Great idea!...except for the fact that it's overly complicated and relies on end-user cooperation. There are a number of at-boot hard drive encryption suites that are (a) cheaper than external drives, (b) don't rely on end-user participation and cooperation, and (c) address the fact that your swap and cache information may be full of useful data, and you leave it unencrypted.
I work as the senior engineer for the desktop engineering department of a large west-coast healthcare organization with over 20,000 PCs.
Not only do we encrypt EVERY laptop, regardless of if we think it contains PHI; theft of desktop equipment has prompted us to encrypt EVERY desktop, regardless of if we think it may contain PHI. We also encrypt and monitor every PDA (including phones with sync).
The software: Millions of dollars. Support: Millions of dollars. Not being sued in California for losing PHI: Priceless.
A single registry value holds what GINA to execute. If the registry value is blank, it executes MSGINA (the Microsoft default).
If you replace the GINA with a 3rd-party program (VPN, Wireless, Encryption, et cetera), then the 3rd-party is responsible for either (a) completely handling the logon, or (b) passing control to MSGINA when it is finished executing.
As a rule, this happens by your 3rd-party GINA keeping a value of its own (in the registry or INI) of what the previous GINA was. That way, if you install a new GINA, when it finishes executing, it calls whatever GINA *used* to be in the default registry location.
First you have MSGINA. You install ENCRYPT-GINA. ENCRYPT-GINA executes and calls MSGINA.
Then you install VPN-GINA. VPN-GINA sees ENCRYPT-GINA as the GINA to execute when complete. VPN-GINA executes and calls ENCRYPT-GINA ENCRYPT-GINA keps its own value for what to call next and calls MSGINA.
Add all the GINAs you want.
It's true that *some* GINAs don't play nicely, or won't always execute if a certain GINA has executed before it (or comes after it) - but for the most part it works.
The only REAL problem is when a GINA is stupid enough to place itself incorrectly in the chain -- which can leave a machine executing GINAs in a loop...and Windows is smart enough to restore MSGINA when that happens anyway.
Is LinuxUpdate.linux.com going to send this out on Tuesday automatically and reboot my machine?
Oh sure, I'm trolling - but the point is this ISN'T updated on machines around the world. It's updated on a few machines that HAVE some sort of auto-update service (of which many required a fee with your "enterprise service license") and it may or may not be updated when you install a new machine.
You've got 17-18 minutes of commercials to fill up in an hour of television.
For hour long network shows, the commercial segments are 3:30 on the quarter hours and 4:30 on the half hour nowadays. You also get a 3:30 after the bumper. Pad all of those with 5-seconds of "Stay tuned for news at 9!" The remaining ~3:00 minutes gets you previews, network notifications (Stay tuned for a new Episode of FOOBAR!) and between-show commercials.
A few shows have some liberties with this. The Sheild, which in first run, has only:30 after the bumper. Programs like American Idol can have 20+ minutes of commercials.
This clearly shows TMI on my part, but there are a number of lines that feature "geek" women, and a larger number still that feature women with glasses. "Specs Appeal," comes to mind - and it features women with glasses, and yes, it features them getting...messy.
On a side note, there are also a large number of "goth" themed videos; and if you choose wisely, you can just find...fair skinned dark haired counter-culture women, and not freakishly tatooed and pierced women.
Trust me, whatever your darkest fantasy that you'd never reveal to your best friend....there's a movie series for you:)
Dell's specials rotate. The current round of specials is encouraged to remove old inventory. The 19" flat panels, although GREAT, aren't their current model. Some of the specials involved moving "older" processors as well.
The quality of the components is "normal," and certainly the margins are thin. Good news for the consumer.
Try hitting eBay to see the sort of Dell Coupons available as well.
In the last week, Dell has been selling QUALITY machines for prices that you can't beat by putting together the components from mail-order-madness from PriceWatch. At the low end, you could spend $370 and get a "basic" machine with a 19" LCD and a licensed copy of Windows. After that, the "basic" computer is free. $1000 machines have been 40% off for weeks, with stackable coupons, free shipping, free 19" flat panels...you're paying $600 for a solid machine, great monitor, licensed software, home delivery, and A YEAR OF ON-SITE SERVICE.
The answer to most people is, in fact, Dude, you're getting a Dell. [And you're getting it at a good price, with solid features.]
While not Opterons, when we bought our workstations from Dell, they were dual-processor Ultra-320 SCSI linux boxes. What's your point exactly -- that they get a better deal selling Intel chips and that they make money selling Windows? Gee, do they?
I oversee 20,000 mostly-Dell computers, and we turn over about a quarter of that stock every year (3 years is the obsolescence date on a PC for us). Every machine we receive from Dell is identical and pre-imaged from their CFI group with our image.
Complete Dell PCs cost $600. It's a *tiny* price to pay...$200 a year for a PC for an employee who makes at least 200 times that in salary.
Sure, Dell has been caught in the same position as other vendors - with bad capacitors on their imported motherboards, and the same power supply recalls that every other big vendor has been stuck with, but they produce a quality, reliable, QUIET desktop machine for cheaper than you can white-box it.
You can go back to building white-box machines with parts from Tiger Direct. I'll keep buying 6,000 Dells a year.
XP home has such crippled networking functionality that it is absoultely unsuitable for even the most basic tasks involving a windows network.
XP Home's networking is "crippled" in exactly one way - no domain support. It is absolutely suitable for all tasks involving all sorts of networking -- as long as that task isn't joining a Windows domain.
They keep listing these at ~150 for the board and processor. Fry's regularly sells (in their mid-week ad) a $69 board AND processor with video. This weekend's "better" Sempron + Processor + Video (x200) is $119.
The Deskstar 80 is nice, but 250 Deskstars have been as low as $49 after rebate, and there are currently 200 gig drives that are free after some rebate-price-matching -- See places like Fatwallet.com.
Datbox, my email is shown in my profile. Feel free to contact me directly.
This weednesday, Frys had their $69 motherboard/processor deal. It included 3 PCI slots which is necessary to support all the tuners I planned on having in my rebuild. I purchased $38 of memory from NewEgg (went from $34 for the PQI to $38 for the Corsair). I bought my drives from Frys when they dropped to $109 with $60 in rebates for Hitachi 250's ($49 after rebate). This weekend drive is Seagate 250 PATA's for $69 after rebate -- and a gig of Corsair Value Ram for $49 after rebate. If you missed Wednesday's motherboard, the Intel version of the same board (integrated video, 3x PCI) is available in P4506 for $109.
You'll still pay "full price" for your tuners. Get a dual-tuner Hauppauge MCE500. You won't regret it. Then, add HiDef. You won't reget it either.
Here's the Frys ad online. This one's from Renton, but 99% of their ads are national. Vacuums and other household products are least likely to be on sale. Motherboards, drives, memory, networking -- almost always all national.
Lacking 100 wives and a nice set of out-of-the-box MCE and out-of-the-box Myth setups, we may never have anything conclusive -- but for the time being, I'm going to give the edge to MCE in total WAF.
In the 1980s, amateurism regulations were relaxed, and completely abolished in the 1990s. This switch was perhaps best exemplified by the American Dream Team, composed of well-paid NBA stars, which won the Olympic gold medal in basketball in 1992. As of 2004, the only sport in which no professionals compete is boxing; in men's football (soccer), the number of players over 23 years of age is limited to three per team.
It means the speakers are made out of rare earth (neodymium) magnets, and, as such, can pack a stronger magnet into a smaller place. If you haven't played with a strong rare earth magnet, you dont know what you're missing...makes hard drive magnets look like toys.
The "benefit" is essentially having a powerful TiVo-like device running your television.
My "television" is currently a $1,000 16x9 projector and a 72" screen connected to my computer running MCE. The computer cost less than $1000 to build with four-tuner (including 2 HiDef) support.
There's little in the way of music on my MCE box - a half a dozen albums I stuck in and let it rip one afternoon of housecleaning. I still stick my DVDs in one at a time when I watch them - as I've got a thousand (yeah...) and even transcoding them down and storing them on something would be a mammoth undertaking.
MythTV is great, but it still lacks some of the Wife Acceptance Factor that Media Center Edition has.
It is certainly more configurable and tweakable, but like the parent said, OUT OF THE BOX, MCE is highly polished and ready for the family. Adding four tuners to an MCE box is easy enough for mom and pop.
Odd, part of my reply was eaten by a couple of stray greater-than's that got assumed to be tags.
Less than $800 for a four-tuner machine, and you can start with $500 and one tuner and work your way up.
Add the case of your choice for under $150. Several nMedia cases at NewEgg (and elsewhere) that work for you. Make that case be $0 if you're hacking it together and it's NOT going to need to be a centerpiece in the room. Mine is, and it cost me $114 more to look GREAT.
--
The power compress link is the only thing MCE is truly missing. Auto re-encode at night to useful formats.
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Great idea! ...except for the fact that it's overly complicated and relies on end-user cooperation. There are a number of at-boot hard drive encryption suites that are (a) cheaper than external drives, (b) don't rely on end-user participation and cooperation, and (c) address the fact that your swap and cache information may be full of useful data, and you leave it unencrypted.
So, will this revolutionary controller be attached to the Wii?
I work as the senior engineer for the desktop engineering department of a large west-coast healthcare organization with over 20,000 PCs.
Not only do we encrypt EVERY laptop, regardless of if we think it contains PHI; theft of desktop equipment has prompted us to encrypt EVERY desktop, regardless of if we think it may contain PHI. We also encrypt and monitor every PDA (including phones with sync).
The software: Millions of dollars.
Support: Millions of dollars.
Not being sued in California for losing PHI: Priceless.
Multiple GINA programs is fairly straightforward.
A single registry value holds what GINA to execute. If the registry value is blank, it executes MSGINA (the Microsoft default).
If you replace the GINA with a 3rd-party program (VPN, Wireless, Encryption, et cetera), then the 3rd-party is responsible for either (a) completely handling the logon, or (b) passing control to MSGINA when it is finished executing.
As a rule, this happens by your 3rd-party GINA keeping a value of its own (in the registry or INI) of what the previous GINA was. That way, if you install a new GINA, when it finishes executing, it calls whatever GINA *used* to be in the default registry location.
First you have MSGINA.
You install ENCRYPT-GINA.
ENCRYPT-GINA executes and calls MSGINA.
Then you install VPN-GINA.
VPN-GINA sees ENCRYPT-GINA as the GINA to execute when complete.
VPN-GINA executes and calls ENCRYPT-GINA
ENCRYPT-GINA keps its own value for what to call next and calls MSGINA.
Add all the GINAs you want.
It's true that *some* GINAs don't play nicely, or won't always execute if a certain GINA has executed before it (or comes after it) - but for the most part it works.
The only REAL problem is when a GINA is stupid enough to place itself incorrectly in the chain -- which can leave a machine executing GINAs in a loop...and Windows is smart enough to restore MSGINA when that happens anyway.
Two homonyms in the title? I had no idea what this article was about when I read the main page one-liner.
'liv or 'lIv
'lEd or 'led
Already corrected on what?
Is LinuxUpdate.linux.com going to send this out on Tuesday automatically and reboot my machine?
Oh sure, I'm trolling - but the point is this ISN'T updated on machines around the world. It's updated on a few machines that HAVE some sort of auto-update service (of which many required a fee with your "enterprise service license") and it may or may not be updated when you install a new machine.
I know *MY* servers aren't updated...yet.
You've got 17-18 minutes of commercials to fill up in an hour of television.
:30 after the bumper. Programs like American Idol can have 20+ minutes of commercials.
For hour long network shows, the commercial segments are 3:30 on the quarter hours and 4:30 on the half hour nowadays. You also get a 3:30 after the bumper. Pad all of those with 5-seconds of "Stay tuned for news at 9!" The remaining ~3:00 minutes gets you previews, network notifications (Stay tuned for a new Episode of FOOBAR!) and between-show commercials.
A few shows have some liberties with this. The Sheild, which in first run, has only
The joke is...
Micky goes to see his lawyer.
His lawyer says to him, "I'm sorry Mickey, but you can't divorce your wife because she's insane."
Mickey says, "I did't say she was crazy. I said she was fucking Goofy."
This clearly shows TMI on my part, but there are a number of lines that feature "geek" women, and a larger number still that feature women with glasses. "Specs Appeal," comes to mind - and it features women with glasses, and yes, it features them getting...messy.
:)
On a side note, there are also a large number of "goth" themed videos; and if you choose wisely, you can just find...fair skinned dark haired counter-culture women, and not freakishly tatooed and pierced women.
Trust me, whatever your darkest fantasy that you'd never reveal to your best friend....there's a movie series for you
It means WE have to produce more documentation - in all sorts of stupid templated forms.
Dell's specials rotate. The current round of specials is encouraged to remove old inventory. The 19" flat panels, although GREAT, aren't their current model. Some of the specials involved moving "older" processors as well.
The quality of the components is "normal," and certainly the margins are thin. Good news for the consumer.
Try hitting eBay to see the sort of Dell Coupons available as well.
Wrong. Pure and simple.
In the last week, Dell has been selling QUALITY machines for prices that you can't beat by putting together the components from mail-order-madness from PriceWatch. At the low end, you could spend $370 and get a "basic" machine with a 19" LCD and a licensed copy of Windows. After that, the "basic" computer is free. $1000 machines have been 40% off for weeks, with stackable coupons, free shipping, free 19" flat panels...you're paying $600 for a solid machine, great monitor, licensed software, home delivery, and A YEAR OF ON-SITE SERVICE.
The answer to most people is, in fact, Dude, you're getting a Dell. [And you're getting it at a good price, with solid features.]
While not Opterons, when we bought our workstations from Dell, they were dual-processor Ultra-320 SCSI linux boxes. What's your point exactly -- that they get a better deal selling Intel chips and that they make money selling Windows? Gee, do they?
Dear sir, my lack of mod-points prohibits me from giving you what you deserve. Actually, mod him informative or insightful - karma's a good thing.
I oversee 20,000 mostly-Dell computers, and we turn over about a quarter of that stock every year (3 years is the obsolescence date on a PC for us). Every machine we receive from Dell is identical and pre-imaged from their CFI group with our image.
Complete Dell PCs cost $600. It's a *tiny* price to pay...$200 a year for a PC for an employee who makes at least 200 times that in salary.
Sure, Dell has been caught in the same position as other vendors - with bad capacitors on their imported motherboards, and the same power supply recalls that every other big vendor has been stuck with, but they produce a quality, reliable, QUIET desktop machine for cheaper than you can white-box it.
You can go back to building white-box machines with parts from Tiger Direct. I'll keep buying 6,000 Dells a year.
XP Home's networking is "crippled" in exactly one way - no domain support. It is absolutely suitable for all tasks involving all sorts of networking -- as long as that task isn't joining a Windows domain.
They keep listing these at ~150 for the board and processor. Fry's regularly sells (in their mid-week ad) a $69 board AND processor with video. This weekend's "better" Sempron + Processor + Video (x200) is $119.
The Deskstar 80 is nice, but 250 Deskstars have been as low as $49 after rebate, and there are currently 200 gig drives that are free after some rebate-price-matching -- See places like Fatwallet.com.
Datbox, my email is shown in my profile. Feel free to contact me directly.
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This weednesday, Frys had their $69 motherboard/processor deal. It included 3 PCI slots which is necessary to support all the tuners I planned on having in my rebuild. I purchased $38 of memory from NewEgg (went from $34 for the PQI to $38 for the Corsair). I bought my drives from Frys when they dropped to $109 with $60 in rebates for Hitachi 250's ($49 after rebate). This weekend drive is Seagate 250 PATA's for $69 after rebate -- and a gig of Corsair Value Ram for $49 after rebate. If you missed Wednesday's motherboard, the Intel version of the same board (integrated video, 3x PCI) is available in P4506 for $109.
You'll still pay "full price" for your tuners. Get a dual-tuner Hauppauge MCE500. You won't regret it. Then, add HiDef. You won't reget it either.
Here's the Frys ad online. This one's from Renton, but 99% of their ads are national. Vacuums and other household products are least likely to be on sale. Motherboards, drives, memory, networking -- almost always all national.
http://shopping.nwsource.com/ROP/ads.aspx?advid=1
How about just seeing the best regardless of their status in a professional sport.
Well, that is the point, unfortunately.
Lacking 100 wives and a nice set of out-of-the-box MCE and out-of-the-box Myth setups, we may never have anything conclusive -- but for the time being, I'm going to give the edge to MCE in total WAF.
In the 1980s, amateurism regulations were relaxed, and completely abolished in the 1990s. This switch was perhaps best exemplified by the American Dream Team, composed of well-paid NBA stars, which won the Olympic gold medal in basketball in 1992. As of 2004, the only sport in which no professionals compete is boxing; in men's football (soccer), the number of players over 23 years of age is limited to three per team.
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From : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympics#Amateurism_
It means the speakers are made out of rare earth (neodymium) magnets, and, as such, can pack a stronger magnet into a smaller place. If you haven't played with a strong rare earth magnet, you dont know what you're missing...makes hard drive magnets look like toys.
The "benefit" is essentially having a powerful TiVo-like device running your television.
My "television" is currently a $1,000 16x9 projector and a 72" screen connected to my computer running MCE. The computer cost less than $1000 to build with four-tuner (including 2 HiDef) support.
There's little in the way of music on my MCE box - a half a dozen albums I stuck in and let it rip one afternoon of housecleaning. I still stick my DVDs in one at a time when I watch them - as I've got a thousand (yeah...) and even transcoding them down and storing them on something would be a mammoth undertaking.
MythTV is great, but it still lacks some of the Wife Acceptance Factor that Media Center Edition has.
It is certainly more configurable and tweakable, but like the parent said, OUT OF THE BOX, MCE is highly polished and ready for the family. Adding four tuners to an MCE box is easy enough for mom and pop.
Odd, part of my reply was eaten by a couple of stray greater-than's that got assumed to be tags.
Less than $800 for a four-tuner machine, and you can start with $500 and one tuner and work your way up.
Add the case of your choice for under $150. Several nMedia cases at NewEgg (and elsewhere) that work for you. Make that case be $0 if you're hacking it together and it's NOT going to need to be a centerpiece in the room. Mine is, and it cost me $114 more to look GREAT.
--
The power compress link is the only thing MCE is truly missing. Auto re-encode at night to useful formats.
Damned failure to preview.