um, the holes the sploit uses were patched prior to SP2: hence are rolled up within SP2. so SP2 cures it, just as prior patches do. hence your question makes no sense...
so work somewhere else. fairly simple really: you put control of the network in someone you hire as a network admin, much as you put the hiring and firing in the hands of an HR department. if you have an arse for a sysadmin, and don't like it, you're welcome to leave...
why should we get clients shutdown over night? how would this help us push out patches and the like at night, without inconveniencing the users? i stand by what i said: you can leave my clients up for weeks without a reboot: the only time they get restarted is when a patch requires it, pretty much.
for servers, we're looking at 5 nines.
if you think this is typical. if your network has boxes with an uptime of 7 minutes, something is seriously wrong. i'd expect weeks of uptime out of a corporate imaged client under my control, despite users.
if you can show the business you have a legit need for USB pendrives, they put you in the OU container that allows the use of them. if you can't, they put you in the one labelled "smartarse: delete their homedrive at random intervals".
this is the most inane post i've seen in a while, particularly as it obviously took you so long to tap it out with the stick attached to your forehead.
they're giving you the option of locking something down: this is a boon for sysadmins. you can stand in the corner with a dunces hat on explaining how all this is irrelevant as you could take pictures of sensitive data on the screen and post them to people all you like, but you'll still be being stupid.
is that your account could get TOS'd. with hotmail, all you need to do to kill someone's account stone dead with no recourse is to moan about them to the hotmail abuse desk. they don't check anything, they just close the account. i'd imagine google'd be less evil than this, but even so; given the number of gmail accounts there are and will be, can you really expect an impartial personal investigation for each abuse report?
...but you're right, it's a huge pain.
users write user requirement specification.
techies write functional requirements specification.
traceability matrix written to make sure that all items in former doc are mapped onto items in the latter, and that everything the user's asked for is in there somewhere with a techie bullet point by it.
the problem with this (and with outsourcing generally) is that if it's not written down and agreed (read "paid for"), you're not going to get it. all the good will you've built up with your IT department, all the favours you do for them and they normally do for you, AREN'T GOING TO HAPPEN ANYMORE. want to check if a user's on the system? what used to be a 2 minute chat with the sys admin turns into logging a call with a telephone helpdesk in india, getting a call reference, and waiting a day or two for them to sort it out for you.
things like "goodwill", "favours", and "wanting to bang someone's head off the wall because you're so frustrated" don't appear on balance sheets - this is why outsourcing looks so great on paper.
in the UK, NTL cable broadband's shipping Actiontec wireless routers to punters with new broadband installs. No security by default, either on the wifi connection or on the router setup page. This particular type of router also logs all URLs you look at: hence by just sitting in my garden I can see what a naughty boy some guy called \\MIKE who lives nearby is - point a browser at his router's IP and away you go.
anyone managed to get links in outlook (don't start with the thunderbird business, ok? this is a technical question and you're only allowed to answer if you know the answer to it!) to open in the "default browser" rather than IE under XP? all my machines default to IE rather than Firefox.
Oh, and MyIE2 is the best browsing experience: shame it's based on the IE core though.
the point is, if the EULA says "by installing this you agree to us installing crud all over your system" and you tick the "yes, i agree" box and click OK, then you kind of forfeit the right to bitch about how some game installed crud all over your system without you agreeing to it.
see my point?
whilst only installing open source code is all very nice, i guess it kind of sucks if you want to play any decent 3d games, doesn't it?
whether you accept the EULA. if it says you're leasing the media/application/game/music etc not owning it, and you agree to it, then you can't moan about it.
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um, the holes the sploit uses were patched prior to SP2: hence are rolled up within SP2. so SP2 cures it, just as prior patches do. hence your question makes no sense...
so work somewhere else. fairly simple really: you put control of the network in someone you hire as a network admin, much as you put the hiring and firing in the hands of an HR department. if you have an arse for a sysadmin, and don't like it, you're welcome to leave...
why should we get clients shutdown over night? how would this help us push out patches and the like at night, without inconveniencing the users? i stand by what i said: you can leave my clients up for weeks without a reboot: the only time they get restarted is when a patch requires it, pretty much.
for servers, we're looking at 5 nines.
if you think this is typical. if your network has boxes with an uptime of 7 minutes, something is seriously wrong. i'd expect weeks of uptime out of a corporate imaged client under my control, despite users.
do you think...
the bandwidth your average guy uses will be 100 times what it is today. you see my point?
Probably smoking them.
if you can show the business you have a legit need for USB pendrives, they put you in the OU container that allows the use of them. if you can't, they put you in the one labelled "smartarse: delete their homedrive at random intervals".
this is the most inane post i've seen in a while, particularly as it obviously took you so long to tap it out with the stick attached to your forehead.
they're giving you the option of locking something down: this is a boon for sysadmins. you can stand in the corner with a dunces hat on explaining how all this is irrelevant as you could take pictures of sensitive data on the screen and post them to people all you like, but you'll still be being stupid.
that can really lower your FPS!
is that your account could get TOS'd. with hotmail, all you need to do to kill someone's account stone dead with no recourse is to moan about them to the hotmail abuse desk. they don't check anything, they just close the account. i'd imagine google'd be less evil than this, but even so; given the number of gmail accounts there are and will be, can you really expect an impartial personal investigation for each abuse report?
an average slashdot reader's PC has multiple hard drives, some running at 10K RPM.
people who buy servers aren't willing to pay twice the price for a pretty white case and an apple logo, i'd imagine.
...but you're right, it's a huge pain. users write user requirement specification. techies write functional requirements specification. traceability matrix written to make sure that all items in former doc are mapped onto items in the latter, and that everything the user's asked for is in there somewhere with a techie bullet point by it.
the problem with this (and with outsourcing generally) is that if it's not written down and agreed (read "paid for"), you're not going to get it . all the good will you've built up with your IT department, all the favours you do for them and they normally do for you, AREN'T GOING TO HAPPEN ANYMORE. want to check if a user's on the system? what used to be a 2 minute chat with the sys admin turns into logging a call with a telephone helpdesk in india, getting a call reference, and waiting a day or two for them to sort it out for you.
things like "goodwill", "favours", and "wanting to bang someone's head off the wall because you're so frustrated" don't appear on balance sheets - this is why outsourcing looks so great on paper.
in the UK, NTL cable broadband's shipping Actiontec wireless routers to punters with new broadband installs. No security by default, either on the wifi connection or on the router setup page. This particular type of router also logs all URLs you look at: hence by just sitting in my garden I can see what a naughty boy some guy called \\MIKE who lives nearby is - point a browser at his router's IP and away you go.
but it'll suck ass *more* on a 5200 as they're crap, despite being "dx 9 compliant".
c'mon bunky, you can figure it out if you try real hard
in the pc world, we can actually *upgrade memory* you see. and we don't tend to base our purchasing on chicks digging it.
i know this: it doesn't work on the 2 or 3 machines i've bothered to try it on, hence the original question!
cheers: doesn't do this on my SP1 and SP2 machines .
anyone managed to get links in outlook (don't start with the thunderbird business, ok? this is a technical question and you're only allowed to answer if you know the answer to it!) to open in the "default browser" rather than IE under XP? all my machines default to IE rather than Firefox.
Oh, and MyIE2 is the best browsing experience: shame it's based on the IE core though.
this is only funny as it's just so not going to be understood by non UK people...!
so all we need is, oh say a round thousand, of Arizona State Mine Inspectors. Train them as divers, and problem solved!
the point is, if the EULA says "by installing this you agree to us installing crud all over your system" and you tick the "yes, i agree" box and click OK, then you kind of forfeit the right to bitch about how some game installed crud all over your system without you agreeing to it.
see my point?
whilst only installing open source code is all very nice, i guess it kind of sucks if you want to play any decent 3d games, doesn't it?
whether you accept the EULA. if it says you're leasing the media/application/game/music etc not owning it, and you agree to it, then you can't moan about it.