The only reason I use Xohm is because I refuse to give any of my money to Comcast or Verizon; I think that's a pretty reasonable decision and does not make me a dummy. That being said, I do get minimum 120ms latencies to anywhere, and that does suck sometimes.
I couldn't agree more; BackupPC is really great. Not only does it support Tar over SSH and SMB, but it also supports rsync over SSH, rsyncd and now in the new beta, FTP. I backup everything to a NAS and then rsync that every weekend to another DR disk (you have to be careful about hardlinks when copying the pool, since it uses them in the de-duplication process). There are several variants of scripts available on the wiki and other sites for initiating shadow copies on Windows boxes, and with a little tinkering you can even get that working on Server 2008, though of course it really shines with *nix boxes. Highly recommended - the only drawbacks are that, as the parent mentioned, the learning curve can be intimidating at first, and the project has been pretty quiet the past few years since the original developer stopped working on it. Amanda (the MySQL backup company) seems to have picked it back up and they are the ones who released the most recent beta. Did I mention it has a really convenient web interface, emails about problems, auto-retries failed backups (while it's not in a blackout period), and somebody wrote a great Nagios plugin for it? I'm pretty sure I did, oh yes definitely.
I used OpenOffice for 7 years of college and had zero issues, and probably about 75% of submission had to be in electronic form. What do you use Word for that you can't use Wordpad.exe for? Why can't you do the formatting in Mediawiki and then export to PDF?
On my school campus
Ok, it's pretty easy to see why you don't understand why email is still (unfortunately) relevant, but give it a couple years in a corporate or medium business; none of the services you mention have even half the features of email.
Word is still instruemental
Oh if only you had used Word (or Firefox, or OpenOffice) to compose this message it would have been spell checked!
What? What if they do some kind of heavy duty number crunching and he's talking about his Beowulf cluster? What if they're a small, high-priced CGI company and they have three render farms of 10 boxes each and ten regular servers? What if they're a web hosting company and those are the hosts?
I don't know of anyplace in the U.S where the speed limit is posted in minimums for that matter either.
I live in Baltimore, and I'm about to hop on I-83 to get to work, which has a 40mph minimum and a 50 mph maximum. As in there are signs that say "Minimum speed 40mph"
Blackberries on BES offer enterprise features simply unheard of with Winmobile or iphone devices.
Maybe unheard of to you. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb123484.aspx I count well over 100 group policy settings that can be applied through Activesync to a Windows Mobile 6.1 device. Some of these actually do work on an iPhone as well, such as the password and phone lock policies.
Windows mobile only recently got the much needed security features such as remote device deactivation and wiping.
Uh... because when you're getting wrecked by those goddamn green hopping jerk bug things, you can't press "start," type in "Justin Bailey," kill them, turn the cheat off and then continue on.
For that matter, Contra also had a cheat built-in. Or does that one "not count" too?
Correct, it does not count. You can only activate it at the very beginning of the game, just like with Justin Bailey; you can't turn it on, pass a hard part, and then turn it off. That's what the summary is talking about.
Once the VPN is connected, for all intents and purposes the equipment on both ends of the line are on the same LAN
You're missing the point, which is that whether or not you're connected to the VPN, chances are good that your browser stores some credential information. If you're on a LAN that's the same subnet as your VPN endpoint, then once you disconnect, a malicious local user would be able to coax your browser to give up cookies about the VPN-accessed pages. Your browser uses IP addresses to associate a cookie with a host, which is what makes this possible, and explains why the certificate model of HTTPS on the corporate Intranet foils this attack.
First of all, any good VPN client allows the admin to prevent that (i.e., I don't consider the built in Windows PPTP client to be an example of a "good client"). However, that being said, for almost any circumstance I'm pretty confident the number of users who would know to do that would be 1%.
I think the unspoken point of the article you seem to be missing is that, out of the meltdown of the global finanacial infrastructure, maybe this is not the time to screw up something that is actually doing fine the way it is.
If the US did not have control of DNS then would the arguments convince anyone to hand the control to the US? No.
Let's continue this conversation in a parallel universe, where the Internet did not arise out of US government and educational institutions.
This will probably mean taking their existing product and hacking together, or aquiring, enough other functions to make it qualify.
Watchguard's been doing that since 1996! I really do like the Firebox Core after using it for a year or two, but man, you can tell that they've taken work from multiple unrelated development projects and strung them all together with a "manager" that simply launches bulky, inconsistently designed apps which then in turn launch more inconsistent smaller apps. Great feature set and very fast, though, once you get past the decent learning curve and annoying support contracts.
As I sit in my 130 year old studio apartment, I can safely say that I'll only consider Baltimore a city of the future when I get more than 200kb/s upload speeds and less than 130ms ISP gateway pings on my city-wide, 4G, futuristic-looking Xohm modem.
You are referring to what is known as "Split Tunneling;" which is a legitimate, albeit less secure, VPN configuration. Basically when split tunneling is enabled the client workstation's default gateway is still it's local gateway and DNS requests get routed by the client to the appropriate DNS server, whereas in a non-split tunnel the default gateway is the remote gateway (which obviously has no way of routing to the local network) and all DNS requests go encrypted through that. There are several reasons someone would want to do this:
You need people to access their local printers/network resources and don't have some kind of pass-through ability
You have limited bandwidth at your remote site and cannot handle the Internet usage that would be NATed through
Your gateway does not support NAT on VPN tunnels and your clients need Internet access
You don't realize what you're doing
Either way, what I do when I have some kind of weird situation where a user needs to change their TCP/IP config routinely is just put a couple shortcuts with pretty icons on their desktop that point to batch scripts that run a netsh script. You should be able to completely change an IP configuration on a Windows box with this utility, the user just runs "home.bat" when they're home and then "office.bat" when in the office. A Google for "netsh exec" should give enough info to get started.
Alright, fair enough; reading back it's clear I did interpret much more than what you actually said in your comment, and I was incorrect and kinda a dick about it. I apologize.
In 1999 he didn't know what an mp3 was either. I'm not implying that somehow ISOs are going to become as popular as mp3s, however once the OS know what they are, the user doesn't even see.iso, he just sees Ubuntu_Live_CD and when he clicks it it says "Please insert a blank CD." The original comment was talking about someone not going back to XP, then below was the same poster saying a user's never going to jump to Linux. I'm just saying that with Windows 7, saying that the user does not know what or how to use an ISO file is entirely irrelevant - they click download and when it's done Windows asks them to insert a blank CD. I would hate to work with you guys, sure some users really don't care and make a point to not learn a single thing about computers, but most would find your attitude insulting and demeaning.
Windows 7 does burn ISOs out of the box, just click on a.iso file and it will open a wizard. If you don't have Windows 7 there are pretty detailed instructions with links on the Ubuntu website at the download page, which I'm pretty sure you can reach with a single click at the top of their homepage. We're talking about Joe User, not Joe Illiteratemonkey, right?
At first I read "Bacteria Could Help Stop Decertification," and I was intrigued at how bacteria could possibly have anything to do with PKI or SSL. Not that the actual topic is any less interesting...
Mouse to the bottom right-hand corner of the screen -> click once to show all gadgets/desktop, or hover to glass all windows and show gadgets/desktop. Or press WInkey+D. Or Alt-Tab to the desktop. I understand what you're saying, and I certainly have no way of know what your usage habits are, but for me having that sidebar up all the time seems like a huge waste of space when they could just as easily be placed on the desktop.
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Yep, that did happen, but in South Africa, not Germany.
OK so maybe some aspects of the game are more plausible than others.
The only reason I use Xohm is because I refuse to give any of my money to Comcast or Verizon; I think that's a pretty reasonable decision and does not make me a dummy. That being said, I do get minimum 120ms latencies to anywhere, and that does suck sometimes.
I couldn't agree more; BackupPC is really great. Not only does it support Tar over SSH and SMB, but it also supports rsync over SSH, rsyncd and now in the new beta, FTP. I backup everything to a NAS and then rsync that every weekend to another DR disk (you have to be careful about hardlinks when copying the pool, since it uses them in the de-duplication process). There are several variants of scripts available on the wiki and other sites for initiating shadow copies on Windows boxes, and with a little tinkering you can even get that working on Server 2008, though of course it really shines with *nix boxes. Highly recommended - the only drawbacks are that, as the parent mentioned, the learning curve can be intimidating at first, and the project has been pretty quiet the past few years since the original developer stopped working on it. Amanda (the MySQL backup company) seems to have picked it back up and they are the ones who released the most recent beta. Did I mention it has a really convenient web interface, emails about problems, auto-retries failed backups (while it's not in a blackout period), and somebody wrote a great Nagios plugin for it? I'm pretty sure I did, oh yes definitely.
Ok, it's pretty easy to see why you don't understand why email is still (unfortunately) relevant, but give it a couple years in a corporate or medium business; none of the services you mention have even half the features of email.
Oh if only you had used Word (or Firefox, or OpenOffice) to compose this message it would have been spell checked!
I mean, I guess that's how we all feel about Windows ME. Right? Totally.
What? What if they do some kind of heavy duty number crunching and he's talking about his Beowulf cluster? What if they're a small, high-priced CGI company and they have three render farms of 10 boxes each and ten regular servers? What if they're a web hosting company and those are the hosts?
I don't know of anyplace in the U.S where the speed limit is posted in minimums for that matter either.
I live in Baltimore, and I'm about to hop on I-83 to get to work, which has a 40mph minimum and a 50 mph maximum. As in there are signs that say "Minimum speed 40mph"
Blackberries on BES offer enterprise features simply unheard of with Winmobile or iphone devices.
Maybe unheard of to you. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb123484.aspx I count well over 100 group policy settings that can be applied through Activesync to a Windows Mobile 6.1 device. Some of these actually do work on an iPhone as well, such as the password and phone lock policies.
Windows mobile only recently got the much needed security features such as remote device deactivation and wiping.
Windows Mobile + Exchange 2003/2007 have had this functionality since 2005 at the release of Exchange 2003 SP2 http://www.microsoft.com/DOWNLOADS/details.aspx?familyid=535BEF85-3096-45F8-AA43-60F1F58B3C40&displaylang=en. It even works on an iPhone. I'd hardly call 2005 "recent" in the IT world.
Why, exactly, shouldn't it?
Uh... because when you're getting wrecked by those goddamn green hopping jerk bug things, you can't press "start," type in "Justin Bailey," kill them, turn the cheat off and then continue on.
For that matter, Contra also had a cheat built-in. Or does that one "not count" too?
Correct, it does not count. You can only activate it at the very beginning of the game, just like with Justin Bailey; you can't turn it on, pass a hard part, and then turn it off. That's what the summary is talking about.
Once the VPN is connected, for all intents and purposes the equipment on both ends of the line are on the same LAN
You're missing the point, which is that whether or not you're connected to the VPN, chances are good that your browser stores some credential information. If you're on a LAN that's the same subnet as your VPN endpoint, then once you disconnect, a malicious local user would be able to coax your browser to give up cookies about the VPN-accessed pages. Your browser uses IP addresses to associate a cookie with a host, which is what makes this possible, and explains why the certificate model of HTTPS on the corporate Intranet foils this attack.
First of all, any good VPN client allows the admin to prevent that (i.e., I don't consider the built in Windows PPTP client to be an example of a "good client"). However, that being said, for almost any circumstance I'm pretty confident the number of users who would know to do that would be 1%.
Check out some videos of falling, pouring, splashing and babbling water simulations. (computed on a Linux cluster).
Yes but does it run on a beow... oh. Sweet.
If the US did not have control of DNS then would the arguments convince anyone to hand the control to the US? No.
Let's continue this conversation in a parallel universe, where the Internet did not arise out of US government and educational institutions.
This will probably mean taking their existing product and hacking together, or aquiring, enough other functions to make it qualify.
Watchguard's been doing that since 1996! I really do like the Firebox Core after using it for a year or two, but man, you can tell that they've taken work from multiple unrelated development projects and strung them all together with a "manager" that simply launches bulky, inconsistently designed apps which then in turn launch more inconsistent smaller apps. Great feature set and very fast, though, once you get past the decent learning curve and annoying support contracts.
As I sit in my 130 year old studio apartment, I can safely say that I'll only consider Baltimore a city of the future when I get more than 200kb/s upload speeds and less than 130ms ISP gateway pings on my city-wide, 4G, futuristic-looking Xohm modem.
Either way, what I do when I have some kind of weird situation where a user needs to change their TCP/IP config routinely is just put a couple shortcuts with pretty icons on their desktop that point to batch scripts that run a netsh script. You should be able to completely change an IP configuration on a Windows box with this utility, the user just runs "home.bat" when they're home and then "office.bat" when in the office. A Google for "netsh exec" should give enough info to get started.
Alright, fair enough; reading back it's clear I did interpret much more than what you actually said in your comment, and I was incorrect and kinda a dick about it. I apologize.
Oracle owns Sun, which is the parent of OpenOffice. You never noticed the OpenOffice options when you do a Java update?
Look at the OP. We're talking about OEM PCs that will be shipping with Windows 7.
In 1999 he didn't know what an mp3 was either. I'm not implying that somehow ISOs are going to become as popular as mp3s, however once the OS know what they are, the user doesn't even see .iso, he just sees Ubuntu_Live_CD and when he clicks it it says "Please insert a blank CD." The original comment was talking about someone not going back to XP, then below was the same poster saying a user's never going to jump to Linux. I'm just saying that with Windows 7, saying that the user does not know what or how to use an ISO file is entirely irrelevant - they click download and when it's done Windows asks them to insert a blank CD. I would hate to work with you guys, sure some users really don't care and make a point to not learn a single thing about computers, but most would find your attitude insulting and demeaning.
Windows 7 does burn ISOs out of the box, just click on a .iso file and it will open a wizard. If you don't have Windows 7 there are pretty detailed instructions with links on the Ubuntu website at the download page, which I'm pretty sure you can reach with a single click at the top of their homepage. We're talking about Joe User, not Joe Illiteratemonkey, right?
At first I read "Bacteria Could Help Stop Decertification," and I was intrigued at how bacteria could possibly have anything to do with PKI or SSL. Not that the actual topic is any less interesting...
Mouse to the bottom right-hand corner of the screen -> click once to show all gadgets/desktop, or hover to glass all windows and show gadgets/desktop. Or press WInkey+D. Or Alt-Tab to the desktop. I understand what you're saying, and I certainly have no way of know what your usage habits are, but for me having that sidebar up all the time seems like a huge waste of space when they could just as easily be placed on the desktop.
Also, I use cats to hunt down bugs in my software.