Then I would recommend contacting a CD factory. Burning so many CDs is costly and slow. You will be surprised by the price of CD reproduction... Of course there are initial setup costs, but the price per CD is very low.
Usually the difficulty is in forecasting the number of CDs required. You can burn 2000 CDs ahead of time, but what if only 200 people turn up? Then you are left with 1800 useless discs (after 2 or 3 months, nobody wants to have them as they are outdated).
On the local computer show, the usergroup usually has Linux CDs to hand out to members and to sell to the general public for something like 1 Euro. They just have them printed at a CD factory, no messing with burning. And cheaper as well.
>Cisco still wins on speed when all you're doing is routing, and in many other situations, but the firewall isn't that impressive.
All but the high-end Cisco boxes are very short of central processor power. Look at boxes in the 1700, 2600 and 3700 lines. They need additional co-processor cards to help with tasks like encryption and compression, where a PC could perform these easily without any help.
And when you need only little bandwidth but need a nontrivial amount of interfaces, you are forced to buy quite a large box. (the 1700 series accomodates only 2 interfaces, and on the 2600 series there is the possibility of 4 interfaces but only for Voice, not for Data. so very quickly you will need a 3725, for applications where a PC could still easlily handle the load)
Actually I think that keeping everything as monolytic as it is now is finally going to kill Cisco. You have to select an IOS version that includes all the features you need, fits in the memory you have, and does not have any of the bugs that are blocking to you. This is becoming increasingly difficult. A more modular approach (a base kernel with drivers and features loaded as modules) will be required to be able to move forward without keeping all that archaic stuff forever.
We block all executable attachments, zip (etc) attachments containing executables, and password-protected zips. Additionally we check for known viruses.
No virus has made it past that check yet, even when the "known virus" check did not yet identify it. (re-scanning the captured mail a day later would identify a new version of one of the wellknown viruses)
When you think that is true, you really have not seen any of the original BASIC.
Sure, many derivatives of the language has been created and some of them resemble the languages you name, but the original BASIC structure and syntax was very different.
Yes we have such a tax in the Netherlands, also for consumers. When you buy a household appliance there is a fixed tax for each type of appliance (fridge, tv, radio, computer, whatever) that is paid. Of course it just goes on the big pile of the state budget, it is unclear what this is really spent on. (just as road tax, gas tax, sigarette tax, etc)
But, every city has one or more waste recycling facilities where you bring your old stuff and it is neatly separated in many different portions, electronics/computers being one of them. For consumer use and small amounts this is "free" (paid from taxes), but when you want to dump a large amount of monitors or computers there is an extra charge for that.
Over the interval you are considering, harddisk speeds have increased by about 200 times. That may be not as much as processor speed, but it can't be ignored either.
I noticed the "kelkoo problem" too. I wonder if they pay to get these results, or if this is just a confusion of Google caused by the fact that kelkoo has similar sites in many different domains that all link to eachother. So, Google thinks there are lots of links to a certain page and thus gives a high ranking.
Remember that Linux included another method to achieve the same thing (and more): UMSDOS. It was introduced in early 1994, a year and a half before the introduction of Windows 95.
>Quantum crypto in this sense is mostly a nonissue, because of the limited range.
I think even worse is that it is limited to point-to-point communication. Such communications already are fairly easy to secure.
The challenge comes in once you try to encrypt traffice destined for multiple parties but not to be readable by everyone. E.g. encrypted broadcasts that are only to be decoded by subscribers to the service. This has been proven to be quite hard. Especially when there is no return channel from the subscribers.
This is like saying that keylocks work well in a bank, but will never be workable in normal life. People will lose keys, will find it uncomfortable to carry keyrings, etc.
Sure there is some truth in that, but as more and more people don't respect other people's property, keylocks have become a necessity and have to be lived with, no matter the discomfort.
To install new software, users (except the totally clueless) log in as an administrative user, or even choose to run the setup program as an administrative user while being logged in as an unprivileged user.
Unfortunately, the default distribution of Windows is not setup this way, and is even discouraging it (especially in the Home version).
IE's exe file is not very relevant, as it is only a loader for the DLLs that implement the actual functionality.
How else could it be so small?
To really get rid of IE you need to remove the DLL files that it uses, and you will break many other programs in the process. Because they all closely link to eachother.
You must not have bought disks for *years*!! The low-end server that arrived last month is reading over 500Mbit/s from its disks. A faster system, maybe with RAID, would do well over that.
There always is a risk that first generations of such environmentally-friendly products have some kind of malfunction, and need to be returned and replaced. This has happened in several cases, including in the semiconductor industry. Probably the dump of failed environmentally-friendly but useless products damages the environment more than the originally replaced product.
I would wait for the second generation of such a processor before buying it myself or recommending to buy a lot of them at work. For me, the amount of lead that could be in a single processor and could be saved in the next, is not worth the risk of having it fail.
I use tethereal, which is similar in functionality to tcpdump. A big advantage compared to some pretty packages I have seen, is that you can look at things in realtime. For simple problems this is much more convenient than setting up a capture, taking a snapshot in the blind, and then analyzing the data afterwards.
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Then I would recommend contacting a CD factory.
Burning so many CDs is costly and slow. You will be surprised by the price of CD reproduction...
Of course there are initial setup costs, but the price per CD is very low.
Usually the difficulty is in forecasting the number of CDs required.
You can burn 2000 CDs ahead of time, but what if only 200 people turn up? Then you are left with 1800 useless discs (after 2 or 3 months, nobody wants to have them as they are outdated).
On the local computer show, the usergroup usually has Linux CDs to hand out to members and to sell to the general public for something like 1 Euro.
They just have them printed at a CD factory, no messing with burning. And cheaper as well.
But how many to order, that is the big question.
"Every security alert or audit contains the IP of the person that caused the event"
That sure is impressive!
I did not even know a person had an IP.
Or do they mean "Intellectual Property"???
>Cisco still wins on speed when all you're doing is routing, and in many other situations, but the firewall isn't that impressive.
All but the high-end Cisco boxes are very short of central processor power. Look at boxes in the 1700, 2600 and 3700 lines. They need additional co-processor cards to help with tasks like encryption and compression, where a PC could perform these easily without any help.
And when you need only little bandwidth but need a nontrivial amount of interfaces, you are forced to buy quite a large box. (the 1700 series accomodates only 2 interfaces, and on the 2600 series there is the possibility of 4 interfaces but only for Voice, not for Data. so very quickly you will need a 3725, for applications where a PC could still easlily handle the load)
Actually I think that keeping everything as monolytic as it is now is finally going to kill Cisco.
You have to select an IOS version that includes all the features you need, fits in the memory you have, and does not have any of the bugs that are blocking to you. This is becoming increasingly difficult.
A more modular approach (a base kernel with drivers and features loaded as modules) will be required to be able to move forward without keeping all that archaic stuff forever.
We block all executable attachments, zip (etc) attachments containing executables, and password-protected zips.
Additionally we check for known viruses.
No virus has made it past that check yet, even when the "known virus" check did not yet identify it.
(re-scanning the captured mail a day later would identify a new version of one of the wellknown viruses)
It does not need to be a worm, it can be a central system that patches systems as it likes and does not propagate.
In fact it could be run by an ISP on its own address ranges. The legal base for it could be in the terms of use.
When you think that is true, you really have not seen any of the original BASIC.
Sure, many derivatives of the language has been created and some of them resemble the languages you name, but the original BASIC structure and syntax was very different.
Yes we have such a tax in the Netherlands, also for consumers. When you buy a household appliance there is a fixed tax for each type of appliance (fridge, tv, radio, computer, whatever) that is paid.
Of course it just goes on the big pile of the state budget, it is unclear what this is really spent on.
(just as road tax, gas tax, sigarette tax, etc)
But, every city has one or more waste recycling facilities where you bring your old stuff and it is neatly separated in many different portions, electronics/computers being one of them.
For consumer use and small amounts this is "free" (paid from taxes), but when you want to dump a large amount of monitors or computers there is an extra charge for that.
Over the interval you are considering, harddisk speeds have increased by about 200 times.
That may be not as much as processor speed, but it can't be ignored either.
When an American writes "there are only five companies that..." he really means: "there are only five companies IN THE USA that...".
I noticed the "kelkoo problem" too.
I wonder if they pay to get these results, or if this is just a confusion of Google caused by the fact that kelkoo has similar sites in many different domains that all link to eachother.
So, Google thinks there are lots of links to a certain page and thus gives a high ranking.
There exist other countries outside the US, that have a legal system.
419 is a Nigerian penal code number.
Remember that Linux included another method to achieve the same thing (and more): UMSDOS.
It was introduced in early 1994, a year and a half before the introduction of Windows 95.
>Quantum crypto in this sense is mostly a nonissue, because of the limited range.
I think even worse is that it is limited to point-to-point communication. Such communications already are fairly easy to secure.
The challenge comes in once you try to encrypt traffice destined for multiple parties but not to be readable by everyone. E.g. encrypted broadcasts that are only to be decoded by subscribers to the service.
This has been proven to be quite hard. Especially when there is no return channel from the subscribers.
This is like saying that keylocks work well in a bank, but will never be workable in normal life. People will lose keys, will find it uncomfortable to carry keyrings, etc.
Sure there is some truth in that, but as more and more people don't respect other people's property, keylocks have become a necessity and have to be lived with, no matter the discomfort.
The same is now happening with software security.
PXE is not only network boot.
PXE is a complete environment that allows remote access to and management of the machine.
To install new software, users (except the totally clueless) log in as an administrative user, or even choose to run the setup program as an administrative user while being logged in as an unprivileged user.
Unfortunately, the default distribution of Windows is not setup this way, and is even discouraging it (especially in the Home version).
IE's exe file is not very relevant, as it is only a loader for the DLLs that implement the actual functionality.
How else could it be so small?
To really get rid of IE you need to remove the DLL files that it uses, and you will break many other programs in the process. Because they all closely link to eachother.
While you were sleeping, the PCI bus went from 33 to 66 MHz and from 32 to 64 bits.
Many other network cards with hardware checksumming support also exist.
Systems with TCP/IP in the BIOS have been shipping for years!
Check if your system offers PXE network boot.
You must not have bought disks for *years*!!
The low-end server that arrived last month is reading over 500Mbit/s from its disks.
A faster system, maybe with RAID, would do well over that.
Are you sure? I have seen gigabit ethernet cards for the PC for less than $20.
Many systems have onboard gigabit ethernet today.
The costliest item usually is the switch. But prices will come down.
There always is a risk that first generations of such environmentally-friendly products have some kind of malfunction, and need to be returned and replaced. This has happened in several cases, including in the semiconductor industry.
Probably the dump of failed environmentally-friendly but useless products damages the environment more than the originally replaced product.
I would wait for the second generation of such a processor before buying it myself or recommending to buy a lot of them at work. For me, the amount of lead that could be in a single processor and could be saved in the next, is not worth the risk of having it fail.
I use tethereal, which is similar in functionality to tcpdump.
A big advantage compared to some pretty packages I have seen, is that you can look at things in realtime. For simple problems this is much more convenient than setting up a capture, taking a snapshot in the blind, and then analyzing the data afterwards.