I've always thought it would be useful if you could mark as file as automatically deleting at a certain date. If you create a temporary file, it would be nice to flag it as "delete after 60 days" so it doesn't need attention in the future. (The same functionality would be really useful for emials...I want to save this email until after the event (or whatever it's about) and then have it automatically deleted.) I once saw the file functionality on a custom Cray operating system in the 1977.
SAMBA (Windows file sharing) in no longer included with OS X Server. This is a mixed blessing, as the version of SAMBA that Apple included was very old--and had a number of bugs and vulnerabilities, but it did make it eash to use the Mac as an sever in a PC environment. Although, I never used the frontend others report that Apple put a slick GUI on SAMBA to make it easier to use.
Instead of supporting SAMBA, Apple is going there own way with a competitive solution. I don't know what license Apple is using for their version of Windows file sharing, nor how compatible (or supported it is).
Last time I looked, there are no pre-built SAMBA downloads for the Mac. Perhaps someone will chime in if this is because no one wants one or it is hard to do.
If he was really concerned about security then he would have handcuffed the device to his wrist (or at least not set it down), or have his security guard shoot anyone who touched the device.
Realistically, it should of taken one call to the corporate help desk (or data security) and the device could have been deactivated and wiped within 1 minute. (Oh, wait you don't work for a company that has a help desk, security guards and remote wipe. Then your data probably isn't that valuable.)
If you are seriously interested in security, and have the budget to support it, get a enterprise-level Blackberry. These are used for highly sensitive data and are encrypted, remotely wiped.
Second, don't load a bunch of applications that offer to share your data--do you really need twitter on your work phone? I'd recommend a basic phone and a encypted laptop if your data is that valuable. If you need a cool phone for social stuff, carry two phones. One for your top secret data and other for social interactions
Secure and iPhone or Android don't go together.
Secure isn't cheap, and generally makes it harder to use.
Almost everyone I know who uses an iPhone has no clue on how to change their email signature. I find it irritating that all of their emails contain an ad for iphone and whatever carrier they happen to use.
I know, editing a signature is a tough technical task for most iphone users.... or are they just bragging about how cool they are to have an iphone?
I've tried bluetooth keyboards and mice and I agree they don't work well. Moderate priced keyboards and mice from companies like logitech which include both a proprietary receiver and transmitter (they call it unifying receiver) just seem to work. Plug them in and they pair without any difficulty. Bluetooth is just a PIA...
About the only bluetooth items that have been easy to use are the silly-looking BT headsets.
Isn't this pretty much what Adobe did with PDFs.... the reader was free but you had to pay for the writer. Then they enhanced it by adding scripting for interactivity.... and we all know how secure PDFs are.
You forgot about all the ads for other canon products and what's even more annoying is the pop-ups that show up after printing a page.... yes... I'm looking at you HP. I don't think I'll ever buy another HP printer after having seen how much bloatware/advertising/spam is included in their drivers....
FYI... the PC drivers aren't any better these days... especially bad that a postscript driver (which is pretty much baked into the OS is so huge)
I guess this still doesn't explain why a printer driver needs to be more 300MB! Is the printer model on the mac so broken that driving a printer/scanner needs to be written from scratch or are the Canon drivers just totally written from scratch (or more likely both). Your basic printer driver used to fit on a floppy or two... how software has bloated is just amazing...
The 70's called and they want their timesharing systems back.
It seems like cloud computing is just a fancy name for timesharing (although with a graphically richer frontend). Timesharing allowed you to share a large network...but they hadn't invented the cloud yet... it was just a hunk'ng mainframe (or mini).
One place to start is to look at netcraft http://news.netcraft.com/ they rate the reliability of hosting frims--companies that have been at the top for many months are probably a good recomendation. Look at the client list, and find out what services they are buying. Ask about client service--at top tier the phones should be answered in one or two rings by a extremely knowledgeable tech who can solve the issue. No call trees or escalation. Ideally you'll get an assigned customer service team that takes the time to learn your application and proactively monitors the system. Ask your team some technical question to assess whether you're comfortable with their answers.
Also find a hosting frim that is expert in the technology that you're planning to use. If you're going the.net, MS SQL route, don't get a firm that mainly uses LAMP and vice versa.
Also, make sure you trust their technical expertise (which is what you are paying for).
Expect to spend 10X over ther bare-bones hosting... but hosting will be a minor cost in the grand scheme of things.
Hosting secure, high-reliability, high-availabity web sites isn't a do-it-yourself proposition. Perhaps you should have your site hosted by a top quality vendor who has the staff and expertise to maintain the physical and software security.
The problem is that this type of hosting isn't cheap. The bargain basement hosting firms will not provide the expertise and customer support necessary.
Unless you're really going to scale up quickly, it's unlikely that you can hire (or become) expert in all of the domains necessary to provide top tier hosting. For example, can you accurate manage the A/C needs for your site hosting? Do you have guaranteed service contracts on the A/C units an N+1 back ups? Same with power, backups, hot off-site recovery, physical security, insurance, fuel for your generators, battery contracts?
I'd go with a top-tier hosting firm, and be prepared to pay significantly more than $10/month.
Without permission you can't use the word "Super Bowl". Therefore you often see promotions for Super Bowl events that use other language. For example, you can't have a give away for free Super Bowl tickets, but you can offer tickets to "The big game" as a prize.
Individuals and businesses are protected under the First Amendment in what's called "nominative fair use," in which a trademark is allowed to be used if it describes a phrase and lacks commercial intent, Basin says. For instance, an electronics store ad could suggest to customers that they "Come get your TV before the Super Bowl," because it is describing an event.
Traditionally mainframes are very secure from this type, or any type, of malware. The administrators are generally competent and have good controls on what get installed. Also, mainframe admins are used to paying for software have very high expectations on the quality.You never hear about virus on IBM system Z10's
I believe the solution is to put the "courtesy" network completely outside of the work network--no connection. Although you still need to run a firewall to prevent rogue servers and downloads. One could argue that the company is completely responsible for any illegal use (downloads, spam) on their corporate IP addresses.
Unless the IP addresses are in a completely seperate range, the company needs to be careful that any spam from the "friends" network doesn't impact the corporate rating.
The next question is it really worth the bother? The hip employees with their iphones already have data plans (and probably don't care how much it costs (see Apple kit)), so why do you need to provide free wifi?
I second this thought. Remember, that's why they call it work. If employees want to update their facebook status, chat with friends, shop or goof off, I believe that's what they call leisure.
There is a big difference between 15% and 20%, and you're quoting 8 year old stats. Also, your original comment was 20% DOA (dead on arrival) which is a huge difference than ever needing repair.
What is the source for your 20% DOA stat? That seems alarmingly high as the repair cost probably eats up the entire profit on the sale. The last time I got a DOA electronic product was a cheap kitchen timer. If QA is designing their processes to produce 20% DOA, it's time to find another contract manufacturer.
Actually the 100 Dells are over a 12 year period. Our problem with the Dells isn't HD, but bad caps on the motherboards. THe Optiplexes 280 series had some serious problems. Also, we've lost a few power supplies. Everyone's HDs are pretty much the same as they all come from the same few OEMs. Generally, the Dell never fail in the first 3 years, 10% in years 3 to 4 and another 10% there after. We generally recycle the machines after 6 years (although we have a 10+ machine running as a linux server--originally W2000).
Even better is building it right in the first place. There's really no excuse for bad RAM (expeically at the prices Apple charges). Diagnosing bad ram can be extremely time consuming and the symptoms aren't easy to spot (unless it's really DOA). You've drunk the Apple-aide on the iPhone. Rather than complaining a crappy, poorly manufactured product, you're proud that you bought a defective item and then when you identified the customer they fixed it. How much time did you spend going to the ARS, waiting in line, talking to someone to get a defective product fixed.
If you had bought a Dell and it came with defective RAM or flash, you would complain about the crappy quality of PCs. With Apple, a bad product is a way of delighting the customer.
I have to say that in purchasing close to 100 Dells for my company I've never gotten a DOA device or bad RAM.
True... I was mostly referring to average office employees... Recently I needed to do some work on rebuilding a Mac and felt the same way... intrusive pop-ups asking for a password all the time. (The same might be true for linux--everything needs a sudo or just run as su.).
The recommendation for developers & engineers is that they be on a completely separate network that is isolated from live data. And they probably should be getting emails on the development machines (nor clicking on wedding web sites).
I disagree about giving administrative prvileges...why would a user ever need to install anything on their machine? There should be a standard build that is locked down very tightly that is deployed to every desktop. Group policies should prevent/log all users actions. In general, intstalling an application should be a firing offense. This is pretty much security 101.
For about $65 you can get an SMS voting site; vote via SMS, Web, twitter... can limit to one vote per person and record (by phone #) who votes. Requires attendees to have SMS services... and for the 3 or 4 votes might cost some of them $1 or so for the SMS message. Easy, cheap, real-time reporting on web page or flash control.
The researchers clearly invested more time and money than the price of the machine they can get for "free". It took about 6-person weeks to develop the exploit... assuming the researchers could bill at a consulting rate of $250/hour (not unreasonable for a top security consultant) they've invested $60,000 in the exploit, add to this travel, opportunity cost at the conference plus other expenses.... if they wanted a Mac, buying it would have been way cheaper.
It's a little bit about prestige...and anyway the security consultants can earn more working on the PCs...because everyone knows that Macs are more secure....and there is almost no corporate market for Mac security.
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I've always thought it would be useful if you could mark as file as automatically deleting at a certain date. If you create a temporary file, it would be nice to flag it as "delete after 60 days" so it doesn't need attention in the future. (The same functionality would be really useful for emials...I want to save this email until after the event (or whatever it's about) and then have it automatically deleted.) I once saw the file functionality on a custom Cray operating system in the 1977.
Sorry, I should have said recent and pre-built. The versions you referenced are older versions of SAMBA and not binaries.
SAMBA (Windows file sharing) in no longer included with OS X Server. This is a mixed blessing, as the version of SAMBA that Apple included was very old--and had a number of bugs and vulnerabilities, but it did make it eash to use the Mac as an sever in a PC environment. Although, I never used the frontend others report that Apple put a slick GUI on SAMBA to make it easier to use.
Instead of supporting SAMBA, Apple is going there own way with a competitive solution. I don't know what license Apple is using for their version of Windows file sharing, nor how compatible (or supported it is).
Last time I looked, there are no pre-built SAMBA downloads for the Mac. Perhaps someone will chime in if this is because no one wants one or it is hard to do.
If he was really concerned about security then he would have handcuffed the device to his wrist (or at least not set it down), or have his security guard shoot anyone who touched the device.
Realistically, it should of taken one call to the corporate help desk (or data security) and the device could have been deactivated and wiped within 1 minute. (Oh, wait you don't work for a company that has a help desk, security guards and remote wipe. Then your data probably isn't that valuable.)
If you are seriously interested in security, and have the budget to support it, get a enterprise-level Blackberry. These are used for highly sensitive data and are encrypted, remotely wiped.
Second, don't load a bunch of applications that offer to share your data--do you really need twitter on your work phone? I'd recommend a basic phone and a encypted laptop if your data is that valuable. If you need a cool phone for social stuff, carry two phones. One for your top secret data and other for social interactions
Secure and iPhone or Android don't go together.
Secure isn't cheap, and generally makes it harder to use.
Almost everyone I know who uses an iPhone has no clue on how to change their email signature. I find it irritating that all of their emails contain an ad for iphone and whatever carrier they happen to use.
I know, editing a signature is a tough technical task for most iphone users.... or are they just bragging about how cool they are to have an iphone?
I've tried bluetooth keyboards and mice and I agree they don't work well. Moderate priced keyboards and mice from companies like logitech which include both a proprietary receiver and transmitter (they call it unifying receiver) just seem to work. Plug them in and they pair without any difficulty. Bluetooth is just a PIA...
About the only bluetooth items that have been easy to use are the silly-looking BT headsets.
The technology never met its hype.
Isn't this pretty much what Adobe did with PDFs.... the reader was free but you had to pay for the writer. Then they enhanced it by adding scripting for interactivity.... and we all know how secure PDFs are.
You forgot about all the ads for other canon products and what's even more annoying is the pop-ups that show up after printing a page.... yes... I'm looking at you HP. I don't think I'll ever buy another HP printer after having seen how much bloatware/advertising/spam is included in their drivers....
FYI... the PC drivers aren't any better these days... especially bad that a postscript driver (which is pretty much baked into the OS is so huge)
I guess this still doesn't explain why a printer driver needs to be more 300MB! Is the printer model on the mac so broken that driving a printer/scanner needs to be written from scratch or are the Canon drivers just totally written from scratch (or more likely both). Your basic printer driver used to fit on a floppy or two... how software has bloated is just amazing...
The 70's called and they want their timesharing systems back.
It seems like cloud computing is just a fancy name for timesharing (although with a graphically richer frontend). Timesharing allowed you to share a large network...but they hadn't invented the cloud yet... it was just a hunk'ng mainframe (or mini).
One place to start is to look at netcraft http://news.netcraft.com/ they rate the reliability of hosting frims--companies that have been at the top for many months are probably a good recomendation. Look at the client list, and find out what services they are buying. Ask about client service--at top tier the phones should be answered in one or two rings by a extremely knowledgeable tech who can solve the issue. No call trees or escalation. Ideally you'll get an assigned customer service team that takes the time to learn your application and proactively monitors the system. Ask your team some technical question to assess whether you're comfortable with their answers.
Also find a hosting frim that is expert in the technology that you're planning to use. If you're going the .net, MS SQL route, don't get a firm that mainly uses LAMP and vice versa.
Also, make sure you trust their technical expertise (which is what you are paying for).
Expect to spend 10X over ther bare-bones hosting... but hosting will be a minor cost in the grand scheme of things.
Hosting secure, high-reliability, high-availabity web sites isn't a do-it-yourself proposition. Perhaps you should have your site hosted by a top quality vendor who has the staff and expertise to maintain the physical and software security.
The problem is that this type of hosting isn't cheap. The bargain basement hosting firms will not provide the expertise and customer support necessary.
Unless you're really going to scale up quickly, it's unlikely that you can hire (or become) expert in all of the domains necessary to provide top tier hosting. For example, can you accurate manage the A/C needs for your site hosting? Do you have guaranteed service contracts on the A/C units an N+1 back ups? Same with power, backups, hot off-site recovery, physical security, insurance, fuel for your generators, battery contracts?
I'd go with a top-tier hosting firm, and be prepared to pay significantly more than $10/month.
Without permission you can't use the word "Super Bowl". Therefore you often see promotions for Super Bowl events that use other language. For example, you can't have a give away for free Super Bowl tickets, but you can offer tickets to "The big game" as a prize.
Individuals and businesses are protected under the First Amendment in what's called "nominative fair use," in which a trademark is allowed to be used if it describes a phrase and lacks commercial intent, Basin says. For instance, an electronics store ad could suggest to customers that they "Come get your TV before the Super Bowl," because it is describing an event.
http://www.businessinsider.com/att-gocharge-kiosks-dodging-the-super-bowl-trademark-2011-2#ixzz1O7E1h52l
They could probably have gotten away with "Win a free tablet computer" as the prize.
Traditionally mainframes are very secure from this type, or any type, of malware. The administrators are generally competent and have good controls on what get installed. Also, mainframe admins are used to paying for software have very high expectations on the quality.You never hear about virus on IBM system Z10's
I believe the solution is to put the "courtesy" network completely outside of the work network--no connection. Although you still need to run a firewall to prevent rogue servers and downloads. One could argue that the company is completely responsible for any illegal use (downloads, spam) on their corporate IP addresses.
Unless the IP addresses are in a completely seperate range, the company needs to be careful that any spam from the "friends" network doesn't impact the corporate rating.
The next question is it really worth the bother? The hip employees with their iphones already have data plans (and probably don't care how much it costs (see Apple kit)), so why do you need to provide free wifi?
I second this thought. Remember, that's why they call it work. If employees want to update their facebook status, chat with friends, shop or goof off, I believe that's what they call leisure.
There is a big difference between 15% and 20%, and you're quoting 8 year old stats. Also, your original comment was 20% DOA (dead on arrival) which is a huge difference than ever needing repair.
What is the source for your 20% DOA stat? That seems alarmingly high as the repair cost probably eats up the entire profit on the sale. The last time I got a DOA electronic product was a cheap kitchen timer. If QA is designing their processes to produce 20% DOA, it's time to find another contract manufacturer.
Actually the 100 Dells are over a 12 year period. Our problem with the Dells isn't HD, but bad caps on the motherboards. THe Optiplexes 280 series had some serious problems. Also, we've lost a few power supplies. Everyone's HDs are pretty much the same as they all come from the same few OEMs. Generally, the Dell never fail in the first 3 years, 10% in years 3 to 4 and another 10% there after. We generally recycle the machines after 6 years (although we have a 10+ machine running as a linux server--originally W2000).
Even better is building it right in the first place. There's really no excuse for bad RAM (expeically at the prices Apple charges). Diagnosing bad ram can be extremely time consuming and the symptoms aren't easy to spot (unless it's really DOA). You've drunk the Apple-aide on the iPhone. Rather than complaining a crappy, poorly manufactured product, you're proud that you bought a defective item and then when you identified the customer they fixed it. How much time did you spend going to the ARS, waiting in line, talking to someone to get a defective product fixed.
If you had bought a Dell and it came with defective RAM or flash, you would complain about the crappy quality of PCs. With Apple, a bad product is a way of delighting the customer.
I have to say that in purchasing close to 100 Dells for my company I've never gotten a DOA device or bad RAM.
True... I was mostly referring to average office employees... Recently I needed to do some work on rebuilding a Mac and felt the same way... intrusive pop-ups asking for a password all the time. (The same might be true for linux--everything needs a sudo or just run as su.).
The recommendation for developers & engineers is that they be on a completely separate network that is isolated from live data. And they probably should be getting emails on the development machines (nor clicking on wedding web sites).
I disagree about giving administrative prvileges...why would a user ever need to install anything on their machine? There should be a standard build that is locked down very tightly that is deployed to every desktop. Group policies should prevent/log all users actions. In general, intstalling an application should be a firing offense. This is pretty much security 101.
For about $65 you can get an SMS voting site; vote via SMS, Web, twitter... can limit to one vote per person and record (by phone #) who votes. Requires attendees to have SMS services... and for the 3 or 4 votes might cost some of them $1 or so for the SMS message. Easy, cheap, real-time reporting on web page or flash control.
We used : http://www.polleverywhere.com/ but there are lots of competitors with similar service.
The researchers clearly invested more time and money than the price of the machine they can get for "free". It took about 6-person weeks to develop the exploit... assuming the researchers could bill at a consulting rate of $250/hour (not unreasonable for a top security consultant) they've invested $60,000 in the exploit, add to this travel, opportunity cost at the conference plus other expenses.... if they wanted a Mac, buying it would have been way cheaper.
It's a little bit about prestige...and anyway the security consultants can earn more working on the PCs...because everyone knows that Macs are more secure....and there is almost no corporate market for Mac security.