Missing spf records were the first thing I thought of as well. That isn't a silver bullet by any means but can certainly help your ratings while you are new and building a reputation.
They are your parents. They aren't going to be around forever. I know you've heard that already. Here's my true story. My father never took to computers. My mother had been around them for decades. When the home PC craze started in the 90s I started getting her a new machine every year or so. Tried all kinds of things to simplify support - OS/2 instead of Windows 95, auto dialers to initiate connections. I was doing it all myself and it was frustrating at times. Remote access software made things easier as I was living about four hours away.
So once I updated something on my mother's computer - browser I believe - and she couldn't figure out how to print since the UI had changed. She called me on a Friday and I meant to call her back over the weekend but didn't get around to it. That Monday she got in her car to go somewhere and had a massive heart attack in the car in the driveway. She made it to the hospital but not much more than an hour maybe beyond that. I've always hated that I never called her back even though it was for something so small. I still feel a bit disappointed in myself now almost five years later.
The bottom line is you never know when, but at some moment everything is going to change. For your own sake I suggest you do whatever you need to but take the time to support them yourself. Most parents would,care less their computer is fixed and more that they are spending time with their child.
At the time I was about 9 I suppose. I recorded the live news coverage of the event from TV on a cassette recorder. It was a pretty big deal. No 24 hour news channels at the time. All three of our channels were covering the crash down live preempting all of the normal daily shows.
Not necessarily slower paced, which it is, but less motion is the key. You don't constantly update the entire screen in streaming video I don't believe, only what changes. Therefore more motion equates to more updates and therefore higher bandwidth demands.
Besides blocking pornography there is no need for web blocking any longer. Your users all have mobile phones they can use to do ANYTHING. You might as well allow most of it, ensure your security software is doing its job, and monitor for reporting purposes only.
You're partially correct here. Mason's son is an outlier because he is doing experiments and working with items that typically teens no longer do. In general we've become a society of appliance users and are not as technically savvy as we used to be. However there is an ongoing resurgence of the DIY movement happening and I applaud it. In fact I should do more than that. I should figure out how to actively support that myself. Heck I am a licensed ham radio guy, that should be a pathway for me to do that. Bottom line the police were alerted because this is not typical teen activity and like many household items those switches are very common in not so nice "projects". However maybe instead of a raid they could have knocked and asked about the son's work.
It would likely take months to unravel all of this in a corporate environment. A few key points to focus on...
- SSD will help solve the slowness caused by drive encryption and high I/O absolutely - A/V on the desktop shouldn't be that intrusive however. Your security dept is likely playing a CYA game instead of addressing the actual needs. Press for more protection before the desktop limiting desktop scans to weekly. Real time protection on the desktop is necessary and must be factored in when sizing a desktop platform. - Updates are a necessity and must be taken into account when selecting a desktop platform. i3 procs have no place in corporate environments, i5 procs only belong on the lowest demand desktop - Ensuring drives are not allowed to get "too full" is important to performance - Adequate memory is necessary to reduce disk swapping which be an be a heavy I/O load
...and why should we care if they don't like our (my) neighbors to the north vpning into the U.S. to watch 20-30 year old TV shows and a few decent movies? Sounds like their (Bell Media's) problem to me.
Back in the 80s many of us shortwave listeners began using VCRs to record a specific frequency during times when we weren't near our radios. Unlike cassette tapes with VHS tapes we could record up to eight hours of audio and review it later. Early form of time shifting out entertainment.
Yeah, any UHF TV (the second knob tuning channels 14-83) could pick up cell phones back then. You had tuned the vcr (you had to program the channel buttons then on cars since there were commonly only 10 or so buttons) up into that range. The speaker wire made an extremely poor but just good enough antenna for you to hear something! From the fading description you were hearing the phones themselves as they drove past your house as opposed to hearing the tower. Had it been the tower you heard they wouldn't have faded but simply gone away in an instant as the cell phone switched to a new one.
Precisely. Being a somewhat early Apple guy by today's standards having had an Apple IIc purchased new shortly before the IIc+ was released if I had $200k sitting around and wanted an awesome display piece I'd buy it.
Correct! A car parked in that location, unattended, with a pressure cooker inside and a smell of gasoline warrants further action. No problem whatsoever with this. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool.
The death penalty is not vengeance in the least. It is a possible penalty for very serious crimes. Generally it's only reserved for the worst of the worst. It's not something taken lightly, but it is one alternative. This is very different from ISIS kidnapping innocent people, touring them and finally publically murdering them. Don't think ISIS is "honest" or have any other redeeming qualities. They are the Nazis of this century and are deserving of being wiped from this planet as quickly as possible.
I too believed this for many years. However as I've gotten older I realize that some people are simply too dangerous to others to leave to their own. If these individuals cannot live within the society the rest of us do why is it our responsibility to support them for the remainder of their natural lives? Death penalty is not a secret, people know if you do this, chances are you are going to die for it. They have made their choice, so why do some people feel this odd need to "save" them like they are a stray dog but then insist that the rest of us help pay for it?
Agreed, and while I doubt the prosecution team would be dumb enough to try and peruse this as a hacking case, based on what I've read if they do the "perp" deserves to get off scot-free. I'm tired of these catch all laws being used Constnatly where they don't apply because prosecutors are either too lazy or too ignorant to determine the actual crime.
However it depends on how recent it is and how complete a solution it provides. I've used it in the Enterprise IT arena in the past (I've been in enterprise IT for a couple of decades now) and it worked well, both on servers and desktops. Last year though when I purchased a new laptop (my first Windows laptop in years) I looked around for a while and settled on Norton 360. I thought it provided the most complete solution, had decent reviews and I got it at a steal of a price - something like $20 on Amazon as a "deal of the day". I had looked at McAfee (which I still do not care for), was close to purchasing Kaspersky before the sale on Norton 360, and I had dismissed the free tools as simply "better than northing". Now, probably six months later, I don't regret the purchase at all but I do hope I can find a deal on Norton 360 again come renewal time.
Not sure about the Conservatives mention. It's always been the Libs that go around slapping labels on stuff as being bad for everyone, making broad generalizations based on nothing of substance, complaining to the likes of the FCC about anything they don't like and pretending they were "offended". First example I can think of is Tipper Gore and her war on music. Jello Biafra, hardly a Conservative, called her out on that 20 years ago on Oprah. History is full of examples of Liberals forcing their agenda on the American people.
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Missing spf records were the first thing I thought of as well. That isn't a silver bullet by any means but can certainly help your ratings while you are new and building a reputation.
They are your parents. They aren't going to be around forever. I know you've heard that already. Here's my true story. My father never took to computers. My mother had been around them for decades. When the home PC craze started in the 90s I started getting her a new machine every year or so. Tried all kinds of things to simplify support - OS/2 instead of Windows 95, auto dialers to initiate connections. I was doing it all myself and it was frustrating at times. Remote access software made things easier as I was living about four hours away.
So once I updated something on my mother's computer - browser I believe - and she couldn't figure out how to print since the UI had changed. She called me on a Friday and I meant to call her back over the weekend but didn't get around to it. That Monday she got in her car to go somewhere and had a massive heart attack in the car in the driveway. She made it to the hospital but not much more than an hour maybe beyond that. I've always hated that I never called her back even though it was for something so small. I still feel a bit disappointed in myself now almost five years later.
The bottom line is you never know when, but at some moment everything is going to change. For your own sake I suggest you do whatever you need to but take the time to support them yourself. Most parents would,care less their computer is fixed and more that they are spending time with their child.
At the time I was about 9 I suppose. I recorded the live news coverage of the event from TV on a cassette recorder. It was a pretty big deal. No 24 hour news channels at the time. All three of our channels were covering the crash down live preempting all of the normal daily shows.
Yup, perfect reference. Spinal Tap for those who don't know. Well played.
Well played sir. Mod that up "funny".
Not necessarily slower paced, which it is, but less motion is the key. You don't constantly update the entire screen in streaming video I don't believe, only what changes. Therefore more motion equates to more updates and therefore higher bandwidth demands.
You are a troll or a fool, or both.
Besides blocking pornography there is no need for web blocking any longer. Your users all have mobile phones they can use to do ANYTHING. You might as well allow most of it, ensure your security software is doing its job, and monitor for reporting purposes only.
You're partially correct here. Mason's son is an outlier because he is doing experiments and working with items that typically teens no longer do. In general we've become a society of appliance users and are not as technically savvy as we used to be. However there is an ongoing resurgence of the DIY movement happening and I applaud it. In fact I should do more than that. I should figure out how to actively support that myself. Heck I am a licensed ham radio guy, that should be a pathway for me to do that. Bottom line the police were alerted because this is not typical teen activity and like many household items those switches are very common in not so nice "projects". However maybe instead of a raid they could have knocked and asked about the son's work.
It would likely take months to unravel all of this in a corporate environment. A few key points to focus on...
- SSD will help solve the slowness caused by drive encryption and high I/O absolutely
- A/V on the desktop shouldn't be that intrusive however. Your security dept is likely playing a CYA game instead of addressing the actual needs. Press for more protection before the desktop limiting desktop scans to weekly. Real time protection on the desktop is necessary and must be factored in when sizing a desktop platform.
- Updates are a necessity and must be taken into account when selecting a desktop platform. i3 procs have no place in corporate environments, i5 procs only belong on the lowest demand desktop
- Ensuring drives are not allowed to get "too full" is important to performance
- Adequate memory is necessary to reduce disk swapping which be an be a heavy I/O load
...and why should we care if they don't like our (my) neighbors to the north vpning into the U.S. to watch 20-30 year old TV shows and a few decent movies? Sounds like their (Bell Media's) problem to me.
This. It's really a cleaner even though we've all used it like a lube.
Back in the 80s many of us shortwave listeners began using VCRs to record a specific frequency during times when we weren't near our radios. Unlike cassette tapes with VHS tapes we could record up to eight hours of audio and review it later. Early form of time shifting out entertainment.
Yeah, any UHF TV (the second knob tuning channels 14-83) could pick up cell phones back then. You had tuned the vcr (you had to program the channel buttons then on cars since there were commonly only 10 or so buttons) up into that range. The speaker wire made an extremely poor but just good enough antenna for you to hear something! From the fading description you were hearing the phones themselves as they drove past your house as opposed to hearing the tower. Had it been the tower you heard they wouldn't have faded but simply gone away in an instant as the cell phone switched to a new one.
Precisely. Being a somewhat early Apple guy by today's standards having had an Apple IIc purchased new shortly before the IIc+ was released if I had $200k sitting around and wanted an awesome display piece I'd buy it.
Correct! A car parked in that location, unattended, with a pressure cooker inside and a smell of gasoline warrants further action. No problem whatsoever with this. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool.
Reminds me of how I miss the original Tab. Give me my saccharine!
The death penalty is not vengeance in the least. It is a possible penalty for very serious crimes. Generally it's only reserved for the worst of the worst. It's not something taken lightly, but it is one alternative. This is very different from ISIS kidnapping innocent people, touring them and finally publically murdering them. Don't think ISIS is "honest" or have any other redeeming qualities. They are the Nazis of this century and are deserving of being wiped from this planet as quickly as possible.
I too believed this for many years. However as I've gotten older I realize that some people are simply too dangerous to others to leave to their own. If these individuals cannot live within the society the rest of us do why is it our responsibility to support them for the remainder of their natural lives? Death penalty is not a secret, people know if you do this, chances are you are going to die for it. They have made their choice, so why do some people feel this odd need to "save" them like they are a stray dog but then insist that the rest of us help pay for it?
Agreed, and while I doubt the prosecution team would be dumb enough to try and peruse this as a hacking case, based on what I've read if they do the "perp" deserves to get off scot-free. I'm tired of these catch all laws being used Constnatly where they don't apply because prosecutors are either too lazy or too ignorant to determine the actual crime.
However it depends on how recent it is and how complete a solution it provides. I've used it in the Enterprise IT arena in the past (I've been in enterprise IT for a couple of decades now) and it worked well, both on servers and desktops. Last year though when I purchased a new laptop (my first Windows laptop in years) I looked around for a while and settled on Norton 360. I thought it provided the most complete solution, had decent reviews and I got it at a steal of a price - something like $20 on Amazon as a "deal of the day". I had looked at McAfee (which I still do not care for), was close to purchasing Kaspersky before the sale on Norton 360, and I had dismissed the free tools as simply "better than northing". Now, probably six months later, I don't regret the purchase at all but I do hope I can find a deal on Norton 360 again come renewal time.
Well said sir.
I believe the term you are looking for is "limousine liberal". Yeah, we all hate them. But don't for a minute think DINO equates to conservative.
Quite possibly. I wasn't sure of the intent of the parent post.
Not sure about the Conservatives mention. It's always been the Libs that go around slapping labels on stuff as being bad for everyone, making broad generalizations based on nothing of substance, complaining to the likes of the FCC about anything they don't like and pretending they were "offended". First example I can think of is Tipper Gore and her war on music. Jello Biafra, hardly a Conservative, called her out on that 20 years ago on Oprah. History is full of examples of Liberals forcing their agenda on the American people.