Why? Because when I say "Apple" and "music" together, what do you think of? Apple Computer, right? There's the confusion. They have infringed on the trademark.
Linux (Redhat 6.1-ish?) firewall/occasional web and ftp server with a mix of Windows clients. The Linux machine was never compromised but it did begin crashing on a regular basis, I believe due to DoS attacks of an unknown form. I retired this box due to the crashes.
OpenBSD (3.0?) replaced this box with the same client load. No problems and no compromises, but keeping up with patches, particularly rebuilding the kernel, was a pain on such a slow machine.
Linksys box replaced that in the same environment. Again no compromises, but still no services really exposed. The lack of configurability compared to Linux/OpenBSD boxes was a pain.
Current setup of 3 static IP's, 2 with Linksys boxes protecting web/dns servers and 1 with a DLink WAP/NAT firewall box protecting client boxes. The servers (1 OpenBSD 3.3 and 1 Windows 2000) have had no compromises and the Linksys boxes have given me no problems at all. The DLink box is a pain because it apparently drops idle tcp connections after about 5 minutes. It's much more configurable than the Linksys boxes though. Still no compromises through the DLink firewall either.
So in short, I've never had a compromise through any firewall, hardware or unix-ish box. The only compromise I've had (except the DoS crashes on the Linux firewall) was a trojan from a downloaded piece of software.
Where's my friggin broadband? The Brighthouse dimwits yanked my cable again so we're on hour 10 of downtime. Nice. That's what we get for being a commercial customer in a residential area. And they best they can do is a "sometime tomorrow" appointment. In the past that's apparently meant "5 minutes after you give up and leave".
Following the "don't" and "first buy a time machine" comments, let me tell you why not. Your market today primarily consists of four groups:
People that have a website with another company and want to go with someone cheaper and more responsive. These are a major hassle. We call them hostage situations because what you usually find is the that old company has the domain registered in their name and they're not hot to give it up. You end up spending hours and hours fighting registrars to get the domain or trying to convince the customer to change urls. If you do go for this business, find a helpful registrar to fight for you.
People that have no idea what they want on a website. That's why they don't already have one. They also have little idea what it should cost. This sounds good, right? But they often know a nephew that can build them a crappy site for free, so they expect you to be slightly more expensive than that. Much more than $500 and they'll just keep waiting.
Customers that want a very complex site. This sounds good, but you can easily get in over your head, or much worse, agree to something that just isn't going to work. They often have grand plans that involve using data or a service available somewhere else, usually violating the rights they have to the data or service.
People that want to start a new company. 95% of these will die before a real launch, leaving you with unpaid account receivables.
The best customers we've found are churchs, realtors, friends with existing businesses and no sites, and non-profit organizations with budgets. We often barter with small companies and that works great. Some realtors' companies have a set budget for web sites and you can milk those.
Find a profitable place to host accounts. Don't try to host them yourself. You'll hate the work. Go somewhere like Hurricane Electric or ValueWeb and let them do the majority of the work while you collect $5/month or less on the accounts. You'll be milking those accounts for several years without touching them.
Ok I'm the IT Manager at an oncology/diagnostic imaging clinic and holy shit is my boss, the general manager (COO if you ask him) an idiot.
Bet him $20 he can't throw his wallet through the middle of the MRI machine while it's on. Play up how strong the magnetic field is and how it'll kick his wallet back. No way can he throw it through the middle. You get the idea. Then when he does it, pay him his $20. He'll need it to pay his bar tab when none of his magnetic-striped credit cards work anymore.
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How many times had you logged on to the Internet in 1988?
Hundreds. It brought our CS department and computing services office to a halt for 2 days and affected most of the other departments to a lesser extent. On the other hand, it did make for interesting discussions in our classes.
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...my wife's grandparents live right next to a gold course and one of their neighbors got busted a few years back for tapping into their water lines...
Yes, I read that Blackberries and other equipment on the old Mobitex network (Palm VIIs and ?) did pretty well. The network is cellular, but they use huge cells (fewer and taller towers) so I guess it's easier/cheaper for them to have good backup power for the whole network.
...emergency personel should have access to ham radios.
Some do. My county sheriff's office has it's own ham club complete with a wide coverage repeater and prepositioned equipment at many of their facilities. Our county's emergency manager is licensed ham and a member of the primary club in the county and in fact helps with their main repeater, which is located in the county emergency operations center.
Of course, down here in Florida, we have a higher than average sense of urgency about emergency preparedness.
If you absolutely must (and I mean, as in the FBI shows up and wants to chat), hire a lawyer and tell them the truth about everything except how much money you have.
how do you, as a tech, give back to society and aid in social programs?
I try to stay employed and pay my taxes. Seriously. That's it. I've done the giving back bit and I got sick of the waste, people working the system, watching my organizations get ripped off (how desperate do you have to be to steal from a church or a volunteer organization?) and especially the inevitable volunteer vs. paid staff battles.
The only other thing I do today is help with the kids at my church, but that's because I can't stand being around their parents. Fsck people. They suck.
A number of our developers hypothetically could possibly be running Hercules and some of the latest and most sophisticated IBM software and it (hypothetically again) kicks ass.
Disclaimer: I in no way know anything about any copyright or license violations and hardly speak for myself, much less my tiny tiny offshore company with absolutely no attachable assets.
Does it do it at a hardware level, like BOCHS or VMWware?
My understanding is that BOCHS is a true emulator but VMWare is more of a virtualization thing (like the mainframe!) that runs the actual instructions.
So yes, Hercules emulates all the hardware including the CPU. Very radically different machine.
Eventually a good Photoshop (or Word, or 3DS MAX) user gets to the point where he conceives of what he wants to do to the image, and his fingers and eyes just do it, without him thinking much about the task.
Exactly. Adobe has me locked into Photoshop now. I can use any web browser or word processor but until the GIMP can have a compatability mode I can't use it.
Most of us use Yahoo Messenger, usually with rude screen names. It was good until we all started ratting each other out to management and telling them what each other's screen names were. Now the best part of Yahoo IM is that you can set yourself invisible and duck the "did you do your timesheet" IMs.
We use it a lot when our Exchange server goes down.
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Why? Because when I say "Apple" and "music" together, what do you think of? Apple Computer, right? There's the confusion. They have infringed on the trademark.
Have you ever tried reading a paperback in a boring meeting?
Linux (Redhat 6.1-ish?) firewall/occasional web and ftp server with a mix of Windows clients. The Linux machine was never compromised but it did begin crashing on a regular basis, I believe due to DoS attacks of an unknown form. I retired this box due to the crashes.
OpenBSD (3.0?) replaced this box with the same client load. No problems and no compromises, but keeping up with patches, particularly rebuilding the kernel, was a pain on such a slow machine.
Linksys box replaced that in the same environment. Again no compromises, but still no services really exposed. The lack of configurability compared to Linux/OpenBSD boxes was a pain.
Current setup of 3 static IP's, 2 with Linksys boxes protecting web/dns servers and 1 with a DLink WAP/NAT firewall box protecting client boxes. The servers (1 OpenBSD 3.3 and 1 Windows 2000) have had no compromises and the Linksys boxes have given me no problems at all. The DLink box is a pain because it apparently drops idle tcp connections after about 5 minutes. It's much more configurable than the Linksys boxes though. Still no compromises through the DLink firewall either.
So in short, I've never had a compromise through any firewall, hardware or unix-ish box. The only compromise I've had (except the DoS crashes on the Linux firewall) was a trojan from a downloaded piece of software.
Where's my friggin broadband? The Brighthouse dimwits yanked my cable again so we're on hour 10 of downtime. Nice. That's what we get for being a commercial customer in a residential area. And they best they can do is a "sometime tomorrow" appointment. In the past that's apparently meant "5 minutes after you give up and leave".
- People that have a website with another company and want to go with someone cheaper and more responsive. These are a major hassle. We call them hostage situations because what you usually find is the that old company has the domain registered in their name and they're not hot to give it up. You end up spending hours and hours fighting registrars to get the domain or trying to convince the customer to change urls. If you do go for this business, find a helpful registrar to fight for you.
- People that have no idea what they want on a website. That's why they don't already have one. They also have little idea what it should cost. This sounds good, right? But they often know a nephew that can build them a crappy site for free, so they expect you to be slightly more expensive than that. Much more than $500 and they'll just keep waiting.
- Customers that want a very complex site. This sounds good, but you can easily get in over your head, or much worse, agree to something that just isn't going to work. They often have grand plans that involve using data or a service available somewhere else, usually violating the rights they have to the data or service.
- People that want to start a new company. 95% of these will die before a real launch, leaving you with unpaid account receivables.
The best customers we've found are churchs, realtors, friends with existing businesses and no sites, and non-profit organizations with budgets. We often barter with small companies and that works great. Some realtors' companies have a set budget for web sites and you can milk those.Find a profitable place to host accounts. Don't try to host them yourself. You'll hate the work. Go somewhere like Hurricane Electric or ValueWeb and let them do the majority of the work while you collect $5/month or less on the accounts. You'll be milking those accounts for several years without touching them.
Bet him $20 he can't throw his wallet through the middle of the MRI machine while it's on. Play up how strong the magnetic field is and how it'll kick his wallet back. No way can he throw it through the middle. You get the idea. Then when he does it, pay him his $20. He'll need it to pay his bar tab when none of his magnetic-striped credit cards work anymore.
Hundreds. It brought our CS department and computing services office to a halt for 2 days and affected most of the other departments to a lesser extent. On the other hand, it did make for interesting discussions in our classes.
Screw that. I'd be tapping into the gold supply.
And supposedly the same Robert Morris that helped write what became Yahoo! Stores.
Reminds me of the USB-powered personal massager.
An old Florida bumper sticker: "I'll buckle up when Bundy does."
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Or any of the other dozen companies doing this that have folded in the past 2 years.
I thinked so.
Yes, I read that Blackberries and other equipment on the old Mobitex network (Palm VIIs and ?) did pretty well. The network is cellular, but they use huge cells (fewer and taller towers) so I guess it's easier/cheaper for them to have good backup power for the whole network.
Some do. My county sheriff's office has it's own ham club complete with a wide coverage repeater and prepositioned equipment at many of their facilities. Our county's emergency manager is licensed ham and a member of the primary club in the county and in fact helps with their main repeater, which is located in the county emergency operations center.
Of course, down here in Florida, we have a higher than average sense of urgency about emergency preparedness.
Anyone remember NT4 Service Pack 6? The first one? The one that broke tcp/ip?
I try to stay employed and pay my taxes. Seriously. That's it. I've done the giving back bit and I got sick of the waste, people working the system, watching my organizations get ripped off (how desperate do you have to be to steal from a church or a volunteer organization?) and especially the inevitable volunteer vs. paid staff battles.
The only other thing I do today is help with the kids at my church, but that's because I can't stand being around their parents. Fsck people. They suck.
I have my Tetris clone I wrote in Turbo Pascal, all packaged and ready for shareware release.
Disclaimer: I in no way know anything about any copyright or license violations and hardly speak for myself, much less my tiny tiny offshore company with absolutely no attachable assets.
So yes, Hercules emulates all the hardware including the CPU. Very radically different machine.
Eventually a good Photoshop (or Word, or 3DS MAX) user gets to the point where he conceives of what he wants to do to the image, and his fingers and eyes just do it, without him thinking much about the task. Exactly. Adobe has me locked into Photoshop now. I can use any web browser or word processor but until the GIMP can have a compatability mode I can't use it.
We use it a lot when our Exchange server goes down.
IBM has a lot of development outside of the U.S. Hursley, England is the major development center we deal with.
Put the cameras on Hooters Air flights.