I used to work with PLCs driving mining equipment. We knew ten years ago that these things weren't secure and shouldn't be accessible. Thankfully, we just built the machines and plugged them into their network. Their security guys are probably on medication by now. They got over-ruled when middle management types 'needed' to have the office and plant networks hooked together for easy overview or stats reporting or whatever the excuse of the week was. (Giving them what they asked for in a secure fashion wasn't the point, they wanted the access.)
Everybody here already knows. The masses don't come here. Shut down something they care about like Wikipedia or Facebook. Hell, shut down Farmville for an hour and it will be bigger than shutting down Slashdot for a week.
Exactly. You could even just turn the thing off when not needed. Bonus points: use Sunday school items for the passphrase. Today's password is..., let's talk about that.
Add a big switch to that marked 'Wireless: On' and 'Wireless: Off' and any muppet can drive the thing. Turn the AP on when you need it. Change the password regularly and give it to the Sunday school teachers when changed. Problem solved and get back to enjoying life, church, community, and whatever else you do with your weekend.
And those will be for Windows 8. A lot of shops are still rolling out 7. IE 8/9 will be supported for quite a while. XP won't drop out of support for another couple of years so IE 6/7/8 will still need to be supported.
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I used to work with PLCs driving mining equipment. We knew ten years ago that these things weren't secure and shouldn't be accessible. Thankfully, we just built the machines and plugged them into their network. Their security guys are probably on medication by now. They got over-ruled when middle management types 'needed' to have the office and plant networks hooked together for easy overview or stats reporting or whatever the excuse of the week was. (Giving them what they asked for in a secure fashion wasn't the point, they wanted the access.)
You know where you can stick your RIM jobs.
Everybody here already knows. The masses don't come here. Shut down something they care about like Wikipedia or Facebook. Hell, shut down Farmville for an hour and it will be bigger than shutting down Slashdot for a week.
No, removing posts is DMCA. SOPA would nuke the domain. Get your stupid laws straight.
So, it's a pump-n-dump RIM job.
Um, rim shot.
Get a 3G version. It works on the road.
Knowing is half the battle.
Exactly. You could even just turn the thing off when not needed. Bonus points: use Sunday school items for the passphrase. Today's password is ..., let's talk about that.
I've found hidden SSID a pain in the backside with some devices in the past. Give these devices to the average user and it's pain on a platter.
Add a big switch to that marked 'Wireless: On' and 'Wireless: Off' and any muppet can drive the thing. Turn the AP on when you need it. Change the password regularly and give it to the Sunday school teachers when changed. Problem solved and get back to enjoying life, church, community, and whatever else you do with your weekend.
Somehow, I don't think they're a non-prophet organisation.
Give a man a fish and he's gone for a night. Show him how to use the 'net and he won't bug you for weeks.
AFM = Automatic Fencing Machine
Damn, Slashdot isn't cool any more.
Because the last time I tried it, it didn't do anything.
And those will be for Windows 8. A lot of shops are still rolling out 7. IE 8/9 will be supported for quite a while. XP won't drop out of support for another couple of years so IE 6/7/8 will still need to be supported.
IE isn't significant, it's just very large.
They still support their old versions. Making new ones isn't the problem. Dropping the old ones that mission critical apps depend on is the problem.
I'd be happy if I didn't have to permanently trust every site that has a minor SSL issue. I'm not banking with them, I just want to see the page.
As long as managers make developers do stupid things with browser interfaces a year is going to be way too short.
Mostly because the newer IEs got their act together, not because Firefox is worse.
Only a year? No thanks.Even Ubuntu gives two years for LTS. Add me as a second for FrontMotion.
Nobody cares about RIM and Americans don't care about Nokia.
No problems, I'll spec up a brand new XServe and make that happen.
I hate to say it but I'd prefer Microsoft to the phone companies.