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3com used to be a named. Over the last five years their qualify has dropped sharply. I would not buy a 3com nic now anyways. I'd choose a realtek over 3com.
That said Linksys quality is rather inconsistent but home users already expect that from there HP/Compaq/Dell/Gateway machines so its really alright.
I would not buy 3com products for my network simply because I made the mistake again and again about two years aog. I ended putting Intel nics in all my servers and realteks in all my workstations. Will not touch 3com again until I am well convinced their quality has changed around. I had to do that to 4 networks inside of a year and every now and I then I still come across crap network hardware.
If 3com made something cheaper and easier it wouldn't work even to the level that most home users would except. They'd ask themselves why they ever switched from dialup if they ever bought a 3com.
Am I the only one to experience this quality problem? My HP, Nortel, Bay Area, Extreme Networks, and Cisco switches all seem to be of adequate quality for business use although Cisco's latest works have been less than impressive with built in back doors and the likes. Ugh, I think HP and Nortel are the only companies that have been consistently high quality.
I'd think becoming a web host would be far more lucrative since you've already got the freakin expensive router you can start off with a T3 or a couple of T3s depending on your credit. Can move up from there, in a few years you might be using the full capacity of the router! Course I spose that depends on how well you can manage a shit load of server.
I still have my marble fx which is about 8 years old. But it has 4 mouse buttons. I hate scroll and optical mice, my marble fx works so much better, I have the same flexibilty but I don't have to watch what surfaces I put it on.
Exactly. It took me a while to get used to it. Probably a month or so but now I can't stand any other environment. Its to the point where an app will open up IE and instantly try to install spyware. I just get so tired of having to scan, clean, and update.
The tabs are not without their problems but they are great. I've noticed when I open a large pdf in a tab that the whole browser locks up while it downloads. That's not really acceptable to me, so I open it in a new window so that I can continue with my current window.
I have seen the problem you describe and it always comes back after a min which is still a problem and a gripe I have with Firefox as well.
You are right that they haven't made the customizations easy, but they are available and in a central location. I don't imagine it would be too difficult to create a web-based front end for it.
As a web developer I find having three windows open with multiple tabs in each works best, grouped by type of lookup. You are also right about the tab option. There really should be an option to open all links in a new tab. Perhaps there is a convenient hot key? (Ctrl+click)
That's mighty nice but there should still be a single click mode.
Nor can I, especially cause I'll have 50 tabs open and still have all my monitoring apps filling the taskbar right along side outlook, remote desktop, cross server event viewer, etc...
Most people that don't like tabbed browsing really haven't used it or they only view one or two pages at a time. Although even when its a page or two I still prefer tabs but that's me.
I assume you've used about:config?
Seems like its easy, just change the images in the content directory.
I will say outright that I haven't tried this, the default buttons suit me just fine. Looks like the browser supports the customization although its no where near the level of something like IEAK. Perhaps there is another project out there like that. Do you know of any efforts to brand Firefox at corporate locations?
The CEO of the company I work for just saw and started using Firefox, he loves it and so does everyone else here. Pretty soon the only time any of them will use IE is when they want to use Outlook Web Access with all the fancy active X controls.
As amazing as ActiveX is I definitely hope it doesn't get implemented into Firefox.
Or do what Firefox does currently and all you a central bout to shut all those unwanted features off. Sure they will add to the size of the app but at least they won't clutter up your desktop space.
about:config
Quite possibly the coolest thing since sliced bread.
As a child of the 80's I wonder, are you on crack? Most systems were still largely paper based then and as such relied on a great deal more people to be at the office 24/7. Now people can use cell phones to stay within communication range. For instance, my office phone, when I am out of the office it will forward all calls to my cell phone so when people need to reach me about problems that prevent the company from doing business they can still do so.
The solution has been said, fine people who are disturbing the public. Jamming is such a stupid way to go because you are forcing your ideal on other people with different ideals and more importantly, different responsibilities. Why should I have to avoid going to a theater just because I am part of the mission critical team?
That said, ringers are pretty dumb, rarely useful, my phone is almost always on vibrate. It would be much better if they had something that could conduct through bone so you could wear a patch and be able to hear everything without having to disturb other people.
There is always an inherent risk with technology. We've developed nuclear weapons right along side nuclear reactions. I'd say the invention thus far has done a great deal more good than harm. Although you could argue the rise of the power of the United States causes harm but I prefer to think more narrowly for the purposes here.
The common cold is not a virus number one so it couldn't be modified. I know its just an example but its a common misconception. If it were a virus there would have been treatment for it by now that actually works.
Back to reality here, the anti-hiv virus works by using parts of the old hiv virus to identify and destory cells which are "like" it ie, they contain the right receptors. That said you couldn't radically change a virus to do something completely different, but you could cause it to mutate into something worse which is the only concern I have with this type of treatment in general. The virus could mutate and we'd have something twice as hard to kill because it would contain even more RNA.
That's why we have both lab and clinical testing before it goes to the general population. As much as the FDA holds us back they do a great deal to protect those of us that are in the States. I'd say I'm not concerned about the treatment going south provided current effects remain consistent for larger more elaborate tests.
Most definitely this is the case. I used to work for a company back in New England. On Friday's we'd work all day and around 4 o'clock we'd crack open a case of beer and just kick back. It would not be odd for such a thing to happen on any other day either. The management drank right along with us, more like friends than a boss which seems to work because I don't know about you but I'm much more likely to put in extra hours for a friend than a boss I hate.
I might add the occasion company party involved us all going to a hotel and just getting drunk and stuffing ourselves with all kinds of food. Ahhh I miss that job although I work for another cool company now helping them with their classic car auction.
You take a very large performance hit and you lose some redundency since the rollback logs aren't kept for any longer than one transaction. Generally it is better to keep every thing on a filesystem that can handle large files.
Perhaps in the near future will remove the filesystem as a layer of abstraction, but not yet.
I don't expect the end users to install anything. I will push all the patches out with my SUS server after I test them. Its good policy for any OS since I've seen updates disrupt Oracle on my linux boxes.
Also, you can close all the ports on Windows. You shut off the server service. "net stop server" If you really want to get it all you can stop the workstation service as well, then it won't listen for anything. This should not be a default since it would prevent 99% of the people that use Windows from doing anything with it initially including activation or downloading firefox.
I'll add that all these worm are irrelevent, no workstation on any of my networks has ever gotten any of them because I run something so simple as a firewall. Might add I also make normal users for everyone. No one runs admin unless they are installing something. This has prevented most of the spyware from getting on their systems and the only final step is getting them all to use Firefox.
Oh yeah, I was rereading your post, a firewall wouldn't be necessary if you shut off both the server and workstation services since Windows won't accept remote connections but it is reasonable to have a firewall on every home system. XP already does this, the SP2 firewall is actually something that works too.
Maybe you are confused. How long does it a take a standard Red Hat install to both be found and exploited? Yeah, Windows has a lot of people out to get them but there are plenty of people out for Unix and Linux boxen. Considering the market share disparity look at the percentages of boxes that get hacked on a normal day in the world of Linux.
Fact is, not patching is negligent and will cost the same no matter what OS because ultimately there is downtime. How long that needs to be depends on how prepared you for the inevitability. You can fully restore a Windows box from an image in 20 minutes just like you could with a Linux box. Or you could restore from tape backup and have it take many of hours. The OS has no baring if you're not prepared.
The firewall with SP2 is nothing like the firewall in previous versions, its a lot better and a good step in the right direction. Yep, they have a long way to go still but they are showing progress, especially if you have a chip that support PAE.
Also, ask yourself what MS would gain by not allowing everyone with Windows to patch? Absolutely nothing, they realize that with SP1. It only results in worms propogating even faster which should be a moot issue anyway if everyone is using a firewall. There is a reason none of my networks including the few hundred workstations on them have ever gotten any of the worms, maintain a good diet and all will be well!
No, its Windows users and admins that cause all the problems. Ugh, I'm so tired of hearing all the OS bashing shit. I can make Linux flood a network quite easily, it is an OS that is designed to be flexible and do anything. Windows became a bigger problem when it took on more functionality without a properly educated administrator base. All of these worm issues are completely irrelevent if you have some so simple as a firewall, even a cheap linksys piece of junk.
I suggest they provide updates for the clueless pirate users merely because the OS is capable of doing harm if unchecked just like any other OS with any networking functionality.
Think Red Hat 5 box without any patches. Hacked in 5 minutes was it? I forget, been a few months since I saw the results of the latest test. Although the very newest ones actually lasted longer because people no longer scan for those vulerabilities, or at least most people.
If you turn off all the eye candy in XP then 128 megs of ram is fine. My laptop runs that. You can also shut off all the web crap in 98 to speeds things up.
Might add that NT4 contains no usb support without having to pay for the driver. I agree NT4 is a far superior choice to an old 98 machine. Still keep it seperated from the net, then again, all Windows boxes should be.
I would prefer AES but the Sonicwall boxes I've been forced to deal with don't support it. 3DES has its problems but it is considered secure and its not all that slow.
It is about $325USD which for a corporate environment is easy change. There are plenty of other checksum apps, Tripwire just arranges things nicely.
Also with XP users can run as Administrator by default but the very last step to an installation is the creation of a new users for your use. This is an option that exists in Linux or Netware or really any OS. You always have the option to run as an admin without a password and its usually an option left to you in the installer.
Back to the cost of tripwire, the price is really inconsequential because the info you learn from it is really the same on every machine unless you are using it on a server in which case it is worth its price on Windows.
last I checked cdrecord has no issues with any of those antipiracy measures. Unless they've started coding the media with some special chemical while I wasn't looking.
You're right, I'm not being fair. I'd like to 3DES with SHA3 authentication headers which is generally slow to begin with. If you use something light like ArcFour then you wouldn't take much of a hit. All depends really, some people can afford to lose 10%. Then again, some people are dropping packets already because of too much traffic.
Sorry for venting, I just started a new job and my first task was to fix the 8 vpns they have at the place and they were all setup woefully wrong and are complaining its slow despite the six Ts we have going into the place.
Doesn't help that Sonicwall's suck either. I might end up replacing them all with a highly customized gentoo install. mmmmmmm emerge gentoo-kernels
You can do it by encapulating everything inside of another larger packet. Sonicwall has a pptp client that does just that. Granted it's slow as all hell but it does work. NAT is a pain in the ass considering its limited use but seperate from the big bad world out there is a necessity.
Last I checked Gentoo portage tree was so up to date they even been kind enough to offer you unstable code to work with. I really do love emerge though, nothing so nice as emerging gnome and having all 2000 or so dependencies automatically downloaded and installed properly. Now to find out why it produced kernel headers that are woefully unuseful.
First of all, the SYSTEM user has a very long password by default, always has. Service accounts run with the abilities of the person installing it. So if you are an admin then you can run the process as system, but on as an admin. Normal users or even power users do not have the ability to submit anything directly to system. Its just like all those daemons that run as root on any standard linux distro. You can also disable ActiveX alltogether so who cares? When in doubt use Firefox anyhow. Most every site will work just fine and IE and just lie their dormant on your software firewalls watch list for execution.
Also, SYSTEM writes to all the mfts and does all the low level work that in reality most Windows administrators shouldn't have access to.
Additionally, SUS and Group policy can update just about any application across a domain, a feature OS X has a long ways to go. They will have to stick with scripting for now, it works, and there are some great UIs for it now so its sometimes even easy.
I think more people need to use Tripwire or some other similar app, learn which files are changed even before a user logs in. Good information gathering tool it is.
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That said Linksys quality is rather inconsistent but home users already expect that from there HP/Compaq/Dell/Gateway machines so its really alright.
I would not buy 3com products for my network simply because I made the mistake again and again about two years aog. I ended putting Intel nics in all my servers and realteks in all my workstations. Will not touch 3com again until I am well convinced their quality has changed around. I had to do that to 4 networks inside of a year and every now and I then I still come across crap network hardware.If 3com made something cheaper and easier it wouldn't work even to the level that most home users would except. They'd ask themselves why they ever switched from dialup if they ever bought a 3com.
Am I the only one to experience this quality problem? My HP, Nortel, Bay Area, Extreme Networks, and Cisco switches all seem to be of adequate quality for business use although Cisco's latest works have been less than impressive with built in back doors and the likes. Ugh, I think HP and Nortel are the only companies that have been consistently high quality.I'd think becoming a web host would be far more lucrative since you've already got the freakin expensive router you can start off with a T3 or a couple of T3s depending on your credit. Can move up from there, in a few years you might be using the full capacity of the router! Course I spose that depends on how well you can manage a shit load of server.
I still have my marble fx which is about 8 years old. But it has 4 mouse buttons. I hate scroll and optical mice, my marble fx works so much better, I have the same flexibilty but I don't have to watch what surfaces I put it on.
The tabs are not without their problems but they are great. I've noticed when I open a large pdf in a tab that the whole browser locks up while it downloads. That's not really acceptable to me, so I open it in a new window so that I can continue with my current window.
You are right that they haven't made the customizations easy, but they are available and in a central location. I don't imagine it would be too difficult to create a web-based front end for it.
As a web developer I find having three windows open with multiple tabs in each works best, grouped by type of lookup. You are also right about the tab option. There really should be an option to open all links in a new tab. Perhaps there is a convenient hot key? (Ctrl+click) That's mighty nice but there should still be a single click mode.Most people that don't like tabbed browsing really haven't used it or they only view one or two pages at a time. Although even when its a page or two I still prefer tabs but that's me.
I will say outright that I haven't tried this, the default buttons suit me just fine. Looks like the browser supports the customization although its no where near the level of something like IEAK. Perhaps there is another project out there like that. Do you know of any efforts to brand Firefox at corporate locations?
The CEO of the company I work for just saw and started using Firefox, he loves it and so does everyone else here. Pretty soon the only time any of them will use IE is when they want to use Outlook Web Access with all the fancy active X controls.As amazing as ActiveX is I definitely hope it doesn't get implemented into Firefox.
about:config
Quite possibly the coolest thing since sliced bread.You know you can change this to be whatever search engine you want right?
The solution has been said, fine people who are disturbing the public. Jamming is such a stupid way to go because you are forcing your ideal on other people with different ideals and more importantly, different responsibilities. Why should I have to avoid going to a theater just because I am part of the mission critical team?
That said, ringers are pretty dumb, rarely useful, my phone is almost always on vibrate. It would be much better if they had something that could conduct through bone so you could wear a patch and be able to hear everything without having to disturb other people.The common cold is not a virus number one so it couldn't be modified. I know its just an example but its a common misconception. If it were a virus there would have been treatment for it by now that actually works.
Back to reality here, the anti-hiv virus works by using parts of the old hiv virus to identify and destory cells which are "like" it ie, they contain the right receptors. That said you couldn't radically change a virus to do something completely different, but you could cause it to mutate into something worse which is the only concern I have with this type of treatment in general. The virus could mutate and we'd have something twice as hard to kill because it would contain even more RNA.That's why we have both lab and clinical testing before it goes to the general population. As much as the FDA holds us back they do a great deal to protect those of us that are in the States. I'd say I'm not concerned about the treatment going south provided current effects remain consistent for larger more elaborate tests.
I might add the occasion company party involved us all going to a hotel and just getting drunk and stuffing ourselves with all kinds of food. Ahhh I miss that job although I work for another cool company now helping them with their classic car auction.
Perhaps in the near future will remove the filesystem as a layer of abstraction, but not yet.
Also, you can close all the ports on Windows. You shut off the server service. "net stop server" If you really want to get it all you can stop the workstation service as well, then it won't listen for anything. This should not be a default since it would prevent 99% of the people that use Windows from doing anything with it initially including activation or downloading firefox.
I'll add that all these worm are irrelevent, no workstation on any of my networks has ever gotten any of them because I run something so simple as a firewall. Might add I also make normal users for everyone. No one runs admin unless they are installing something. This has prevented most of the spyware from getting on their systems and the only final step is getting them all to use Firefox.Oh yeah, I was rereading your post, a firewall wouldn't be necessary if you shut off both the server and workstation services since Windows won't accept remote connections but it is reasonable to have a firewall on every home system. XP already does this, the SP2 firewall is actually something that works too.
Fact is, not patching is negligent and will cost the same no matter what OS because ultimately there is downtime. How long that needs to be depends on how prepared you for the inevitability. You can fully restore a Windows box from an image in 20 minutes just like you could with a Linux box. Or you could restore from tape backup and have it take many of hours. The OS has no baring if you're not prepared.
The firewall with SP2 is nothing like the firewall in previous versions, its a lot better and a good step in the right direction. Yep, they have a long way to go still but they are showing progress, especially if you have a chip that support PAE.Also, ask yourself what MS would gain by not allowing everyone with Windows to patch? Absolutely nothing, they realize that with SP1. It only results in worms propogating even faster which should be a moot issue anyway if everyone is using a firewall. There is a reason none of my networks including the few hundred workstations on them have ever gotten any of the worms, maintain a good diet and all will be well!
I suggest they provide updates for the clueless pirate users merely because the OS is capable of doing harm if unchecked just like any other OS with any networking functionality.
Think Red Hat 5 box without any patches. Hacked in 5 minutes was it? I forget, been a few months since I saw the results of the latest test. Although the very newest ones actually lasted longer because people no longer scan for those vulerabilities, or at least most people.
Might add that NT4 contains no usb support without having to pay for the driver. I agree NT4 is a far superior choice to an old 98 machine. Still keep it seperated from the net, then again, all Windows boxes should be.
I would prefer AES but the Sonicwall boxes I've been forced to deal with don't support it. 3DES has its problems but it is considered secure and its not all that slow.
Also with XP users can run as Administrator by default but the very last step to an installation is the creation of a new users for your use. This is an option that exists in Linux or Netware or really any OS. You always have the option to run as an admin without a password and its usually an option left to you in the installer.
Back to the cost of tripwire, the price is really inconsequential because the info you learn from it is really the same on every machine unless you are using it on a server in which case it is worth its price on Windows.last I checked cdrecord has no issues with any of those antipiracy measures. Unless they've started coding the media with some special chemical while I wasn't looking.
Sorry for venting, I just started a new job and my first task was to fix the 8 vpns they have at the place and they were all setup woefully wrong and are complaining its slow despite the six Ts we have going into the place.
Doesn't help that Sonicwall's suck either. I might end up replacing them all with a highly customized gentoo install. mmmmmmm emerge gentoo-kernelsYou can do it by encapulating everything inside of another larger packet. Sonicwall has a pptp client that does just that. Granted it's slow as all hell but it does work. NAT is a pain in the ass considering its limited use but seperate from the big bad world out there is a necessity.
Last I checked Gentoo portage tree was so up to date they even been kind enough to offer you unstable code to work with. I really do love emerge though, nothing so nice as emerging gnome and having all 2000 or so dependencies automatically downloaded and installed properly. Now to find out why it produced kernel headers that are woefully unuseful.
Also, SYSTEM writes to all the mfts and does all the low level work that in reality most Windows administrators shouldn't have access to.
Additionally, SUS and Group policy can update just about any application across a domain, a feature OS X has a long ways to go. They will have to stick with scripting for now, it works, and there are some great UIs for it now so its sometimes even easy.I think more people need to use Tripwire or some other similar app, learn which files are changed even before a user logs in. Good information gathering tool it is.
I feel sorry for you if you want to use IPSec