I have several colleagues that have InfoBlox appliances in production and love the devices. I believe that they do a 30 day free evaul. Their units are reasonably priced and very feature full. Pre-sales engineering is pretty good too from what I've been told.
Xerox's Docushare product is like Sharepoint on Steroids.
Calendandering, versioning, chats & forumns, plus its a EDM (Electronic Document Manager), this coupled with e-mail, IM and a decent CVS, should keep you up to date.
Groove Office is supposed to be pretty good as well, but I haven't used it much, just Docushare. Plus I love Docushare because you can have a Linux(or better yet FreeBSD!) Front-End to a MS-SQL server.
This product GFI LANGuard PSC http://www.gfi.com/lanpsc/ will let you lock your USB mass storage on a per user basis on WinDoze machines.
We tried it in the demo mode when the administration at a client was freaking out about IPods. We ended up going with a written policy (that actually had enforcement!!!!!) instead of a technology solution!
I've been looking for a good place to park WebMail for several domains that I administer. I need optional spam filtering, good antivirus, and blocking of selected attachment types. I'd also like a decent pricepoint on this.
Anybody out there in Slashdot land have suggestions for me?
Citrix is expensive, and Terminal Services on Win2K and Win2K3 is very, very good.
Do you NEED Citrix? or are there other applications out there that does what Citrix does at a lower cost? Look at Newmoon Systems they have some excellent solutions that are very cost effective and superior to Citrix in environments.
Call you IBM Direct representative. They have some excellent whitepapers regarding server virtulization and Citrix (from a company called Conseco Finance I believe)
Do your research and talk to LOTS of people. Maybe even hire a professional consultant to help you with this project.
My office uses a combiantion of Thin and Fat Clients in carefully monitored and locked down environments to provide applications to 30 medical offices in 18 states. Thin clients don't do everything and Fat Clients are not always better, but Citrix is an expensive licensing beast.
Seriously, I'm looking for some good Software Engineers. We outsource most of our development and are looking to move it in-house. Drop me a resume justin@_NOSPAM_Llamakeeper.com.
Dude, you forgot the Trace Buster Buster Buster, cuz that shiat will bust his trace. The Big Hit, the best low budget no box office movie every made. Don't forget that China Chow is smoking hot! Glad to see another Big Hit fan out there!
Look at me Mom, I got my question posted on Slashdot by makin up some bogus and totally illogical question. Then I made tons of vauge references and quasi-logical posts to make people wonder. Ooh ooh ooh look at me!
I'd say that most people posting here didn't really interpret this article very well, they'd rather scoff than think critically Essentially what this study says is that 83% of the viable Earth's surface is under the direct influence of man.
Example, the state of Nebraska, lots of Nebraska is unfarmed CRP (Conservation Reserve Program) land. But that land is still directly influenced by man, I doubt that very much of what grows their are native species.
What this group is saying is that we humans are crowding the Earth, that we feel the need to fence, farm, pave, mine, exploit the majority of the planet's surface.
WHY! Is it necesary to pave the planet, HELL NO, stay in the cities people, we need to keep some of the earth uninfluenced by man.
As my friend Edward Abbey once wrote: Wilderness is not a luxury, but a necesity of the human spirit.
I too am in charge of tons of HIPAAA stuff for my company. I've been to some seminars and such and have even read the PROPOSED regulations. My best advice, don't file an extension, don't panic, don't worry. HIPAAA is a typical unfunded mandate. Ask yourself who is going to enforce this? (Answer: NOBODY) Are the regulations even 100% absolute yet. (Answer: Hell No)
Don't sweat this stuff, get a template package or a nifty little book, (e-mail me for my recs, I'm not going to past advertisements for the "consultants") and don't panic! If you use industry standard best practices you should be pretty darn close to compliant anyway, if you don't use best practices, well maybe its time to panic.:)
The Coolest Physiscs Experiment that I have ever seen is as follows.
You'll need the following: 1) An old oildrum or other large steel drum that has a tight sealing lid. 2) A large CO2 filled fire extinguisher 3) 2 gallons of boiling water 4) A Ballpean hammer 5) Spectators
Here's how to do it:
1) Place the drum outside in a field or a nice clearing. 2) Boil the water (rolling boil) 3) Pour the boiling water into the drum, set the lid on loosly, wait about 45 seconds and then seal the lid. 4) Start hosing down the drum throughly with the fire extinguisher. 5) when you've expended the entire fire extingusher take the ballpean hammer and give the side of the drum a good whack. 6) Jump Back
If your drum seals well it should with an awesome whooshing sounds just collapse and flatten out. You pbly should have the kids stand back a bit and definitly need to waer safety glasses and overalls (scalding water flys if you do it wrong). Very impressive and tons of fun!
Leftover Salmon those crazy "Polyethnic Cajun Slamgrass" musicians allow live taping of their shows and have several shows "off the board" up in MP3 format on their website here.
I think the majority of bands of the "jam band" genre are cool about low key bootlegging and people trading their music.
The local jam band from my whereabouts Toadstool Jamboree is pretty cool about bootlegging as well. I got permission to throw my DAT on the board at a couple of their shows.
I think its mostly the uptight corporate bands that have such an issue with people MP3'ing. Most of the lowerkey / unsigned / indie bands don't really make much off of CD Sales and aren't in music to make a bundle, rather they love entertaining and would rather you buy a t-shirt and pay admission to their show. They also manage themselves typically so they aren't getting screwed by industry insiders.
Just my Opinion, but check out Toadstool and LOS... rocking music, plus you get to say slamgrass:)
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Just a heads up, MOST Tier 1 support for Dell and Compaq has gone to India these days. Its actually a "premium" job over their to do tech support. I heard an article on NPR a couple of weeks ago about this (can't find the link). So if the people you are talking to have a funky accent, they pbly live overseas (god bless IP telephony)
1) Grow. Allow yourself to expand your mind and experiences. If there is something you always wanted to do, do it. Keep your eyes and ears open to what other people have to say. Don't stay cloistered in your narrow view of life, find out what other people have to say, think. I'm not saying that you need to violate your morals, if you have a strongly held belief stand by it, but don't be afraid of what other people have to say or think. The only way a person can change their beliefs is if THEY WANT TO CHANGE.
2) Be Teachable. There is a lot to be said for being willing to be taught, the entire amount of time you spend at college is a time of learning, if you aren't teachable you will miss half of the college experience.
3) Get Laid. Seriously, get laid, there will never be so many single, attractive people in your age bracket that close to you at any other time in your life. Capitalize upon the opportunity, but please think intelligently, wrap your equipment before you use it.
I would also so be careful, think intelligently and don't do what's cool, do what's right. You'll be happy you did!
Interesting that you are having the exact same problem with the Maxattach 4000. I bought one to use @ a video production company that I consult for and they have had the exact same problem that you are having. Does Maxtor have any resolution or migration strategy for you or are they hanging you out to dry just like they did to me?
I too am an administrator of many Windows boxen and am very security conscious . The absolute best information I have found about Windows Security, was from this Oreilly book: Securing Windows NT/2000 Servers for the Internet A Checklist for System Administrators I know its primarilly about creating Windows Bastion hosts, but there is an aweful lot of general Windows security and remote administration information as well. Every Windows sysadmin needs to give it a read!
I work for a Medical Practice Management Group, we do outsourcing for medical offices. The reason that most of these applications (which BTW have existed for years) do not get used is that: 1) A system like this requires lots of GOOD data (remeber crap in = crap out) and 2)there is no-re-imbursement for the physician for paying to have someone input all this data into a system of this type. Its all about re-imbursement, that is what drives the system, if docs don't get paid for it from either insurance companies, medicare, or patients, then its not going to happen.
use Exmerge a nifty exchange exporting tool that comes on the exchange install CD its under/tools/utilities/ Batch export all users folders to PST files from the Exchange database then follow his suggestion to import.
I set up an SMS gateway on my network and then redirected all the devices that used to message my text pager to SMS message my phone. It's nice to get one device off my belt, now if I just wasn't so cheap I'd get a Treo or Kyoceria Smart phone and make my handheld and phone one device.
Does anyone else have the problem of too many devices and not enough belt room, me cell, my Visor, my pager, my leatherman, my mini mag... too much junk!
An important point that everyone seemed to miss is that AotC was shot on Video, not on film. This is really a major step forward for the movie making industry. Shooting on Video instead of film should decrease post production time and expense while preserving quality. I got a demo of a Hi-Def Editor using Hi-Def monitors and the fact that this wasn't film pbly wouldn't have been noticable had I not been aware that it was video not film. When shooting Hi-Def you get almost the Same color-space and definitly the same (if not better) quality without having to pull down to video the edit and then back up to final cut it. Long Live Video. The real reason peopel think digital is inferior is the digital projection not the quality of the output "film".
There is a company here that has a medical billing platform that runs on SCO Unux and they have successfully ported it to Linux. My company uses it exclusively for billing our clients (we are a billing office). The server has a windows client that is really just a glorified terminal emulator. I have used dumb terminals to connect to it as well. Its a very robust platform and their support is pretty good. The only problem is that it is, as most of these apps are, quite expensive.
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Have you considered an appliance solution?
I have several colleagues that have InfoBlox appliances in production and love the devices. I believe that they do a 30 day free evaul. Their units are reasonably priced and very feature full. Pre-sales engineering is pretty good too from what I've been told.
My company uses a simple Cyclades console server.
The Cyclades-TS100, P/N TES0061 1-port console server.
It has a RJ45, and a RS232/RS485 serial port. It also comes with an AC adaptor, but can accept 5VDC if you want to battery-up th unit.
Great unit! We got our units through Mirapath, great company to work with!
Oops, I gues my spelling is quite grand! Pardon the typo!
Xerox's Docushare product is like Sharepoint on Steroids.
Calendandering, versioning, chats & forumns, plus its a EDM (Electronic Document Manager), this coupled with e-mail, IM and a decent CVS, should keep you up to date.
Groove Office is supposed to be pretty good as well, but I haven't used it much, just Docushare. Plus I love Docushare because you can have a Linux(or better yet FreeBSD!) Front-End to a MS-SQL server.
This product GFI LANGuard PSC http://www.gfi.com/lanpsc/ will let you lock your USB mass storage on a per user basis on WinDoze machines.
We tried it in the demo mode when the administration at a client was freaking out about IPods. We ended up going with a written policy (that actually had enforcement!!!!!) instead of a technology solution!
I've been looking for a good place to park WebMail for several domains that I administer. I need optional spam filtering, good antivirus, and blocking of selected attachment types. I'd also like a decent pricepoint on this.
Anybody out there in Slashdot land have suggestions for me?
THanks
LlamaKeeper
Citrix is expensive, and Terminal Services on Win2K and Win2K3 is very, very good.
Do you NEED Citrix? or are there other applications out there that does what Citrix does at a lower cost? Look at Newmoon Systems they have some excellent solutions that are very cost effective and superior to Citrix in environments.
Call you IBM Direct representative. They have some excellent whitepapers regarding server virtulization and Citrix (from a company called Conseco Finance I believe)
Do your research and talk to LOTS of people. Maybe even hire a professional consultant to help you with this project.
My office uses a combiantion of Thin and Fat Clients in carefully monitored and locked down environments to provide applications to 30 medical offices in 18 states. Thin clients don't do everything and Fat Clients are not always better, but Citrix is an expensive licensing beast.
Good Luck. Write a How-To when you are done!
Seriously, I'm looking for some good Software Engineers. We outsource most of our development and are looking to move it in-house. Drop me a resume justin@_NOSPAM_Llamakeeper.com.
JUSTIN
Dude, you forgot the Trace Buster Buster Buster, cuz that shiat will bust his trace. The Big Hit, the best low budget no box office movie every made. Don't forget that China Chow is smoking hot! Glad to see another Big Hit fan out there!
SARCASM
/SARCASM
Look at me Mom, I got my question posted on Slashdot by makin up some bogus and totally illogical question. Then I made tons of vauge references and quasi-logical posts to make people wonder. Ooh ooh ooh look at me!
I'd say that most people posting here didn't really interpret this article very well, they'd rather scoff than think critically Essentially what this study says is that 83% of the viable Earth's surface is under the direct influence of man.
/Preaching
Example, the state of Nebraska, lots of Nebraska is unfarmed CRP (Conservation Reserve Program) land. But that land is still directly influenced by man, I doubt that very much of what grows their are native species.
What this group is saying is that we humans are crowding the Earth, that we feel the need to fence, farm, pave, mine, exploit the majority of the planet's surface.
WHY! Is it necesary to pave the planet, HELL NO, stay in the cities people, we need to keep some of the earth uninfluenced by man.
As my friend Edward Abbey once wrote: Wilderness is not a luxury, but a necesity of the human spirit.
I too am in charge of tons of HIPAAA stuff for my company. I've been to some seminars and such and have even read the PROPOSED regulations. My best advice, don't file an extension, don't panic, don't worry. HIPAAA is a typical unfunded mandate. Ask yourself who is going to enforce this? (Answer: NOBODY) Are the regulations even 100% absolute yet. (Answer: Hell No)
:)
Don't sweat this stuff, get a template package or a nifty little book, (e-mail me for my recs, I'm not going to past advertisements for the "consultants") and don't panic! If you use industry standard best practices you should be pretty darn close to compliant anyway, if you don't use best practices, well maybe its time to panic.
The Coolest Physiscs Experiment that I have ever seen is as follows.
You'll need the following:
1) An old oildrum or other large steel drum that has a tight sealing lid.
2) A large CO2 filled fire extinguisher
3) 2 gallons of boiling water
4) A Ballpean hammer
5) Spectators
Here's how to do it:
1) Place the drum outside in a field or a nice clearing.
2) Boil the water (rolling boil)
3) Pour the boiling water into the drum, set the lid on loosly, wait about 45 seconds and then seal the lid.
4) Start hosing down the drum throughly with the fire extinguisher.
5) when you've expended the entire fire extingusher take the ballpean hammer and give the side of the drum a good whack.
6) Jump Back
If your drum seals well it should with an awesome whooshing sounds just collapse and flatten out. You pbly should have the kids stand back a bit and definitly need to waer safety glasses and overalls (scalding water flys if you do it wrong). Very impressive and tons of fun!
I never ever go anywhere to fix a computer without my little black notebook. It containes the following:
Serial Numbers and CD Keys (What!, you lost your Win2K Serial, Bad Monkey!)
Usernames and Passwords (like lusers ever remember their "saved" passwords)
Various ISP information
Miscellanious esoteric commands
Other random tibbits I might need (like how to make a modem dial fast, etc.)
Leftover Salmon those crazy "Polyethnic Cajun Slamgrass" musicians allow live taping of their shows and have several shows "off the board" up in MP3 format on their website here.
:)
I think the majority of bands of the "jam band" genre are cool about low key bootlegging and people trading their music.
The local jam band from my whereabouts Toadstool Jamboree is pretty cool about bootlegging as well. I got permission to throw my DAT on the board at a couple of their shows.
I think its mostly the uptight corporate bands that have such an issue with people MP3'ing. Most of the lowerkey / unsigned / indie bands don't really make much off of CD Sales and aren't in music to make a bundle, rather they love entertaining and would rather you buy a t-shirt and pay admission to their show. They also manage themselves typically so they aren't getting screwed by industry insiders.
Just my Opinion, but check out Toadstool and LOS... rocking music, plus you get to say slamgrass
Just a heads up, MOST Tier 1 support for Dell and Compaq has gone to India these days. Its actually a "premium" job over their to do tech support. I heard an article on NPR a couple of weeks ago about this (can't find the link). So if the people you are talking to have a funky accent, they pbly live overseas (god bless IP telephony)
Three pieces of advice for incoming Freshmen:
1) Grow. Allow yourself to expand your mind and experiences. If there is something you always wanted to do, do it. Keep your eyes and ears open to what other people have to say. Don't stay cloistered in your narrow view of life, find out what other people have to say, think. I'm not saying that you need to violate your morals, if you have a strongly held belief stand by it, but don't be afraid of what other people have to say or think. The only way a person can change their beliefs is if THEY WANT TO CHANGE.
2) Be Teachable. There is a lot to be said for being willing to be taught, the entire amount of time you spend at college is a time of learning, if you aren't teachable you will miss half of the college experience.
3) Get Laid. Seriously, get laid, there will never be so many single, attractive people in your age bracket that close to you at any other time in your life. Capitalize upon the opportunity, but please think intelligently, wrap your equipment before you use it.
I would also so be careful, think intelligently and don't do what's cool, do what's right. You'll be happy you did!
Interesting that you are having the exact same problem with the Maxattach 4000. I bought one to use @ a video production company that I consult for and they have had the exact same problem that you are having. Does Maxtor have any resolution or migration strategy for you or are they hanging you out to dry just like they did to me?
I too am an administrator of many Windows boxen and am very security conscious . The absolute best information I have found about Windows Security, was from this Oreilly book: Securing Windows NT/2000 Servers for the Internet
A Checklist for System Administrators I know its primarilly about creating Windows Bastion hosts, but there is an aweful lot of general Windows security and remote administration information as well. Every Windows sysadmin needs to give it a read!
I work for a Medical Practice Management Group, we do outsourcing for medical offices. The reason that most of these applications (which BTW have existed for years) do not get used is that: 1) A system like this requires lots of GOOD data (remeber crap in = crap out) and 2)there is no-re-imbursement for the physician for paying to have someone input all this data into a system of this type. Its all about re-imbursement, that is what drives the system, if docs don't get paid for it from either insurance companies, medicare, or patients, then its not going to happen.
use Exmerge a nifty exchange exporting tool that comes on the exchange install CD its under /tools/utilities/ Batch export all users folders to PST files from the Exchange database then follow his suggestion to import.
I set up an SMS gateway on my network and then redirected all the devices that used to message my text pager to SMS message my phone. It's nice to get one device off my belt, now if I just wasn't so cheap I'd get a Treo or Kyoceria Smart phone and make my handheld and phone one device.
Does anyone else have the problem of too many devices and not enough belt room, me cell, my Visor, my pager, my leatherman, my mini mag... too much junk!
The company I'm working with just got two test Tiquits, we are working furiously on a killer app. Think medical practices.
An important point that everyone seemed to miss is that AotC was shot on Video, not on film. This is really a major step forward for the movie making industry. Shooting on Video instead of film should decrease post production time and expense while preserving quality. I got a demo of a Hi-Def Editor using Hi-Def monitors and the fact that this wasn't film pbly wouldn't have been noticable had I not been aware that it was video not film. When shooting Hi-Def you get almost the Same color-space and definitly the same (if not better) quality without having to pull down to video the edit and then back up to final cut it. Long Live Video. The real reason peopel think digital is inferior is the digital projection not the quality of the output "film".
There is a company here that has a medical billing platform that runs on SCO Unux and they have successfully ported it to Linux. My company uses it exclusively for billing our clients (we are a billing office). The server has a windows client that is really just a glorified terminal emulator. I have used dumb terminals to connect to it as well. Its a very robust platform and their support is pretty good. The only problem is that it is, as most of these apps are, quite expensive.