I know my 5 year old laptop came with a gigabit ethernet card, and an 8-port gigabit switch is only $40 any more. Wireless will always be well behind wired in speed, and only get further away the more people you connect to each AP.
Hell, most laptops ship with gigabit ethernet cards any more. How fast is Wireless N now? And how ubiquitous is it? Is there a gigabit wireless on the horizon? Compare today's wired to tomorrows wireless, and wired is still faster.
Oh, I know. But again, more and more layers of misdirection that aren't hard for me to deal with, but would be increasingly hard to investigate. Besides... would a corrupted encrypted zip look terribly different from a truecrypt volume? Would an investigator know that?
That's why I name my TrueCrypt volumes stuff like "moo.zip"
"Awww, jeez... the damn thing's gotten corrupted! My boss told me to keep my sensitive company files in an encrypted zip file, and it keeps screwing up"
Just because security through obscurity isn't good as the only defense doesn't mean that it's not quite handy in addition to others.
Or use Linux, which handles multiple buttons quite well;) There's NO excuse for any OS to not handle multiple buttons with recent mice... they're all just standard HID devices. Just sending out higher numbered button events for more buttons.
They have nano receivers any more that you don't have to worry about. They're all but flush with the case. What I hate is losing the USB port. If I have bluetooth built in, why would I use a wireless mouse with a dongle that eats up a USB port and more battery power?
Seconded. If you're using a desktop, get a nice wired mouse with a low-friction cable and feed it intelligently. For my laptop though, I LOVE my bluetooth mouse, especially when I travel. So much nicer to just turn the mouse on instead of trying to feed a cord somewhere, and I can turn it off and stuff it in my pocket if I need to move to another conference room or something.
It took my boss eight months to use up the batteries in his wireless mouse, though. That probably says something...
He knows how to use keyboard shortcuts and doesn't use the mouse for absolutely everything? I rarely touch the mouse if I can help it. I hate taking my hand off the keyboard.
Weird. I never changed anything from my default installs and my bluetooth mouse just works. I use KDE 3.5 with it though, so that may be why it works nicely (not going past Ubuntu 8.04 until the next LTS).
I do agree with the rechargeable battery issues, though. I only get mice that use AA/AAA's. I have a Microsoft bluetooth laser 5000 mouse that I use with my work laptop, haven't replaced batteries in it yet and it's been at least 2-3 months. But I typically use it when traveling or at home and not at the office since I have a USB hub.
Really? I got a bluetooth mouse specifically for traveling. The batteries last for months typically, and it's not that big of a deal to keep spares. I just tape a couple AA's together and keep them in the mouse pocket.
BTW, I got the product sheets from Microsoft. The Microsoft bluetooth 5000 mouse: 3.10 ounces (with batteries) vs. the Wheel Mouse Optical at 4.42 ounces. Weight is not a significant enough difference to make your choice, unless you have really, REALLY weak wrists. It's more of a problem dicking with the wired cords around all the random crap that ends up on conference tables, at least in my experience. I just turn my mouse on and go.
Interesting... I've been using Ubuntu 8.04 on my office laptop, and I use a bluetooth mouse when I'm traveling (Microsoft BT Mouse 5000 or whatever it is). In KDE 3.5, I just hit the "connect" button on the mouse, hit search for devices on the computer, and it just worked. Bluez may be a piece of crap, but kbluetooth isn't.
Most Bluetooth devices are attached to the USB bus internally. Not 100% sure on how bluetooth stacks work, but there's no real reason they couldn't be all userspace.
And those problems keep me from buying more PC games. I mean, if I can't get rid of it if it sucks balls, why would I take a chance on it? I'd rather spend $60 on something else. Hell, that'd at least double many people's RAM.
There's actually a red line on the bottom row of what should be yellow "pixels" on the Acid2 smiley face on 3.6a1 here. Not sure why. Acid1 is perfect.
Think of it as encouraging extra stuff to NOT be done in a single rendering thread, then. It's almost impossible to NOT buy a multi-core machine any more. Why should browsers, one of the most commonly used applications, remain single-threaded?
Man, and I hate when I can't even install OSX on my Dell. Apple has so many bugs.
Did you check that your hardware was well supported under Linux? Linux is great, but it's not magic, and it isn't custom-tailored to every quirk like Windows is, having drivers written for each separate computer. Ever wonder why at Dell.com you have to download a different driver pack for the same chips on different machines? It's because it's tuned to work with the specific quirks of that machine.
There should be a minimum level of expertise required to operate certain equipment. You don't get cars that automatically put their turn indicators on, because that would just cause more problems than it solves, and it would enable people to be even stupider. Same thing with Autorun. Autorun should NEVER be there. Let the machine say "What do you want to do with this?" like you're suggesting, but it shouldn't ever just choose something by default.
Hell, if you're really worried, make an "airlock" gate, where the outside door is free to open, but it is built like a faraday cage for the frequencies uses, and the reader is inside that.
That's probably just the cost to develop it. Doesn't seem like a bad deal... less than a million bucks to build a security system design that can be easily implemented and copied, yet remain secure?
People can and do win at gambling. Over the long-term though, the house wins.
Same with the stock market. And in this case, the "house" being the CEO's who pump up their company values and then jump out with a massive golden parachute before it deflates.
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So leave the endpoints as Windows. Make the servers a mix. You don't have a "poor 19 year old airman" doing ALL the admin tasks.
I know my 5 year old laptop came with a gigabit ethernet card, and an 8-port gigabit switch is only $40 any more. Wireless will always be well behind wired in speed, and only get further away the more people you connect to each AP.
Hell, most laptops ship with gigabit ethernet cards any more. How fast is Wireless N now? And how ubiquitous is it? Is there a gigabit wireless on the horizon? Compare today's wired to tomorrows wireless, and wired is still faster.
Same with Starcraft and Diablo II. I still play those games under Wine, and now I don't even need my CD with the official patches. Good times.
Oh, I know. But again, more and more layers of misdirection that aren't hard for me to deal with, but would be increasingly hard to investigate. Besides... would a corrupted encrypted zip look terribly different from a truecrypt volume? Would an investigator know that?
That's why I name my TrueCrypt volumes stuff like "moo.zip"
"Awww, jeez... the damn thing's gotten corrupted! My boss told me to keep my sensitive company files in an encrypted zip file, and it keeps screwing up"
Just because security through obscurity isn't good as the only defense doesn't mean that it's not quite handy in addition to others.
Or use Linux, which handles multiple buttons quite well ;) There's NO excuse for any OS to not handle multiple buttons with recent mice... they're all just standard HID devices. Just sending out higher numbered button events for more buttons.
They have nano receivers any more that you don't have to worry about. They're all but flush with the case. What I hate is losing the USB port. If I have bluetooth built in, why would I use a wireless mouse with a dongle that eats up a USB port and more battery power?
Seconded. If you're using a desktop, get a nice wired mouse with a low-friction cable and feed it intelligently. For my laptop though, I LOVE my bluetooth mouse, especially when I travel. So much nicer to just turn the mouse on instead of trying to feed a cord somewhere, and I can turn it off and stuff it in my pocket if I need to move to another conference room or something.
He knows how to use keyboard shortcuts and doesn't use the mouse for absolutely everything? I rarely touch the mouse if I can help it. I hate taking my hand off the keyboard.
Weird. I never changed anything from my default installs and my bluetooth mouse just works. I use KDE 3.5 with it though, so that may be why it works nicely (not going past Ubuntu 8.04 until the next LTS).
I do agree with the rechargeable battery issues, though. I only get mice that use AA/AAA's. I have a Microsoft bluetooth laser 5000 mouse that I use with my work laptop, haven't replaced batteries in it yet and it's been at least 2-3 months. But I typically use it when traveling or at home and not at the office since I have a USB hub.
Really? I got a bluetooth mouse specifically for traveling. The batteries last for months typically, and it's not that big of a deal to keep spares. I just tape a couple AA's together and keep them in the mouse pocket.
BTW, I got the product sheets from Microsoft. The Microsoft bluetooth 5000 mouse: 3.10 ounces (with batteries) vs. the Wheel Mouse Optical at 4.42 ounces. Weight is not a significant enough difference to make your choice, unless you have really, REALLY weak wrists. It's more of a problem dicking with the wired cords around all the random crap that ends up on conference tables, at least in my experience. I just turn my mouse on and go.
Interesting... I've been using Ubuntu 8.04 on my office laptop, and I use a bluetooth mouse when I'm traveling (Microsoft BT Mouse 5000 or whatever it is). In KDE 3.5, I just hit the "connect" button on the mouse, hit search for devices on the computer, and it just worked. Bluez may be a piece of crap, but kbluetooth isn't.
Most Bluetooth devices are attached to the USB bus internally. Not 100% sure on how bluetooth stacks work, but there's no real reason they couldn't be all userspace.
And those problems keep me from buying more PC games. I mean, if I can't get rid of it if it sucks balls, why would I take a chance on it? I'd rather spend $60 on something else. Hell, that'd at least double many people's RAM.
Wait... you expect your social security contributions to be going anywhere BUT a black hole? Silly person.
Hopefully not just weight sensors. Most NOC employees I've seen are at either end of the weight spectrum, very seldom in the middle.
There's actually a red line on the bottom row of what should be yellow "pixels" on the Acid2 smiley face on 3.6a1 here. Not sure why. Acid1 is perfect.
Think of it as encouraging extra stuff to NOT be done in a single rendering thread, then. It's almost impossible to NOT buy a multi-core machine any more. Why should browsers, one of the most commonly used applications, remain single-threaded?
Man, and I hate when I can't even install OSX on my Dell. Apple has so many bugs.
Did you check that your hardware was well supported under Linux? Linux is great, but it's not magic, and it isn't custom-tailored to every quirk like Windows is, having drivers written for each separate computer. Ever wonder why at Dell.com you have to download a different driver pack for the same chips on different machines? It's because it's tuned to work with the specific quirks of that machine.
Pay $0.03 more per disc and most of that stops. I've found that there are quite a few discs out there that are too cheap, they just don't work.
There should be a minimum level of expertise required to operate certain equipment. You don't get cars that automatically put their turn indicators on, because that would just cause more problems than it solves, and it would enable people to be even stupider. Same thing with Autorun. Autorun should NEVER be there. Let the machine say "What do you want to do with this?" like you're suggesting, but it shouldn't ever just choose something by default.
Hell, if you're really worried, make an "airlock" gate, where the outside door is free to open, but it is built like a faraday cage for the frequencies uses, and the reader is inside that.
That's probably just the cost to develop it. Doesn't seem like a bad deal... less than a million bucks to build a security system design that can be easily implemented and copied, yet remain secure?
People can and do win at gambling. Over the long-term though, the house wins.
Same with the stock market. And in this case, the "house" being the CEO's who pump up their company values and then jump out with a massive golden parachute before it deflates.