Sure VNC and X Windows is great if you have a nice high speed broadband connection where ever you go. However in the real world this isn't always possible.
My problem:
I often move around different computers in the office, every time I get a new computer I have to reinstall everything and I like to have access to everything from home.
My solution:
Firstly, one of the most important things in a business is to keep all your email don't lose a single message. Sow what to do about this? Well I'm in a pretty good situation because I control our mailserver so I configured it to use IMAP as well as POP3. Now I can access all my mail from any computer in our office and from home also. It was particularly handy have home access because it mean that I didn't have to send any email messages that I recieved at home back to myself so I had a copy at work. The mail server is backed up daily to tape so there's no worry of ever losing important messags:0).... I just wish I could convince our CEO to start using IMAP!
(I only have a 33.6k dialup from home by the way)
For those that don't have control of their mail server and can't use IMAP there's always a wide varity of web mail services available.
Next how do I access all those files that I'm currently working with? This one's not as hard as it may seem, that's what file servers are for. Don't keep any of your files on your workstation (this is something that I'm finally starting to get through to my co-workers after 2 years). I use samba to access file within the office, if I'm at home I use a combination of FTP and samba (however samba is a slow dog over a dialup connection). The file servers are of course backed up every day so there is a lot less chance of losing important work than there is if I save everything on my workstation.
The next problem I faced was that pesky ICQ list, every time I changed computer or had to reinstall it I had to get authorisation from everyone on my list again:0P Well luckily Mirabilis came up with the solution to this one, the most recent versions of ICQ store your contact list on the server so I never have to get authorisation from anyone ever again:0D
I've only addressed a few issues here but I hope I've made my point that broadband isn't always the only solution. Especialy when you live in a backward country like Australia where high speed Internet connections aren't readily available to your average underpaid IT employee;0)
Scott walks up to a babe in a bar.
Scott: "Hey how you doin?"
Babe: "I'm great thanks."
Scott: "Did I mention that I'm the current reining champion for playing Asteroids?"
Babe: "Oooooooo!" Scott and babe head back to Scott's place and the rest is history;0)
Well it seems CERT and all the vendors thought they were doing us a favour by keeping this information to themselves.
If they announced the vulnerability before they had a fix it would mean every script kiddie from here to the end of the Earth would be doing port scans on every network they can think of looking for vulnerable Wu-ftp servers before they were patched!
By holding out on the announcement till all vendors had a patch ready they probably would have saved a few servers from attack.
I'm sort of sitting on the fence about this myself. While I would like to know about these vulnerabilities ASAP so I can do something about them, I sure do appreciate that the problem wasn't announced to every moron that thinks they are a HaX0R!
Personaly I had nothing to worry about I was smart enough to turn off anonyomous FTP long ago and all my users are trusted anyway:0)
IF they do successfully clone a Tassie Tiger what are they going to do with it? Realease it into the wild?
Nuh uh!! I don't think so!
A lot of Tasmanians are going to strongly object to this (being primarily a rural community), and the Thylacine will be quickly hunted back into extinction.
So what are the options for the poor old Tasmanian Tiger? A life in captivity perhaps?
Um yeah that sounds real nice for the little guy:0P
The hard drive is also used for caching frequently used data from the DVD, if you read the article you will see that they have found that reading this from the hard drive is causing loading delays because the drive is not fast enough.
The fact is if you remove these delays it's gunna make your gaming experience a whole lot more fun!
The inside of a games machine keeps getting closer and closer to that of a PC so how long will it be before we basically have a PC that you plug into your TV?
It seems that there have been many trade offs for performance just to improve purely asthetic reasons...... We won't bother covering the power supply so we can fit it in a nice neat and tidey box...... We'll use a low performance CPU and slow hard drive so we don't have to put big noisey and nasty fans in it!!
IMHO i'd prefer my games machine to be in an oversized box with a bit of noise coming from the fan to squeeze out a bit more performance and to avoid those irratating delays.
One of the reasons I stopped using my PS1 was because I couldn't stand waiting for the CD to be read!
Sure a bigger games machine isn't quite so portable but maybe it's a good excuse to invite all your pals around to play it out together;0)
The Australian government's soloution to the problem of controlling what web site content is suitable for kids to view was to set up a fully government owned company called NetAlert, and in their favour they do promote close supervision by parents rather than censorship.
It's just a shame that the governemnt have not listened to their own advisory body and tend to prefer to travel the path of censorship.:0p
However since conception of NetAlert they have done nothing but pour millions of dollars into self promotion and haven't made any real effort to find a solution to the problems at hand, there was an article about this on Australian IT a while back but (I couldn't find the exact link). The report had details of how many tens of thousands of dollars were being spent on NetAlert fridge magnets.... all tax payer money!!
And now NetAlert still aren't happy with their corporate identity so they are in the process of developing their third website in about two years! Well there goes another $50,000 or so:0p
...if this isn't a good enough reason to switch back to Microsoft products i don't know what is.
Gosh the last thing we want to do is jeopardise the success of a football team. Forget the security holes if Microsoft is the difference between winning and losing bring it back, and bring back Nimbda too.
I only hope it's not too late for us..... may God have mercy on us all!
Oh boy!! I can't wait for an insane race of fangled artificially intelligent computers from outer space to come and take over the world:0)....and thanks to the Star Trek universal translator we'll be able to understand that they intend to totally annihilate us!
So if NetObjects already owned whatever patent it is that Macromedia now seem to own....... why didn't they sue the arse off Adobe and make a gagillion bucks?
Who knows they might have been able to knock out the competition and keep themselves in business.
Or did they just not think of it?
Why are people so unkind? - Kamal
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"You think maybe Compaq hired away some former Mac designers?"
I guess they must have given jobs to the poor guys that designed the G4 cube......... Man that's generous of Compaq!
Next thing you know they'll be handing out jobs to employees of failed dot coms........... and on the same day Osama might be building snowmen in hell;0)
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Sure VNC and X Windows is great if you have a nice high speed broadband connection where ever you go. However in the real world this isn't always possible.
:0).... I just wish I could convince our CEO to start using IMAP!
:0P Well luckily Mirabilis came up with the solution to this one, the most recent versions of ICQ store your contact list on the server so I never have to get authorisation from anyone ever again :0D
;0)
My problem:
I often move around different computers in the office, every time I get a new computer I have to reinstall everything and I like to have access to everything from home.
My solution:
Firstly, one of the most important things in a business is to keep all your email don't lose a single message. Sow what to do about this? Well I'm in a pretty good situation because I control our mailserver so I configured it to use IMAP as well as POP3. Now I can access all my mail from any computer in our office and from home also. It was particularly handy have home access because it mean that I didn't have to send any email messages that I recieved at home back to myself so I had a copy at work. The mail server is backed up daily to tape so there's no worry of ever losing important messags
(I only have a 33.6k dialup from home by the way)
For those that don't have control of their mail server and can't use IMAP there's always a wide varity of web mail services available.
Next how do I access all those files that I'm currently working with? This one's not as hard as it may seem, that's what file servers are for. Don't keep any of your files on your workstation (this is something that I'm finally starting to get through to my co-workers after 2 years). I use samba to access file within the office, if I'm at home I use a combination of FTP and samba (however samba is a slow dog over a dialup connection). The file servers are of course backed up every day so there is a lot less chance of losing important work than there is if I save everything on my workstation.
The next problem I faced was that pesky ICQ list, every time I changed computer or had to reinstall it I had to get authorisation from everyone on my list again
I've only addressed a few issues here but I hope I've made my point that broadband isn't always the only solution. Especialy when you live in a backward country like Australia where high speed Internet connections aren't readily available to your average underpaid IT employee
Imagine this:
;0)
Scott walks up to a babe in a bar.
Scott: "Hey how you doin?"
Babe: "I'm great thanks."
Scott: "Did I mention that I'm the current reining champion for playing Asteroids?"
Babe: "Oooooooo!"
Scott and babe head back to Scott's place and the rest is history
That's all the self destruct sequence I need ;0)
Well it seems CERT and all the vendors thought they were doing us a favour by keeping this information to themselves.
If they announced the vulnerability before they had a fix it would mean every script kiddie from here to the end of the Earth would be doing port scans on every network they can think of looking for vulnerable Wu-ftp servers before they were patched!
By holding out on the announcement till all vendors had a patch ready they probably would have saved a few servers from attack.
I'm sort of sitting on the fence about this myself. While I would like to know about these vulnerabilities ASAP so I can do something about them, I sure do appreciate that the problem wasn't announced to every moron that thinks they are a HaX0R!
Personaly I had nothing to worry about I was smart enough to turn off anonyomous FTP long ago and all my users are trusted anyway :0)
Unfortunately Aibo was found to be using performance enhancing transistors.
He argued that they were purely for recreational purposes but the judges ruling was final.
Why are people so unkind? - Kamahl
IF they do successfully clone a Tassie Tiger what are they going to do with it? Realease it into the wild?
Nuh uh!! I don't think so!
A lot of Tasmanians are going to strongly object to this (being primarily a rural community), and the Thylacine will be quickly hunted back into extinction.
So what are the options for the poor old Tasmanian Tiger? A life in captivity perhaps?
Um yeah that sounds real nice for the little guy :0P
Why are people so unkind? - Kamahl
The hard drive is also used for caching frequently used data from the DVD, if you read the article you will see that they have found that reading this from the hard drive is causing loading delays because the drive is not fast enough.
The fact is if you remove these delays it's gunna make your gaming experience a whole lot more fun!
The inside of a games machine keeps getting closer and closer to that of a PC so how long will it be before we basically have a PC that you plug into your TV?
It seems that there have been many trade offs for performance just to improve purely asthetic reasons ...... We won't bother covering the power supply so we can fit it in a nice neat and tidey box ...... We'll use a low performance CPU and slow hard drive so we don't have to put big noisey and nasty fans in it!!
IMHO i'd prefer my games machine to be in an oversized box with a bit of noise coming from the fan to squeeze out a bit more performance and to avoid those irratating delays.
One of the reasons I stopped using my PS1 was because I couldn't stand waiting for the CD to be read!
Sure a bigger games machine isn't quite so portable but maybe it's a good excuse to invite all your pals around to play it out together ;0)
Why are people so unkind? - Kamahl
...well sorta.
The Australian government's soloution to the problem of controlling what web site content is suitable for kids to view was to set up a fully government owned company called NetAlert, and in their favour they do promote close supervision by parents rather than censorship.
It's just a shame that the governemnt have not listened to their own advisory body and tend to prefer to travel the path of censorship. :0p
However since conception of NetAlert they have done nothing but pour millions of dollars into self promotion and haven't made any real effort to find a solution to the problems at hand, there was an article about this on Australian IT a while back but (I couldn't find the exact link). The report had details of how many tens of thousands of dollars were being spent on NetAlert fridge magnets .... all tax payer money!!
And now NetAlert still aren't happy with their corporate identity so they are in the process of developing their third website in about two years! Well there goes another $50,000 or so :0p
Hey this sounds great it even has POP3/SMTP mail support .... but will it run POP3 and SMTP servers? Better yet can I run Apache with PHP support?
Woohoo a server in my pocket!!
...and dare I say "Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of these?" :0P
But where's Debbie does Dallas? I thought there was extreme chemistry in that movie ;0)
Gosh the last thing we want to do is jeopardise the success of a football team. Forget the security holes if Microsoft is the difference between winning and losing bring it back, and bring back Nimbda too.
I only hope it's not too late for us ..... may God have mercy on us all!
;0)
Why are people so unkind? - Kamal
Who knows they might have been able to knock out the competition and keep themselves in business.
Or did they just not think of it?
Why are people so unkind? - Kamal
"You think maybe Compaq hired away some former Mac designers?"
I guess they must have given jobs to the poor guys that designed the G4 cube ......... Man that's generous of Compaq!
Next thing you know they'll be handing out jobs to employees of failed dot coms ........... and on the same day Osama might be building snowmen in hell ;0)
"Omron, known for sensor technology used in products from factory tools to automatic tellers"
MEEEOOOOOWWW!!!!