McAfee must have had a really good sales guy to convince a Project manager that the POS machines needed AV, either that or who ever developed the POS machines didn't decide to secure them with Enhanced Write Filter, SteadyState, DeepFreeze or some other disk write protection so every time the machine is rebooted it loses all its write cache.
Even though it is Windows, there is absolutely no need for AV when the application is so limited.
God spoke to Conroy and warned him that a great flood of information was going to engulf the sinners of the world and commanded him to build Virtual Ark 1.0 in which he would put his people into to protect them from the horrors of information.
I gave it a shot for a month and I found I just wasn't satisfied with it. It didn't have the simplicity Google offered in Search and many times I'd find myself going back to Google.
The biggest notable area I had to keep going back to Google was actually searching Technet and MSDN for articles. I was finding one or two keywords would into Google would give me the correct page I was looking for while Bing would give me completley useless results.
They could have at least tried a little harder and turned it into a competition
"Attempt to Subvert the country and WIN!!!! Register with the Secretary of state and enter the draw for a free all expenses paid trip to Cuba, where you get to relax in luxury"
Who signs up for anything if they don't have any chance of winning anything, or even get anything for free?
That's what I'm most worried about coming into the next Federal Election.
He can tack a 1/2 baked policy somewhere into his list of election promises and targets like he did with the Content Filtering, which became mandatory after he won the election. It wouldn't surprise me if we see Copyright protections included into the Filtering legislation to force ISP's to work for free for big media.
Conroy has proved time and time again he has no idea what the internet actually is, or does and supports stronger enforcement of copyright without any recourse for the consumer. He is one man that needs to be heavily targeted by the Greens, The Pirate Party and the Liberal Party to lose his Senate Seat.
Given his stonewalling of public questions, his inability to answer parliament questions in question time, his personal time spent with the Australian Christian Lobby, and his departments attempt to get the IIA to shut Mark Newton up, I'd say he's well and truly doing that role.
I'm not sure about UK Law, but Law in Australia has provisions where a non-commercial wifi hotspot served in a single premises is exempt from requiring a carrier license.
This means that the registered owner of the Internet Account is ultimately responsible for the internet connection, as they are not licensed and are not bound by the legal obligations of being a Carrier/ISP.
This puts them in a legal grey area when someone they allow/invite onto their network and someone does wrong thing as they are not afforded the legal protections of an ISP. If their network was used by a paedophilia ring, some guy using it to run his bot-net or more serious crimes it puts them in a very exposed position that has not been legally tested in this country.
Spending $1000 on a basic security product to help mitigate your exposure to the risks involved in giving people free wifi seem like a no-brainer to me in case you get law enforcement or a civil suit knocking your door one day asking questions where you cannot provide any answer to.
A couple of jobs ago I had several clients who were cafe's providing free Wifi. Their setups just consisted of home Wifi routers, they had no ability to account for the traffic that passed through their networks and had no way to control access.
Today you can get box solutions for under $1000 dollars to provide basic Identity Management, monitoring, logging and firewall/proxy control to give you more control but many of those solutions are still not enough to prevent file sharing, or provide extended logging with 12 months or more records in case you have to prove a legal issue.
Much of the train of thought with many of these hotspot operators is to offer wifi because the cafe/restaurant down the street does it and they have no thought of their legal obligations as a service provider and really are not aware of the risk that goes with it.
The BSA/RIAA/MPAA could have a field day attempting to sue the pants off these kind of operators if they really wanted to focus their attention on it.
The past 6 months for several clients I have been running Proof of Concepts of moving from Desktop infrastructure to VDI(Virtual Desktop Infrastructure)
Microsoft have made licensing for running Windows desktops in a virtual environment so insane and added ridiculous costs just for the privilege of running Windows XP, Vista or 7 in a data centre that when you look at the ROI you don't see a massive benefit of shedding hardware.
A couple of those clients are actually now investigating migrations from Windows desktop to Ubuntu/SUSE Linux and running legacy Windows applications from Sun SGD/Windows Termial Server.
VDI offers huge opportunities for companies to shed the upkeep and maintenance of desktops and Microsoft are putting in as many hurdles as humanly possible to keep companies purchasing desktops every 3-4 years so they can still get their Microsoft tax from OEM's. I'm advising anyone these days to assess their dependence on windows if they are looking at VDI solutions and investigate deployments in Linux.
It wasn't until I was 1/2 way through the video where it dawned on me that they were discussing throwing a party to introduce their friends to all the cool new things that Windows 7 can offer.
Either Microsoft is planning on selling Windows 7 like tuppaware or what I just watched was the introduction to a very bad porno.
It would be interesting if Apple did a test where they removed samples from say from the top 1000 songs, then provided 30 second samples for say 50 and calculated how much the 30 second sample actually generated in sales revenue.
The samples on iTunes allow people to figure out if they want to legally buy a song that actually generates revenue for the artists. If I can't sample what I'm deciding to buy, chances are I'd most likely go straight to limewire and get it that way, because these songs are non refundable.
All ASCAP seem to be doing here is encouraging more piracy, most people are generally happy to pay for media if its easy to obtain and its not a difficult process that you have to jump through endless micro payments, confusing license agreements and rights managment that is unreliable. iTunes is making it easy for artists to make revenue off the internet but that is just not enough it seems for those greedy bastards.
OpenSolaris 2009.06 has some excellent new desktop features,
TimeSlider which is similar to Apples Time Capsule Image - GUI Package Mangement AutoMagic - Network Configuration Wizards including wifi Multimedia Codecs and Support Improved OpenSolaris CIFS for interoprability with Windows networking.
I've been using it at home for a month or so and I'm enjoying it. I've also just gone to Windows 7 which I'm loving so its becoming a bit of a hard choice what I want to run on my notebook.
Sun have been providing theses details to their Partners at the Sun Partner Advantage Summits, I got this info last month.
Plus Sun Partners just have to contact their Sun Sales managers and just ask for a Roadmap Session(Under Signed NDA)
The Register are just publishing what already is pretty common knowledge amongst most people working with Sun/SPARC hardware already, it won't give their competitors a huge advantage at all, the fact that Sun are already revealing this stuff to their wide partner network means that the development of it is well and truly in its final stages, and if their competitors are finding this out through The Register, then they really are not doing their jobs properly.
Brilliant move on Microsoft's part (can I say that here?). Certainly not original but ingenious to add an additional level of addiction.
Being more into the story, or the action of the game, I am usually pretty oblivious to the Achievement system, and find achievements are earned pretty randomly for any stupid little nuance the creators decided to include.
I don't replay titles just to collect achievements, like Assassins Creed where you get an achievement for collecting every flag in the game, to me that's just completley pointless.
I know some people obsess over their achievement score though, and occasionally I end up in a lobby with some kid bragging about his score, or people picking on other people because they have low achievement scores and it reminds me of why it was so good to finish high school to get away from that crap.
The Sega GameGear was way worse, that thing would suck 6 AA batteries dry in under 30 mins.
It used to annoy my friend no end when I would be playing my Gameboy every where while he had to be in the vicinity of a power outlet and have to carry the adapter around.
In principle, the notion of securing defence networks is pretty much unobjectionable. And, if you are going to do so, doing it right the first time, rather than playing cleanup, is obviously superior.
Network security is a pretty constantly evolving thing, and something done right the first time, can still be completley undone in a couple of years if maintenance and upgrades are not tightly followed. As security threats emerge, systems have to be able to adapt to new threats, and this can be pretty costly, even for the most well developed systems.
The biggest cost to them is probably policy enforcement, when you think about how many Users the DoD has, and how many different levels of security clearance has to be enforced and maintained, the checking, reporting and acting on identified risks and threats would use an incredibly large amount of resources.
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McAfee must have had a really good sales guy to convince a Project manager that the POS machines needed AV, either that or who ever developed the POS machines didn't decide to secure them with Enhanced Write Filter, SteadyState, DeepFreeze or some other disk write protection so every time the machine is rebooted it loses all its write cache.
Even though it is Windows, there is absolutely no need for AV when the application is so limited.
God spoke to Conroy and warned him that a great flood of information was going to engulf the sinners of the world and commanded him to build Virtual Ark 1.0 in which he would put his people into to protect them from the horrors of information.
Amas enough virgins in one place, and one of them is likely to get laid................
I gave it a shot for a month and I found I just wasn't satisfied with it. It didn't have the simplicity Google offered in Search and many times I'd find myself going back to Google.
The biggest notable area I had to keep going back to Google was actually searching Technet and MSDN for articles. I was finding one or two keywords would into Google would give me the correct page I was looking for while Bing would give me completley useless results.
IT's A TRAP!!!!!!
no no, wait, I got this..
That's no moon!!!
They could have at least tried a little harder and turned it into a competition
"Attempt to Subvert the country and WIN!!!! Register with the Secretary of state and enter the draw for a free all expenses paid trip to Cuba, where you get to relax in luxury"
Who signs up for anything if they don't have any chance of winning anything, or even get anything for free?
That's what I'm most worried about coming into the next Federal Election.
He can tack a 1/2 baked policy somewhere into his list of election promises and targets like he did with the Content Filtering, which became mandatory after he won the election. It wouldn't surprise me if we see Copyright protections included into the Filtering legislation to force ISP's to work for free for big media.
Conroy has proved time and time again he has no idea what the internet actually is, or does and supports stronger enforcement of copyright without any recourse for the consumer. He is one man that needs to be heavily targeted by the Greens, The Pirate Party and the Liberal Party to lose his Senate Seat.
Given his stonewalling of public questions, his inability to answer parliament questions in question time, his personal time spent with the Australian Christian Lobby, and his departments attempt to get the IIA to shut Mark Newton up, I'd say he's well and truly doing that role.
I'm not sure about UK Law, but Law in Australia has provisions where a non-commercial wifi hotspot served in a single premises is exempt from requiring a carrier license.
This means that the registered owner of the Internet Account is ultimately responsible for the internet connection, as they are not licensed and are not bound by the legal obligations of being a Carrier/ISP.
This puts them in a legal grey area when someone they allow/invite onto their network and someone does wrong thing as they are not afforded the legal protections of an ISP. If their network was used by a paedophilia ring, some guy using it to run his bot-net or more serious crimes it puts them in a very exposed position that has not been legally tested in this country.
Spending $1000 on a basic security product to help mitigate your exposure to the risks involved in giving people free wifi seem like a no-brainer to me in case you get law enforcement or a civil suit knocking your door one day asking questions where you cannot provide any answer to.
A couple of jobs ago I had several clients who were cafe's providing free Wifi.
Their setups just consisted of home Wifi routers, they had no ability to account for the traffic that passed through their networks and had no way to control access.
Today you can get box solutions for under $1000 dollars to provide basic Identity Management, monitoring, logging and firewall/proxy control to give you more control but many of those solutions are still not enough to prevent file sharing, or provide extended logging with 12 months or more records in case you have to prove a legal issue.
Much of the train of thought with many of these hotspot operators is to offer wifi because the cafe/restaurant down the street does it and they have no thought of their legal obligations as a service provider and really are not aware of the risk that goes with it.
The BSA/RIAA/MPAA could have a field day attempting to sue the pants off these kind of operators if they really wanted to focus their attention on it.
The past 6 months for several clients I have been running Proof of Concepts of moving from Desktop infrastructure to VDI(Virtual Desktop Infrastructure)
Microsoft have made licensing for running Windows desktops in a virtual environment so insane and added ridiculous costs just for the privilege of running Windows XP, Vista or 7 in a data centre that when you look at the ROI you don't see a massive benefit of shedding hardware.
A couple of those clients are actually now investigating migrations from Windows desktop to Ubuntu/SUSE Linux and running legacy Windows applications from Sun SGD/Windows Termial Server.
VDI offers huge opportunities for companies to shed the upkeep and maintenance of desktops and Microsoft are putting in as many hurdles as humanly possible to keep companies purchasing desktops every 3-4 years so they can still get their Microsoft tax from OEM's. I'm advising anyone these days to assess their dependence on windows if they are looking at VDI solutions and investigate deployments in Linux.
It wasn't until I was 1/2 way through the video where it dawned on me that they were discussing throwing a party to introduce their friends to all the cool new things that Windows 7 can offer.
Either Microsoft is planning on selling Windows 7 like tuppaware or what I just watched was the introduction to a very bad porno.
I wonder what it would cost Washington if MS decided to completely relocate to another state?
Generally when Governments go after companies hard enough for tax and regulation, it becomes a financial incentive for the company to move on.
I'm sure there would be plenty of other states interesting in garnering the juggernaut a MS head office would bring to their state.
It would be interesting if Apple did a test where they removed samples from say from the top 1000 songs, then provided 30 second samples for say 50 and calculated how much the 30 second sample actually generated in sales revenue.
The samples on iTunes allow people to figure out if they want to legally buy a song that actually generates revenue for the artists. If I can't sample what I'm deciding to buy, chances are I'd most likely go straight to limewire and get it that way, because these songs are non refundable.
All ASCAP seem to be doing here is encouraging more piracy, most people are generally happy to pay for media if its easy to obtain and its not a difficult process that you have to jump through endless micro payments, confusing license agreements and rights managment that is unreliable. iTunes is making it easy for artists to make revenue off the internet but that is just not enough it seems for those greedy bastards.
I haven't installed it on my laptop yet(Dell XPS M1330), but plan to once I get a 400GB HDD so I can dual boot it with Windows 7.
I have it running on a HP WX4000 series workstation at home.
OpenSolaris 2009.06 has some excellent new desktop features,
TimeSlider which is similar to Apples Time Capsule
Image - GUI Package Mangement
AutoMagic - Network Configuration Wizards including wifi
Multimedia Codecs and Support
Improved OpenSolaris CIFS for interoprability with Windows networking.
I've been using it at home for a month or so and I'm enjoying it. I've also just gone to Windows 7 which I'm loving so its becoming a bit of a hard choice what I want to run on my notebook.
Sun have been providing theses details to their Partners at the Sun Partner Advantage Summits, I got this info last month.
Plus Sun Partners just have to contact their Sun Sales managers and just ask for a Roadmap Session(Under Signed NDA)
The Register are just publishing what already is pretty common knowledge amongst most people working with Sun/SPARC hardware already, it won't give their competitors a huge advantage at all, the fact that Sun are already revealing this stuff to their wide partner network means that the development of it is well and truly in its final stages, and if their competitors are finding this out through The Register, then they really are not doing their jobs properly.
Sonic's transition to 3D was the same as NBA Jam, confusing and everything that was fun about the game got lost in translation.
It's good to see it going back to 2D, heaps of 2D Xbox live games have proved to be a huge success with a HD touch up, this should be the same.
Now all we need is them to do NBA Jam TE in HD and I'll be a very happy person.
It's time they channelled Xenu and got him to finish the job!
They are if they come from virgin first borne children swapped for an iPhone 3GS upgrade.
"Come on baby, it's for science!"
Brilliant move on Microsoft's part (can I say that here?). Certainly not original but ingenious to add an additional level of addiction.
Being more into the story, or the action of the game, I am usually pretty oblivious to the Achievement system, and find achievements are earned pretty randomly for any stupid little nuance the creators decided to include.
I don't replay titles just to collect achievements, like Assassins Creed where you get an achievement for collecting every flag in the game, to me that's just completley pointless.
I know some people obsess over their achievement score though, and occasionally I end up in a lobby with some kid bragging about his score, or people picking on other people because they have low achievement scores and it reminds me of why it was so good to finish high school to get away from that crap.
The Sega GameGear was way worse, that thing would suck 6 AA batteries dry in under 30 mins.
It used to annoy my friend no end when I would be playing my Gameboy every where while he had to be in the vicinity of a power outlet and have to carry the adapter around.
In principle, the notion of securing defence networks is pretty much unobjectionable. And, if you are going to do so, doing it right the first time, rather than playing cleanup, is obviously superior.
Network security is a pretty constantly evolving thing, and something done right the first time, can still be completley undone in a couple of years if maintenance and upgrades are not tightly followed. As security threats emerge, systems have to be able to adapt to new threats, and this can be pretty costly, even for the most well developed systems.
The biggest cost to them is probably policy enforcement, when you think about how many Users the DoD has, and how many different levels of security clearance has to be enforced and maintained, the checking, reporting and acting on identified risks and threats would use an incredibly large amount of resources.
I know its not April fools anymore but it still seems more appropriate, considering our economic climate.