I live in Tokyo and there are of course, tons of vending machines in my neighborhood... the beed and cigarette machines shutdown around 10-11pm and turn back on sometime in the morning hours. When I leave for work in the morning, they are back on.
Here's another story about ID's and vending machines: http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/421419 --- This sounds more feasible than the whole facial recognition thing.
Anyway... I never see kids at the vending machine, I live in a fairly quiet neighborhood and most everyone is respectable... including the kids. I would imagine in other areas, ecspecially Adachi ward, smoking and dinking is a big problem for underage kids.
Oddly enough, the large University I work for has been discussing making two or three seperate networks inside the univesrity to keep something like this from happening. Presently, the Hospital has their own private network interconnected to our network via a firewall.
We have been toying with the idea of making a private network for sensitive university machines an faculty networks. Thus then leaving the students and other network users on a more normal public network, behind the border firewall of course.
The discussion of data security has come more than once and now I'm just waiting for that email saying, 'it's on'.
And the acronymns will fly.... VLAN, VPN et al.
yay!
ATM, I am bound by issues of Symantec vs Windows XP SP2. This is a good thing, in some cases.
This will give us time to watch other companies and the IT industry as a whole, in their attempts to apply SP2.
Watching and waiting for the bugs to roll out from under the carpet (Read: SP2) I beleive is a wise idea if you already have a generally stable computing platform. If your network folks are managing the network borders properly, firewalls and such... waiting to apply SP2 may be a wise idea.
We have a contract with Symantec for a few of there products and they have told us they will be shipping new products to us for distribution.
So.. wait for symantec + wait for bugs in SP2 to show themselves = safe time frame to evaluate XP SP2.
That said... I am of course, like many of you testing it on a few not-so-critical workstations.
Dammit... Almost had it.
Wonderful, so the internet monguls are out setting things for people on AOL.
Wonder if users of AOL (that know what they are doing) will revolt?
Then again, I wonder how they are going about changing these settings? Imbedded patch?
I have been upgrading off and on over the last four years on a regular basis so it seems. Now, i tend to have more spare parts and junk laying more than ever.
My main CPU is a three-month old 1.6 GHz machine running XP Pro and a secondary machine (A really old 1.2 GHz Athlon) running Linux with GNOME. I have two others that are a P3-800 and an P3-600. One is doing IRC logging while the other collects dust.
I will, once again, probably upgrade by January 2003. I have a feeling that things will smooth out unless the next generation of Apps get more memory/space hungry.
Rightfuly so, I have chucked IDE for SCSI U-160 drives. The IDE was just choking up the system as far as I am concerened... the U-160 and high-speed drives do fine when process huge databases that I work with...
I'm out...
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I live in Tokyo and there are of course, tons of vending machines in my neighborhood... the beed and cigarette machines shutdown around 10-11pm and turn back on sometime in the morning hours. When I leave for work in the morning, they are back on. Here's another story about ID's and vending machines: http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/421419 --- This sounds more feasible than the whole facial recognition thing. Anyway... I never see kids at the vending machine, I live in a fairly quiet neighborhood and most everyone is respectable... including the kids. I would imagine in other areas, ecspecially Adachi ward, smoking and dinking is a big problem for underage kids.
When I'm not doing my FT I.T. job.... I'm a Paramedic for the city EMS/911 service. Otherwise, I do private IT consulting when needed.
Oddly enough, the large University I work for has been discussing making two or three seperate networks inside the univesrity to keep something like this from happening. Presently, the Hospital has their own private network interconnected to our network via a firewall. We have been toying with the idea of making a private network for sensitive university machines an faculty networks. Thus then leaving the students and other network users on a more normal public network, behind the border firewall of course. The discussion of data security has come more than once and now I'm just waiting for that email saying, 'it's on'. And the acronymns will fly.... VLAN, VPN et al. yay!
ATM, I am bound by issues of Symantec vs Windows XP SP2. This is a good thing, in some cases. This will give us time to watch other companies and the IT industry as a whole, in their attempts to apply SP2. Watching and waiting for the bugs to roll out from under the carpet (Read: SP2) I beleive is a wise idea if you already have a generally stable computing platform. If your network folks are managing the network borders properly, firewalls and such... waiting to apply SP2 may be a wise idea. We have a contract with Symantec for a few of there products and they have told us they will be shipping new products to us for distribution. So.. wait for symantec + wait for bugs in SP2 to show themselves = safe time frame to evaluate XP SP2. That said... I am of course, like many of you testing it on a few not-so-critical workstations.
Dammit... Almost had it. Wonderful, so the internet monguls are out setting things for people on AOL. Wonder if users of AOL (that know what they are doing) will revolt? Then again, I wonder how they are going about changing these settings? Imbedded patch?
I have been upgrading off and on over the last four years on a regular basis so it seems. Now, i tend to have more spare parts and junk laying more than ever. My main CPU is a three-month old 1.6 GHz machine running XP Pro and a secondary machine (A really old 1.2 GHz Athlon) running Linux with GNOME. I have two others that are a P3-800 and an P3-600. One is doing IRC logging while the other collects dust. I will, once again, probably upgrade by January 2003. I have a feeling that things will smooth out unless the next generation of Apps get more memory/space hungry. Rightfuly so, I have chucked IDE for SCSI U-160 drives. The IDE was just choking up the system as far as I am concerened... the U-160 and high-speed drives do fine when process huge databases that I work with... I'm out...