I haven't noticed a surge of jobs from the county as I have been looking into it for the past couple of months (I know a couple of months isn't really all that long for a huge rollout like this would be, but I still think that there would be some hiring/firing going on).
I've been looking to move to that county or a nearby county, and I have been following the jobs on their website, and I haven't seen any job posts for anything network (there was recently a PC Tech position).
Did all their hiring for the project go on a long time ago? I'd love to hop on board a project like this.
Neither of those. . .
And to correct my original post, the software is written in ASP.NET, with ActiveX components, so pretty much, yes, it is required you run IE.
I work for a decently sized bank data processing center. I know that our vendor we use for the core part of our applications and servers will only support Microsoft IE, mainly because they use a lot of.asp for their online compononents. A few banks have received word about the FCC declaring IE full of bugs, problems, and unsafe for most uses; these banks started asking about support for "other" browsers, and received word that there is no support planned anytime soon for any other browser other than IE.
I work for a decent sized bank data processing center. We have been using the web-based FedLine for quite some time now. We do transfers to and from the Federal Reserve in Minneapolis (sp?), St. Louis, and Kansas City. We have been trying to migrate from the old modem based FedLine method.
I feel as confident about the web-based system, as I do about non-web based version, that we have used in the past. The old system is very outdated, it connects to the Fed at 9600 Baud or less, and there really is no reason as to avoid the web-based version, as opposed to the old dial-in version. I think they would both be as succeptible (sp?) to any sort of hacking attempts, just two different methods.
This is really not a big deal, and its really not all that new. I for one will be happy when the Fed moves away from their old FedLine though.
It is cool to see these systems in my office buidling, unfortunatly I don't have one, and my work doesn't warrant me having one.
Another fellow subsidiary company of ours is using these babies for various forms of web development. I talked to one of the guys on that team, and they are 3.04 Pentium EE CPUs, and a crapload of memory and disk space.
I'm just jealous because I don't think I'd be able to get my boss to drop that much money on a desktop for me.
Passwords, are becoming trickier and trickier. We now have a new company policy that requires all servers, internal, external, etc, to have a password that is > 7 characters long, must contain alpha characters of mixed case, at least one number, and at least one punctuation mark (ie..,!?`~, etc). It becomes quite a pain trying to remember all our servers passwords, and usernames. All I can say, is thank heavens for PassKeeper.
Well isn't that some great news, that makes me feel 20x better about taking my gf to the airport this morning. Fortunately she wasn't flying U.S. Airways or American Airlines.
She is absolutely frightened of flying, and somewhat of a computer nerd, I can't wait to talk to her, and tell her the scary news.
Interesting, I was just explaining to my gf last night, how ATMs work, and how scams work. CSI's episode, involved a guy placing a fake card reader in front of the ATM's real card reader, and a camera to capture the PIN number they enter.
Not to mention, I work for a bank's data processing center, who also controls their own network of ATMs.
I know most of you are going to be thinking of how wacky Diebold is, and their corner on the market; but here is something for you to consider. Iowa, by law, all their ATMs must be on one ATM network. Think about what that kind of law could do for your business.
I was thinking about a similiar idea, that involves USB. I've been looking for information on how the computer recognizes USB devices. Is there a circuit in there that sends some unique identifier to the system? Where is it, and what do the strings look like that it sends to the computer? Does anyone have any information on this sort of thing? I have tried google searches BTW, but I can't find anything specific regarding to the identification of USB hardware.
Doesn't a form of the evolutionary theory form from this magnetic pole change?
I remember a college professor just hinting on this, and I remember my dad explaining the phenomenon(sp?) to me. I think it is pretty much agreed that more radiation will be able to get to the earth's surface. The theory states that every "major" leap in evolutionary history has occurred during this magnetic pole change. So what I am assuming that makes us all descendents of radiated mutants.
My heart started pounding as I first opened the page. I saw the exact same case I am slowly building into my dream system (well. . . ok, so I only have the case, and power supply, but one day, it will be my dream system). BTW. . . I don't like his harsh comments about the case, he should have known by the posted diminsions and specs that it wasn't a light little case.
Maybe I should start writing articles for various computer tech sites, I have more experience (as I am sure most of/. does) than this guy.
This article all in all is okay for any beginner that is considering building his own system, but by know means is there anything worthwhile for a professional.
I'm not saying that I subscribe to the most knowledgeable set of magazines, seeing as I read magazines most for entertainment value than anything else.
I subscribe to:
When is the last time you opened a Playboy? Picture content isn't very high. . . There are maybe 10 pages of pictures while all the others are either ads or articles.
This sounds like what could be accomplished with port knocking, only, almost in reverse for already open ports. I imagine the port knocking software could be managed to do this for you.
Didn't Microsoft try something like this, with passwords? I'm trying to find the/. article on it, but I can't seem to find it. MS would develop a password that was developed from images the user saw, I can't remember the exact details (Damn, I need to find that article).
Damn, expensive hobbies can be scary. Just imagine the price of running that thing. How would you feel if you crashed and burned that poor B-52? I bet they have their best damn RC pilot at the helm when they fly that beast.
I wish they had a video of the landing, I'd like to see that.
From everything I have heard, these are the worst machines to play. You have to play at least the $0.25 machines to have any sort of odds rolling your way. The $0.05 have the lowest payout allowed by the state gaming and gambling board.
I was a tech support worker, I was rated more upon how many calls I took; I wasn't rated by how much I tought someone over the phone.
Also, trust me, teaching a person too much can be bad too. . . For instance, if one problem required the server to get rebooted, (they didn't have a login for the terminal), I would have to do it, so sometimes they will start cycling (hard) the power on the unix server, without issuing the proper shutdown commands etc.
Trust me, if something is out of their reach, such as a server, then they shouldn't be educated about the inner workings of it, ie. they should be educated to which computer box is the server, etc, but they shouldn't need to know more than that.
I've had quite decent luck with actual service contractors doing all the work and ordering, as opposed to the OEM doing it. NCR has a fairly good reputation, and they manufacturer some of their own stuff, but also will support others. I'm sure there are varied reactions to NCR, but I have had quite good results with them in the past. Their online trouble ticket process is very nice too. . .
While checking to see if my ISP (cable i-net provider) provides IMAP for checking email, I decided to call. After calling, and explaining to the tech guy what IMAP was, he said: "Can't you just login through our web interface and use it." I said, "Yes, I can, but I'd rather not, because I'd like it to simply be checked by my MUA, rather than diddie dallying around typing in passwords on the web interface and such."
Silence for a couple of minutes, and then he said, I don't know.
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I haven't noticed a surge of jobs from the county as I have been looking into it for the past couple of months (I know a couple of months isn't really all that long for a huge rollout like this would be, but I still think that there would be some hiring/firing going on).
I've been looking to move to that county or a nearby county, and I have been following the jobs on their website, and I haven't seen any job posts for anything network (there was recently a PC Tech position).
Did all their hiring for the project go on a long time ago? I'd love to hop on board a project like this.
Neither of those. . . And to correct my original post, the software is written in ASP.NET, with ActiveX components, so pretty much, yes, it is required you run IE.
I work for a decently sized bank data processing center. I know that our vendor we use for the core part of our applications and servers will only support Microsoft IE, mainly because they use a lot of .asp for their online compononents. A few banks have received word about the FCC declaring IE full of bugs, problems, and unsafe for most uses; these banks started asking about support for "other" browsers, and received word that there is no support planned anytime soon for any other browser other than IE.
I work for a decent sized bank data processing center. We have been using the web-based FedLine for quite some time now. We do transfers to and from the Federal Reserve in Minneapolis (sp?), St. Louis, and Kansas City. We have been trying to migrate from the old modem based FedLine method.
I feel as confident about the web-based system, as I do about non-web based version, that we have used in the past. The old system is very outdated, it connects to the Fed at 9600 Baud or less, and there really is no reason as to avoid the web-based version, as opposed to the old dial-in version. I think they would both be as succeptible (sp?) to any sort of hacking attempts, just two different methods.
This is really not a big deal, and its really not all that new. I for one will be happy when the Fed moves away from their old FedLine though.
It is cool to see these systems in my office buidling, unfortunatly I don't have one, and my work doesn't warrant me having one.
Another fellow subsidiary company of ours is using these babies for various forms of web development. I talked to one of the guys on that team, and they are 3.04 Pentium EE CPUs, and a crapload of memory and disk space.
I'm just jealous because I don't think I'd be able to get my boss to drop that much money on a desktop for me.
Passwords, are becoming trickier and trickier. We now have a new company policy that requires all servers, internal, external, etc, to have a password that is > 7 characters long, must contain alpha characters of mixed case, at least one number, and at least one punctuation mark (ie. .,!?`~, etc). It becomes quite a pain trying to remember all our servers passwords, and usernames. All I can say, is thank heavens for PassKeeper.
Well isn't that some great news, that makes me feel 20x better about taking my gf to the airport this morning. Fortunately she wasn't flying U.S. Airways or American Airlines.
She is absolutely frightened of flying, and somewhat of a computer nerd, I can't wait to talk to her, and tell her the scary news.
Interesting, I was just explaining to my gf last night, how ATMs work, and how scams work. CSI's episode, involved a guy placing a fake card reader in front of the ATM's real card reader, and a camera to capture the PIN number they enter.
Not to mention, I work for a bank's data processing center, who also controls their own network of ATMs.
I know most of you are going to be thinking of how wacky Diebold is, and their corner on the market; but here is something for you to consider. Iowa, by law, all their ATMs must be on one ATM network. Think about what that kind of law could do for your business.
Isn't Blinkx the name of that purple ape on that Bonzai Buddy adware/spyware?
I was thinking about a similiar idea, that involves USB. I've been looking for information on how the computer recognizes USB devices. Is there a circuit in there that sends some unique identifier to the system? Where is it, and what do the strings look like that it sends to the computer? Does anyone have any information on this sort of thing? I have tried google searches BTW, but I can't find anything specific regarding to the identification of USB hardware.
Doesn't a form of the evolutionary theory form from this magnetic pole change?
I remember a college professor just hinting on this, and I remember my dad explaining the phenomenon(sp?) to me. I think it is pretty much agreed that more radiation will be able to get to the earth's surface. The theory states that every "major" leap in evolutionary history has occurred during this magnetic pole change. So what I am assuming that makes us all descendents of radiated mutants.
I for one welcome our mutant overlords.
My heart started pounding as I first opened the page. I saw the exact same case I am slowly building into my dream system (well. . . ok, so I only have the case, and power supply, but one day, it will be my dream system). BTW. . . I don't like his harsh comments about the case, he should have known by the posted diminsions and specs that it wasn't a light little case.
Maybe I should start writing articles for various computer tech sites, I have more experience (as I am sure most of /. does) than this guy.
This article all in all is okay for any beginner that is considering building his own system, but by know means is there anything worthwhile for a professional.
I'm not saying that I subscribe to the most knowledgeable set of magazines, seeing as I read magazines most for entertainment value than anything else. I subscribe to:
Maximum PC
InfoWorld (free)
Playboy
Stuff
Maxim
When is the last time you opened a Playboy? Picture content isn't very high. . . There are maybe 10 pages of pictures while all the others are either ads or articles.
This sounds like what could be accomplished with port knocking, only, almost in reverse for already open ports. I imagine the port knocking software could be managed to do this for you.
Didn't Microsoft try something like this, with passwords? I'm trying to find the /. article on it, but I can't seem to find it. MS would develop a password that was developed from images the user saw, I can't remember the exact details (Damn, I need to find that article).
Damn, expensive hobbies can be scary. Just imagine the price of running that thing. How would you feel if you crashed and burned that poor B-52? I bet they have their best damn RC pilot at the helm when they fly that beast.
I wish they had a video of the landing, I'd like to see that.
I thought that was a feature of those old Okidata's. (Although, they are honestly built to take a beating).
From everything I have heard, these are the worst machines to play. You have to play at least the $0.25 machines to have any sort of odds rolling your way. The $0.05 have the lowest payout allowed by the state gaming and gambling board.
Read the Slashdot review of the Oritron NPD3117 Networked DVD Player
Flame On! (No, this in itself is not a flame)
I was a tech support worker, I was rated more upon how many calls I took; I wasn't rated by how much I tought someone over the phone.
Also, trust me, teaching a person too much can be bad too. . . For instance, if one problem required the server to get rebooted, (they didn't have a login for the terminal), I would have to do it, so sometimes they will start cycling (hard) the power on the unix server, without issuing the proper shutdown commands etc.
Trust me, if something is out of their reach, such as a server, then they shouldn't be educated about the inner workings of it, ie. they should be educated to which computer box is the server, etc, but they shouldn't need to know more than that.
Ahh, thats too bad. . . I only by No. 5 or better oil. . .
I've had quite decent luck with actual service contractors doing all the work and ordering, as opposed to the OEM doing it. NCR has a fairly good reputation, and they manufacturer some of their own stuff, but also will support others. I'm sure there are varied reactions to NCR, but I have had quite good results with them in the past. Their online trouble ticket process is very nice too. . .
While checking to see if my ISP (cable i-net provider) provides IMAP for checking email, I decided to call. After calling, and explaining to the tech guy what IMAP was, he said: "Can't you just login through our web interface and use it." I said, "Yes, I can, but I'd rather not, because I'd like it to simply be checked by my MUA, rather than diddie dallying around typing in passwords on the web interface and such."
Silence for a couple of minutes, and then he said, I don't know.