FTK is a nice tool to play around with for Windows users, especially with the testing images. The free trial does have a limit of 5,000 files per image so if you create or work on testing images you may have to get rid of extraneous junk and leave the good stuff. SleuthKit and Autopsy are great for the *nix environment. After you get those tools working you might give Scan of the Month challenges 24 and 26 from The Honeynet Projecta shot. They're both pretty fun and challenging. Don't worry if you don't know what you're doing. Both of the challenges have writeups done on how to accomplish the tasks and what tools were used if you need guidance.
I don't diagree, but wasn't the Internet(1?) used mostly for research purposes at the beginning? Granted, the filesharing was illegal but does this mean that Internet2 cannot be used for anything but reasearch? Will other legal activities be prevented from using Internet2 in the future because it may not be research?
Ok, how many other people immediately did a google search to see how attractive she really was? The first link gives a decent picture of her. She's cute.
If I remember correctly, doesn't AOL own WinAmp?Could this be why they recently let go of most of the WinAmp progammers? So that they could take what they already have and turn it into their own with some extras thrown in?
Use your knowledge of open source and *nix to help your company PLAN for the switch over to open source. Help them realize what it takes. This is your chance to shine. Otherwise, they may freak out at the extra effort needed to get it off of the ground when they realize that it takes SKILLED admins instead of the run of the mill Microsoft admins.
...and I'd have to say that the review was pretty thorough. I couldn't put the book down when I first got it (which would probably be true for any other self described nerd on here). Here's the link to the book's web site if you want to read anything about it. There is a sample chapter there as I'm sure there probably is on amazon or bn.com.
What do you suggest the government do instead or in addition to this? For me, right now, nothing comes to mind that anyone would be happy with (but hey, it's late)
Dude, no harm intended. I wasn't knocking anyone. I know IU has a good IT/MIS program and for both of our schools to be at the top of this list requires competence. I was just relaying what the VP of IT talked to us about since it provided direct insight to the top two schools on the list.
Also, IU's campus having more access points or a higher concentration was exactly why their setup was considered better than ours. I think that the VP of IT would have at least some insight as to the nature of the relationship/colaboration between the IT depts. of each school, which by the way, he said was very good.
... and I asked him about this very same topic. Funny, because he said "Have you seen the Intel article about the most wired college campuses?" Of course, I hadn't at the time and forgot to look it up. Then, bam, on Slashdot two days later.
I asked him to compare our setup and implementation to our peer universitites and he basically said that we were right at the top. We've had full coverage on campus for three semesters (counting back including this one). Before that they rolled it out over three semesters. So, it's been on campus for about 3 yrs now. Kinda cool.
When ITAP (the IT services dept) decided to do it, they actually rolled together three other independant implementations from the School of Mgmt and a couple of other places. In addition to full campus coverage, now we even have wireless access at our footbal stadium (with a ton of money donated by Cisco and other companies) that can be used to access stats, etc. during the game - mostly from PDAs.
Funniest part of the story from the VP of IT was that when he told us that IU was number 1 on the list. Apparently, after Purdue had rolled out wireless across the campus (or was partly through implementation), IU called and asked how they did it and copied the setup. He said that they beat us on 'green space'. IU's physical campus is spread out over a larger area than Purdue's. IU covered the green space and nudged us out.
Maybe I'm visiting the wrong web sites, but it's great to hear these things from someone who's been on the cusp of network administration from the beginning.
S: So education is a part of this? JS: Education is a part of this, both for the people who own personal computers and work with the data and for the people running these systems.
I can vouch for the end part of the article for sure, as I'm sure many Slashdot readers can. Right now I'm doing an Information Security Risk Assessment as part of a graduate level class that I'm taking. Fortunately, for the K-12 schools on which we perform these assessments we cover user education as part of an overall Information Security program. Also, it gives us the chance to see user education and awareness from their point of view, which helps us make the case for having user awareness training. A lot of end users don't realize that having a weak password is like giving away the key to your organization (or school in this case). I'll give you two guesses as to the biggest topic that we've discussed with the school corp. and the first one doesn't count;)
You would not believe how woefully inadequate schools are when it comes to an Information Security Program. If you have the opportunity to help a school out, do it. It will help you learn something, help the school better themselves, and better the community by protecting the little ones' information.
An interesting quote from the article:"Willy Moss has been trying to reach that brass ring for a long time, and he's had way more money than Taleyarkhan and way more facilities," George said. "And when Taleyarkhan said he had neutrons, (Moss) sort of chimed in and said, 'No, no you don't,' because he was hard on the trail trying to get there first."
Seems there is a bit of anonymity here. In the defense of the researcher(s):The evidence now is "far more compelling," he said. "This time around, before publication took place, I deliberately involved a series of highly acclaimed physicists to come down to the lab and review the experimental setup and the way we were obtaining data and look at the experimental data."
After receiving positive reviews from them, he took the findings to the management of Oak Ridge, which conducted its own internal review, making the forthcoming publication "perhaps the most peer-reviewed paper in the history of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory," Taleyarkhan said.
Some states encrypt the data before they put it in the barcode on the back of your license. It helps to prevent fake IDs. At least in Indiana, some of the liquor stores have scanners in them, through a deal with the state to read the back of the ID which has a PDF 417 2D barcode. That way when some 5'5", black hair, brown eyed underage person presnts the ID and the data on the back shows 6'1", blonde hair, blue eyes, they know it's a fake.
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FTK is a nice tool to play around with for Windows users, especially with the testing images. The free trial does have a limit of 5,000 files per image so if you create or work on testing images you may have to get rid of extraneous junk and leave the good stuff. SleuthKit and Autopsy are great for the *nix environment. After you get those tools working you might give Scan of the Month challenges 24 and 26 from The Honeynet Projecta shot. They're both pretty fun and challenging. Don't worry if you don't know what you're doing. Both of the challenges have writeups done on how to accomplish the tasks and what tools were used if you need guidance.
Does this mean they will get sharks with fricken lasers on their heads?
That's easy. Belgium is west of Russia, south of England, north of Africa and east of the US. It's around there somewhere...right?
I don't diagree, but wasn't the Internet(1?) used mostly for research purposes at the beginning? Granted, the filesharing was illegal but does this mean that Internet2 cannot be used for anything but reasearch? Will other legal activities be prevented from using Internet2 in the future because it may not be research?
And then MIT will loose to the high school kids from Phoenix.
If you want to know what's going on in the US with respect to biometrics, head over to the site for the M1 working group which writes the standards.
Ok, how many other people immediately did a google search to see how attractive she really was? The first link gives a decent picture of her. She's cute.
If I remember correctly, doesn't AOL own WinAmp?Could this be why they recently let go of most of the WinAmp progammers? So that they could take what they already have and turn it into their own with some extras thrown in?
I had no idea what a Mandelbrot set was before this article but for an 80 yr old, he sounds like one cool dude.
Use your knowledge of open source and *nix to help your company PLAN for the switch over to open source. Help them realize what it takes. This is your chance to shine. Otherwise, they may freak out at the extra effort needed to get it off of the ground when they realize that it takes SKILLED admins instead of the run of the mill Microsoft admins.
...and I'd have to say that the review was pretty thorough. I couldn't put the book down when I first got it (which would probably be true for any other self described nerd on here). Here's the link to the book's web site if you want to read anything about it. There is a sample chapter there as I'm sure there probably is on amazon or bn.com.
In what way is promoting increased use of PNGs unrealistic?
Switching to PNG because 5% or browsers will benefit is the unrealistic part.
Some people don't have the option to live in an ideological world and must live in a realistic one.
did you *actually* read the post before replying or did you just read what you wanted to hear?
That's a pretty good point.
What do you suggest the government do instead or in addition to this? For me, right now, nothing comes to mind that anyone would be happy with (but hey, it's late)
Does anyone else have any ideas to:
- Improve
- Reorganize, or
- Change
this process?touché
Another positive point to this book is the pace and order of the book. It starts with part one,...
That struck me as kind of funny. I'd hope that all books start out that way. God help us when books start at part two.
Dude, no harm intended. I wasn't knocking anyone. I know IU has a good IT/MIS program and for both of our schools to be at the top of this list requires competence. I was just relaying what the VP of IT talked to us about since it provided direct insight to the top two schools on the list.
Also, IU's campus having more access points or a higher concentration was exactly why their setup was considered better than ours. I think that the VP of IT would have at least some insight as to the nature of the relationship/colaboration between the IT depts. of each school, which by the way, he said was very good.
... and I asked him about this very same topic. Funny, because he said "Have you seen the Intel article about the most wired college campuses?" Of course, I hadn't at the time and forgot to look it up. Then, bam, on Slashdot two days later.
I asked him to compare our setup and implementation to our peer universitites and he basically said that we were right at the top. We've had full coverage on campus for three semesters (counting back including this one). Before that they rolled it out over three semesters. So, it's been on campus for about 3 yrs now. Kinda cool.When ITAP (the IT services dept) decided to do it, they actually rolled together three other independant implementations from the School of Mgmt and a couple of other places. In addition to full campus coverage, now we even have wireless access at our footbal stadium (with a ton of money donated by Cisco and other companies) that can be used to access stats, etc. during the game - mostly from PDAs.
Funniest part of the story from the VP of IT was that when he told us that IU was number 1 on the list. Apparently, after Purdue had rolled out wireless across the campus (or was partly through implementation), IU called and asked how they did it and copied the setup. He said that they beat us on 'green space'. IU's physical campus is spread out over a larger area than Purdue's. IU covered the green space and nudged us out.
Maybe I'm visiting the wrong web sites, but it's great to hear these things from someone who's been on the cusp of network administration from the beginning.
S: So education is a part of this?
JS: Education is a part of this, both for the people who own personal computers and work with the data and for the people running these systems.
I can vouch for the end part of the article for sure, as I'm sure many Slashdot readers can. Right now I'm doing an Information Security Risk Assessment as part of a graduate level class that I'm taking. Fortunately, for the K-12 schools on which we perform these assessments we cover user education as part of an overall Information Security program. Also, it gives us the chance to see user education and awareness from their point of view, which helps us make the case for having user awareness training. A lot of end users don't realize that having a weak password is like giving away the key to your organization (or school in this case). I'll give you two guesses as to the biggest topic that we've discussed with the school corp. and the first one doesn't count ;)
You would not believe how woefully inadequate schools are when it comes to an Information Security Program. If you have the opportunity to help a school out, do it. It will help you learn something, help the school better themselves, and better the community by protecting the little ones' information.
here's a link from a local paper.
An interesting quote from the article:"Willy Moss has been trying to reach that brass ring for a long time, and he's had way more money than Taleyarkhan and way more facilities," George said. "And when Taleyarkhan said he had neutrons, (Moss) sort of chimed in and said, 'No, no you don't,' because he was hard on the trail trying to get there first."
Seems there is a bit of anonymity here. In the defense of the researcher(s):The evidence now is "far more compelling," he said. "This time around, before publication took place, I deliberately involved a series of highly acclaimed physicists to come down to the lab and review the experimental setup and the way we were obtaining data and look at the experimental data."
After receiving positive reviews from them, he took the findings to the management of Oak Ridge, which conducted its own internal review, making the forthcoming publication "perhaps the most peer-reviewed paper in the history of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory," Taleyarkhan said.
It has already begun. I ran into this the other day by chance. Eeeeeerily similar to the Google toolbar. Coincidence? hehe, right.
Some states encrypt the data before they put it in the barcode on the back of your license. It helps to prevent fake IDs. At least in Indiana, some of the liquor stores have scanners in them, through a deal with the state to read the back of the ID which has a PDF 417 2D barcode. That way when some 5'5", black hair, brown eyed underage person presnts the ID and the data on the back shows 6'1", blonde hair, blue eyes, they know it's a fake.