If you are running an RDBMS that needs to allocate more than 2GB of memory, you probably aren't using Windows XP.
Is there a business requirement to have client apps allocate 64-bit memory addresses? Wait, isn't Microsoft releasing a new version of Internet Explorer? Uh oh. Guess I better buy more RAM.
I gave it a try. You can have the agent prompt you when encryption failed. Such is the case when sending an email to a non-Ciphire user (no public key).
I do not like the fact that you need to wait 2 hours before uninstalling. Now that I want the software OFF my machine, I need to sit around and wait before it uninstalls. Ciphire stores your information on a central server, but doesn't come across as a trustworthy ca. Installation and uninstallation requires access to their central servers.
If you only know Linux Administration, I can see that finding a better job could be difficult. Our UNIX Administrators must know Linux, Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX. Each Administrator is responsible for approximately 200 servers. Salaries and benefits are very good though.
A Solaris default install shouldn't have to be secure. There are too many "self proclaimed" system administrators out there not worth the time to interview.
Making a server OS secure OOTB makes it too easy on the SA.
I think the problem is that there is a general belief that SSN is a secure identifer. Back when I was in college (god, almost 10 years ago), in my first "IT job" (ok, so I was lab consultant), one of our bosses showed us how easily it was to access public information. From a name and city, he was able to retrieve the student's full address, SSN, and even retrieve the student's parent's property tax information. The demonstration did not involve hacking or unauthorized intrustion to another system. This was 10 years ago, when there was a lot less more "online" information about you.
Assuming SSN is secure is like using a.rhosts file on your root user account.
OmniGraffle will do Visio VSX files, but since Visio saves in VSD by default, it makes it a pain for us network engineers with Macs to deal with Visio files created by others
Since Office 2003 allows the Administrator to change this default and push it out (forcibly) to all users, I'd classify this as a "Rollout issue", not a "Product issue". Then again, your IT might not give a hoot about your usability.
>>File permissions only go to user/group/others rather than individuals, and poor record locking on network shares. Lack of automounting as an intrinsic feature of the operating system.>>
File permissions can go beyond user/group/other. Please read up on ACL's.
Lack of automounting? Granted, I don't work with every single flavor of UNIX, but my Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX systems run automount.
I'd rather have companies get better cell phone reception that worrying about Wi-Fi in parks. I'm visiting family in Oklahoma and I'm stuck roaming (i.e. no text msgs).
If you cell phone works, why do you need to login to check your servers? If any of the servers fail or reach one of your alert thresholds, you can have a text message sent to your cell phone.
Seriously, what senior administrator doesn't have this automated?
More reasons to be using SUS or SMS. No one wants to patch user desktops this close to the holiday. For your servers, aren't you already used to monthly patching windows?
Very incorrect. Most of the posts in this topic comment on the FCC's stance on managing content. That's only 1 function of the FCC (and one that is very controversal, as seen in many posts). It's not its sole function.
The point he is trying to make is that some college kid could replace the code on his university's mirror. Since the package isn't digitally signed, the user would be unaware that they are receiving an altered product.
I like Firefox too, but there's no reason to become blind to security best practices.
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Totally different question. Both are important. Which is more important? Debatable.
Personally, I use Firefox on all my desktops and IE on my Citrix servers. With customized security settings on IE (and all my users are non-Administrators), I haven't had a single problem.
As I am sitting here at the in-laws, their computers are trashed. They've tried IE, MSN Explorer (or whatever its called). Each time I visit the family, it becomes "please fix this computer". I've told them before - take the kids out of the administrators group.
Browser security is meaningless when the users are installing a program that shows "little hampsters dancing on the screen".
Well, if you install all packages and start all the daemons at boot time... yeah, it's going to be slow. Why not enable what you need (instead of everything).
Then there are those who shutdown via the power button. Then they get those nice filesystem consistency checks at boot time.
Personally, I don't see the big deal. With >6 months uptime, boot time is the least of my worries.
It is important to have *some* degree. The major and prestige surrounding the degree matters less.
As an example, I work in a team where the average salary is $50,000-$100,000 (which is good for North Carolina). Out of the 25, only a few actually have CS degrees.
Certifications can be more helpful in getting your resume seen. Since our leads also perform interviews, I find certifications help you land the interview. Once you're in that interview, you better know your stuff.
The *some* degree is essential. Many companies have corporate guidelines that prevent HR from hiring someone without a college degree.
Normal water will vaporize at 100 degrees Celcius. However, in the context of nuclear reactors, water usually means heavy water (where the hydrogen atoms are replaced with deuterium atoms). This changes the boiling point.
Reading this article reminds me of a fellow I worked with when I was younger. He could compute mathematical equations such as 56*83 or 123*281 in his head in just a few seconds. But if you asked him, what's 84-21, it would take him forever.
He was autistic and his brain was just "wired" differently from the "norm".
and now many of those old 400mhz Sun boxes are coming off lease... Compare that with run of the mill dual proc 3Ghz Intel boxes
The "400MHz Sun boxes", as you put it, are over 4 years old (I know, I had some of them). How can we compare than to a dual 3GHz Intel? I don't quite remember 3GHz Intel CPU's being available 4 years ago.
Weak comparison.
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If you are running an RDBMS that needs to allocate more than 2GB of memory, you probably aren't using Windows XP. Is there a business requirement to have client apps allocate 64-bit memory addresses? Wait, isn't Microsoft releasing a new version of Internet Explorer? Uh oh. Guess I better buy more RAM.
I gave it a try. You can have the agent prompt you when encryption failed. Such is the case when sending an email to a non-Ciphire user (no public key).
I do not like the fact that you need to wait 2 hours before uninstalling. Now that I want the software OFF my machine, I need to sit around and wait before it uninstalls. Ciphire stores your information on a central server, but doesn't come across as a trustworthy ca. Installation and uninstallation requires access to their central servers.
Nice idea, but too seedy for me to use.
If you only know Linux Administration, I can see that finding a better job could be difficult. Our UNIX Administrators must know Linux, Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX. Each Administrator is responsible for approximately 200 servers. Salaries and benefits are very good though.
A Solaris default install shouldn't have to be secure. There are too many "self proclaimed" system administrators out there not worth the time to interview.
Making a server OS secure OOTB makes it too easy on the SA.
I think the problem is that there is a general belief that SSN is a secure identifer. Back when I was in college (god, almost 10 years ago), in my first "IT job" (ok, so I was lab consultant), one of our bosses showed us how easily it was to access public information. From a name and city, he was able to retrieve the student's full address, SSN, and even retrieve the student's parent's property tax information. The demonstration did not involve hacking or unauthorized intrustion to another system. This was 10 years ago, when there was a lot less more "online" information about you.
.rhosts file on your root user account.
Assuming SSN is secure is like using a
OmniGraffle will do Visio VSX files, but since Visio saves in VSD by default, it makes it a pain for us network engineers with Macs to deal with Visio files created by others
Since Office 2003 allows the Administrator to change this default and push it out (forcibly) to all users, I'd classify this as a "Rollout issue", not a "Product issue". Then again, your IT might not give a hoot about your usability.
From Word, save as HTML.
Open in FrontPage and simply the code.
Yeah, it's an extra step to reduce that bloated CSS/XML.
The really nice feature of Office 2003 is the RMS integration. I haven't seen any other Office suite deliver RMS-like features.
Adobe PDF. It's cross platform and has been around for many years. Every company I've worked for has had PDF Writers to covert any document to PDF.
/.ed already?
>>File permissions only go to user/group/others rather than individuals, and poor record locking on network shares. Lack of automounting as an intrinsic feature of the operating system.>>
File permissions can go beyond user/group/other. Please read up on ACL's.
Lack of automounting? Granted, I don't work with every single flavor of UNIX, but my Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX systems run automount.
10 years ago, I might have agreed with you.
I'd rather have companies get better cell phone reception that worrying about Wi-Fi in parks. I'm visiting family in Oklahoma and I'm stuck roaming (i.e. no text msgs).
The amount of energy released will depend on the velocity and angle of impact. You can do the math on the catastrophe calculator.
If you cell phone works, why do you need to login to check your servers? If any of the servers fail or reach one of your alert thresholds, you can have a text message sent to your cell phone.
Seriously, what senior administrator doesn't have this automated?
And if you're wrong, will we be around to cash in?
If you're running Windows and got "yet another BSOD", you might have just cause.
More reasons to be using SUS or SMS. No one wants to patch user desktops this close to the holiday. For your servers, aren't you already used to monthly patching windows?
... of tin foil companies were up by more than 5 points today.
It would be interesting to know how secure the encryption really is. Traditional 128-bit SSL? And does the Air Force get to censor the communication?
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Very incorrect. Most of the posts in this topic comment on the FCC's stance on managing content. That's only 1 function of the FCC (and one that is very controversal, as seen in many posts). It's not its sole function.
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The point he is trying to make is that some college kid could replace the code on his university's mirror. Since the package isn't digitally signed, the user would be unaware that they are receiving an altered product.
I like Firefox too, but there's no reason to become blind to security best practices.
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Totally different question. Both are important. Which is more important? Debatable.
Personally, I use Firefox on all my desktops and IE on my Citrix servers. With customized security settings on IE (and all my users are non-Administrators), I haven't had a single problem.
As I am sitting here at the in-laws, their computers are trashed. They've tried IE, MSN Explorer (or whatever its called). Each time I visit the family, it becomes "please fix this computer". I've told them before - take the kids out of the administrators group.
Browser security is meaningless when the users are installing a program that shows "little hampsters dancing on the screen".
Well, if you install all packages and start all the daemons at boot time ... yeah, it's going to be slow. Why not enable what you need (instead of everything).
Then there are those who shutdown via the power button. Then they get those nice filesystem consistency checks at boot time.
Personally, I don't see the big deal. With >6 months uptime, boot time is the least of my worries.
It is important to have *some* degree. The major and prestige surrounding the degree matters less.
As an example, I work in a team where the average salary is $50,000-$100,000 (which is good for North Carolina). Out of the 25, only a few actually have CS degrees.
Certifications can be more helpful in getting your resume seen. Since our leads also perform interviews, I find certifications help you land the interview. Once you're in that interview, you better know your stuff.
The *some* degree is essential. Many companies have corporate guidelines that prevent HR from hiring someone without a college degree.
Normal water will vaporize at 100 degrees Celcius. However, in the context of nuclear reactors, water usually means heavy water (where the hydrogen atoms are replaced with deuterium atoms). This changes the boiling point.
Reading this article reminds me of a fellow I worked with when I was younger. He could compute mathematical equations such as 56*83 or 123*281 in his head in just a few seconds. But if you asked him, what's 84-21, it would take him forever.
He was autistic and his brain was just "wired" differently from the "norm".
and now many of those old 400mhz Sun boxes are coming off lease ... Compare that with run of the mill dual proc 3Ghz Intel boxes
The "400MHz Sun boxes", as you put it, are over 4 years old (I know, I had some of them). How can we compare than to a dual 3GHz Intel? I don't quite remember 3GHz Intel CPU's being available 4 years ago.
Weak comparison.