I went to a MS security seminar where he was the presenter. He did a really amazing job and cracked a lot of MS jokes. Showed the lack of security in MS products and where it really wasn't as big as it was hyped to be. He was a great presenter and a nice guy. Helped me with some questions. MS lost a good employee here.
You really can't count a Dell off the shelf price to anything. They have a 30% sale every week. If you search for a few months you can find 600 off 1200 coupons for 10 bucks on eBay. I've bought quite a few Dell desktops with monitors for $300 that were VERY nice machines (DVD burners etc). That price is very very high. For that price you might as well just buy a Macbook and get triboot. The Pentium M is last years generation. Why would you pay that price to get last years tech.
I think you're underestimating the quality of a desktop PC. I ran SETI and climateprediction.net for about 4 years straight on a dual G4 PowerMac. Ran like a champ. 100% CPU for months straight. Never had a problem. They can take abuse.
I'd love to switch back to ClimatePrediction.net, but they need a damn Intel Mac client. Until then I'm running SETI again and this Mac Mini is leaving my G5s in the dust (very odd).
I'm going to agree here. I'm currently sitting in the Resnet office of the dorms at Humboldt State University. I fix about 10 computers a night. Most nights I don't see a desktop. People don't buy them. This comes from a VERY untechie school in the middle of no where (Arcata, CA). I'd imagine schools where the students would tend to come from richer families (not a Cal State University, but a UC) would have even more laptops. It wasn't like this when I started working here, but every year there are fewer and fewer desktops. You can buy a pretty slick laptop for a grand now and if you wait for Dell to do insane deals you can walk away with a nice one for $600 (512mb centrino dvd burner 3 year warranty)
That was the big issue with the BART widgets. They had to stop using the exact bart maps off bart.gov. Once they drew their own and stopped using the BART logo it was fine.
I have a 68 year old ex-IBM employee with 2 PhDs from UC Berkeley and the guy is the worst teacher ever. He can't even teach introduction to programming. A trained monkey could do the job better than him. His education and career work is amazing, but he still doesn't know how to teach.
Their rep at Linux World said they were working with one of the mini HD vendors (I really can't remember which) and the vendor kept dragging their feet on when the drives would be available. They wanted to be able to launch the thing pronto they they released the flash based version and put off the HD version. There is a MMC card slot so you can expand the 512 with a gig card. The HD one should be out sometime soon though.
http://www.drewmeyer.net/gallery/kinetic2003
Here's some pictures from '03 of the Ferndale to Arcata California race. The best part is the local strip club owner dressed up as the evil bandit of the race. Apparently that's become a ritual.
Damn you beat me to it. I just flipped through the pictures and was thinking "Ours is so much better". I guess I need to just stay here all day and hit refresh so I don't miss out on quality posts like this.
What about that one culture that thinks it is ok to cut a part of a boys penis off with a knife. Remember that we do some really weird stuff too. Someone asked me if I wanted my penis hacked to bits. Cultural norm told my parents it was the thing to do.
First off I work for a CalFirst off I work for a California University Resnet and we're facing the exact issues you are at the moment and are putting together a few different systems to combat them.
You really want to let the students know about AVG virus software by Grisoft (grisoft.com). It's free, runs 9X,2k,and XP, uses a low amount of resources and it finds more than Norton usually does. They generally update their defs once a day and defs are pulled from Akamai servers so it's quite speedy. A good one time scanner that finds a lot of tricky Trojans is Housecall by Trend Micro. (housecall.trendmicro.com)
Then since everyone doesn't listen to your advice you want to find people that have viruses. We setup a Linux box running Snort (rules based intrusion detection), MySQL (to dump log data to), BASE or Aanval (log analysis off MySQL data), and Oinkmaster to grab the official snort.org and bleedingsnort.org rules once daily. The system works fairly well and alerts us when user machines are scanning the network.
VLANs. People will get infected and you won't be able to disconnect them immediately so slow the spread by dumping users into VLANs. We will be putting each of our buildings into its own VLAN next semester. You get a virus; you infect your buddies and that's it.
NetReg. NetReg is a user registration system that lets you better track down virus infected machines. It's based off DHCPD and BIND. Basically a student who plugs in for the first time gets a bogus non-routable address with a name server that redirects to your NetReg server. The user registers their computer based off LDAP or SMTP data and their MAC address to user association is stored in an Oracle or PostgreSQL database. This is a great time to force students to read your policies and inform them of Virus / Spyware tools. Once the user registers they are from then on given a valid DHCP address. If the user becomes infected with a virus later on you can put them in a group that informs them they've been infected, and only allows them to surf to websites you choose (like virus companies or windowsupdate.com). We haven't set this server up (it's actually my internship for this summer), but a lot of schools are using it with great success.
Tools Windows Fun: Microsoft Anti-Spyware Adaware Spybot Housecall.trendmicr o.com HiJackThis WinSockXP Fix
There's a ton more things you could do, but it's hard to recommend without knowing what type of switching equipment you have. I hope this helps.
http://www.marininstitute.org/alcohol_policy/kegs. htm
http://albany.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/2003/ 06/23/daily24.html
http://www.news-star.com/stories/102603/New_76.sht ml
There's 3 states. I'm sure there's a lot more.
Amory Lovins has an amazing book called Natural Capitalism that explains how you can save millions by saving the environment. He has a company, The Rocky Mountain Institute, and does work with major chemical and manufacturing companies to shave hundreds of millions while saving electricity and resources. Wasting is not good for the environment or your bottom line.
Novell actually gave out a 4 DVD set with all this server software on it and a DVD of Pro 9.1. It was my first SuSE exposure, but unfortunately the damn thing constantly overheated my laptop. I'm looking forward to the new power management features.
According to CNet
"With 46.6 million subscribers, Japan-based DoCoMo is both the world's largest cell phone provider and a breeding ground for new services that find their way into markets worldwide."
That's what the whole compatibility security policy was for. It was kinda like making a normal user and power user / admin, but without all that admin horrribleness. You can build a custom policy and tweak registry access as well.
Step 1: Stop subsidizing nuclear energy to the toll of several billion a year
Step 2: Take that several billion and mail everyone back a flourescent light bulb with their tax rebate.
Step 3: Watch as that saves you enough energy to turn off several power plants.
So what do you tell the people in Africa at the moment when Monsanto knocks on their doors and tells them to rip out their crops as they're patented. It's already happened and something tells me those people starved.
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It's called KnoppMyth
http://www.mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html
This is a beautifully weird idea. It serves no real purpose except to have some fun and see what happens.
I went to a MS security seminar where he was the presenter. He did a really amazing job and cracked a lot of MS jokes. Showed the lack of security in MS products and where it really wasn't as big as it was hyped to be. He was a great presenter and a nice guy. Helped me with some questions. MS lost a good employee here.
You really can't count a Dell off the shelf price to anything. They have a 30% sale every week. If you search for a few months you can find 600 off 1200 coupons for 10 bucks on eBay. I've bought quite a few Dell desktops with monitors for $300 that were VERY nice machines (DVD burners etc). That price is very very high. For that price you might as well just buy a Macbook and get triboot. The Pentium M is last years generation. Why would you pay that price to get last years tech.
I think you're underestimating the quality of a desktop PC. I ran SETI and climateprediction.net for about 4 years straight on a dual G4 PowerMac. Ran like a champ. 100% CPU for months straight. Never had a problem. They can take abuse.
I'd love to switch back to ClimatePrediction.net, but they need a damn Intel Mac client. Until then I'm running SETI again and this Mac Mini is leaving my G5s in the dust (very odd).
I would guess it's Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service http://www.answers.com/topic/multichannel-multipoi nt-distribution-service
I'm going to agree here. I'm currently sitting in the Resnet office of the dorms at Humboldt State University. I fix about 10 computers a night. Most nights I don't see a desktop. People don't buy them. This comes from a VERY untechie school in the middle of no where (Arcata, CA). I'd imagine schools where the students would tend to come from richer families (not a Cal State University, but a UC) would have even more laptops. It wasn't like this when I started working here, but every year there are fewer and fewer desktops. You can buy a pretty slick laptop for a grand now and if you wait for Dell to do insane deals you can walk away with a nice one for $600 (512mb centrino dvd burner 3 year warranty)
That was the big issue with the BART widgets. They had to stop using the exact bart maps off bart.gov. Once they drew their own and stopped using the BART logo it was fine.
I have a 68 year old ex-IBM employee with 2 PhDs from UC Berkeley and the guy is the worst teacher ever. He can't even teach introduction to programming. A trained monkey could do the job better than him. His education and career work is amazing, but he still doesn't know how to teach.
Their rep at Linux World said they were working with one of the mini HD vendors (I really can't remember which) and the vendor kept dragging their feet on when the drives would be available. They wanted to be able to launch the thing pronto they they released the flash based version and put off the HD version. There is a MMC card slot so you can expand the 512 with a gig card. The HD one should be out sometime soon though.
http://www.drewmeyer.net/gallery/kinetic2003 Here's some pictures from '03 of the Ferndale to Arcata California race. The best part is the local strip club owner dressed up as the evil bandit of the race. Apparently that's become a ritual.
Damn you beat me to it. I just flipped through the pictures and was thinking "Ours is so much better". I guess I need to just stay here all day and hit refresh so I don't miss out on quality posts like this.
What about that one culture that thinks it is ok to cut a part of a boys penis off with a knife. Remember that we do some really weird stuff too. Someone asked me if I wanted my penis hacked to bits. Cultural norm told my parents it was the thing to do.
First off I work for a CalFirst off I work for a California University Resnet and we're facing the exact issues you are at the moment and are putting together a few different systems to combat them.
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You really want to let the students know about AVG virus software by Grisoft (grisoft.com). It's free, runs 9X,2k,and XP, uses a low amount of resources and it finds more than Norton usually does. They generally update their defs once a day and defs are pulled from Akamai servers so it's quite speedy. A good one time scanner that finds a lot of tricky Trojans is Housecall by Trend Micro. (housecall.trendmicro.com)
Then since everyone doesn't listen to your advice you want to find people that have viruses. We setup a Linux box running Snort (rules based intrusion detection), MySQL (to dump log data to), BASE or Aanval (log analysis off MySQL data), and Oinkmaster to grab the official snort.org and bleedingsnort.org rules once daily. The system works fairly well and alerts us when user machines are scanning the network.
VLANs. People will get infected and you won't be able to disconnect them immediately so slow the spread by dumping users into VLANs. We will be putting each of our buildings into its own VLAN next semester. You get a virus; you infect your buddies and that's it.
NetReg. NetReg is a user registration system that lets you better track down virus infected machines. It's based off DHCPD and BIND. Basically a student who plugs in for the first time gets a bogus non-routable address with a name server that redirects to your NetReg server. The user registers their computer based off LDAP or SMTP data and their MAC address to user association is stored in an Oracle or PostgreSQL database. This is a great time to force students to read your policies and inform them of Virus / Spyware tools. Once the user registers they are from then on given a valid DHCP address. If the user becomes infected with a virus later on you can put them in a group that informs them they've been infected, and only allows them to surf to websites you choose (like virus companies or windowsupdate.com). We haven't set this server up (it's actually my internship for this summer), but a lot of schools are using it with great success.
Tools Windows Fun:
Microsoft Anti-Spyware
Adaware
Spybot
Housecall.trendmic
HiJackThis
WinSockXP Fix
There's a ton more things you could do, but it's hard to recommend without knowing what type of switching equipment you have. I hope this helps.
Mine is NETSTUMBLER with WEP and Mac filtering. I figure someone is cracking up out there when they drive by my house.
http://www.marininstitute.org/alcohol_policy/kegs. htm
http://albany.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/2003/ 06/23/daily24.html
http://www.news-star.com/stories/102603/New_76.sht ml
There's 3 states. I'm sure there's a lot more.
Amory Lovins has an amazing book called Natural Capitalism that explains how you can save millions by saving the environment. He has a company, The Rocky Mountain Institute, and does work with major chemical and manufacturing companies to shave hundreds of millions while saving electricity and resources. Wasting is not good for the environment or your bottom line.
http://maps.grida.no/kyoto/ Go see how much total and per capita China and India are producing compared to the US, Russia, and Australia.
Novell actually gave out a 4 DVD set with all this server software on it and a DVD of Pro 9.1. It was my first SuSE exposure, but unfortunately the damn thing constantly overheated my laptop. I'm looking forward to the new power management features.
According to CNet "With 46.6 million subscribers, Japan-based DoCoMo is both the world's largest cell phone provider and a breeding ground for new services that find their way into markets worldwide."
That's what the whole compatibility security policy was for. It was kinda like making a normal user and power user / admin, but without all that admin horrribleness. You can build a custom policy and tweak registry access as well.
Step 1: Stop subsidizing nuclear energy to the toll of several billion a year Step 2: Take that several billion and mail everyone back a flourescent light bulb with their tax rebate. Step 3: Watch as that saves you enough energy to turn off several power plants.
So what do you tell the people in Africa at the moment when Monsanto knocks on their doors and tells them to rip out their crops as they're patented. It's already happened and something tells me those people starved.
It will only be used for the local elections in SF. It take some national level change to allow for the system in the presidential elections.