Until I searched for information on them and found they are notorious for exactly this kind of behavior. They had the best price ever at the time on the Canon Digital Rebel, 220.00 cheaper than anyone else - BUT, I got lucky and decided not to risk it. Highly recommend B and H Photo - I've bought almost all of my camera equipment from them, plus an ipod - the prices are reasonable, and they are very very professional and courteous.
(1) buy the CD
(2) rip to ogg and mp3
(3) file the original CD safely
(4) burn copies of CDs for car, etc - original never leaves safe storage
I don't know how many car CD players have scratched and destroyed the CD going over bumps... Plus if someone steals 200 CDs and they are original that's alot of money down the drain, versus 28 cents per CDR
(5) use MP3 on ipod, or don't buy an ipod (or ogg hack on ipod (if ever available))
(6) refuse to follow any DRM by never purchasing music in that format
(7) buy ogg compatible players (iAudio is outstanding)
...with half-and-half. Think about it. Gooey, quick-hardening, crusty when dry. Took an hour and a half of quick and thorough work to return the keyboard (A SUN keyboard)to somewhat usable. And some keys still stuck for a month after.
...eye-candy. If you were looking for plot, serious acting, drama, great writing, etc - why would you be watching that movie anyway? But - for what it was (Halle Barry) - it was outstanding.
Pointless use of Flash, yes - but also inaccurate. I have a Canon 300D digital SLR - I love it. Depth of field depends entirely on lens aperture, or the f-stop setting - not on SLR vs. regular digital. An SLR does allow but not require way more control and fine-tuning of depth of field. If you set it at automatic, you have a very heavy, bulky snapshot camera with an expected wide depth of field. But if you want a particular result and are willing to invest in the knowledge of the tool, the SLR camera, this thing can get shots I couldn't touch with any regular SLR. Add a 100-300 zoom lens and I got portraits over the Thanksgiving weekend that had the older ladies in the family slipping me $20 to delete their picture... Sound like this guy had a bad experience with the tool and failed to care enough to learn to use it properly or just set it to auto and forget it.
A VPN (or most likely multiple VPNs) is an additional service and should be viewed in that way rather than as a level of protection. It opens multiple long-distance holes into your network, creating potential vulnerabilities extending to the homes of your co-workers (and their teenage kids and their teenage kids's friends, etc). Rather than a solution to network security it creates a whole 'nother set of problems.
I don't think security has changed in its basics, rather the demands for services have changed how networks must compromise, as they have always had to, against those basics
The basics are (1) no services not needed on any server-level machine, strip off anything unneeded to the bones. (2) host-based firewall on every server, ideally on every host period. (3) strict default deny both incoming and outgoing perimeter firewalls (4) DMZ for any exposed services (5) monitor and scan both traffic and vulnerabilities (6) I know I'm paranoid... But am I paranoid enough? (7) If you must run Microsoft in any exposed application, isolate and proxy.
Stay away from a soft chewy center.
My company won't let me do it but in my opinion a sane network that wanted security would run nessus in destructive mode against all machines on the subnets continuously, creating a network darwinism that would allow only the correctly configured hosts to stay in place. But that's just me.
You think wrong. As a seasoned network admin I refuse to allow MS products to be accessed directly from the internet. Ever. This is company security policy. And common sense. Run nmap against any MS product and cringe at the crap open by default. Run nessus against it and watch it die...
They are difficult to administer in any sane manner, lacking just basic command line control and scripting.
And to address your sendmail and BIND security justification - I run postfix and tinyDNS - I have alternatives that I can use, where in MS land I am stuck with (Godhelpus) exchange/outlook/IE.
Think again.
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it is just British self importance expanded to an ironic and self-parodying degree. Or maybe it just sucks.
reason to upgrade - iptables and stateful packet filtering, something truly missing from 2.2. A whole realm of restrictions can be added to filter at greater depth than with ipchains
And you in your wisdom have of course factored in the liability and overhead of tracking the LICENSE for that completely illegal copy you just burned of windows, yes?
actually the admin ratios I researched show the reverse trend - UNIX/Linux has broader scripting tools and network accessibility (server platform) allowing a good sysadmin to handle 50 (more if not an engineering environment). Automation of windows is close to nonexistent (headless servers? in windows? yeah right). Stability of the platform under time and load is also a factor, dropping the win2K server quanity to around 23. Slightly more than 2 to one. This was in production environs your mileage may vary but not by much. another point is what the admins find they like - I personally dislike a graphic interface for managing servers period. And windows fails to provide a decent shell environment even with cygwin as a compromise. I have been aboe to leave work on time MANY times when the windows dudes are still struggling to recover an Exchange server and look like they will be present all night.
Corporations are NOT people in and of themselves and have no ethics. They are not NICE or KIND or GRATEFUL. Their memories of you ARE accounting records. Get cash. Charge a VERY LARGE fee, some thing that will be remembered. Never ever make the mistake of believing well of a company. Of an individual, yes, but never of a company. A company is a fictitious entity with no soul.
Worse yet - if you are expecting that because you operated out of the goodness of your heart and saved the day you will be rehired or gain some other favor - b**lsh*t. Your boss claimed it was his/her doing, that she/he could have called anyone. Second, from the viewpoint of the corporation, you obviously don't understand that what you do has value, so won't operate within the corporation aligning your self-interest with its own (probably why they canned your ass in the first place). You are one of those starry-eyed idiots who operate under the illusion of being a good person with ethics. God help you.
abso-fucking-lutely. Definitely on a wire... This article reminds me of the Monsanto "House-of-the-Future" in Disneyland - concepts so off the mark they become embarassing in years to come, and eventually even nostalgic.
can these idiots ever be more out of touch? I have a stack of speakers that came in accompanying the computers we purchase - never deployed. I am purchasing inexpensive monitors, not broad bench displays (guess at cost, what? $2500 each?). M$FT is so wrong-directioned it is embarassing, pitiful, sad, quaint, ignorant, stupid, infuriating...
But they should be fired, really. Without question any version of that OS falls so far short in terms of elegance, engineering, and good sense, its questionable that it could find its ass with both hands and a flashlight.
The problem is this mail solution does not address calender interfacing - open mail, insight and even suSE mail server are close but still fall short of integrating calender and email...
You can't admin an exchange server... Even the developers who worked on it stodd back as it was first run and held their breath. The first comment reportedly was "God help us all it lives!"
DO NOT STAY - big mistake. IF they make an offer in writing hold it in hand, try the new job, and if for some reason you still want to go back to the old company, start negotiations fresh from that new offer they had made.
You've done all the work to find another place to work, why would you NOT move on? Chances are your career will be greatly enhanced by facing NEW and DIFFERENT problems in a different environment anyway.
ZDNet seems to think that a "stripped down machine running almost no services" is not "real world". Funny, I build my servers stripped down, no telnet no ftp, no r-anything, no NFS, etc - how is this not real world?
In two side by side production environments I have worked in, one with high end Sun hardware and Solaris and the other with RedHat on intel, Sun was far more unstable and required constant babying. The Linux boxes aren't nearly as exciting and don't ever seem to have that sense of spectacle that Solaris has managed when it fails. Must have been the cosmic rays were more intense on the CPUs in that other location half a mile away...
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Until I searched for information on them and found they are notorious for exactly this kind of behavior. They had the best price ever at the time on the Canon Digital Rebel, 220.00 cheaper than anyone else - BUT, I got lucky and decided not to risk it. Highly recommend B and H Photo - I've bought almost all of my camera equipment from them, plus an ipod - the prices are reasonable, and they are very very professional and courteous.
(1) buy the CD
(2) rip to ogg and mp3
(3) file the original CD safely
(4) burn copies of CDs for car, etc - original never leaves safe storage
I don't know how many car CD players have scratched and destroyed the CD going over bumps... Plus if someone steals 200 CDs and they are original that's alot of money down the drain, versus 28 cents per CDR
(5) use MP3 on ipod, or don't buy an ipod (or ogg hack on ipod (if ever available))
(6) refuse to follow any DRM by never purchasing music in that format
(7) buy ogg compatible players (iAudio is outstanding)
...with half-and-half. Think about it. Gooey, quick-hardening, crusty when dry. Took an hour and a half of quick and thorough work to return the keyboard (A SUN keyboard)to somewhat usable. And some keys still stuck for a month after.
...eye-candy. If you were looking for plot, serious acting, drama, great writing, etc - why would you be watching that movie anyway? But - for what it was (Halle Barry) - it was outstanding.
Pointless use of Flash, yes - but also inaccurate. I have a Canon 300D digital SLR - I love it. Depth of field depends entirely on lens aperture, or the f-stop setting - not on SLR vs. regular digital. An SLR does allow but not require way more control and fine-tuning of depth of field. If you set it at automatic, you have a very heavy, bulky snapshot camera with an expected wide depth of field. But if you want a particular result and are willing to invest in the knowledge of the tool, the SLR camera, this thing can get shots I couldn't touch with any regular SLR. Add a 100-300 zoom lens and I got portraits over the Thanksgiving weekend that had the older ladies in the family slipping me $20 to delete their picture... Sound like this guy had a bad experience with the tool and failed to care enough to learn to use it properly or just set it to auto and forget it.
And for me it was
control of exposure and focus and depth of field
image quality
interchangeable lenses!!!
attachment for a real flash unit
That sold me on it.
Not a very good article at all.
A VPN (or most likely multiple VPNs) is an additional service and should be viewed in that way rather than as a level of protection. It opens multiple long-distance holes into your network, creating potential vulnerabilities extending to the homes of your co-workers (and their teenage kids and their teenage kids's friends, etc). Rather than a solution to network security it creates a whole 'nother set of problems.
I don't think security has changed in its basics, rather the demands for services have changed how networks must compromise, as they have always had to, against those basics
The basics are (1) no services not needed on any server-level machine, strip off anything unneeded to the bones. (2) host-based firewall on every server, ideally on every host period. (3) strict default deny both incoming and outgoing perimeter firewalls (4) DMZ for any exposed services (5) monitor and scan both traffic and vulnerabilities (6) I know I'm paranoid... But am I paranoid enough? (7) If you must run Microsoft in any exposed application, isolate and proxy.
Stay away from a soft chewy center.
My company won't let me do it but in my opinion a sane network that wanted security would run nessus in destructive mode against all machines on the subnets continuously, creating a network darwinism that would allow only the correctly configured hosts to stay in place. But that's just me.
at least a Microsoft OS in mid-BSOD is secure as hell...
You think wrong. As a seasoned network admin I refuse to allow MS products to be accessed directly from the internet. Ever. This is company security policy. And common sense. Run nmap against any MS product and cringe at the crap open by default. Run nessus against it and watch it die...
They are difficult to administer in any sane manner, lacking just basic command line control and scripting.
And to address your sendmail and BIND security justification - I run postfix and tinyDNS - I have alternatives that I can use, where in MS land I am stuck with (Godhelpus) exchange/outlook/IE.
Think again.
it is just British self importance expanded to an ironic and self-parodying degree. Or maybe it just sucks.
reason to upgrade - iptables and stateful packet filtering, something truly missing from 2.2. A whole realm of restrictions can be added to filter at greater depth than with ipchains
And you in your wisdom have of course factored in the liability and overhead of tracking the LICENSE for that completely illegal copy you just burned of windows, yes?
actually the admin ratios I researched show the reverse trend - UNIX/Linux has broader scripting tools and network accessibility (server platform) allowing a good sysadmin to handle 50 (more if not an engineering environment). Automation of windows is close to nonexistent (headless servers? in windows? yeah right). Stability of the platform under time and load is also a factor, dropping the win2K server quanity to around 23. Slightly more than 2 to one. This was in production environs your mileage may vary but not by much.
another point is what the admins find they like - I personally dislike a graphic interface for managing servers period. And windows fails to provide a decent shell environment even with cygwin as a compromise. I have been aboe to leave work on time MANY times when the windows dudes are still struggling to recover an Exchange server and look like they will be present all night.
Corporations are NOT people in and of themselves and have no ethics. They are not NICE or KIND or GRATEFUL. Their memories of you ARE accounting records. Get cash. Charge a VERY LARGE fee, some thing that will be remembered. Never ever make the mistake of believing well of a company. Of an individual, yes, but never of a company. A company is a fictitious entity with no soul.
Worse yet - if you are expecting that because you operated out of the goodness of your heart and saved the day you will be rehired or gain some other favor - b**lsh*t. Your boss claimed it was his/her doing, that she/he could have called anyone. Second, from the viewpoint of the corporation, you obviously don't understand that what you do has value, so won't operate within the corporation aligning your self-interest with its own (probably why they canned your ass in the first place). You are one of those starry-eyed idiots who operate under the illusion of being a good person with ethics. God help you.
yeah, with Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer as Zoolander characters
abso-fucking-lutely. Definitely on a wire... This article reminds me of the Monsanto "House-of-the-Future" in Disneyland - concepts so off the mark they become embarassing in years to come, and eventually even nostalgic.
can these idiots ever be more out of touch? I have a stack of speakers that came in accompanying the computers we purchase - never deployed. I am purchasing inexpensive monitors, not broad bench displays (guess at cost, what? $2500 each?). M$FT is so wrong-directioned it is embarassing, pitiful, sad, quaint, ignorant, stupid, infuriating...
NO - SEEN to be doing something. Actually doing something would be:
a. dangerous
b. unheard of
c. a blatant violation of risk-avoidance
But they should be fired, really. Without question any version of that OS falls so far short in terms of elegance, engineering, and good sense, its questionable that it could find its ass with both hands and a flashlight.
The problem is this mail solution does not address calender interfacing - open mail, insight and even suSE mail server are close but still fall short of integrating calender and email...
All OSes suck - MSFT just sucks more...
You can't admin an exchange server... Even the developers who worked on it stodd back as it was first run and held their breath. The first comment reportedly was "God help us all it lives!"
absolutely. And while yer at it for even more glorious fun set up win2k server running an unpacthed IIS...
Oh wait - try Penna, Inna burnt down...
DO NOT STAY - big mistake. IF they make an offer in writing hold it in hand, try the new job, and if for some reason you still want to go back to the old company, start negotiations fresh from that new offer they had made.
You've done all the work to find another place to work, why would you NOT move on? Chances are your career will be greatly enhanced by facing NEW and DIFFERENT problems in a different environment anyway.
ZDNet seems to think that a "stripped down machine running almost no services" is not "real world". Funny, I build my servers stripped down, no telnet no ftp, no r-anything, no NFS, etc - how is this not real world?
Maybe in the 80's?
In two side by side production environments I have worked in, one with high end Sun hardware and Solaris and the other with RedHat on intel, Sun was far more unstable and required constant babying. The Linux boxes aren't nearly as exciting and don't ever seem to have that sense of spectacle that Solaris has managed when it fails. Must have been the cosmic rays were more intense on the CPUs in that other location half a mile away...