Really one of the only reasons I have a Windows system sitting at home is to play games that I don't want to play on a console. There are some great utilities that are definitely much easier to use on Windows vs. Linux, but if I can play any of the games available for Windows on OSX (and at the same or better quality/framerate), I'd highly consider OSX. I use OSX at work for application testing sometimes, and I was immediately impressed with it (last time I had used a Mac it had OS9).
Incidently, what are the graphics and sound card options for a Mac? Are they the same? That may be another point why OSX isn't viable for high-framerate games, but then again I don't use OSX much right now so I'm not familiar with the hardware options for PowerMacs.
I second the Avocent KVMs. The newer ones allow you to cable between the switch and the KVM unit via Cat-5 cabling (and their special dongles, of course). They have dongles for Sun, PC (both USB and PS/2), and serial, and the remote software works on Linux and Windows.
That thing looks bigger than my Magellan GPS and at least from the description of the Sirius device, it doesn't have the reported hard drive that the XM unit will have.
"Honestly though.. what in the heck was so supposedly inconvienient about using SSH vs Telnet? Just fear of the unknown?"
The older folks thought many of our clients wouldn't have SSH clients readlily available for them to use. This was before thumbdrives, mind you, and they didn't want to have to carry a CD or floppy around with them everywhere they went.
Mostnly everything came with a telnet client, so they wanted telnet access. Later, when I showed people how using RSA keys helped make logging in even easier, it wasn't like pulling teeth to get people to accept SSH.
One of the biggest problems I can see normal MIE users getting frustrated with is the lack of automatic support for the neato buttons on the Microsoft Natural Keyboard line. Some buttons work, others simply do not (or at least not without the tweaking a casual web user cares to mess with). Of course, we all know that's not Firefox's fault really, but normal users of MIE don't care who's fault it is -- it worked automatically in MIE, and it doesn't in Firefox. Buh-bye Firefox.:-(
I should have mentioned that all of this is documented in emails and printed emails, but they really did no good. The answer I'd get when pointing to my "proof" of warning to them was, "well, you didn't warn me enough." It's never enough, is it?
" You are also not the one who will take the blame when things screw up due to lax security. "
I so hear that.
When I started a job several years ago, I was completely shocked that the previous admin decided we needed to keep telnet open to the outside world in the event we had an engineer somewhere off-site who didn't have access to an SSH client. I immediately took down the telnet access, installed a firewall (they didn't have one!), and told everyone they had to use SSH to get in.
Well, that made a few of the elders pretty angry, saying it made things too inconvenient for them. A few bitching-out sessions from them to my then boss, and he made me -- against all of my protests -- open telnet back up (I tried to at least make them use OPIE enabled telnet, but that didn't cut it with them.
Sure enough, we later got attacked through telnet. Luckily I had a lot of alarms pointing to unauthorized telnet access, so as soon as it happened, I locked it down. But you know who was to blame for that attack? The admin. Me. Somehow I didn't warn them enough, and short of quitting my job, there was nothing more I could've done. Luckily later I reported to someone who knew something about technology, and now everything's honkey-dorey in the security department. If an engineer demands something outrageous, I'm not fighting it alone now.
In the case of allowing users to have unfettered access to their workstations, the immediate threat I can think of is possible disgruntled employee activity, such as installing network scanners (won't do a whole lot on our net anyway), key loggers (for when an admin such as myself needs access to their system directly), or any number of other problematic programs.
I can't tell you how many times I had to deal with a user installing something on an unrestricted system (yes, there was a time I did this) that inevitably wasted more of both of our time while I cleaned up all the crap off their system and hunted down the problem.
I dunno, maybe companies need to have some sort of exam for employees to take to prove they know what the hell they're doing on a Windows box before being granted access to install their own programs on a system.
In the end, the parent post is still correct here. If something happens on your workstation that affects others, such as a virus or rogue program, the admin is full-out to blame no matter who installed the program or what they did to escape detection.
Sorry for my disjointed rant. Haven't had my coffee yet but for some reason felt the need to add my 2 bits.
Bush says: "We will not have a draft so long as I am the President of the United States. In fact, current law prohibits reinstatement of the draft absent legislation and such legislation was recently defeated in the House of Representatives 402 to 2."
Translation: "There will be no draft! I should know -- I tried to reinstate the draft and the House defeated the legislation I handed them, those bastards!"
Just this morning, Stern's website was plastered with ads for XM Radio. Now it's all changed to Sirius. I would put money on the fact that XM taking in O&A pissed Stern off and/or scared him into signing with Sirius. Going to his website, it was CLEAR he was touting up XM Radio -- up to just this morning!
What's funny is that this morning (and weeks previous), Stern's website had banner ads plastered ALL over for XM Radio. Now I go look and it's Siris ads.
Methinks XM signing Opie & Anthony pissed Stern off something fierce, and there's no way in hell he's going to admit that publicly. Best way to stick it to XM and ClearChannel (and make a $gazillion) -- join Sirius.
The only thing I can imagine that would help get "M$ audio systems into people's pockets" would be if, somehow, Microsoft were able to convince music distributors to abandon iTunes and exclusively sell new music only in their new format for players that play that new format. Balmer is clearly targeting music distributors/producers with his statements, not so much the consumer.
"Thems are all thievesessss! Stolen music in their pocketsessss!"
Instead of putting three other people on this flight, they simulated the weight of three adults. While this is a good first test, I sure hope they account for other issues that may come up when having simple passengers on-board. What if someone freaks out and undoes his safety belts? What if someone (or worse, everyone) vomits all about the inside of the ship? These are the kinds of things veteran pilots can usually keep under control themselves, but when they're at the controls of a frickin' rocket, the last thing they need is distractions from the passengers.
I agree with you, that Slashdot at least seems to play favorites, especially where ptorrone is concerned. It seems any time I see one of his hack-assery projects listed on Engadget, I can just drum my fingers a few minutes before he's on the wire to pound his chest a bit and post the same crap on Slashdot.
I like Engadget for its news of new gadgets coming to market and such, but to the do-it-yourself junk (yes...junk), I say, "meh."
The story really had me, but a few I guess "cliche" things happened that started to throw me off the story and summise that it was a fabrication:
Taking the dog down into the cave. Dog senses evil things.
Camera that Tom takes into the cave mysteriously doesn't develop the symbols on the cave wall.
Their friend not discussing what he saw in the cave, and them letting him get away with that before they ever set foot back in the cave.
The headlamp smashing on the cave roof, then having really no other good light source left (and also mentioning it after-the-fact in blue text that the 2nd lamp was left behind on purpose).
Leaving the movie camera behind.
NEver again mentioning that long chisel-pipe-thing he had with him to use as a weapon. I would've been swinging it left and right as I tried to exit that cave in the dark!
And those are the ones that stuck out to me. If they backed those things up or removed/edited them, I may have been quite fooled.
"Boy, what I would give to be able to sit in that seat and flip those switches!"
From the looks of the internal picture, you could assemble better switching crap with hobbiest equipment in the spare room of your basement. I've seen more exciting machinery in 'Back To The Future'-Delorean mock-ups.;-)
Amen to all of that. It seems like there are two kinds of people out there -- those who've used TMDA (or simimar) and love it, and those who've never used TMDA and hate it.
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5) No (known) terrorist activity in the States as was previously feared to happen close to or on election day.
Incidently, what are the graphics and sound card options for a Mac? Are they the same? That may be another point why OSX isn't viable for high-framerate games, but then again I don't use OSX much right now so I'm not familiar with the hardware options for PowerMacs.
I second the Avocent KVMs. The newer ones allow you to cable between the switch and the KVM unit via Cat-5 cabling (and their special dongles, of course). They have dongles for Sun, PC (both USB and PS/2), and serial, and the remote software works on Linux and Windows.
Nothing to yawn at to me...
The older folks thought many of our clients wouldn't have SSH clients readlily available for them to use. This was before thumbdrives, mind you, and they didn't want to have to carry a CD or floppy around with them everywhere they went.
Mostnly everything came with a telnet client, so they wanted telnet access. Later, when I showed people how using RSA keys helped make logging in even easier, it wasn't like pulling teeth to get people to accept SSH.
One of the biggest problems I can see normal MIE users getting frustrated with is the lack of automatic support for the neato buttons on the Microsoft Natural Keyboard line. Some buttons work, others simply do not (or at least not without the tweaking a casual web user cares to mess with). Of course, we all know that's not Firefox's fault really, but normal users of MIE don't care who's fault it is -- it worked automatically in MIE, and it doesn't in Firefox. Buh-bye Firefox. :-(
I should have mentioned that all of this is documented in emails and printed emails, but they really did no good. The answer I'd get when pointing to my "proof" of warning to them was, "well, you didn't warn me enough." It's never enough, is it?
I so hear that.
When I started a job several years ago, I was completely shocked that the previous admin decided we needed to keep telnet open to the outside world in the event we had an engineer somewhere off-site who didn't have access to an SSH client. I immediately took down the telnet access, installed a firewall (they didn't have one!), and told everyone they had to use SSH to get in.
Well, that made a few of the elders pretty angry, saying it made things too inconvenient for them. A few bitching-out sessions from them to my then boss, and he made me -- against all of my protests -- open telnet back up (I tried to at least make them use OPIE enabled telnet, but that didn't cut it with them.
Sure enough, we later got attacked through telnet. Luckily I had a lot of alarms pointing to unauthorized telnet access, so as soon as it happened, I locked it down. But you know who was to blame for that attack? The admin. Me. Somehow I didn't warn them enough, and short of quitting my job, there was nothing more I could've done. Luckily later I reported to someone who knew something about technology, and now everything's honkey-dorey in the security department. If an engineer demands something outrageous, I'm not fighting it alone now.
In the case of allowing users to have unfettered access to their workstations, the immediate threat I can think of is possible disgruntled employee activity, such as installing network scanners (won't do a whole lot on our net anyway), key loggers (for when an admin such as myself needs access to their system directly), or any number of other problematic programs.
I can't tell you how many times I had to deal with a user installing something on an unrestricted system (yes, there was a time I did this) that inevitably wasted more of both of our time while I cleaned up all the crap off their system and hunted down the problem.
I dunno, maybe companies need to have some sort of exam for employees to take to prove they know what the hell they're doing on a Windows box before being granted access to install their own programs on a system.
In the end, the parent post is still correct here. If something happens on your workstation that affects others, such as a virus or rogue program, the admin is full-out to blame no matter who installed the program or what they did to escape detection.
Sorry for my disjointed rant. Haven't had my coffee yet but for some reason felt the need to add my 2 bits.
Unlike most /.'ers, she'd know I'm joking.
Er...HL2's arrival date is the worst present, not my son of course. I mean, I think.
Worst...present...evar. :-(
Translation: "There will be no draft! I should know -- I tried to reinstate the draft and the House defeated the legislation I handed them, those bastards!"
Just this morning, Stern's website was plastered with ads for XM Radio. Now it's all changed to Sirius. I would put money on the fact that XM taking in O&A pissed Stern off and/or scared him into signing with Sirius. Going to his website, it was CLEAR he was touting up XM Radio -- up to just this morning!
Methinks XM signing Opie & Anthony pissed Stern off something fierce, and there's no way in hell he's going to admit that publicly. Best way to stick it to XM and ClearChannel (and make a $gazillion) -- join Sirius.
Insightful? We need a moderation for "Downer". Way to think positively!
Is that the same Cadbury that makes Easter candy? I can hear it now...
"I've got a golden tiiiickeeet!"
"Thems are all thievesessss! Stolen music in their pocketsessss!"
Imagine a beowulf cluster of those!
*ducks*
Instead of putting three other people on this flight, they simulated the weight of three adults. While this is a good first test, I sure hope they account for other issues that may come up when having simple passengers on-board. What if someone freaks out and undoes his safety belts? What if someone (or worse, everyone) vomits all about the inside of the ship? These are the kinds of things veteran pilots can usually keep under control themselves, but when they're at the controls of a frickin' rocket, the last thing they need is distractions from the passengers.
BAH! They need to star this kid as young Dark Helmet!
I like Engadget for its news of new gadgets coming to market and such, but to the do-it-yourself junk (yes...junk), I say, "meh."
The story really had me, but a few I guess "cliche" things happened that started to throw me off the story and summise that it was a fabrication:
- Taking the dog down into the cave. Dog senses evil things.
- Camera that Tom takes into the cave mysteriously doesn't develop the symbols on the cave wall.
- Their friend not discussing what he saw in the cave, and them letting him get away with that before they ever set foot back in the cave.
- The headlamp smashing on the cave roof, then having really no other good light source left (and also mentioning it after-the-fact in blue text that the 2nd lamp was left behind on purpose).
- Leaving the movie camera behind.
- NEver again mentioning that long chisel-pipe-thing he had with him to use as a weapon. I would've been swinging it left and right as I tried to exit that cave in the dark!
And those are the ones that stuck out to me. If they backed those things up or removed/edited them, I may have been quite fooled.From the looks of the internal picture, you could assemble better switching crap with hobbiest equipment in the spare room of your basement. I've seen more exciting machinery in 'Back To The Future'-Delorean mock-ups. ;-)
TMDA is smart enough to not reply to mailing lists, and I always add mailing lists to my whitelist when I join, just in case.
Amen to all of that. It seems like there are two kinds of people out there -- those who've used TMDA (or simimar) and love it, and those who've never used TMDA and hate it.