Hardware firewall? What, it's built all from gates and has no code on it? There's no such thing. A linksys befsr41 is a "hardware firewall" because it's a dedicated firewall appliance, right? It runs Linux. A PIX 520, that's a hardware firewall, yes? They cost a lot new and they come in a 4U case. Woops, it's an intel PC.
A PIX 520 is ANCIENT tech. The 525 is 2U, not 4U, and costs a few grand. The PIX 501 is the size of your typical Belkin/Linksys box and depending on the number of users you need it for runs anywhere from $300 - $1000. And yes, it's an Intel chipset inside, but that doesn't buy you access to the box. They are no longer PCs (though the first gen were) but they have NEVER run a generally available OS on top. PIX/OS is *VERY* secure if you set your ACLs properly, and when vulns come out (not too often), Cisco patches them damned fast. Code and configs are all stored in FLASH, no spinning disks to break down. No place to boot up off floppy. Yes, if you have physical access you can reset the password, shut off ACLs, but you can just as easily steal the whole computer.
You might want to contact the SHARE Foundation. (Society for Human Advancement through Rehabilitation Engineering). http://www.share.umassd.edu/ Dr. Les Cory is the founder and a really good guy, as well as extremely technical. He was one of my professors and advisors when I was in college. Phone numbers and email address are available on the website (I'll try to be nice and keep some of the spambots away by not posting that info here.) These folks are really good at doing cool technical things on a limited budget.
Then you've never taken a DRII certification course. If you can't recover from your facility burning down/earthquake/flood then you don't have backups. And unless you have serious SLAs, you're not going to be running SRDF to a hot site. It's a hell of a lot cheaper to back up to tape and ship those to Iron Mountain. If you have > 24 hours recovery time from smoke and rubble, tape is still the way to go.
I've seen you post about this MA case a few times on this discussion, and I'm a bit confused since the Mass Lottery specifically states that they person presenting the ticket is the "owner" of it, regardless of whether they found it on the sidewalk or bought it themselves. This came up earlier this year when a woman claimed she "lost" the winning Mega Millions ticket. She was going to sue the woman who "found" the ticket, hired a lawyer and everything. Mass Lotto said they would turn the money over to whoever had the ticket -- finders keepers. (It later turned out she made the whole thing up, but that's another story...)
HOW is this insightful??? EVERY slashdotter ought to know that VA has been out of the hardware biz for YEARS now! I mean, they only run the site you're looking at now?? Stupid mods...
Why is it a troll to point out that IBM is telling people not to download/install this SP because it is unstable, with a link to an article in Computerworld backing it up??? Mods on crack...
H2 got licensed to VZones as "Second Kingdom" though it just happened recently. I haven't been active in VZones in a few years, so I haven't tried it out. Supposed to be pretty good though. (Even if it is years behind the Doom-3 graphics curve)
It stayed running until Quantum Link closed its doors. Q-Link got bought by AOL (or was it a merger... My memory is a bit hazy, not enough coffee yet this morning...) Both services ran together for a year or two, but as the Commodore exodus continued, AOL killed off Q-Link in (IIRC) 1992.
Club Caribe still lives on (somewhat) as Caribe Isle in the Dreamsacpe world on Vzones. VZones uses a somewhat-updated engine of the old Habitat. There was a company in the Far East (Korea??) that had an even better version of Habitat, but it wasn't skinned for English, so I couldn't tell you too much about it.
I was on a panel at a convention some years back that dealt with this topic... If I can find my notes I'll post more history and any links that still work... This was 4 or 5 years ago.
As much as I love to support Open Source, there's times when it's just not worth the pain. If you're already spending tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of dollars for Sun hardware (nothing wrong with that, we do it here) then pony up the cash for a REAL Enterprise Scheduler. Look at Tivoli. Look at Tidal. Look at Cybermation. They all have different strengths, so depending on what your organization needs, YMMV.
We standardized on Tidal. Yep, it's expensive. Our IT budget for this year is in the $1M range, so it's time to step up into the big leagues.
Yep. The company I was working for went under in October 2003. From what I've heard, everyone who was looking has managed to find a new job by now. So, at least the Boston area is starting to look up a little.
It's possible - just possible! - that SCO's employees don't read Slashdot at work and aren't aware of the complete hatred of their employer in this forum. After all, there's not exactly a groundswell of backlash in the regular newspapers or network news.
Hey, if a candidate hasn't hit Karma Cap, I don't want them working for me!
I also have a Targus, I've got one of their HUGE models. It's heavy, but it's built like a tank and can hold all my accessories, plus all the zillions of paper documents that I seem to always have to carry around. Every couple years I keep fighting with myself as to whether I want a small bag just big enough to hold my laptop, or something bigger... I found that the small bag is great, but I'm always then having to carry a briefcase or backpack or something else to carry all the rest of the crap I have to take to the office or out to job sites. This is the best compromise so far. And it's held up well for over a year now. YMMV.
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It is *NOT* waterproof. Check the FAQ section of the PDF on Amazon's site for more details. It is not waterproof, not water reisitant, and should not be allowed to get wet or damp. *sigh*
What specific benefits would I see by switching my box to ReiserFS as opposed to EXT3 or one of the many other journalling file systems that Linux now supports? At this rate, seems like I could be reformatting my hard drives every week.
Plus she'll be stuck with a Japanese layout keyboard. letters are standard QWERTY, but useful punctuation is all funky, like Shift+2 for quotes " and shift+7 for apostrophes '. The @ is to the right of the P key and doesn't require a modifier-key to use though:-) I ordered my laptop from the states and made a trip home to get it so I wouldn't be stuck with that stuff.
Wow, reminds me of my old C= 64 days... I might need to get a Japanese keyboard just for nostalgia now...
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A PIX 520 is ANCIENT tech. The 525 is 2U, not 4U, and costs a few grand. The PIX 501 is the size of your typical Belkin/Linksys box and depending on the number of users you need it for runs anywhere from $300 - $1000. And yes, it's an Intel chipset inside, but that doesn't buy you access to the box. They are no longer PCs (though the first gen were) but they have NEVER run a generally available OS on top. PIX/OS is *VERY* secure if you set your ACLs properly, and when vulns come out (not too often), Cisco patches them damned fast. Code and configs are all stored in FLASH, no spinning disks to break down. No place to boot up off floppy. Yes, if you have physical access you can reset the password, shut off ACLs, but you can just as easily steal the whole computer.
You might want to contact the SHARE Foundation. (Society for Human Advancement through Rehabilitation Engineering). http://www.share.umassd.edu/
Dr. Les Cory is the founder and a really good guy, as well as extremely technical. He was one of my professors and advisors when I was in college. Phone numbers and email address are available on the website (I'll try to be nice and keep some of the spambots away by not posting that info here.) These folks are really good at doing cool technical things on a limited budget.
Then you've never taken a DRII certification course. If you can't recover from your facility burning down/earthquake/flood then you don't have backups. And unless you have serious SLAs, you're not going to be running SRDF to a hot site. It's a hell of a lot cheaper to back up to tape and ship those to Iron Mountain. If you have > 24 hours recovery time from smoke and rubble, tape is still the way to go.
I've seen you post about this MA case a few times on this discussion, and I'm a bit confused since the Mass Lottery specifically states that they person presenting the ticket is the "owner" of it, regardless of whether they found it on the sidewalk or bought it themselves. This came up earlier this year when a woman claimed she "lost" the winning Mega Millions ticket. She was going to sue the woman who "found" the ticket, hired a lawyer and everything. Mass Lotto said they would turn the money over to whoever had the ticket -- finders keepers. (It later turned out she made the whole thing up, but that's another story...)
Or at least that's when I noticed. There's now a "Older Stuff" slashbox. Check your perfs.
HOW is this insightful??? EVERY slashdotter ought to know that VA has been out of the hardware biz for YEARS now! I mean, they only run the site you're looking at now?? Stupid mods...
Why is it a troll to point out that IBM is telling people not to download/install this SP because it is unstable, with a link to an article in Computerworld backing it up??? Mods on crack...
IBM is telling their customers NOT to deploy -- that it is unstable and can wreck systems. Computerworld Article
Yeah, that's who it was, Fujitsu.
H2 got licensed to VZones as "Second Kingdom" though it just happened recently. I haven't been active in VZones in a few years, so I haven't tried it out. Supposed to be pretty good though. (Even if it is years behind the Doom-3 graphics curve)
It stayed running until Quantum Link closed its doors. Q-Link got bought by AOL (or was it a merger... My memory is a bit hazy, not enough coffee yet this morning...) Both services ran together for a year or two, but as the Commodore exodus continued, AOL killed off Q-Link in (IIRC) 1992.
Club Caribe still lives on (somewhat) as Caribe Isle in the Dreamsacpe world on Vzones. VZones uses a somewhat-updated engine of the old Habitat. There was a company in the Far East (Korea??) that had an even better version of Habitat, but it wasn't skinned for English, so I couldn't tell you too much about it.
I was on a panel at a convention some years back that dealt with this topic... If I can find my notes I'll post more history and any links that still work... This was 4 or 5 years ago.
As much as I love to support Open Source, there's times when it's just not worth the pain. If you're already spending tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of dollars for Sun hardware (nothing wrong with that, we do it here) then pony up the cash for a REAL Enterprise Scheduler. Look at Tivoli. Look at Tidal. Look at Cybermation. They all have different strengths, so depending on what your organization needs, YMMV.
We standardized on Tidal. Yep, it's expensive. Our IT budget for this year is in the $1M range, so it's time to step up into the big leagues.
Eh, why not, I've got some karma to burn...
I saw this was a dupe when it was "In The Mysterious Future" and emailed daddypants, but it *STILL* got posted. WTF??
Yep. The company I was working for went under in October 2003. From what I've heard, everyone who was looking has managed to find a new job by now. So, at least the Boston area is starting to look up a little.
Hey, if a candidate hasn't hit Karma Cap, I don't want them working for me!
I also have a Targus, I've got one of their HUGE models. It's heavy, but it's built like a tank and can hold all my accessories, plus all the zillions of paper documents that I seem to always have to carry around. Every couple years I keep fighting with myself as to whether I want a small bag just big enough to hold my laptop, or something bigger... I found that the small bag is great, but I'm always then having to carry a briefcase or backpack or something else to carry all the rest of the crap I have to take to the office or out to job sites. This is the best compromise so far. And it's held up well for over a year now. YMMV.
RTFA, you idiot! The security issue applies to both the blade and the standalone PIX. Mod the parent down!
Perhaps we should call them up at dinner time and ask them how they like being disturbed?
From the auctioneer's site:
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[Update 09-04-2003 3:02 PM]:
My GPG signed response:
I do not believe that my auction violates the downloadable media policy, I posted in my auction that I would not be violating it. I specifically ammended [forgot to run ispell] the auction to state that the buyer would not receive the item in question over the Internet.
Please reinstate my auction ASAP.
George Hotelling
[Update 09-04-2003 2:52 PM]:
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It is *NOT* waterproof. Check the FAQ section of the PDF on Amazon's site for more details. It is not waterproof, not water reisitant, and should not be allowed to get wet or damp. *sigh*
Better slashdot translation. Includes original German as well.
What specific benefits would I see by switching my box to ReiserFS as opposed to EXT3 or one of the many other journalling file systems that Linux now supports? At this rate, seems like I could be reformatting my hard drives every week.
Just in time for a slashdotting, how thoughtful of them!
Wow, reminds me of my old C= 64 days... I might need to get a Japanese keyboard just for nostalgia now...
Yes, they brought back the same voice cast who dubbed the tv series.
and that's why I love slashdot. instant response to my stupid luser questions!