I've built this: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mailfilter-guide.xml, when i was tasked with setting up mailfilter. It works great and is also scalable with some LVS if you really need it.
There's always GMail for business (former Postini) mailfilter (which is pretty cheap) or a ton of similar solutions out there that will do it for you.
I'm going to reply to this because you did say 'communism' in your post.
First of all, communism per-se is a 'classless social organization based on common ownership'. In addition communism isn't bad specifically, its what was done in its name though that is. Kinda like religion vs crusades, but that's argument for another day. Anyways, I highly suggest reading some better-informed sources before making statements like that. Here's a wiki article on the subject http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism, and if that isn't good enough, the article cites plenty of well-respected sources of material to read further.
That being said, you're probably thinking of Orwellian society, which is infact something that we're well on the way towards: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orwellian
Unfortunately you probably worked in a company where IT Infrastructure wasn't part of the underlying basis of the whole business. Try hosting your own webproduct inhouse and supporting 50 scripts that not only maintain the new product but also make sure that the old legacy systems keep functioning. If you remove Customer Service for a week a typical technology company would be in deep trouble but would still function. The website would be up, backups done, phones working, systems operational. Remove IT Support from the same company and half the system would fall apart as most of the users would be dealing with issues that they cannot resolve without an IT person next to them, effectively putting that person out of commission.
If different departments are cogs and wheels of a company, then IT Support (sysadmins, sysops, what have you) is the oil that keeps it all turning.
As a member of IT department in 100 employee small business that is primarily computer-oriented, take my word: "Whatever you allocate will not be enough! Unless you do like twice the budget you amply need."
Either it's better laptops for developers or those QA servers ($3000 each) or replacing outdated/dying hardware. You'll be running out of money in no time.
Well, in any rate; you have to look at the company really needs and also consider what you plan to accomplish within the budget time:
If you need to hire a new person, that's 30-40K+
If you need new computers, plan for 1k each or so, laptops for about 1.5k each. (Give or take $500 on quality).
If you need new servers, plan for 2K+/each easily, more if you need better than low-end stuff.
Give yourself at least few thousands/month in terms of leeway, as you never know what kind of weird things you'll suddenly have a neeed of.
If the company is growing fast, ask for more than if its growing slow. (You'll most likely to get the numbers you need if you ask for more initially, but don't be greedy).
Remember, IT is a growing field, and if the company doesn't want to expand their IT base, you need to get out of there no matter how much you like the company itself.
I could go on for a while, but this should give you enough of a start.
Of course then we get into the argument that a kilobyte is 1024 bytes (or 1024 * 8 = 8192 bits), and that 4.7 GB DVD-R's only have about 4.5 GB of real capacity, etc. Its all about decimal vs. binary numbering systems.
68% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Although i do agree with the estimate that 90% of computers running Windows are infected. The actual percentage rises to about 99% if servers and special-purpose machines are excluded from the count. And no matter how many times the machine is sweeped with some anti-spyware tool, in 5 minutes of browsing there will be something installed, even if its a tracking cookie.
What is such huge deal with tabbed browsing and FireFox? Its not like its the only one browser that has it.
Both Avant Browser ( http://www.avantbrowser.com/ ) and MyIE2 ( http://www.myie2.com/html_en/home.htm ) are both free AND offer popup blocks and tabbed browsing, not to mention other stuff.
Can you say targeted DDoS attack? Slashdot the internet? Download more porn and music, slashdot RIAA website and then DDoS their servers so they will never find out?
My currest boss used to be one of the chief IT people at Hostway (webhosting company) according to him he was in an optimal position, and had enough power and bandwithd, to DDoS anything he wanted to (provided it was connected to the net of course). I believe 10 GBit was about the size of Hostway backbone at the time. According to him he also worked at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaine and wrote parts of the original Mosaic (web browser), but that's just selfish bragging.
From the atricle it seem that the car will drive on the rail tracks using its own wheels. Well fine, what will then prevent it from driving off the rail track if driver fails to execute the turn correctly, or blinks, or drifts off a bit, or one of the tires blows up?
At least those specially modified pickups that run along railways for maintenance purposes have rail stablelizers; BladeRunner have none.
As a recent UIC graduate i am very much glad that I got out of there on time (right before XP configs went into production). Unfortunately, as the parent mentioned, UIC has greatly restricted amount of things that can be done on any XP machine running in the public lab. The additional restriction that only Computer Majors can use *nix Labs forces all students to default to the windows machines. Oh well, I guess carrying around a Knoppix CD is one of the few ways to go in this case.
Selfish promotion goes out to all UIC people: I am a co-founder of UIC-LUG, check it out @ http://linux.pharm.uic.edu:)
Yet another version of AMOR... Talk about number of choices.
For those who do not know: AMOR stands for Amusing Misuse Of Resources, its one of the toys for KDE.
Slashdot Mirror
I've built this: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mailfilter-guide.xml, when i was tasked with setting up mailfilter. It works great and is also scalable with some LVS if you really need it. There's always GMail for business (former Postini) mailfilter (which is pretty cheap) or a ton of similar solutions out there that will do it for you.
I hear not what you say, for in space noone can hear you scream.
These sorts of stories always make me wonder, is since this was the 60s, what are they doing NOW!
That's not a Moon...
(I do agree with what zombie said though. Making PDF forms basically blows outside of Adobe products)
First of all, communism per-se is a 'classless social organization based on common ownership'. In addition communism isn't bad specifically, its what was done in its name though that is. Kinda like religion vs crusades, but that's argument for another day. Anyways, I highly suggest reading some better-informed sources before making statements like that. Here's a wiki article on the subject http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism, and if that isn't good enough, the article cites plenty of well-respected sources of material to read further.
That being said, you're probably thinking of Orwellian society, which is infact something that we're well on the way towards: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orwellian
Unfortunately you probably worked in a company where IT Infrastructure wasn't part of the underlying basis of the whole business. Try hosting your own webproduct inhouse and supporting 50 scripts that not only maintain the new product but also make sure that the old legacy systems keep functioning. If you remove Customer Service for a week a typical technology company would be in deep trouble but would still function. The website would be up, backups done, phones working, systems operational. Remove IT Support from the same company and half the system would fall apart as most of the users would be dealing with issues that they cannot resolve without an IT person next to them, effectively putting that person out of commission.
If different departments are cogs and wheels of a company, then IT Support (sysadmins, sysops, what have you) is the oil that keeps it all turning.
So you're saying that you tried 5 flavors of Debian and then switched to Fedora? Okay. Guess two does count as many on some level.
*Raises hand, coughs*
Just so you guys know, DON'T run porn sites on work IP space... That practice has a tendency to backfire.
As a member of IT department in 100 employee small business that is primarily computer-oriented, take my word: "Whatever you allocate will not be enough! Unless you do like twice the budget you amply need."
Either it's better laptops for developers or those QA servers ($3000 each) or replacing outdated/dying hardware. You'll be running out of money in no time.
Well, in any rate; you have to look at the company really needs and also consider what you plan to accomplish within the budget time:
If you need to hire a new person, that's 30-40K+
If you need new computers, plan for 1k each or so, laptops for about 1.5k each. (Give or take $500 on quality).
If you need new servers, plan for 2K+/each easily, more if you need better than low-end stuff.
Give yourself at least few thousands/month in terms of leeway, as you never know what kind of weird things you'll suddenly have a neeed of.
If the company is growing fast, ask for more than if its growing slow. (You'll most likely to get the numbers you need if you ask for more initially, but don't be greedy).
Remember, IT is a growing field, and if the company doesn't want to expand their IT base, you need to get out of there no matter how much you like the company itself.
I could go on for a while, but this should give you enough of a start.
http://www.ujiko.com/
It looks pretty good.
....in a galaxy far far away.
Fear the KDar, for it is subtle and quick to anger...
I would answer that, but its still compiling. Ask me in a month or so.
Internet at 35
Of course then we get into the argument that a kilobyte is 1024 bytes (or 1024 * 8 = 8192 bits), and that 4.7 GB DVD-R's only have about 4.5 GB of real capacity, etc.
Its all about decimal vs. binary numbering systems.
68% of all statistics are made up on the spot. Although i do agree with the estimate that 90% of computers running Windows are infected. The actual percentage rises to about 99% if servers and special-purpose machines are excluded from the count. And no matter how many times the machine is sweeped with some anti-spyware tool, in 5 minutes of browsing there will be something installed, even if its a tracking cookie.
What is such huge deal with tabbed browsing and FireFox? Its not like its the only one browser that has it. Both Avant Browser ( http://www.avantbrowser.com/ ) and MyIE2 ( http://www.myie2.com/html_en/home.htm ) are both free AND offer popup blocks and tabbed browsing, not to mention other stuff.
I am very much submitting few games there. A good example would be Star Control 2, aka Ur-Quan Masters. http://sc2.sourceforge.net/
Erm, nevermind, i am blind.
Can you say targeted DDoS attack?
Slashdot the internet?
Download more porn and music, slashdot RIAA website and then DDoS their servers so they will never find out?
My currest boss used to be one of the chief IT people at Hostway (webhosting company) according to him he was in an optimal position, and had enough power and bandwithd, to DDoS anything he wanted to (provided it was connected to the net of course). I believe 10 GBit was about the size of Hostway backbone at the time. According to him he also worked at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaine and wrote parts of the original Mosaic (web browser), but that's just selfish bragging.
From the atricle it seem that the car will drive on the rail tracks using its own wheels. Well fine, what will then prevent it from driving off the rail track if driver fails to execute the turn correctly, or blinks, or drifts off a bit, or one of the tires blows up? At least those specially modified pickups that run along railways for maintenance purposes have rail stablelizers; BladeRunner have none.
As a recent UIC graduate i am very much glad that I got out of there on time (right before XP configs went into production). Unfortunately, as the parent mentioned, UIC has greatly restricted amount of things that can be done on any XP machine running in the public lab. The additional restriction that only Computer Majors can use *nix Labs forces all students to default to the windows machines. Oh well, I guess carrying around a Knoppix CD is one of the few ways to go in this case.
:)
Selfish promotion goes out to all UIC people: I am a co-founder of UIC-LUG, check it out @ http://linux.pharm.uic.edu
...for the people who could use the original X Box controller. Finally they have a keyboard that is sized right!
Tomorrow's Headlines:
RIAA Sues next 1650.
Duke University low attendance sets a new record.
Yet another version of AMOR... Talk about number of choices. For those who do not know: AMOR stands for Amusing Misuse Of Resources, its one of the toys for KDE.