Err, no. They just finished with a time of 7h 28m. Maybe you mistoke the 125 mile line on the status board on http://www.grandchallenge.org/ for the finish?
Installing or running anything that needs admin rights is easy. Right click and select "Run as", enter the username and password of an admin level account.
I do not run as Admin or even Power User. McAfee 7.1 AV and 8.0 Firewall are running just fine.
Office and most new MS products will prompt for an admin level ID if you try to install them as a user.
I've come across a few apps like IZarc and anything from Palm, that don't work with Run As for the installation, and will require adding the current account to the local admin group for the install. A few other apps try to do things that are dumb, like putting data files in the Program Files folder, so you have to change the file locations or configure permissions. When I come across these issues, I email the company or developer responsable, and generally get a favourable reply along the lines of "Hey, I never thought of that!"
Assuming he's using 802.11b, the only 3 non-overlapping channels for North America are 1, 6 and 11.
Floor 1, channel 1
Floor 2, channel 6
Floor 3, channel 11
Floor 4, channel 1
If floors 4 and 1 interfere with each other, then you likely only need APs on the 2nd and 3rd floors to cover your entire building.
If you need multiple APs per floor, you need to pay attention to channels above you, below you, and beside you. (Which is where 802.11a is very nice, with 8 non overlapping channels.)
I've got 200 mailboxes on 4 servers (most on one server at head office, a few scattered in branches across a WAN).
McAfee Antivirus is showing about 5% of our inbound email is infected, though I haven't dug into specifics of which viruses. McAfee SpamKiller is spitting out about another 40% as spam.
Daily email count averages 6-10k
The most annoying bit about MyDoom is that we're getting a bunch of "you sent us an infected email!" messages because of the fake "from" address.
You raise a good point, however you should note that the article isn't talking about blocking ports. More than a handful of my customers have found out the hard way that blocking ICMP is a bad thing on your internal network.
Cisco has had "quarantine" capability like this for some time in their VPN3000 series of products. Those integration with things like Zonelabs Integrity, which in turn integrates with A/V software from the top 4 or 5 vendors. That's a powerful solution for securing remote access.
This appears to simply be an extension of that approach to a LAN or WAN instead of just a VPN.
The other thing to keep in mind here is that this is more an enterprise tool than an Internet/carrier tool. Your average ISP would have a tough time forcing this onto users. Big Corporation XYZ won't.
The intent isn't necessarily purely for machines involving the "pointy end of the stick".
Putting armies into battle requires huge logistical efforts. Convoys of fuel, ammo, and rations could now be automated. That means no POWs if they're ambushed (and they almost always are - it's easier to take out a fuel convoy to disable a squadron of tanks than to take the tanks out directly).
Robotic scouts could also be mass air-dropped over terrain, to gather intelligence and report back what they find. Or perhaps to automatically assemble themselves into a floating bridge across water...
There are a good many uses for autonomous vehicles in a military that don't involve weapons and decisions to use them.
Parallax has "stamps" that run either BASIC or JAVA programs. They've got a variety of different chips with different capabilities. Better yet, there's plenty of documentation, plans, etc., out there for them.
Sure they don't have the power of some of the beefier solutions mentioned, but they're much easier to get into.
I'm not sure how much time and effort will be spent on porting to the NetWare kernel. A handful of key Novell apps now run on Linux, and their stated strategy is to have NetWare 7 run on either the NetWare or Linux kernel.
http://www.novell.com/linux/ for general stuff and http://www.novell.com/connectionmagazine/ has a feature on the future of Novell and Linux.
Go get a copy of Master Windows 2000 Server, or Server 2003, whichever is most appropriate. It's big, but it cuts through the crap rather nicely.
More importantly, it's not focused on MCSE test objectives like so many other Windows books tend to be, so it's applicable to the real world.
As a bonus, Minsai doesn't work for MS, so when something sucks, he says so, and explains how to work with/around it in the real world.
I've used a lot of network gear for various vendors over the past several years, ranging from your average Linksys to the big Cisco stuff. While performance and features can be issues, you also need to take a serious look at the support and reliability of the product. To me, this includes things like the "debug" features of all Cisco boxen. When things just aren't working as they're supposed to, debug is a bacon-saver. You can find all kinds of other gear whose speeds and feeds are similar to Cisco gear, but with lower cost, and without debugging and support features. Depending on your environment, your mileage will vary.
... what does it matter what % of their ISPs traffic is from what application?
Would there be such a fuss over 65% of traffic being used for mail? For plain old html web traffic? - it used to be that way!
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Err, no. They just finished with a time of 7h 28m. Maybe you mistoke the 125 mile line on the status board on http://www.grandchallenge.org/ for the finish?
VMware doesn't virtualize the CPU. Whatever native CPU you're running is what the Guest OS sees.
I do not run as Admin or even Power User. McAfee 7.1 AV and 8.0 Firewall are running just fine.
Office and most new MS products will prompt for an admin level ID if you try to install them as a user.
I've come across a few apps like IZarc and anything from Palm, that don't work with Run As for the installation, and will require adding the current account to the local admin group for the install. A few other apps try to do things that are dumb, like putting data files in the Program Files folder, so you have to change the file locations or configure permissions. When I come across these issues, I email the company or developer responsable, and generally get a favourable reply along the lines of "Hey, I never thought of that!"
Assuming he's using 802.11b, the only 3 non-overlapping channels for North America are 1, 6 and 11.
Floor 1, channel 1
Floor 2, channel 6
Floor 3, channel 11
Floor 4, channel 1
If floors 4 and 1 interfere with each other, then you likely only need APs on the 2nd and 3rd floors to cover your entire building.
If you need multiple APs per floor, you need to pay attention to channels above you, below you, and beside you. (Which is where 802.11a is very nice, with 8 non overlapping channels.)
McAfee Antivirus is showing about 5% of our inbound email is infected, though I haven't dug into specifics of which viruses. McAfee SpamKiller is spitting out about another 40% as spam.
Daily email count averages 6-10k
The most annoying bit about MyDoom is that we're getting a bunch of "you sent us an infected email!" messages because of the fake "from" address.
Cisco has had "quarantine" capability like this for some time in their VPN3000 series of products. Those integration with things like Zonelabs Integrity, which in turn integrates with A/V software from the top 4 or 5 vendors. That's a powerful solution for securing remote access.
This appears to simply be an extension of that approach to a LAN or WAN instead of just a VPN.
The other thing to keep in mind here is that this is more an enterprise tool than an Internet/carrier tool. Your average ISP would have a tough time forcing this onto users. Big Corporation XYZ won't.
The intent isn't necessarily purely for machines involving the "pointy end of the stick".
Putting armies into battle requires huge logistical efforts. Convoys of fuel, ammo, and rations could now be automated. That means no POWs if they're ambushed (and they almost always are - it's easier to take out a fuel convoy to disable a squadron of tanks than to take the tanks out directly).
Robotic scouts could also be mass air-dropped over terrain, to gather intelligence and report back what they find. Or perhaps to automatically assemble themselves into a floating bridge across water...
There are a good many uses for autonomous vehicles in a military that don't involve weapons and decisions to use them.
Sure they don't have the power of some of the beefier solutions mentioned, but they're much easier to get into.
http://www.novell.com/linux/ for general stuff and http://www.novell.com/connectionmagazine/ has a feature on the future of Novell and Linux.
Too bad this isn't still available, it'd be perfect: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item =2182151690&category=28269
Go get a copy of Master Windows 2000 Server, or Server 2003, whichever is most appropriate. It's big, but it cuts through the crap rather nicely. More importantly, it's not focused on MCSE test objectives like so many other Windows books tend to be, so it's applicable to the real world. As a bonus, Minsai doesn't work for MS, so when something sucks, he says so, and explains how to work with/around it in the real world.
I've used a lot of network gear for various vendors over the past several years, ranging from your average Linksys to the big Cisco stuff. While performance and features can be issues, you also need to take a serious look at the support and reliability of the product. To me, this includes things like the "debug" features of all Cisco boxen. When things just aren't working as they're supposed to, debug is a bacon-saver. You can find all kinds of other gear whose speeds and feeds are similar to Cisco gear, but with lower cost, and without debugging and support features. Depending on your environment, your mileage will vary.
... what does it matter what % of their ISPs traffic is from what application? Would there be such a fuss over 65% of traffic being used for mail? For plain old html web traffic? - it used to be that way!