From my experience working as a co-op at a defense contractor, Systems Engineering is not well applied to software development, as in they have very little in common. As a software developer there, the main interface to Systems Engineering is the project schedule. Most Systems Engineers have no programming experience (and my work seems to prefer it that way), so we end up with people telling us how long it will take to do something even though they have no reasonable basis for estimate. One wonders why projects end up over budget.
"Flashblock is an extension for the Mozilla and Firebird browsers that takes a pessemistic approach to dealing with Macromedia Flash content on a webpage and blocks ALL Flash content from loading. It then leaves a placeholder on the page that allows you to click to view the Flash content." - flashblock.mozdev.org
Works well for me but read the notes on the Installation page about known bugs. When you mouse over the blocked flash movies my cpu still shoots up a little, but not nearly as much as without this extention.
What I am saying is that if you did take the time to learn the new language, it would take you to learn it would be less than if you did not have any programming experience. In this case this doesn't apply since you don't have the time.
However, I think that learning the basic syntax and having a good reference to find the information you need is invaluable. Obviously, for a single shell script it may not be worth doing even that much, but if there is a chance that it will be useful in the future then you might learn it at that time anyway. Of course time and money are always limiting factors and what is best in any given situation may only be seen in hindsight.
Re:Sounds useful, but what languages are used?
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I already know too many computer languages to take the time to learn a new one just to use a script
Don't you really mean "I already know too many computer languages so learning another is not a problem"? I know maybe 10 or so, and I can't profess to know everything, but I think after you understand the basic concepts it doesn't matter what language it is in. Subprograms, objects, conditionals, and looping are the same concepts regardless of the language used; only the syntax is different. (Of course, there are always exceptions).
since they varied the use of scripting languages, not everything resulted in something I could use.
The point is the opposite of what you said. Some things resulted in things you could use, as opposed to nothing if you did not know the language used.
I agree that it is not the most viable option but it is an option nonetheless. I think that this void would best be fixed through a 3rd party utility that does create policies based on information about the client machine, especially in these post blaster days.
As far as #2 is concered, MS does have a partial solution. A Win Server 2k3 box acting as your RRAS gateway can be set up to quarantine boxes coming in through VPN based on their OS, etc, and set a policy on how to treat those machines (similar to group policy).
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From my experience working as a co-op at a defense contractor, Systems Engineering is not well applied to software development, as in they have very little in common. As a software developer there, the main interface to Systems Engineering is the project schedule. Most Systems Engineers have no programming experience (and my work seems to prefer it that way), so we end up with people telling us how long it will take to do something even though they have no reasonable basis for estimate. One wonders why projects end up over budget.
7-Zip http://www.7-zip.org/ works just fine for me, and has Linux and Windows versions.
"Flashblock is an extension for the Mozilla and Firebird browsers that takes a pessemistic approach to dealing with Macromedia Flash content on a webpage and blocks ALL Flash content from loading. It then leaves a placeholder on the page that allows you to click to view the Flash content." - flashblock.mozdev.org
Works well for me but read the notes on the Installation page about known bugs. When you mouse over the blocked flash movies my cpu still shoots up a little, but not nearly as much as without this extention.
What I am saying is that if you did take the time to learn the new language, it would take you to learn it would be less than if you did not have any programming experience. In this case this doesn't apply since you don't have the time.
However, I think that learning the basic syntax and having a good reference to find the information you need is invaluable. Obviously, for a single shell script it may not be worth doing even that much, but if there is a chance that it will be useful in the future then you might learn it at that time anyway. Of course time and money are always limiting factors and what is best in any given situation may only be seen in hindsight.
I agree that it is not the most viable option but it is an option nonetheless. I think that this void would best be fixed through a 3rd party utility that does create policies based on information about the client machine, especially in these post blaster days.
As far as #2 is concered, MS does have a partial solution. A Win Server 2k3 box acting as your RRAS gateway can be set up to quarantine boxes coming in through VPN based on their OS, etc, and set a policy on how to treat those machines (similar to group policy).