John said it as plain as it can be. Debit cards offer 0 protection from Visa/Mastercard. I too had my card number stolen. They racked up about $1800 worth of charges. I noticed it day 1 and my bank told me they couldn't do anything util the charges fully cleared and it will take a few business days after that. Meanwhile I'm left stranded with $0. I also had an issue with the bank staff as well (@&$%# PNC). More about that issue over here.
The solution is two fold: get an ATM card and a credit card. Use cash where possible and where its not, use the credit card. All major cards offer protection from this sort of issue (Discover/AMEX/VISA/MC). Do NOT link your regular bank account to Paypal. I have seen people get cleaned out that way as well. All you need is an account that has a couple bucks in it for verification. You should only use your credit card if you have to pay via Paypal.
Time to retrain yourself. It has taken me some time to get used to not having a debit card with me. But it will help with budgeting your money as well. Giant mega-banks all suck. Best of luck to you.
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Honestly, if its a small business, Windows 2003 Server will work just fine. Couple that with Group Policy and you've got a nice, out of the box solution.
I use Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 at my day job. I will tell you that Citrix can handle much larger user loads than Terminal Server. In addition, it has very bandwidth friendly connections (roughly 8 times 'thinner' than RDP). The printing in the newer version has been greatly improved as well (it used to be a nightmare in 1.8).
I support roughly 500 remote users at over 50 branches over 768k lines at each location. We publish Office (Access & Outlook incl), MS IE, and a wholoe host of other critical apps (61 at last count). I can tell you that with this type of load, Citrix is the way to go.
Sure there are some open source apps and some others like Tarantella, but what kind of support do they offer? Yeah I know the open source community is around to help, but for critical applications (like ours), I'm not going to rely on the community solely to help.
Do some Googling for Network World's review of remote application suites. They had some nice info in there.
After ten+ years, I still consult a reference for all the escape codes and such. Used to be a book, now it's google
Right there with you. At least on the Google part...
People often try to amaze one another by how much they "know by heart". I'd rather RTFM and see how it's done correctly...
Regex Coach is nice for those long regexs that you may have missed an escape somewhere.
I write most regexs myself, but I'm no guru at it. Regex Coach is a nice verification that the regex works (particularly for extracting something from a large string).
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I pushed the wife off the Wii Fit twice last night. No change.
John said it as plain as it can be. Debit cards offer 0 protection from Visa/Mastercard. I too had my card number stolen. They racked up about $1800 worth of charges. I noticed it day 1 and my bank told me they couldn't do anything util the charges fully cleared and it will take a few business days after that. Meanwhile I'm left stranded with $0. I also had an issue with the bank staff as well (@&$%# PNC). More about that issue over here. The solution is two fold: get an ATM card and a credit card. Use cash where possible and where its not, use the credit card. All major cards offer protection from this sort of issue (Discover/AMEX/VISA/MC). Do NOT link your regular bank account to Paypal. I have seen people get cleaned out that way as well. All you need is an account that has a couple bucks in it for verification. You should only use your credit card if you have to pay via Paypal. Time to retrain yourself. It has taken me some time to get used to not having a debit card with me. But it will help with budgeting your money as well. Giant mega-banks all suck. Best of luck to you.
I feel a Federal Datacenter Consolidation tax coming on.
I shudder every time I hear about a government I.T. project. Can't wait to see what mess occurs after this and who steps down as a result.
Linode is tops. Their service and performance is second to none. You can start with their base plan and upgrade/downgrade at any time. Those guys "know" Linux. Their use community is very good as well (IRC and forums). I've been with them for about 2 years now.
Features: http://www.linode.com/features.cfm Community: http://www.linode.com/community
WebHostingTalk.com often has coupon codes for various web hosting companies.
Honestly, if its a small business, Windows 2003 Server will work just fine. Couple that with Group Policy and you've got a nice, out of the box solution.
I use Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 at my day job. I will tell you that Citrix can handle much larger user loads than Terminal Server. In addition, it has very bandwidth friendly connections (roughly 8 times 'thinner' than RDP). The printing in the newer version has been greatly improved as well (it used to be a nightmare in 1.8).
I support roughly 500 remote users at over 50 branches over 768k lines at each location. We publish Office (Access & Outlook incl), MS IE, and a wholoe host of other critical apps (61 at last count). I can tell you that with this type of load, Citrix is the way to go.
Sure there are some open source apps and some others like Tarantella, but what kind of support do they offer? Yeah I know the open source community is around to help, but for critical applications (like ours), I'm not going to rely on the community solely to help.
Do some Googling for Network World's review of remote application suites. They had some nice info in there.
Good luck in your choice.
After ten+ years, I still consult a reference for all the escape codes and such. Used to be a book, now it's google Right there with you. At least on the Google part... People often try to amaze one another by how much they "know by heart". I'd rather RTFM and see how it's done correctly...
Regex Coach is nice for those long regexs that you may have missed an escape somewhere. I write most regexs myself, but I'm no guru at it. Regex Coach is a nice verification that the regex works (particularly for extracting something from a large string).
I agree. I could speculate that Starbucks will be offering suits for sale soon, but that means nothing at all without proof...