Any top 10 reasons to vote for a candidate should not include reasons why not to vote for any other candidate. It is superfluous and shows how little your candidate has to offer the voters.
Grow up and stop the DNC/GOP politicking and vote third party.
The PC/104 is a standard for the cards that slot into the most common Embedded systems. Oftentimes PC/104 MB's will include a Compactflash or PCMCIA adapter, or expect you to convert IDE to do the same via an adapter.
In short they are X86 micro motherboards. So yes, they will run linux.
Perhaps organized crime could benefit from this, but in most cases electronic abuses when it comes to fraud/extortion etc seem to face a harsher penalty. I'm not too worried about criminals as much as I am a more driven and dedicated set of humanity.
I would fear fanatics. Punishment is not necessarily even considered by a driven individual. If there was a file corruption worm on the scale of Codered/Blaster the cost could escalate from the tens of Millions to the Billions quickly. Anarchists, extremists, and environmentalists often try to destroy property to equate a cash cost for organizations for their wrongdoings.
Heh, picture the credit agencies all exploding at the end of fight club.
What would stop Bush from calling for a third continenetal congress to reconsider the Constitution itself once the neocons have a lock on all three branches of Government?
Hey political ostrich, how about you use the phrase "a nation divided" productively. In this world, A nation divided doesn't *tend* to go totalitarion.
Neocon what is this term, some nifty new word to say Conservative? How could you be a "new" conservative? Does that mean moderate? Or only slightly less conservative?
Why do I wonder, I always see it in this common hate for one's enemies speech.
I'm sure the O'Connor and pals judiciary are gonna be around for a *little* while longer.
All three branches of government! Imagine that, not like there aren't things like fillibusters that prevent Presidents from dictating who gets appointed even with a relative majority of a single party occupying congressional positions.
I'm tired of this electoral system, there needs to be a reformation of the voting system. I'm tired of Red vs Blue, it's only funny in 360x240. Neither party gives me or a majority of americans a close match to their core beliefs.
No presidential or congressional candidate really tells us that much about themselves or their political beliefs. It's all: I'll be BETTER,I'm the NEW guy, He sucks because *ifexist Military record.txt {initate smearcampaign;} else {insinuate(!values)}*, and (always) I am a man of the people.
Two men have come close to being good presidents, Reagan and Clinton. One was a bit too right for me, and the other too left. One funded hitsquads, the other did something to Serbia that hadn't been done since WWII.
Both for their beliefs.
I want someone who's beliefs don't involve devestating a foreign nation and the nation of purple can't guarantee that.
Please say this was a mischeduled April fools post. I mean with a guy like Marxist Hacker making the submission. Or has this place joined the Kur05hin leftward spiral?
The core of what I do is solve problems, whether that's in graphic engine flow or rockets. I like working on things that are going to have an
IMPACT one way or the other.
Well, I guess the former's ok but the latter might be bad for your new spaceflight business.
I love mine, I use it frequently as both a USB HD, pocket FM radio/MP3 player (ok I got big pockets), and car jukebox. The recent gain boost for the radio broadcast feature has brought life back to my almost unuseable MiFi feature (FM broadcast) now I can broadcast my mp3s and oggs over a weak signal in the full city FM-dial.
The developers truly do listen to the owners. Due to consumer request there are plans in the works for radio like-tivo support in the firmware. Things like that are over the heads of the big-boys, and probably would kill a major player with big name.
If it does happen, which I doubt, I would take the entire conversation with a grain of salt. Hopefully the entire thing is videotaped on both ends. Otherwise, that wonderful anonymity we all enjoy could let Professor DNC or Doctor GOP do the talking for either candidate.
Well I don't know about ya'll, but I'd sure be working a whole lot harder to get my net connection back up. Everyone else may stuck without a way to finish their work, but it just means more work for us.
We're just tweaking the widgets that hold business together, in most cases IT isn't the business itself. So our productivity increasing will not mean a net gain in profit, I wouldn't think.
Although I'm sure the net will be back up in short order if it did have a cascade failure. Geeks everywhere will be scrambling to get on slashdot to see some moronic FP on tomorrow's "The sky fell" article.
FROM THE DESK OF ALHAJI BABA AHMED (60). WEMA BANK BANK PLC. NOTE WELL. REPLY ONLY TO THIS E-MAIL SAFE ADDRESS: alhajibaba_a@yahoo.com DEAR BELOVED,
APPLICATION FOR ACCOUNT CLOSURE. A/C NO. 1417-4578-35. SORT CODE NO. BSB 6505 , BELONGING TO MR PACKER TORIES.
COMPLIMENT OF THE DAY. I CRAVE YOUR UNDERSTANDING AND TRUST IN THIS MEANINGFUL AND CONFIDENTIAL RELATIONSHIP. I AM ALHAJI BABA AHMED , THE DIRECTOR OF ACCOUNTS MONITORING AND SUPERVISION DEPARTMENT OF WEMA BANK PLC LAGOS. I SEEK YOUR ASSISTANCE TO FRONT YOUR REPRESENTATION TO LATE PACKER TORIE S, A FOREIGN BUSINESSMAN WHO HAD ACCOUNT OF US$15.500.00 DOLLAR EQUIVAL. ENT WITH OUR BANK. SINCE HIS UNTIMELY DEATH IN EGYPT FEW YEARS AGO ON HOLIDAYS WITH HIS FAMILY MEMBERS, ALL EFFORTS TO TRACE HIS NEXT OF KIN PROVED ABORTIVE HENCE MY DESIRE TO SEEK YOUR ASSISTANCE TO STAND IN AS HIS NEXT OF KIN TO CLAIM THIS FUND. INDEED,I DONT WANT THE MANAGEMENT TO TAKE OVER THIS MONEY AS UNCLAIMED FUND AS STIPULATED IN OUR BANKING LAWS AND REGULATION HENCE MY CONTACTING YOU. IT IS ONLY TO MY KNOWLEDGLE FOR NOW. HOWEVER, YOU ARE REQUESTED NOW TO FORWARD AN APPLICATION FOR CLOSURE OF HIS ACCOUNT LIKE THIS TO THE DIRECTOR , INTERNATIONAL REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT, DR,RICHARD EGO. HIS E-MAIL:drrichardego@fastermail.com,INFORMING HIM THAT YOU ARE THE NEXT OF KIN AND THE BENEFICIARY OF THE FUND. HE SHOULD CLOSE THE CCOUNT ABOVE, FOR YOUR OWN BANK ACCOUNT WHERE YOU WANT THIS FUND TO BE WIRED INTO. YOU GIVE HIM YOUR OWN NOMINATED BANK ACCOUNT, PRIVATE TELEPHONE/ FAX AND E-MAIL FOR EASY WIRE AND COMMUNICATION. I ONCE MORE CRAVE YOUR UNDERSTANDING IN THIS MEANINGFUL TRANSACTION. I WILL THEN INFLUENCE AND FACILITATE THE SWIFT WIRE INTO YOUR OWN SUBMITED BANK ACCOUNT AND LATER WE WILL DISBURSE THE FUND FOR OUR OWN BENEFIT AND YOU HAVE A FAIR SHARE. IT IS A CONFIDENTIAL , MEANINFUL AND RISKFREE. BE READY TO SEND ME LETTER OF INVITATION FOR MY VISITING YOU THERE FOR MY SHARE. THAT YOU OBLIGED THIS YOUR APPLICATION IS GRANTED AND THANKING HIM IN ANTICIPATION. PLEASE ENSURE URGENT RESPONSE FOR DETAILS. TO THIS MY CONFIDENTIAL AND SAFE E-MAIL ADDRESS. alhajibaba_a@yahoo.com. YOURS TRULY. ALHAJI BABA AHMED. WEMA BANK PLC. ( DIRECTOR ACCOUNT/ SUPERVISION DEPT).
Except, for a company behind it's release schedule it's bad form not to update your schedule on your companies website. It makes it look like you have a product, but aren't selling it.
Ugh what a bit of tripe. Obviously written on the end of a caffiene spiral.
I didn't even state the point... which is probably just restated from everywhere else:
Everyone who knows "computers" knows Windows, to make curriculum easier, and the most dumbed down Windows is the best thing. That way there is no retraining needed for Students, and more importantly, Teachers.
At the community college I used to work for the CIS department had removable hard-drives that were checked out to students. The ubiquitous installation of Microsoft products is just a byproduct of their legally proven monopolistic tendencies.
Schools have very little to gain by switching to Linux. Those familiar with the way a computer operates and who are open to experimentation can utilize linux in a variety of different ways.
During the Operating Systems courses students were encouraged to demonstrate different operating systems, in fact hard drives configured to run anything from BSD to Linux were available to slot into the removable bays.
The thing that always gets me, is if you really want to spread the word, then you've got to practice what you preach. A Knoppix CD in your pocket isn't sufficient? The majority of users have been force fed MS-Windows all their lives, and those who haven't most likely are familiar with Mac OS.
Moving to a partially linux environment is not even considered in most administrative positions for serveral reasons. The biggest of all is the educational discounts and giveaways that Microsoft has perpetuated. The TCO argument nearly goes out the window when it costs 15 dollars to move to the newest iteration of the operating system.
Of course we as administrators and users know that Linux has other benefits, but to the decision makers in education they'd rather pay the $15*1000 systems than take one footstep into a leap of faith.
So I say: So? Deal with it. The world is using M$ products, advocate linux, but don't use the false innocence that/. loves to portray. The backend has moved to the free *nix in EDU anyways, the battle is on the desktop. Use knoppix if you need a local linux console, push VNC sessions from remote workstations if you can deal with it... and ssh my friend. Linux is everywhere, people just don't see it yet.
IE cannot be removed easily... and the functions of rendering html previews in the explorer window cannot be removed (at least via wizards... there are ways to get rid of anything in windows) in fact, I used an html preview system to pager bomb a coworker after he had attempted to remove iexplore. I have overwritten the iexplore.exe and forced the self healing to choke and yet you can still create IExplore windows by typing a url in the location bar of any Explorer window.
You never really get rid of it unless you really know your registry keys and you're not to afraid of crash messages occasionally when an M$ Office component, Instant messaging application, or other assorted Visual Studio made-type apps desperately *needs* IExplore...
Unless that billion can be deducted somehow on quarterlies, or it can end up giving them some benefit I don't see why a billion in any circumstance could be a drop in any companies' bucket.
Hurray! Big brother can now watch over us in the airports more adequately. Not only can they watch over you and find out where you live/lived who you associate with etc. etc... but now you are also prone to anyone who happens to "find" one of these blackberries that goes unaccounted for!
No I didn't RTFA where do you think we are. But I do work for the government, and know that this is about as smart as the DMV record lookup thing that was supposed to be real wonderful... Too bad no one told Rebecca Shaeffer about the love of big brother.
I love it. Just as they "CANNOT" remove IE from windows... But for some reason I can... I call Bullshit (WARNING:EXPERIMENTAL, Shameless self promotion..) Please comment if you see gaping failures in the procedure.
The whole thing stinks... Microsoft gets away with lying in court outright. Releasing a stripped down version of XP for the Xbox without IE, and implimenting a newly stripped down (non-english) version of XP that apparently works well enough to sell...
On top of which I'm nearly positive someone could write a registry import that would be able to remove any Windows feature entirely including the self healing. But Microsoft refuses to do any such thing in the markets it currently holds the monopoly in, claiming it would cause windows to no longer function.
WTF, like IE is going to mess with the win32 api... As if the fact that they can do it in taiwanese, or for the xbox should confuse the fact that they can't do it in english, or for a PC.
Well lets see. Basic measures are necessary for us, since people tend to not follow security policies, and our Tech:PC ratio is so damn high we have had to be pretty... well creative I guess is the word. Since we haven't the funding, manpower, or infrastructure to deploy anything that would require client reconfiguration 100% we have resorted to the following: 1. DHCP access listing. (Indexed systems get ips, others don't) 2. Router Access lists (in non-cisco language port filtering) 3. Heavily restricted nat firewalls (ipcop+snort) 4. NAV/Deep Freeze (www.faronics.com... if you can use it, do... no spyware, no viruses, no deliberate destruction of the local system, reboot and it's all fixed.) 5. Software Update Services (Deepfreeze plays nice if you schedule it right)
So obviously we use windows... and obviously we have a relatively secure (at least from the current and past virus/worm attacks.)
About 95-99% of the systems on a campus are frozen. In the case of an outbreak we can shutdown all systems (removing the obviously infected systems from the DHCP access list) and booting the frozen systems back up. This is assuming the virus is 0 day, and it hits us before the SUS updates...
Still there are horrible gaping holes... for instance, a virus that spreads quickly, before a patch is released, and happens to still be spreading during the SUS thaw could result in a complete infection... but the odds there are pretty slim. And really, it puts us in a better position for 23 hours a day... and on par with most companies for 1 hour a day.
E-Rate filings take a good 3-4 months of time to manage (from the School Site/District PoV.) So even if I'm not involved 100% some of the specifics tend to rub off on you. For instance: the summary is misleading, E-Rate does not cover all network servers. In fact it's pretty specific in that it will fund DHCP/DNS/Radius servers, but not things like file services/mail/etc. Our routing equipment, and a good deal of our switching equipment is covered, but the most expensive components to the network(the enterprise servers) are not.
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I was only following orders!
Any top 10 reasons to vote for a candidate should not include reasons why not to vote for any other candidate. It is superfluous and shows how little your candidate has to offer the voters.
Grow up and stop the DNC/GOP politicking and vote third party.
The PC/104 is a standard for the cards that slot into the most common Embedded systems. Oftentimes PC/104 MB's will include a Compactflash or PCMCIA adapter, or expect you to convert IDE to do the same via an adapter.
In short they are X86 micro motherboards. So yes, they will run linux.
Perhaps organized crime could benefit from this, but in most cases electronic abuses when it comes to fraud/extortion etc seem to face a harsher penalty. I'm not too worried about criminals as much as I am a more driven and dedicated set of humanity.
I would fear fanatics. Punishment is not necessarily even considered by a driven individual. If there was a file corruption worm on the scale of Codered/Blaster the cost could escalate from the tens of Millions to the Billions quickly. Anarchists, extremists, and environmentalists often try to destroy property to equate a cash cost for organizations for their wrongdoings.
Heh, picture the credit agencies all exploding at the end of fight club.
Hey political ostrich, how about you use the phrase "a nation divided" productively. In this world,
A nation divided doesn't *tend* to go totalitarion.
Neocon what is this term, some nifty new word to say Conservative? How could you be a "new" conservative? Does that mean moderate? Or only slightly less conservative?
Why do I wonder, I always see it in this common hate for one's enemies speech.
I'm sure the O'Connor and pals judiciary are gonna be around for a *little* while longer.
All three branches of government! Imagine that, not like there aren't things like fillibusters that prevent Presidents from dictating who gets appointed even with a relative majority of a single party occupying congressional positions.
I'm tired of this electoral system, there needs to be a reformation of the voting system. I'm tired of Red vs Blue, it's only funny in 360x240. Neither party gives me or a majority of americans a close match to their core beliefs.
No presidential or congressional candidate really tells us that much about themselves or their political beliefs. It's all: I'll be BETTER,I'm the NEW guy, He sucks because *ifexist Military record.txt {initate smearcampaign;} else {insinuate(!values)}*, and (always) I am a man of the people.
Two men have come close to being good presidents, Reagan and Clinton. One was a bit too right for me, and the other too left. One funded hitsquads, the other did something to Serbia that hadn't been done since WWII.
Both for their beliefs.
I want someone who's beliefs don't involve devestating a foreign nation and the nation of purple can't guarantee that.
Please say this was a mischeduled April fools post. I mean with a guy like Marxist Hacker making the submission. Or has this place joined the Kur05hin leftward spiral?
Ohh right, I must be new here.
Well, I guess the former's ok but the latter might be bad for your new spaceflight business.
Can we buy one without a tiny little blade that more than likely will get taken when we go through airport security?
I love mine, I use it frequently as both a USB HD, pocket FM radio/MP3 player (ok I got big pockets), and car jukebox. The recent gain boost for the radio broadcast feature has brought life back to my almost unuseable MiFi feature (FM broadcast) now I can broadcast my mp3s and oggs over a weak signal in the full city FM-dial.
The developers truly do listen to the owners. Due to consumer request there are plans in the works for radio like-tivo support in the firmware. Things like that are over the heads of the big-boys, and probably would kill a major player with big name.
Here's to the indi-linux makers.
If it does happen, which I doubt, I would take the entire conversation with a grain of salt. Hopefully the entire thing is videotaped on both ends. Otherwise, that wonderful anonymity we all enjoy could let Professor DNC or Doctor GOP do the talking for either candidate.
Well I don't know about ya'll, but I'd sure be working a whole lot harder to get my net connection back up. Everyone else may stuck without a way to finish their work, but it just means more work for us.
We're just tweaking the widgets that hold business together, in most cases IT isn't the business itself. So our productivity increasing will not mean a net gain in profit, I wouldn't think.
Although I'm sure the net will be back up in short order if it did have a cascade failure. Geeks everywhere will be scrambling to get on slashdot to see some moronic FP on tomorrow's "The sky fell" article.
FROM THE DESK OF ALHAJI BABA AHMED (60).
WEMA BANK BANK PLC.
NOTE WELL. REPLY ONLY TO THIS E-MAIL SAFE ADDRESS: alhajibaba_a@yahoo.com
DEAR BELOVED,
APPLICATION FOR ACCOUNT CLOSURE. A/C NO. 1417-4578-35. SORT CODE NO. BSB 6505 , BELONGING TO MR PACKER TORIES.
COMPLIMENT OF THE DAY. I CRAVE YOUR UNDERSTANDING AND TRUST IN THIS MEANINGFUL AND CONFIDENTIAL RELATIONSHIP. I AM ALHAJI BABA AHMED , THE DIRECTOR OF ACCOUNTS MONITORING AND SUPERVISION DEPARTMENT OF WEMA BANK PLC LAGOS.
I SEEK YOUR ASSISTANCE TO FRONT YOUR REPRESENTATION TO LATE PACKER TORIE
S, A FOREIGN BUSINESSMAN WHO HAD ACCOUNT OF US$15.500.00 DOLLAR EQUIVAL.
ENT WITH OUR BANK.
SINCE HIS UNTIMELY DEATH IN EGYPT FEW YEARS AGO ON HOLIDAYS WITH HIS FAMILY MEMBERS, ALL EFFORTS TO TRACE HIS NEXT OF KIN PROVED ABORTIVE HENCE MY DESIRE TO SEEK YOUR ASSISTANCE TO STAND IN AS HIS NEXT OF KIN TO CLAIM THIS FUND. INDEED,I DONT WANT THE MANAGEMENT TO TAKE OVER THIS MONEY AS UNCLAIMED FUND AS STIPULATED IN OUR BANKING LAWS AND REGULATION HENCE MY CONTACTING YOU. IT IS ONLY TO MY KNOWLEDGLE FOR NOW.
HOWEVER, YOU ARE REQUESTED NOW TO FORWARD AN APPLICATION FOR CLOSURE OF HIS ACCOUNT LIKE THIS TO THE DIRECTOR , INTERNATIONAL REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT, DR
YOU GIVE HIM YOUR OWN NOMINATED BANK ACCOUNT, PRIVATE TELEPHONE/ FAX AND E-MAIL FOR EASY WIRE AND COMMUNICATION.
I ONCE MORE CRAVE YOUR UNDERSTANDING IN THIS MEANINGFUL TRANSACTION. I WILL THEN INFLUENCE AND FACILITATE THE SWIFT WIRE INTO YOUR OWN SUBMITED BANK ACCOUNT AND LATER WE WILL DISBURSE THE FUND FOR OUR OWN BENEFIT AND YOU HAVE A FAIR SHARE.
IT IS A CONFIDENTIAL , MEANINFUL AND RISKFREE.
BE READY TO SEND ME LETTER OF INVITATION FOR MY VISITING YOU THERE FOR MY SHARE.
THAT YOU OBLIGED THIS YOUR APPLICATION IS GRANTED AND THANKING HIM IN ANTICIPATION.
PLEASE ENSURE URGENT RESPONSE FOR DETAILS. TO THIS MY CONFIDENTIAL AND SAFE E-MAIL ADDRESS. alhajibaba_a@yahoo.com.
YOURS TRULY.
ALHAJI BABA AHMED.
WEMA BANK PLC. ( DIRECTOR ACCOUNT/ SUPERVISION DEPT).
[I]Congradulashuns u have fownd the l0053R. No one but this guy writes in Italics.[/I]
/. standards.
Seriously, who bases identity based upon writing style, or even font style. That's surely not irrefutable proof, even to
503 errors, the gross mis-spellings in headlines. It's a wonder I don't just find something better to do... like work or something.
Except, for a company behind it's release schedule it's bad form not to update your schedule on your companies website. It makes it look like you have a product, but aren't selling it.
Ugh what a bit of tripe. Obviously written on the end of a caffiene spiral.
I didn't even state the point... which is probably just restated from everywhere else:
Everyone who knows "computers" knows Windows, to make curriculum easier, and the most dumbed down Windows is the best thing. That way there is no retraining needed for Students, and more importantly, Teachers.
At the community college I used to work for the CIS department had removable hard-drives that were checked out to students. The ubiquitous installation of Microsoft products is just a byproduct of their legally proven monopolistic tendencies.
/. loves to portray. The backend has moved to the free *nix in EDU anyways, the battle is on the desktop. Use knoppix if you need a local linux console, push VNC sessions from remote workstations if you can deal with it... and ssh my friend. Linux is everywhere, people just don't see it yet.
Schools have very little to gain by switching to Linux. Those familiar with the way a computer operates and who are open to experimentation can utilize linux in a variety of different ways.
During the Operating Systems courses students were encouraged to demonstrate different operating systems, in fact hard drives configured to run anything from BSD to Linux were available to slot into the removable bays.
The thing that always gets me, is if you really want to spread the word, then you've got to practice what you preach. A Knoppix CD in your pocket isn't sufficient? The majority of users have been force fed MS-Windows all their lives, and those who haven't most likely are familiar with Mac OS.
Moving to a partially linux environment is not even considered in most administrative positions for serveral reasons. The biggest of all is the educational discounts and giveaways that Microsoft has perpetuated. The TCO argument nearly goes out the window when it costs 15 dollars to move to the newest iteration of the operating system.
Of course we as administrators and users know that Linux has other benefits, but to the decision makers in education they'd rather pay the $15*1000 systems than take one footstep into a leap of faith.
So I say: So? Deal with it. The world is using M$ products, advocate linux, but don't use the false innocence that
IE cannot be removed easily... and the functions of rendering html previews in the explorer window cannot be removed (at least via wizards... there are ways to get rid of anything in windows) in fact, I used an html preview system to pager bomb a coworker after he had attempted to remove iexplore. I have overwritten the iexplore.exe and forced the self healing to choke and yet you can still create IExplore windows by typing a url in the location bar of any Explorer window.
You never really get rid of it unless you really know your registry keys and you're not to afraid of crash messages occasionally when an M$ Office component, Instant messaging application, or other assorted Visual Studio made-type apps desperately *needs* IExplore...
Unless that billion can be deducted somehow on quarterlies, or it can end up giving them some benefit I don't see why a billion in any circumstance could be a drop in any companies' bucket.
Hurray! Big brother can now watch over us in the airports more adequately. Not only can they watch over you and find out where you live/lived who you associate with etc. etc... but now you are also prone to anyone who happens to "find" one of these blackberries that goes unaccounted for!
No I didn't RTFA where do you think we are. But I do work for the government, and know that this is about as smart as the DMV record lookup thing that was supposed to be real wonderful... Too bad no one told Rebecca Shaeffer about the love of big brother.
I love it. Just as they "CANNOT" remove IE from windows... But for some reason I can... I call Bullshit (WARNING:EXPERIMENTAL, Shameless self promotion..) Please comment if you see gaping failures in the procedure.
The whole thing stinks... Microsoft gets away with lying in court outright. Releasing a stripped down version of XP for the Xbox without IE, and implimenting a newly stripped down (non-english) version of XP that apparently works well enough to sell...
On top of which I'm nearly positive someone could write a registry import that would be able to remove any Windows feature entirely including the self healing. But Microsoft refuses to do any such thing in the markets it currently holds the monopoly in, claiming it would cause windows to no longer function.
WTF, like IE is going to mess with the win32 api... As if the fact that they can do it in taiwanese, or for the xbox should confuse the fact that they can't do it in english, or for a PC.
My complaints from the Intel driver PoV...
I also had some concernsregarding wifi really just the comment about the 4 wifi adapters I have trouble with... on every laptop I try them on...
1. MA401
2. MA111
3. IW2100
4. MA401(newer revision... don't remember ottomh)
Default kernel PCMCIA, Host-ap, wireless ng, pcmcia-cs... and now I'm just pissed... so I don't bother. Apple here I come.
Well lets see. Basic measures are necessary for us, since people tend to not follow security policies, and our Tech:PC ratio is so damn high we have had to be pretty ... well creative I guess is the word. Since we haven't the funding, manpower, or infrastructure to deploy anything that would require client reconfiguration 100% we have resorted to the following:
1. DHCP access listing. (Indexed systems get ips, others don't)
2. Router Access lists (in non-cisco language port filtering)
3. Heavily restricted nat firewalls (ipcop+snort)
4. NAV/Deep Freeze (www.faronics.com... if you can use it, do... no spyware, no viruses, no deliberate destruction of the local system, reboot and it's all fixed.)
5. Software Update Services (Deepfreeze plays nice if you schedule it right)
So obviously we use windows... and obviously we have a relatively secure (at least from the current and past virus/worm attacks.)
About 95-99% of the systems on a campus are frozen. In the case of an outbreak we can shutdown all systems (removing the obviously infected systems from the DHCP access list) and booting the frozen systems back up. This is assuming the virus is 0 day, and it hits us before the SUS updates...
Still there are horrible gaping holes... for instance, a virus that spreads quickly, before a patch is released, and happens to still be spreading during the SUS thaw could result in a complete infection... but the odds there are pretty slim. And really, it puts us in a better position for 23 hours a day... and on par with most companies for 1 hour a day.
And the US is worried about extraditing draft dodgers. They should really worry about sending all their thinking people out of the country.
A resource to avoid this stupidity (at least for a little while):Available Here/a
E-Rate filings take a good 3-4 months of time to manage (from the School Site/District PoV.) So even if I'm not involved 100% some of the specifics tend to rub off on you. For instance: the summary is misleading, E-Rate does not cover all network servers. In fact it's pretty specific in that it will fund DHCP/DNS/Radius servers, but not things like file services/mail/etc. Our routing equipment, and a good deal of our switching equipment is covered, but the most expensive components to the network(the enterprise servers) are not.
Why woody ticked me off about a week ago:
1. 2.2 kernel
2. Hardware Support
3. 2.2 kernel
4. See #1, #2
Solution:
1. Install Fedora Core
2. install apt
3. be happy.