I know Tenable has a free version of their Nessus scanner for home/research use, probably others do too. Download them and test them out and see what holes they find.
oh, and 10 shitloads = 1 fuckton, just so's ya know.
And one shitload is "everything you can carry in both arms, plus one". Geez, these kids today don't know Système international d'unités (pardon my French).
How can Beats be crap? They're designed by a doctor, and (until recently) made by a Monster!
I have a pair of older closed, full-ear Sennheiser headphones that are my "best" pair; I got them for under $70, IIRC they were the model under the 555 when they sold those. I didn't know about Grado at the time, that may have been a better choice. I also have a pair of wireless Sennheisers for TV viewing (by far the best wireless headphones I've used, RS120 I think) and an ancient pair of Radio Shack (rebranded Koss) on-ear headphones (from the '80s). They all sound different, and they all sound good to me.
Note that only the RS120s are current models, and I've even had those for ~10 years. Good headphones will last forever. Try to buy from a brand that sells replacement ear pads.
Try to get them from somewhere where you can either listen to them with your music or return them easily. Headphone preference is fairly personal, so you might hate the ones I love.
If you're really serious, you'll also want to build a small headphone amp. You could buy one, but then you'll have to turn in your soldering iron.
WYSE of some model, running Win7 Embedded. Looking at their web site I think it's the C90LE7. They have a VIA Eden 1GHz processor, and it's pegged most of the time.
Pretty much anything can be successfully virtualized if you throw enough hardware at the host. Just keep in mind that these machines are all actually running on the same processors, and there's probably going to be a way to escalate rights from VM to host or VM to VM. In your environment this may not be an issue, but it's worth keeping in mind.
The dumber the terminal, the fewer hardware faults, OS problems and malware, no?
Although in practice we can expect a dumbing down of the user base too:).
I thought that too, and suggested terminal services and thin clients at my company. Turns out today's thin clients are just Win7 machines that are slow and hard to patch, but by the time I realized it the executives were already sold. We would have been better off re-using existing old hardware as "thin clients".
Some packages use a lot of libraries. So what? If this affects security, it *improves* it. It only takes one person to find the bug in libtiff, and one security update to fix all the applications which use it.
How is that different than Microsoft with the Visual C runtime or.Net Framework? It's not the fault of the OS if a developer decides to not use an available library.
To give a more specific example, I recently installed something on Ubuntu Server that wanted SMTP. Rather than install Sendmail or Postfix, it installed _Citadel_, and all its dependencies.
Yes, and a sane one. At my Windows workplace they use several home-made systems to push out security updates. They tend to pop up "Reboot now? Y/N" boxes when you least expect it, and misbehave in general.
That's not Windows' fault. If they wanted to, they could push out third-party security updates with WSUS, which is cost-free and has a user interface that end-users are used to. Of course implementing it is up to your IT department, since Microsoft doesn't distribute the packages in the first place.
What does malware prevalence have to do with OS security? I'd bet the bulk of those listed take advantage of the same 6-month- to 2-year-old vulnerabilities, or click-everything users running as admin.
Decide what's really important; do you really want a 1366x768 17" screen? Maybe you do, that'll make things easier. I've never found anyone who's unhappy with higher resolution screens unless they have poor vision.
Look at the Slickdeals, Fatwallet, Dealnews sites to see what goes on sale, and how often.
If she's going to use it as a road warrior, get a corporate model. They can come with 3 year warranties (including breakage coverage). If she's likely to keep it longer than that, plenty of parts will be available on eBay for cheap.
If she's going to put it on a desk and leave it there forever, get a cheap model that suits her needs. If she's going to want to upgrade in a year anyway, then get the cheapest one you can find; you can get 3 one-year laptops with that $1500 or one 3-5 year laptop.
Additionally, Linux distribution security generally isn't much better than modern Windows. Even small to medium packages tend to pull in everything but the kitchen sink. Of course, if you stick to packages in Linux, you at least have only one update mechanism.
The Probook is flimsy plastic, which the OP is trying to avoid. We got a demo in to test (we generally buy the Elitebook models), and there's no way it'd last 3-5 years for users who actually use their laptops as portable workstations.
I have a Latitude E6520 which also has a built-in number pad and 19x10 screen. I don't really like the number pad feature, I'm having trouble getting accustomed to having the keyboard shifted to the left. It's not flimsy, it has a metal top case and cast magnesium base (magnesium alloy, presumably). I've always enjoyed the build quality of the Precision laptops (I still have an M70 that gets occasional use) but I'd say that so far the E6520 is at least on par with the HP Elitebook line.
My understanding was that sintered powder forged metal rods with cracked end-caps were stronger than their standard counterparts. Ford's been using them in gasoline applications since... 1993? Whenever they introduced the 4.6 modular engine in the Mark VIII. They used them because they could make an equal-strength, lighter, less-expensive part, which sounds like a win to me. Of course, I'm not an engineer, so maybe I've been sold a bill of goods.
The only good article I could find was this, but I'm guessing that's probably biased.
It would be nice if they would allow non-TPM encryption without a USB flash drive, because not many machines have TPM/TCG compatible motherboards these days.
What machines are you using? I'm mostly familiar with HP and Dell, and just about every business-grade machine they sell (laptops, desktops, servers) has Bitlocker-compatible TPM built-in.
Can this article explain why there are so many left-handed people at my company, especially in IT? I've been in meetings of 8-10 people and noticed that _everyone_ in the room is left-handed (~1000-person company). It seems statistically unlikely.
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Truly outrageous.
<MittRomney>
Servers are people, my friend.
</MittRomney>
Can servers get gay married, then?
I know Tenable has a free version of their Nessus scanner for home/research use, probably others do too. Download them and test them out and see what holes they find.
oh, and 10 shitloads = 1 fuckton, just so's ya know.
And one shitload is "everything you can carry in both arms, plus one". Geez, these kids today don't know Système international d'unités (pardon my French).
Hell, they're cheaper than the crap called Beats.
How can Beats be crap? They're designed by a doctor, and (until recently) made by a Monster!
I have a pair of older closed, full-ear Sennheiser headphones that are my "best" pair; I got them for under $70, IIRC they were the model under the 555 when they sold those. I didn't know about Grado at the time, that may have been a better choice. I also have a pair of wireless Sennheisers for TV viewing (by far the best wireless headphones I've used, RS120 I think) and an ancient pair of Radio Shack (rebranded Koss) on-ear headphones (from the '80s). They all sound different, and they all sound good to me.
Note that only the RS120s are current models, and I've even had those for ~10 years. Good headphones will last forever. Try to buy from a brand that sells replacement ear pads.
Try to get them from somewhere where you can either listen to them with your music or return them easily. Headphone preference is fairly personal, so you might hate the ones I love.
If you're really serious, you'll also want to build a small headphone amp. You could buy one, but then you'll have to turn in your soldering iron.
"real men play single player."
This is Slashdot, where all the men play "single player".
No, it's not. It's more like asking who were Alcock and Brown, or Blériot.
By the way, have you the slightest idea who they were?
I think Louis Blériot is Ke$ha's grandfather.
If nothing else, we know he's a failure, and what is that saying?
Sure, but he's _my_ failure! That's got to be better than any failure you put forward.
George Orwell must be spinning in his grave
That's a better clean power source than taping buttered bread to a cat.
WYSE of some model, running Win7 Embedded. Looking at their web site I think it's the C90LE7. They have a VIA Eden 1GHz processor, and it's pegged most of the time.
Pretty much anything can be successfully virtualized if you throw enough hardware at the host. Just keep in mind that these machines are all actually running on the same processors, and there's probably going to be a way to escalate rights from VM to host or VM to VM. In your environment this may not be an issue, but it's worth keeping in mind.
The dumber the terminal, the fewer hardware faults, OS problems and malware, no?
Although in practice we can expect a dumbing down of the user base too :).
I thought that too, and suggested terminal services and thin clients at my company. Turns out today's thin clients are just Win7 machines that are slow and hard to patch, but by the time I realized it the executives were already sold. We would have been better off re-using existing old hardware as "thin clients".
Some packages use a lot of libraries. So what?
If this affects security, it *improves* it. It only takes one person to find the bug in libtiff, and one security update to fix all the applications which use it.
How is that different than Microsoft with the Visual C runtime or .Net Framework? It's not the fault of the OS if a developer decides to not use an available library.
To give a more specific example, I recently installed something on Ubuntu Server that wanted SMTP. Rather than install Sendmail or Postfix, it installed _Citadel_, and all its dependencies.
Yes, and a sane one. At my Windows workplace they use several home-made systems to push out security updates.
They tend to pop up "Reboot now? Y/N" boxes when you least expect it, and misbehave in general.
That's not Windows' fault. If they wanted to, they could push out third-party security updates with WSUS, which is cost-free and has a user interface that end-users are used to. Of course implementing it is up to your IT department, since Microsoft doesn't distribute the packages in the first place.
What does malware prevalence have to do with OS security? I'd bet the bulk of those listed take advantage of the same 6-month- to 2-year-old vulnerabilities, or click-everything users running as admin.
Decide what's really important; do you really want a 1366x768 17" screen? Maybe you do, that'll make things easier. I've never found anyone who's unhappy with higher resolution screens unless they have poor vision.
Look at the Slickdeals, Fatwallet, Dealnews sites to see what goes on sale, and how often.
If she's going to use it as a road warrior, get a corporate model. They can come with 3 year warranties (including breakage coverage). If she's likely to keep it longer than that, plenty of parts will be available on eBay for cheap.
If she's going to put it on a desk and leave it there forever, get a cheap model that suits her needs. If she's going to want to upgrade in a year anyway, then get the cheapest one you can find; you can get 3 one-year laptops with that $1500 or one 3-5 year laptop.
Additionally, Linux distribution security generally isn't much better than modern Windows. Even small to medium packages tend to pull in everything but the kitchen sink. Of course, if you stick to packages in Linux, you at least have only one update mechanism.
The Probook is flimsy plastic, which the OP is trying to avoid. We got a demo in to test (we generally buy the Elitebook models), and there's no way it'd last 3-5 years for users who actually use their laptops as portable workstations.
I have a Latitude E6520 which also has a built-in number pad and 19x10 screen. I don't really like the number pad feature, I'm having trouble getting accustomed to having the keyboard shifted to the left. It's not flimsy, it has a metal top case and cast magnesium base (magnesium alloy, presumably). I've always enjoyed the build quality of the Precision laptops (I still have an M70 that gets occasional use) but I'd say that so far the E6520 is at least on par with the HP Elitebook line.
My understanding was that sintered powder forged metal rods with cracked end-caps were stronger than their standard counterparts. Ford's been using them in gasoline applications since... 1993? Whenever they introduced the 4.6 modular engine in the Mark VIII. They used them because they could make an equal-strength, lighter, less-expensive part, which sounds like a win to me. Of course, I'm not an engineer, so maybe I've been sold a bill of goods.
The only good article I could find was this, but I'm guessing that's probably biased.
Weren't we supposed to have electricity generation from walking on sidewalks, too?
It sucks getting older, and realizing that these stores come out every few years.
It would be nice if they would allow non-TPM encryption without a USB flash drive, because not many machines have TPM/TCG compatible motherboards these days.
What machines are you using? I'm mostly familiar with HP and Dell, and just about every business-grade machine they sell (laptops, desktops, servers) has Bitlocker-compatible TPM built-in.
... a beowulf cluster of these.
No, the ports are chmod 7000. They're setuid, setgid, and sticky.
Can this article explain why there are so many left-handed people at my company, especially in IT? I've been in meetings of 8-10 people and noticed that _everyone_ in the room is left-handed (~1000-person company). It seems statistically unlikely.
Well, it's good to see that Germany is finally sending money to Greece.