I had to use this at a job once. They were too cheap to buy the hardware tokens and made us use the software tokens instead - which of course was only for Windows and I didn't have a Windows machine at home. Since there isn't a time component, I generated a whole bunch of passwords, but them on a piece of paper, and carried them around.
While the time sync problem is annoying with SecurID, it does prevent users from doing things like printing out lists of the next tokens (or saving them in a file on their computer so they can automate their logins).
This sounds easy, but can be a real bitch to support end users. At the company I work for, all of the management travels a bunch and needs to send email from all over -their office, their home DSL, hotel or conference broadband connections. These people have a hard time using email as it is, and it would be next to impossible to get them to find out the SMTP server of the provider they are on, change their mail client settings, etc. As an admin, it also makes it a real problem answering stupid user questions about whether mail was sent when you don't know if the mail went through your servers or someone else.
I got a second bachelors from UMUC last year (I had a degree in a non-related field and wanted the piece of paper to back up my experience). None of my teachers had us do anything that I thought resembled "heavy duty" programming or anything else.
It definately wasn't a computer science program... the programming projects we were assigned were all very small, and none of the classes got to anything very advanced.
But, on the other hand, it gave me the piece of paper that I was looking for....
I'm not sure what they paid their people, but a
lot of companies pay their people less in Hawaii
then on the mainland. There are enough people who
want to live here no matter what the pay that they
can get away with paying less.
VIA C3 processors. Not as fast as some other processors, but you can use a passive heatsink instead of needing a CPU fan to cool it down ( less moving parts to break, and less noise).
Disk on module. I couldn't get the Shuttle machines to netbook from their build-in ethernet, so I added a disk on module to store the boot code (for Etherboot). The disk on modules plug directly into the IDE slot on the motherboard and are recognized as IDE drives.
A small case. I cant find the one I used, but there are several Micro-ATX or Flex-ATX cases out there.
Costs ended up being about $120 for the motherboard, $40 for the CPU, $15 for the heatsink, $50 for the disk on module, and $50 for the case, so ~$275, plus a keyboard and mouse, and the performance blew away the NetVista 2200 that I had been using.
For software, you can run Linux on the machine and use Citrix/ICA client or Terminal Server with rdesktop. The machine is fast enough you could run Linux locally from a remote NFS file system, or you could just use it for a display. The Linux Terminal Server Project has a lot of information about setting this. You might also want to look at the Diskless Windows Cookbook.
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I had to use this at a job once. They were too cheap to buy the hardware tokens and made us use the
software tokens instead - which of course was only for Windows and I didn't have a Windows machine at home. Since there isn't a time component, I generated a whole bunch of passwords, but them on a piece of paper, and carried them around.
While the time sync problem is annoying with SecurID, it does prevent users from doing things like printing out lists of the next tokens (or saving them in a file on their computer so they can automate their logins).
PDSH works pretty well in my experience. It's pretty good to run commands on the nodes and pdcp can copy files out.
This sounds easy, but can be a real bitch to support end users. At the company I work for, all of the management travels a bunch and needs to send email from all over -their office, their home DSL, hotel or conference broadband connections. These people have a hard time using email as it is, and it would be next to impossible to get them to find out the SMTP server of the provider they are on, change their mail client settings, etc. As an admin,
it also makes it a real problem answering stupid user questions about whether mail was sent when you don't know if the mail went through your servers or someone else.
I got a second bachelors from UMUC last year (I had a degree in a non-related field and wanted the piece of paper to back up my experience). None of my teachers had us do anything that I thought resembled "heavy duty" programming or anything else.
... the programming projects we were assigned were all very small, and none of the classes got to anything very advanced.
....
It definately wasn't a computer science program
But, on the other hand, it gave me the piece of paper that I was looking for
I'm not sure what they paid their people, but a
lot of companies pay their people less in Hawaii
then on the mainland. There are enough people who
want to live here no matter what the pay that they
can get away with paying less.
I've had good luck with the Alpha U60-V25C cooling off the chip w/o a fan. It's a pretty small heatsink, but it seemed to do the job.
Here's what I used:
Costs ended up being about $120 for the motherboard, $40 for the CPU, $15 for the heatsink, $50 for the disk on module, and $50 for the case, so ~$275, plus a keyboard and mouse, and the performance blew away the NetVista 2200 that I had been using.
For software, you can run Linux on the machine and use Citrix/ICA client or Terminal Server with rdesktop. The machine is fast enough you could run Linux locally from a remote NFS file system, or you could just use it for a display. The Linux Terminal Server Project has a lot of information about setting this. You might also want to look at the Diskless Windows Cookbook.