What about RPC over HTTPS, we just set that up for a large remote office and it works great. We just needed to change 1 part of their Outlook account to use the new Exchange server. The main cost would be getting the SSL cert and say some frontend Exchange head servers (which can support clustering), I'm a fan of OSS projects but if it's for 6k+ users are you willing to deal with any support problems yourself or groups that already do support the currently infrastructure?
If you already have Exchange it might be worth looking at. Also, if they're all already using a VPN I'm assuming they have Outlook installed? If so this would be a really simple change with supporting them from what they already use.
Our hardware infrastructure includes 2 load-balancers running in a failover system with 3 web servers in the backend (1.8ghz, 512ram, 40gig hdd, 100mbps network) systems. That hosts over 60 million page views a month, it also supports real-time failover. For monitoring there are tools out there that use MRTG/RRD for cluster statistics.
So, now that Windows 64-bit is out why don't they make some products that would actually work on it?
As you can see from here there's no real plan to have a 64-bit version of Exchange, yet would this not be a perfect solution to use it with?
Important
Exchange 2003 is supported on 32-bit operating systems and hardware. Exchange 2003 is not supported on 64-bit operating systems, 64-bit hardware, or 32-bit emulators running on 64-bit operating systems.
Personally I've used an array of the free monitoring tools and find most of them be decent. For larger sized monitoring you'd want something that can have the clients push data to the monitoring systems so they do far less work.
You're much more likely to have your identity stolen offline (72% of the cases).
Well, 28% is still ALOT for identity theft. I'd still be careful of what you do on the internet that involves personal data.
Also, it's it kinda ironic that the top thread right now had one of those "Click for a free Mac Mini" sigs which are one of the main portals for this kind of stuff.
I currently work as a full time system administrator.
I give back by working on some open source projects like mon.cgi (which I currently maintain). Indirectly it helps my work because we use it in my work environment and the work done is free and not owned by my company.
Also, I help out at Experts Exchange at times when I've got the time.
.. that with LCD's the viewable range is larger then the equivilant CRT. I just picked up a Samsung 172X screen which about equal to an 18'.
I game a decent amount and I must say for my LCD which is 12ms I don't have any problems with ghosting. Also, I find it's significatly easier on my eyes when I'm looking at it. I'll never be able to go back to a CRT now.
Also, most LCD's only support up to 1280x1024. You'll have to spend big bucks to get higher resolutions.
Um, from the post it mentions that GTA was only popular since GTA3, I'd have to differ. I've been playing the series since it was first avaiable for the PC back around 98.
Here's the quote I'm taling about: "GTA: San Andreas is the latest in a series of Grand Theft Auto games that only became popular when GTA 3 came out for Playstation 2."
Also, here's the link to download GTA1, it's a classic game over at Rockstar now!
GTA1 Download.
The Black Diamond 10808 would work great for the type of envrionment you have setup from the sounds of it. Also, Extreme is usually 20-40% cheaper then Cisco and Foundry for the equivilant appliance.
We currently use an Alpine 3808 with 192 100mbps ports and it's never had a problem with uptime and configuration is a simple and straightforward.
Well, this looks like the end for Mortal Combat as well then. I haven't played it since #2 but it was still an amazing game for the time and one of my personal favorites.
Um, did Google just not start Gmail not that long ago for a communication using their systems? Also, it's in beta, they'd probally wait till that launches and sees what kind of a reaction they'll get to it before they build an infrastructure for IM'ing.
I personally rarely use IM compared to my email and with me using a Gmail account it's even easier. I have all of my accounts forwarding over too it for a central portal.
IM is a hard market to make ground in. Most people are picky about what network they're on (MSN, AIM, ICQ).
In my office I'm going to wait and see how other rollouts happen on patchmanagement.org.
When SP4 came out for Win2k we waited about a month before we pushed it out to the office workstations. Then we manually did our Windows servers.
With SP2 having so many problems with software security I'm going to wait at least a month before we roll it out here via GPO.
I've played with RC2 which had no problems on our test system but it was great too see the improved Admin Templates in the GPO's for firewalls and general system security for Windows.
We use a generation tool to create our passwords from "/usr/dict/words". It breaks passwords down to 3 word chunks (from 3 to 4 characters) with random characters between them. This makes passwords from 11 - 14 characters which is more then safe for user accounts.
When they want to change we have another tool that works based on some of those rules so users can just reset their password to password.
Getting in to a well rounded sleep pattern is a smart idea. Make sure that you don't oversleep either that can cause problems for getting back to sleep that night if you slept till 10am instead of say getting up at 7-8am (I'm thinking of a weekend here).
I usually like to get a short amount of sleep on a Saturday night so for Sunday night I usually get tired around 9pm and will be in bed and asleep by 10:30 and sleep till 6:30am, which is perfect for allow myself to function.
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What about RPC over HTTPS, we just set that up for a large remote office and it works great. We just needed to change 1 part of their Outlook account to use the new Exchange server. The main cost would be getting the SSL cert and say some frontend Exchange head servers (which can support clustering), I'm a fan of OSS projects but if it's for 6k+ users are you willing to deal with any support problems yourself or groups that already do support the currently infrastructure?
If you already have Exchange it might be worth looking at. Also, if they're all already using a VPN I'm assuming they have Outlook installed? If so this would be a really simple change with supporting them from what they already use.
At my work we use Ultramonkey with LVS-kiss and Mon.
Our hardware infrastructure includes 2 load-balancers running in a failover system with 3 web servers in the backend (1.8ghz, 512ram, 40gig hdd, 100mbps network) systems. That hosts over 60 million page views a month, it also supports real-time failover. For monitoring there are tools out there that use MRTG/RRD for cluster statistics.
So, now that Windows 64-bit is out why don't they make some products that would actually work on it?
As you can see from here there's no real plan to have a 64-bit version of Exchange, yet would this not be a perfect solution to use it with?
Important
Exchange 2003 is supported on 32-bit operating systems and hardware. Exchange 2003 is not supported on 64-bit operating systems, 64-bit hardware, or 32-bit emulators running on 64-bit operating systems.
Here's the link here.
Here's a couple of the monitoring solutions:
Opennms
Mon
Big Brother
For system information polling I'd go with:
Cacti hands down this is the best polling system out there and it's simple to setup and run.
Here is a perfect example of shotting someone's eye out:
Here.
You're much more likely to have your identity stolen offline (72% of the cases).
Well, 28% is still ALOT for identity theft. I'd still be careful of what you do on the internet that involves personal data.
Also, it's it kinda ironic that the top thread right now had one of those "Click for a free Mac Mini" sigs which are one of the main portals for this kind of stuff.
RoTK also was released in theaters on the same day. It was a great day all round.
So, if you can't remove it via 3rd party tool why can it be installed without the users knowledge, or even be un-installed by Gator itself?
I currently work as a full time system administrator.
I give back by working on some open source projects like mon.cgi (which I currently maintain). Indirectly it helps my work because we use it in my work environment and the work done is free and not owned by my company.
Also, I help out at Experts Exchange at times when I've got the time.
.. that with LCD's the viewable range is larger then the equivilant CRT. I just picked up a Samsung 172X screen which about equal to an 18'.
I game a decent amount and I must say for my LCD which is 12ms I don't have any problems with ghosting. Also, I find it's significatly easier on my eyes when I'm looking at it. I'll never be able to go back to a CRT now.
Also, most LCD's only support up to 1280x1024. You'll have to spend big bucks to get higher resolutions.
Um, from the post it mentions that GTA was only popular since GTA3, I'd have to differ. I've been playing the series since it was first avaiable for the PC back around 98.
Here's the quote I'm taling about: "GTA: San Andreas is the latest in a series of Grand Theft Auto games that only became popular when GTA 3 came out for Playstation 2."
Also, here's the link to download GTA1, it's a classic game over at Rockstar now!
GTA1 Download.
Developers from Netscape started LDAP. From the looks of the Directory Server it does.
Here's the feature guide for Directory Server 6.21.
Well, here's the cache'd version from google.
Here.
Well, the CBC is doing one on one interviews with Gary Bettman and Bob Goodenow about the lockout. So you can give them a piece of your mind.
You can submit a question here: here
Go to http://beta.microsoft.com, login with your passport account.
:)
The guest id is mshPDC.
Go nuts.
Extreme Networks has a great line of switches.
The Black Diamond 10808 would work great for the type of envrionment you have setup from the sounds of it. Also, Extreme is usually 20-40% cheaper then Cisco and Foundry for the equivilant appliance.
We currently use an Alpine 3808 with 192 100mbps ports and it's never had a problem with uptime and configuration is a simple and straightforward.
Okay, politics is fine but what's with the American theme, there are readers from other countries who read /. that most likely do care about politics.
Just my 0.02.
Wow,
Well, this looks like the end for Mortal Combat as well then. I haven't played it since #2 but it was still an amazing game for the time and one of my personal favorites.
Um, did Google just not start Gmail not that long ago for a communication using their systems? Also, it's in beta, they'd probally wait till that launches and sees what kind of a reaction they'll get to it before they build an infrastructure for IM'ing.
I personally rarely use IM compared to my email and with me using a Gmail account it's even easier. I have all of my accounts forwarding over too it for a central portal.
IM is a hard market to make ground in. Most people are picky about what network they're on (MSN, AIM, ICQ).
Well, it may also be from cars (Thunderbird - Ford, Firebird - Pontiac, Sunbird - Pontiac). Which have all seemed to past their glory days.
In my office I'm going to wait and see how other rollouts happen on patchmanagement.org.
When SP4 came out for Win2k we waited about a month before we pushed it out to the office workstations. Then we manually did our Windows servers.
With SP2 having so many problems with software security I'm going to wait at least a month before we roll it out here via GPO.
I've played with RC2 which had no problems on our test system but it was great too see the improved Admin Templates in the GPO's for firewalls and general system security for Windows.
Oh, I missed the funny part...
:)
You'd be amazed how many times the word "orgy" comes up for our list of passwords.
We usually don't set new employee passwords with simlar words in it, we'll just re-generate a new one.
We use a generation tool to create our passwords from "/usr/dict/words". It breaks passwords down to 3 word chunks (from 3 to 4 characters) with random characters between them. This makes passwords from 11 - 14 characters which is more then safe for user accounts.
When they want to change we have another tool that works based on some of those rules so users can just reset their password to password.
Well,
Windows XP did come out back in 2001, so it's still relivate to the latest kernel/OS for MS.
Mind you, service pack 1 has come out since then so things may be different.
Getting in to a well rounded sleep pattern is a smart idea. Make sure that you don't oversleep either that can cause problems for getting back to sleep that night if you slept till 10am instead of say getting up at 7-8am (I'm thinking of a weekend here).
I usually like to get a short amount of sleep on a Saturday night so for Sunday night I usually get tired around 9pm and will be in bed and asleep by 10:30 and sleep till 6:30am, which is perfect for allow myself to function.