it kinda the way apple is, its the "state of affairs" of things. apple is knife focused on iOS devices. and mac is yea we do that to. 32GB ram laptops are not uncommon, even 64GB can be had... and now lenovo is pushing out a 128GB ram laptop apple? 16GB....
there is alot of people that need power, and apple is not paying attention to them. so they are moving to windows in most cases a few to linux but most are going to windows 10, not becuase the love windows.. but because they can get better hardware.
first, like the questions everyone keeps asking is how are you getting hacked? more data would be helpful... baring that... somethings I would recomend.....
-if you want to change your router any of the decent reviewed routers are ok. or you can roll a bunch of options like ddwrt, etc. I just use a commercial one.
- make sure your computers firewall is ON and that it logs all connections. (and that its blocking inbound) - if windows, makes sure the logging and auditing are on. -use the latest version of what ever your OS is... -look at whats actually installed, and what your actualling installing. doing install anything thats not 100% trusted. no 'warez', or priated software, no pirated mp3, movies anything. if its not 100% trusted it needs to go... this is an important step.... -if you suspect a hack, full reinstall of everything is in order period full stop.... -do an opsec review of all your accounts, cleanup on the privacy and security settings and change all your passwords. and update security questions etc. every account should have unique random password, use something like lastpass or 1password. -make sure your using the latest browser versions chrome is pretty good here and add flash, and ad blockers. and add httpseveryhwere -dont click on untrusted links, or run anything untrusted like facebook games etc. -if your using mac or windows use malwarebytes and a good security endpoint product.. sophos is free and decent. -setup an opendns account and use it block all the bad sites in it. -make sure all your software is always up to date -dont run as admin, run as standard user and if windows us UAC to full. use 2nd accout for admin.
at allot of conferences you see alot of macs, even among OSS devs. many run Linux/BSD in a VM. even some of the kernel devs work in this work flow. I know a few OSS Devs and most have Macs, and Run in VMs.
and anyone who thinks, impress is anywhere close to keynote or powerpoint in dreaming is like 10 years behind and thats being nice. I tryed to do a impress deck once with video, audio transitions and i spent days on it and it never worked. but i was able to do it in powerpoint in a few hours.
THATS why he used a mac.... its very simple he wants to get shit done... and I am really sure i has Linux VMs he spends most of his time in....
First make sure the windows firewall is enabled, and the inbound is set to block. you can also use device manager to disable the wireless devices if you want. but that wont stop malware from doing an outbound connection.
but here the short list: 1 use ciscos opendns and configure the web security rules. 2 decent AV/security software 3 malwarebytes 4 chrome 5 block flash and ads, use WOT plugin 6 UAC set to full do not run as admin
sure, I am sure most of the tech industry is gaming the system, but for mid level talent, or above its very hard to find people. and when you start to drill down into some specific skillsets its gets even harder. much of the tech industry trys to find the best people. and, many of these companys are multinational so for example if you run data centers Germany they need to be staffed by germans that handle german data. once you start forcing arcane rules you start to run into all sorts of issues for no reason.
better, is to address the root issues instead of blanket banning, as a protectist, isolationist which never works....
I think its more than that. its already hard to find talent. many tech shops are pretty diverse places now. limiting, tech companys it bitting your nose off to spit your face.
I work in the tech industry like many here on this board. I think opposing the order was the right thing. opposing it, is more than just about so called "cheap labor" for the tech industry. for one it sets president, of what an executive order can or should do. this is not a dictatorship, we have laws and processess and they are not being followed.
is it possible, that the H1B program is being abused? well yea, no shit sherlock. lets dig into that and find out where and why. blanket banning like was done, was done without thought, logic or reasons. hell the places with the most exported terrorist where not on the lists which also line up nicely as places trump does business odd hunh? so trump gets to make sure all the places he does business with are not listed, but everyone else just has to take it? not how it works and the tech companys and states are fighting back.
i would, lock everything down. starting with wpa2 with a really long random string, I would even change the wireless network SSID to a random string. (part of the crypto use the ssid in the hash)
I would add, mac address auth, change all my DHCP settings. and even hide my network.
you can not just take, random geeks. even ones that "quote" play at mock combat. and test them, and compare that to a medieval warrior Knight. Form almost, all of these warriors it was a full time job, meaning they where in shape for it. otherwise, they would have died in combat....
i was on one monitor for a long time, once I went to two. its a huge difference. sure, some folks probley dont need them but most do. when doing code compares, or having a test environment up in the 2nd window. it matters.....
in the real world, the OS is mattering not as much as it once did. what is driving is the 'solution', or what are your mainline apps? an example is a shop that runs autoCAD, this is a MS only app the costs big bucks.
and for the server world, its the same you have companys with these huge investments in internal and external control apps, and starting over is not something they will do with out very long and carful considerations.
and even in shops, that are mixed and have heavy Unix presense there are issues becuase SUN and Novel support sucks. tho redhat is pretty good but; going with a full readhat solution is big bucks...
so, and you have to consider what apps you going to need. and writing everything over is not a good answer as some shops could have 20 apps....
* install the new apps on your standard images, and see what security security or config changes they require. ->* also, look for how the app installs and how it appears to work. ->* maybe do some network sniffs and see what the app is doing * also, check how the server side pieces work and how they talk to other serversa and to the clients
Top Talent, This is going to be a huge issue. no way arround it, best way would be something along the lines of the NSA. whereas you recurit talent, as long time contractors. in return for things like further education, etc. in the end you would end up with 60% contractors and the rest would be AF personell but thats ok, cuz all the high level stuff would be handled by real talent.
top down security; in refence, to an above post that spoke of poor security at the local level becuase of top down security. this is also an issue but one where people with talent need to be recurited. it takes years, of exp to be a good expert or program mgr. and thats whats needed., not sure how this could be fixed. but haveing standards, (which exist) and have the ppl with training and talnet implamenting is key. maybe have a few real top talent types recurited as contractors (cisco Engrs)
There is a very good reason for this, the "young" interact very differently with technology while there are 'growing up'. for example, they dont own there own houses, and if they rent have roommates etc. so they 'tend' to just live on there computers, so in this regard downloading is better for them. but that will change, they will want to watch these same movies later on the big screens. (appleTV)
I had this talk with my teenage daughter many times before shee graduated highschool, her and her friends used to think myspace was the center of the world, and email and Im was for old folks... well now... they are are dumping myspace as a primary communctaion meduim. what changed? they did; they got older and relised they have different needs and adjusted. now they are all moving tomore tradinional meduims like email and IM.
same, thing here. online digial content will be very very important. but the format for the next gen DVD is just as important. maybe more so, tho i think the recent annocemnts put the nail in the coffen kind of thing for HD DVD. on raw techincal prowess BluRay is better once you forget the DRM stuff. and for most people thats not an issue.
I work, with hospitals alot and let me be very honest with you. I have yet to see one of these soltions or medical systems providers come up with something that does not suck. and suck bad. what happens, is; most of these apps have ok workflow, and decent usibility from the docters or nurses point of view which is why the get bought. but from an IT perspective these hospital software house are almost all just nightmares. they have poor or non existant architecture, and dont use any modern or even past best practices. these apps, have to be very custimize hell i even have to write my own.NET wrappers for some of these apps becuase there so bad. in the hospital world, the desktops are windows period. and thats not going to change in the near future either. becuase there are just way to many apps form many many different companys required to make a hospital run. what *is* happening is some bigger hospiatls are rolling there own stuff using either.NET or Linux. and thats... a good thing....
That, *is* a good point, but at this point in time it takes days to get to the moon. any space based research, or quick trips. would all be impacted. with a orbiting station, even a small one you would gain flexiblity. and why cant you have both? why can we build an infrastucture like we do with shipping and airplane travel? the station does not have to be a stop over for the moon, it would/could be its totally own thing.
thats true. but *why* build a space station, then throw it away so you can move on to a moon base. then what throw *it* away so you can move on to something else... see a pattern here?
why not build out, space stations, or space statation[s] then moon base[s] then mars etc?
I think its very important to have a constatnt presence in space. tho i am beginng to think the *real* space race will happen once the private corps get involved and can make money form mining etc. thats when all sorts of crap will come out of the woodworks.....
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it kinda the way apple is, its the "state of affairs" of things. apple is knife focused on iOS devices. and mac is yea we do that to.
32GB ram laptops are not uncommon, even 64GB can be had... and now lenovo is pushing out a 128GB ram laptop apple? 16GB....
there is alot of people that need power, and apple is not paying attention to them. so they are moving to windows in most cases a few to linux
but most are going to windows 10, not becuase the love windows.. but because they can get better hardware.
first, like the questions everyone keeps asking is how are you getting hacked? more data would be helpful... baring that...
somethings I would recomend.....
-if you want to change your router any of the decent reviewed routers are ok. or you can roll a bunch of options like ddwrt, etc. I just use a
commercial one.
- make sure your computers firewall is ON and that it logs all connections. (and that its blocking inbound)
- if windows, makes sure the logging and auditing are on.
-use the latest version of what ever your OS is...
-look at whats actually installed, and what your actualling installing. doing install anything thats not 100% trusted. no 'warez', or priated
software, no pirated mp3, movies anything. if its not 100% trusted it needs to go... this is an important step....
-if you suspect a hack, full reinstall of everything is in order period full stop....
-do an opsec review of all your accounts, cleanup on the privacy and security settings and change all your passwords. and update security questions etc. every account should have unique random password, use something like lastpass or 1password.
-make sure your using the latest browser versions chrome is pretty good here and add flash, and ad blockers. and add httpseveryhwere
-dont click on untrusted links, or run anything untrusted like facebook games etc.
-if your using mac or windows use malwarebytes and a good security endpoint product.. sophos is free and decent.
-setup an opendns account and use it block all the bad sites in it.
-make sure all your software is always up to date
-dont run as admin, run as standard user and if windows us UAC to full. use 2nd accout for admin.
this should help your out alot.
-Nex6
at allot of conferences you see alot of macs, even among OSS devs. many run Linux/BSD in a VM. even some of the kernel devs work in this work flow. I know a few OSS Devs and most have Macs, and Run in VMs.
and anyone who thinks, impress is anywhere close to keynote or powerpoint in dreaming is like 10 years behind and thats being nice. I tryed to
do a impress deck once with video, audio transitions and i spent days on it and it never worked. but i was able to do it in powerpoint in a few hours.
THATS why he used a mac.... its very simple he wants to get shit done... and I am really sure i has Linux VMs he spends most of his time in....
First make sure the windows firewall is enabled, and the inbound is set to block. you can also use device manager to disable the wireless devices if you want. but
that wont stop malware from doing an outbound connection.
but here the short list:
1 use ciscos opendns and configure the web security rules.
2 decent AV/security software
3 malwarebytes
4 chrome
5 block flash and ads, use WOT plugin
6 UAC set to full do not run as admin
-Nex6
sure, I am sure most of the tech industry is gaming the system, but for mid level talent, or above its very hard to find people. and when you start to drill down into
some specific skillsets its gets even harder. much of the tech industry trys to find the best people. and, many of these companys are multinational so for example
if you run data centers Germany they need to be staffed by germans that handle german data. once you start forcing arcane rules you start to run into all sorts of
issues for no reason.
better, is to address the root issues instead of blanket banning, as a protectist, isolationist which never works....
I think its more than that. its already hard to find talent. many tech shops are pretty diverse places now. limiting, tech companys it bitting your nose off to spit your face.
I work in the tech industry like many here on this board. I think opposing the order was the right thing. opposing it, is more than just about so called "cheap labor"
for the tech industry. for one it sets president, of what an executive order can or should do. this is not a dictatorship, we have laws and processess and they are not
being followed.
is it possible, that the H1B program is being abused? well yea, no shit sherlock. lets dig into that and find out where and why. blanket banning like was done,
was done without thought, logic or reasons. hell the places with the most exported terrorist where not on the lists which also line up nicely as places trump
does business odd hunh? so trump gets to make sure all the places he does business with are not listed, but everyone else just has to take it? not how it works
and the tech companys and states are fighting back.
welcome to the legal system...
-Nex6
i would, lock everything down. starting with wpa2 with a really long random string, I would even change the wireless network SSID to a random string.
(part of the crypto use the ssid in the hash)
I would add, mac address auth, change all my DHCP settings. and even hide my network.
just to start, off the top of my head....
-Nex6
best of luck..... i was a good run.....
you can not just take, random geeks. even ones that "quote" play at mock combat. and test them, and compare that to a medieval warrior Knight. Form almost, all of these warriors it was a full time job, meaning they where in shape for it. otherwise, they would have died in combat....
i was on one monitor for a long time, once I went to two. its a huge difference. sure, some folks probley dont need them but most do. when doing code compares, or having a test environment up in the 2nd window. it matters.....
this list is showing some of the differances between the beta and the upcomming RC. and targeting things testers have asked for.
sheesh....
-Nex6
in the real world, the OS is mattering not as much as it once did. what is driving is the 'solution', or what are your mainline apps? an example is a shop that runs autoCAD, this is a MS only app the costs big bucks.
and for the server world, its the same you have companys with these huge investments in internal and external control apps, and starting over is not something they will do with out very long and carful considerations.
and even in shops, that are mixed and have heavy Unix presense there are issues becuase SUN and Novel support sucks. tho redhat is pretty good but; going with a full readhat solution is big bucks...
so, and you have to consider what apps you going to need. and writing everything over is not a good answer as some shops could have 20 apps....
I would say, have lab of machines.
* install the new apps on your standard images, and see what security security or config changes they require.
->* also, look for how the app installs and how it appears to work.
->* maybe do some network sniffs and see what the app is doing
* also, check how the server side pieces work and how they talk to other serversa and to the clients
etc.
-Nex6
what are some of the most promising technologys that could have the most impact? and how soon?
-Nex6
here are my random thoughts;
Top Talent,
This is going to be a huge issue. no way arround it, best way would be something along the lines of the NSA. whereas you recurit talent, as long time contractors. in return for things like further education, etc. in the end you would end up with 60% contractors and the rest would be AF personell but thats ok, cuz all the high level stuff would be handled by real talent.
top down security;
in refence, to an above post that spoke of poor security at the local level becuase of top down security. this is also an issue but one where people with talent need to be recurited. it takes years,
of exp to be a good expert or program mgr. and thats whats needed., not sure how this could be fixed.
but haveing standards, (which exist) and have the ppl with training and talnet implamenting is key.
maybe have a few real top talent types recurited as contractors (cisco Engrs)
-Nexus6
There is a very good reason for this, the "young" interact very differently with technology while there are 'growing up'. for example, they dont own there own houses, and if they rent have roommates etc. so they 'tend' to just live on there computers, so in this regard downloading is better for them. but that will change, they will want to watch these same movies later on the big screens. (appleTV)
I had this talk with my teenage daughter many times before shee graduated highschool, her and her friends used to think myspace was the center of the world, and email and Im was for old folks... well now... they are are dumping myspace as a primary communctaion meduim. what changed? they did; they got older and relised they have different needs and adjusted. now they are all moving tomore tradinional meduims like email and IM.
same, thing here. online digial content will be very very important. but the format for the next gen DVD is just as important. maybe more so, tho i think the recent annocemnts put the nail in the coffen kind of thing for HD DVD. on raw techincal prowess BluRay is better once you forget the DRM stuff. and for most people thats not an issue.
-Nex6
Linus uses it, (i read it in an interview somewhere.
I work, with hospitals alot and let me be very honest with you. I have yet to see one of these soltions or medical systems providers .NET wrappers for some of these apps becuase there so bad. in the hospital world, the desktops are windows period. and thats not going to change in the near future either. becuase there are just way to many apps form many many different companys required to make a hospital run. what *is* happening is some bigger hospiatls are rolling there own stuff using either .NET or Linux. and thats... a good thing....
come up with something that does not suck. and suck bad. what happens, is; most of these apps have ok workflow, and decent usibility from the docters or nurses point of view which is why the get bought. but from an IT perspective these hospital software house are almost all just nightmares. they have poor or non existant architecture, and dont use any modern or even past best practices. these apps, have to be very custimize hell i even have to write my own
-Nex6
this is very cool. has harddrives get faster, and larger. and CPUs get better...
thats true, when put like that. when be better to have both. but a really cool moon base or a have assed one well i'd choose the cool one.
That, *is* a good point, but at this point in time it takes days to get to the moon. any space based research, or quick trips. would all be impacted. with a orbiting station, even a small one you would gain flexiblity. and why cant you have both? why can we build an infrastucture like we do with shipping and airplane travel? the station does not have to be a stop over for the moon, it would/could be its totally own thing.
I dont think its *nessessasry* for a stop over or a *requirement* for a moon base. i think its a requirement for a decent space program.
yes,
thats true. but *why* build a space station, then throw it away so you can move on to a moon base. then what throw *it* away so you can move on to something else... see a pattern here?
why not build out, space stations, or space statation[s] then moon base[s] then mars etc?
good point,
I think its very important to have a constatnt presence in space. tho i am beginng to think the *real* space race will happen once the private corps get involved and can make money form mining etc. thats when all sorts of crap will come out of the woodworks.....