You'd see MS moving out of state REAL quick if that happened. I wish Michigan had as much sense as Washington and Oregeon, instead we have a dumbass governor that wants to RAISE taxes, on an already crippled economy. They're also talking about raising the gas tax, which might not be a bad thing if they actually use it to fix the damn roads.
Redhat/CentOS is a perfectly usable desktop, just enable the RPMForge repo and you can install almost anything through yum. There's also the concept of familiarity, I know where everything is in Redhat, other distros just seem weird now.
Building an XP box, even from SP2 media, requires over 75 patches in our environment.
That's because you don't know what you're doing. You can set up a RIS server and slipstream the updates into your OS image or use nlite and build a custom install CD with all of the updates already there. Nlite also lets you integrate extra drivers and tweaks tons of settings, it's really nice.
If you have a car like mine (Jetta) it's a lot easier to see where you are using the mirrors, I still turn around but it's hard to see out the back windows.
As other people on here have said, this isn't a good idea. You're going to need to spend money on upgrading your network, buying new terminals when you already have perfectly good PCs, and you're going to need to build a server cluster to ensure that there is no down time. With 3500 users 5 nines isn't good enough, even a few minutes of down time is going to cost you $TEXAS.
You're much better off setting up some Unattended install scripts and then setting everybody to use a network share for their documents directory, a SAN or NAS would be fine for this. With the proper security settings and group policies you shouldn't be spending that much time on fixing desktops, unless you have a lot of hardware failures.
You also don't want to introduce a single point of failure, which is what running everything off a central server would do.
E-mail proves nothing, anybody can forge a "sent" mail file. If you want to cancel an account send a certified letter to the company with return receipt, that way you have proof showing when you sent it and when they received it.
Furthermore, we should see more successful attacks against Apache than against IIS, since the implication of the myth is that the problem is one of numbers, not vulnerabilities.
Yet this is precisely the opposite of what we find, historically. IIS has long been the primary target for worms and other attacks, and these attacks have been largely successful.
From my experience dealing with server exploits most site defacements aren't because of Apache flaws, it's insecure php scripts that upload exploits to writable directories. Mod_security helps a lot with this though as it will block 90% of exploit attempts with a decent rule set.
I believe Solaris has its own virtualization method but it would be nice if it could run Xen. Xen is one thing that linux does better than anything else, NetBSD is working on it but they don't have LVM support.
That's assuming the conf file is actually in a web accessible directory. If you put the file somewhere else and just read it using an include statement it's fairly secure.
I'm seriously considering setting my server to reject anything that isn't plain text. With OpenBSD you can also filter packets by OS type so dropping anything that comes from a Windows box on port 25 might work.
Anybody running Windows 2000 should upgrade to Windows Server 2003. Sure, it says "Server" in the name but it works just fine as a desktop OS too. I'm running it on my laptop right now actually. If you want to play games just enable Directdraw and you're all set.
Another nice thing is the GUI is almost just like 2000, you get more modern hardware support and it's still supported by MS, SP2 should be out in the next few months.
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Yeah, a few of these running RAID 10 in a web server would kick ass.
I wish that somebody they sue would blow up their building.
Wow, way to bring out the straw men. Driving under the influence of drugs is already illegal, smoking weed at home should not be however.
You'd see MS moving out of state REAL quick if that happened. I wish Michigan had as much sense as Washington and Oregeon, instead we have a dumbass governor that wants to RAISE taxes, on an already crippled economy. They're also talking about raising the gas tax, which might not be a bad thing if they actually use it to fix the damn roads.
Even better.
while true
do wget -r -l0 --delete-after http://www.profane-justice.org/
done
Sue me.
Redhat/CentOS is a perfectly usable desktop, just enable the RPMForge repo and you can install almost anything through yum. There's also the concept of familiarity, I know where everything is in Redhat, other distros just seem weird now.
Building an XP box, even from SP2 media, requires over 75 patches in our environment.
That's because you don't know what you're doing. You can set up a RIS server and slipstream the updates into your OS image or use nlite and build a custom install CD with all of the updates already there. Nlite also lets you integrate extra drivers and tweaks tons of settings, it's really nice.
Get it at http://www.nliteos.com/
XP will never see another service pack now that Vista is out. What incentive is there for MS to update old products?
If you have a car like mine (Jetta) it's a lot easier to see where you are using the mirrors, I still turn around but it's hard to see out the back windows.
They're trying to trademark "The Big Game" as well.
Wow, you guys must have nothing better to do. It stands for "etcetera", but we just call it "etsee".
Remember the Pentium divide by 0 bug?
As other people on here have said, this isn't a good idea. You're going to need to spend money on upgrading your network, buying new terminals when you already have perfectly good PCs, and you're going to need to build a server cluster to ensure that there is no down time. With 3500 users 5 nines isn't good enough, even a few minutes of down time is going to cost you $TEXAS.
You're much better off setting up some Unattended install scripts and then setting everybody to use a network share for their documents directory, a SAN or NAS would be fine for this. With the proper security settings and group policies you shouldn't be spending that much time on fixing desktops, unless you have a lot of hardware failures.
You also don't want to introduce a single point of failure, which is what running everything off a central server would do.
Ever go to a gas station? A bank? You're being recorded in a lot of places.
Yes, as a virtual machine.
Not to mention you'd probably indent the code in any other language, python just gets rid of the extra braces.
You think gas prices are gonna stay low forever?
E-mail proves nothing, anybody can forge a "sent" mail file. If you want to cancel an account send a certified letter to the company with return receipt, that way you have proof showing when you sent it and when they received it.
Did you even read the page you linked to?
Furthermore, we should see more successful attacks against Apache than against IIS, since the implication of the myth is that the problem is one of numbers, not vulnerabilities.
Yet this is precisely the opposite of what we find, historically. IIS has long been the primary target for worms and other attacks, and these attacks have been largely successful.
From my experience dealing with server exploits most site defacements aren't because of Apache flaws, it's insecure php scripts that upload exploits to writable directories. Mod_security helps a lot with this though as it will block 90% of exploit attempts with a decent rule set.
You can upgrade from Redhat 7 to CentOS 3 without a problem. CentOS 3 to 4 is a pain though.
I believe Solaris has its own virtualization method but it would be nice if it could run Xen. Xen is one thing that linux does better than anything else, NetBSD is working on it but they don't have LVM support.
That's assuming the conf file is actually in a web accessible directory. If you put the file somewhere else and just read it using an include statement it's fairly secure.
I'm seriously considering setting my server to reject anything that isn't plain text. With OpenBSD you can also filter packets by OS type so dropping anything that comes from a Windows box on port 25 might work.
Everybody knows running MS software isn't cheap. If you want free stuff use Linux.
Anybody running Windows 2000 should upgrade to Windows Server 2003. Sure, it says "Server" in the name but it works just fine as a desktop OS too. I'm running it on my laptop right now actually. If you want to play games just enable Directdraw and you're all set.
Another nice thing is the GUI is almost just like 2000, you get more modern hardware support and it's still supported by MS, SP2 should be out in the next few months.