I can tell you right now, sales people will love this, because it is light... the down-side is that IT support for this is going to be horrible. Sales people are going to ask all kinds of silly, hypothetical questions about this and demand answers. The problem is, they are not going to be any more productive with this, because they just do not like to be productive, it's their nature.
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Seriously. Spam, malware, idiots... they are all wasting enourmous amounts of bandwidth, and they are causing broadbands rates to go through the roof! STOP IT.
The bottom line is that a business network is not the place for tinkering with "cool stuff." This goes for infrastructure equipment, servers, and definately PCs. Do not, I repeat, DO NOT build your own equipment. It is just silly. You do not get any kind of warranty that is worthy of business needs. You are not going to get the hardware consistancy you are looking for, and you are not going to have the support.
As far as servers go, we use either IBM or Compaq (none of the HP models). For desktops Dell or IBM. For laptops IBM or Toshiba. And for networking equipment, Cisco. Cisco equipment is worth ever sent. You can not beat them on the total package... if you argue it, then I will ignore you, because you have no clue what you are talking about. The hardware is tested, is stable, is consistent. The software is stable solid, and updated in proper fashion. Furthermore, the software is feature rich and without excessive bloat. The support is the best you can get.
Yes, it sometimes causes sticker-shock... but bite the bullet and pay a little now, or you will pay in some way later... be it in buying Cisco after the fact, losing your job, or worse.
Your impression of Indiana sure seems like you were from Terre Haute. This is why people get a big misconception of the state. All of you po-dunk hill billies that live on the outskirts of the state. If you were truly worried about the way people pronounced words, you wouldn't live in a crappy place, you would have moved to the Indianapolis area (the Metro Indianapolis Area contains have of the population of the entire state). To anyone who lives outside of the Metro Indianapolis Area and live inside Indiana, I seriously question your capacity to remember how to self-respirate and maintain the ability to make your heart beat.
There is a big downside... the same downside that caused Gov. Arnold to have his heart-attack... the same one that causes most body builders to have heart problems.... it puts a lot of stress on your heart, having to supply all of this blood to the large muscles. Then your heart gets bigger, and their is less room in your chest. That is pretty bad stuff. That is why I would not want to be any bigger than I am, muscular, but by no means a body builder.
A movie downloaded off of the Internet is not worth seeing either. The MPAA is jumping on the RIAA bandwagon. This is not an issue. The average home entertainment system is no comparison to a movie theatre with a big screen, good sound, and fresh popcorn. It would comparible to the RIAA saying that concert ticket sales are down because of MP3 downloads... it is laughable.
IPv6 is more than a drop in replacement for IPv4 at Layer 3 of the OSI model. Everyone just assumes that since things map best to a model, that it is 100% accurate. TCP/IP is represented best by it's own model, the DoD Model. In this model IP falls into layer 2... TCP and UDP is layer 3. This really doesn't make much of a difference though. In a layered communication model, each layer has to be aware of the layers directly above and below in order to properly pass the information on. Ethernet has to know if it needs to give information to the IP stack, or perhaps you are using IPX instead. IP is not completely "layer 3," and it cannot do its job alone. IP has many helper protocols that straddle various layers. One example is ARP, it gives it the ability to determine which MAC address it should forward a packet to. If it didn't know, then layer 2 couldn't address it properly (it could broadcast, but do not look too far into this).
The point is, IPv6 does not just replace the IP "proper," but many of the helper protocols as well. The interaction it has with layer TCP and UDP could be slightly different, but I have not looked into this...
Another food for thought... why do you have to have IPv6 enabled Application layer services? Because things are not so cut-and-dry as the layered model theory suggest, in practice.
Furthermore, Access is a very easy way to make front-ends to other databases, via ODBC. Just use linked tables... that is part of the usually migration plan of Access apps anyways.
It is called a business degree. One of the biggest complaints about tech people is lack of business savvy. Look at what happened with Y2K and the Dot-Bombs... Just milk the crap out of something until it breaks the economy, and then blame everything on Microsoft and their certifications.
Furthermore, having a good handle on business practices gets you in good with upper management. You will have more pull with them, and you will be able to anticipate what they want and how they will respond.
Many business schools have majors in information systems. With these, you can usually focus on the different areas out there, via electives. The school I attend has specialties in AS/400 and RPG, Programming, Web Developments, and Networking (Cisco Academy). Add an MBA into the mix, and perhaps you can roll into a director or VP gig when you have some years under your belt.
The outsourcing to India has become a necessity because of our marketing of outsourcing, in general. This wouldn't have happened if our US outsourcing systems were not so cost prohibitive. When companies see a trend that is better for business, they want to implement this trend until they see the bill. This causes them to re-evalutate what their needs are. Then they realize they can do this by outsourcing elsewhere.
So if you want to complain about outsourcing to India, complain to US service vendors who hyped up outsourcing, and then charged too much for shoddy implementations and service.
I would have to agree... I do not think VoIP is capable of competing with such plans, especially in the residential market. The investment required to have acceptable service is just not within the means/desires of the average person.
This shouldn't be too difficult of a task. In most situations, you could have specific IP address reserved for systems behind your NAT gateway. This is perfectly feasable, because you should be able to get more IPs (unless you are using residential service, and at that point your whining would be moot). Simple open extra ports to be forwarded to the system behind the NAT gateway, and use those as the knocking ports. You could go hog wild and forward anything destined for that IP to the system, but that is more harm than good. I would implement 30 or so ports, and only use 5-7. This would throw people off a bit that ran OS detection in a scanner such as nmap, because you would have the extra ports open as well.
but for reason does a bank need wireless access? In environment that could benefit (warehouses and such), there are ways to help limit how far the signal gets. Most warehouses have cinder block or steel panel walls, you could also add some grounded chicken wire or some of meshed metal wiring to the exterior walls to keep the signal from escaping the building... just fyi
As much as I like Bombadil, I would have to agree that it is a waste of time, especially for a movie. You have a couple of chapters with this cool character, who may potentially be able to hide the Ring from Sauron's vision, and then he says no and you gain very little from it. The rest of the story ignores the fact that he was even mentioned before. The only thing I think Tolkein was trying to do was show how powerful Sauron and the Ring were, that not even Tom Bombadil could do anything about it.
I had my tickets for two weeks. We get to the theater an hour early, and it is packed! They didn't start rolling the film until 15 minutes after it was supposed to start. They were trying to kick people out before the movie started. Once the film started rolling, it took half an hour to get through the previews (BTW, the T3 trailer was awesome). Finally, we get into the movie. It started a bit slow. Then the whole sex/Zion scene came up (Good thing my wife was sick, and elected not to go). That was ridiculous. They don't need any fluff in the movie, it is 2hr 35min. long. That scene could have been summed up a lot more quickly, or they could have done some character development. Well, it finally starts getting really good. Then, about an hour into the movie, the fire alarm goes off in the theater. The movie stops, everyone is leaving, then they come back in and said it was a false alarm. They said sit tight for 5-10 minutes and it will be back on. Half an hour later they come in and say they are going to start it in a couple minutes. Ten minutes later, they say the fire department won't even have it figured out for 10 minutes. Then, about 5 minutes later, they tell everyone to leave, and give us re-admit passes. That was a phreaking joke. A re-admit pass! I spent 4 hours of my day to watch the first hour of the movie, half of which wasn't that good. They ruined my entire experience, and they just offer me the opportunity to watch it later. They need to give me some coupons for some stuff, some stuff from the consession stand. Pisses me off, and I leave for boot camp in 4 days, this was my last thing I wanted to do before I went.
I think you are trolling here with that comment, but I'll respond anyway. Win2K DNS has a simple check box that makes the PTR record for you. I'd bet $20 that most of incorrectly set up DNS machines are people running old versions of BIND.
I have been to several shops that run Windows 2000 and Active Directiry, and let me tell you, most people do not use that little check box. And besides, it does not matter! If you cannot setup PTRs, you do not need to be an admin! And if you are using an ISP, like everyone has said, you should at least have a PTR for their domain.
I would have to agree with this. I thought about putting something together for this before, but as I do not know C, I cannot really code it, unless I go with something else. I was planning on using qmail, since it is extremley powerful, secure, and modular. Just need to add in an authenticator that can work against either SAMBA or Active Directory, and then the client connection code that emulates Exchange. I was reading about Ximian Connector, and all of the stuff can be stored as normal folders... Could someone take this further?
Not sure how far along this is, but does samba have the File Replication Service working? It is what windows domain controllers use to keep certain things in sync. Mainly used for the NETLOGON share in pre-Active Directory and SYSVOL in Active Directory. This is where things like login scripts are kept. You could setup a file server in each location, and run FRS to keep things in sync. Dunno though.
This has got to be the dumbest thing I have ever read. Both movies did kickass in the box office, and one did better than the other. Give it a rest. If you really want a reason, Episode I hurt Episode II, and Spider-Man is a new story, many people probably figured they could wait on Star Wars, because we already know most of what is going to happen. You are a loser.
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They could easily (and probably do) use the hibernation/suspend feature to boot more quickly. But I see your point.
You realize, though, there will be import fees. That will likely be $2200/$2000 for the U70/U50, repsectively.
I can tell you right now, sales people will love this, because it is light... the down-side is that IT support for this is going to be horrible. Sales people are going to ask all kinds of silly, hypothetical questions about this and demand answers. The problem is, they are not going to be any more productive with this, because they just do not like to be productive, it's their nature.
UNIVERSAL TRUST WORLDWIDE LOTTERY.
138 EDWARD STREET, 4TH FLOOR
BARINOR BUILDING johannesburg, south africa.
Ref: EAASL/941OYI/02
Batch: 12/25/DC34
Date: 23-07-04
WINNING NOTIFICATION:
We happily announce to you the draw of the Euro - Afro
Asian Sweepstake International programs held on the 1st of july 2004 in cairo Egypt. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 564 75600545 188 with Serial number 5388/02 drew the lucky numbers: 31-6-26-13-35-7, which
subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of US$2,500,000.00 (Two million, five hundred Thousand,United States Dollars) in cash credited to file PC/9080118308/02. This is from a total cash prize of US $ 25 Million dollars, shared amongst the first Fifty (50) lucky winners in this category. Please note that your lucky winning number falls wit hin our European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your US$2,500,000.00 (Two million, five hundred thousand,United States Dollars) would be released to you by our security firm in Europe. Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him. All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 companies. This promotion takes place annually. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements. To file for you r claim, please contact our fiduciary agent: Mr Cole Hole. Watergate inc Email:EMAIL:cole02@usa.com To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your reference/batch numbers in any correspondences with us or our designated agent. Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program. Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program. Sincerely, SIR H.J.PONFA UNIVERSAL TRUST WORLDWIDE LOTTERY Coordinator. EMAIL:cole02@usa.com
Seriously. Spam, malware, idiots... they are all wasting enourmous amounts of bandwidth, and they are causing broadbands rates to go through the roof! STOP IT.
The bottom line is that a business network is not the place for tinkering with "cool stuff." This goes for infrastructure equipment, servers, and definately PCs. Do not, I repeat, DO NOT build your own equipment. It is just silly. You do not get any kind of warranty that is worthy of business needs. You are not going to get the hardware consistancy you are looking for, and you are not going to have the support.
As far as servers go, we use either IBM or Compaq (none of the HP models). For desktops Dell or IBM. For laptops IBM or Toshiba. And for networking equipment, Cisco. Cisco equipment is worth ever sent. You can not beat them on the total package... if you argue it, then I will ignore you, because you have no clue what you are talking about. The hardware is tested, is stable, is consistent. The software is stable solid, and updated in proper fashion. Furthermore, the software is feature rich and without excessive bloat. The support is the best you can get.
Yes, it sometimes causes sticker-shock... but bite the bullet and pay a little now, or you will pay in some way later... be it in buying Cisco after the fact, losing your job, or worse.
Assimilate this!
Your impression of Indiana sure seems like you were from Terre Haute. This is why people get a big misconception of the state. All of you po-dunk hill billies that live on the outskirts of the state. If you were truly worried about the way people pronounced words, you wouldn't live in a crappy place, you would have moved to the Indianapolis area (the Metro Indianapolis Area contains have of the population of the entire state). To anyone who lives outside of the Metro Indianapolis Area and live inside Indiana, I seriously question your capacity to remember how to self-respirate and maintain the ability to make your heart beat.
There is a big downside... the same downside that caused Gov. Arnold to have his heart-attack... the same one that causes most body builders to have heart problems.... it puts a lot of stress on your heart, having to supply all of this blood to the large muscles. Then your heart gets bigger, and their is less room in your chest. That is pretty bad stuff. That is why I would not want to be any bigger than I am, muscular, but by no means a body builder.
A movie downloaded off of the Internet is not worth seeing either. The MPAA is jumping on the RIAA bandwagon. This is not an issue. The average home entertainment system is no comparison to a movie theatre with a big screen, good sound, and fresh popcorn. It would comparible to the RIAA saying that concert ticket sales are down because of MP3 downloads... it is laughable.
Hell has been frozen over, at least the last layer... (Read Dante's Inferno).
The rest of the world needs to get over it's superiority complex and just follow suite. Duh.
IPv6 is more than a drop in replacement for IPv4 at Layer 3 of the OSI model. Everyone just assumes that since things map best to a model, that it is 100% accurate. TCP/IP is represented best by it's own model, the DoD Model. In this model IP falls into layer 2... TCP and UDP is layer 3. This really doesn't make much of a difference though. In a layered communication model, each layer has to be aware of the layers directly above and below in order to properly pass the information on. Ethernet has to know if it needs to give information to the IP stack, or perhaps you are using IPX instead. IP is not completely "layer 3," and it cannot do its job alone. IP has many helper protocols that straddle various layers. One example is ARP, it gives it the ability to determine which MAC address it should forward a packet to. If it didn't know, then layer 2 couldn't address it properly (it could broadcast, but do not look too far into this).
The point is, IPv6 does not just replace the IP "proper," but many of the helper protocols as well. The interaction it has with layer TCP and UDP could be slightly different, but I have not looked into this...
Another food for thought... why do you have to have IPv6 enabled Application layer services? Because things are not so cut-and-dry as the layered model theory suggest, in practice.
What about e-mail?
Furthermore, Access is a very easy way to make front-ends to other databases, via ODBC. Just use linked tables... that is part of the usually migration plan of Access apps anyways.
It is called a business degree. One of the biggest complaints about tech people is lack of business savvy. Look at what happened with Y2K and the Dot-Bombs... Just milk the crap out of something until it breaks the economy, and then blame everything on Microsoft and their certifications.
Furthermore, having a good handle on business practices gets you in good with upper management. You will have more pull with them, and you will be able to anticipate what they want and how they will respond.
Many business schools have majors in information systems. With these, you can usually focus on the different areas out there, via electives. The school I attend has specialties in AS/400 and RPG, Programming, Web Developments, and Networking (Cisco Academy). Add an MBA into the mix, and perhaps you can roll into a director or VP gig when you have some years under your belt.
The outsourcing to India has become a necessity because of our marketing of outsourcing, in general. This wouldn't have happened if our US outsourcing systems were not so cost prohibitive. When companies see a trend that is better for business, they want to implement this trend until they see the bill. This causes them to re-evalutate what their needs are. Then they realize they can do this by outsourcing elsewhere.
So if you want to complain about outsourcing to India, complain to US service vendors who hyped up outsourcing, and then charged too much for shoddy implementations and service.
I would have to agree... I do not think VoIP is capable of competing with such plans, especially in the residential market. The investment required to have acceptable service is just not within the means/desires of the average person.
This shouldn't be too difficult of a task. In most situations, you could have specific IP address reserved for systems behind your NAT gateway. This is perfectly feasable, because you should be able to get more IPs (unless you are using residential service, and at that point your whining would be moot). Simple open extra ports to be forwarded to the system behind the NAT gateway, and use those as the knocking ports. You could go hog wild and forward anything destined for that IP to the system, but that is more harm than good. I would implement 30 or so ports, and only use 5-7. This would throw people off a bit that ran OS detection in a scanner such as nmap, because you would have the extra ports open as well.
but for reason does a bank need wireless access? In environment that could benefit (warehouses and such), there are ways to help limit how far the signal gets. Most warehouses have cinder block or steel panel walls, you could also add some grounded chicken wire or some of meshed metal wiring to the exterior walls to keep the signal from escaping the building... just fyi
As much as I like Bombadil, I would have to agree that it is a waste of time, especially for a movie. You have a couple of chapters with this cool character, who may potentially be able to hide the Ring from Sauron's vision, and then he says no and you gain very little from it. The rest of the story ignores the fact that he was even mentioned before. The only thing I think Tolkein was trying to do was show how powerful Sauron and the Ring were, that not even Tom Bombadil could do anything about it.
I had my tickets for two weeks. We get to the theater an hour early, and it is packed! They didn't start rolling the film until 15 minutes after it was supposed to start. They were trying to kick people out before the movie started. Once the film started rolling, it took half an hour to get through the previews (BTW, the T3 trailer was awesome). Finally, we get into the movie. It started a bit slow. Then the whole sex/Zion scene came up (Good thing my wife was sick, and elected not to go). That was ridiculous. They don't need any fluff in the movie, it is 2hr 35min. long. That scene could have been summed up a lot more quickly, or they could have done some character development. Well, it finally starts getting really good. Then, about an hour into the movie, the fire alarm goes off in the theater. The movie stops, everyone is leaving, then they come back in and said it was a false alarm. They said sit tight for 5-10 minutes and it will be back on. Half an hour later they come in and say they are going to start it in a couple minutes. Ten minutes later, they say the fire department won't even have it figured out for 10 minutes. Then, about 5 minutes later, they tell everyone to leave, and give us re-admit passes. That was a phreaking joke. A re-admit pass! I spent 4 hours of my day to watch the first hour of the movie, half of which wasn't that good. They ruined my entire experience, and they just offer me the opportunity to watch it later. They need to give me some coupons for some stuff, some stuff from the consession stand. Pisses me off, and I leave for boot camp in 4 days, this was my last thing I wanted to do before I went.
I have been to several shops that run Windows 2000 and Active Directiry, and let me tell you, most people do not use that little check box. And besides, it does not matter! If you cannot setup PTRs, you do not need to be an admin! And if you are using an ISP, like everyone has said, you should at least have a PTR for their domain.
I would have to agree with this. I thought about putting something together for this before, but as I do not know C, I cannot really code it, unless I go with something else. I was planning on using qmail, since it is extremley powerful, secure, and modular. Just need to add in an authenticator that can work against either SAMBA or Active Directory, and then the client connection code that emulates Exchange. I was reading about Ximian Connector, and all of the stuff can be stored as normal folders... Could someone take this further?
Not sure how far along this is, but does samba have the File Replication Service working? It is what windows domain controllers use to keep certain things in sync. Mainly used for the NETLOGON share in pre-Active Directory and SYSVOL in Active Directory. This is where things like login scripts are kept. You could setup a file server in each location, and run FRS to keep things in sync. Dunno though.
This has got to be the dumbest thing I have ever read. Both movies did kickass in the box office, and one did better than the other. Give it a rest. If you really want a reason, Episode I hurt Episode II, and Spider-Man is a new story, many people probably figured they could wait on Star Wars, because we already know most of what is going to happen. You are a loser.