When I first got my new laptop I didn't have wireless in the home, but I had a ton of open nodes around me. For the first couple weeks while I selected a WAP I used the connection of a business across the street.
When I got mine I installed it, locked it down and used it but first I went across the street, introduced myself and told the business owner that his connection was wide open. Helped to secure it. Then suddenly other open nodes started locking down.
But here we are a year later and there are once again, a ton of open nodes.
Prior to that I'd used IE 6.0 and before that I was a Netscape fan. But Firefox rocks, the only complaint I have about all versions is memory usage. When I first installed v2.0 I was hoping for a memory usage reduction. No such luck.
You would think that companies that make larger generators (I'm talking > 100kW) would understand that demand goes up during hurricane season, and things of that nature.
We only encountered a one month delay on delivery of our 125kW natural gas fired generator. Our delay was mostly because of hurricane Katrina having struck the gulf coast. We had to pull some serious string but since we wouldn't be moving in until November of 2005, it didn't really impact us.
But servers and devices too. I finally got fed up enough with Dell with the apparent inferior machines, high prices, and poor technical support.
But we recently had need of a server to use for RSnapshot, and Dell wanted too much money so we hit up HP. Got a hell of a deal on a server with 2TB of disk space. Now if they'd just ship the damned thing.
Microsoft is toast. They know it and now they're going to try putting the screws to people. I've been using XP for a few years. It works well enough, and I don't see the point of buying another Microsoft OS. My next step might just be something that runs OS-X.
Does anyone think it'll be before a little Windows 'patch' is written that shows the file. Honestly - I watch most DVD's on my PC because it has a wide aspect screen on it. The minute they start pulling this shit I'll not be buying DVD's.
But then, they'll start screaming that piracy is cutting into sales again.
I bet you could also tailor this substance to repair things like embolisms that burst, aortic disections, etc. Of course it would mean getting into surgery immediately but more people bleed out at the hospital than anywhere else.
If you could use frying oil for longer, it means you'd buy less overall. You could then take the excess of processed oils and use them for fuel. That's a win right there, particularly for agribusiness.
It's all got to do with power and money. You see, if you have both you can come up with very elegant ways to steal an election.
I like how we do it here in RI. You mark a paper ballot which is then optically scanned. The ballot is then stored by the machine in the huge storage bin underneath the scanner. At the same time a paper tape in the scan head itself is marked with the voting information and the data from the scan is recorded onto a secure card. There's a complete audit trail so it's nearly impossible for dirty tricks to occur.
So what exactly does he do with all those purloined keys?
I employ two of three possible methods to secure my network, MAC filters and WPA keys. So I was thinking, how does this deal with MAC filters. Then it came to me that the first two octets of the MAC are easy - Intel has a pretty big lock on wireless, as does Broadcom. So that's 65,535 fewer combinations to look for. But where it gets interesting is in the last four octets. That leaves 4,294,967,296 possible combinations. Not that you couldn't brute it, but that coupled with the WPA keys might take more than five minutes to crack.
So the Janus project is interesting, and they'll score lots of keys. But I don't see the overall usefullness.
I'd bitch like crazy - to the cable co, to the regulators, etc. That tends to get some results.
I remember when we moved our offices it turned out our current dsl provider didn't serve the area, a T1 fro Verizon was hideously expensive for too little bandiwdth. We ended up going with Cox, we've got a 10mpbs link to them, and then two 2mbps feeds to our other offices. Works very well.
However when they had New England Line drop the runs from the MDF to our point of presence, they used stranded connectors on solid conductor wire. When reps from the state I.T. unit and from Atrion were there they noted lots of CRC's on the lines. I told the that it was the cable ends. Sure enough, Cox came in and re-did them and lo and behold no more CRC errors.
I did ask Cox to re-wire so that it came in via our patch panel, on which we'd left space for the 3 lines. They've never delivered on that so one of these days I'm just going to go in with the wire cutters, chop each line and make them come and wire it the RIGHT way.
Pretty easy to proxy everything and use DansGuardian to filter objectionable content. It's also easy to block port 5190 to stop IM's, etc. Libraries do it, why don't schools? I don't get it.
The SO and I both have XPS M140 laptops with the Pentium M processor. They work beautifully - I use mine for mostly database development, web surfing, email, etc. The other machine is mainly used with Photoshop, Autodesk Architectural Desktop 2006, email, web, etc.
They both work fine - in my case I'm more hamstrung by memory than I am by CPU cycles. Same goes for the other system.
Co-worker of mine bought an XPS-M1210 - sweet little machine. And it is small, granted not like a G4 powerbook but still, has the same feature set as the M140 except in a slightly different layout.
The M140 and M1210 both get about 4 hours of battery time.
A friend bought an M1710 - that's a core-duo machine and gets
I'll take cheap, lightweight, good battery life over monstrous computing power. SO tells me that people laugh at his little 14.1" wide aspect screen. I told him to laugh at them when they only get a couple hours time out of their monstrosities.
I just don't see the draw for dual-core. Most people don't even approach the limits of their current CPU. Even geeks don't - most of us are memory bound. So dual-core is just a marketing gimick as far as I'm concerned.
And we still get sub-par OS's and apps from MS? My god, what the hell do they pay their people.
For example, look at Vista. The biggest selling point of Vista way back was supposed to be WinFS. But MS dropped the ball on that and so what we'll be getting is just a pretty GUI. Sorry - but I want a stable OS.
One of the keys to project management is to have an understanding of the project itself. Another key is buy-in from the project sponsor. And the prime key is planning. I cannot emphasize enough how important the planning process is.
When we moved our office we planned ad nauseum but because of that planning had contingencies in place so our operations didn't suffer. The move went off without a major hitch. We also have a fairly good I.T. project management system in place that we use.
Because failure to understand the issues and failing to plan for contingencies doom pretty much all government projects.
There's data storage, and data transmission. They'll have to implement some very good error correction, after all a slipped bit or two and you could end up with blue eyes instead of your normal brown.
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When I first got my new laptop I didn't have wireless in the home, but I had a ton of open nodes around me. For the first couple weeks while I selected a WAP I used the connection of a business across the street.
When I got mine I installed it, locked it down and used it but first I went across the street, introduced myself and told the business owner that his connection was wide open. Helped to secure it. Then suddenly other open nodes started locking down.
But here we are a year later and there are once again, a ton of open nodes.
I hold the equipment manufacturers responsible.
Indeed it is anecdotal. For example, I'm part of a 6 person I.T. unit. Of the 6, 5 have children.
5 boys, 2 girls.
We do get a lot more estrogen into us than ever before. And lets not forget soy products while we're at it.
I've been using Firefox since v1.0.4
Prior to that I'd used IE 6.0 and before that I was a Netscape fan. But Firefox rocks, the only complaint I have about all versions is memory usage. When I first installed v2.0 I was hoping for a memory usage reduction. No such luck.
I do love Shift-Ctrl-T though.
You would think that companies that make larger generators (I'm talking > 100kW) would understand that demand goes up during hurricane season, and things of that nature.
We only encountered a one month delay on delivery of our 125kW natural gas fired generator. Our delay was mostly because of hurricane Katrina having struck the gulf coast. We had to pull some serious string but since we wouldn't be moving in until November of 2005, it didn't really impact us.
Yep - the 500GB drives were backordered. I still have yet to check my work email because they were supposed to send me tracking info today.
But servers and devices too. I finally got fed up enough with Dell with the apparent inferior machines, high prices, and poor technical support.
But we recently had need of a server to use for RSnapshot, and Dell wanted too much money so we hit up HP. Got a hell of a deal on a server with 2TB of disk space. Now if they'd just ship the damned thing.
Microsoft is toast. They know it and now they're going to try putting the screws to people. I've been using XP for a few years. It works well enough, and I don't see the point of buying another Microsoft OS. My next step might just be something that runs OS-X.
Does anyone think it'll be before a little Windows 'patch' is written that shows the file. Honestly - I watch most DVD's on my PC because it has a wide aspect screen on it. The minute they start pulling this shit I'll not be buying DVD's. But then, they'll start screaming that piracy is cutting into sales again.
I bet you could also tailor this substance to repair things like embolisms that burst, aortic disections, etc. Of course it would mean getting into surgery immediately but more people bleed out at the hospital than anywhere else.
If you could use frying oil for longer, it means you'd buy less overall. You could then take the excess of processed oils and use them for fuel. That's a win right there, particularly for agribusiness.
I'm a government employee. My whole world is acronyms, command names, etc. Et-see indeed.
Nah, I already have two little predators around the house. I'd need at least another predator to keep the detente in balance.
Only way I'd want one is if they come in the sub-miniature size. Something about the size of a cat.
It's all got to do with power and money. You see, if you have both you can come up with very elegant ways to steal an election. I like how we do it here in RI. You mark a paper ballot which is then optically scanned. The ballot is then stored by the machine in the huge storage bin underneath the scanner. At the same time a paper tape in the scan head itself is marked with the voting information and the data from the scan is recorded onto a secure card. There's a complete audit trail so it's nearly impossible for dirty tricks to occur.
So what exactly does he do with all those purloined keys?
I employ two of three possible methods to secure my network, MAC filters and WPA keys. So I was thinking, how does this deal with MAC filters. Then it came to me that the first two octets of the MAC are easy - Intel has a pretty big lock on wireless, as does Broadcom. So that's 65,535 fewer combinations to look for. But where it gets interesting is in the last four octets. That leaves 4,294,967,296 possible combinations. Not that you couldn't brute it, but that coupled with the WPA keys might take more than five minutes to crack.
So the Janus project is interesting, and they'll score lots of keys. But I don't see the overall usefullness.
I'd bitch like crazy - to the cable co, to the regulators, etc. That tends to get some results.
I remember when we moved our offices it turned out our current dsl provider didn't serve the area, a T1 fro Verizon was hideously expensive for too little bandiwdth. We ended up going with Cox, we've got a 10mpbs link to them, and then two 2mbps feeds to our other offices. Works very well.
However when they had New England Line drop the runs from the MDF to our point of presence, they used stranded connectors on solid conductor wire. When reps from the state I.T. unit and from Atrion were there they noted lots of CRC's on the lines. I told the that it was the cable ends. Sure enough, Cox came in and re-did them and lo and behold no more CRC errors.
I did ask Cox to re-wire so that it came in via our patch panel, on which we'd left space for the 3 lines. They've never delivered on that so one of these days I'm just going to go in with the wire cutters, chop each line and make them come and wire it the RIGHT way.
Pretty easy to proxy everything and use DansGuardian to filter objectionable content. It's also easy to block port 5190 to stop IM's, etc. Libraries do it, why don't schools? I don't get it.
The SO and I both have XPS M140 laptops with the Pentium M processor. They work beautifully - I use mine for mostly database development, web surfing, email, etc. The other machine is mainly used with Photoshop, Autodesk Architectural Desktop 2006, email, web, etc.
They both work fine - in my case I'm more hamstrung by memory than I am by CPU cycles. Same goes for the other system.
Co-worker of mine bought an XPS-M1210 - sweet little machine. And it is small, granted not like a G4 powerbook but still, has the same feature set as the M140 except in a slightly different layout.
The M140 and M1210 both get about 4 hours of battery time.
A friend bought an M1710 - that's a core-duo machine and gets
I'll take cheap, lightweight, good battery life over monstrous computing power. SO tells me that people laugh at his little 14.1" wide aspect screen. I told him to laugh at them when they only get a couple hours time out of their monstrosities.
I just don't see the draw for dual-core. Most people don't even approach the limits of their current CPU. Even geeks don't - most of us are memory bound. So dual-core is just a marketing gimick as far as I'm concerned.
And we still get sub-par OS's and apps from MS? My god, what the hell do they pay their people.
For example, look at Vista. The biggest selling point of Vista way back was supposed to be WinFS. But MS dropped the ball on that and so what we'll be getting is just a pretty GUI. Sorry - but I want a stable OS.
Interesting statistics there. In Vietnam we were at a roughly 10:1 kill ratio. In Iraq we're way over that at 171:1
We've gotten much more efficient at killing people. So our tax dollars are being used for something productive, we just didn't know it.
One of the keys to project management is to have an understanding of the project itself. Another key is buy-in from the project sponsor. And the prime key is planning. I cannot emphasize enough how important the planning process is.
When we moved our office we planned ad nauseum but because of that planning had contingencies in place so our operations didn't suffer. The move went off without a major hitch. We also have a fairly good I.T. project management system in place that we use.
Because failure to understand the issues and failing to plan for contingencies doom pretty much all government projects.
You're right. The police have become the bad guys now so we're naturally suspicious of them.
But heres the thing, this is nothing more than a polygraph. And they've already been solidly debunked as junk science if anything.
Our state legislature likes to do thing the archaic way, in order to hide their dirty deals etc.
Well, someone figured out how to scrape the PDF journals they regularly post on their web sit. Very interesting to say the least.
Yes, BackupExec has been sucking ever since V8.x and now that Symantec owns it I'm looking for a new backup software vendor.
There's data storage, and data transmission. They'll have to implement some very good error correction, after all a slipped bit or two and you could end up with blue eyes instead of your normal brown.