I bought my daughter a laptop from bestbuy on a special offer; I had to leave the laptop with them to deinstall the crapware they they otherwise wanted me to pay for; I told them to please just use the OS recovery disk and wipe it clean which would be faster and cleaner, but they insisted on deinstalling.
So, went back much later, collected the laptop, saw it still had crapware on it but in evaluation mode, so wiped it flat.
My ISP (web tapestry in the UK) has provided IPv6 for a while, but I had to get my ADSL-connected firewall to handle the router advertisements, and install/configure a router advertisement daemon for my lan.
I think what will happen is that ISPs will have IPv6 working, and if the CPE can't do anything useful, they will set up web cache/proxies for their customers so that they can access IPv6-only web sites.
less than 30% of IPV4.. If the unused addresses were to be put back.. give us most likely a good 5 to 6 years to do a nice orderly IPV6 rollout
you mean another 5 years on top of the nearly 13 years that ipv6 has been around?
and the malware is built into the system, invisible, automatic, and self updating. So the user will have to do X, Y, or even Z at all. We're still at "It's just broken."
"The Undercover Economist" is an interesting book to read and it discusses how lack of information on the buyer or the seller causes apparent pricing anomalies or perceived unfairness; whether in the second-user car market (often the seller knows a lot more about the vehicle meaning buyer cannot know risks) and health insurance (buyer understands their condition and knows the risks far better than the seller).
dell U2410 is beautiful; my wife has one for her design work. I have an older Nec S-IPS 20" monitor which is glossy, so whilst the picture is great I have to control the room's ambient lighting carefully to enjoy it.
I would add that an efficient free market economy requires both the buyer and the sellers to have sufficient information about their activities that they can optimise their buying or selling according to their requirements... i.e buy and sell on cost, quality, quantity etc.
However, many consumers are ignorant, and corporate sales relies on their ignorance and thereby charge for perceived value which is not actually there. For example, Monster Cable, who have been shown to offer no performance improvement for their price premium.
I agree, but it's not just the revenues and cost, it's as much about securing the safety of the business's data (and their customers), and demonstrating a duty of care in the handling of that data. In some case there may be a legal requirement effectively preventing ANY use of the corporate network by the invididual.
Computers provided by the employer should be seen as tools for the job, owned and operated by the employer solely for the benefit of the employer's business.
If that laptop computer is owned by the business, the business can:
deny the user admin rights
install only the required applications and deny unnecessary applications (e.g. flash plugins, itunes etc)
set up whole disk encryption
install an anti-virus toolkit and ensure it is up to date
enforce the use of VPNs and proxies for any internet access
confiscation of the computer for any reason, such at the moment of job termination
Many of the above actions are difficult or impossible if the employee uses their own laptop... unless the laptop is simply a thin client, but even then a key logger would be a security risk.
There is already a big problem with people storing confidential information on laptop computers which leave the workplace. How this can be controlled if staff use their own?
there's a power-on sequence which resets the video settings to default, so you'll need to plug in the original analogue cable for a short while. I think it's a combination of holding down eject whilst pressing power-on or something?
there are strong rumours that GT5 was delayed by Sony forcing the game studio to require firmware 3.55 in order to "encourage" ps3 users to upgrade and prevent more piracy due to previous hacked firmwares.
it is possible to make password recovery much harder if not impossible on cisco devices, it is advised against of course in all but the most security paranoid installations where physical access may be a problem.
you could probably do some dns and arp poisoning so that when phones boot they will use your tftp server to acquire their configurations and not the company one, so even if the phones' configs are apparently secure, you have to protect your lan.
Apple uses open standards for just about everything,
really? not only do they have their own standards, but if you dare to try and get involved they will slap you down. here's just two examples
facetime - where's the published specs for 3rd party integration?
itunes - where's the usb sync specs? hence no linux client, and Palm (now HP) faced a moving target trying to emulate a iDevice
I read your point to be that ebooks should have a much higher profit margin than paper books and thus an ebook seller should have been able to swallow the 30% cut taken by Apple, so I responded that this is not the case.
I now realise you meant something entirely different
it would be easy enough for Apple to have a hack in their browsers so that they add an Amazon referral/associate tag to the URL when visiting amazon, and hide it from the end user.
apple would get a very nice tidy cut of the proceeds.
of course, amazon might object to "cookie stuffing" by apple
the latitude C610 I bought 2nd hand off yahoo auctions (remember them? before they were bribed by ebay to shut down) is still going strong at nearly 10 years old; sure, the batteries are fscked and the hard drive was replaced, and there's a dodgy key on the keyboard, but it runs perfectly.
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I bought my daughter a laptop from bestbuy on a special offer; I had to leave the laptop with them to deinstall the crapware they they otherwise wanted me to pay for; I told them to please just use the OS recovery disk and wipe it clean which would be faster and cleaner, but they insisted on deinstalling.
So, went back much later, collected the laptop, saw it still had crapware on it but in evaluation mode, so wiped it flat.
+1
how much will these things sulfur? sell for? geddit?
My ISP (web tapestry in the UK) has provided IPv6 for a while, but I had to get my ADSL-connected firewall to handle the router advertisements, and install/configure a router advertisement daemon for my lan.
I think what will happen is that ISPs will have IPv6 working, and if the CPE can't do anything useful, they will set up web cache/proxies for their customers so that they can access IPv6-only web sites.
less than 30% of IPV4.. If the unused addresses were to be put back.. give us most likely a good 5 to 6 years to do a nice orderly IPV6 rollout
you mean another 5 years on top of the nearly 13 years that ipv6 has been around?
I think you'll find that current fees at UK independent schools are more than double that, as much as GB£15k or over US$20k per annum.
and the malware is built into the system, invisible, automatic, and self updating. So the user will have to do X, Y, or even Z at all. We're still at "It's just broken."
https allows "reuse" and some savings in crypto overhead:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security#Resumed_TLS_handshake
to make this work you need a "sticky" load balancer, which is trivial if you've a small web farm but if you've a large CDN it's not trivial.
"The Undercover Economist" is an interesting book to read and it discusses how lack of information on the buyer or the seller causes apparent pricing anomalies or perceived unfairness; whether in the second-user car market (often the seller knows a lot more about the vehicle meaning buyer cannot know risks) and health insurance (buyer understands their condition and knows the risks far better than the seller).
+1
dell U2410 is beautiful; my wife has one for her design work. I have an older Nec S-IPS 20" monitor which is glossy, so whilst the picture is great I have to control the room's ambient lighting carefully to enjoy it.
However, many consumers are ignorant, and corporate sales relies on their ignorance and thereby charge for perceived value which is not actually there. For example, Monster Cable, who have been shown to offer no performance improvement for their price premium.
I agree, but it's not just the revenues and cost, it's as much about securing the safety of the business's data (and their customers), and demonstrating a duty of care in the handling of that data. In some case there may be a legal requirement effectively preventing ANY use of the corporate network by the invididual.
Computers provided by the employer should be seen as tools for the job, owned and operated by the employer solely for the benefit of the employer's business.
If that laptop computer is owned by the business, the business can:
Many of the above actions are difficult or impossible if the employee uses their own laptop... unless the laptop is simply a thin client, but even then a key logger would be a security risk.
There is already a big problem with people storing confidential information on laptop computers which leave the workplace. How this can be controlled if staff use their own?
there's a power-on sequence which resets the video settings to default, so you'll need to plug in the original analogue cable for a short while. I think it's a combination of holding down eject whilst pressing power-on or something?
there are strong rumours that GT5 was delayed by Sony forcing the game studio to require firmware 3.55 in order to "encourage" ps3 users to upgrade and prevent more piracy due to previous hacked firmwares.
it is possible to make password recovery much harder if not impossible on cisco devices, it is advised against of course in all but the most security paranoid installations where physical access may be a problem.
http://bengoldacre.posterous.com/nerd-saves-entire-bbc-archive-for-399-you-can
you could probably do some dns and arp poisoning so that when phones boot they will use your tftp server to acquire their configurations and not the company one, so even if the phones' configs are apparently secure, you have to protect your lan.
For yoda: is security cost what you pinch on is; is crisis what you get!
Apple uses open standards for just about everything,
really? not only do they have their own standards, but if you dare to try and get involved they will slap you down. here's just two examples
facetime - where's the published specs for 3rd party integration?
itunes - where's the usb sync specs? hence no linux client, and Palm (now HP) faced a moving target trying to emulate a iDevice
I read your point to be that ebooks should have a much higher profit margin than paper books and thus an ebook seller should have been able to swallow the 30% cut taken by Apple, so I responded that this is not the case.
I now realise you meant something entirely different
it would be easy enough for Apple to have a hack in their browsers so that they add an Amazon referral/associate tag to the URL when visiting amazon, and hide it from the end user.
apple would get a very nice tidy cut of the proceeds.
of course, amazon might object to "cookie stuffing" by apple
the actual cost of producing the physical part of an eBook is relatively small part of the sale price... see Charles Stross's blog/diary
a lot of software is still developed in the same a way a master blacksmith might craft a piece of work
many companies think they can treat software development as a factory mass-producing generic products with ISO9000-alike paperwork
+1 sadly true
the latitude C610 I bought 2nd hand off yahoo auctions (remember them? before they were bribed by ebay to shut down) is still going strong at nearly 10 years old; sure, the batteries are fscked and the hard drive was replaced, and there's a dodgy key on the keyboard, but it runs perfectly.