Firstly why is an IT manager proposing to firewall a city that isnt going to protect any end users, Probably not going to filter that much incoming traffic. TBH my intrest wouldnt be in firewalling the entire city rather just firewalling the computers that need to be protected e.g. govornment data and leaving end user firewalling to the end user. Even then i wouldnt have a single windows based firewall i agree with previous posts i'd get dual Watchguard x1000's (graciously dubed the 'x box' by my work) with the same config and 1 for failover. and it'd probably come to less overall.
Regardless Linux is still a product and every product has to go through extensive quality control testing. True laughing in their face does sound a bit harsh however consider it a metaphor. he has to draw the line somwhere and its not like the code will never get in to a constantly evolving kernel.
I am not sure if this is entirely what you are looking for but MRTG is an open source SNMP monitor. It may work in your situation if the logger supports snmp. It can be a ittle tricky to use so recomend looking for configuration tools or the configuration file help on the MRTG website. On the plus side it will create 5 real-time graphs updated every x minutes for each variable you monitor, going all the way back to daily averages for the year. It works on windows xp and is easily migratable because it is written in PERL.
It doesnt take a genius to think that who actually needs optics? As said earlier in the article t will cost about 10X as much to wire optics insted of copper. The company i worked for did CAT6 points for about £35 each. When you want fiberoptics and it going to flood wire a building the cost will be totally unjustifyable. Why spend £350 per point when you can spend £35 and have the job done just as well just not as fast and for 99/100 businesses this will be more that fast enough to spread around that email that says there is cake in the kitchen.
I agree i dont understand why anyone would want to use a laptop as a gaming machine. Especially when you can buy a tower of twice the spec for half the price. Not to mention the laptop keyboards with the most abnormal positioning of specal keys.
I find a good air circurlation in the room is mandetory and the easiest way to achive this is to open a window and put the laptop next to it. Secondly DO NOT USE YOUR LAPTOP ON YOUR LAP ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE A MAN! Infertility has been linked to prolonged use of laptops on your lap and also creates unnecessary recirculated heat. Use a table, we are all slashdotters but we all have a right to start a family. and last but not least what the parent thread said.
The fact is that Windows Vista or otherwise is still much more suited for the end user. It may have those really anoying paperclips and wizards that popup whenever you least expect them but most people at the company I worked for loves them. They piss us administrators off but they do help us out with training and allsorts. However much i'd like to see linux on the end users computer its not going to happen on the release of vista people are more likly going to stay with XP or 2000 as the case may be. The truth IMO is that it is only 90% of the way, the apps are imaculate and as soon as there is better documentation written for all these linux apps for the end user and not a technical wiki adoption will start.
And don't forget to mention the amount of re-training that you'd need to do. Not that KDE/GNOME is that much different for the end-user than the the windows GUI but certain mission critical apps WILL be different from what the nontech people use currently. Unless ofcourse it is webbased in which case is compatable with all browsers?
You could always use wine but it can be shaky and its a different story.
"Some time in the future, smart stoves might be susceptible to hacking"
Might?!?! 99% of everything to do with computers is hackable i'd say its more or less certain they could be. Depending ofcourse on what the function of the ethernet cable is for.
"...fucking the country until it can't respond to a simple natural disaster..." This leads me to remember sombody saying "...If a country cannot respond to a simple natural disaster how the hell will they cope when there is another terrorist attack..."
You are saying that one or two nukes for any country should be enough. Clearly not for america or Russia. If i can draw your attention to Here, America have the second largest nuclar arsenal in the world only second to the Russians. "believed to consist of between 21,000-40,000 warheads (2001 Estimate). Even using the lowest estimates of the Russian nuclear arsenal, the Russians currently possess an arsenal consisting of at least three times as many nuclear warheads as the United States."
Just the American arsenal alone is enough to blow up the world 800 times over (no reference its from my bad memory (however prove me wrong)). And to add a nother sence of fear as one grows the other grows too. Face it neither country is going to surrender their right to stockpile nuclar WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION (notice the hyppicrtical emphesis) and now the US has a way to fire off nukes without any concent a hell of a lot of people are going to die by nukes. Im not saying in 6 month or even a year but in the next 40 years somthing is going to go horribly wrong. "Maby they could start with Redmond."
What difference will it make? IMO It's bullying thats makes children go nuts and take guns to school. For example i have been playing games like gta since it was released, I have played games, duke nukem, doom, quake. And in all this time i have never tried to or even wanted to steal a car, get a gun not to mention shoot anybody.
I can sort of understand the right to censorship but a game is a game and what bush is doing is very very real... Let me ask you... whats worse?
Creading a vehicle conversion service is a great idea. As yet I have not heard of any that exist. You may have stumbled on a mulit million pound business venture. I am not sure however if there are any patents or anything sililar stoping people from 1)creating a hybrid car, or... 2)Converting a car to a Hybrid model.
Can you not see that this is exactly what their doing but in the wrong way. To make the OS easeier to use for the average end user things need to be S P A C E D out, clear and easy to understand. Even if they dont have a clue what a DHCP server is. Then with this great leap forward in technological mastery they feel the need to compile a MAHOOSIVE amount of images in to those poor little dll files includig but not limited to beta logos, seventeen different versions of an icon that hasnt been used since windows 3.1 (for playgroups).
And what do you get after all this? an unnecesserely big piece of software that the end user still cant use without constant supervision complete with features that just PISS ME OFF!!! YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE.
When i was about 15 i stumbled apun one of these geocaching boxes when i was in my local woods with a friend.
It completly shocked us at first it was an ammobox with geocacache written on the side under a dead tree. We didnt know what to knink of it at first. I thought it was somthing to do with the GPS system so at first we were reluctant to open it. However after much debate we opened it and its like a treasurechest. People leave some really cool stuff in ther from time to time. As so we didnt ruin the game we signed the book explaining how we came about the box and swaped some stuff that was availible. From what i remember there were some small orniments, old train tickets, a bottle of liqor, some stickers, a copy of suse linux and some other goodies. It seemed like a really fun thing to do so i read the letter explaining what geocaching was all about and i was facinated. Since that day about 5 years ago i have wanted to get a GPS reciever but i havent been able to afford one as yet. I had actually forgotten about it since then and after seeing this article had reminded me what it was. Now that i have some money saved and a lot of student time on my hands i may get a GPS reciever to play along.
In summery Geocaching looks as if it could be great fun for either an individual, group of friends or even a family and it is also a great excuse to get some excercise and fresh air.
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Firstly why is an IT manager proposing to firewall a city that isnt going to protect any end users, Probably not going to filter that much incoming traffic. TBH my intrest wouldnt be in firewalling the entire city rather just firewalling the computers that need to be protected e.g. govornment data and leaving end user firewalling to the end user. Even then i wouldnt have a single windows based firewall i agree with previous posts i'd get dual Watchguard x1000's (graciously dubed the 'x box' by my work) with the same config and 1 for failover. and it'd probably come to less overall.
Most technology is inherently insecure. := Evil (apparently), Personally i call it fun
Of course their comptible they work on the Datalink layer which is before IP even cpme in to it.
In short if it aint broke dont fix it.
Im late for a meeting..... Just another way for paperjams to screw you over.
Comparing Microsoft to Goliath and S.Korea to David...
1) Throw a slingshot ($32 Million)
2) Hit them where it hurts (pockets dont hurt)
3) ???
4) History is rewritten
Regardless Linux is still a product and every product has to go through extensive quality control testing. True laughing in their face does sound a bit harsh however consider it a metaphor. he has to draw the line somwhere and its not like the code will never get in to a constantly evolving kernel.
I am not sure if this is entirely what you are looking for but MRTG is an open source SNMP monitor. It may work in your situation if the logger supports snmp. It can be a ittle tricky to use so recomend looking for configuration tools or the configuration file help on the MRTG website. On the plus side it will create 5 real-time graphs updated every x minutes for each variable you monitor, going all the way back to daily averages for the year. It works on windows xp and is easily migratable because it is written in PERL.
Enjoy and i hope it works
It doesnt take a genius to think that who actually needs optics? As said earlier in the article t will cost about 10X as much to wire optics insted of copper. The company i worked for did CAT6 points for about £35 each. When you want fiberoptics and it going to flood wire a building the cost will be totally unjustifyable. Why spend £350 per point when you can spend £35 and have the job done just as well just not as fast and for 99/100 businesses this will be more that fast enough to spread around that email that says there is cake in the kitchen.
The anoying thing is that the profit hit that the company as a whole will take would be like scratching a diamond with a toothpick.
I agree i dont understand why anyone would want to use a laptop as a gaming machine. Especially when you can buy a tower of twice the spec for half the price. Not to mention the laptop keyboards with the most abnormal positioning of specal keys.
I find a good air circurlation in the room is mandetory and the easiest way to achive this is to open a window and put the laptop next to it. Secondly DO NOT USE YOUR LAPTOP ON YOUR LAP ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE A MAN! Infertility has been linked to prolonged use of laptops on your lap and also creates unnecessary recirculated heat. Use a table, we are all slashdotters but we all have a right to start a family. and last but not least what the parent thread said.
maby so but the electricity wasnt running through him but he was chaged at 40,000, Like a battery the ampage was probably 0.001.
The fact is that Windows Vista or otherwise is still much more suited for the end user. It may have those really anoying paperclips and wizards that popup whenever you least expect them but most people at the company I worked for loves them. They piss us administrators off but they do help us out with training and allsorts. However much i'd like to see linux on the end users computer its not going to happen on the release of vista people are more likly going to stay with XP or 2000 as the case may be. The truth IMO is that it is only 90% of the way, the apps are imaculate and as soon as there is better documentation written for all these linux apps for the end user and not a technical wiki adoption will start.
And don't forget to mention the amount of re-training that you'd need to do. Not that KDE/GNOME is that much different for the end-user than the the windows GUI but certain mission critical apps WILL be different from what the nontech people use currently. Unless ofcourse it is webbased in which case is compatable with all browsers?
You could always use wine but it can be shaky and its a different story.
Good luck with whatever you do!
"Some time in the future, smart stoves might be susceptible to hacking"
Might?!?! 99% of everything to do with computers is hackable i'd say its more or less certain they could be. Depending ofcourse on what the function of the ethernet cable is for.
"...fucking the country until it can't respond to a simple natural disaster..."
This leads me to remember sombody saying
"...If a country cannot respond to a simple natural disaster how the hell will they cope when there is another terrorist attack..."
You are saying that one or two nukes for any country should be enough. Clearly not for america or Russia. If i can draw your attention to Here, America have the second largest nuclar arsenal in the world only second to the Russians.
"believed to consist of between 21,000-40,000 warheads (2001 Estimate). Even using the lowest estimates of the Russian nuclear arsenal, the Russians currently possess an arsenal consisting of at least three times as many nuclear warheads as the United States."
Just the American arsenal alone is enough to blow up the world 800 times over (no reference its from my bad memory (however prove me wrong)). And to add a nother sence of fear as one grows the other grows too. Face it neither country is going to surrender their right to stockpile nuclar WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION (notice the hyppicrtical emphesis) and now the US has a way to fire off nukes without any concent a hell of a lot of people are going to die by nukes. Im not saying in 6 month or even a year but in the next 40 years somthing is going to go horribly wrong. "Maby they could start with Redmond."
What difference will it make? IMO It's bullying thats makes children go nuts and take guns to school.
For example i have been playing games like gta since it was released, I have played games, duke nukem, doom, quake. And in all this time i have never tried to or even wanted to steal a car, get a gun not to mention shoot anybody.
I can sort of understand the right to censorship but a game is a game and what bush is doing is very very real...
Let me ask you... whats worse?
Boy i'd hate to be in those IT manager shoes.
How would he post them to wikipedia if their currently on paper? Surely he would have to scan them to send them.
Creading a vehicle conversion service is a great idea. As yet I have not heard of any that exist.
You may have stumbled on a mulit million pound business venture. I am not sure however if there are any patents or anything sililar stoping people from
1)creating a hybrid car, or...
2)Converting a car to a Hybrid model.
Its a good thing there arent solar flares disrupting communications at the moment. Oh wait there are.
My sympathy goes out to the victims.
But all those bacteria still dont protect you against worms.
Can you not see that this is exactly what their doing but in the wrong way.
To make the OS easeier to use for the average end user things need to be S P A C E D out, clear and easy to understand. Even if they dont have a clue what a DHCP server is. Then with this great leap forward in technological mastery they feel the need to compile a MAHOOSIVE amount of images in to those poor little dll files includig but not limited to beta logos, seventeen different versions of an icon that hasnt been used since windows 3.1 (for playgroups).
And what do you get after all this? an unnecesserely big piece of software that the end user still cant use without constant supervision complete with features that just PISS ME OFF!!! YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE.
Also will this change the was Biniary and Hex are translated in to decimel?
When i was about 15 i stumbled apun one of these geocaching boxes when i was in my local woods with a friend.
It completly shocked us at first it was an ammobox with geocacache written on the side under a dead tree. We didnt know what to knink of it at first. I thought it was somthing to do with the GPS system so at first we were reluctant to open it. However after much debate we opened it and its like a treasurechest. People leave some really cool stuff in ther from time to time. As so we didnt ruin the game we signed the book explaining how we came about the box and swaped some stuff that was availible. From what i remember there were some small orniments, old train tickets, a bottle of liqor, some stickers, a copy of suse linux and some other goodies. It seemed like a really fun thing to do so i read the letter explaining what geocaching was all about and i was facinated. Since that day about 5 years ago i have wanted to get a GPS reciever but i havent been able to afford one as yet. I had actually forgotten about it since then and after seeing this article had reminded me what it was. Now that i have some money saved and a lot of student time on my hands i may get a GPS reciever to play along.
In summery Geocaching looks as if it could be great fun for either an individual, group of friends or even a family and it is also a great excuse to get some excercise and fresh air.