""In the notice, which was seen by internetnews.com, Microsoft said it was intended to "help our customers plan for the deployment of these security updates more effectively. The goal is to provide our Premier customers with information on soon-to-be released security updates."""
They are NOT sending them a patch early
They ARE sending information early
i'm sorry, but a large corporation needs time to prepare updates pushed to hundreds of computers. unlike your home PC, large companies have SCHEDULED UPDATES. thats right, they dont say, "oh this patch is out let's push it up."
Why would anyone bash microsoft for this? there are plenty of things to bash them for, this however, is not one of them.
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1) Check your spelling. Are the words in your query spelled correctly? (try micro$oft)
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BellSouth just started selling a wirless router option with their business DSL service. Thankfully, out of the box WEP is turned ON (not off, like most other routers) as well as an SSID that is the Serial Number on the bottom of the router.
The problem with linksys, or my Dlink 614+, is that standard, out of the box SSID's are 'default'.
I have 4 neighbors who have wireless (i can see their SSID's screaming HERE I AM, COME USE ME) and one of the SSIDs was -- check this out -- Belkin54G or something like that! Why would you put the model of your router as the broadcast SSID?
Netopia also has warnings in place if you try to turn WEP off at the router, warning that it is insecure data etc.
More Equipment vendors should make security ON by default, not OFF.
Salesmen do not mention the security issues with wireless, so we IT people must yet again bear the burden of cleaning up the mess Sales left.
anyway
while 'turning WEP on' is obiously better than no encryption at all, the WPA standard is a much better alternative for the security conscious.
http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-6265-5060773.html
a good quote from the article-- "The problem is that although WEP encryption strength has increased... the WEP protocol is still fundamentally weak because it uses a static encryption key. As a result, motivated attackers can easily crack WEP encryption by using freely available hacking tools."
Besides WEP or WPA, there are several things people can do to make their network more 'secure'.
the following article outlines some of the more common.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,844020,00.asp
and while you are busy reading those, ill be surfing the net using your still-broadcast-to-the-world-SSID
the technology mandates a copper loop.. (Your POTS line)
its not a 'forced bundle', but a requirement of the technology. (you can get pots and dsl from seperate providers) qwest is just eating the cost of running the copper line to thier customers
...rather than new technology.
a DSLAM runs the DSL over copper pair lines, and there is no way to get around that. you can
1. Buy DSL AND a POTS line from the same provider
or
2. Buy DSL from one provider, and have POTS from another one.
it sounds like QWEST is just wanting you to have both from them, so they are just eating the cost of providing the copper loop (and not provisioning dialtone on it) and pushing that as NAKED DSL. soounds like old fashioned MARKETING to me!! do the financials and im sure you would come to the same conclusion... and it worked, because they got us talking about it..
so what is the big deal; now you can verify what you knew was happening anyway? maybe if the camera had a robotic arm that yanked the offender out of the net and put it directly in my can of "Chicken of the Sea"...
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they are at fault, for providing a shoddy car. had i known up front, i wouldnt have made the purchase.
""In the notice, which was seen by internetnews.com, Microsoft said it was intended to "help our customers plan for the deployment of these security updates more effectively. The goal is to provide our Premier customers with information on soon-to-be released security updates."""
They are NOT sending them a patch early
They ARE sending information early
i'm sorry, but a large corporation needs time to prepare updates pushed to hundreds of computers. unlike your home PC, large companies have SCHEDULED UPDATES. thats right, they dont say, "oh this patch is out let's push it up."
Why would anyone bash microsoft for this? there are plenty of things to bash them for, this however, is not one of them.
Sorry, no results were found containing "microsoft longhorn" SEARCH TIPS 1) Check your spelling. Are the words in your query spelled correctly? (try micro$oft) 2) Try using synonyms. Maybe the site you're looking for uses slightly different words, like "film" instead of "movie", or UNIX instead of Windows. 3) Try Searching for something that actually exists, such as "OS X".
BellSouth just started selling a wirless router option with their business DSL service. Thankfully, out of the box WEP is turned ON (not off, like most other routers) as well as an SSID that is the Serial Number on the bottom of the router. The problem with linksys, or my Dlink 614+, is that standard, out of the box SSID's are 'default'. I have 4 neighbors who have wireless (i can see their SSID's screaming HERE I AM, COME USE ME) and one of the SSIDs was -- check this out -- Belkin54G or something like that! Why would you put the model of your router as the broadcast SSID? Netopia also has warnings in place if you try to turn WEP off at the router, warning that it is insecure data etc. More Equipment vendors should make security ON by default, not OFF.
Salesmen do not mention the security issues with wireless, so we IT people must yet again bear the burden of cleaning up the mess Sales left. anyway while 'turning WEP on' is obiously better than no encryption at all, the WPA standard is a much better alternative for the security conscious. http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-6265-5060773.html
a good quote from the article-- "The problem is that although WEP encryption strength has increased... the WEP protocol is still fundamentally weak because it uses a static encryption key. As a result, motivated attackers can easily crack WEP encryption by using freely available hacking tools."
Besides WEP or WPA, there are several things people can do to make their network more 'secure'.
the following article outlines some of the more common.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,844020,00.asp
and while you are busy reading those, ill be surfing the net using your still-broadcast-to-the-world-SSID
the technology mandates a copper loop.. (Your POTS line) its not a 'forced bundle', but a requirement of the technology. (you can get pots and dsl from seperate providers) qwest is just eating the cost of running the copper line to thier customers
...rather than new technology. a DSLAM runs the DSL over copper pair lines, and there is no way to get around that. you can 1. Buy DSL AND a POTS line from the same provider or 2. Buy DSL from one provider, and have POTS from another one. it sounds like QWEST is just wanting you to have both from them, so they are just eating the cost of providing the copper loop (and not provisioning dialtone on it) and pushing that as NAKED DSL. soounds like old fashioned MARKETING to me!! do the financials and im sure you would come to the same conclusion... and it worked, because they got us talking about it..
at least someone besides viagra is concerned about performance enhancments
so what is the big deal; now you can verify what you knew was happening anyway? maybe if the camera had a robotic arm that yanked the offender out of the net and put it directly in my can of "Chicken of the Sea"...