I have a short attention span. I have two monitors. The idea of watching a tv episode while playing WoW appeals to me.
Yes I used to have two computers on my desk, why do you ask?
You guys may be different, but my home theater looks better than my local movie theatre. Out here is rural texas, the movie theater's always have A)Projectors that are out of focus B)Crappy Prints C)Gunk on the screen D)Any combination of the above. I have a MODEST setup (about 2000 dollars) that looks way better, and once I get my projector and finish my HTPC, I probably won't even bother with the movies at all.
Great, more ammo for the console crowd. The worst part is...this time they have a point. GCard makers are starting to pander to the "my epeen is larger than yours" crowd. Please don't let PC gaming turn into street racing.
Except that if there was a global emergency, I doubt your broadband would be on anyway, in which case, why are you HAM? It would be easy to kill BPL during an emergency. Emergency freqs are another story tho.
That's all well and good, but it's important to strike a balance with what the users need and what the IT staff supports. I've run into network admins that scream "We won't allow that" when I've asked for a legit port to be opened up. This kind of behavior sometimes leads to people having to adopt Kludgy solutions (usually involving IPX or appletalk) or flat out disobeying/poking a hole in network security.
You dont want to deal with either of those.
Sit down with your boss and explain what each open port is and why it is open. Then explain what happens if you close that port.
Lock everything down tighter than fort knox, starting with your bosses machine (Yes sir, Im sorry you can't surf the internet, we closed that outgoing port because it was a security risk)
One of these should work (or get you fired) either way, you don't have to deal with employees upset because their VPN or Remote Access doesn't work.
As someone who once tried to take apart a legacy PCMCIA card to fix (we couldn't find another to order) let me advise you against trying to buy a PCMCIA Hdd and swaping out its internal drive for a larger one.
I'd try an external USB drive or a flash drive.
I know it will get annoying fast, but if I actually catch a live person trying to sell me something, I have an opportunity to try one of the many tricks suggested, to bang the phone loudly on the desk, or to unload all the rage I've built up for thousands of pieces of spam that I couldn't reply to.
Maybe I'm just bored.
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I have a short attention span. I have two monitors. The idea of watching a tv episode while playing WoW appeals to me. Yes I used to have two computers on my desk, why do you ask?
You guys may be different, but my home theater looks better than my local movie theatre. Out here is rural texas, the movie theater's always have A)Projectors that are out of focus B)Crappy Prints C)Gunk on the screen D)Any combination of the above. I have a MODEST setup (about 2000 dollars) that looks way better, and once I get my projector and finish my HTPC, I probably won't even bother with the movies at all.
Great, more ammo for the console crowd. The worst part is...this time they have a point. GCard makers are starting to pander to the "my epeen is larger than yours" crowd. Please don't let PC gaming turn into street racing.
Except that if there was a global emergency, I doubt your broadband would be on anyway, in which case, why are you HAM? It would be easy to kill BPL during an emergency. Emergency freqs are another story tho.
That's all well and good, but it's important to strike a balance with what the users need and what the IT staff supports. I've run into network admins that scream "We won't allow that" when I've asked for a legit port to be opened up. This kind of behavior sometimes leads to people having to adopt Kludgy solutions (usually involving IPX or appletalk) or flat out disobeying/poking a hole in network security. You dont want to deal with either of those.
One of two ways:
Sit down with your boss and explain what each open port is and why it is open. Then explain what happens if you close that port.
Lock everything down tighter than fort knox, starting with your bosses machine (Yes sir, Im sorry you can't surf the internet, we closed that outgoing port because it was a security risk)
One of these should work (or get you fired) either way, you don't have to deal with employees upset because their VPN or Remote Access doesn't work.
As someone who once tried to take apart a legacy PCMCIA card to fix (we couldn't find another to order) let me advise you against trying to buy a PCMCIA Hdd and swaping out its internal drive for a larger one. I'd try an external USB drive or a flash drive.
I know it will get annoying fast, but if I actually catch a live person trying to sell me something, I have an opportunity to try one of the many tricks suggested, to bang the phone loudly on the desk, or to unload all the rage I've built up for thousands of pieces of spam that I couldn't reply to. Maybe I'm just bored.