Pre Y2k, my Dad and I were discussing the Generators on sale at Costco. He asked if I was going to buy one.
I said 'Nah. If the power is out on Jan 1, I'll step out on the front porch and listen. Three generators will start up within earshot,followed soon thereafter by three gunshots, then those generators will start up in different locations of the sub-division.'
As our Network Security Guy, I'm noticing something:
If the perimeter is secure, and the topology is secure, and the servers are secure, and the workstations are secure (and everything is patched.) There really isn't a whole lot for my IDS to do.
This wouldn't prevent a person from social engineering their way in though.
Our new office has these spiffy doors that require cardkey access in, b ut just walking up to them to leave unlocks them....turns out if you slide a piece of paper between the two glass doors, you can trigger the IR sensor to open the doors and let you in. I'll bet that gets changed soon.
I just got done with their Internet Security and Accelerator training. This, plus the stuff i've seen in Longhorn, plus the other things I've seen remind me of the movie 'The Hudsucker proxy':
"Idea man treading water"
Microsoft has not produced ANYTHING compelling in the last three years. It's more an excercise of 'lets sell them on more features', rather than 'lets sell them on something that improves the experience'.
The constant treadmill arms race of spyware/patch/reboot (Which I've seen take well running machines and reduce them to perma-reboot) plus bloatware that sucks the life out of a P4 with HALF A GIG of RAM. (Have you noticed the difference in performance between a new installation pre and post Office 2k3?)
So, lets pitch the API, lets pitch the file system (oops, can't do that in time), lets pitch your old hardware, and lets do it in the usual lock-step upgrade deathmarch again.
I think they've run out of useful features to add...and I think it's gonna bite them in the ass.
Pollen? Smokers? I've got an African Grey parrot, they shed a talc like substance that fairly covers everything in his room.
You might consider setting up your computer with filtration and airflow so that it pushes filtered air out past the drive, rather than pulling unfiltered air past it towards the back of the machine.
Firmware: TRIPLETS_G_0B.09.4AR
I'll see if I can't dig up a datacable from a cow-orker...I'd been using Bluetooth for all my communications.
I guess what bugs me is _more_ than the buggyness...Motorola Phonetools is a PITA, the address book on the phone is worthless, synchronization doesn't include notes (or todo's). The damn thing doesn't work in my kitchen (something that the last four phones had NO problem doing.
From talking around, it doesn't appear to be limited to the V600 either. Their T720 and V60 had a ton of issues with folks at my office too.
My v600 had a beautiful screen, good life, and reasonable Bluetooth connectivity, but it sure missed out on a LOT of details...Crappy display aside, my Nokia 6820 has just fallen into my life and worked.
With a cheap data cable and pirated software, one can modify the files or firmware on his own.
Got a URL?
These are/were AT&T phones, you'd think they'd flash the firmware on the refurbs, but they exhibited the same problems that the first phones did.
Based on my research, it seems like Moto is spending a LOT more time dealing with pretty, and not on QA. What's disappointing is, the newer V6XX models don't seem to have the same problems as the first model did, but at least with AT&T they're not fixing the problems that exist for current customers.
v600's had more problems than just choppy calls. The wife and I bought two. I've been through three refurbs for problems and her's show the same problems --- these phones weren't fully cooked before they pushed them out the door. Less than a year later and I'm forced to pay another $100 for a phone that works dependably.
Now if you want a V600 that works, you can't get a new one, you're just getting someone else's phone that was returned due to THEIR problems. (exterior screen corruption, unexpected powerdowns, white screens, reboots.)
Looking for Home theatre speakers? (I was) 160 people voting 4.5 out of 5 is better than 3 people giving a perfect 5.
Looking for a cellphone? (I was) 0 noka6820sucks.com type websites is better than a half-dozen MotoV600Bites.com
Buying a Camera? The user opinions that sound like they've used it should count more than the ones that said 'I bought 'competing product' because this camera didn't have blue LEDs
A particular revew site's integrity will stand out against the rest of the other reviews. Beware when Gamersite X is giving a game a 98% when everybody else is giving it a 45%.
And I'm sure this won't be moderated up due to how late I'm posting, but I've never been more dis-satisfied with a piece of hardware than with my and my wife's v600's. They've got stability issues that rank right up there with windows 95/98. (I was on my fourth phone in less than a year...Now I'm using a Nokia with _no_ issues.)
Svelte is good, features are good, but they're worthless without stability.
So they're bad a wrote memorization? Can we test them on understanding HOW to find things and HOW to categorize them? (Things that, presumably, they'd learn in a computer based environment.)
Students were once taught how to use a slide rule too, we don't seem to be lamenting the loss of that skill now.
It may also be the lever ISP's use to raise rates. Face it 3 mb/s down is cool and easy to over commit when the end users are surfing the web and readin email.
Central to Bit Torrent is maxing our your pipe, then leaving it up long enough to let others have what you've got. That kind of allocation wasn't planned for when broadband was originally mapped out.
They've gotta be, what, a quarter inch square? based on it being 1.87m by 2.2m, that's about.57 cm x 1.1 cm or friggin' HUGE (Feel free to correct my math) That seems like you'd need to stand 30 feet away to make it look like a 19" monitor at 2 feet.
You're moderated as funny, but it'smore sad really. The Arpanet was created for open interchange of information, and the Internet won't be complete until all the loopholes that open interchange creates are sealed off.
How long til your ARP packet includes a public key proving you are who you say you are?
WebDAV as a well known standard. And Microsoft's version works really well with microsoft's clients. Where it falls over is getting a non microsoft client to work happily with it. I've dealt with OS X talkin' to Windows Server 2003 and it sucks.
Now, if you've implemented Portal Server 2.0, and run the extended client out to all of your folks THEN upgrade to office 2003, you need to deal with extension issues you wouldn't have if Microsoft's WebDAV were 100% plain jane WebDAV.
There's another File System structure Microsoft worked on: WebDAV. They built a couple of file management suites on it. It's gone, largely, nowhere.
It's JUST enough to make the things that aren't supported a royal pain to implement. Dropping another filesystem in your OS just Must Always Work. Otherwise, no one will use it. We've got a Sharepoint Portal Server that sits largely idle because it didn;t have 100% backing from Microsoft.
Since getting my iPod and haveing access to most of my collecation, I NEVER listen to radio. I find NO redeeming qualities to the ClearChannel owned FM band.
They put a mag strip access lock to the computer lab in college. We were complaining at having to now carry around our student I.D.s to get access to the labs when I found out ALL of my credit cards allowed access to the lab. (Not smart, but hey, this was 1989)
Turns out the Lab assistant that installed the lock thought it'd be cool if any card he pulled out of his wallet would open the door. But the local bank's first 9 digits on the mag strip was the same for ALL cards they issued.
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why moving all my security apps to my iBook was a good idea. (It's got its own portmapper in the OS fer chrissakes!)
So, Debian for the IDS boxes, and OS X for the analysis. Sounds good to me!
Pre Y2k, my Dad and I were discussing the Generators on sale at Costco. He asked if I was going to buy one.
I said 'Nah. If the power is out on Jan 1, I'll step out on the front porch and listen. Three generators will start up within earshot,followed soon thereafter by three gunshots, then those generators will start up in different locations of the sub-division.'
As our Network Security Guy, I'm noticing something:
If the perimeter is secure, and the topology is secure, and the servers are secure, and the workstations are secure (and everything is patched.) There really isn't a whole lot for my IDS to do.
This wouldn't prevent a person from social engineering their way in though.
Our new office has these spiffy doors that require cardkey access in, b ut just walking up to them to leave unlocks them....turns out if you slide a piece of paper between the two glass doors, you can trigger the IR sensor to open the doors and let you in. I'll bet that gets changed soon.
I just got done with their Internet Security and Accelerator training. This, plus the stuff i've seen in Longhorn, plus the other things I've seen remind me of the movie 'The Hudsucker proxy':
"Idea man treading water"
Microsoft has not produced ANYTHING compelling in the last three years. It's more an excercise of 'lets sell them on more features', rather than 'lets sell them on something that improves the experience'.
The constant treadmill arms race of spyware/patch/reboot (Which I've seen take well running machines and reduce them to perma-reboot) plus bloatware that sucks the life out of a P4 with HALF A GIG of RAM. (Have you noticed the difference in performance between a new installation pre and post Office 2k3?)
So, lets pitch the API, lets pitch the file system (oops, can't do that in time), lets pitch your old hardware, and lets do it in the usual lock-step upgrade deathmarch again.
I think they've run out of useful features to add...and I think it's gonna bite them in the ass.
Our backup runs at 100%... ...It's the restores that are a little spotty.
I'm not responsible for the backup solutions in our shop (we had CA, then Veritas) but really, how hard can it BE to put bits on tape?
I'd hoped this meant an end to Advertising (the LAST Decade of Advertising).
Alas, I was wrong.
Pollen? Smokers? I've got an African Grey parrot, they shed a talc like substance that fairly covers everything in his room. You might consider setting up your computer with filtration and airflow so that it pushes filtered air out past the drive, rather than pulling unfiltered air past it towards the back of the machine.
The benefits now aren't increased density, it's cheaper manufacture costs. They're giving away handheld LCD games in happy meals fer chrissakes!
Just TRY to count the number of CPUs you've used since waking up this morning...don't forget the IR remote, your optical mouse, and your toaster...
Firmware: TRIPLETS_G_0B.09.4AR I'll see if I can't dig up a datacable from a cow-orker...I'd been using Bluetooth for all my communications. I guess what bugs me is _more_ than the buggyness...Motorola Phonetools is a PITA, the address book on the phone is worthless, synchronization doesn't include notes (or todo's). The damn thing doesn't work in my kitchen (something that the last four phones had NO problem doing. From talking around, it doesn't appear to be limited to the V600 either. Their T720 and V60 had a ton of issues with folks at my office too. My v600 had a beautiful screen, good life, and reasonable Bluetooth connectivity, but it sure missed out on a LOT of details...Crappy display aside, my Nokia 6820 has just fallen into my life and worked.
These are/were AT&T phones, you'd think they'd flash the firmware on the refurbs, but they exhibited the same problems that the first phones did.
Based on my research, it seems like Moto is spending a LOT more time dealing with pretty, and not on QA. What's disappointing is, the newer V6XX models don't seem to have the same problems as the first model did, but at least with AT&T they're not fixing the problems that exist for current customers.
v600's had more problems than just choppy calls. The wife and I bought two. I've been through three refurbs for problems and her's show the same problems --- these phones weren't fully cooked before they pushed them out the door. Less than a year later and I'm forced to pay another $100 for a phone that works dependably.
Now if you want a V600 that works, you can't get a new one, you're just getting someone else's phone that was returned due to THEIR problems. (exterior screen corruption, unexpected powerdowns, white screens, reboots.)
I will never own another Motorola cellphone.
Looking for Home theatre speakers? (I was) 160 people voting 4.5 out of 5 is better than 3 people giving a perfect 5. Looking for a cellphone? (I was) 0 noka6820sucks.com type websites is better than a half-dozen MotoV600Bites.com Buying a Camera? The user opinions that sound like they've used it should count more than the ones that said 'I bought 'competing product' because this camera didn't have blue LEDs A particular revew site's integrity will stand out against the rest of the other reviews. Beware when Gamersite X is giving a game a 98% when everybody else is giving it a 45%.
And I'm sure this won't be moderated up due to how late I'm posting, but I've never been more dis-satisfied with a piece of hardware than with my and my wife's v600's. They've got stability issues that rank right up there with windows 95/98. (I was on my fourth phone in less than a year...Now I'm using a Nokia with _no_ issues.)
Svelte is good, features are good, but they're worthless without stability.
So they're bad a wrote memorization? Can we test them on understanding HOW to find things and HOW to categorize them? (Things that, presumably, they'd learn in a computer based environment.)
Students were once taught how to use a slide rule too, we don't seem to be lamenting the loss of that skill now.
Once someone is authenticated, nothing occurs to make sure the person STAYS authenticated.
If I can break in on the conversation after the authentication has occurred, I can STILL see everything that occurs.
It may also be the lever ISP's use to raise rates. Face it 3 mb/s down is cool and easy to over commit when the end users are surfing the web and readin email.
Central to Bit Torrent is maxing our your pipe, then leaving it up long enough to let others have what you've got. That kind of allocation wasn't planned for when broadband was originally mapped out.
I heard one of the employees talking about the guild he runs. 200 members, and he plays Den-mom kicking members off that don't play weekly.
Man I wish I had the time to play games weekly. Parenthood REALLY puts a crimp on the time you call your own.
They've gotta be, what, a quarter inch square? based on it being 1.87m by 2.2m, that's about .57 cm x 1.1 cm or friggin' HUGE (Feel free to correct my math) That seems like you'd need to stand 30 feet away to make it look like a 19" monitor at 2 feet.
You're moderated as funny, but it'smore sad really. The Arpanet was created for open interchange of information, and the Internet won't be complete until all the loopholes that open interchange creates are sealed off.
How long til your ARP packet includes a public key proving you are who you say you are?
Authentication! I have to back comepletely off to plaintext to let my Mac author a website hosted on IIS 6
WebDAV as a well known standard. And Microsoft's version works really well with microsoft's clients. Where it falls over is getting a non microsoft client to work happily with it. I've dealt with OS X talkin' to Windows Server 2003 and it sucks.
Now, if you've implemented Portal Server 2.0, and run the extended client out to all of your folks THEN upgrade to office 2003, you need to deal with extension issues you wouldn't have if Microsoft's WebDAV were 100% plain jane WebDAV.
There's another File System structure Microsoft worked on: WebDAV. They built a couple of file management suites on it. It's gone, largely, nowhere.
It's JUST enough to make the things that aren't supported a royal pain to implement. Dropping another filesystem in your OS just Must Always Work. Otherwise, no one will use it. We've got a Sharepoint Portal Server that sits largely idle because it didn;t have 100% backing from Microsoft.
Since getting my iPod and haveing access to most of my collecation, I NEVER listen to radio. I find NO redeeming qualities to the ClearChannel owned FM band.
They put a mag strip access lock to the computer lab in college. We were complaining at having to now carry around our student I.D.s to get access to the labs when I found out ALL of my credit cards allowed access to the lab. (Not smart, but hey, this was 1989)
Turns out the Lab assistant that installed the lock thought it'd be cool if any card he pulled out of his wallet would open the door. But the local bank's first 9 digits on the mag strip was the same for ALL cards they issued.