RH 9 locks down unrequested services and suggests medium level firewall out of the box. My biggest issue with RH security problems is turning things back on, or at least explaining that to people (no big deal).
If you install a workstation, you must explicitly request servers. You must punch holes in your firewall to run some software.
Btw, "stake in the ground" comes from an old horse shoe throwing game. You placed the stake and then threw horse shoes or rings over the stake. The stake was then moved further away. Where you placed your "stake", was the defined objective. Buzzword bingo came from a number of places, around the time that management consultants and MBAs started to obsess people.
It works fine and is up on sourceforge. The problem is that it is for small nets only, i.e. >50 people and the performance is not the best.
What it is really good for is as a mini-groupware application. You can be in a hostile environment (the internet) and your shared files and messages are relatively secure.
Sorry, I didn't mean to suggest that the word was derived from the Russian, but as both are Slavic languages they share similar roots. Enough certainly for Russians to understand some Czech and vice versa.
Drivers have got a lot better in recent times but we still talk about plug, play and crash. As for audio file and video file support, well clicking on a file with a less than usual codec won't get you far. Many of the codecs that exist for WMP etc. have stabilioty problems that don't happen under Linux. As for WinTV support, sure it is better than Linux, but it still tends to crash and I must wait for the vendor to get it working. Only the vendor can do it because they have the source.
The problem is that Windows gives the illusion of safety. If it goes anywhere near the net, it should be locked down. I'm sorry that unless you want a spam/worm relay monster on your doorstep, Windows/xx isn't ready for the home user as far as the rest of the world is concerned.
ACtually, MS usually like to use the words "Service Pack" and "Hotfix".
AFAIK, there isn't even XP including the service pack. Many cars have lists of 'fixes' too but first, the fix is usually applied during manufacturing, or at least during a final corrective pass. Cars that get to the field are updated before they leave the salesroom.
I know that MS do rollups on CD, but you don't normally get it when you buy the computer. You have to write to MS and pay money.
This is my fundemental problem with Micosoft, why don't they remaster with the latest fixes. I don't mind applying some patches, but how does the average home user get 45MB of patches downloaded before they are compromised over their net connection.
In many EU countries, you must produce the same kind of ID to open a bank account before you get a mobile phone even with a pre-pay card. Of couse, this makes even cheap mobiles interesting for those with bad intentions to steal so mobile theft is rampant.
Very interesting, I guess there may be more if it does ok. In any case, I am on the wrong continent for that one. Hey, do me a favour and enjoy it on my behalf!!!
Actually, quite the reverse. IRDA was used for linking to PDAs and Notebooks by mobile geeks others found it too complicated. It was crufty to set up so wasn't popular. It was also used to send vCards.
But that was all. Bluetooth is proving a lot more useful because you don't have to carefully line up your accessories. The features that are currrently selling are fairly basic things like wireless headsets.
As for cost, well that is coming down as the silicon gets cheaper. My concern is as mentioned, the power drain.
I would also add that Tolkien stuck some of that back story as 'additional material' on the end of ROTK. Much of the rest ended up in The Silmarillion.
One of the reason that the production looks so good is that they have all this back story to work with.
I have the restored version of Lawrence of Arabia with a running time of 228 minutes. This has the 'overture' and the intermission (time to change discs), still it is a good time to use the bathroom and to fetch more cold beer - watching all that sand makes me thirsty).
I haven't seen the extended FOTR being reissued for a theatre? Does it even exist as a real print, as opposed to the digitally assembled master for the DVDs? I haven't heard of it being available other than as DVD.
However the thought of three Uber-editions running sequentially in a theatre (think a total of a tad over 11 hours running time) would bring a whole new meaning to the Ring Cycle and endurance. Even Germans, raised on Wagnerian opera may have problems there (usually the other Ring is shown on consecutive nights so you get serious R&R imbetween performances).
In any case, it kind of dwarfs the other trilogies that have been shown of late (i.e., Matrix).
In the UK at least, I heard that you have express clearance available. The banks clearing system is fairly good and most cheques clear in a week. Express clearance produces an irrevocable credit within two to three days.
Blutooth is not the new IRDA, it is way beyond it because of the absent line-of-sight requirement which radically increases the number of applications. This is why bluetooth headphones exist.
Bluetooth isn't significantly more complicated to implement now, there is an issue which you have missed and that is the power drain which remains relatively high (and higher even than IRDA).
Firewalling individual PCs is difficult. We have a lot of people who are on the move, something like 10% of our staff. We would need to group the laptops together into the VLAN and then firewall the groups. Our bank does 'do' Linux, but currently for application servers, not yet infrastructure.
We know our ports (well, we think we do) and what is plugged into them.
The bank's laptops have docking stations so we know where they hook up. Visitors from other offices are more of a problem but we can still have designated spare ports for them to hook up into. I don't know if our switches can assemble VLANs automatically based on MAC, but we certainly can at least subnet using DHCP.
However all of this takes organisation. We don't have the money at the moment for infrastructure investment.
Quite right, we know which cable goes to which switch however they can't afford me to admin for them. Our switches are fully configurable so we can put up VLANs (separate arbitrary ports into disjoint LAN segments). However this takes more administration.
Our PC sysadmin and netadmin staff are undertrained and overworked (and not particularly well paid).
As above, this was reasonably well configured, however, I don't believe that company laptops (at that time, mostly with Win 2K) had a firewall. Virus scanners were provided and they were centrally updated.
The switch ports could have been better locked down but that takes better administration. I would have liked to see laptops dropped into a firewalled VLAN. However, we have money problems and cannot afford good techs.
so please can someone explain to me why the effect would be the same as the same quantity of TNT. The black powder was in barrels and it was in cellars which would have provided some compression. Would it be enough, well I don't really think so.
My BS detector needle is hugging the high end again!!!!
FWIW, a high explosive is one where the detonation wave exceeds the speed of sound in the explosive so that it blows up, so to speak before it flies apart. High explosives do not need compression, but low-explosives do. This is why black powder goes off in a phut unless it is compressed so that it doesn't fly apart until all parts are reacting.
Like when you connect a virgin Windows machine to the internet, and within 10 minutes its shutting down due to a virus.
You forgot the getting online for long enough to lick up the 45MB of updates before XP is secure and hoping that the worm/trojan hasn't hit you!!! Even the mainstream press is beginning to ask questions about 'security holes out of the box'.
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If you install a workstation, you must explicitly request servers. You must punch holes in your firewall to run some software.
Btw, "stake in the ground" comes from an old horse shoe throwing game. You placed the stake and then threw horse shoes or rings over the stake. The stake was then moved further away. Where you placed your "stake", was the defined objective. Buzzword bingo came from a number of places, around the time that management consultants and MBAs started to obsess people.
What it is really good for is as a mini-groupware application. You can be in a hostile environment (the internet) and your shared files and messages are relatively secure.
Sorry, I didn't mean to suggest that the word was derived from the Russian, but as both are Slavic languages they share similar roots. Enough certainly for Russians to understand some Czech and vice versa.
The actual word for worker is Robotnik and the word work is Robot. In Russian the 'o' becomes more like an 'a', so it is Rabat.
There have been many proposals for member countries to permanently allocate forces to the UN but this was always blocked. Primarily by the US.
Drivers have got a lot better in recent times but we still talk about plug, play and crash. As for audio file and video file support, well clicking on a file with a less than usual codec won't get you far. Many of the codecs that exist for WMP etc. have stabilioty problems that don't happen under Linux. As for WinTV support, sure it is better than Linux, but it still tends to crash and I must wait for the vendor to get it working. Only the vendor can do it because they have the source.
The problem is that Windows gives the illusion of safety. If it goes anywhere near the net, it should be locked down. I'm sorry that unless you want a spam/worm relay monster on your doorstep, Windows/xx isn't ready for the home user as far as the rest of the world is concerned.
AFAIK, there isn't even XP including the service pack. Many cars have lists of 'fixes' too but first, the fix is usually applied during manufacturing, or at least during a final corrective pass. Cars that get to the field are updated before they leave the salesroom.
I know that MS do rollups on CD, but you don't normally get it when you buy the computer. You have to write to MS and pay money.
In many EU countries, you must produce the same kind of ID to open a bank account before you get a mobile phone even with a pre-pay card. Of couse, this makes even cheap mobiles interesting for those with bad intentions to steal so mobile theft is rampant.
Very interesting, I guess there may be more if it does ok. In any case, I am on the wrong continent for that one. Hey, do me a favour and enjoy it on my behalf!!!
But that was all. Bluetooth is proving a lot more useful because you don't have to carefully line up your accessories. The features that are currrently selling are fairly basic things like wireless headsets.
As for cost, well that is coming down as the silicon gets cheaper. My concern is as mentioned, the power drain.
One of the reason that the production looks so good is that they have all this back story to work with.
I have the restored version of Lawrence of Arabia with a running time of 228 minutes. This has the 'overture' and the intermission (time to change discs), still it is a good time to use the bathroom and to fetch more cold beer - watching all that sand makes me thirsty).
However the thought of three Uber-editions running sequentially in a theatre (think a total of a tad over 11 hours running time) would bring a whole new meaning to the Ring Cycle and endurance. Even Germans, raised on Wagnerian opera may have problems there (usually the other Ring is shown on consecutive nights so you get serious R&R imbetween performances).
In any case, it kind of dwarfs the other trilogies that have been shown of late (i.e., Matrix).
In the UK at least, I heard that you have express clearance available. The banks clearing system is fairly good and most cheques clear in a week. Express clearance produces an irrevocable credit within two to three days.
Believe it or not, people will often give precise details (including alarm and location) to someone promising to see and buy the car tomorrow.
Do you really think it is still going to be there tomorrow?
Bluetooth isn't significantly more complicated to implement now, there is an issue which you have missed and that is the power drain which remains relatively high (and higher even than IRDA).
We know our ports (well, we think we do) and what is plugged into them.
The bank's laptops have docking stations so we know where they hook up. Visitors from other offices are more of a problem but we can still have designated spare ports for them to hook up into. I don't know if our switches can assemble VLANs automatically based on MAC, but we certainly can at least subnet using DHCP.
However all of this takes organisation. We don't have the money at the moment for infrastructure investment.
Our PC sysadmin and netadmin staff are undertrained and overworked (and not particularly well paid).
The switch ports could have been better locked down but that takes better administration. I would have liked to see laptops dropped into a firewalled VLAN. However, we have money problems and cannot afford good techs.
My BS detector needle is hugging the high end again!!!!
FWIW, a high explosive is one where the detonation wave exceeds the speed of sound in the explosive so that it blows up, so to speak before it flies apart. High explosives do not need compression, but low-explosives do. This is why black powder goes off in a phut unless it is compressed so that it doesn't fly apart until all parts are reacting.