I'd like to just second everything you've said. I'm a RHCE, MCSE, MCNE, and I have a few Cisco certs.
A co-worker and I took the test together, and we were the only 2 out of 15-16 people there who did not sit through the classes. Even after a week of training, 4 of the testers left after the first portion, knowing they had already failed. I talked to a few of them during the breaks, and I've got to say, I wouldn't trust most of them with any of my clients systems.
The MCSE has toughened up a bit, but I still feel that it is too easy. I liked the RHCE test better, due to the lab portions, but it did not go into much beyond maintaining one server. At one point, Red Hat was going to have a RHCE 2 that was supposed to be far more difficult, but I haven't heard anything about that lately. As I understand it, they were having a 50% failure rate on the RHCE as it was, so they may have decided that it was tough enough.
I've got to say though, I am still proudest of my MCNE.
Ok, this may be slightly off-topic, and it may be a stupid question, but I'm sure I'm not the only one who is wondering -
What's with Lindows everywhere? First they get distribution with Wal-Mart PCs, and now these tablet PCs which look to me like they could be a serious competitor to the $2500 alternatives. Does anyone know anything about the company? Are they a "good" company as far as their open-source work? Are they looking to make any sort of corporate push? And on the technical side, I've never messed with Lindows myself. Is it similar to RedHat, or Debian, or what? Is it stable? Could anyone with experience with Lindows share their opinions and thoughts?
I would have to say that this COULD be a good thing. It could provide incentive for companies to tighten security. And most importantly, in my mind, I would want to know as soon as possible if an information with my SSN, credit card numbers, etc had been hacked, so that I could keep a closer eye on my accounts and be ready to provide information to law enforcement and the credit agencies should my identity be stolen.
Unless I misread the article, I get the feeling that by "investigation" they meant a legal investigation. If that is true, then businesses couldn't just start an internal investigation to put off disclosure forever. If this is not true, then well, it should be restricted to legal investigations only.
But again, I do think this is a good step in the right direction. When I give my personal data to a company, they need to manage it and secure it. I expect them to inform me if a problem occurs. With laws like this, they will have to.
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Oct02/canti le ver.ws.html
It seems to me that this should be safe. They note in the article that they are only creating batteries which use Beta radiation, which is too weak to hurt you. If that is true, then yeah, I would use them, if it meant my laptop or cellphone would last for 10 or 20 years.
A school I have been doing consulting for has been doing this for almost two years now, and it works very well. We have several similar carts, each with a wireless access point. Additionally, each cart has a few extras depending on where it is used, for example the production/design/art ones has some digital cameras, the science/math ones have special measurement tools (some logger pro stuff, I don't know the details), etc.
It is a very effective system. They get to share the laptops, and can use them anywhere. They will generally use them in the classrooms, or one of the commons areas. They have about 80 laptops available (for a school of 450) that are rotated around on these carts, and they have enabled the school to get by with only around 80-90 workstations in what could be called "computer lab" locations (this is a very wealthy private school, which uses a non-traditional teaching environment, so they don't have actual computer labs, or a library either, instead they use a "commons" system).
However, although the school has a decent amount of Macs, all of the laptop carts are Compaq.
I'd just like to back up everything that you are saying. I have been working with one of my clients to get OSX-AD integration set up for several months now, with no luck. First we started with 10.1, and we have now moved on to Jaguar.
Although I am not an Apple expert, we are working with the top Apple support company in our city, which frightenlingly is also the only one that is supporting OS X in large environments yet (this is in a city of 3 million). We have also had two engineers from Apple come and assist us, and we've had no luck. My client was supposed to be a showcase for Apple, to show how great it integrates with Windows and how it can be used by large corporations and institutions, so Apple definately has an interest in making this work. But still, no luck.
As a matter of fact, the IT department at my client sent me an email earlier today saying that they would like to end the project, since it is going nowhere. It is a great disappointment to me, since I would really love to make this work, but I can't blame them at all.
It seems like the big problem is that no one really has any idea how to set this up correctly. We've spoken with places where they have been able to make it work, but either they haven't actually made all of it work like it should, or they have it setup in a convoluted manner that we can't emulate on a large scale. Apple's engineers have been little help. Although they know a lot about Macs in general, it seems like they really don't know what they are talking about when it comes to LDAP and the AD integration. I really get the feeling that they just think that it SHOULD work, with minimal effort, and when it doesn't they just fall apart.
I am considered to be an LDAP and NDS expert, so I have a good knowledge of how this should work, but unfortunately it just doesn't. It's been a huge dissapointment. The worst part is, I had several other clients that were ready to implement this, but I have had to inform them that our pilot testing isn't working, so we won't be implementing it any time soon.
I guess I'll just hope that they get it worked out eventually, and maybe try it again later.
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I'd like to just second everything you've said. I'm a RHCE, MCSE, MCNE, and I have a few Cisco certs.
A co-worker and I took the test together, and we were the only 2 out of 15-16 people there who did not sit through the classes. Even after a week of training, 4 of the testers left after the first portion, knowing they had already failed. I talked to a few of them during the breaks, and I've got to say, I wouldn't trust most of them with any of my clients systems.
The MCSE has toughened up a bit, but I still feel that it is too easy. I liked the RHCE test better, due to the lab portions, but it did not go into much beyond maintaining one server. At one point, Red Hat was going to have a RHCE 2 that was supposed to be far more difficult, but I haven't heard anything about that lately. As I understand it, they were having a 50% failure rate on the RHCE as it was, so they may have decided that it was tough enough.
I've got to say though, I am still proudest of my MCNE.
Ok, this may be slightly off-topic, and it may be a stupid question, but I'm sure I'm not the only one who is wondering -
What's with Lindows everywhere? First they get distribution with Wal-Mart PCs, and now these tablet PCs which look to me like they could be a serious competitor to the $2500 alternatives. Does anyone know anything about the company? Are they a "good" company as far as their open-source work? Are they looking to make any sort of corporate push? And on the technical side, I've never messed with Lindows myself. Is it similar to RedHat, or Debian, or what? Is it stable? Could anyone with experience with Lindows share their opinions and thoughts?
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I would have to say that this COULD be a good thing. It could provide incentive for companies to tighten security. And most importantly, in my mind, I would want to know as soon as possible if an information with my SSN, credit card numbers, etc had been hacked, so that I could keep a closer eye on my accounts and be ready to provide information to law enforcement and the credit agencies should my identity be stolen.
Unless I misread the article, I get the feeling that by "investigation" they meant a legal investigation. If that is true, then businesses couldn't just start an internal investigation to put off disclosure forever. If this is not true, then well, it should be restricted to legal investigations only.
But again, I do think this is a good step in the right direction. When I give my personal data to a company, they need to manage it and secure it. I expect them to inform me if a problem occurs. With laws like this, they will have to.
Here's more info, straight from Cornell.
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http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/02/11.7.0
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Oct02/cant
It seems to me that this should be safe. They note in the article that they are only creating batteries which use Beta radiation, which is too weak to hurt you. If that is true, then yeah, I would use them, if it meant my laptop or cellphone would last for 10 or 20 years.
A school I have been doing consulting for has been doing this for almost two years now, and it works very well. We have several similar carts, each with a wireless access point. Additionally, each cart has a few extras depending on where it is used, for example the production/design/art ones has some digital cameras, the science/math ones have special measurement tools (some logger pro stuff, I don't know the details), etc.
It is a very effective system. They get to share the laptops, and can use them anywhere. They will generally use them in the classrooms, or one of the commons areas. They have about 80 laptops available (for a school of 450) that are rotated around on these carts, and they have enabled the school to get by with only around 80-90 workstations in what could be called "computer lab" locations (this is a very wealthy private school, which uses a non-traditional teaching environment, so they don't have actual computer labs, or a library either, instead they use a "commons" system).
However, although the school has a decent amount of Macs, all of the laptop carts are Compaq.
I'd just like to back up everything that you are saying. I have been working with one of my clients to get OSX-AD integration set up for several months now, with no luck. First we started with 10.1, and we have now moved on to Jaguar. Although I am not an Apple expert, we are working with the top Apple support company in our city, which frightenlingly is also the only one that is supporting OS X in large environments yet (this is in a city of 3 million). We have also had two engineers from Apple come and assist us, and we've had no luck. My client was supposed to be a showcase for Apple, to show how great it integrates with Windows and how it can be used by large corporations and institutions, so Apple definately has an interest in making this work. But still, no luck. As a matter of fact, the IT department at my client sent me an email earlier today saying that they would like to end the project, since it is going nowhere. It is a great disappointment to me, since I would really love to make this work, but I can't blame them at all. It seems like the big problem is that no one really has any idea how to set this up correctly. We've spoken with places where they have been able to make it work, but either they haven't actually made all of it work like it should, or they have it setup in a convoluted manner that we can't emulate on a large scale. Apple's engineers have been little help. Although they know a lot about Macs in general, it seems like they really don't know what they are talking about when it comes to LDAP and the AD integration. I really get the feeling that they just think that it SHOULD work, with minimal effort, and when it doesn't they just fall apart. I am considered to be an LDAP and NDS expert, so I have a good knowledge of how this should work, but unfortunately it just doesn't. It's been a huge dissapointment. The worst part is, I had several other clients that were ready to implement this, but I have had to inform them that our pilot testing isn't working, so we won't be implementing it any time soon. I guess I'll just hope that they get it worked out eventually, and maybe try it again later.