We actually have a mix of pagers, IP phones and Blackberries, as we cant buy new pagers anymore. In a hospital context the internal paging system is useless as you can only page someone an internal phone number (which is no good as theres no way of prioritising the message.) Where as the mobile phones of the crash team all ring with the location when a crash is called, and non urgent stuff is handled by emails/the IP phones (some of which are wireless.)
Most modern hospital gear is very well shielded against interference, and anyway the PETRA radios carried by paramedics are more likely to cause damage, so our hospitals rule is its fine, as long as you move away from any equipment to answer calls.
You can bath a keyboard, as long as you dry it out well afterwards! Ive been scrubbing mine in the bathtub (not while I was in there I hasten to add) for quite a while. The shower head, and a brush work wonders after a bit of dissassembely.
I work for a fortune 500 company, in product development. We deal with not just stuff that could get employeees compromised, but whole goverments, and millitary systems. I work in a cube, with half height sides, and have sensative data on my PC. But my PC is secured in a safe like box, where I put all my sensative paperwork and the likes. I mean, securing a cubicle isnt hard, if the main building itself is secure, I mean as long as you lock your workstation, and have good building security your fine.
Right running a true isp isnt simple. Im pretty sure even in the US you need keep access logs for all inward and outward connections. Copies of all emails entering/leaving your network, both of these need to be yearly logs.
Also you either need to make sure that you are a least trying to stop all forms of illegal activities, or at least making it to its not your fault if you clients do do something illegal.Now you could block all the ports where illegal things go on, but that would mean you needing to block HTTP, which would make you the crappies isp ever. Also this would make you liable, as you would block legal forms of access, like say FTP into a website, or a bittorrent linux download.
A better idea is a network traffic disclaimer, inside your TOS, saying that you are not responsable for any data moving accross your network, the user themselves are, you provide the network under the aggreement that they dont do anything illegal on it, and if they do be it on there heads.
Running an ISP is alot of bother, and dosnt really make that much money, and with the required expenditure vs your profits in this situation would be a bad idea! When i ran on in the UK, i didnt make any profit for a year, and eventually i sold the company for a marginal profit.
Hmm i went to a seminar with Doctor Solaman there (yes he is a real person.) Apparently he dosnt use any form of AV, all he uses is a smoothwall box, mozilla, runs Windows Update each day and never opens anything off the net if he dosnt know what it is.
At my uni in halls regular virus scans were run, if ur pc was infected the port in your room would be disabled. Also mac address banning was easy as only registeded mac addresses were allowed on the netowork, of which the student could only have one assigned to the wired network
Theres a big difference between universtiys/high schools(or english colleges) pupils(normally) want to be there, so if they dont want to listen to the lecture they obv dont wanna pass. I sit in lectures with my pbook taking notes, accessing the presentation in the lecture theater, getting files needed for the weeks work etc. I assume you have spent alot on an 'e campus' so whats the point on deining access to it. Having an e campus is a great tool for learning, if i get confused by a word, i can google it, reserve a book from the libary and get it later. Restricting this will be detrimental to learning, and pupils will allways find a way roumd. If i goto the only lecture theater without access, ill use bluetooth and GPRS to dial up if i need to.
Tis a shame that english unis arnt on the list, Portsmouth universoty has a 90% academic areas coverage, which of course spills over into alot of other nearby areas, making the wifi quite accessable over parts of the city. But this is quite badly secured (well extrenally, it uses novel encryption, and computer access usename authentication) and there all controled by a central body, ie file sharing is disallowed. Thing is the halls dont have them, oh well, well make do with our wired network there (and our bootleg wifi one!)
I had the job of reprogramming an 80's satalite interface, that for some reason was based in COBOL, which is probaly the most stupid colluded language evey. I just reprogrammed a complete c++ visual interface, that earned me a promotion! Juts stick with it u may get one (a promotion) too!
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We actually have a mix of pagers, IP phones and Blackberries, as we cant buy new pagers anymore. In a hospital context the internal paging system is useless as you can only page someone an internal phone number (which is no good as theres no way of prioritising the message.) Where as the mobile phones of the crash team all ring with the location when a crash is called, and non urgent stuff is handled by emails/the IP phones (some of which are wireless.)
Most modern hospital gear is very well shielded against interference, and anyway the PETRA radios carried by paramedics are more likely to cause damage, so our hospitals rule is its fine, as long as you move away from any equipment to answer calls.
You can bath a keyboard, as long as you dry it out well afterwards! Ive been scrubbing mine in the bathtub (not while I was in there I hasten to add) for quite a while. The shower head, and a brush work wonders after a bit of dissassembely.
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I work for a fortune 500 company, in product development. We deal with not just stuff that could get employeees compromised, but whole goverments, and millitary systems. I work in a cube, with half height sides, and have sensative data on my PC. But my PC is secured in a safe like box, where I put all my sensative paperwork and the likes. I mean, securing a cubicle isnt hard, if the main building itself is secure, I mean as long as you lock your workstation, and have good building security your fine.
Right running a true isp isnt simple. Im pretty sure even in the US you need keep access logs for all inward and outward connections. Copies of all emails entering/leaving your network, both of these need to be yearly logs. Also you either need to make sure that you are a least trying to stop all forms of illegal activities, or at least making it to its not your fault if you clients do do something illegal.Now you could block all the ports where illegal things go on, but that would mean you needing to block HTTP, which would make you the crappies isp ever. Also this would make you liable, as you would block legal forms of access, like say FTP into a website, or a bittorrent linux download. A better idea is a network traffic disclaimer, inside your TOS, saying that you are not responsable for any data moving accross your network, the user themselves are, you provide the network under the aggreement that they dont do anything illegal on it, and if they do be it on there heads. Running an ISP is alot of bother, and dosnt really make that much money, and with the required expenditure vs your profits in this situation would be a bad idea! When i ran on in the UK, i didnt make any profit for a year, and eventually i sold the company for a marginal profit.
Come on the main theme is stolen from stargate, how can a film be good if they steal music from other things!
Because there personal PC's not pc's bought by the company, You own it and all the data on it.
Hmm i went to a seminar with Doctor Solaman there (yes he is a real person.) Apparently he dosnt use any form of AV, all he uses is a smoothwall box, mozilla, runs Windows Update each day and never opens anything off the net if he dosnt know what it is.
At my uni in halls regular virus scans were run, if ur pc was infected the port in your room would be disabled. Also mac address banning was easy as only registeded mac addresses were allowed on the netowork, of which the student could only have one assigned to the wired network
Theres a big difference between universtiys/high schools(or english colleges) pupils(normally) want to be there, so if they dont want to listen to the lecture they obv dont wanna pass. I sit in lectures with my pbook taking notes, accessing the presentation in the lecture theater, getting files needed for the weeks work etc. I assume you have spent alot on an 'e campus' so whats the point on deining access to it. Having an e campus is a great tool for learning, if i get confused by a word, i can google it, reserve a book from the libary and get it later. Restricting this will be detrimental to learning, and pupils will allways find a way roumd. If i goto the only lecture theater without access, ill use bluetooth and GPRS to dial up if i need to.
The ipaq 4150 is good, and cheap atm, as long as you can put up with the fact its still a windows OS, and that the screen can have a yellow hue.
By badly secured internally i mean the firewall sucks! Also ill i do when uii get bored is surf on my pda, and use irc!
Tis a shame that english unis arnt on the list, Portsmouth universoty has a 90% academic areas coverage, which of course spills over into alot of other nearby areas, making the wifi quite accessable over parts of the city. But this is quite badly secured (well extrenally, it uses novel encryption, and computer access usename authentication) and there all controled by a central body, ie file sharing is disallowed. Thing is the halls dont have them, oh well, well make do with our wired network there (and our bootleg wifi one!)
Im sure this will spark off the obitious "In my day comments" Well your day didnt have sweet 3d gfx!
I had the job of reprogramming an 80's satalite interface, that for some reason was based in COBOL, which is probaly the most stupid colluded language evey. I just reprogrammed a complete c++ visual interface, that earned me a promotion! Juts stick with it u may get one (a promotion) too!