when Novell first bought USL and tried develop and market UnixWare. Part of the plan then was to use the UNIX core to replace NetWare's non-preemptive multitasking core and develop what they called a SuperNOS. Part of NT's FUD was that it was both an app server and file server and Novell saw UNIX as a way to compete. As other posters have mentioned, MS still hasn't equalled NetWare's file, print, and directory capabilities.
This is exactly why you should all get your insurance IDs changed to a non-SSN based number. For their convenience most insurance companies use your SSN as all or most of your ID number. They are obligated to change this is you request it. The procedures vary and most first-line customer service reps won't know anything about it, but persevere and demand it. There's absolutely no reason they cannot index you by a random 10 digit number.
While leaving photocopies are documents around may be something you're too intelligent to do. Having your wallet stolen or lost should not provide the recipient all of that info.
I'm sorry, but NY hasn't been free for almost 2 years now. Walking past men and women in fatigues and bearing M16's has not instilled a feeling of freedom in me. You simply can't do business in this city if you lose your wallet or leave license at home because you'll never get into your office or any of your client's buildings.
We're also making it more difficult to be homeless by installing "dividers" in the new park benches - at least at the new subway stations - so that people can sleep on them.
Freedom is an illusion and a nice story. Wake and realize your freedoms are disappearing every day.
You might be amazed at what people save on the hard disks. I've found all sorts of stuff including insurance letters complete with SSNs, addresses, etc. (of course, I've found similar stuff left on the copy machines - lower tech stupidity)
Easy Everything, now with a site in NY as well, essentially netboots all the PCs after each user so even if the previous performed some evil, the next user gets a new system free of any malware. This doesn't seem like it would be too hard for Kinkos to do as well. If you've been to a Kinkos in NY, you would know that the copy specialists in the stores are not maintaining the machines.
Agreed. This type of filtering should be there anyway. How many of you leave TELNET, finger, and others running on your systems?
It's somewhat common for lazier corporations to leave this type of stuff off, but any sane network-guy in a decent company puts this type of stuff in. For ISPs it's shouldn't even be questioned.
Doesn't Office preload a bunch of things at bootup? Also, it seems if you're forced to Outlook, it defaults to using Word as an editor and essentially loads that too.
As stated in the article, there's an uncomfortably large window between exposing vulnerabilities and addressing them. Given the state of the telecom industry in this country, the prospect of digging new trenches and installing additional fiber and equipment is unlikely at best. Part of the reason for the tremendous amount of bankruptcies in telecom is due to the tremendous debt required for network build outs. Given the over-abundance of capacity today and the lack of compelling economics for the current networks and don't see how anyone could justify dropping more fiber into the ground, especially into newly dug trenches.
Also, any company with anything worth protecting has diverse points of entry into their buildings. No investment bank in Manhattan lives off of a single fiber. At a minimum there are 2 points of entry, multiple carriers and often other technologies like free space optics in use. This is a requirement for companies as mundane as law firms and retailers.
Given the difficulty building additional diversity and relative diversity installed by most firms, perhaps a better approach is to develop technology to better protect what already exists.
1. almost all VoIP installations are run on switched networks and phone calls are inherently unicast so only source, destination, and possibly a router can see the traffic. Yes, conference calls can be multicast - but most aren't and switches prune non-multicast group member from the broadcast domain anyway
2. Almost all VoIP installations place voice traffic on a separate VLAN. This VLAN is ususally well protected through routers and the like. Also it's easy to enhance security for the VLAN with basic switch/LAN security techniques (tying MAC addresses to specific ports, traffic filters, even 802.1x)
3. Securing the call setup servers, gateways and other devices is relatively easy - any decent VoIP installation would protect these and distribute them so there's no single point of failure.
4. VoIP can be run of VPN's the main issue is the added latency of the encryption/decryption process.
5. VoIP over the wide area is no less secure than standard long distance.
Off topic, but you may want to look at etymotics (www.etymotic.com) Their ER-6 and ER-4x earphones provide noise reduction. They're also very highly rated in terms of sound quality. Check out www.headphone.com for some reviews as well.
Unfortunately the previous poster made the mistake of implying more terrorist incidents were a good thing. But for those of us not isolated from the incidents, the few weeks after 9/11 were the only prolonged periods where I can remember Americans actually caring about people other than themselves.
The original poster's ignorance that Arab=bad is pathetic and on a good day is considered racist. I didn't think the slashdot community was this narrow-minded about anything other than open source.
... and for the record, I live in Manhattan, lost friends and colleagues, and don't condone terrorism.
I can't agree more. I made a similar decision although it was not nearly as interesting. I added a computer science major to the physics major I was growing tired of. It took some summer classes and independent study, but I've ended up quite happy. I can't speak for your advisors, but talking to mine was counter productive and depressing. Academia is a world of its own and advisors as well as some professors tend to be very out of touch with the real world. Even as I've worked I've continually transitioned into other areas to keep work exciting. A broader educational background makes transitioning to new roles easier.
Enjoy, follow your heart, and ignore/destroy the obstacles that academia has a habit of erecting for those not following the beaten path.
Am I the only one who sees this a way for IBM to sound hip-and-cool(Linux) while pointing out how advanced their home grown UNIX is and how it handles the "big-stuff" so much better.
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when Novell first bought USL and tried develop and market UnixWare. Part of the plan then was to use the UNIX core to replace NetWare's non-preemptive multitasking core and develop what they called a SuperNOS. Part of NT's FUD was that it was both an app server and file server and Novell saw UNIX as a way to compete. As other posters have mentioned, MS still hasn't equalled NetWare's file, print, and directory capabilities.
This has been done for some time with RC planes. Examples are here
[kitesplus.com], here
[k8xg.com], and here
[zagicam.com].
Maybe off-topic, but what are the downsides to an LLC for a consulting firm?
This is exactly why you should all get your insurance IDs changed to a non-SSN based number. For their convenience most insurance companies use your SSN as all or most of your ID number. They are obligated to change this is you request it. The procedures vary and most first-line customer service reps won't know anything about it, but persevere and demand it. There's absolutely no reason they cannot index you by a random 10 digit number.
While leaving photocopies are documents around may be something you're too intelligent to do. Having your wallet stolen or lost should not provide the recipient all of that info.
I'm sorry, but NY hasn't been free for almost 2 years now. Walking past men and women in fatigues and bearing M16's has not instilled a feeling of freedom in me. You simply can't do business in this city if you lose your wallet or leave license at home because you'll never get into your office or any of your client's buildings.
We're also making it more difficult to be homeless by installing "dividers" in the new park benches - at least at the new subway stations - so that people can sleep on them.
Freedom is an illusion and a nice story. Wake and realize your freedoms are disappearing every day.
You might be amazed at what people save on the hard disks. I've found all sorts of stuff including insurance letters complete with SSNs, addresses, etc. (of course, I've found similar stuff left on the copy machines - lower tech stupidity)
Easy Everything, now with a site in NY as well, essentially netboots all the PCs after each user so even if the previous performed some evil, the next user gets a new system free of any malware. This doesn't seem like it would be too hard for Kinkos to do as well. If you've been to a Kinkos in NY, you would know that the copy specialists in the stores are not maintaining the machines.
Agreed. This type of filtering should be there anyway. How many of you leave TELNET, finger, and others running on your systems?
It's somewhat common for lazier corporations to leave this type of stuff off, but any sane network-guy in a decent company puts this type of stuff in. For ISPs it's shouldn't even be questioned.
Doesn't Office preload a bunch of things at bootup? Also, it seems if you're forced to Outlook, it defaults to using Word as an editor and essentially loads that too.
As stated in the article, there's an uncomfortably large window between exposing vulnerabilities and addressing them. Given the state of the telecom industry in this country, the prospect of digging new trenches and installing additional fiber and equipment is unlikely at best. Part of the reason for the tremendous amount of bankruptcies in telecom is due to the tremendous debt required for network build outs. Given the over-abundance of capacity today and the lack of compelling economics for the current networks and don't see how anyone could justify dropping more fiber into the ground, especially into newly dug trenches.
Also, any company with anything worth protecting has diverse points of entry into their buildings. No investment bank in Manhattan lives off of a single fiber. At a minimum there are 2 points of entry, multiple carriers and often other technologies like free space optics in use. This is a requirement for companies as mundane as law firms and retailers.
Given the difficulty building additional diversity and relative diversity installed by most firms, perhaps a better approach is to develop technology to better protect what already exists.
1. almost all VoIP installations are run on switched networks and phone calls are inherently unicast so only source, destination, and possibly a router can see the traffic. Yes, conference calls can be multicast - but most aren't and switches prune non-multicast group member from the broadcast domain anyway
2. Almost all VoIP installations place voice traffic on a separate VLAN. This VLAN is ususally well protected through routers and the like. Also it's easy to enhance security for the VLAN with basic switch/LAN security techniques (tying MAC addresses to specific ports, traffic filters, even 802.1x)
3. Securing the call setup servers, gateways and other devices is relatively easy - any decent VoIP installation would protect these and distribute them so there's no single point of failure.
4. VoIP can be run of VPN's the main issue is the added latency of the encryption/decryption process.
5. VoIP over the wide area is no less secure than standard long distance.
Off topic, but you may want to look at etymotics (www.etymotic.com) Their ER-6 and ER-4x earphones provide noise reduction. They're also very highly rated in terms of sound quality. Check out www.headphone.com for some reviews as well.
Unfortunately the previous poster made the mistake of implying more terrorist incidents were a good thing. But for those of us not isolated from the incidents, the few weeks after 9/11 were the only prolonged periods where I can remember Americans actually caring about people other than themselves.
The original poster's ignorance that Arab=bad is pathetic and on a good day is considered racist. I didn't think the slashdot community was this narrow-minded about anything other than open source.
... and for the record, I live in Manhattan, lost friends and colleagues, and don't condone terrorism.
I can't agree more. I made a similar decision although it was not nearly as interesting. I added a computer science major to the physics major I was growing tired of. It took some summer classes and independent study, but I've ended up quite happy. I can't speak for your advisors, but talking to mine was counter productive and depressing. Academia is a world of its own and advisors as well as some professors tend to be very out of touch with the real world. Even as I've worked I've continually transitioned into other areas to keep work exciting. A broader educational background makes transitioning to new roles easier.
Enjoy, follow your heart, and ignore/destroy the obstacles that academia has a habit of erecting for those not following the beaten path.
Am I the only one who sees this a way for IBM to sound hip-and-cool(Linux) while pointing out how advanced their home grown UNIX is and how it handles the "big-stuff" so much better.