I manage a team of network admins at a university that uses the same software as CMU. The software does have agents available for Mac and Linux too.
Stupid question, what if your machine is a Mac or Linux box? This "Client Security Agent" seems to be a Windows-only beast. Whatever it is, it would be a cold day in hell before I let a university that I'm paying money to dictate that I have to have their software on my machine to use the Internet access that my tuition and fees are paying for!
Here's the problem. The IT staff has a number of conflicting expectations for the network. There are N-1 other students at the university also paying tuition and they also expect the network to work. School administration expects it to work, with priority given to academic purposes. While it isn't ideal to require that students trust our software to run on their computer, it allows the school's IT staff to ensure computers comply with policy (current AV, anti-spyware, etc), and that computers that are causing network problems can be quickly identified and the problem mitigated. (And believe me, a comprehensive network access system greatly speeds problem resolution, both for the network and the student.) Keeping bad computers off the network lets the network keep working for everyone else that didn't mess up their computer with malicious software. It'd be nice to somehow exempt students that know what they're doing from this intrusive, annoying process. But like many things, a few bad apples ruin it for everyone.
The software allows policies to be set for AV existence and version, anti-spyware, and OS version and updates. It also allows custom scans to be written to check for files and registry keys. No other info gets sent to the administrators other than if you have failed or passed such a scan. No one is spying on you, or cares that much about what's on your computer. They just want the network to work.
There are agentless NAC solutions available, but they are more annoying for the user and less correct for the administrators. Having no NAC really isn't a feasible option anymore for schools of any decent size, as they need to comply with CALEA and respond to RIAA, REN-ISAC, and other internal/external complaints. If you don't trust your school, and are that concerned about running untrusted code from a vendor picked by your school, then don't. Don't use the network, and have fun with your protest. The administrators aren't forcing this upon the students because they're unsympathetic to their concerns. But rather, because they need to serve all students well.
bah. it's not disproved, but it's only valid for a single unchanging frame of reference dof time. As time bends (due to intense gravity), the equation becomes wrong. So Einstein was right for so long as you're only talking about a single viewpoint. But if you want to use the equation for big bang/big crunch stuff, or for looking at the universe in 4D, it really should be Et=mcg.
Energy * time = mass * speed of light * gravity .
Say, at the big crunch, all matter in the universe is heading toward a center giant black hole. As it's compacting, the incredible force of gravity from all the matter in the universe over a short distance is trying to compact matter into as small of an area as possible. It is also causing time to be very slow (compared to the your current frame of reference). So, E=mc^2 doesn't quite work to describe the behavior in that system where time is so drastically different. But, how time is measured in the above equation is still undecided. Maybe it should it be a differential from a standing frame of reference?
Wouldn't surprise me. Several versions of Xerox's comparable model, the Docutech, have a Sun Ultra inside of them (running solaris of course). Software handles the queueing and output options. Mmm... I love when printers run CDE.
We use it here at out university. The JES Suite is pretty expensive for a million users, but much more affordable with.edu pricing. Scales _really_ well.
So, some IP lawyer that wants to make the news and get popular with the linux community real fast just needs to post to the lkml offering to represent linux kernel copyright holders in a lawsuit filed against SCO claiming copyright infringement.
I mean, such a suit has far more proof than the SCO v. IBM case. Linux vs. SCO has a deposition from a SCO employee saying that it happened! Each and every linux kernel 2.4 copyright holder should file an individual suit against SCO, claiming massive damages. SCO is going to lose and die soon enough anyhow, but, wouldn't that be fun!
I switched from MCI state unlimited to packet8 for a few months. I had some latency problems with packet8. I could deal with it, but my wife could not. So we ended up upgrading our cell phone plan, and ditching a separate home phone altogether.
A router with QoS helped a lot. There was a noticable difference after a did prioritization with OpenBSD's pf.
I use this at the computer service place where I work, and it's wonderful. It has modules for Ad-aware and McAfee, so it fixes most windows problems in about 10 minutes. It also has network support, and norton ghost, so you can backup the whole system to the network very easy.
It's not by the guys that developed oscommerce. The oscommerce people forked too, but not to this project.:)
OSSuite is a integration of Nola GPL'd ERP software, and OSCommerce. OSSuite has good developers (of which i'm an inactive one), and smart business people. You can also buy support.
I use packet8, and noticed the same problem. I set up QoS in pf on my openbsd fw, and it completely fixed the prob. Now, when i'm on the phone, I just see my bittorrent uploads drop about 40k/s:)
Rubi-con is much fun. Last year, firecrackers were shot at a presenter, stairwells were douced with fire extenguishers, a jacuzzi was soaped, and the rubi-con web site defaced with a 10 minute star wars style flash animation.
On the more normal side, there were tons of good speakers, lots of alcohol, and excellent looking geek chicks.
The cable companies don't have a lot of choice here. Those RIAA/MPAA bitches prosecute people that UPLOAD music/movies. They have never, not once, prosecuted someone for downloading music. Why? Think of it from their point of view. The people that dowload music are the listeners. The people that buy music, or at least used to until they found out they can get it for free. Its the damn pirates that upload content that are the problem. By providing content to the listeners, they're competing with the RIAA/MPAA. So the RIAA/MPAA are taking the next step in the fight by requesting and threatening ISP's that the content is served from. Big fscking deal. Either fight the RIAA/MPAA by not giving them money, or don't.
This story is about a large company my previous employer did work for. Of course I won't say the company's name, but it's often used as a verb, and their products are probably in your office.
We were hired to write software to show our customer's customer how our customer was doing. It kept track of when shipments went out, things like that. It was replacing an earlier attempt from the sole sysadmin at that location.
Now I must mention that the entire network was 5 years old. Everything was purchased at one time, when the location opened, and nothing had been bought since.
Anyhow, the admin gives us a Compaq P75 workstation with 24MB and NT Workstation to use as our production web/database server. Significantly below our requirements.:) He refuses to give us access to their current data to convert/test. Etc, etc. The Manager then gives him the ultimatum to comply or quit, so he walks out. No one there knows any passwords, no network diagrams, not even what boxes do what.
So I had to own every device on their network to give them control again. While writing the software we were there to do originally. Lots of 80 hour weeks, and my previous employer is a bunch of bastards so I was not well paid for it. But to this day, the customer location is still in business, and I have a terrific reference on my resume from them.:)
But what's the value of being first if nobody knows who you were?
Yeah, I know. If I could do it over again, I wouldn't have logged out, and just took the karma hit. It'd have been worth it.
Oh well, at least I can claim to be the ac, and hope everyone believes me.
I've been involved as a customer (or friend of customer) at more than a few cable installs. Most of the time, I've had no problems explaining to them that I'll set the client side up myself, I just want them to get the cable working. I do have a couple of notes however.
Every single time (except one), rr has been slow at registering the mac address of the cable modem with their dhcp server. Why Time Warner techs don't call this in to RR prior to the appt I'll never know, but they don't, and the cable never works until about 2 hours after they leave.
Once, (on my home network no less) while I was fixing up some ramen noodles, the installer came across my linux box, and wiggled the mouse. When the mouse didn't make the screen turn pretty colors (the monitor was off), he reset the power to the box. I swear to god, if it still had a year uptime on it (i powered it down when i moved, rather than driving across town with it still plugged into the UPS just for brevity;), i'd have rebooted his truck.
Yeah. While I've not used LTSP in an educational setting, I use it at home and it rocks. My main box is a bit beefy, but all the workstations are quite small, and diskless, and since everything executes on the server, everything is still snappy. Even my non-geek wife uses this setup. It's wonderfully easy to administer (1 box vs 10), and performs great. I just can't say enough nice things about this.
5- Internet Explorer got 20 unfixed vulnerabilites today according to http://www.pivx.com/larholm/unpatched [pivx.com]
Application problems, not OS problems, big difference.
MS: <Whine>But IE is a critical part of Windows. We can't remove it! </Whine>
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I manage a team of network admins at a university that uses the same software as CMU. The software does have agents available for Mac and Linux too.
Stupid question, what if your machine is a Mac or Linux box? This "Client Security Agent" seems to be a Windows-only beast. Whatever it is, it would be a cold day in hell before I let a university that I'm paying money to dictate that I have to have their software on my machine to use the Internet access that my tuition and fees are paying for!
Here's the problem. The IT staff has a number of conflicting expectations for the network. There are N-1 other students at the university also paying tuition and they also expect the network to work. School administration expects it to work, with priority given to academic purposes. While it isn't ideal to require that students trust our software to run on their computer, it allows the school's IT staff to ensure computers comply with policy (current AV, anti-spyware, etc), and that computers that are causing network problems can be quickly identified and the problem mitigated. (And believe me, a comprehensive network access system greatly speeds problem resolution, both for the network and the student.) Keeping bad computers off the network lets the network keep working for everyone else that didn't mess up their computer with malicious software. It'd be nice to somehow exempt students that know what they're doing from this intrusive, annoying process. But like many things, a few bad apples ruin it for everyone.
The software allows policies to be set for AV existence and version, anti-spyware, and OS version and updates. It also allows custom scans to be written to check for files and registry keys. No other info gets sent to the administrators other than if you have failed or passed such a scan. No one is spying on you, or cares that much about what's on your computer. They just want the network to work.
There are agentless NAC solutions available, but they are more annoying for the user and less correct for the administrators. Having no NAC really isn't a feasible option anymore for schools of any decent size, as they need to comply with CALEA and respond to RIAA, REN-ISAC, and other internal/external complaints. If you don't trust your school, and are that concerned about running untrusted code from a vendor picked by your school, then don't. Don't use the network, and have fun with your protest. The administrators aren't forcing this upon the students because they're unsympathetic to their concerns. But rather, because they need to serve all students well.
bah. it's not disproved, but it's only valid for a single unchanging frame of reference dof time. As time bends (due to intense gravity), the equation becomes wrong. So Einstein was right for so long as you're only talking about a single viewpoint. But if you want to use the equation for big bang/big crunch stuff, or for looking at the universe in 4D, it really should be Et=mcg.
:)
Energy * time = mass * speed of light * gravity .
Say, at the big crunch, all matter in the universe is heading toward a center giant black hole. As it's compacting, the incredible force of gravity from all the matter in the universe over a short distance is trying to compact matter into as small of an area as possible. It is also causing time to be very slow (compared to the your current frame of reference). So, E=mc^2 doesn't quite work to describe the behavior in that system where time is so drastically different. But, how time is measured in the above equation is still undecided. Maybe it should it be a differential from a standing frame of reference?
I am not a physicist.
Yes, but does it run Linux??????
Wouldn't surprise me. Several versions of Xerox's comparable model, the Docutech, have a Sun Ultra inside of them (running solaris of course). Software handles the queueing and output options. Mmm... I love when printers run CDE.
We use it here at out university. The JES Suite is pretty expensive for a million users, but much more affordable with .edu pricing. Scales _really_ well.
So, some IP lawyer that wants to make the news and get popular with the linux community real fast just needs to post to the lkml offering to represent linux kernel copyright holders in a lawsuit filed against SCO claiming copyright infringement.
I mean, such a suit has far more proof than the SCO v. IBM case. Linux vs. SCO has a deposition from a SCO employee saying that it happened! Each and every linux kernel 2.4 copyright holder should file an individual suit against SCO, claiming massive damages. SCO is going to lose and die soon enough anyhow, but, wouldn't that be fun!
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Spend more time studying and less posting to slashdot.
I switched from MCI state unlimited to packet8 for a few months. I had some latency problems with packet8. I could deal with it, but my wife could not. So we ended up upgrading our cell phone plan, and ditching a separate home phone altogether.
A router with QoS helped a lot. There was a noticable difference after a did prioritization with OpenBSD's pf.
Only on variable names. Especially in basic
10 print "foo"
20 goto hell
hell:
30 print "bar"
I use this at the computer service place where I work, and it's wonderful. It has modules for Ad-aware and McAfee, so it fixes most windows problems in about 10 minutes. It also has network support, and norton ghost, so you can backup the whole system to the network very easy.
Kind of, but not really.
It's put on by long time Rubi attendee's that are dissappointed by the probable discontinuance of rubi-con.
Last years rubi was rather well behaved. No cops, no feds that annouced themselves. Was still lots of fun.
It's not by the guys that developed oscommerce. The oscommerce people forked too, but not to this project. :)
OSSuite is a integration of Nola GPL'd ERP software, and OSCommerce. OSSuite has good developers (of which i'm an inactive one), and smart business people. You can also buy support.
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=news.bbc. co.uk
I hope the bbc netadmins read BOFH.
Also, does TWC often leave the TV signal on when turning on an 'Internet-Only' service?
Yes. That's why RR is +$5/mo . TW just wishes they had a way to charge it on non-RR cable too.
I use packet8, and noticed the same problem. I set up QoS in pf on my openbsd fw, and it completely fixed the prob. Now, when i'm on the phone, I just see my bittorrent uploads drop about 40k/s :)
Rubi-con is much fun. Last year, firecrackers were shot at a presenter, stairwells were douced with fire extenguishers, a jacuzzi was soaped, and the rubi-con web site defaced with a 10 minute star wars style flash animation.
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On the more normal side, there were tons of good speakers, lots of alcohol, and excellent looking geek chicks.
Oh, if the site buckles under slashdot, Jason Scott put up a mirror here - http://www.cow.net/rubicon/decaffeinated/index.ht
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The cable companies don't have a lot of choice here. Those RIAA/MPAA bitches prosecute people that UPLOAD music/movies. They have never, not once, prosecuted someone for downloading music.
Why? Think of it from their point of view. The people that dowload music are the listeners. The people that buy music, or at least used to until they found out they can get it for free. Its the damn pirates that upload content that are the problem. By providing content to the listeners, they're competing with the RIAA/MPAA. So the RIAA/MPAA are taking the next step in the fight by requesting and threatening ISP's that the content is served from. Big fscking deal. Either fight the RIAA/MPAA by not giving them money, or don't.
This story is about a large company my previous employer did work for. Of course I won't say the company's name, but it's often used as a verb, and their products are probably in your office.
:)
:)
We were hired to write software to show our customer's customer how our customer was doing. It kept track of when shipments went out, things like that. It was replacing an earlier attempt from the sole sysadmin at that location.
Now I must mention that the entire network was 5 years old. Everything was purchased at one time, when the location opened, and nothing had been bought since.
Anyhow, the admin gives us a Compaq P75 workstation with 24MB and NT Workstation to use as our production web/database server. Significantly below our requirements.
He refuses to give us access to their current data to convert/test. Etc, etc. The Manager then gives him the ultimatum to comply or quit, so he walks out. No one there knows any passwords, no network diagrams, not even what boxes do what.
So I had to own every device on their network to give them control again. While writing the software we were there to do originally. Lots of 80 hour weeks, and my previous employer is a bunch of bastards so I was not well paid for it. But to this day, the customer location is still in business, and I have a terrific reference on my resume from them.
Also, last time I checked, you could not format a hard drive just by typing "Format C:".
/y". If there are safeguards in place, you hothing to worry about.
Try typing "format c:
uNF!
But what's the value of being first if nobody knows who you were?
Yeah, I know. If I could do it over again, I wouldn't have logged out, and just took the karma hit. It'd have been worth it. Oh well, at least I can claim to be the ac, and hope everyone believes me.
It was a better honor to be the ac that was first. :)
I've been involved as a customer (or friend of customer) at more than a few cable installs. Most of the time, I've had no problems explaining to them that I'll set the client side up myself, I just want them to get the cable working. I do have a couple of notes however.
;), i'd have rebooted his truck.
Every single time (except one), rr has been slow at registering the mac address of the cable modem with their dhcp server. Why Time Warner techs don't call this in to RR prior to the appt I'll never know, but they don't, and the cable never works until about 2 hours after they leave.
Once, (on my home network no less) while I was fixing up some ramen noodles, the installer came across my linux box, and wiggled the mouse. When the mouse didn't make the screen turn pretty colors (the monitor was off), he reset the power to the box. I swear to god, if it still had a year uptime on it (i powered it down when i moved, rather than driving across town with it still plugged into the UPS just for brevity
Yeah. While I've not used LTSP in an educational setting, I use it at home and it rocks. My main box is a bit beefy, but all the workstations are quite small, and diskless, and since everything executes on the server, everything is still snappy. Even my non-geek wife uses this setup. It's wonderfully easy to administer (1 box vs 10), and performs great. I just can't say enough nice things about this.
5- Internet Explorer got 20 unfixed vulnerabilites today according to http://www.pivx.com/larholm/unpatched [pivx.com]
Application problems, not OS problems, big difference.
MS: <Whine>But IE is a critical part of Windows. We can't remove it! </Whine>
I've never driven a car that came with a EULA prohibiting me from using other cars.