... I have a new favorite thin client! 1000 kiosk machines for $25,000 is a great deal. The problem is locking the damn things down to keep employees from walking out with a handful in their pockets.
As I always say, Communism is as American as apple pie... "family" could literally be interpreted as producing a Communist state between two adults. That is, of course, taking into account that the children are under a totalitarian dictatorship at birth, with a slow progression to forming their own communist house once they turn 18.
I'm a Network Administrator. With 100 computers, you have a nice small network to test already. First, you have an unlimited budget. Take advantage of that ASAP. Give it a couple years, and you'll be saying, "Budget? Don't I get a budget?"
Get setup with some nice Cisco Gigabit. Probably just 1 or 2 routers, maybe 5 or 6 24/48 port switches. Next, get a HANDLE on your network. Either go corporate, or go free. Look into Spiceworks, Hyperic, OpenNMS, Zenoss, etc (spiceworks actually has a nice community of Network admins that you can talk to and ask questions).
Next, get your anti-virus in order. I recommend ESET. (I assume with 100 computers, you're also the Systems Administrator, that's typical).
Focus on security, security, security. I'd get OpenDNS on it immediately, lock out malware sites. You may find several computers already running trojans, maybe conficker. It'll be a fun learning experience.
I'd advise avoiding Active Directory or anything Microsoft. Then again, that's laughable advise. Good LUCK avoiding AD! And then, good luck with your windows users not getting pissed because there are no policies on the Mac users! (Just remember, control them at the DNS/router level, and you'll be fine. Active directory is good for pretending like you're doing something that looks important.)
Most importantly, go to community college. Get a degree if you need it, but at least pick up some certs. They're not worth anything, but you'll learn. Hell, if they're paying, free education is always good.
Screw books, you don't have time for books. Go to some SANS Institute workshops (unlimited budget will cover that) and learn some hard core skills. College and workshops will give you real hands on experience no book on Cisco Routing will do.
Now, get ready to crawl your ass over rafters and in dank dark closets. Get ready for your finger tips to bleed as you make Cat-5e cables by the hundreds.
Get ready for the wake up calls at 4am on a Sunday because your email server is unreachable. (You got the budget, plan a cloud failover now... hell, plan everything failover now. If it's not on VMware or HyperV or Xen, make them buy all the hardware you need to get it there. Remember, it's all YOUR fault!)
But it's worth it. Because, in the end... you are God on your network. Just remember, benevolent gods get their heads chopped off. Make them fear you a little. Take away their facebook and youtube for a week on accident... let them know you can make them cry at the push of a button. Use inexperience as a mask for your mind games and plots. "Whoops! Gee, did I do that?"
Muhahahaha...
Seriously... it sucks. You are always to blame for everything. Eventually, you will make believe you are God and fantasize about taking away facebook and youtube... probably while crawling through your ten thousandth spiderweb pulling another wire behind you and remembering the last Bastard Operator from Hell story you read.
... to everything. Simple tools, paper writing, maps, books. We just "accept that they work" and "rely on them". This isn't new. It's just that what is new is more useful to us. Instead of reading a book and believing what it tells us about the world beyond our vision, we now carry around the entire contents of all the world's libraries.
That is very true. New worlds are breached by governments in exploration of riches. Then the governments find there is no easy gold or fountain of youth, get bored, and average settlers just start wondering into the wilderness, forming their own government along the way.
... I thought the super hackers at Anonymous are all to blame! I mean, sure, most members of Anonymous are the ones spending hours ENJOYING the PSN. But, you mean to tell me that Sony, a multinational corporation, covered up their own culpability and then lied and blamed it on an innocent (in this case) group of hacktivists? Like, Wooo, just like Cereal Killer from the movie Hackers told us!
Oracle doesn't understand open source. Why are you surprised they subpoenaed Apache for Apache code (open) related to Android (open) about Java (open)? Obviously, they can't use Google to search for it, conflict of interest. Anyone want to e-mail them the http://www.bing.com/ link?
Yes, Apple would become less suitable for niche things... like looking at porn, downloading anything from artists like Trent Reznor whom they blocked on the App Store just because his app accessed the SAME content as the browser. And you know, NIN has naughty lyrics. I need Friar Monk Jobs slapping my little willy with his digital ruler for possibly looking at nude people on my phone or computer.
What'd he say? If you want to watch port, get an Android? Imagine if he seriously said, if you want to watch porn, get a Dell.
If he ever says that, I hope they bring the Dell Dude back (who cared if he was a stoner, it was a bit OBVIOUS from the commercials), and the new advertisement said, "Dude, you're getting a boner!"
But yeah... just niche. Perfect model to keep your grandma from watching 2 girls 1 cup.
We can't even pay to keep a shuttle program going.
Actually, that's pretty pessimistic...
The last time we went to the moon, it took around twelve years of R&D, using tech that's positively antiquated by modern standards, and with no precedent whatsoever to show that it was even possible to send a person to the moon and bring them back alive.
We were also, at the time, THE world industrial power with a cold war going on that prompted nearly unquestionable financing of a space race. Saying that it's at least 20 years before we go Alien, and start mining off-world is optimistic, not pessimistic.
And technology wise, we just don't have the balls any more. They lost a guy on the launch pad back in the space race days, and chalked it up to "It's sad, shit happens, he's a hero." Now, shit still happens, but it's us shitting down our legs because some ceramic tile cracks.
We advanced in terms of computers. We're still flying boxes of wire surrounded by physical heat shields. We just slapped wings on it, and called it a shuttle.
Oh to hell with it. Have we fallen so far as a civilization that people no longer know where their food comes from? Have never seen butchering and slaughtering done? Have never killed an animal themselves, skinned, cleaned, and done their own cuts. I can probably answer myself too. Yes to all of the above.
Actually, one current theory is that the universe does expand forever, but collision points between universes causes "big bangs" which sparks energy/matter into existence. The best explanation is two drum heads colliding at a single point, which would result in a "drum beat" of a bang, with the vibrations and ripples being the equivalent energy/matter.
So, a pre-big bang black hole could be from a prior collision. It would be a "vibration" that never completely lost gravitational cohesiveness, which is the current theory of how the universe will end... when dark energy (blowing us apart) overcomes the force of dark matter (pulling us together).
Understanding these black holes would only matter to us billions of years in the future should we attempt to survive our universe dissolving into dust. Or... if you wanna find the most ancient aliens with god-like technology, maybe they're hibernating in one of these things.
Then again, IANAS, I just watch a lot of Discovery and misc sci programming.
The problem I often face is similar. Except that I like digging in to such software, making it work. The problem is that companies want dumbed down programs, so that my job is easier to fill should I up and leave. I completely understand their position. But it is very limiting, especially considering I work in mixed win/osx/nix environment, so the job won't be filled by some guy off the street anyways.
Because simple background processes, like downloading Facebook updates, and foreground add-on and system processes, like Swype, gestures, volume controls, and loading small lists (contacts) shouldn't have to interrupt the main CPU which is carrying the high throughput foreground app.
It's hard enough for a phone to stream Pandora in the background while playing Angry Birds. But let's say you do that, but everytime you touch the screen, either the music skips or Angry Birds freezes. I can't tell you how many times I've seen the slingshot freeze in the pulled back position because some background update jumps in that really didn't need the full CPU.
And that's the killer app(s) for this. Background and foreground add-ons like onscreen keyboards and controls.
He said "Google and Microsoft". Google and MS are not violationg do-not-call nor can-spam. And by extension, Google websites (search, gmail, etc), properties (Doubleclick), and Microsoft Bing and their web properties. That accounts for an extremely large portion of web advertising, not just on their sites, but on third party sites, phones, and apps.
I was thinking the exact same thing. There are some skilled people who are a part of what Anonymous does. But half are still Photoshop-ing 8-bit penis drawings on celebrity pics, and the other half is trying to create the next big meme over at the Parody Motivator Generator.
It's not unstoppable. I'd mod you up for informative, but you mention that it is so good that it is unstoppable. It is not unstoppable or undelete-able on all browsers. In fact, it can be removed from Chrome. It is therefore, not a limitation of the browser. They don't NEED conspire. Regular cookies rarely get deleted by most users.
If you are wiping out your cookies and using ad blocking and script blocking software, they already know you are the least likely user to click an ad if you saw one. The only good reason for them to track you is to figure out how to sell you something. If you won't click an ad, you're not likely to buy anything they have to sell, and pretty much ignore you as a consequence of doing business on the Internet.
If they were conspiring, they'd refuse to allow you to use their sites if you block content, including cookies. They could very simply say, "If no cookie, set cookie. If you still don't have cookie, no content."
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... I have a new favorite thin client! 1000 kiosk machines for $25,000 is a great deal. The problem is locking the damn things down to keep employees from walking out with a handful in their pockets.
As I always say, Communism is as American as apple pie... "family" could literally be interpreted as producing a Communist state between two adults. That is, of course, taking into account that the children are under a totalitarian dictatorship at birth, with a slow progression to forming their own communist house once they turn 18.
ping blog.lastpass.com
PING ghs.l.google.com (74.125.93.121) 56(84) bytes of data
ping lastpass.com
PING lastpass.com (96.255.24.82) 56(84) bytes of data.
Not very ironic when you know how DNS works.
I'm a Network Administrator. With 100 computers, you have a nice small network to test already. First, you have an unlimited budget. Take advantage of that ASAP. Give it a couple years, and you'll be saying, "Budget? Don't I get a budget?"
Get setup with some nice Cisco Gigabit. Probably just 1 or 2 routers, maybe 5 or 6 24/48 port switches. Next, get a HANDLE on your network. Either go corporate, or go free. Look into Spiceworks, Hyperic, OpenNMS, Zenoss, etc (spiceworks actually has a nice community of Network admins that you can talk to and ask questions).
Next, get your anti-virus in order. I recommend ESET. (I assume with 100 computers, you're also the Systems Administrator, that's typical).
Focus on security, security, security. I'd get OpenDNS on it immediately, lock out malware sites. You may find several computers already running trojans, maybe conficker. It'll be a fun learning experience.
I'd advise avoiding Active Directory or anything Microsoft. Then again, that's laughable advise. Good LUCK avoiding AD! And then, good luck with your windows users not getting pissed because there are no policies on the Mac users! (Just remember, control them at the DNS/router level, and you'll be fine. Active directory is good for pretending like you're doing something that looks important.)
Most importantly, go to community college. Get a degree if you need it, but at least pick up some certs. They're not worth anything, but you'll learn. Hell, if they're paying, free education is always good.
Screw books, you don't have time for books. Go to some SANS Institute workshops (unlimited budget will cover that) and learn some hard core skills. College and workshops will give you real hands on experience no book on Cisco Routing will do.
Now, get ready to crawl your ass over rafters and in dank dark closets. Get ready for your finger tips to bleed as you make Cat-5e cables by the hundreds.
Get ready for the wake up calls at 4am on a Sunday because your email server is unreachable. (You got the budget, plan a cloud failover now... hell, plan everything failover now. If it's not on VMware or HyperV or Xen, make them buy all the hardware you need to get it there. Remember, it's all YOUR fault!)
But it's worth it. Because, in the end... you are God on your network. Just remember, benevolent gods get their heads chopped off. Make them fear you a little. Take away their facebook and youtube for a week on accident... let them know you can make them cry at the push of a button. Use inexperience as a mask for your mind games and plots. "Whoops! Gee, did I do that?"
Muhahahaha...
Seriously... it sucks. You are always to blame for everything. Eventually, you will make believe you are God and fantasize about taking away facebook and youtube... probably while crawling through your ten thousandth spiderweb pulling another wire behind you and remembering the last Bastard Operator from Hell story you read.
They just got slasdotted, efuct, dugg, and twitter bombed all at once. Read more.
... to everything. Simple tools, paper writing, maps, books. We just "accept that they work" and "rely on them". This isn't new. It's just that what is new is more useful to us. Instead of reading a book and believing what it tells us about the world beyond our vision, we now carry around the entire contents of all the world's libraries.
... Google App Inventor.
That is very true. New worlds are breached by governments in exploration of riches. Then the governments find there is no easy gold or fountain of youth, get bored, and average settlers just start wondering into the wilderness, forming their own government along the way.
Better watch out for Agent Gill with comments like that.
The comedy goggles, they do nothing!
... I thought the super hackers at Anonymous are all to blame! I mean, sure, most members of Anonymous are the ones spending hours ENJOYING the PSN. But, you mean to tell me that Sony, a multinational corporation, covered up their own culpability and then lied and blamed it on an innocent (in this case) group of hacktivists? Like, Wooo, just like Cereal Killer from the movie Hackers told us!
Oracle doesn't understand open source. Why are you surprised they subpoenaed Apache for Apache code (open) related to Android (open) about Java (open)? Obviously, they can't use Google to search for it, conflict of interest. Anyone want to e-mail them the http://www.bing.com/ link?
When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
I think he would have gotten along well with the dog who's flossin' a titanium grille. Now to get him a giant clock collar.
Yes, Apple would become less suitable for niche things... like looking at porn, downloading anything from artists like Trent Reznor whom they blocked on the App Store just because his app accessed the SAME content as the browser. And you know, NIN has naughty lyrics. I need Friar Monk Jobs slapping my little willy with his digital ruler for possibly looking at nude people on my phone or computer.
What'd he say? If you want to watch port, get an Android? Imagine if he seriously said, if you want to watch porn, get a Dell.
If he ever says that, I hope they bring the Dell Dude back (who cared if he was a stoner, it was a bit OBVIOUS from the commercials), and the new advertisement said, "Dude, you're getting a boner!"
But yeah... just niche. Perfect model to keep your grandma from watching 2 girls 1 cup.
We can't even pay to keep a shuttle program going.
Actually, that's pretty pessimistic...
The last time we went to the moon, it took around twelve years of R&D, using tech that's positively antiquated by modern standards, and with no precedent whatsoever to show that it was even possible to send a person to the moon and bring them back alive.
We were also, at the time, THE world industrial power with a cold war going on that prompted nearly unquestionable financing of a space race. Saying that it's at least 20 years before we go Alien, and start mining off-world is optimistic, not pessimistic.
And technology wise, we just don't have the balls any more. They lost a guy on the launch pad back in the space race days, and chalked it up to "It's sad, shit happens, he's a hero." Now, shit still happens, but it's us shitting down our legs because some ceramic tile cracks.
We advanced in terms of computers. We're still flying boxes of wire surrounded by physical heat shields. We just slapped wings on it, and called it a shuttle.
That's because we live in a post-Deliverance era.
it hurts with the stupid.
Oh to hell with it. Have we fallen so far as a civilization that people no longer know where their food comes from? Have never seen butchering and slaughtering done? Have never killed an animal themselves, skinned, cleaned, and done their own cuts. I can probably answer myself too. Yes to all of the above.
Actually, one current theory is that the universe does expand forever, but collision points between universes causes "big bangs" which sparks energy/matter into existence. The best explanation is two drum heads colliding at a single point, which would result in a "drum beat" of a bang, with the vibrations and ripples being the equivalent energy/matter.
So, a pre-big bang black hole could be from a prior collision. It would be a "vibration" that never completely lost gravitational cohesiveness, which is the current theory of how the universe will end... when dark energy (blowing us apart) overcomes the force of dark matter (pulling us together).
Understanding these black holes would only matter to us billions of years in the future should we attempt to survive our universe dissolving into dust. Or... if you wanna find the most ancient aliens with god-like technology, maybe they're hibernating in one of these things.
Then again, IANAS, I just watch a lot of Discovery and misc sci programming.
The problem I often face is similar. Except that I like digging in to such software, making it work. The problem is that companies want dumbed down programs, so that my job is easier to fill should I up and leave. I completely understand their position. But it is very limiting, especially considering I work in mixed win/osx/nix environment, so the job won't be filled by some guy off the street anyways.
Because simple background processes, like downloading Facebook updates, and foreground add-on and system processes, like Swype, gestures, volume controls, and loading small lists (contacts) shouldn't have to interrupt the main CPU which is carrying the high throughput foreground app.
It's hard enough for a phone to stream Pandora in the background while playing Angry Birds. But let's say you do that, but everytime you touch the screen, either the music skips or Angry Birds freezes. I can't tell you how many times I've seen the slingshot freeze in the pulled back position because some background update jumps in that really didn't need the full CPU.
And that's the killer app(s) for this. Background and foreground add-ons like onscreen keyboards and controls.
He said "Google and Microsoft". Google and MS are not violationg do-not-call nor can-spam. And by extension, Google websites (search, gmail, etc), properties (Doubleclick), and Microsoft Bing and their web properties. That accounts for an extremely large portion of web advertising, not just on their sites, but on third party sites, phones, and apps.
I was thinking the exact same thing. There are some skilled people who are a part of what Anonymous does. But half are still Photoshop-ing 8-bit penis drawings on celebrity pics, and the other half is trying to create the next big meme over at the Parody Motivator Generator.
It's not unstoppable. I'd mod you up for informative, but you mention that it is so good that it is unstoppable. It is not unstoppable or undelete-able on all browsers. In fact, it can be removed from Chrome. It is therefore, not a limitation of the browser. They don't NEED conspire. Regular cookies rarely get deleted by most users.
If you are wiping out your cookies and using ad blocking and script blocking software, they already know you are the least likely user to click an ad if you saw one. The only good reason for them to track you is to figure out how to sell you something. If you won't click an ad, you're not likely to buy anything they have to sell, and pretty much ignore you as a consequence of doing business on the Internet.
If they were conspiring, they'd refuse to allow you to use their sites if you block content, including cookies. They could very simply say, "If no cookie, set cookie. If you still don't have cookie, no content."
Guess which adult item he stripped the silicon off of to "design" his strap on? I'll give you a hint, I already mentioned it.
You realize you just told an Anonymous Coward to grow up? That's like telling Gilbert Godfrey not to squint his eyes and sing bass.
It's called Starfleet! It's formed by gathering up civilizations after they develop warp drive technology. Everybody knows that!