OK, so this seems like a good idea - but what can we do with it? Having that kind of speed is great, but only if you have infrastructure that can serve you data that fast. We're a long way from anywhere and have only a limited amount of fibre connections to other countries (where I imagine most data will come from), this is reflected in the silly high prices we pay for data already.
So whilst it's great that we will have these kinds of speeds, how are we going to get data services fast enough to take advantage of them?
Please, learn to spell Aussie before telling us how we should pronounce things. Oh, and if anyone was pronouncing 'Cab Sav' as 'kepsev' it's most likely you were in South Africa, rather than Australia.
We make some of the worlds best red wines, we are quite comfortable with our pronunciation.
Totally agree, I know this is/. and we hate windows - but it's similar to the way WSUS works - and since the introduction of WSUS I haven't given this question a second thought.
You can set up different boxes to get updates on different schedules so the pilot boxes always get them first, then production boxes over a few days in a rolling pattern.
I think it's the interpretation the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
They're not stopping anyone from assembling peaceably, and they're not stopping anyone from petitioning the government. If these kids tried to petition the government to fix the system and a law was passed to prevent them then this would be a violation. However the government is preventing a party from addressing the assembly on a sensitive issue. I don't beleive this is covered in the above
Not saying I agree with stopping the presentation, but the right of free speech is really about petitioning the government over greivances, not saying whatever you want.
If read and understood by a sane serial killer (assuming these things exist). Could they then pattern their kills around a location other than where they live? Hence leading police to profile the wrong location based upon these kind of patterns?
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While it's not strictly related to IT, I can spend a whole week doing any number of things that are really useful in the long-term to the business from an IT perspective. Or I can do something that will make the boss happy. Like a flashy widget on the intranet or a set of graphs that prove nothing.
One gets me a better bonus and the favour of all those above me. One makes me a good tech.
What's the norm here? Balance I guess, depends on the job. This year I'm going to spend a lot more time on the latter. Hopefully get the bonus and pay off the mortgage - most people trade ethics for a mortgage eventually.
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We use a self-signed CA, but being a corporate MS shop we force our CA's certs out as trusted through AD, so there's no difference between certs signed by our CA and certs signed by someone else.
For me, it's brilliant. I can certify whatever I need to without having to cough up each time. It's only useful for internal users though. Obviously no good for public sites.
Hey, great idea. I'll bet everyone in China, Africa and the oppressive parts of the middle east have this kind of technology.
Next time I'm in China I'll get everyone to buy themselves some american-owned sat-phone and usb wifi through a satellite dish uplink to their GWB approved anti-terrrrrist network.
You'd be amazed how commomn that technology is on a $4/day salary.
It's already happening. I don't know why the media hasn't picked up on it. I've got friends at a major UK corporation. Some time back they were all outsourced to IBM. Now they're being flown to Bangalore to show people there how to do their jobs. Once they've handed their own jobs to these people they then get moved to 'project teams'.
Will be interesting to see how many redunancies are made without ever suggesting that the jobs have been moved to India.
I don't suppose someone could port this to windows could they? There's not a lot of decent tools for non-security-expert admins and windows could do with something like this (not meant as an anti-windows troll).
Unfortunately too many corporate windows admins have so many pressures on their time that security of every server isn't always given the time it needs it sounds like this could provide a framework for that security.
You can set that through the user group policy to deny them access (rather than machine policy - meaning you can still log in as an admin to do the updates if you want to test some).
The way I've set it up is that when updates are approved they are automatically installed at a pre-set time. Then a box is popped up for the user saying 'updates installed. Do you want to reboot', with a Yes/No option. No is greyed out. Which sounds mean, but it gives people time to save their work and reboot.
If the average users tries to update manually from windowsupdate.com they get a message from the website saying that updating has been disabled:)
Thats why clever administrators will be using MS SUS Server. A free MS product that lets administrators choose when patches get pushed out.
Setup correctly with group policy you can prevent users from running windows update and installing updates themselves. Which is essential with XP SP2 as I look after around a thousand desktops and SP2 has been NOTHING but trouble in all our testing so far.
Bill Thompson is the Beebs geeky, slashdotty type technology editor. His articles are not representitive of BBC corporate policy, as the headline seems to imply.
Sure, I work with a smart card deployment. The idea is that two factor is something you have (the card) and something you know (the pin). There's a PKI backend that makes it all run The problem is that it's bloody awful. IT's a nightmare to implement and administer. While the card works great to log into windows nothing else integrates properly. The consultants (cough, sales people) told us it would give us single-sign-on Nirvana but our email client, SAP, and various other implications don't want to behave with it. Unless you use various band aids and work-arounds
My thought is that 2-factor will only really take off if MS implement it as standard - however then it will only work if you do it MS's way using software approved / created by them. Everyone that doesn't want to play MS's game will find corporate customers ignoring them for something that plays the MS 2Factor game.
sorry, i may have not have understood your post.
and the lowest quality of life in the world. What do you mean by that ? I've never been to the US (i assume thats whom you mean by Us) but 'lowest quality of life in the world' ? compared to say... burkina faso or cambodia (sorry, no disrespect to readers from these countries meant) i'd say the quality of life is nothing short of nirvana.
How do you decide what's child porn and whats good old regular normal porn Ok, if we're talking about pre-teens and the like then it's obvious - but how do you know for sure if someone is older than the appropriate age for the legal jurisdiction in which the download takes place? Given the wonders of make up and photography and different countries/states may decide that 16 / 18 / 21 is considered under age.
ahh yes. I see what you mean, re-reading.. Good question. Maybe a legal wording technicality. Possibly ( and I really no idea ), the conspiracy to perform the act in the future is easy to prove and a bigger crime than the small number of actual 'acts' that they can prove. IE, they can prove the supplied a limited number of copyright materials. Thats a slap-on-the-wrist punishment. However they 'conspired' to supply millions of dollars worth. Which is going to be a much better result for the prosecutors.
A conspiracy is a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act or a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act . You don't have to actually perform the act to be convicted. In many cases just planning to do something is against the law. Especially these days where having a map of a government building and a few pounds of fertaliser in the shed means you're conspiring to commit acts of terrorism. For which you'll definately do some hard time.
Why promote a standard that encourages MS lockin?? Because MS own most of the desktop market. Yeah, an NDS implementation would be great - but who's going to use it? Samba is open source - want an NDS fork? Go nuts. Write your own. Why? Why is the bad question in open source. You didn't write it. You don't get to ask 'why'. You only get to use it, or do your own, something different. I, for one, would support your open fork of this.
OK, I know it's popular to bash MS here, but precisely what is the the horror that is AD on XP? Like MS or not if you've got x thousand users needing shared file/print resources across multiple servers / sites then AD with XP does a pretty reasonable job. It's easy to administer, easy for users to understand and the flexibility of clever combinations of site / ou / group based policies give a level of intuitive usability that very little else will provide.
Bash MS all you like. I dont like alot of their stuff either, just give some evidence for the stuff you dislike and admit to the stuff they do well.
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Can confirm, if they're MS machines in a domain with active directory this is free and simple.
That is an excellent answer, thank you.
OK, so this seems like a good idea - but what can we do with it? Having that kind of speed is great, but only if you have infrastructure that can serve you data that fast. We're a long way from anywhere and have only a limited amount of fibre connections to other countries (where I imagine most data will come from), this is reflected in the silly high prices we pay for data already.
So whilst it's great that we will have these kinds of speeds, how are we going to get data services fast enough to take advantage of them?
Please, learn to spell Aussie before telling us how we should pronounce things. Oh, and if anyone was pronouncing 'Cab Sav' as 'kepsev' it's most likely you were in South Africa, rather than Australia.
We make some of the worlds best red wines, we are quite comfortable with our pronunciation.
Totally agree, I know this is /. and we hate windows - but it's similar to the way WSUS works - and since the introduction of WSUS I haven't given this question a second thought.
You can set up different boxes to get updates on different schedules so the pilot boxes always get them first, then production boxes over a few days in a rolling pattern.
Somebody with file/print servers.
I think it's the interpretation
the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
They're not stopping anyone from assembling peaceably, and they're not stopping anyone from petitioning the government.
If these kids tried to petition the government to fix the system and a law was passed to prevent them then this would be a violation. However the government is preventing a party from addressing the assembly on a sensitive issue. I don't beleive this is covered in the above
Not saying I agree with stopping the presentation, but the right of free speech is really about petitioning the government over greivances, not saying whatever you want.
If read and understood by a sane serial killer (assuming these things exist). Could they then pattern their kills around a location other than where they live? Hence leading police to profile the wrong location based upon these kind of patterns?
While it's not strictly related to IT, I can spend a whole week doing any number of things that are really useful in the long-term to the business from an IT perspective. Or I can do something that will make the boss happy. Like a flashy widget on the intranet or a set of graphs that prove nothing. One gets me a better bonus and the favour of all those above me. One makes me a good tech. What's the norm here? Balance I guess, depends on the job. This year I'm going to spend a lot more time on the latter. Hopefully get the bonus and pay off the mortgage - most people trade ethics for a mortgage eventually.
We use a self-signed CA, but being a corporate MS shop we force our CA's certs out as trusted through AD, so there's no difference between certs signed by our CA and certs signed by someone else. For me, it's brilliant. I can certify whatever I need to without having to cough up each time. It's only useful for internal users though. Obviously no good for public sites.
Hey, great idea. I'll bet everyone in China, Africa and the oppressive parts of the middle east have this kind of technology.
Next time I'm in China I'll get everyone to buy themselves some american-owned sat-phone and usb wifi through a satellite dish uplink to their GWB approved anti-terrrrrist network.
You'd be amazed how commomn that technology is on a $4/day salary.
It's already happening. I don't know why the media hasn't picked up on it. I've got friends at a major UK corporation. Some time back they were all outsourced to IBM. Now they're being flown to Bangalore to show people there how to do their jobs.
Once they've handed their own jobs to these people they then get moved to 'project teams'.
Will be interesting to see how many redunancies are made without ever suggesting that the jobs have been moved to India.
I don't suppose someone could port this to windows could they?
There's not a lot of decent tools for non-security-expert admins and windows could do with something like this (not meant as an anti-windows troll).
Unfortunately too many corporate windows admins have so many pressures on their time that security of every server isn't always given the time it needs it sounds like this could provide a framework for that security.
You can set that through the user group policy to deny them access (rather than machine policy - meaning you can still log in as an admin to do the updates if you want to test some).
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The way I've set it up is that when updates are approved they are automatically installed at a pre-set time. Then a box is popped up for the user saying 'updates installed. Do you want to reboot', with a Yes/No option. No is greyed out. Which sounds mean, but it gives people time to save their work and reboot.
If the average users tries to update manually from windowsupdate.com they get a message from the website saying that updating has been disabled
Thats why clever administrators will be using MS SUS Server. A free MS product that lets administrators choose when patches get pushed out.
Setup correctly with group policy you can prevent users from running windows update and installing updates themselves.
Which is essential with XP SP2 as I look after around a thousand desktops and SP2 has been NOTHING but trouble in all our testing so far.
BBC on DRM and Trusted Computing
Bill Thompson is the Beebs geeky, slashdotty type technology editor. His articles are not representitive of BBC corporate policy, as the headline seems to imply.
Sure, I work with a smart card deployment. The idea is that two factor is something you have (the card) and something you know (the pin). There's a PKI backend that makes it all run
The problem is that it's bloody awful. IT's a nightmare to implement and administer. While the card works great to log into windows nothing else integrates properly. The consultants (cough, sales people) told us it would give us single-sign-on Nirvana but our email client, SAP, and various other implications don't want to behave with it. Unless you use various band aids and work-arounds
My thought is that 2-factor will only really take off if MS implement it as standard - however then it will only work if you do it MS's way using software approved / created by them. Everyone that doesn't want to play MS's game will find corporate customers ignoring them for something that plays the MS 2Factor game.
sorry, i may have not have understood your post.
and the lowest quality of life in the world.
What do you mean by that ? I've never been to the US (i assume thats whom you mean by Us) but 'lowest quality of life in the world' ?
compared to say... burkina faso or cambodia (sorry, no disrespect to readers from these countries meant) i'd say the quality of life is nothing short of nirvana.
How do you decide what's child porn and whats good old regular normal porn
Ok, if we're talking about pre-teens and the like then it's obvious - but how do you know for sure if someone is older than the appropriate age for the legal jurisdiction in which the download takes place?
Given the wonders of make up and photography and different countries/states may decide that 16 / 18 / 21 is considered under age.
I've got a 6 month old. If they had Stewey branded Diapers that would be all she'd wear.
Stewey branded diapers? That'd be so cool I'd wear em !
ahh yes. I see what you mean, re-reading..
Good question. Maybe a legal wording technicality. Possibly ( and I really no idea ), the conspiracy to perform the act in the future is easy to prove and a bigger crime than the small number of actual 'acts' that they can prove. IE, they can prove the supplied a limited number of copyright materials. Thats a slap-on-the-wrist punishment. However they 'conspired' to supply millions of dollars worth. Which is going to be a much better result for the prosecutors.
A conspiracy is a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act or a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act . You don't have to actually perform the act to be convicted. In many cases just planning to do something is against the law. Especially these days where having a map of a government building and a few pounds of fertaliser in the shed means you're conspiring to commit acts of terrorism. For which you'll definately do some hard time.
yeah, but they're trying to can the only spam that I actually like!
Why promote a standard that encourages MS lockin??
Because MS own most of the desktop market. Yeah, an NDS implementation would be great - but who's going to use it?
Samba is open source - want an NDS fork? Go nuts. Write your own.
Why? Why is the bad question in open source. You didn't write it. You don't get to ask 'why'. You only get to use it, or do your own, something different.
I, for one, would support your open fork of this.
OK, I know it's popular to bash MS here, but precisely what is the the horror that is AD on XP? Like MS or not if you've got x thousand users needing shared file/print resources across multiple servers / sites then AD with XP does a pretty reasonable job. It's easy to administer, easy for users to understand and the flexibility of clever combinations of site / ou / group based policies give a level of intuitive usability that very little else will provide.
Bash MS all you like. I dont like alot of their stuff either, just give some evidence for the stuff you dislike and admit to the stuff they do well.