Mate is nice. I wanted to like Gnome 3 but just couldn't... it's really backwards for me as a network admin. Gnome 2 is so much more streamlined to my work habits, so I was pleased to find the Mate project.
I've spent enough time on a bike to tell you the leading edge that breaks the surface tension of the air as you pedal is a critical component of air resistance.
Trust me, when you are constantly breaking wind, or if you routinely draft in the turbulence of the rider in front of you who is breaking wind, it will degrade your performance at least 10-20%.
Yes, it's reasonable, that doesn't mean I like it. I won't gracefully give up my right to complain on the Internet.
Frankly it's linux kernel compatibility I'm most concerned about. If Fedora 18 comes out next week with an updated kernel which breaks compatibility with the current 7-series driver, what are the chances it's going to get fixed?
Not far off.. it's a '96 f-150 and I drive it like I stole it some days. And I get what you're trying to say... but my 7800 runs just fine and these days 90% of my time on my PC is spent in email and web browsers.
The software on my firewall (which is up-to-date) supports IPv6 in several ways.
It can route IPv6 by OSPF. It can firewall and inspect IPv6 traffic.
It can provide an IPv6 address to the management interface.
It can use IPv6 to download software updates and signatures from the support portal.
It can perform NAT6to4 to provide IPv6 connectivity to internal IPv4 resources.
However it doesn't yet support Multiprotocol BGP, which is needed to route IPv6 by BGP. This is critical to us since we have multiple ISPs.
I give this example because I have found most enterprise equipment "supports" IPv6 but not in a way that enables full replacement of IPv4 addressing with IPv6 addressing.
Furthermore, we know how long government projects take to implement. If this one is just completed it probably started a decade ago...
It is fact that DNSChanger does not infect OSX. It doesn't infect iOS. It doesn't infect Linux, or BSD, or Amiga, or Android, or BeOS, or Plan 9, or Chromium, or OS2, or Solaris, or EMACS. I happen to be running one of the many OSs it does not infect.
I've been very happy with our schools. The teachers are excellent and the administration seems to really care.
A few friends have been looking at sending their kids to private school for the first few years because the private schools offer all-day kindergarten. Our school district doesn't provide it, and the parents are responsible for the noontime pickup / dropoff.
Are you suggesting there is no place in a public university for spam filters, antivirus on the firewalls, network intrusion systems, and such? These are specifically in place to protect the community members from threats.
Spam firewalls aren't perfect. But I will offer that my inbox would be a mess without one. About 80% of the mail entering our.edu domain is blocked by the spam firewals before it even hits the mail servers.
Or maybe you were talking about political threats only. But you didn't say that...
I agree in general, change.org and sites like it should not be blocked for their content. If the site was being used maliciously, perhaps the block was appropriate. I don't know. If access is a privilege, perhaps the privilege was lost through bad behavior.
I'm more concerned (as I'm a college IT administrator myself) on the question of censorship. From what I understand censorship is only a First Amendment issue when the government is doing the censorship. Is this an appropriate viewpoint? At what point am I as an IT administrator, or the system I manage, infringing on the first amendment rights of a member of the college community? Does it only apply to state schools, or to any school which accepts government funding? Some college administrators are state employees. Does it only count as government censorship if a state employee (or a system managed by said employee) blocks a specific web site?
From a technical viewpoint, IT Administrators have an obligation to protect their infrastructure and their community members from threats, both perceived and actual. Consider for a moment the viewpoint that the messages from change.org were deceptive, harrassing, or threatening in some way, either politcally or technically. If so, was it correct to block change.org?
Management traffic goes out-of-band, in part for this reason. You can't spoof a controller on our network.
Active defense mechanisms mean you can't even spoof an access point. The clients you attempt to lure away will be sent disassociation messages.
Be sure to add them to the list. Their virtual cell technology is pretty slick, and works well for busy environments. Just add more access points to a busy area or for an event, and the controller will take care of balancing the clients between the radios. No, I don't work for them, but I am a happy customer. We have over 250 access points installed across our campus.
This wouldn't be an issue if AAA (authentication, authorization, accounting) was handled as a separate function.
Root access to the application server does not automatically become root access to the password database.
The password system should be approved/denied and not just a database of the hashes.
Check out Apple's Open Directory as a good example.
But it's buzzword compliant, that's the hook. Just like virtual desktops (thin clients, dumb terminals?) virtual servers (LPARs?) the list goes on. If it's not reinvented and packaged in a new marketing term it won't make the big boys any money.
Yes, we do. I work for a small liberal arts college (2100 students). We support both Windows and OSX. The helpdesk is trained to help with most basic problems for either system. It took a long time to get the helpdesk to work with Windows, as we're primarily a Mac campus.
80% of our clients run Mac OSX. 70% of our helpdesk calls are for Windows help. 90% of our virus outbreaks has been from Windows computers. Over time it became easier to support them than to ignore them.
I think the end costs associated with supporting free software, in addition to supporting Windows and Mac, will raise the overall cost of attending college.
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Just this week. Much flying causes free first-class upgrades.
Atta boy :) go get 'em.
Mate is nice. I wanted to like Gnome 3 but just couldn't... it's really backwards for me as a network admin. Gnome 2 is so much more streamlined to my work habits, so I was pleased to find the Mate project.
I've spent enough time on a bike to tell you the leading edge that breaks the surface tension of the air as you pedal is a critical component of air resistance.
Trust me, when you are constantly breaking wind, or if you routinely draft in the turbulence of the rider in front of you who is breaking wind, it will degrade your performance at least 10-20%.
Yes, it's reasonable, that doesn't mean I like it. I won't gracefully give up my right to complain on the Internet.
Frankly it's linux kernel compatibility I'm most concerned about. If Fedora 18 comes out next week with an updated kernel which breaks compatibility with the current 7-series driver, what are the chances it's going to get fixed?
In the other hand, things are moving along in the Nouveau open source driver so there are alternatives.
Not far off.. it's a '96 f-150 and I drive it like I stole it some days. And I get what you're trying to say... but my 7800 runs just fine and these days 90% of my time on my PC is spent in email and web browsers.
Looks like they're now dropping support for the Geforce 7-series cards. Bummer, I have a 7800GT and it's still pretty quick.
The software on my firewall (which is up-to-date) supports IPv6 in several ways. It can route IPv6 by OSPF. It can firewall and inspect IPv6 traffic. It can provide an IPv6 address to the management interface. It can use IPv6 to download software updates and signatures from the support portal. It can perform NAT6to4 to provide IPv6 connectivity to internal IPv4 resources. However it doesn't yet support Multiprotocol BGP, which is needed to route IPv6 by BGP. This is critical to us since we have multiple ISPs. I give this example because I have found most enterprise equipment "supports" IPv6 but not in a way that enables full replacement of IPv4 addressing with IPv6 addressing. Furthermore, we know how long government projects take to implement. If this one is just completed it probably started a decade ago...
Geez, I hope not. I live downstream from one of them.
What was ignorant about my comment?
It is fact that DNSChanger does not infect OSX. It doesn't infect iOS. It doesn't infect Linux, or BSD, or Amiga, or Android, or BeOS, or Plan 9, or Chromium, or OS2, or Solaris, or EMACS. I happen to be running one of the many OSs it does not infect.
Seriously? https://www.google.com/search?q=dnschanger+osx
Unfortunately for Apple, this is yet more proof that their products are a gateway drug.
First you get a free iTunes card, so you need some free software from Apple.
Then you realize that iTunes doesn't support yout Zune, so you get an iPod Nano next time around.
Before you realize it, you're knee deep in stolen iPads and $25M in high-grade meth.
I've been very happy with our schools. The teachers are excellent and the administration seems to really care.
A few friends have been looking at sending their kids to private school for the first few years because the private schools offer all-day kindergarten. Our school district doesn't provide it, and the parents are responsible for the noontime pickup / dropoff.
Are you suggesting there is no place in a public university for spam filters, antivirus on the firewalls, network intrusion systems, and such? These are specifically in place to protect the community members from threats.
Spam firewalls aren't perfect. But I will offer that my inbox would be a mess without one. About 80% of the mail entering our .edu domain is blocked by the spam firewals before it even hits the mail servers.
Or maybe you were talking about political threats only. But you didn't say that...
I agree in general, change.org and sites like it should not be blocked for their content. If the site was being used maliciously, perhaps the block was appropriate. I don't know. If access is a privilege, perhaps the privilege was lost through bad behavior.
I'm more concerned (as I'm a college IT administrator myself) on the question of censorship. From what I understand censorship is only a First Amendment issue when the government is doing the censorship. Is this an appropriate viewpoint? At what point am I as an IT administrator, or the system I manage, infringing on the first amendment rights of a member of the college community? Does it only apply to state schools, or to any school which accepts government funding? Some college administrators are state employees. Does it only count as government censorship if a state employee (or a system managed by said employee) blocks a specific web site?
From a technical viewpoint, IT Administrators have an obligation to protect their infrastructure and their community members from threats, both perceived and actual. Consider for a moment the viewpoint that the messages from change.org were deceptive, harrassing, or threatening in some way, either politcally or technically. If so, was it correct to block change.org?
Management traffic goes out-of-band, in part for this reason. You can't spoof a controller on our network. Active defense mechanisms mean you can't even spoof an access point. The clients you attempt to lure away will be sent disassociation messages.
Be sure to add them to the list. Their virtual cell technology is pretty slick, and works well for busy environments. Just add more access points to a busy area or for an event, and the controller will take care of balancing the clients between the radios. No, I don't work for them, but I am a happy customer. We have over 250 access points installed across our campus.
This wouldn't be an issue if AAA (authentication, authorization, accounting) was handled as a separate function.
Root access to the application server does not automatically become root access to the password database.
The password system should be approved/denied and not just a database of the hashes.
Check out Apple's Open Directory as a good example.
But it's buzzword compliant, that's the hook. Just like virtual desktops (thin clients, dumb terminals?) virtual servers (LPARs?) the list goes on. If it's not reinvented and packaged in a new marketing term it won't make the big boys any money.
while the NFL was created in 1920,
I do now! :-)
Yes, we do. I work for a small liberal arts college (2100 students). We support both Windows and OSX. The helpdesk is trained to help with most basic problems for either system. It took a long time to get the helpdesk to work with Windows, as we're primarily a Mac campus.
80% of our clients run Mac OSX. 70% of our helpdesk calls are for Windows help. 90% of our virus outbreaks has been from Windows computers. Over time it became easier to support them than to ignore them.
Free Software costs something to support too.
I think the end costs associated with supporting free software, in addition to supporting Windows and Mac, will raise the overall cost of attending college.
Let me ask you a question in return..
Do you think the average college helpdesk is prepared to answer random Linux questions?
Asking the tour guides is just plain silly. You might as well ask them what brand ERP the college uses.
Most colleges would allow a linux installation but are unprepared to provide support to every possible linux variation and configuration.
You missed it then... this project has been in the works for years, with newspaper articles and news spots every so often.
Yeah those are the Ohio Amish. You have to be careful these days!