EverQuest has been out for over four years and still has hundreds of thousands of subscribers. Ultima Online has been out for even longer and still has a lot of players.
One or two years and the big-name MMORPG is apparently "just getting started."
I'm sure all the people that buy one have their reasons too. Fortunately for the manufacturer, I suspect there will be more people buying than explicitly boycotting their product.
1) Sometimes you can get a job in security operations (log monitoring, user account management, etc). They typically pay about what an IT helpdesk does - read, peanuts with a daily bonus of annoying calls. But you can get your foot in the door that way.
2) A lot of the security industry is based on trust, even though the people that are in it aren't supposed to say that (it's not PC or something). Getting to know the people in security groups and showing them that you're trustworthy is the best approach. I would take someone who's reliable and trustworthy and can learn new stuff any day over someone who's an absolute iptables/snort wizard but has a chip on his shoulder about "enterprise" software and can't keep his mouth shut about sensitive matters. Security is definitely not the field for someone who enjoys frequent casual gossip about their job.
Got a job at a decently large financial firm in their IT shop. Worked my way into supporting the security organization. While I was doing that, I learned as much as I can about good design principles and how to explain them to others. Eventually an opening came about in our network security group and there I am. We're not a Fortune 100 company but that's only because of the way we're structured, that's the size and scope of company I work for.
One of the most important things to remember is that security isn't all hackers and breakins and tiger teams and forensics. The day to day life of a security analyst (at least at a big firm) is fraught with arguments from operations, from development, from management. A very significant part of your job will be to propose The Right Thing To Do, which will almost always cost more and be more complex than the average Mickey Mouse bandaid solution that people tend to come up with. Security absolutely has to be designed into things from the start, not bolted on at the end. Execs and developers don't like to hear this a lot of the time, because it might cost more. Operations hates to hear it because it means they have another box to administer (a firewall instead of just a router) or some procedudes that require them to have accountability.
Definitely develop your people skills. You'll spend a LOT of time trying to convince people that you're worthy of what you're saying, but once you do they'll start coming to you before they do stuff and it gets a LOT easier. The important thing is to convince people that you're not just here to be an asshole and cost people money. That's the image the average security organization projects, but it's really not the case.
Like others have said, learn as much as you can about as many technologies as you can, rely on other experts in the company for depth of knowledge, and you'll be fine. You don't have to be the ultimate CCIE router nerd to perform decent network security. You need to know how and where to research things, how to communicate those results to the people that need to know them, and how to stick to your guns when needed. You won't always win. Management is funny like that. But if you're creative in finding solutions and very firm and confident when you do have to deliver the bad news, you're well on your way to being a decent security analyst.
Kill stealing is all about antisocial brats and overcrowded zones. If you keep finding your kills stolen, you should probably go fight in one of the other bazillion empty zones that no one's using. You'll have much more fun there than in the two or three of them are considered "easier" for no apparent reason to people who've long passed that level.
some people don't have the option to correct the vision in a weaker eye. People suffering from degenerative diseases (or hell, flat out blindness in one eye) can't always put on a pair of glasses and compensate for the problem. Not all vision loss is caused by something that a lens can correct!
It's connecting to the Discovery Channel because there is a specific block of time that Tivo buys to send some of the previews and promo clips down to the unit. Instead of trying to dump all of that information over the modem, they buy a half hour block of paid advertising time and send it to the Tivo in encoded format. If your Tivo isn't doing anything else during that time, it will tune itself to Discovery Channel and download all that information.
If you were watching during that time period, you would also see all of the promotional clips, commercials, etc that your Tivo has on its main menu. Unfortunately, if you don't record anything else, your TV will be on Discovery once the show is finished. Sort of confusing, but I think it's documented on one of Tivo's FAQs.
IBM published the source code, its inputs/outputs (functionality requirements) were documented by one group of developers, and new code to produce the same functionality written by people who had never seen the old code, and thus was legally reverse engineered.
There are quite a few firewalls that will run in bridge mode (i.e. with no IP). It will not be completely transparent as it will still present MAC address etc but it should not be visible above layer 2.
There is a little bit of theory behind it because the firewall has to work "backwards." You almost have to accept all packets in, and then enforce security as they are forwarded outbound. This is not a problem with most firewalls that can be coaxed into bridge mode as they allow you to either specify direction (pf, ipf) or enforce the policy on all interfaces in either and/or only in user specified direction anyway (firewall-1)
OpenBSD and whichever firewall you wish to run on it support it reasonably well. I am pretty sure you could follow an approximation of those instructions for Linux.
There are also commercial firewalls that support it, including Sun Sunscreen and Check Point Firewall-1 NG (only on their new Linux platform at the moment, but their other platforms may support it soon as well).
I'm 25 years old and while I have a lot of responsibility, I'm still not "old enough" or "experienced enough" to do certain things (international travel, etc).
However, I have noticed that things get a LOT better as you work for a company longer. I've been with my current company for 4 years and especially in the last year, things have improved a lot since I've grown with the company.
Keep in mind too that for a lot of us, this truly is our first real job (i.e. not flipping hamburgers or putting boxes on shelves). Yeah, I know technology, but I get hung up on the stupid things like filling out expense reports the way Joe in Finance wants to see them or filling out HR form A when I needed to fill out form B. It's those silly corporate things that you get more accustomed to, especially after leaving the relative safety of college.
Some of what we're experiencing is just what happens to any "new guy" or anyone that has only been with a company for a short while. Some of it is age related. It all stinks, but if you're with good management it'll work out in the long run.
Just be sure to keep your spirits up, work hard, don't do blatantly immature things (a former 23 year old coworker refused to park properly and regularly had his car towed, infuriating management), and it should all work out fine. I guess it's just paying our dues.
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EverQuest has been out for over four years and still has hundreds of thousands of subscribers. Ultima Online has been out for even longer and still has a lot of players.
One or two years and the big-name MMORPG is apparently "just getting started."
you forgot a video adapter capable of running Tux Racer.
I'm sure all the people that buy one have their reasons too. Fortunately for the manufacturer, I suspect there will be more people buying than explicitly boycotting their product.
2) A lot of the security industry is based on trust, even though the people that are in it aren't supposed to say that (it's not PC or something). Getting to know the people in security groups and showing them that you're trustworthy is the best approach. I would take someone who's reliable and trustworthy and can learn new stuff any day over someone who's an absolute iptables/snort wizard but has a chip on his shoulder about "enterprise" software and can't keep his mouth shut about sensitive matters. Security is definitely not the field for someone who enjoys frequent casual gossip about their job.
One of the most important things to remember is that security isn't all hackers and breakins and tiger teams and forensics. The day to day life of a security analyst (at least at a big firm) is fraught with arguments from operations, from development, from management. A very significant part of your job will be to propose The Right Thing To Do, which will almost always cost more and be more complex than the average Mickey Mouse bandaid solution that people tend to come up with. Security absolutely has to be designed into things from the start, not bolted on at the end. Execs and developers don't like to hear this a lot of the time, because it might cost more. Operations hates to hear it because it means they have another box to administer (a firewall instead of just a router) or some procedudes that require them to have accountability.
Definitely develop your people skills. You'll spend a LOT of time trying to convince people that you're worthy of what you're saying, but once you do they'll start coming to you before they do stuff and it gets a LOT easier. The important thing is to convince people that you're not just here to be an asshole and cost people money. That's the image the average security organization projects, but it's really not the case.
Like others have said, learn as much as you can about as many technologies as you can, rely on other experts in the company for depth of knowledge, and you'll be fine. You don't have to be the ultimate CCIE router nerd to perform decent network security. You need to know how and where to research things, how to communicate those results to the people that need to know them, and how to stick to your guns when needed. You won't always win. Management is funny like that. But if you're creative in finding solutions and very firm and confident when you do have to deliver the bad news, you're well on your way to being a decent security analyst.
Kill stealing is all about antisocial brats and overcrowded zones. If you keep finding your kills stolen, you should probably go fight in one of the other bazillion empty zones that no one's using. You'll have much more fun there than in the two or three of them are considered "easier" for no apparent reason to people who've long passed that level.
some people don't have the option to correct the vision in a weaker eye. People suffering from degenerative diseases (or hell, flat out blindness in one eye) can't always put on a pair of glasses and compensate for the problem. Not all vision loss is caused by something that a lens can correct!
Nah.
It's connecting to the Discovery Channel because there is a specific block of time that Tivo buys to send some of the previews and promo clips down to the unit. Instead of trying to dump all of that information over the modem, they buy a half hour block of paid advertising time and send it to the Tivo in encoded format. If your Tivo isn't doing anything else during that time, it will tune itself to Discovery Channel and download all that information.
If you were watching during that time period, you would also see all of the promotional clips, commercials, etc that your Tivo has on its main menu. Unfortunately, if you don't record anything else, your TV will be on Discovery once the show is finished. Sort of confusing, but I think it's documented on one of Tivo's FAQs.
IBM published the source code, its inputs/outputs (functionality requirements) were documented by one group of developers, and new code to produce the same functionality written by people who had never seen the old code, and thus was legally reverse engineered.
There is a little bit of theory behind it because the firewall has to work "backwards." You almost have to accept all packets in, and then enforce security as they are forwarded outbound. This is not a problem with most firewalls that can be coaxed into bridge mode as they allow you to either specify direction (pf, ipf) or enforce the policy on all interfaces in either and/or only in user specified direction anyway (firewall-1)
OpenBSD and whichever firewall you wish to run on it support it reasonably well. I am pretty sure you could follow an approximation of those instructions for Linux.
Try here at daemonnews.org for a link on how to do it with openbsd.
There are also commercial firewalls that support it, including Sun Sunscreen and Check Point Firewall-1 NG (only on their new Linux platform at the moment, but their other platforms may support it soon as well).
However, I have noticed that things get a LOT better as you work for a company longer. I've been with my current company for 4 years and especially in the last year, things have improved a lot since I've grown with the company.
Keep in mind too that for a lot of us, this truly is our first real job (i.e. not flipping hamburgers or putting boxes on shelves). Yeah, I know technology, but I get hung up on the stupid things like filling out expense reports the way Joe in Finance wants to see them or filling out HR form A when I needed to fill out form B. It's those silly corporate things that you get more accustomed to, especially after leaving the relative safety of college.
Some of what we're experiencing is just what happens to any "new guy" or anyone that has only been with a company for a short while. Some of it is age related. It all stinks, but if you're with good management it'll work out in the long run.
Just be sure to keep your spirits up, work hard, don't do blatantly immature things (a former 23 year old coworker refused to park properly and regularly had his car towed, infuriating management), and it should all work out fine. I guess it's just paying our dues.