Make sure there is no voltage still coming down from the "pole", then use all the copper as an indoor antenna for a ham HF transceiver or shortwave receiver and enjoy!
I agree here completely. I'm not a programmer, but I'm in a high level Windows/UNIX engineering group doing systems design mostly. At 39 I'm the youngest in my group of seven engineers. The caveat is we are all very experienced in the field, which is why we are in the high level group to start with. Our more entry level positions are populated mostly - not all - by those in their late 20's and very early 30's.
9 out of 10 CD's the RIAA is likely tracking contain crap for music that no one is interested in listening to, not to mention how overpriced CD's are now. When CD's were introduced they were about $17 each. During their prime the price dropped to $13 or so, now they are on the way back up. The Internet has made more music available to people than was ever available at any traditional "record store", and much of it is truly free. What CD's teens I know are buying are split probably 50-50 new music and music that is 20 or so years old.
...my copy of The Anarchists Cookbook is in print! Not that it wasn't stripped of any seriously bad info (if it ever had any) long before I bought it as part of earlier edits.
I would recommend a "dual mode" system for doors - one that relies on a card reader (something physical that the person would need to carry with him or her) along with a biometric scanner - fingerprint for example. The chances of someone other than the person you wish to grant access to having both of these is slim. Of course you need to weigh the actual security provided by these means against what precisely you need to protect. Compared to what you have now, what I describe is far more secure.
This may be missing the point of the OP, but why not install the computers elsewhere and use something like the Sensatronics sensors? The sensor device can be outside the freezer - only the probes need to be in that brutal environment. The device connnects via Ethernet. We monitor using Intellipool Network Monitor, although before we had that package I threw together a Perl script to poll the devices via snmp.
Plan on spending an awful lot of money to get this network up and running and to keep it that way. You aren't going to be using Linksys or D-LINK garbage here if you want any kind of reliability. Look to the larger wireless AP builders - Lucent, Sonicwall and Cisco come to mind, but they might not be the best of breed, which is what you need. Expect to spend more time (and therefore money) maintaining this network compared to good old copper and a couple hundred ports of good old Gigabit Ethernet. It's up to you - pay Peter, or pay Paul, but you are going to pay.
There was a time when I would have agreed completely. That time was probably around '95 or so. However, I've modified that idea somewhat over the past decade. Today I think everyone who wants to consider themselves "computer literate" should be able to identify the components of a typical computer - that is a PC or Mac, laptop or desktop (the parts aren't that different after all). Can they tell the difference between a hard drive and a video card? Can they explain the basic purpose of each?
Onto the operating system. A person who considers themselves "computer literate" should be able to describe the basic purpose of an operating system and use the OS they are most familiar with in an efficient manner. The person should also be able to maintain the system - install and update AV or Malware protection and describe the purpose of each, apply service packs to the OS and installed applications and describe their purpose, upgrade shrinkwrapped applications (or applications that are comparable to that now antiquated term, I'm simply not including the ability to download source and config/make/make install here).
I believe those are the basic qualifications for today's computer literate person.
Be honest. Most people will understand that you have other responsibilities and cannot continue to provide support for their systems, especially ones they bought someplace else. For people who refuse to accept this and continue to bother you, are those really the people you want around anyhow?
When I was in 7-8th grade (here in the US) we witnessed what I would call the "home computer revolution". Everyone had some kind of computer whether it was a Commodore 64 or VIC20, a TI/99-4a (I had the later beige one), Apple II, or one of the dozens of other home computers being marketed at places like K-Mart. We programmed these because the tools to program with were available - every computer shipped with some version of BASIC or something BASIC-like as part of the OS. With BASIC in the 80's, you could create something that wasn't all that far off from the few simple games that were widely available. Text adventure games written by "kids" weren't all that different from "Zork". I think that is different today. You need significantly more skills to begin writting programs in a language that has the ability to create apps that mimic common apps found on today's computers.
Read up on Exchange 2003 SP2. MS made significant security and spam related enhancements to Exchange 2003 with the release of that SP. There is plenty of info on Microsoft's Exchange site about SP2.
I'd also recommend looking at GFI MailEssentials. It's cheap (free in it's "cheapest" version), simple to install and configure, and can do a good job when configured properly. Several methods for defining spam are available in the product - blacklists/whitelists, Bayesian, others.
Finally, consider outsourcing the entire spam identification process. Postini, which I've used for years at various employers, rocks. Adminitration and all user level functions (approve/delete quarantined messages, whitelist/blacklist addresses or domains, etc.) are performed via web browser (works great with Firefox or IE). Users are given their own id/password and are notified via email when they have quarantined items (once per day). Postini also does basic antivirus scanning (via McAfee) and while that isn't adequate in itself for protecting your email environment from viruses, it does offer an extra layer of protection. It's relatively cheap as well. If you are a small company (100 users), I believe McAfee offers Postini services bundled with some of their products geared for small business.
That's what I first thought. With no comments in the OP regarding how they have everything subnetted, saying they have used all of those addresses is meaningless. My guess? Everything is broken out into/24's or worse.
Token Ring was a good tech for the time (until the early 90's), but switched Ethernet killed Token Ring. Later there was faster switched Token Ring as well, but by that time Ethernet was so cheap Token Ring no longer made sense to implement. It was cheaper to replace existing infrastructures with inexpensive Ethernet than to upgrade the old Token Ring networks. You know, you could have almost the same conversation about ATM. s/token ring/atm/g
It's an average looking broad, white as a sheet (she's supposed to be DEAD afterall), with a bullet hole in her head. What the is supposed to be sexy about that?
Obviously their support team is very lacking when it comes to customer service. If nothing else, this certainly convinces me to not spend my money on WoW, something I have been considering doing. I'll stick to non MMORPG's for now, thank you!
My wife bought me a Tag a few years ago and I love it. I'm thinking of getting an Omega while I save for my Rolex Oyster Perpetual Cosmograph Daytona with meteorite dial. At $27k, that will take me a few years to save for! As you can tell, I'm into nice watches, not funky one. Probably not what you were looking for.
After reading the article, all I can think of is Marvin the Paranoid Android, specifically the incarnation from the BBC TV series seen here in the US on PBS from time to time.
That is probably at least partly true. I use "my.yahoo.com" because I've been using it for something like 10 years now. I even ran the Yahoo! ticker for a while. Even though I've switched to new accounts on Yahoo! at least three times that I can recall, I still go back to it because I'm used to how it works. That comfort level is worth something, no matter how much I enjoy learning/using new "stuff".
The price point of a server includes far more than the hardware in the box. I'd say the hardware itself is the least costly part of the package. Others have already mentioned the warranty that comes with an HP or Dell box. As important though is the software and support that comes with the box. For example, having the HP management agents installed on a server is a necessity if you need to support more than a few boxes. HP's Integrated Lights Out feature is a huge plus, especially in remote environments (remote power switch is great!). HP has knowledge bases available on their site, new drivers and firmware are always available, documentation can easily be downloaded, etc. Having been a white box vendor for years, trust me when I say a white box can't hold a candle to what HP can deliver. I've never used Dell, but I imagine they are comparable by now.
That was my first impression when I read the original post, although you put it in much nicer terms than I was planning to. It sounds like plain ignorance to me. "Patch everything"? Even someone with a year or two IT experience would know that simply isn't possible. I think media covering IT should be required to know a good amount about the industry they are covering.
Check out what some of the big guns are doing. I'd start by visiting Intel's site. Even if you aren't an Intel fan, there is a ton of info on CPU's, memory, chipsets, etc. available at the site. Also check out what companies like Alienware are doing. They build for a "niche" market primarily - a high end niche market. Again, plenty of info. CNet and Toms' Hardware are good places to look, as are (or were last time I was there) the forums over at Directron.
Good question. Another about the same show might be how did you decide to work with something as potentially dangerous as gun cotton on the show? It seems that might have been one substance best left forgotten. Even though the show was heavily (self) censored, the remaining info is widely available on the Internet. I'm not knocking the show, I enjoyed it. I simply thought this was a potentially highly controversial substance to be manufacturing on TV.
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Make sure there is no voltage still coming down from the "pole", then use all the copper as an indoor antenna for a ham HF transceiver or shortwave receiver and enjoy!
I agree here completely. I'm not a programmer, but I'm in a high level Windows/UNIX engineering group doing systems design mostly. At 39 I'm the youngest in my group of seven engineers. The caveat is we are all very experienced in the field, which is why we are in the high level group to start with. Our more entry level positions are populated mostly - not all - by those in their late 20's and very early 30's.
Honestly my wife's XP box gets rebooted maybe 3-4 times a year. Otherwise it's just in powersave mode. Takes about 5 seconds to wake it up.
9 out of 10 CD's the RIAA is likely tracking contain crap for music that no one is interested in listening to, not to mention how overpriced CD's are now. When CD's were introduced they were about $17 each. During their prime the price dropped to $13 or so, now they are on the way back up. The Internet has made more music available to people than was ever available at any traditional "record store", and much of it is truly free. What CD's teens I know are buying are split probably 50-50 new music and music that is 20 or so years old.
...my copy of The Anarchists Cookbook is in print! Not that it wasn't stripped of any seriously bad info (if it ever had any) long before I bought it as part of earlier edits.
I would recommend a "dual mode" system for doors - one that relies on a card reader (something physical that the person would need to carry with him or her) along with a biometric scanner - fingerprint for example. The chances of someone other than the person you wish to grant access to having both of these is slim. Of course you need to weigh the actual security provided by these means against what precisely you need to protect. Compared to what you have now, what I describe is far more secure.
This may be missing the point of the OP, but why not install the computers elsewhere and use something like the Sensatronics sensors? The sensor device can be outside the freezer - only the probes need to be in that brutal environment. The device connnects via Ethernet. We monitor using Intellipool Network Monitor, although before we had that package I threw together a Perl script to poll the devices via snmp.
Plan on spending an awful lot of money to get this network up and running and to keep it that way. You aren't going to be using Linksys or D-LINK garbage here if you want any kind of reliability. Look to the larger wireless AP builders - Lucent, Sonicwall and Cisco come to mind, but they might not be the best of breed, which is what you need. Expect to spend more time (and therefore money) maintaining this network compared to good old copper and a couple hundred ports of good old Gigabit Ethernet. It's up to you - pay Peter, or pay Paul, but you are going to pay.
Not to mention the link is to a Chicago newspaper's website. This certainly did not take place in New Jersey.
There was a time when I would have agreed completely. That time was probably around '95 or so. However, I've modified that idea somewhat over the past decade. Today I think everyone who wants to consider themselves "computer literate" should be able to identify the components of a typical computer - that is a PC or Mac, laptop or desktop (the parts aren't that different after all). Can they tell the difference between a hard drive and a video card? Can they explain the basic purpose of each?
Onto the operating system. A person who considers themselves "computer literate" should be able to describe the basic purpose of an operating system and use the OS they are most familiar with in an efficient manner. The person should also be able to maintain the system - install and update AV or Malware protection and describe the purpose of each, apply service packs to the OS and installed applications and describe their purpose, upgrade shrinkwrapped applications (or applications that are comparable to that now antiquated term, I'm simply not including the ability to download source and config/make/make install here).
I believe those are the basic qualifications for today's computer literate person.
Be honest. Most people will understand that you have other responsibilities and cannot continue to provide support for their systems, especially ones they bought someplace else. For people who refuse to accept this and continue to bother you, are those really the people you want around anyhow?
When I was in 7-8th grade (here in the US) we witnessed what I would call the "home computer revolution". Everyone had some kind of computer whether it was a Commodore 64 or VIC20, a TI/99-4a (I had the later beige one), Apple II, or one of the dozens of other home computers being marketed at places like K-Mart. We programmed these because the tools to program with were available - every computer shipped with some version of BASIC or something BASIC-like as part of the OS. With BASIC in the 80's, you could create something that wasn't all that far off from the few simple games that were widely available. Text adventure games written by "kids" weren't all that different from "Zork". I think that is different today. You need significantly more skills to begin writting programs in a language that has the ability to create apps that mimic common apps found on today's computers.
Read up on Exchange 2003 SP2. MS made significant security and spam related enhancements to Exchange 2003 with the release of that SP. There is plenty of info on Microsoft's Exchange site about SP2.
I'd also recommend looking at GFI MailEssentials. It's cheap (free in it's "cheapest" version), simple to install and configure, and can do a good job when configured properly. Several methods for defining spam are available in the product - blacklists/whitelists, Bayesian, others.
Finally, consider outsourcing the entire spam identification process. Postini, which I've used for years at various employers, rocks. Adminitration and all user level functions (approve/delete quarantined messages, whitelist/blacklist addresses or domains, etc.) are performed via web browser (works great with Firefox or IE). Users are given their own id/password and are notified via email when they have quarantined items (once per day). Postini also does basic antivirus scanning (via McAfee) and while that isn't adequate in itself for protecting your email environment from viruses, it does offer an extra layer of protection. It's relatively cheap as well. If you are a small company (100 users), I believe McAfee offers Postini services bundled with some of their products geared for small business.
That's what I first thought. With no comments in the OP regarding how they have everything subnetted, saying they have used all of those addresses is meaningless. My guess? Everything is broken out into /24's or worse.
Token Ring was a good tech for the time (until the early 90's), but switched Ethernet killed Token Ring. Later there was faster switched Token Ring as well, but by that time Ethernet was so cheap Token Ring no longer made sense to implement. It was cheaper to replace existing infrastructures with inexpensive Ethernet than to upgrade the old Token Ring networks. You know, you could have almost the same conversation about ATM. s/token ring/atm/g
It's an average looking broad, white as a sheet (she's supposed to be DEAD afterall), with a bullet hole in her head. What the is supposed to be sexy about that?
Obviously their support team is very lacking when it comes to customer service. If nothing else, this certainly convinces me to not spend my money on WoW, something I have been considering doing. I'll stick to non MMORPG's for now, thank you!
My wife bought me a Tag a few years ago and I love it. I'm thinking of getting an Omega while I save for my Rolex Oyster Perpetual Cosmograph Daytona with meteorite dial. At $27k, that will take me a few years to save for! As you can tell, I'm into nice watches, not funky one. Probably not what you were looking for.
After reading the article, all I can think of is Marvin the Paranoid Android, specifically the incarnation from the BBC TV series seen here in the US on PBS from time to time.
Which reminds me, I didn't drink enough over the weekend.
That is probably at least partly true. I use "my.yahoo.com" because I've been using it for something like 10 years now. I even ran the Yahoo! ticker for a while. Even though I've switched to new accounts on Yahoo! at least three times that I can recall, I still go back to it because I'm used to how it works. That comfort level is worth something, no matter how much I enjoy learning/using new "stuff".
The price point of a server includes far more than the hardware in the box. I'd say the hardware itself is the least costly part of the package. Others have already mentioned the warranty that comes with an HP or Dell box. As important though is the software and support that comes with the box. For example, having the HP management agents installed on a server is a necessity if you need to support more than a few boxes. HP's Integrated Lights Out feature is a huge plus, especially in remote environments (remote power switch is great!). HP has knowledge bases available on their site, new drivers and firmware are always available, documentation can easily be downloaded, etc. Having been a white box vendor for years, trust me when I say a white box can't hold a candle to what HP can deliver. I've never used Dell, but I imagine they are comparable by now.
That was my first impression when I read the original post, although you put it in much nicer terms than I was planning to. It sounds like plain ignorance to me. "Patch everything"? Even someone with a year or two IT experience would know that simply isn't possible. I think media covering IT should be required to know a good amount about the industry they are covering.
Check out what some of the big guns are doing. I'd start by visiting Intel's site. Even if you aren't an Intel fan, there is a ton of info on CPU's, memory, chipsets, etc. available at the site. Also check out what companies like Alienware are doing. They build for a "niche" market primarily - a high end niche market. Again, plenty of info. CNet and Toms' Hardware are good places to look, as are (or were last time I was there) the forums over at Directron.
Good question. Another about the same show might be how did you decide to work with something as potentially dangerous as gun cotton on the show? It seems that might have been one substance best left forgotten. Even though the show was heavily (self) censored, the remaining info is widely available on the Internet. I'm not knocking the show, I enjoyed it. I simply thought this was a potentially highly controversial substance to be manufacturing on TV.