Give tax breaks to companies that encourage working from home, carsharing pools, put on buses to take employees that last difficult mile from the station.
the sucky thing about this is that a) you need a mac and b) you will get a single stream repeated to a single set of speakers. all this saves is a cable between your laptop and your hifi - it DOESN'T QUALIFY as a decent IP audio solution. wanna listen to different things in different rooms? tough...
the encryption key is constantly changing: it's like RSA secureID. every minute, the code on your token changes - you can sniff all you want but the result won't be valid for more than 60 seconds...
if they find a suspect with a printer, they can prove that printer was the one in question. sure, it'd be nice for them (and i expect invasive for us) if they could automagically call up the buyer of printer x from the manufacturer's records, but i doubt this is the main aim.
dude, you find a way to underclock say, an HP DL360, and i'd be impressed.
well, actually, i probably wouldn't: it has potential warranty impact etc and you don't want to go voiding maintenance contracts.
any well configured Windows box will have as much uptime as you can shake a stick at.
i've had NT4 workstations that have been up for months on end: they only get booted when a hotfix requires it.
i've had 2000 machines that have been on, undisturbed, for nigh on a year.
my home XP box (which has *all* sorts of crap installed on it: just not buggy crap) is typically never turned off, bar the hotfixes/patches that require a reboot.
i'd expect mac OSX to be no different, and linux too: if your system is setup right, it will stay up for as long as you like.
i really don't see the issue here.
and a couple of tuners - cable or freeview. and some scheduling software and epg. and enough DRM to keep the networks happy.
don't get me wrong, i think apple would make a better HTPC than microsoft's, but a mac mini by itself isn't enough yet.
they're missing the boat though in my opinion. fine for the new G5's but most HTPC needs don't need a monitor and so the mac mini would be perfect as a set top box.
"talented leads"? oh, you precious little prima donna. are they keeping you in lattes and nerf guns?
pay big rates to skilled people if it's worth it to your business. pretty simple, really.
if you're trying to rev engineer code from a company that's gone bust - go hire their lead programmer for 6 months, and task him with documenting it. seriously.
we're a large company, and some of what we do is sensitive: so we don't allow cameras on some sites. however, we have a global deal with vodafone, and a lot of their phones come with cameras.
there was a period when virtually all of their business class phones came with cameras, and it was actually more expensive to buy large quantities of camera-less ones - so some creative thinking was required. the lenses were coated with a nigh-on impossible to remove paint that bonded with the plastic - doesn't hit the warranty as we've not drilled a hole or anything, and we save money. plus, some users can have cameras if there's a need.
If you really want multiple concurrent RDP connections to an XP box (Terminal Services in miniature, basically), then you can with a bit of bodging:
Download the termserv.zip file (google it) and extract it somewhere.
Reboot into Safe Mode. This is necessary to remove Windows File Protection.
Copy the termserv.dll in the zip to %windir%\System32 and %windir%\ServicePackFiles\i386. If the second folder doesn't exist, don't copy it there. Delete termserv.dll from the dllcache folder: %windir%\system32\dllcache
Merge the contents of Concurrent Sessions SP2.reg file into the registry.
Make sure Fast User Switching is turned on. Go Control Panel -> User Accounts -> Change the way users log on or off and turn on Fast User Switching.
Open up the Group Policy Editor: Start Menu > Run > 'gpedit.msc'. Navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Terminal Services. Enable 'Limit Number of Connections' and set the number of connections to 3 (or more). This enables you to have more than one person remotely logged on.
Now reboot back into normal Windows and try out whether Concurrent Sessions in Remote Desktop works...
with norton, you might as well just get it over with early, though. it's going to bork out at some point and cause you a world of pain, so why not do it early and save the suspense?
a lot of PCMCIA wifi adaptors will have a small round plastic plug hiding a standard-ish socket for plugging in an external antennae. this is particularly common on the older buffalo cards - you can get nice, neat external antennae for them that are small enough to fit in your laptop bag and roughly double the range.
this is going to be way neater than cracking open your laptop and soldering something onto the antennae built into the lid of your laptop.
see http://l8shop.net/Products/Buffalo_AirStation_2_4G Hz_Wireless_Indoor_Omni_Antenna__WLE_NDR.aspx for an example: I had one of these with a 1st gen 802.11 buffalo card and it worked very nicely.
it's all about enterprise readiness. i don't have any personal experience of truecrypt, but I do of pointsec, and i'd trust pointsec enterprise-wide. it does decent recovery by authorised users, it can be installed silently when pushed out via SMS or login scripts, and it encrypts in the background. it just kind of works. truecrypt may be just as good, but as i say, i don't have confidence through experience with it yet.
try http://www.pointsec.com/. it's not biometrics, it's a username/password, but it encrypts the whole drive in 256 DES. works great, we have it on thousands of machines at work. it'll slow down a borderline-spec laptop though. it gives a logon prompt before windows boots, and supports single-sign on, too, so it can log you into your domain as well.
they also prioritised calls for key personnel (medical, police, military etc) so that their registered GSM phones had priority. this, combined with 999 prioritisation was what happened during the london bombings.
interestingly, the 999/112 emergency call prioritisation happens automatically. if you're in a cell which is overloaded with traffic and you can't make a call, this can and has been abused by users who make an emergency call (which boots off a number of live calls at the nearest base station to take it), hanging up before connection, and then redial the number they want, which will connect via the free slots created.
this is highly antisocial and obviously stupid though.
WEP keys are either passphrase (5 digit ASCII for 56bit encryption, 10 digit for larger etc) or hex. A passphrase has ASCII and hex equivalents: a lot of wireless cards don't like the ASCII type. Put it in in hex, and it'll work.
This isn't really worth of an ask-slashdot, however...
this was down to the phone company to decide to implement. for example, on the Orange SPV C500 (an HTC typhoon running Windows Mobile 2003), they had an application lock of this sort. It doesn't stop all apps installing: just ones that write to protected areas of the registry. This can be a good thing: it stops Joe Punter screwing up his phone and Orange having to fix it. To get code to write to these protected areas, the developer either has to get it certified, or the user has to unlock the phone - which implies they know what they're doing.
FWIW, the Orange developers site gives you a free OTA (over the air) unlock via their webpage.
now jammers are so cheap, you can simply dispense a lot of them around an area, or airdrop them. sure, they'll be targetted and destroyed, but if they're cheap and plentiful enough, you still manage to jam GPS...
...do NOT set this kind of autodiscovery stuff loose on a network that you don't admin, otherwise someone is going to come and ask you some pretty pointed questions right before they lay into you with a cat5-o-9-tails...
they *all* do: it's a strong EU suggestion they all have it that will become a directive shortly. All manufacturers (bar TVR, who basically said "sorry, we didn't hear you. What did you say?" now have it.
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Give tax breaks to companies that encourage working from home, carsharing pools, put on buses to take employees that last difficult mile from the station.
this is why biodiesel or bioethanol is the way forward: grow it like a crop, pay the farmers accordingly...PROFIT!
...god invented cargo pants. seriously. not for the military, it's for guys to carry their other halves purse/phone/keys/crap when you go out.
the sucky thing about this is that a) you need a mac and b) you will get a single stream repeated to a single set of speakers. all this saves is a cable between your laptop and your hifi - it DOESN'T QUALIFY as a decent IP audio solution. wanna listen to different things in different rooms? tough...
it's MONEY. compromised home machines, compromised online banking, identify theft, spam bot-nets...
Is that why they're in use in most of the new HP Proliants? http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20050427 19320516
the encryption key is constantly changing: it's like RSA secureID. every minute, the code on your token changes - you can sniff all you want but the result won't be valid for more than 60 seconds...
if they find a suspect with a printer, they can prove that printer was the one in question. sure, it'd be nice for them (and i expect invasive for us) if they could automagically call up the buyer of printer x from the manufacturer's records, but i doubt this is the main aim.
dude, you find a way to underclock say, an HP DL360, and i'd be impressed.
well, actually, i probably wouldn't: it has potential warranty impact etc and you don't want to go voiding maintenance contracts.
any well configured Windows box will have as much uptime as you can shake a stick at.
i've had NT4 workstations that have been up for months on end: they only get booted when a hotfix requires it. i've had 2000 machines that have been on, undisturbed, for nigh on a year.
my home XP box (which has *all* sorts of crap installed on it: just not buggy crap) is typically never turned off, bar the hotfixes/patches that require a reboot.
i'd expect mac OSX to be no different, and linux too: if your system is setup right, it will stay up for as long as you like.
i really don't see the issue here.
and a couple of tuners - cable or freeview. and some scheduling software and epg. and enough DRM to keep the networks happy.
don't get me wrong, i think apple would make a better HTPC than microsoft's, but a mac mini by itself isn't enough yet.
they're missing the boat though in my opinion. fine for the new G5's but most HTPC needs don't need a monitor and so the mac mini would be perfect as a set top box.
"talented leads"? oh, you precious little prima donna. are they keeping you in lattes and nerf guns?
pay big rates to skilled people if it's worth it to your business. pretty simple, really.
if you're trying to rev engineer code from a company that's gone bust - go hire their lead programmer for 6 months, and task him with documenting it. seriously.
we're a large company, and some of what we do is sensitive: so we don't allow cameras on some sites. however, we have a global deal with vodafone, and a lot of their phones come with cameras.
there was a period when virtually all of their business class phones came with cameras, and it was actually more expensive to buy large quantities of camera-less ones - so some creative thinking was required. the lenses were coated with a nigh-on impossible to remove paint that bonded with the plastic - doesn't hit the warranty as we've not drilled a hole or anything, and we save money. plus, some users can have cameras if there's a need.
If you really want multiple concurrent RDP connections to an XP box (Terminal Services in miniature, basically), then you can with a bit of bodging:
Download the termserv.zip file (google it) and extract it somewhere. Reboot into Safe Mode. This is necessary to remove Windows File Protection.
Copy the termserv.dll in the zip to %windir%\System32 and %windir%\ServicePackFiles\i386. If the second folder doesn't exist, don't copy it there. Delete termserv.dll from the dllcache folder: %windir%\system32\dllcache
Merge the contents of Concurrent Sessions SP2.reg file into the registry.
Make sure Fast User Switching is turned on. Go Control Panel -> User Accounts -> Change the way users log on or off and turn on Fast User Switching.
Open up the Group Policy Editor: Start Menu > Run > 'gpedit.msc'. Navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Terminal Services. Enable 'Limit Number of Connections' and set the number of connections to 3 (or more). This enables you to have more than one person remotely logged on.
Now reboot back into normal Windows and try out whether Concurrent Sessions in Remote Desktop works...
with norton, you might as well just get it over with early, though. it's going to bork out at some point and cause you a world of pain, so why not do it early and save the suspense?
a lot of PCMCIA wifi adaptors will have a small round plastic plug hiding a standard-ish socket for plugging in an external antennae. this is particularly common on the older buffalo cards - you can get nice, neat external antennae for them that are small enough to fit in your laptop bag and roughly double the range.G Hz_Wireless_Indoor_Omni_Antenna__WLE_NDR.aspx for an example: I had one of these with a 1st gen 802.11 buffalo card and it worked very nicely.
this is going to be way neater than cracking open your laptop and soldering something onto the antennae built into the lid of your laptop.
see http://l8shop.net/Products/Buffalo_AirStation_2_4
it's all about enterprise readiness. i don't have any personal experience of truecrypt, but I do of pointsec, and i'd trust pointsec enterprise-wide. it does decent recovery by authorised users, it can be installed silently when pushed out via SMS or login scripts, and it encrypts in the background. it just kind of works. truecrypt may be just as good, but as i say, i don't have confidence through experience with it yet.
try http://www.pointsec.com/. it's not biometrics, it's a username/password, but it encrypts the whole drive in 256 DES. works great, we have it on thousands of machines at work. it'll slow down a borderline-spec laptop though.
it gives a logon prompt before windows boots, and supports single-sign on, too, so it can log you into your domain as well.
they also prioritised calls for key personnel (medical, police, military etc) so that their registered GSM phones had priority. this, combined with 999 prioritisation was what happened during the london bombings.
interestingly, the 999/112 emergency call prioritisation happens automatically. if you're in a cell which is overloaded with traffic and you can't make a call, this can and has been abused by users who make an emergency call (which boots off a number of live calls at the nearest base station to take it), hanging up before connection, and then redial the number they want, which will connect via the free slots created.
this is highly antisocial and obviously stupid though.
WEP keys are either passphrase (5 digit ASCII for 56bit encryption, 10 digit for larger etc) or hex. A passphrase has ASCII and hex equivalents: a lot of wireless cards don't like the ASCII type. Put it in in hex, and it'll work. This isn't really worth of an ask-slashdot, however...
this was down to the phone company to decide to implement. for example, on the Orange SPV C500 (an HTC typhoon running Windows Mobile 2003), they had an application lock of this sort. It doesn't stop all apps installing: just ones that write to protected areas of the registry. This can be a good thing: it stops Joe Punter screwing up his phone and Orange having to fix it. To get code to write to these protected areas, the developer either has to get it certified, or the user has to unlock the phone - which implies they know what they're doing.
FWIW, the Orange developers site gives you a free OTA (over the air) unlock via their webpage.
now jammers are so cheap, you can simply dispense a lot of them around an area, or airdrop them. sure, they'll be targetted and destroyed, but if they're cheap and plentiful enough, you still manage to jam GPS...
...do NOT set this kind of autodiscovery stuff loose on a network that you don't admin, otherwise someone is going to come and ask you some pretty pointed questions right before they lay into you with a cat5-o-9-tails...
they *all* do: it's a strong EU suggestion they all have it that will become a directive shortly. All manufacturers (bar TVR, who basically said "sorry, we didn't hear you. What did you say?" now have it.