Ever considered security? A pissed off player or competition with some white noise generator could make your lan party turn into angry mob when they loose connection alltogether.
I'm sure everybody knows this, but why don't you use 802.11x authentication configured per port? As long as some physical security is enforced (no-one unplugs the 802.11x incapable printer and puts his laptop - should be fine.
Although, I can already imagine failure scenarios, such as putting a bridge between the device and the rj jack. But then again, if you treat your own LAN as a Korean DMZ or Soviet Moscow ran by KGB, your paranoia level will be worth mentioning in medical journals.
For crying out loud, a PSU ad as news? I mean it's not even hyped - i'd understand a new Mac review (it's a whole system) or a report on sun's latest monster system, but a PSU?? Why don't we have then a full featured articles on new EzGripp ThumbScrews 3000?/. - Either "editor" or "quality" are becoming foreign terms for the/. operators.
P.S. The anti-script image is so l33t now, it took me some 30 seconds to dechiper. I guess i'm a half-script.
WiFI is not a replacement for conventional connectivity. It has quite a lot of negative issues, such as :
* (my favourite, since you're not wearing tinfoil hats) additional radio emissions which are not very healthy, especially if some wise guy decides to put a more powerfull antenna
* Poor security. To this day you can't beat security of conventional wiring (for all you TEMPEST freaks, one can always use UTP)
* Quick bandwidth saturation. At the moment one office collectivley can only do ~100 MBit/s, which is poor, as opposed to 100Mbit for each POP
etc...
POE is a very nice thing, especially for plugging a lot of appliances and wireless isn't a "threat" to it. Really different applications and ballparks.
we need only some improvements.
1) moderators vote articel as dupe, all +5 comments are then automaticlly linked here aswell.
2) A dupecounter goes up by 1. Once it reaches a certain threshold (say, 1337), CmdrTaco gets a beating in front of TV by a bunch of fat chicks.
Just imagine all the teens watching the show after 22:00... It will be a lesbian family having sex in the pool 24/7. I wonder how it differs from adulttv:)
I find it very annoying because most of messages i write aren't written in English. Thus all predictions are useless to me and have to turn it off. All of it would change if I just could plug in a new dictionary. I don't think extra non english customers ever hurt.
I would like to disagree to the "must work" part. Take for example banks. In a certain bank i know they've spent _lot's_ of hours in making the windows netbootable and then adjusting privileges ad nausea until it's secure. Probably they would do the same time on linux, but it's not the point.
For some envoirments fact, that linux desktop setup could take a week initially (not per machine obviously) is not a barrier.
linuxvirtualserver is a great example on howto use small machines to serve big volume./--WWW1 SAN==NFSBOX |--WWW2 LOADBALANCER
|--WWW3
\---etc...
Nothing complex to maintain there. Make the www* diskless machines that boot from a bootserver. Load all required apps into ram (32 MB to spen isn't much). Update apps in bootserver. Reboot to upgrade. THat simple, one man maintanable !
It brings me to this following tought: You can't protect anything that user has physical access to. Same situation is observable amongst CD 'copy (mis)protection' . Smart lads crack it in one week session. Maybe people should stop wasting money on copy proections and focus instead on actual product?
Reminds me of chicken and egg problem here. It really does not matter at this point wether they had landed. Clearly, we (humankind) possess technology to do so.
I had another tought here and figured that only _real_ usage of it would be building fake systems. They would have to simulate some activity have something in logs, have fake data etc. Now for casual network i don't see much usage apart from way how to entertain admins, but then again, there is Quake
I don't understand why everybody suddenly wants to have a honeypot? You are not a fed and you won't mail them "Look there is a ssh scanner poking my network, go arrest them, oh brave ones". Stick to snort with decent rulesets and be set. Add kernel patches and protect your butt from exploits. Honeypots seem to be overhyped.
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Ever considered security? A pissed off player or competition with some white noise generator could make your lan party turn into angry mob when they loose connection alltogether.
I'm sure everybody knows this, but why don't you use 802.11x authentication configured per port? As long as some physical security is enforced (no-one unplugs the 802.11x incapable printer and puts his laptop - should be fine. Although, I can already imagine failure scenarios, such as putting a bridge between the device and the rj jack. But then again, if you treat your own LAN as a Korean DMZ or Soviet Moscow ran by KGB, your paranoia level will be worth mentioning in medical journals.
For crying out loud, a PSU ad as news? I mean it's not even hyped - i'd understand a new Mac review (it's a whole system) or a report on sun's latest monster system, but a PSU?? Why don't we have then a full featured articles on new EzGripp ThumbScrews 3000? /. - Either "editor" or "quality" are becoming foreign terms for the /. operators.
P.S. The anti-script image is so l33t now, it took me some 30 seconds to dechiper. I guess i'm a half-script.
* (my favourite, since you're not wearing tinfoil hats) additional radio emissions which are not very healthy, especially if some wise guy decides to put a more powerfull antenna
* Poor security. To this day you can't beat security of conventional wiring (for all you TEMPEST freaks, one can always use UTP)
* Quick bandwidth saturation. At the moment one office collectivley can only do ~100 MBit/s, which is poor, as opposed to 100Mbit for each POP
etc... POE is a very nice thing, especially for plugging a lot of appliances and wireless isn't a "threat" to it. Really different applications and ballparks.
we need only some improvements. 1) moderators vote articel as dupe, all +5 comments are then automaticlly linked here aswell. 2) A dupecounter goes up by 1. Once it reaches a certain threshold (say, 1337), CmdrTaco gets a beating in front of TV by a bunch of fat chicks.
Amen. You just said the right set of words. One should patent the "how to do it", the method rather than the concept.
Just imagine all the teens watching the show after 22:00... It will be a lesbian family having sex in the pool 24/7. I wonder how it differs from adulttv :)
For Duke Nukem Forever release...
I find it very annoying because most of messages i write aren't written in English. Thus all predictions are useless to me and have to turn it off. All of it would change if I just could plug in a new dictionary. I don't think extra non english customers ever hurt.
I would like to disagree to the "must work" part. Take for example banks. In a certain bank i know they've spent _lot's_ of hours in making the windows netbootable and then adjusting privileges ad nausea until it's secure. Probably they would do the same time on linux, but it's not the point. For some envoirments fact, that linux desktop setup could take a week initially (not per machine obviously) is not a barrier.
I also don't trust software i write, why should MS do different? I mean you can't say elseway " The programmer was a moron" and keep the pride
Prove me wrong but it seems that Earth Simulator still is fastest
May i add 'bullshit'?
/--WWW1
linuxvirtualserver is a great example on howto use small machines to serve big volume.
SAN==NFSBOX |--WWW2 LOADBALANCER
|--WWW3
\---etc...
Nothing complex to maintain there. Make the www* diskless machines that boot from a bootserver. Load all required apps into ram (32 MB to spen isn't much). Update apps in bootserver. Reboot to upgrade. THat simple, one man maintanable !
Since the careful ekrout actually read my comment, he shurely must have missed word physical. P.S it's a 0 score comment
It brings me to this following tought: You can't protect anything that user has physical access to. Same situation is observable amongst CD 'copy (mis)protection' . Smart lads crack it in one week session. Maybe people should stop wasting money on copy proections and focus instead on actual product?
Reminds me of chicken and egg problem here.
It really does not matter at this point wether they had landed. Clearly, we (humankind) possess technology to do so.
I wonder what's his ip address... there And now the password ... *god* ... there
Now let's see if he has any naked females in bathrooms
I had another tought here and figured that only _real_ usage of it would be building fake systems. They would have to simulate some activity have something in logs, have fake data etc. Now for casual network i don't see much usage apart from way how to entertain admins, but then again, there is Quake
I don't understand why everybody suddenly wants to have a honeypot? You are not a fed and you won't mail them "Look there is a ssh scanner poking my network, go arrest them, oh brave ones". Stick to snort with decent rulesets and be set. Add kernel patches and protect your butt from exploits. Honeypots seem to be overhyped.