper-V as the Freebsd project included guest services for both in the kernel
You think the republicans are the 'bad guys' and the 'democrats' are the good guys?
Let me introduce you to Ty Harrell. Former Democrat representative for north Carolina. One of the early net neutrality proponents. Then the republicans took over. He got thrown out. Guess who loved net neutrality now and thought it was the devils work? When one year earlier it was the polar opposite. This is nothing more than we are being played by lobbyist who write our bills bribe our representatives and then pretend it is a partisan issue. You think Hillary would have done better? Some of her biggest donations came from AT&T, Verizon, TW, and Charter.
Yes keep up the fight against it. But do not pretend those people in Washington support you. None of them do. Not one of them. Your real enemies are the very people you pay for internet access.
Funny under Obama under Wheeler the FCC stopped rubber stamping bills written by the monopolies and started enforcing net neutrality. You all thought Trump would support you and he would end H1B1 visas. Well you were wrong, he does not care.
Regardless of whether they pushed it back or not, if they're planning to release next Tuesday then disclosing the hole with PoC exploit code is just irresponsible. You could have waited 5 more days.
Probably because it will break a SHIT load of intranet and Sharepoint apps on corporate networks. Then the next headline on Slashdot is... MS RELEASES EVIL UPDATE THAT RUINS CORPORATE NETWORKS... then we see the negative comments here about updates etc.
MS can not catch a break either way.
Yes having SMB over TCP/IP sounds outright retarded. But many corporate apps on different subnets can not route SMB because of NetBie which is a non routable protocol layer 2 . So Sharepoint and VBScript encapsulate this over TCP/IP as a workaround.
Why is joke on me? TV is for 4 K. Phones are 2 and 4K. Everything else that is cheaper is beyond 1K. I thought a freaking PC should be more advanced than a stupid TV or phone.
I don't get fonts rant? No one cares about great fonts at 1K. Worse, people sit far away from TVs and use tiny bitty screens on their phones and yet sit close on zoomed in PC screen where you can see pixels. Come one Microsoft .
Oh and you wonder how bad it is and which version of Windows? I have the latest Windows 10 and the GDI is so buggy that my 2nd screen gets out of place zoomed and pixelated menus at 1080p??! Yes, Windows will forget which screen is which and fuck up the 1080P 2nd monitor menus and fonts too. Oh and occasionally will swap monitors1 and 2 when switching scaling or resolutions. This could be my AMD drivers too?
But in 2017 it is a reasonable expectation to plug in a 4K monitor and have it work with no bugs just like Android or MacOSX.
Wait a second. MS just invented an efficient way to checkout the Linux kernel on windows, so you can get the kernel sources, compile it, and then run Linux and ditch Windows ? That's great !!
And they use Android on Visual Studio and develop Ximarron with an Apache style license for Linux, Android, and MacOSX development... on VS 2015 community edition and VS 2015 also uses GIT too.
Yes, MS is getting with the times since Windows is not what it once was. Amazing isn't it when competition is allowed again.
I bought a 4K screen and good GOD what a nightmare. I hate Apple ALOT, but give Apple Kudos no problems when Retna hit MacOSX in 2011. It is freaking 2017 so who the hell uses 100 DPI anymore?! Really, a cheap ass phone has a better screen than a $900 PC.
Would be a dream come true. Ditch the abomination (Windows) and do like Jobs did by putting a nice GUI on top of a "Unix".
Yes it's fashionable to bash MS here. However, like IBM MS got nicer when losing their monopoly.
Anyway like any organization or company they make great and shitty software. MS makes great office and development tools. THeir operating systems and browsers are mediocre at best.
With GNU they make great operating systems and development tools but shitty office
Of course they raised the share price and made shareholders and banks rich. THe banks give them a tiny piece of the cut back in the form of a bonus for giving them extra money each quarter
We use signed boot loaders at work and for me at home for a VM of Fedora. They provide rootkit protection and yes CentOS, FreeBSD, and Fedora use bootloaders. You sign your own and add the keys. You do not need to use Microsoft's ones. Microsoft does have keys for Redhat based Oses and FreeBSD if you want to go that route instead but in no way are you hostage to Redmond.
The goal of a corporation is to raise the share price. No else. IT MUST GO UP every quarter FOREVER or the CEO is fired. Sure as CHina grows they buy more but you need to keep cutting costs in commodities like IT and workers to make Wall Street happy
So if I were a cracker I would just forge Norton or McAfee certificate and I can MITM all your freaking data! Hello spearfish from Lenovo all over again and free banking info now since I unencrypted your session to bank of America. That is scary and a big vulnerability. Enterprises get weekly updates. Home users don't
But what happens to the "personal" in personal computers? I shuddered 10 years ago when slashdoter LOVED iOS and Android but bashed Windows for control??? Really?!
With Windows you can at least talk to your hardware and do what you want on it. True it's harder due to security as security and UAC block things but you can work around.
I started doing PC support in my Field with Grandmas and small business.
AV software WAS USEFUL in the XP/98 era. I would argue with slashdoters calling them morons for not running it as you had 1 min max before infection on Windows 2000 or XP with no firewall!!L
We all ran admin istrator aka root and Win32 even had account personation services. Gee a dialup with no firewall or shitty software one with IE 6 running Java and Adobe flash without a sandbox on a local admin account was the norm so what could possibly go wrong!!??
Vista god bless it made UAC, privilege speration, scrambled ram addresses with aslr, buffer overflow protected buffers in c/c++, and psuedo local admin accountants which instead used a token to run something. Thanks Theo from OpenBSD for inspiration.
Windows 10 goes further too by using x86 features to separate data from executable bits directly on the CPU and signed bootloaders.
AdBlock and sandboxed Adobe products and AdBlock all make Windows OK now. Not perfect, but OK.
I just reused an Asus sabertooth I threw out in storage 2 years ago . I thought it was broken! Why? Esset kept making my ssds loose data. I thought SATA ports were bad. Went thru 3 expensive ssds. It was my damn AV software glitching them.
Keep updates current, run AdBlock, DNS service like the free Norton DNS servers on your router's, and heaven sakes don't click everything you download and you will be fine in 2017. AV software forges SSL certificates too which is dangerous
HTML 5 is moving too fast! It is very very big and not just a simple neutered XML with text with tags like HMTL 1,2,3, and 4.
It includes special e6 javascript, CSS 3, 3.1, media codecs, webrtc for webcams, buffering algorithms, and the proper implementations. HTML 5 is as big as ajax, css, and HMTL 1,2,3, and 4 combined.
Guess what? HTML 6 or 5.1 depending on which standards body is being worked upon... just by Google setting the standards with Microsoft having some role too. Mozilla and Apple are irrelevant these days
So no it has nothing to do with quality. The fact is the more software does the more surfaces that need to be secured, fixed, or updated. Linux is bad because of Xorg, drivers, kernel, and applications.
Even nuclear rector control systems running ancient DEC VMS systems still get updates.
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They think they can't find enough qualified applicants. Easy
The truth is the CEO's have no clue what the director or jr VP 3 levels down did to cut costs to raise the share price. OUTSOURCED! If the CEO asks the jr VP of finance says well Mr. CEO we couldn't find enough qualified applicants to keep our systems up. We had no choice but to use WIPRO.
SMoke is soo blown up asses at that level which many do not know what the reality is. This is why undercover boss was popular on TV. The CEO undercover will visit typically an underperforming and an overperforming store so he or she can see firsthand what is going on. Or they will go through their whole supply chain to see something and figure out how this sh*t works from the production floor to the customer.
Back before it was considered an evil cost center, tech was once used as a tool and process engineering. You need internet, email, spreadsheets, databases, business intelligence, statistics, social media marketing, etc.
The newer companies GET IT. You want to sell more product? Don't do silly commercials. Go to facebook, twitter, and use analytics from these to find out what your customers want and to support fan driven sites. That is just one example.
The NFL gets it! THe dying companies do not and are reactive and view IT as plumbing and only spend money AFTER something fails.
I hear certain 2016 presidential candidate losers don't mind child rapists as long as they pay their legal bills.
Funny, the other one already is in court for just that
Dude Erlang man
It's the real Rockstar language for you hipsters
Here is an article from 2014 http://pfsensesetup.com/vpn-tu...?
Also the ports are included too so if something is not installed it's a CD /usr/ports and a make install clean away
Dude? It's not Linux. It's Freebsd and no it's not a distro by some fat guy in a basement either. It's part of the Freebsd project and foundation. Get with the program!
It is. They sell racks with pfsense loaded on. I was reading maximumpc which is now owned by pcgamer last year from an editor who tried 10 GBS internet for his own. Guess what?
I saw a screenshot of his rack in his garage and I recognized the pfsense screen :&). Comcast uses the same equipment for load balancing and routing fast Ethernet and bundled it for him. He bought the rack as nothing consumer grade could handle greater than 2 gigs as a router and VPN for his home. Pfsense is actually owned by the FreeBSD project too so it's not fully private.
I use it at home for my virtual machines for my silly mcse exams. I used server 2k3 as a router for my virtual networks previously. Anyway I have a cloned image of pfsense for VMware and Hyper-V as the Freebsd project included guest services for both in the kernel
Everyone and their brother uses pfsense and is part of the Freebsd project. Is OPNsense just a clone or a fork? What does it do that pfsense can't?
You think the republicans are the 'bad guys' and the 'democrats' are the good guys?
Let me introduce you to Ty Harrell. Former Democrat representative for north Carolina. One of the early net neutrality proponents. Then the republicans took over. He got thrown out. Guess who loved net neutrality now and thought it was the devils work? When one year earlier it was the polar opposite. This is nothing more than we are being played by lobbyist who write our bills bribe our representatives and then pretend it is a partisan issue. You think Hillary would have done better? Some of her biggest donations came from AT&T, Verizon, TW, and Charter.
http://stopthecap.com/2011/03/...
Yes keep up the fight against it. But do not pretend those people in Washington support you. None of them do. Not one of them. Your real enemies are the very people you pay for internet access.
Funny under Obama under Wheeler the FCC stopped rubber stamping bills written by the monopolies and started enforcing net neutrality. You all thought Trump would support you and he would end H1B1 visas. Well you were wrong, he does not care.
Hey you all voted for Trump thinking he will be our IT hero for jobs.
Live with your choices?
Regardless of whether they pushed it back or not, if they're planning to release next Tuesday then disclosing the hole with PoC exploit code is just irresponsible. You could have waited 5 more days.
Probably because it will break a SHIT load of intranet and Sharepoint apps on corporate networks. Then the next headline on Slashdot is ... MS RELEASES EVIL UPDATE THAT RUINS CORPORATE NETWORKS ... then we see the negative comments here about updates etc.
MS can not catch a break either way.
Yes having SMB over TCP/IP sounds outright retarded. But many corporate apps on different subnets can not route SMB because of NetBie which is a non routable protocol layer 2 . So Sharepoint and VBScript encapsulate this over TCP/IP as a workaround.
This is why one should block outbound SMB traffic as well.
As I said, firewall. Keep that junk contained to a intranet/VPN. SMB does not belong on the internet, in the clear at least.
No Grandma ... look go to 192.168.1.1. No grandma in your browser ... no in Chrome type that in ... no go to firewall ...
Why is joke on me? TV is for 4 K. Phones are 2 and 4K. Everything else that is cheaper is beyond 1K. I thought a freaking PC should be more advanced than a stupid TV or phone.
I don't get fonts rant? No one cares about great fonts at 1K. Worse, people sit far away from TVs and use tiny bitty screens on their phones and yet sit close on zoomed in PC screen where you can see pixels. Come one Microsoft .
Oh and you wonder how bad it is and which version of Windows? I have the latest Windows 10 and the GDI is so buggy that my 2nd screen gets out of place zoomed and pixelated menus at 1080p??! Yes, Windows will forget which screen is which and fuck up the 1080P 2nd monitor menus and fonts too. Oh and occasionally will swap monitors1 and 2 when switching scaling or resolutions. This could be my AMD drivers too?
But in 2017 it is a reasonable expectation to plug in a 4K monitor and have it work with no bugs just like Android or MacOSX.
So the stories about 5K monitors miss the point
Wait a second.
MS just invented an efficient way to checkout the Linux kernel on windows, so you can get the kernel sources, compile it, and then run Linux and ditch Windows ?
That's great !!
And they use Android on Visual Studio and develop Ximarron with an Apache style license for Linux, Android, and MacOSX development ... on VS 2015 community edition and VS 2015 also uses GIT too.
Yes, MS is getting with the times since Windows is not what it once was. Amazing isn't it when competition is allowed again.
Exactly their OSes are mediocre.
I bought a 4K screen and good GOD what a nightmare. I hate Apple ALOT, but give Apple Kudos no problems when Retna hit MacOSX in 2011. It is freaking 2017 so who the hell uses 100 DPI anymore?! Really, a cheap ass phone has a better screen than a $900 PC.
Would be a dream come true. Ditch the abomination (Windows) and do like Jobs did by putting a nice GUI on top of a "Unix".
Yes it's fashionable to bash MS here. However, like IBM MS got nicer when losing their monopoly.
Anyway like any organization or company they make great and shitty software. MS makes great office and development tools. THeir operating systems and browsers are mediocre at best.
With GNU they make great operating systems and development tools but shitty office
Of course they raised the share price and made shareholders and banks rich. THe banks give them a tiny piece of the cut back in the form of a bonus for giving them extra money each quarter
We use signed boot loaders at work and for me at home for a VM of Fedora. They provide rootkit protection and yes CentOS, FreeBSD, and Fedora use bootloaders. You sign your own and add the keys. You do not need to use Microsoft's ones. Microsoft does have keys for Redhat based Oses and FreeBSD if you want to go that route instead but in no way are you hostage to Redmond.
It's an intel standard
The CEO's are not getting that money.
The goal of a corporation is to raise the share price. No else. IT MUST GO UP every quarter FOREVER or the CEO is fired. Sure as CHina grows they buy more but you need to keep cutting costs in commodities like IT and workers to make Wall Street happy
Windows10 has SEH handling and it requires work to get around ASLR. It's not impossible but compared to XP it's a big improvement
So if I were a cracker I would just forge Norton or McAfee certificate and I can MITM all your freaking data! Hello spearfish from Lenovo all over again and free banking info now since I unencrypted your session to bank of America. That is scary and a big vulnerability. Enterprises get weekly updates. Home users don't
But what happens to the "personal" in personal computers? I shuddered 10 years ago when slashdoter LOVED iOS and Android but bashed Windows for control??? Really?!
With Windows you can at least talk to your hardware and do what you want on it. True it's harder due to security as security and UAC block things but you can work around.
I started doing PC support in my Field with Grandmas and small business.
AV software WAS USEFUL in the XP/98 era. I would argue with slashdoters calling them morons for not running it as you had 1 min max before infection on Windows 2000 or XP with no firewall!!L
We all ran admin istrator aka root and Win32 even had account personation services. Gee a dialup with no firewall or shitty software one with IE 6 running Java and Adobe flash without a sandbox on a local admin account was the norm so what could possibly go wrong!!??
Vista god bless it made UAC, privilege speration, scrambled ram addresses with aslr, buffer overflow protected buffers in c/c++, and psuedo local admin accountants which instead used a token to run something. Thanks Theo from OpenBSD for inspiration.
Windows 10 goes further too by using x86 features to separate data from executable bits directly on the CPU and signed bootloaders.
AdBlock and sandboxed Adobe products and AdBlock all make Windows OK now. Not perfect, but OK.
I just reused an Asus sabertooth I threw out in storage 2 years ago . I thought it was broken! Why? Esset kept making my ssds loose data. I thought SATA ports were bad. Went thru 3 expensive ssds. It was my damn AV software glitching them.
Keep updates current, run AdBlock, DNS service like the free Norton DNS servers on your router's, and heaven sakes don't click everything you download and you will be fine in 2017. AV software forges SSL certificates too which is dangerous
HTML 5 is moving too fast! It is very very big and not just a simple neutered XML with text with tags like HMTL 1,2,3, and 4.
It includes special e6 javascript, CSS 3, 3.1, media codecs, webrtc for webcams, buffering algorithms, and the proper implementations. HTML 5 is as big as ajax, css, and HMTL 1,2,3, and 4 combined.
Guess what? HTML 6 or 5.1 depending on which standards body is being worked upon ... just by Google setting the standards with Microsoft having some role too. Mozilla and Apple are irrelevant these days
Linux has more updates than any other OS!
So no it has nothing to do with quality. The fact is the more software does the more surfaces that need to be secured, fixed, or updated. Linux is bad because of Xorg, drivers, kernel, and applications.
Even nuclear rector control systems running ancient DEC VMS systems still get updates.