But to stay on topic: We use sendmail at all of our locations because we enjoy the extremely powerful customizability. Yes, it is a little disconcerting trying to disect sendmail.cf, but once you get the hang of it it's not bad. I have never had to do any performance tweaks either.
Are you serious? Enterprise kicks ass! This is the first Star Trek series that I have gotten really into the first season. TNG and Voyager took me until the second season. DS9 I never really liked.
I think it is called dark matter because there should be more matter in our galaxy than is currently visible/detectable. But finding more visible matter would seem to reduce the need for as much "dark" matter.
Yeah, those are some nice features that Tivo users would also like to have. But will ReplayTV survive the law suits? AFAIK they are being sued because of this and other features like commercial skip.
It really sucks that companies get screwed for innovating and giving people features they want.
I think it boils down to the fact that networks make money on the commercials. They don't make any more money if you copy the videos and give them to your friends. Plus most people skip commercials when they record a show... a practice the networks HATE. That's why TiVo has never implemented an automatic commerical skip feature. ReplayTV has it, but they are getting harrassed because of it. Very lame.
I'm with you. As an admin we only use Netsol for our domains. Easy to manage and very reliable. I have had friends tell me to use godaddy.com or some other bargain registrar but no thanks. Maybe for home use but not for business use. I don't want some cheap ass registrar going out of business resulting in my domain being screwed up.
Excellent! Does anyone know if this card will be available in Dual DVI format? I am currently using a Quadro4 NVS 200 because of its dual DVI capabilities but the 3D is, um, less than stellar.
I don't know about you, but I have been burned by ATI over and over again with regards to driver quality. I sincerely hope they are still not bad about drivers but I'm not going to risk it again.
NVidia has always had top notch driver support, and they continue to support even the oldest TNT cards with driver updates. ATI tends to drop new driver support after a couple years.
I'm waiting for the GeForce FX. I just hope I can get one with dual DVI.
Heh... funny, but a bit inaccurate. Neither the 386SX nor 386DX had a mathco. The SX had a 16-bit external bus while the DX had a 32-bit external bus. You're thinking of the 486SX vs 486DX (SX had no working mathco and the DX had a built-in mathco).
I can see your point but somewhat disagree. I have seen wishy-washy sysadmins who do not have strong opinions. It does not inspire confidence. I think strong experience-based opinions are very important. But you *also* need to be open minded to other possibilities and give them fair consideration. I don't see that as being a conflict. Cuz that's the way I am (as a network admin).
The VFD in my SliMP3 is dimmable. I was under the impression that VFDs were noticably brighter than regular LCDs. That's the main reason Slim Devices decided to use VFDs according to their info.
From what I have heard, most of the cheapass consumer devices aren't all that great. If you want a really secure WiFi implementation, go with Cisco equipment. Of course it's a bit cost prohibitive for home but a no-brainer for businesses.
At my house I use some of the cheap stuff. But I would still enable WEP and MAC filtering even though they can be broken. You still lock your car door even though someone can slim-jim it or just bash your window.
You are quite right that security concerns with WiFi should be based on what kind of traffic is being spewed out into the atmosphere.
If it's HTTPS you don't have to worry about it because the HTTPS protocol already encrypts your data very well. Similarly, if it's data you really don't care about (like web browsing) then you don't really need to worry.
The point is many businesses use wireless like it's a PRIVATE network. Wirless should be viewed as a PUBLIC network, even when you have WEP enabled and MAC filtering turned on. Best practice IMO is to use IPSec encryption (it's not flawed like WEP). Basically set up VPN endpoints on each side of the WiFi link.
If they would just reject all unknown mac addresses and accept from a known list WITH the added benifit of encypting all the traffic there would be NOTHING to worry about.
A little too confident here? WEP encryption is flawed and hackable without too much effort. MAC addresses can be spoofed pretty easily.
Wireless is very tempting, but it should be considered a "public" network. Run all of your traffic through encrypted IPSec tunnels.
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Robut? You sound like Dr. Zoidberg on Futurama.
But to stay on topic: We use sendmail at all of our locations because we enjoy the extremely powerful customizability. Yes, it is a little disconcerting trying to disect sendmail.cf, but once you get the hang of it it's not bad. I have never had to do any performance tweaks either.
Are you serious? Enterprise kicks ass! This is the first Star Trek series that I have gotten really into the first season. TNG and Voyager took me until the second season. DS9 I never really liked.
I think it is called dark matter because there should be more matter in our galaxy than is currently visible/detectable. But finding more visible matter would seem to reduce the need for as much "dark" matter.
Yes, I am aware of the 30-second skip feature that can be enabled. But I was talking about AUTOMATIC commercial skip.
Yeah, those are some nice features that Tivo users would also like to have. But will ReplayTV survive the law suits? AFAIK they are being sued because of this and other features like commercial skip.
It really sucks that companies get screwed for innovating and giving people features they want.
I think it boils down to the fact that networks make money on the commercials. They don't make any more money if you copy the videos and give them to your friends. Plus most people skip commercials when they record a show... a practice the networks HATE. That's why TiVo has never implemented an automatic commerical skip feature. ReplayTV has it, but they are getting harrassed because of it. Very lame.
I'm with you. As an admin we only use Netsol for our domains. Easy to manage and very reliable. I have had friends tell me to use godaddy.com or some other bargain registrar but no thanks. Maybe for home use but not for business use. I don't want some cheap ass registrar going out of business resulting in my domain being screwed up.
Domain Name: GST.COM
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
Looks like they went over your dead body.
Excellent! Does anyone know if this card will be available in Dual DVI format? I am currently using a Quadro4 NVS 200 because of its dual DVI capabilities but the 3D is, um, less than stellar.
I just searched 2.4.20... nothing with that phrase. But there are a lot of lines with the word "wonder".
I don't know about you, but I have been burned by ATI over and over again with regards to driver quality. I sincerely hope they are still not bad about drivers but I'm not going to risk it again.
NVidia has always had top notch driver support, and they continue to support even the oldest TNT cards with driver updates. ATI tends to drop new driver support after a couple years.
I'm waiting for the GeForce FX. I just hope I can get one with dual DVI.
Heh... funny, but a bit inaccurate. Neither the 386SX nor 386DX had a mathco. The SX had a 16-bit external bus while the DX had a 32-bit external bus. You're thinking of the 486SX vs 486DX (SX had no working mathco and the DX had a built-in mathco).
I can see your point but somewhat disagree. I have seen wishy-washy sysadmins who do not have strong opinions. It does not inspire confidence. I think strong experience-based opinions are very important. But you *also* need to be open minded to other possibilities and give them fair consideration. I don't see that as being a conflict. Cuz that's the way I am (as a network admin).
I don't know about you, but I wouldn't be comfortable complaining about my job in that manner unless the interview was anonymous.
But I think you are right: as a network admin I complain about management, users, etc. And who doesn't complain about pay or job security?
The VFD in my SliMP3 is dimmable. I was under the impression that VFDs were noticably brighter than regular LCDs. That's the main reason Slim Devices decided to use VFDs according to their info.
VFDs are much easier to read from a greater distance than backlit LCDs.
I think this is the display that the incredible SliMP3 device uses. Except it uses only a 2-line display.
"A book considered authoritative in its field."
That certainly would apply to many of the tech books with bible in the title.
And who said the forbidden fruit were apples?
Now if the government contractor was only following the government mandated HIPAA regulations....
Due to a flaw in the implementation of WEP, 128-bit encryption ends up being no more secure than 40-bit. More info here.
From what I have heard, most of the cheapass consumer devices aren't all that great. If you want a really secure WiFi implementation, go with Cisco equipment. Of course it's a bit cost prohibitive for home but a no-brainer for businesses.
At my house I use some of the cheap stuff. But I would still enable WEP and MAC filtering even though they can be broken. You still lock your car door even though someone can slim-jim it or just bash your window.
What I want to know is how you would go about getting a refund. Most (if not all?) stores have a exchange-only-if-defective policy with music.
Sorry to disappoint, but I am not racist. He may be, but his question was sound and didn't have any racist remarks in it.
You are quite right that security concerns with WiFi should be based on what kind of traffic is being spewed out into the atmosphere.
If it's HTTPS you don't have to worry about it because the HTTPS protocol already encrypts your data very well. Similarly, if it's data you really don't care about (like web browsing) then you don't really need to worry.
The point is many businesses use wireless like it's a PRIVATE network. Wirless should be viewed as a PUBLIC network, even when you have WEP enabled and MAC filtering turned on. Best practice IMO is to use IPSec encryption (it's not flawed like WEP). Basically set up VPN endpoints on each side of the WiFi link.
If they would just reject all unknown mac addresses and accept from a known list WITH the added benifit of encypting all the traffic there would be NOTHING to worry about.
A little too confident here? WEP encryption is flawed and hackable without too much effort. MAC addresses can be spoofed pretty easily.
Wireless is very tempting, but it should be considered a "public" network. Run all of your traffic through encrypted IPSec tunnels.