As customs try to figure out if the US spec DRM-enabled laptop you took abroad with you is the same one you're bringing back, or if you've done a naughty and swapped it with the same model intended for some much less restirictive market (eg. Australia where unlike here the DVD players don't have region coding)
This could get really silly as you could retain the case (and serial number) but swap the mobo!
Anyone out there deployed a wireless network over a LANE backbone. Roaming doesn't work, but I'm wondering if I can reduce the timers suffiently that it will nearly work ?
I have several UltraStar SCSI and Travelstar 2.5" drives - only ever had problems with one and it was about 5 years old at the time. Hard drives have become a commodity - there's not much money to be made actually making and selling them. IBM makes money on its many storage patents though, and I'd expect them to keep up their R&D in that arena advancing the state of the art for years to come.
I've worked for several Fortune 500 firms, in their IT departments and seen the folly of over restrictive practices. Three of the companies restricted access alot. Ports would not even be opened on the firewalls if there was a business case, leading to quite senior people in IT and other departments using dialup accounts from their desktops. One company had such restrictive worldwide security guidelines that individual business units were getting T1 lines and not disclosing their existence when we did security audits (I worked for central IT) The company I work for now and one other are very relaxed - the firewalls don't let much in but let pretty much anything out. Result, no one routes around the company firewalls/virus scanners/IDS sensors/caches we're not allowed to pass MP3's but that's about it. Yes dialup can be prevented if the desktops are locked down, and the phones on users desks are digital, but 3G phones are coming, many with Bluetooth/IRDA, companies are better off being resonable now rather than losing visibity of what their employees are doing.
Absolutely. The media companies still have their heads in the sand, they need to wake up and see that the world's a small place now. If they persist with region locks, and big time lags/price differences between regions they should expect people to bypass them and chip their DVD players and download the TV episodes they can't get. My wife is American and I'm English, we've lived on both continents and either way one of us is downloading stuff - I'd happily pay a per episode fee to do it legally - of course I'd want to be able to keep the episode on disc or tape until it's released on DVD so streaming's not what I'm after. I echo what others have said above, Napster happened because the music industry didn't step up to the plate with a solution of it's own. The TV networks (many of the same companies) are repeating the error.
I'm responsible for security for a 20 acre wireless net. The biggest problem I have is that I inherited the net and it's multivendor.
Cisco LEAP is great on 1/3 of it - and with WEP and 4 hour keys I feel it's as secure as I'd like it - running a VPN seems overkill and not user friendly. The Avaya (Lucent/Orinoco) bits are a pain because the client devices don't support any advanced security (they're cash registers) and on the Symbol bit the clients are handheld bar code scanners - which don't even support WEP.
The solution, firewalls - each wireless net is a VLAN which only has limited connectivity to the rest of the net. Some cracker can spend the time to get onto the LAN if they want to but they're not going to find anything interesting. The couple of servers that are available are hardened as if they were on the DMZ - I suspect this is the answer for alot of firms until multi-vendor wireless security is sorted out, which I think will be in a year when the clients/APs are replaced with 802.11a or 802.11g devices (we'll wait for 802.11g 'cos the range on 802.11a is unworkable)
Trendy to be paranoid, trendy to appear to be paranoid anyhow. I work at one of the movie studios in Hollywood. Working here is now a PITA, every single car is inspected every single time it enters the lot - mirror underneath, trunk open. It takes ages and I wouldn't mind if they were actually being thorough. However my trunk is full of stuff - tools boxes etc. Do they ever say a work about it ? What a joke. At least it's created lots of jobs.
Companies should be checking domain name availability before coming up with names, either that or develop a more relaxed attitude to all the different TLD's. - I worked for too many firms that consider 300 odd names their right.
Interestingly the first powered flight is actually credited to John Stringfellow of Chard in Somerset, England in 1848. The Wright brothers even credited him with doing the groundwork required to enable their first powered flight with a human passenger.
They restrict bandwidth on peer-to-peer and common service ports, presumably using prioritisation on their routers. I understand restrictions on ports 21,80 etc. But surely the telcos stand to benefit from more widespread adoption of broadband based on the demand for the peer-to-peer stuff.
Apparently the only way to cancel an account is to email support.
I've had nightmares with them as a Brit living in the US, I have both UK and US addresses and credit cards but they have no way to support that whatsoever. I just don't buy from people who want Paypal anymore, it's too much hassle...
The international account stuff drives me nuts 'cos there is lower credit card fraud in Europe anyhow yet they require all this confirmation shit - then when that card expires you have to do it all again...
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On the one hand they encourage sites to use non-standard tags VB script etc. so pages don't work properly on non-MS platforms. On the other they're buying the access, again forcing people to migrate to MS products if they want service.
Mac, and Linux and other users are stuffed...
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As customs try to figure out if the US spec DRM-enabled laptop you took abroad with you is the same one you're bringing back, or if you've done a naughty and swapped it with the same model intended for some much less restirictive market (eg. Australia where unlike here the DVD players don't have region coding)
This could get really silly as you could retain the case (and serial number) but swap the mobo!
Anyone out there deployed a wireless network over a LANE backbone. Roaming doesn't work, but I'm wondering if I can reduce the timers suffiently that it will nearly work ?
Any ideas ?
I have several UltraStar SCSI and Travelstar 2.5" drives - only ever had problems with one and it was about 5 years old at the time.
Hard drives have become a commodity - there's not much money to be made actually making and selling them. IBM makes money on its many storage patents though, and I'd expect them to keep up their R&D in that arena advancing the state of the art for years to come.
I've worked for several Fortune 500 firms, in their IT departments and seen the folly of over restrictive practices.
Three of the companies restricted access alot. Ports would not even be opened on the firewalls if there was a business case, leading to quite senior people in IT and other departments using dialup accounts from their desktops. One company had such restrictive worldwide security guidelines that individual business units were getting T1 lines and not disclosing their existence when we did security audits (I worked for central IT)
The company I work for now and one other are very relaxed - the firewalls don't let much in but let pretty much anything out. Result, no one routes around the company firewalls/virus scanners/IDS sensors/caches we're not allowed to pass MP3's but that's about it.
Yes dialup can be prevented if the desktops are locked down, and the phones on users desks are digital, but 3G phones are coming, many with Bluetooth/IRDA, companies are better off being resonable now rather than losing visibity of what their employees are doing.
Absolutely. The media companies still have their heads in the sand, they need to wake up and see that the world's a small place now.
If they persist with region locks, and big time lags/price differences between regions they should expect people to bypass them and chip their DVD players and download the TV episodes they can't get.
My wife is American and I'm English, we've lived on both continents and either way one of us is downloading stuff - I'd happily pay a per episode fee to do it legally - of course I'd want to be able to keep the episode on disc or tape until it's released on DVD so streaming's not what I'm after.
I echo what others have said above, Napster happened because the music industry didn't step up to the plate with a solution of it's own. The TV networks (many of the same companies) are repeating the error.
I'm responsible for security for a 20 acre wireless net. The biggest problem I have is that I inherited the net and it's multivendor.
Cisco LEAP is great on 1/3 of it - and with WEP and 4 hour keys I feel it's as secure as I'd like it - running a VPN seems overkill and not user friendly. The Avaya (Lucent/Orinoco) bits are a pain because the client devices don't support any advanced security (they're cash registers) and on the Symbol bit the clients are handheld bar code scanners - which don't even support WEP.
The solution, firewalls - each wireless net is a VLAN which only has limited connectivity to the rest of the net. Some cracker can spend the time to get onto the LAN if they want to but they're not going to find anything interesting. The couple of servers that are available are hardened as if they were on the DMZ - I suspect this is the answer for alot of firms until multi-vendor wireless security is sorted out, which I think will be in a year when the clients/APs are replaced with 802.11a or 802.11g devices (we'll wait for 802.11g 'cos the range on 802.11a is unworkable)
Trendy to be paranoid, trendy to appear to be paranoid anyhow. I work at one of the movie studios in Hollywood. Working here is now a PITA, every single car is inspected every single time it enters the lot - mirror underneath, trunk open. It takes ages and I wouldn't mind if they were actually being thorough. However my trunk is full of stuff - tools boxes etc. Do they ever say a work about it ? What a joke. At least it's created lots of jobs.
Companies should be checking domain name availability before coming up with names, either that or develop a more relaxed attitude to all the different TLD's. - I worked for too many firms that consider 300 odd names their right.
Interestingly the first powered flight is actually credited to John Stringfellow of Chard in Somerset, England in 1848. The Wright brothers even credited him with doing the groundwork required to enable their first powered flight with a human passenger.
They restrict bandwidth on peer-to-peer and common service ports, presumably using prioritisation on their routers. I understand restrictions on ports 21,80 etc. But surely the telcos stand to benefit from more widespread adoption of broadband based on the demand for the peer-to-peer stuff.
Apparently the only way to cancel an account is to email support.
I've had nightmares with them as a Brit living in the US, I have both UK and US addresses and credit cards but they have no way to support that whatsoever. I just don't buy from people who want Paypal anymore, it's too much hassle...
The international account stuff drives me nuts 'cos there is lower credit card fraud in Europe anyhow yet they require all this confirmation shit - then when that card expires you have to do it all again...
On the one hand they encourage sites to use non-standard tags VB script etc. so pages don't work properly on non-MS platforms. On the other they're buying the access, again forcing people to migrate to MS products if they want service. Mac, and Linux and other users are stuffed...