It would depend on the size of the paycut (A large percentage?), and the advancement potential in the position. Why start a new job at the top of the pay scale, and at the top of the ladder?
You may be happier at the new position, and gain valuable experience to further your carrer. But it would not be optimal to start a new position where it takes two years to get back to your current wage if your not learning valuable skills to help your earning potential.
I was excited about the keys when I first took a look at the promo pictures. After looking at the real items shots, the promo pictures are heavily photoshopped. The color range and resolution displayed by the promo pictures are misleading. This should not be allowed at all as a common business practice.
I have had similar experiences with fellow employees in the workplace that dont have a passion for there work.
Trying not to start a flame war, but in my personal experience it has usually been women. Taken that I have not had the opportunity to work with many women in the IT workplace, but those that I have usually have other priorities that trump the workplace. Like raising a family, or taking care of her household.
I have had experiences with women co-workers that have left albeit a sour taste in my mouth. Being a single guy, and working hard I see certain irregulatiries between our work ethics.
- I constantly put in overtime working on systems during downtime, or on weekend. - If something criticals needs to get done, and the clock strikes 5:00. I stay until it is completed. I have had some critical server crashes that I've been at work for as long as 23 hours. - I'm constantly learning new things, researching best practices, or configurations. I also take my personal time to study new material.
These are my priorities, because i'm a geek, and love computers. In my experience married women in IT usually perform exactly what is specified in there job description, and nothing more. I also notice that they usually use more sick time because of there childrens health (Or there children getting them sick often).
First off, this "Review" is chalk full of errors, and objective bias which makes it an editorial.
I am an RHCT, as well as an MSCE, so I know both sides of the coin. Normally I would not post like this, but the trespasses against Windows in this article are badly thoughtout. I would condone articulate debase on the strengths and weaknesses of both operating systems, but you have to take a look at this point for point, which I will debunk.
Your only choice of file system is FAT32 or NTFS, and <b>although you can create as many partitions as you like</b>, you can only format the one partition - the partition you select for the Windows installation. Obviously, this gives you <b>no chance to create a separate home or boot partition</b>, or even a swap partition.
What's going on with this? First you say that you can create as many partitions as you want, then you cant create any partitions? The thoughtfullness of this article shows it's true colors here.
He also actually tries to play off hardware detection, and driver installation easier on a Linux machine. For brevity, I will share with you this comment.
In order to get the hardware working, I had to visit the Intel website and download the required drivers.
This statment is correct, but I dont know what his aim is. I have to do this all the time for Linux (RPMFind.net anyone?). I think he was implying hardware detection is not as good as Linux. I have had great success with some computers detecting everything, and the machine was fully functional on the first boot with both Windows and Linux. What he fails to mention is if Windows is unable to install the drivers, it usually is easy to provide the driver disket from the manufacturer, have the CD autoplay, and click "Install Drivers". Linux can be this easy as well if there is a binary package available, but in some cases you would have to compile, install, and load the module dependences for the piece of hardware which is no trivial task (Please see the majority of comments in a LUG regarding sound detection).
... selected workgroup at the time, figuring I could join it to my work domain later.
This time it popped up an error message saying it couldn't make a copy of my roaming profile.
Windows had simply magnanimously decided to swap my own My Documents folder with that of another user in the system. Now that is a truly disastrous bug.
What is the audience of this article? We go from basic installation and networking, into full blown enterprise Linux / Windows networking. Your talking about Active Directory user environment deployment with windows (such as Roaming Profiles), but make no regard to your Linux counterpart which can have just as complex issues with NIS, or LDAP. I fail to see the logic of why this is even in this "Review". You also fail to mention that Roaming Profiles, Active Directory, and File Server configurations and setup are not configured, or even implimented by default. This is way out of the scope of this "Review". If you want to use this in your argument, please provide setup instructions for Linux subsystems.
Worse, the Windows desktop was ugly! I mean, uglier than usual.
Comments like these are highly speculative. Great "Review".
Now I'm going to stop here, I dont want to be here all day. I do appreciate good natured debate on operating systems in general, but the post of this article clearly is not in the position to argue. I dont know why articles like this get greenlighted on slashdot. I love linux, and have been using it almost 10 years now. There are great strengths and weaknesses to both operating systems, and I would love to have a piece that highlights them in an open, and unbiased manner. This article is not well written, flawed, and heavily biased. I dont advocate unbased Micro$oft bashing, just as much as I dont tollerate unbased Linux bashing.
My $.02
I believe one of the major factors in addition to the above is the ability to dedicate yourself to A job. Studies have shown that men have problems with stress, work late, and die early. A lot of women in the IT field have too many obligations to dedicate themselves to the job.
Case in point. When a server needs emergency maintenance / projects after hours, who do you think is going to apply the necessary fixes? The man, or the woman? Chances are the woman has to do motherly things like pick up the kids, etc.. This makes it where a man can usually dedicate himself to the job moreso than a woman.
I cannot tell you how many times in all the IT jobs I've had, that a woman in the field has had to leave early for a sick child, or for doctors appointments for all of their children. As well as being able to work next to nothing in overtime because of household responsibilities.
In my opinion, these things are more turn management off to women besides posisions of project management, instead of technical knowledge.
Being a Sr. Network Administrator myself, I have to deal with the headaches of patch management on a large scale. What the author of this article fails to realise is that some patches actually break applications while they are fixing the security holes (Service Pack 4 anyone?).
Microsoft recomends that you test patches before you deploy them. Software Update Services supports this as you approve patches before deployment. Having a "Payload" release to everyone at the same time without testing is just asking for serious problems.
This method is flawed, and needs to be addressed. If there was a problem, the patch would become a worm unto itself. A worldwide release that breaks functionality from a trusted source.
Is your building mostly drywall? or concrete? Wireless does NOT like to penetrate concrete. 2 walls tops. A good 6DBI+ antenna will go through about 5-6 drywall for about 200 feet with a signal strength you can call "OK". If you mostly have open spaces, with insulated walls, one big antenna can reach about 400+feet with good WiFi cards.
A site survey needs to take place in your building. Otherwise you will probably purchase an antenna that you will not use. There are many flavors of antennas. 2.4Ghz - 5Ghz Wall mount, Ceiling mount. Directional & omnidirectional with different strengths. Most places will choose a directional 6-12DBI antenna on the far wall/corner to cover a floor. Depending on distance you may need a repeater or two.
I would recomend the Cisco Aironet AP with an antenna that would best fit your need. 4 Floors = 4 AP's w/Antennas which would probably be about $4,000. That does not count good client WNIC's for about $100-140/piece.
If you want security you are going to need to setup a server, and maintain it. Then if you want to use Cisco LEAP, you will have to setup a RADIUS server that supports LEAP. I recomend FreeRadius. Downside is that all client NICS must be Cisco for this to work. If this is not what you had in mind, and want cross-vendor support without PKI infrastucture which is a pain in the ass to maintain without smartcards, then install an EAP-TTLS server for PEAP authentication. All of this will require somebody with training to setup, as you will run into a lot of snags.
In any event, you have to support user / password requests from your tenants and any potential problems.
Windows Longhorn...Big Brother is Coming. (MUST READ) BIG BROTHER IS COMING!!! Mail this to everyone in your address book! We need to stop the problem before it's too late to go back.
Windows Longhorn, the new OS in development by Microsoft, is going to include TC technology, and it's not a good thing. Simple processes that allowed you to modify your computer will be stripped away, and all control is going to be taken from the user and given to the government (or whatever other company can get their greasy hands on it). --- 1. What is TC - this `trusted computing' business?
The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) is an alliance of Microsoft, Intel, IBM, HP and AMD which promotes a standard for a `more secure' PC. Their definition of `security' is controversial; machines built according to their specification will be more trustworthy from the point of view of software vendors and the content industry, but will be less trustworthy from the point of view of their owners. In effect, the TCG specification will transfer the ultimate control of your PC from you to whoever wrote the software it happens to be running. (Yes, even more so than at present.)
The TCG project is known by a number of names. `Trusted computing' was the original one, and is still used by IBM, while Microsoft calls it `trustworthy computing' and the Free Software Foundation calls it `treacherous computing'. Hereafter I'll just call it TC, which you can pronounce according to taste. Other names you may see include TCPA (TCG's name before it incorporated), Palladium (the old Microsoft name for the version due to ship in 2004) and NGSCB (the new Microsoft name). Intel has just started calling it `safer computing'. Many observers believe that this confusion is deliberate - the promoters want to deflect attention from what TC actually does.
2. What does TC do, in ordinary English?
TC provides a computing platform on which you can't tamper with the application software, and where these applications can communicate securely with their authors and with each other. The original motivation was digital rights management (DRM): Disney will be able to sell you DVDs that will decrypt and run on a TC platform, but which you won't be able to copy. The music industry will be able to sell you music downloads that you won't be able to swap. They will be able to sell you CDs that you'll only be able to play three times, or only on your birthday. All sorts of new marketing possibilities will open up.
TC will also make it much harder for you to run unlicensed software. In the first version of TC, pirate software could be detected and deleted remotely. Since then, Microsoft has sometimes denied that it intended TC to do this, but at WEIS 2003 a senior Microsoft manager refused to deny that fighting piracy was a goal: `Helping people to run stolen software just isn't our aim in life', he said. The mechanisms now proposed are more subtle, though. TC will protect application software registration mechanisms, so that unlicensed software will be locked out of the new ecology. Furthermore, TC apps will work better with other TC apps, so people will get less value from old non-TC apps (including pirate apps). Also, some TC apps may reject data from old apps whose serial numbers have been blacklisted. If Microsoft believes that your copy of Office is a pirate copy, and your local government moves to TC, then the documents you file with them may be unreadable. TC will also make it easier for people to rent software rather than buy it; and if you stop paying the rent, then not only does the software stop working but so may the files it created. So if you stop paying for upgrades to Media Player, you may lose access to all the songs you bought using it.
For years, Bill Gates has dreamed of finding a way to make the Chinese pay for software: TC looks like being the answer to his prayer.
There are many other possibilities. Governments will be able to arrange things so that all Word documents created on civil servants' PCs are
1. What is TC - this `trusted computing' business?
The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) is an alliance of Microsoft, Intel, IBM, HP and AMD which promotes a standard for a `more secure' PC. Their definition of `security' is controversial; machines built according to their specification will be more trustworthy from the point of view of software vendors and the content industry, but will be less trustworthy from the point of view of their owners. In effect, the TCG specification will transfer the ultimate control of your PC from you to whoever wrote the software it happens to be running. (Yes, even more so than at present.)
The TCG project is known by a number of names. `Trusted computing' was the original one, and is still used by IBM, while Microsoft calls it `trustworthy computing' and the Free Software Foundation calls it `treacherous computing'. Hereafter I'll just call it TC, which you can pronounce according to taste. Other names you may see include TCPA (TCG's name before it incorporated), Palladium (the old Microsoft name for the version due to ship in 2004) and NGSCB (the new Microsoft name). Intel has just started calling it `safer computing'. Many observers believe that this confusion is deliberate - the promoters want to deflect attention from what TC actually does.
2. What does TC do, in ordinary English?
TC provides a computing platform on which you can't tamper with the application software, and where these applications can communicate securely with their authors and with each other. The original motivation was digital rights management (DRM): Disney will be able to sell you DVDs that will decrypt and run on a TC platform, but which you won't be able to copy. The music industry will be able to sell you music downloads that you won't be able to swap. They will be able to sell you CDs that you'll only be able to play three times, or only on your birthday. All sorts of new marketing possibilities will open up.
TC will also make it much harder for you to run unlicensed software. In the first version of TC, pirate software could be detected and deleted remotely. Since then, Microsoft has sometimes denied that it intended TC to do this, but at WEIS 2003 a senior Microsoft manager refused to deny that fighting piracy was a goal: `Helping people to run stolen software just isn't our aim in life', he said. The mechanisms now proposed are more subtle, though. TC will protect application software registration mechanisms, so that unlicensed software will be locked out of the new ecology. Furthermore, TC apps will work better with other TC apps, so people will get less value from old non-TC apps (including pirate apps). Also, some TC apps may reject data from old apps whose serial numbers have been blacklisted. If Microsoft believes that your copy of Office is a pirate copy, and your local government moves to TC, then the documents you file with them may be unreadable. TC will also make it easier for people to rent software rather than buy it; and if you stop paying the rent, then not only does the software stop working but so may the files it created. So if you stop paying for upgrades to Media Player, you may lose access to all the songs you bought using it.
For years, Bill Gates has dreamed of finding a way to make the Chinese pay for software: TC looks like being the answer to his prayer.
There are many other possibilities. Governments will be able to arrange things so that all Word documents created on civil servants' PCs are `born classified' and can't be leaked electronically to journalists. Auction sites might insist that you use trusted proxy software for bidding, so that you can't bid tactically at the auction. Cheating at computer games could be made more difficult.
There are some gotchas too. For example, TC can support remote censorship. In its simplest form, applications may be designed to delete pirated music under remote control. For example, if a protected song is extracted from a hacked TC platform and made available on the web as an MP3 file, then TC-compliant media player software may detect it
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It would depend on the size of the paycut (A large percentage?), and the advancement potential in the position. Why start a new job at the top of the pay scale, and at the top of the ladder?
You may be happier at the new position, and gain valuable experience to further your carrer. But it would not be optimal to start a new position where it takes two years to get back to your current wage if your not learning valuable skills to help your earning potential.
I was excited about the keys when I first took a look at the promo pictures. After looking at the real items shots, the promo pictures are heavily photoshopped. The color range and resolution displayed by the promo pictures are misleading. This should not be allowed at all as a common business practice.
Not worth my money.
Bravo. My sentiments exactly.
I have had similar experiences with fellow employees in the workplace that dont have a passion for there work.
Trying not to start a flame war, but in my personal experience it has usually been women. Taken that I have not had the opportunity to work with many women in the IT workplace, but those that I have usually have other priorities that trump the workplace. Like raising a family, or taking care of her household.
I have had experiences with women co-workers that have left albeit a sour taste in my mouth. Being a single guy, and working hard I see certain irregulatiries between our work ethics.
- I constantly put in overtime working on systems during downtime, or on weekend.
- If something criticals needs to get done, and the clock strikes 5:00. I stay until it is completed. I have had some critical server crashes that I've been at work for as long as 23 hours.
- I'm constantly learning new things, researching best practices, or configurations. I also take my personal time to study new material.
These are my priorities, because i'm a geek, and love computers. In my experience married women in IT usually perform exactly what is specified in there job description, and nothing more. I also notice that they usually use more sick time because of there childrens health (Or there children getting them sick often).
My $.02
I believe one of the major factors in addition to the above is the ability to dedicate yourself to A job. Studies have shown that men have problems with stress, work late, and die early. A lot of women in the IT field have too many obligations to dedicate themselves to the job. Case in point. When a server needs emergency maintenance / projects after hours, who do you think is going to apply the necessary fixes? The man, or the woman? Chances are the woman has to do motherly things like pick up the kids, etc.. This makes it where a man can usually dedicate himself to the job moreso than a woman. I cannot tell you how many times in all the IT jobs I've had, that a woman in the field has had to leave early for a sick child, or for doctors appointments for all of their children. As well as being able to work next to nothing in overtime because of household responsibilities. In my opinion, these things are more turn management off to women besides posisions of project management, instead of technical knowledge.
I better find my pocketbook.
Being a Sr. Network Administrator myself, I have to deal with the headaches of patch management on a large scale. What the author of this article fails to realise is that some patches actually break applications while they are fixing the security holes (Service Pack 4 anyone?). Microsoft recomends that you test patches before you deploy them. Software Update Services supports this as you approve patches before deployment. Having a "Payload" release to everyone at the same time without testing is just asking for serious problems. This method is flawed, and needs to be addressed. If there was a problem, the patch would become a worm unto itself. A worldwide release that breaks functionality from a trusted source.
loser
Probably. You will have to design it.
Is your building mostly drywall? or concrete? Wireless does NOT like to penetrate concrete. 2 walls tops. A good 6DBI+ antenna will go through about 5-6 drywall for about 200 feet with a signal strength you can call "OK". If you mostly have open spaces, with insulated walls, one big antenna can reach about 400+feet with good WiFi cards.
A site survey needs to take place in your building. Otherwise you will probably purchase an antenna that you will not use. There are many flavors of antennas. 2.4Ghz - 5Ghz Wall mount, Ceiling mount. Directional & omnidirectional with different strengths. Most places will choose a directional 6-12DBI antenna on the far wall/corner to cover a floor. Depending on distance you may need a repeater or two.
I would recomend the Cisco Aironet AP with an antenna that would best fit your need. 4 Floors = 4 AP's w/Antennas which would probably be about $4,000. That does not count good client WNIC's for about $100-140/piece.
If you want security you are going to need to setup a server, and maintain it. Then if you want to use Cisco LEAP, you will have to setup a RADIUS server that supports LEAP. I recomend FreeRadius. Downside is that all client NICS must be Cisco for this to work. If this is not what you had in mind, and want cross-vendor support without PKI infrastucture which is a pain in the ass to maintain without smartcards, then install an EAP-TTLS server for PEAP authentication. All of this will require somebody with training to setup, as you will run into a lot of snags.
In any event, you have to support user / password requests from your tenants and any potential problems.
Windows Longhorn...Big Brother is Coming. (MUST READ)
BIG BROTHER IS COMING!!! Mail this to everyone in your address book! We need to stop the problem before it's too late to go back.
Windows Longhorn, the new OS in development by Microsoft, is going to include TC technology, and it's not a good thing. Simple processes that allowed you to modify your computer will be stripped away, and all control is going to be taken from the user and given to the government (or whatever other company can get their greasy hands on it).
---
1. What is TC - this `trusted computing' business?
The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) is an alliance of Microsoft, Intel, IBM, HP and AMD which promotes a standard for a `more secure' PC. Their definition of `security' is controversial; machines built according to their specification will be more trustworthy from the point of view of software vendors and the content industry, but will be less trustworthy from the point of view of their owners. In effect, the TCG specification will transfer the ultimate control of your PC from you to whoever wrote the software it happens to be running. (Yes, even more so than at present.)
The TCG project is known by a number of names. `Trusted computing' was the original one, and is still used by IBM, while Microsoft calls it `trustworthy computing' and the Free Software Foundation calls it `treacherous computing'. Hereafter I'll just call it TC, which you can pronounce according to taste. Other names you may see include TCPA (TCG's name before it incorporated), Palladium (the old Microsoft name for the version due to ship in 2004) and NGSCB (the new Microsoft name). Intel has just started calling it `safer computing'. Many observers believe that this confusion is deliberate - the promoters want to deflect attention from what TC actually does.
2. What does TC do, in ordinary English?
TC provides a computing platform on which you can't tamper with the application software, and where these applications can communicate securely with their authors and with each other. The original motivation was digital rights management (DRM): Disney will be able to sell you DVDs that will decrypt and run on a TC platform, but which you won't be able to copy. The music industry will be able to sell you music downloads that you won't be able to swap. They will be able to sell you CDs that you'll only be able to play three times, or only on your birthday. All sorts of new marketing possibilities will open up.
TC will also make it much harder for you to run unlicensed software. In the first version of TC, pirate software could be detected and deleted remotely. Since then, Microsoft has sometimes denied that it intended TC to do this, but at WEIS 2003 a senior Microsoft manager refused to deny that fighting piracy was a goal: `Helping people to run stolen software just isn't our aim in life', he said. The mechanisms now proposed are more subtle, though. TC will protect application software registration mechanisms, so that unlicensed software will be locked out of the new ecology. Furthermore, TC apps will work better with other TC apps, so people will get less value from old non-TC apps (including pirate apps). Also, some TC apps may reject data from old apps whose serial numbers have been blacklisted. If Microsoft believes that your copy of Office is a pirate copy, and your local government moves to TC, then the documents you file with them may be unreadable. TC will also make it easier for people to rent software rather than buy it; and if you stop paying the rent, then not only does the software stop working but so may the files it created. So if you stop paying for upgrades to Media Player, you may lose access to all the songs you bought using it.
For years, Bill Gates has dreamed of finding a way to make the Chinese pay for software: TC looks like being the answer to his prayer.
There are many other possibilities. Governments will be able to arrange things so that all Word documents created on civil servants' PCs are
1. What is TC - this `trusted computing' business? The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) is an alliance of Microsoft, Intel, IBM, HP and AMD which promotes a standard for a `more secure' PC. Their definition of `security' is controversial; machines built according to their specification will be more trustworthy from the point of view of software vendors and the content industry, but will be less trustworthy from the point of view of their owners. In effect, the TCG specification will transfer the ultimate control of your PC from you to whoever wrote the software it happens to be running. (Yes, even more so than at present.) The TCG project is known by a number of names. `Trusted computing' was the original one, and is still used by IBM, while Microsoft calls it `trustworthy computing' and the Free Software Foundation calls it `treacherous computing'. Hereafter I'll just call it TC, which you can pronounce according to taste. Other names you may see include TCPA (TCG's name before it incorporated), Palladium (the old Microsoft name for the version due to ship in 2004) and NGSCB (the new Microsoft name). Intel has just started calling it `safer computing'. Many observers believe that this confusion is deliberate - the promoters want to deflect attention from what TC actually does. 2. What does TC do, in ordinary English? TC provides a computing platform on which you can't tamper with the application software, and where these applications can communicate securely with their authors and with each other. The original motivation was digital rights management (DRM): Disney will be able to sell you DVDs that will decrypt and run on a TC platform, but which you won't be able to copy. The music industry will be able to sell you music downloads that you won't be able to swap. They will be able to sell you CDs that you'll only be able to play three times, or only on your birthday. All sorts of new marketing possibilities will open up. TC will also make it much harder for you to run unlicensed software. In the first version of TC, pirate software could be detected and deleted remotely. Since then, Microsoft has sometimes denied that it intended TC to do this, but at WEIS 2003 a senior Microsoft manager refused to deny that fighting piracy was a goal: `Helping people to run stolen software just isn't our aim in life', he said. The mechanisms now proposed are more subtle, though. TC will protect application software registration mechanisms, so that unlicensed software will be locked out of the new ecology. Furthermore, TC apps will work better with other TC apps, so people will get less value from old non-TC apps (including pirate apps). Also, some TC apps may reject data from old apps whose serial numbers have been blacklisted. If Microsoft believes that your copy of Office is a pirate copy, and your local government moves to TC, then the documents you file with them may be unreadable. TC will also make it easier for people to rent software rather than buy it; and if you stop paying the rent, then not only does the software stop working but so may the files it created. So if you stop paying for upgrades to Media Player, you may lose access to all the songs you bought using it. For years, Bill Gates has dreamed of finding a way to make the Chinese pay for software: TC looks like being the answer to his prayer. There are many other possibilities. Governments will be able to arrange things so that all Word documents created on civil servants' PCs are `born classified' and can't be leaked electronically to journalists. Auction sites might insist that you use trusted proxy software for bidding, so that you can't bid tactically at the auction. Cheating at computer games could be made more difficult. There are some gotchas too. For example, TC can support remote censorship. In its simplest form, applications may be designed to delete pirated music under remote control. For example, if a protected song is extracted from a hacked TC platform and made available on the web as an MP3 file, then TC-compliant media player software may detect it