If he can't be bothered to call his ISP and ask them to unblock it, and really does have a Business account that allows server, then this is the solution. It's really quite simple to do on every mail server I've ever tried it on.
If you use SPF you may want to update the records for it to list your ISP's outbound IP addresses, but I'm guessing if there is outbound port 25 blocking issues going on and that required an Ask Slashdot then SPF isn't something in use:)
I'll probably get modded to hell for this, but this isn't Microsoft's fault. Their IT staff is either incompetent, or their management is. Stopping Wdinwso from getting a virus isn't a diffucult proposition.
Install decent AV in it, keep the subscription up to date, done.
You can of course go much further and lock down the OS so it doesn't let removable devices connect etc, but unless this was more than a virus, simple AV would have solved it.
I read this yesterday and it basically says "No apps can actually encrypt your entire phone, so buy a Blackberry". They point to some apps that will selectivly encrypt parts of your data but none seem to do all of it. I found myself wondering about the headline if for %99 of the phone sout there it's actually impossible.
While it's possible, go back and look at the timelines involved. On2 have had their video codecs around for a VERY long time. Personally I wouldn't be surprised if H.264 was infringing on some of the WebM patents
Not to mention, you don't even have to have it being "live" until no. 2 items are into single digits per month. Just run it next to the existing systems and have someone monitor it until you're down to very low numbers for no 2
In this country the police would have charged her for making false statements and a number of other things that waste police time. She would never have gotten the punishment you were up for but there damn sure would have been conseqences
FInal Cut Pro comes with an Apple encoder and thats the default format it saves in. Unfortunatly you can't get he codec (even for decoding) seperately from FCP, so the only way to read a Final Cut Movie without it being reencoded is by buying FCP.. and thats Mac only....
Apple don't even release the decode codec for the Apple platform. I discovered this a little while ago and was reminded just how much lock in Apple goes for.
Because it's not the web server being comprimised per say. It's the Ad network either being fooled, or willfully putting up exploit code rather than any sort of hack going on. Also considering the turnover of data/files on an ad networks servers, it's much harder for them to keep this from happening
You don't think that a big enough bank with enough corruption might not have been in some way responsible for the current situation, and that we may not be better off with them gone. That is, you know, assuming the government doesn't bail them out
If you're going to leave Windows on it, load up something like the Windows Live Family Safety. It comes in Windows Live Essentials or as a seperate download. It's managed by MSN logins and lets you set time limits, website blocking, whitelisting or blacklisting of applications as well as being able to restrict games based on their ratings.
All this and it's free.
Course, parenting works too, but given this isn't your child, maybe thats more of a challenge
Unless I remember this wrong. Apple was the LAST manufacturer to include USB. They were using firewire only for a LONG LONG time. The reason USB support took so long to come about is because Windows 95 and 98 SUCKED in the driver department
Imagine a dock or port bar on your desk, you bring your laptop in plug in a single connector (although you may need power too, depends how Apple implement it) and everything on your deks now works, screen, keyboard, mouse, printer, ethernet... everything.
Thats something a LOT of laptop users have wanted for a very long time, and this is the potential in a standardized cable format not some propriety thing with 200 seperate wires so the slightest bend of the cable and you lose your display and have to buy a new dock/portbar
Then, unlike a PC, you boot off a USB hard drive that you've installed OSX on, of even a USB stick. If you don't happen to have one, then you can borrow a friends and as long as it's up to date, it'll boot up on your hardware perfectly fine
I'm of the opinion that having EFI access on a Mac would be useful. But there are so many ways to get around a bad HDD on a Mac it's not funny
Honestly, there are enough other reasons to be pissy at Blizzard. No LAN play, having to be online to play, no parental controls for SC2 at launch, no way to play on another Bnet cluster even if you happen to be non-american but have been playing WoW since launch so thats where all your friends are.
With all these though you're bitching about then banning people who are basically hacking the game to cheat, when, in single player mode there are built in cheats anyway. The only reason to use those cheats and not the built in ones is to get achievements, and I would bet you any other game company would do exactly the same thing if their achievement system was being exploited
It takes 2 people to take care of about 200 Macs, and ~30-35 people to take care of 2000 Windows machines, of which some are servers, and you admit some of those take care or network/firewall/routers etc. To me that looks like your desktop support people are almost exactly equally distributed between Mac and Windows, about 1/100 with the rest of the Windows guys running the servers and the network.
Honestly I'd say those numbers are pretty good overall from a machine per tech point of view.
I deal with both Windows and Mac's and unless you have insane automation and reporting (which is pretty much impossible in a mixed environment) thats about the numbers you have to run. Mac's are no easier to manage in large numbers than Windows machines. both give you tools to manage them and both can be screwed up just as easily by the user. The only real problem with Windows boxes is when apps that aren't written well require an admin account to run
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If he can't be bothered to call his ISP and ask them to unblock it, and really does have a Business account that allows server, then this is the solution. It's really quite simple to do on every mail server I've ever tried it on.
If you use SPF you may want to update the records for it to list your ISP's outbound IP addresses, but I'm guessing if there is outbound port 25 blocking issues going on and that required an Ask Slashdot then SPF isn't something in use :)
When has Windows ever stored cleartect passwords in AD?
For that matter Telnet has been disabled by default since 2000, thats a decade ago.
Finally, name one ofther OS thats local firewall policy after install is to block outgoing connections?
How is 10Gb/sec not fast enough for SATA which runs, at best, at 6Gb/sec?
Not to mention there are very few drives that can even top 3Gb/sec
Can you be sure one of the upstream phone carriers doesn't use a VoIP link between countries?
I'll probably get modded to hell for this, but this isn't Microsoft's fault. Their IT staff is either incompetent, or their management is. Stopping Wdinwso from getting a virus isn't a diffucult proposition.
Install decent AV in it, keep the subscription up to date, done.
You can of course go much further and lock down the OS so it doesn't let removable devices connect etc, but unless this was more than a virus, simple AV would have solved it.
Heres a question for anyone in the know.
Given there no longer needs to be a meatsack in the chair, whats stopping UAV's from being able to literally dodge incoming fire (RPG's, missles etc)?
As long as they could be detected they could theoritically be dodged and destroyed given the ability of being able to do very high G's in a turn.
And still no WYSIWYG comment box, only HTML or plain text. If I wanted to code I wouldn't be reading slashdot would I?
I read this yesterday and it basically says "No apps can actually encrypt your entire phone, so buy a Blackberry". They point to some apps that will selectivly encrypt parts of your data but none seem to do all of it. I found myself wondering about the headline if for %99 of the phone sout there it's actually impossible.
While it's possible, go back and look at the timelines involved. On2 have had their video codecs around for a VERY long time. Personally I wouldn't be surprised if H.264 was infringing on some of the WebM patents
Not to mention, you don't even have to have it being "live" until no. 2 items are into single digits per month. Just run it next to the existing systems and have someone monitor it until you're down to very low numbers for no 2
In this country the police would have charged her for making false statements and a number of other things that waste police time. She would never have gotten the punishment you were up for but there damn sure would have been conseqences
FInal Cut Pro comes with an Apple encoder and thats the default format it saves in. Unfortunatly you can't get he codec (even for decoding) seperately from FCP, so the only way to read a Final Cut Movie without it being reencoded is by buying FCP.. and thats Mac only.... Apple don't even release the decode codec for the Apple platform. I discovered this a little while ago and was reminded just how much lock in Apple goes for.
Because it's not the web server being comprimised per say. It's the Ad network either being fooled, or willfully putting up exploit code rather than any sort of hack going on. Also considering the turnover of data/files on an ad networks servers, it's much harder for them to keep this from happening
You don't think that a big enough bank with enough corruption might not have been in some way responsible for the current situation, and that we may not be better off with them gone. That is, you know, assuming the government doesn't bail them out
If you're going to leave Windows on it, load up something like the Windows Live Family Safety. It comes in Windows Live Essentials or as a seperate download. It's managed by MSN logins and lets you set time limits, website blocking, whitelisting or blacklisting of applications as well as being able to restrict games based on their ratings. All this and it's free. Course, parenting works too, but given this isn't your child, maybe thats more of a challenge
Unless I remember this wrong. Apple was the LAST manufacturer to include USB. They were using firewire only for a LONG LONG time. The reason USB support took so long to come about is because Windows 95 and 98 SUCKED in the driver department
IB is much less about bandwidth and much more about latency. I doubt seriously that this will have latency even remotely competitive with IB
It doesn't have to _replace_ ethernet.
Imagine a dock or port bar on your desk, you bring your laptop in plug in a single connector (although you may need power too, depends how Apple implement it) and everything on your deks now works, screen, keyboard, mouse, printer, ethernet... everything.
Thats something a LOT of laptop users have wanted for a very long time, and this is the potential in a standardized cable format not some propriety thing with 200 seperate wires so the slightest bend of the cable and you lose your display and have to buy a new dock/portbar
Firewire is already gone from a lot of the Mac range, they are USB only now. Sadly that also means no more target disk, but thems the breaks
Not two tests, but a good overview of the benefits you can get from a ZFS system compared to some other storage options. http://www.anandtech.com/show/3963/zfs-building-testing-and-benchmarking
Then, unlike a PC, you boot off a USB hard drive that you've installed OSX on, of even a USB stick. If you don't happen to have one, then you can borrow a friends and as long as it's up to date, it'll boot up on your hardware perfectly fine
I'm of the opinion that having EFI access on a Mac would be useful. But there are so many ways to get around a bad HDD on a Mac it's not funny
PrefBar gives you this in FF for those that want something other than flashblock
No no, you had it right the first time... SCREW them together :)
Honestly, there are enough other reasons to be pissy at Blizzard. No LAN play, having to be online to play, no parental controls for SC2 at launch, no way to play on another Bnet cluster even if you happen to be non-american but have been playing WoW since launch so thats where all your friends are. With all these though you're bitching about then banning people who are basically hacking the game to cheat, when, in single player mode there are built in cheats anyway. The only reason to use those cheats and not the built in ones is to get achievements, and I would bet you any other game company would do exactly the same thing if their achievement system was being exploited
So, let me get the striaght...
It takes 2 people to take care of about 200 Macs, and ~30-35 people to take care of 2000 Windows machines, of which some are servers, and you admit some of those take care or network/firewall/routers etc. To me that looks like your desktop support people are almost exactly equally distributed between Mac and Windows, about 1/100 with the rest of the Windows guys running the servers and the network.
Honestly I'd say those numbers are pretty good overall from a machine per tech point of view.
I deal with both Windows and Mac's and unless you have insane automation and reporting (which is pretty much impossible in a mixed environment) thats about the numbers you have to run. Mac's are no easier to manage in large numbers than Windows machines. both give you tools to manage them and both can be screwed up just as easily by the user. The only real problem with Windows boxes is when apps that aren't written well require an admin account to run