**studies are finally able to investigate culprits more likely responsible, like solar.**
EXACTLY!!! Now, where can I find this Solar guy so I can kick the $&#@ out of him and take care of this whole "climate change" thing once and for all?
I think you're missing the point completely. Let me get you back on track. The problem is that, as an admin, you were hired to make the network secure, and thus are RESPONSIBLE for its security. But often basic security measures are thwarted by people who feel that they shouldn't have to follow secure policies. i.e. giving their elevated-access password to their secretaries, writing their passwords on stickies and putting them on the bottom of keyboards. If the secretary was supposed to have that level of access, they would. If it's really needed, the prof can request that the sec's access level be increased. But if he gets a "no", that's the end of it. Kind of like when I'm given a key to my company's building and told that it's only for my use. I don't decide for myself that I think the policy is crap and hand it to someone else. If follow the friggin policy. If I take a few hours off for personal time, I turn that time into HR. I don't decide for myself that it's a crap policy and I shouldn't have to account for a mere two hours of off time. Again, I follow the friggin policy. Most people follow policies like this, but when it comes to IT policies, they feel as if "policy" and "suggestion" are not synonyms. Yes, some admins can be unreasonable. Take it over their heads and see if those above them feel the same way. I've had jerks for bosses and jerk who led other depts. that set policies that affected me. But I follow those policies. Why? Because it's my job.
There are reviews all over the place if you Google, though most are from people who lean toward Linux (nothing wrong with that - just pointing it out). As someone who uses both Windows and Linux quite a bit and who supports a Windows environment, I'll give you some very short reviews of major distros:
First, Wireless networking with most wireless NICs is a pain in the $%@ regardless of distro. Xandros 3, Fedora Core 3, and Mandrake 10.1 are supposedly better than this. If you're deploying extremely consistent hardware (i.e. everyone has the same model laptop and NIC) then it might not be that hard once you figure out how to get your distro to work with that specific wireless NIC.
Laying Wireless networking aside for a moment, most other things run smoothly. Here is the basic rundown of the free (as in beer) distros:
Xandros - I haven't used 3.0 yet, but all previous versions. This is perhaps the best distro to use if you're trying to wean Windows users onto Linux. It's look like Win XP. Xandros normally costs money, but they have an "Open Circulation Edition" that is free. There are only a few features missing. Unlike the paid version, you cannot install Microsoft Office. You can't really do this on most distros anyway, so it's not a big deal. The other is that they knock the CD burn speed to 4x I believe. Other than those two things, it's the full version. As for packages, they have a nice selection, but you can always get packages from a Debian repository if they don't have what you want.
Fedora Core 3: I've been using this since it came out. I never really like Red Hat. Nothing about it really stood out. The last version I had used was Red Hat 9.0 (before they split and started making Fedora as well). But I have to tell you, Fedora Core 3 is great. It's runs smoothly, it's well put together, and it looks great. Most Linux lovers will tell you that eye candy isn't important, but let me tell you from experience that when you're trying to sell Linux to a Windows user, eye candy can make all the difference. I highly recommend this distro
Mandrake 10.1 I haven't used this distro yet, but used to use Mandrake frequently. It's usually a stable distro and has a ton of packages. It's very end-user, workstation oriented. Great for newbies.
Debian: Also haven't used in a while, but it was a pain in the #$&@ to install. Now, once you had it installed, it had by far the best package support of any distro. You could get anything for Debian and programs were a snap to locate, install, uninstall, and update. The best thing about Debian is its package manager, apt-get. You can use it to install, uninstall, and upgrade your programs (packages). If you want to install package X and it requires packages Y and Z, you're hosed in most distros until you go out and find/install Y and Z. With apt-get, it basically says, "oh, you need Y and Z. Let me find them. Here they are. I'll install them as well." Sweet. I hear the installation has gotten easier, but have no personal recent experience.
NOW FOR THE PAID DISTROS:
Xandros 3.0 (the paid version) All of the benefits of the free version, but normal burn speeds and you can install MS Office. While this sucks in some ways because you're still paying the MS tax, it may be a necessity for you users or for the companies you do business with.
Lycoris/Linspire: I'll lump these two together. They're not bad, and are targeted at Windows users, but I would recommend Xandros over either.
SuSE: Formerly my favorite distro. Very flashy, has a ton of packages on the install CDs/DVD. The absolute best part is YAST2. It's the configuration manager (think of Win XP Control Panel, but better integrated) Control almost everything from one place. It's by far the easiest to figure out how to configure. Novell bought SuSE and are integrating it into their products. They've released Novell Desktop Linux, which is based on SuSE and is supposed to be great. I believe you ca
No. They want you to be an early-adopter and buy the paid version to quench your curiosity. Also, the free version doesn't have any of the features of either paid version. It's a cut down version (though a good one).
On a side note, I've been using Xandros off and on for quite a while and I must say it is one of the best "migration" distro for weening Windows users onto Linux. With earlier versions, you could simply plug in your favorite Debian repository and you'd have access to any programs they weren't offering. They wouldn't guarantee they would work, but I don't recall ever having problems. This is the kind of thing you put your parents/grandparents on. They will be pretty familiar with it since it's so similar to Windows and you won't have to go over every Saturday to remove spyware and viruses.
On another side note, there is a project called XPde (XP Destkop Environment) that is working on copying the EXACT look and feel of Windows. I believe Barnix Linux is the first distro to actually use XPde. It's worth looking into. Here are some screenshots of it.
Yeah, it started doing that about a month ago. The worst part is that our admin gets a kick out of watching where individual go. In fact, he's probably going to be reading this soon enough.
If you want to know if yours does that, try to go to some place like www.WebsenseIsAToolOfUselessOppression.com or some other choice phrases and see if you get a nasty e-mail or if suddenly every place you want to go gets blocked the next day.
I was thinking Terrorism is the new McCarthyism in the way that "Green is the new Blue" sort of thing. It's "fashionable" to be bigoted or racist, as long as it's against the group that is currently on the fringes of society. WWI it was the Germans (or Huns if you'd like). In WWII it was the Japanese (or brown apes), in the 50s/60s and for quite a while before then as well, it was the blacks (or a word I refuse to type that begins with an N). Now it's the Muslims (or towel heads) and the gays (selfish heathenists according to the man the Republicans chose to run for Senate in Illinois - Alan Keyes). Thankfully, I believe my generation (currently 20-somethings) and the generations that will follow me will be increasingly tolerant to those whose lifestyles are different from their own. It's funny to watch people try to explain their bogotry. I especially love when religion comes into the picture and they say that they're not bigoted, it's just the way God wants it. They seem totally unaware that white Christians used similar arguments to say that blacks were less worthy of equality in the mid-20th C. and that women should stay at home and mind their husbands and not worry about that whole suffrage thing. They also supported slavery in the 19th C. All things that most mainstream Christians would rail against if you tried to do it today. Religions aren't static. Most people, in my opinion, don't live their lives based on what they think their deity wants. They live their lives the way that they want and then wrap cherry-picked parts together and say that it's what their deity wants and that they're just "following orders" in essence. They are totally oblivious to the historical reality that religious "values" change to meet society, not the other way around. Actually I imagine that there is some realization about this, but they have to maintain the perception that they follow the religion and not vice versa to maintain the illusion of superiority.
I have to agree completely that Putin is trying to rid Russia of democracy. His goal is to bring Russia back up to its previous power, with him at the helm of course. And he's following Bush's example by using terrorism as an excuse to consolidate power (though he is able to do it to a far greater extenet than Bush ever would be, and I find his motive far more sinister than Bush's). After the school attack, he used the fear of terrorism to eliminate a lot of local elections. Permenantly. Those local administrators are now chosen by the Kremlin. Putin's stated reasoning was that allowing the Kremlin to select the local leaders would make it easier for the Kremlin to fight terrorists because there would be no infighting. But I don't live in Russia. If I lived in the horrible conditions that a large part of the Russian population lives in, I might yearn for the Soviet days as well. But I don't think I would be stupid enough to believe all of the crap coming out of Putin's mouth. Then again, the Kremlin has also bought up every major independent news station in Russia, so there is essentially no non-government television news (I don't know about print journalism, but I'd bet that it's pretty much the same).
There has always been vote tampering. There will always be vote tampering. What's important is that we pursue those who do it. Hell, it's widely believed that JFK was helped by a bit of ballot stuffing. And there's ample evidence to back that up.
If you're talking about Philadelphia, they were told not to worry about it because the votes were for a previous local election, so those wouldn't affect any of the things on the current ballot. The end result would come out like this:
GW: 1,254
Kerry: 1,923
Person #1 from old local election: 1,325
Person #2 from old local election: 1,834
Don't get me wrong, I agree that voting over a long period of time can cause problems. I just don't think this is a good example of them (unless you're not talking about Philly, in which case, can you point me to some info on it so I can read up). I personally think there was active rigging in Ohio (and possibly Florida).
2) Mac OS X installer CD
Next problem with this one is it also requires the purchase of at least several hundred dollars worth of equipment. I'm with you on the Linux/BSD though. Xandros Open Circulation Edition is easy to wean Windows users onto. Then, once they're more used to Linux, move them to a more robust distro.
I imagine they have some basic images. But that still wipes out any stored e-mail (servers can't always handle your archive) that users may not have backed up recently, any software that doesn't need to be part of the "base image", and software configurations specific to the user, and you'll still have to do things like go around to 60,000 PCs to set up their individual e-mail, etc. Remember, you can only have so many base images. They usually contain the bare essentials such as the OS, office suite, and maybe a few utils that a very large group of people use. But in an organization that size, it'll be hell dealing with all of the small details that individual users will have. Imagine trying to deal with verifying licensing while you're doing that. The base images will only get them to the point that there is a PC that is booting and perhaps has some of the essentials. Nothing beyond that. Not to mention that they will not have been patched since the last round of images.
I wouldn't consider daily system images of 80,000 PCs to be feasible or cost effective. Let's say there's an average of 5 GB per PC. You're looking at 400 terabytes of data storage just for the images, not to mention 400 terabytes PER NIGHT of bandwidth. 100 Mb/s throughout the organization or not, that's a lot of bandwidth.
Well, they were going to use NIPLECC, but FCC was refusing to let anyone use that on the air. They were going to start a new anti-piracy campaign, but I think their publicity dept. pretty much killed them. Apparently their idea for a great commercial was:
Janet: "Give me your cheapest mocha latte"
Employee: "Cheapest? Aren't you rich?"
Janet: "I'm so poor these days. Everyone is 'stealing' my music. Who will protect me?"
Duck: "NIPLECC!!!!"
Janet: "I know I wrote that anti-piracy number down here somewhere"
Apparently they thought that would get young kids attention. Go figure
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I was 6 when it was released, so could someone please give a basic rundown of what Hack and its many variants are?
**studies are finally able to investigate culprits more likely responsible, like solar.** EXACTLY!!! Now, where can I find this Solar guy so I can kick the $&#@ out of him and take care of this whole "climate change" thing once and for all?
I think you're missing the point completely. Let me get you back on track. The problem is that, as an admin, you were hired to make the network secure, and thus are RESPONSIBLE for its security. But often basic security measures are thwarted by people who feel that they shouldn't have to follow secure policies. i.e. giving their elevated-access password to their secretaries, writing their passwords on stickies and putting them on the bottom of keyboards. If the secretary was supposed to have that level of access, they would. If it's really needed, the prof can request that the sec's access level be increased. But if he gets a "no", that's the end of it. Kind of like when I'm given a key to my company's building and told that it's only for my use. I don't decide for myself that I think the policy is crap and hand it to someone else. If follow the friggin policy. If I take a few hours off for personal time, I turn that time into HR. I don't decide for myself that it's a crap policy and I shouldn't have to account for a mere two hours of off time. Again, I follow the friggin policy. Most people follow policies like this, but when it comes to IT policies, they feel as if "policy" and "suggestion" are not synonyms. Yes, some admins can be unreasonable. Take it over their heads and see if those above them feel the same way. I've had jerks for bosses and jerk who led other depts. that set policies that affected me. But I follow those policies. Why? Because it's my job.
I'm behind a filtering proxy. #&$%@!!!!!!
Figure it out. The coupon code is LINDOWS.
I just tried to enter Linspire as a coupon code for the download and it said it wasn't valid
There are reviews all over the place if you Google, though most are from people who lean toward Linux (nothing wrong with that - just pointing it out). As someone who uses both Windows and Linux quite a bit and who supports a Windows environment, I'll give you some very short reviews of major distros:
First, Wireless networking with most wireless NICs is a pain in the $%@ regardless of distro. Xandros 3, Fedora Core 3, and Mandrake 10.1 are supposedly better than this. If you're deploying extremely consistent hardware (i.e. everyone has the same model laptop and NIC) then it might not be that hard once you figure out how to get your distro to work with that specific wireless NIC.
Laying Wireless networking aside for a moment, most other things run smoothly. Here is the basic rundown of the free (as in beer) distros:
Xandros - I haven't used 3.0 yet, but all previous versions. This is perhaps the best distro to use if you're trying to wean Windows users onto Linux. It's look like Win XP. Xandros normally costs money, but they have an "Open Circulation Edition" that is free. There are only a few features missing. Unlike the paid version, you cannot install Microsoft Office. You can't really do this on most distros anyway, so it's not a big deal. The other is that they knock the CD burn speed to 4x I believe. Other than those two things, it's the full version. As for packages, they have a nice selection, but you can always get packages from a Debian repository if they don't have what you want.
Fedora Core 3:
I've been using this since it came out. I never really like Red Hat. Nothing about it really stood out. The last version I had used was Red Hat 9.0 (before they split and started making Fedora as well). But I have to tell you, Fedora Core 3 is great. It's runs smoothly, it's well put together, and it looks great. Most Linux lovers will tell you that eye candy isn't important, but let me tell you from experience that when you're trying to sell Linux to a Windows user, eye candy can make all the difference. I highly recommend this distro
Mandrake 10.1
I haven't used this distro yet, but used to use Mandrake frequently. It's usually a stable distro and has a ton of packages. It's very end-user, workstation oriented. Great for newbies.
Debian:
Also haven't used in a while, but it was a pain in the #$&@ to install. Now, once you had it installed, it had by far the best package support of any distro. You could get anything for Debian and programs were a snap to locate, install, uninstall, and update. The best thing about Debian is its package manager, apt-get. You can use it to install, uninstall, and upgrade your programs (packages). If you want to install package X and it requires packages Y and Z, you're hosed in most distros until you go out and find/install Y and Z. With apt-get, it basically says, "oh, you need Y and Z. Let me find them. Here they are. I'll install them as well." Sweet. I hear the installation has gotten easier, but have no personal recent experience.
NOW FOR THE PAID DISTROS:
Xandros 3.0 (the paid version)
All of the benefits of the free version, but normal burn speeds and you can install MS Office.
While this sucks in some ways because you're still paying the MS tax, it may be a necessity for you users or for the companies you do business with.
Lycoris/Linspire:
I'll lump these two together. They're not bad, and are targeted at Windows users, but I would recommend Xandros over either.
SuSE:
Formerly my favorite distro. Very flashy, has a ton of packages on the install CDs/DVD. The absolute best part is YAST2. It's the configuration manager (think of Win XP Control Panel, but better integrated) Control almost everything from one place. It's by far the easiest to figure out how to configure. Novell bought SuSE and are integrating it into their products. They've released Novell Desktop Linux, which is based on SuSE and is supposed to be great. I believe you ca
I am behind a proxy server that is blocking all of the entertainment sites. Can someone host the trailer for a not-so-well-known place?
No. They want you to be an early-adopter and buy the paid version to quench your curiosity. Also, the free version doesn't have any of the features of either paid version. It's a cut down version (though a good one). On a side note, I've been using Xandros off and on for quite a while and I must say it is one of the best "migration" distro for weening Windows users onto Linux. With earlier versions, you could simply plug in your favorite Debian repository and you'd have access to any programs they weren't offering. They wouldn't guarantee they would work, but I don't recall ever having problems. This is the kind of thing you put your parents/grandparents on. They will be pretty familiar with it since it's so similar to Windows and you won't have to go over every Saturday to remove spyware and viruses. On another side note, there is a project called XPde (XP Destkop Environment) that is working on copying the EXACT look and feel of Windows. I believe Barnix Linux is the first distro to actually use XPde. It's worth looking into. Here are some screenshots of it.
Yes, but life is so boring with good karma. Come over to the dark side :)
only for 2 player(S). Left off an S. Why do people always feel the need to correct other people? I hate people like that. Yeah, I know what you mean :)
You forgot SELECT. It's actually: Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A SELECT Start Or at least it was for Contra on Nintendo
Wow. Everything I want to say wrapped up in 2 little words - and both of them 4-letter words :)
Yeah, it started doing that about a month ago. The worst part is that our admin gets a kick out of watching where individual go. In fact, he's probably going to be reading this soon enough. If you want to know if yours does that, try to go to some place like www.WebsenseIsAToolOfUselessOppression.com or some other choice phrases and see if you get a nasty e-mail or if suddenly every place you want to go gets blocked the next day.
I was thinking Terrorism is the new McCarthyism in the way that "Green is the new Blue" sort of thing. It's "fashionable" to be bigoted or racist, as long as it's against the group that is currently on the fringes of society. WWI it was the Germans (or Huns if you'd like). In WWII it was the Japanese (or brown apes), in the 50s/60s and for quite a while before then as well, it was the blacks (or a word I refuse to type that begins with an N). Now it's the Muslims (or towel heads) and the gays (selfish heathenists according to the man the Republicans chose to run for Senate in Illinois - Alan Keyes). Thankfully, I believe my generation (currently 20-somethings) and the generations that will follow me will be increasingly tolerant to those whose lifestyles are different from their own. It's funny to watch people try to explain their bogotry. I especially love when religion comes into the picture and they say that they're not bigoted, it's just the way God wants it. They seem totally unaware that white Christians used similar arguments to say that blacks were less worthy of equality in the mid-20th C. and that women should stay at home and mind their husbands and not worry about that whole suffrage thing. They also supported slavery in the 19th C. All things that most mainstream Christians would rail against if you tried to do it today. Religions aren't static. Most people, in my opinion, don't live their lives based on what they think their deity wants. They live their lives the way that they want and then wrap cherry-picked parts together and say that it's what their deity wants and that they're just "following orders" in essence. They are totally oblivious to the historical reality that religious "values" change to meet society, not the other way around. Actually I imagine that there is some realization about this, but they have to maintain the perception that they follow the religion and not vice versa to maintain the illusion of superiority.
Terrorism is the new McCarthyism? Put it in words that today's youth can understand.
That wouldn't happen to be WebSenseless would it? We have that POS at my work.
I have to agree completely that Putin is trying to rid Russia of democracy. His goal is to bring Russia back up to its previous power, with him at the helm of course. And he's following Bush's example by using terrorism as an excuse to consolidate power (though he is able to do it to a far greater extenet than Bush ever would be, and I find his motive far more sinister than Bush's). After the school attack, he used the fear of terrorism to eliminate a lot of local elections. Permenantly. Those local administrators are now chosen by the Kremlin. Putin's stated reasoning was that allowing the Kremlin to select the local leaders would make it easier for the Kremlin to fight terrorists because there would be no infighting. But I don't live in Russia. If I lived in the horrible conditions that a large part of the Russian population lives in, I might yearn for the Soviet days as well. But I don't think I would be stupid enough to believe all of the crap coming out of Putin's mouth. Then again, the Kremlin has also bought up every major independent news station in Russia, so there is essentially no non-government television news (I don't know about print journalism, but I'd bet that it's pretty much the same). There has always been vote tampering. There will always be vote tampering. What's important is that we pursue those who do it. Hell, it's widely believed that JFK was helped by a bit of ballot stuffing. And there's ample evidence to back that up.
If you're talking about Philadelphia, they were told not to worry about it because the votes were for a previous local election, so those wouldn't affect any of the things on the current ballot. The end result would come out like this: GW: 1,254 Kerry: 1,923 Person #1 from old local election: 1,325 Person #2 from old local election: 1,834 Don't get me wrong, I agree that voting over a long period of time can cause problems. I just don't think this is a good example of them (unless you're not talking about Philly, in which case, can you point me to some info on it so I can read up). I personally think there was active rigging in Ohio (and possibly Florida).
2) Mac OS X installer CD Next problem with this one is it also requires the purchase of at least several hundred dollars worth of equipment. I'm with you on the Linux/BSD though. Xandros Open Circulation Edition is easy to wean Windows users onto. Then, once they're more used to Linux, move them to a more robust distro.
You know, if cars made stupid, unfounded comments like this...oh.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of shoeboxes!!!!
I imagine they have some basic images. But that still wipes out any stored e-mail (servers can't always handle your archive) that users may not have backed up recently, any software that doesn't need to be part of the "base image", and software configurations specific to the user, and you'll still have to do things like go around to 60,000 PCs to set up their individual e-mail, etc. Remember, you can only have so many base images. They usually contain the bare essentials such as the OS, office suite, and maybe a few utils that a very large group of people use. But in an organization that size, it'll be hell dealing with all of the small details that individual users will have. Imagine trying to deal with verifying licensing while you're doing that. The base images will only get them to the point that there is a PC that is booting and perhaps has some of the essentials. Nothing beyond that. Not to mention that they will not have been patched since the last round of images.
I wouldn't consider daily system images of 80,000 PCs to be feasible or cost effective. Let's say there's an average of 5 GB per PC. You're looking at 400 terabytes of data storage just for the images, not to mention 400 terabytes PER NIGHT of bandwidth. 100 Mb/s throughout the organization or not, that's a lot of bandwidth.
Well, they were going to use NIPLECC, but FCC was refusing to let anyone use that on the air. They were going to start a new anti-piracy campaign, but I think their publicity dept. pretty much killed them. Apparently their idea for a great commercial was: Janet: "Give me your cheapest mocha latte" Employee: "Cheapest? Aren't you rich?" Janet: "I'm so poor these days. Everyone is 'stealing' my music. Who will protect me?" Duck: "NIPLECC!!!!" Janet: "I know I wrote that anti-piracy number down here somewhere" Apparently they thought that would get young kids attention. Go figure