I ordered a frame relay from them, had some trouble with them delivering on it. I was included on a round of internal emails regarding the order, and included was the internal ticket they use for order tracking. On the ticket was the SSN of the person who handles our account. I was shocked that they so freely distribute employee SSNs like that.
Juniper Neoteris. Rock solid SSL VPN. Doesn't cost all that much, has robust features and granular access control. Comes with an ActiveX or Java client so you're not limiting yourself to just Windows users being able to use it.
Yes they do. The Nevada Gaming Commission (GCB) has a List of Excluded Individuals, commonly known as the "Black Book". These people are officially banned from setting foot in a Nevada casino for either having Mob ties or being a cheat (not The Cheat). Last time I saw it, there were about 30 people listed.
Apart from that, each casino maintains its own blacklist of people that have been excluded from the property. The casinos will share info with each other as its part of their common interests to keep cheats out.
Part of it is because almost all the casinos on the Strip are by a couple of parent companies (most on the Strip are owned by MGM/Mirage), IIRC Wynn is the only one that is independant. Another aspect is that the communities within the casino industry are very small. Security and IT especially- you hear what is going on at the other casinos all the time.
As an aside, because the IT community is so small here, you wind up knowing just about everyone in the business either as friends or friends of friends. We wind up hearing a lot that goes on at other properties, who has talent and who to avoid when hiring.
This holds especially true on Slashdot, but still applies to other discussion groups... whenever someone mentions Technology X, and talks about it in other then glowing praise, it's always considered to be an attack on said Technology. There is only one exception to this rule, and that is when it comes to anything Microsoft, in which it automatically sucks. Hooray beer^H^H^H^H GroupThink!
Why does anyone continue to give Stallman any credibility? A publicit stunt for sure, but in the end could very well reflect negatively on the community as a whole.
Why the hell would any mission critical or emergency service be using the Internet as a medium for transport? These services should be on their own redundant private networks.
People have been predicting the death of the Internet for years. First 56k modems were going to do it, then the glut of DSL and cable subscribers. Now it's going to be all the fibre to premises customers and Google. After that it will probably be WiMAX because now we're going to have kilometers of wireless coverage that anyone can jump on. These people seem to forget that bandwidth is a two-way street. You might have 5Mbps down, and all your neighbors, but the hosted server most likely has a bandwidth lock at 1Gbps or so... that's your limiting factor, not how much bandwidth you can pull down.
I'm one of the head network honchos at a Very Large Company... things like AIM, MSN Messenger, Skype, Limewire and BitTorrent are all banned and blocked. We monitor our employee web usage, block just about every outbound network port except for 80 and 443. Why? Because even though we know why Skype is, our policy forbids users from installing software that we don't provide. We certainly don't want users utilizing our 100Mbps lines for donwloading pr0n, MP3s and warez. We don't want support calls from users who have bolloxed up their machines by installing $UNAPPROVED_SOFTWARE_PACKAGE, diverting valuable resources to try to fix this. We don't want the worms, viruses, spyware and other crap that comes with some of these packages. Every employee that uses a computer reads and signs our usage agreement, so they know what we expect from them. Some of them try, and some get to see the man when they do.
Because of all the attack vectors, we have to spend many tens of thousands of dollars on antivirus, monitoring software, desktop security agents, intrusion detection, firewalls and what have you...
Things like SOX and HIPAA make it extremely hard for us to "just let users be". We can't allow unmanaged VoIP or instant messenging. FTP? Blocked. SSH? Blocked. Our data could easily walk out of here, which is why on top of the layer 3 blocks, we block USB access as well. Our users are given the tools they need to get their jobs done. And if data can walk out of here, there is certainly possiblity that something nasty could come in. We'd rather not have to deal with that possibility, so we make sure we don't have to.
It's the company's network, they can dictate how its used. Don't like it? Don't use our network. Go home, do whatever you want on your equipment, but when you're in my house, it's my rules.
Apart from a "deny by default" firewall policy, our user policy pretty much says that users will not install any software that isn't provided by the company. We don't provide Skype, so why should we allow them to use it?
Besides, what are you using that takes 3 minutes to open a spreadsheet anyway?
Calc itself, for one thing. When I first tried using it I thought it had hung because it took so long to fire up. Only by accident when I tried starting it up and walked off to get a Dew did I notice that it was just taking a horrendously long amount of time just to start- and that's not involving an Excel worksheet or anything like that.
I can also say that Write literally drove my wife to tears it was so difficult for her to use, she begged me to reinstall Office so she could get some work done.
No, I'm not against OpenOffice, but damn it's freakishly bloated and slow, even on Linux. Have you seen the size of the damn internationalization package?
We did a study on using wireless VoIP using current standards, it does NOT scale well at all. It has a lot of golly gee factor to it and may work for small business or onesy-twosey but put more than a few dozen people together in an area and the quality goes through the floor quickly until the entire network becomes unusable. It's mostly a problem with 802.11b/g- there's just not enough RF-space to accomodate it. Throw in all the issues with maintaining a wireless connection with all the troubles of running a VoIP network, and you have yourself one hell of a time.
The article said that a letter accompanied the CD-ROM. Written notes have been around for centuries, and apparently are still human-decipherable in the near future. What makes you think your CD won't be usable in 50 years, other then from rot or something? If yuo really wanted to make things difficult, you could choose a format that was never really big to begin with (or at least not mainstream) such as Beta tapes, but a determined person could still find a way to play the media.
Nevermind the trash can fire over there, look at this shiny object!
I call shennigans on Mozilla, and I'm not falling for their sleight-of-hand bullshit. They get patches in user's hands faster? Whoop de freaking do. Whatever happened to Mozilla writing superior code? The "tens of thousands of eyes makes flaws shallow"? Microsoft isn't innocent, but shame on Mozilla for stooping to the same tactics.
A lot of OSS software I've seen isn't very innovative- it's mostly a clone of an existing product or featureset. Yikes, someone is STILL trying to write an Exchange clone! Where is open source pushing the bounds on innovation with NEW stuff?
Professionalism? Normally I'd discount that argument but then I'm reminded of Theo de Raadt, DJB and even Eric S. Raymond little outburst "I'm your worst nightmare Microsoft! Teehee! Hell will be so cold its superconductive" (oh come the fuck on, ESR- that's the most childish and dorkish thing I've ever read). I even find Stallman grating often enough, and these are the people that are at the forefront of the OSS movement. Let us not forget the famous OSS battlecry whenever someone asks for help- "RTFM!" or "You have the code, fix it youself"
There is certainly a perception that OSS may or may not have rightfully earned, but it certainly looks like nobody is bothered about it.
Forks are bad, bad, bad. A simply terrible idea. Now I'll have to deal with X number of implementations of Software Y. Dealing with the fork when the FreeSWAN people decided to part ways was bad enough and that was just *one* project. Imagine what it would be like if almost every GPL'd project went that route. It reminds me of a joke I recently read...
I often see it written that Free (note the capital F) is all about choice...you're free to do whatever you want with it. Now seems that this new GPL seems bent on taking some of that choice away. It has probably been asked before, but is this the beginning of the end of GPL?
Imagine running Oracle on a Linux server. While Linux may be tied to a specific GPL version, what about all the other stuff that comes with it? A lot of the core utilities come from GNU, and they'll most likely rush to embrace the newest GPL when it comes out.
Even my beloved OpenSSH with its BSD license could be affected since it relies on a lot of GPL'd software.
Sounds like the GPL is getting to be as restrictive and the patents they seem to be complaining about.
When you take something Free (as in speech) and place any kind of restriction on it, it is no longer Free. Then it's just free (as in beer), with value to nobody.
Every time MS puts out a report that Windows TCO is lower, everyone here dismisses it as propaganda. What about this time? IBM has a substantial investment in Linux and I noticed that their own AIX wasn't used as an example. It's just another case of manipulating the facts to fit one particular view. To call it anything else is intellectually dishonest.
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So how do you like working at Sprint/Embarq?
I ordered a frame relay from them, had some trouble with them delivering on it. I was included on a round of internal emails regarding the order, and included was the internal ticket they use for order tracking. On the ticket was the SSN of the person who handles our account. I was shocked that they so freely distribute employee SSNs like that.
May or may not work (I'm just guessing), but couldn't you use MythTV for playback?
Juniper Neoteris. Rock solid SSL VPN. Doesn't cost all that much, has robust features and granular access control. Comes with an ActiveX or Java client so you're not limiting yourself to just Windows users being able to use it.
Nothing will come of this. There will be no data in the database due to either "national security" or creative accounting.
(Used to work in a Vegas casino)
Yes they do. The Nevada Gaming Commission (GCB) has a List of Excluded Individuals, commonly known as the "Black Book". These people are officially banned from setting foot in a Nevada casino for either having Mob ties or being a cheat (not The Cheat). Last time I saw it, there were about 30 people listed.
Apart from that, each casino maintains its own blacklist of people that have been excluded from the property. The casinos will share info with each other as its part of their common interests to keep cheats out.
Part of it is because almost all the casinos on the Strip are by a couple of parent companies (most on the Strip are owned by MGM/Mirage), IIRC Wynn is the only one that is independant. Another aspect is that the communities within the casino industry are very small. Security and IT especially- you hear what is going on at the other casinos all the time.
As an aside, because the IT community is so small here, you wind up knowing just about everyone in the business either as friends or friends of friends. We wind up hearing a lot that goes on at other properties, who has talent and who to avoid when hiring.
HV-DVD, Blu-Ray, DVD all on one disc. Cool.
But with the studios and RIAA/MPAA being the way they are, you will be licensed to view/listen to only one format.
This always makes me giggle.
This holds especially true on Slashdot, but still applies to other discussion groups... whenever someone mentions Technology X, and talks about it in other then glowing praise, it's always considered to be an attack on said Technology. There is only one exception to this rule, and that is when it comes to anything Microsoft, in which it automatically sucks. Hooray beer^H^H^H^H GroupThink!
Why does anyone continue to give Stallman any credibility? A publicit stunt for sure, but in the end could very well reflect negatively on the community as a whole.
Why the hell would any mission critical or emergency service be using the Internet as a medium for transport? These services should be on their own redundant private networks.
People have been predicting the death of the Internet for years. First 56k modems were going to do it, then the glut of DSL and cable subscribers. Now it's going to be all the fibre to premises customers and Google. After that it will probably be WiMAX because now we're going to have kilometers of wireless coverage that anyone can jump on. These people seem to forget that bandwidth is a two-way street. You might have 5Mbps down, and all your neighbors, but the hosted server most likely has a bandwidth lock at 1Gbps or so... that's your limiting factor, not how much bandwidth you can pull down.
I'm one of the head network honchos at a Very Large Company... things like AIM, MSN Messenger, Skype, Limewire and BitTorrent are all banned and blocked. We monitor our employee web usage, block just about every outbound network port except for 80 and 443. Why? Because even though we know why Skype is, our policy forbids users from installing software that we don't provide. We certainly don't want users utilizing our 100Mbps lines for donwloading pr0n, MP3s and warez. We don't want support calls from users who have bolloxed up their machines by installing $UNAPPROVED_SOFTWARE_PACKAGE, diverting valuable resources to try to fix this. We don't want the worms, viruses, spyware and other crap that comes with some of these packages. Every employee that uses a computer reads and signs our usage agreement, so they know what we expect from them. Some of them try, and some get to see the man when they do.
Because of all the attack vectors, we have to spend many tens of thousands of dollars on antivirus, monitoring software, desktop security agents, intrusion detection, firewalls and what have you...
Things like SOX and HIPAA make it extremely hard for us to "just let users be". We can't allow unmanaged VoIP or instant messenging. FTP? Blocked. SSH? Blocked. Our data could easily walk out of here, which is why on top of the layer 3 blocks, we block USB access as well. Our users are given the tools they need to get their jobs done. And if data can walk out of here, there is certainly possiblity that something nasty could come in. We'd rather not have to deal with that possibility, so we make sure we don't have to.
It's the company's network, they can dictate how its used. Don't like it? Don't use our network. Go home, do whatever you want on your equipment, but when you're in my house, it's my rules.
Actually, it should be you can't install $SOFTWARE_PACKAGE because it's against company policy.
Apart from a "deny by default" firewall policy, our user policy pretty much says that users will not install any software that isn't provided by the company. We don't provide Skype, so why should we allow them to use it?
You can't be a k3wl Slashdotter and use MP3. You have to use OGG, or at least convert the MP3 stream on the fly to another format.
Using a PERL script.
Obfuscated.
On a Beowulf cluster.
Besides, what are you using that takes 3 minutes to open a spreadsheet anyway?
Calc itself, for one thing. When I first tried using it I thought it had hung because it took so long to fire up. Only by accident when I tried starting it up and walked off to get a Dew did I notice that it was just taking a horrendously long amount of time just to start- and that's not involving an Excel worksheet or anything like that.
I can also say that Write literally drove my wife to tears it was so difficult for her to use, she begged me to reinstall Office so she could get some work done.
No, I'm not against OpenOffice, but damn it's freakishly bloated and slow, even on Linux. Have you seen the size of the damn internationalization package?
So why does it take 3 minutes for Calc to open up a spreadsheet while it takes Excel less than 10 seconds to open the same file?
We did a study on using wireless VoIP using current standards, it does NOT scale well at all. It has a lot of golly gee factor to it and may work for small business or onesy-twosey but put more than a few dozen people together in an area and the quality goes through the floor quickly until the entire network becomes unusable. It's mostly a problem with 802.11b/g- there's just not enough RF-space to accomodate it. Throw in all the issues with maintaining a wireless connection with all the troubles of running a VoIP network, and you have yourself one hell of a time.
The article said that a letter accompanied the CD-ROM. Written notes have been around for centuries, and apparently are still human-decipherable in the near future. What makes you think your CD won't be usable in 50 years, other then from rot or something? If yuo really wanted to make things difficult, you could choose a format that was never really big to begin with (or at least not mainstream) such as Beta tapes, but a determined person could still find a way to play the media.
Nevermind the trash can fire over there, look at this shiny object!
I call shennigans on Mozilla, and I'm not falling for their sleight-of-hand bullshit. They get patches in user's hands faster? Whoop de freaking do. Whatever happened to Mozilla writing superior code? The "tens of thousands of eyes makes flaws shallow"? Microsoft isn't innocent, but shame on Mozilla for stooping to the same tactics.
A lot of OSS software I've seen isn't very innovative- it's mostly a clone of an existing product or featureset. Yikes, someone is STILL trying to write an Exchange clone! Where is open source pushing the bounds on innovation with NEW stuff?
Professionalism? Normally I'd discount that argument but then I'm reminded of Theo de Raadt, DJB and even Eric S. Raymond little outburst "I'm your worst nightmare Microsoft! Teehee! Hell will be so cold its superconductive" (oh come the fuck on, ESR- that's the most childish and dorkish thing I've ever read). I even find Stallman grating often enough, and these are the people that are at the forefront of the OSS movement. Let us not forget the famous OSS battlecry whenever someone asks for help- "RTFM!" or "You have the code, fix it youself"
There is certainly a perception that OSS may or may not have rightfully earned, but it certainly looks like nobody is bothered about it.
Forks are bad, bad, bad. A simply terrible idea. Now I'll have to deal with X number of implementations of Software Y. Dealing with the fork when the FreeSWAN people decided to part ways was bad enough and that was just *one* project. Imagine what it would be like if almost every GPL'd project went that route. It reminds me of a joke I recently read...
I often see it written that Free (note the capital F) is all about choice...you're free to do whatever you want with it. Now seems that this new GPL seems bent on taking some of that choice away. It has probably been asked before, but is this the beginning of the end of GPL?
It could get worse than that...
Imagine running Oracle on a Linux server. While Linux may be tied to a specific GPL version, what about all the other stuff that comes with it? A lot of the core utilities come from GNU, and they'll most likely rush to embrace the newest GPL when it comes out.
Even my beloved OpenSSH with its BSD license could be affected since it relies on a lot of GPL'd software.
Sounds like the GPL is getting to be as restrictive and the patents they seem to be complaining about.
When you take something Free (as in speech) and place any kind of restriction on it, it is no longer Free. Then it's just free (as in beer), with value to nobody.
So you're saying its OK for Linux to adopt the same practices that Microsoft uses?
Why not discard propaganda and get the truth out? If Linux is the great Windows killer that everyone here says it is, it should speak for itself.
Whining about whining isn't going to change anything. "Bob" Dobbs.
Every time MS puts out a report that Windows TCO is lower, everyone here dismisses it as propaganda. What about this time? IBM has a substantial investment in Linux and I noticed that their own AIX wasn't used as an example. It's just another case of manipulating the facts to fit one particular view. To call it anything else is intellectually dishonest.