You don't need a 2.* chip to run UT2003. I just built a tower with Athlon XP 1700+, 512 MB DDR and 128 MB Radeon 8500 and turned on all the effects and set them to highest quality. Incidentally, when I turned on the last one to highest quality the program said, "Holy Shit!":)
At 800x600 I thought I was going to convulse - the display was just too fast. 1024x768 is more playable (sane) but smooth and fast as hell. Amazing looking.
Well, if you are a Red Hat user you don't have to do anything wrong, you just have to have an older distro. Fonts in Mozilla under Red Hat 8.0 are pretty ugly unless you follow the font-deuglification howto. Then they are great.
Red Hat 8.0 seems fine to me so far, but I still want to add the ones in the article just so I have everything I might want for OpenOffice in the future.
Maybe not if you only buy one or two a year, but if you buy one hundred a year, then yes! I have lost about a dozen after 2-3 years of use. That works out to about 5%, which is not too bad.
BTW they were mostly IBM's. Maxtor has been better. I won't even buy Western Digital anymore after a friend had three die in three months.
Also, just for the record I bought a 30Gb 7200 rpm Maxtor today - 3 year warranty.
The mere thought that knowledge is criminal is patently absurd
This has always been the way of the world.
Praising science over religion was illegal.
Saying the King was wrong was illegal.
Arguing that information wants to be free is illegal.
Knowledge is power, and government - democratic or otherwise - is about control. No government wants its citizens to know everything, so some things are always going to be illegal, classified, top secret, etc, etc.
Luckily, information does want to be free, so it will be.
Agreed. MS has spent a lot of money on the xbox. They aren't just going to fold up because other companies lower the price on a competing product - that would give up too much of their investment. Check out what they would lose (from their financial highlights):
Cost of revenue was $1.54 billion or 19.9% as a percent of revenue in the second quarter, compared to $864 million or 13.2% as a percent of revenue in the second quarter of the prior year. The launch of the Xbox video game console within the December quarter of 2002 drove the large majority of the increase from the prior year's comparable quarter.
Research and development expenses in the second quarter increased 5% from the second quarter of the prior year to $1.04 billion. R&D expenses increased primarily due to higher Xbox and Windows XP headcount-related and product development costs associated with these new products. The discontinuation of goodwill amortization in accordance with SFAS 142 in fiscal 2002 partially offset the growth in headcount and development costs.
Sales and marketing expenses were $1.48 billion in the December quarter, or 19.1% of revenue, compared to $1.29 billion in the second quarter of the prior year, or 19.7% of revenue. Sales and marketing expenses as a percent of revenue decreased primarily due to the large relative increase in revenue associated with the onset of Xbox revenue.
Marge: I'll just have a cup of coffee. Bartender: Beer, it is.
Marge: No, I said "coffee". Bartender: "Beer"?
Marge: [slowly] Coff-ee. Bartender: Be-er?
Marge: C -- O -- Bartender: B -- E --
Good advice - both the sleep and accountant. My (outside) accountant is a great guy who also really knows his stuff and has saved me plenty more than he has cost.
I would also recommend regular exercise and a healthy diet. If you have a tight schedule you will benefit from the energy return you gain from staying fit. Exercise will make it even more important that you get enough rest.
I am working 40+ hours per week, going back to school three nights a week for an MBA and running a little S-Corp on the side. However, I am getting tons more done than I did in undergrad just because I am allocating my time better.
So you are saying a hiring manager should not expect their newly hired MCSE to be able to walk into a server room, look at a pile of boxes of newly ordered equipment and set it up? How does Microsoft expect it's certified engineers to manage a network if someone else has to design and build the damn thing? What about the occasional hardware problem? Does the MCSE who is supposedly earning $87K/year on average have to pick up a phone and have a hardware tech come over and swap out the components? Are system engineers supposed to point and click their way through the whole job?
Unfortunately, that has not been my experience. I have had many, many users ask such questions only to have their eyes glaze over at the explanation and then say, "Oh, ok." and walk away. Or, if I have been particularly careful to translate the explanation from the correct terms into userspeak they listen to the explanation and then promptly do the same thing that caused the error the first time.
I see your point about emailing instructions to users, but it comes down to resources. Some office locations are supported by remote admins who can't be on-site to do things and some stuff will have to be up to the user. Granted, you can script most things, but not all admins have that level of knowledge.
$400 for the test. Boot camp training ranges from #3,000-$4,000 from what I have seen. I got a package deal of CISSP boot camp and a Applied Hacking boot camp so they were $3,250 each. A friend at the CISSP boot camp said ISC2 does their own training course for $3,000.
Cisco's CSO said CISSP is worth $10,000 more per year (I don't think he meant that in a good way). Of course I'm sure he has a higher opinion of Cisco's own security certifications;)
One guy I went to boot camp with applied for the same job he had not gotten before the test, but he got the job after the test. (He wore the lapel pin to the interview). That should be some indication of what the cert is worth.
Just because the CISSP includes Law and Investigation, it does not mean infosec becomes a wing of the Legal department nor does infosec become a police force
True - what it really means is to be a CISSP you have to have three (soon 4) years verifiable experience in one or more of those fields. To pass the test, you have to know "enough" about each of them. Then you can go practice in your area of specialty, but you should only accept jobs for which you are qualified. For example, someone soming from a physical security background should not apply for a job as a PIX admin just because he passed the CISSP.
If you want a CISSP you will have to learn something about physical security. You will also have to learn about all the other parts of the CBK, including:
You need to hire someone who knows something about security, perhaps on a contract basis. If your crew can't secure your Windows box they won't be able to secure the Linux one either.
It is hard to guess how the box is compromosed without knowing more, but you might run nessus against the box on a test LAN before reconnecting it to the Internet. Enable auditing and use IDS. An IDS would be useful for determining what sort of exploits have been tried against the box and correlating IDS logs with security logs to determine how the box is compromised next time;).
If you do run Linux, run the bastille script to harden the box. Run tripwire so you can track which files change in the future. Are you running sql queries? No user input should be permitted to directly access a SQL database.
This list goes on and this is the wrong forum. Good luck.
I used to be part of a Battlezone clan called DVX and the members of this and other clans got together in Tennessee for annual LAN parties. My friend drove there from Florida.
I don't have that many friends I would drive 900 miles to see.
Thanks for saying these things so I did not have to. I have just a couple of things to add...
3) If you are on salary then you are out of luck and need to accept that 'overtime' doesn't exist. If you aren't and are payed hourly than you need to be payed for your overtime. If you aren't, then quit.
And if your work requires overtime, shouldn't you be bringing that to the attention of whomever authorizes it? If it ain't authorized, don't work it.
5) Most resonable companies will do this if you are expected to work from home alot. Again if they won't pay for it then quit.
Using VPN from home should not only mean that you are using a company-paid connection, but a company-owned asset. Of course, this also means you can't install your own software on it...
Yeah, I have to buy a TI-83 for stats. Oh well, I guess it will actually be better than my 10 year old casio programmable, but I sure loved that thing.
Control codes are the main reason that WordPerfect is so much better than Word. They are simple to read (like html tags) and they demarcate exactly where your formatting occurs - something that Word cannot do. Ever try resizing text in columns in Word?
Wow. I feel spoiled. I haven't seen an FBI warning for so long because the only movies I watch are on DVD using ogle. Come to think of it, I don't really miss those warnings...
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You don't need a 2.* chip to run UT2003. I just built a tower with Athlon XP 1700+, 512 MB DDR and 128 MB Radeon 8500 and turned on all the effects and set them to highest quality. Incidentally, when I turned on the last one to highest quality the program said, "Holy Shit!" :)
At 800x600 I thought I was going to convulse - the display was just too fast. 1024x768 is more playable (sane) but smooth and fast as hell. Amazing looking.
Well, if you are a Red Hat user you don't have to do anything wrong, you just have to have an older distro. Fonts in Mozilla under Red Hat 8.0 are pretty ugly unless you follow the font-deuglification howto. Then they are great.
Red Hat 8.0 seems fine to me so far, but I still want to add the ones in the article just so I have everything I might want for OpenOffice in the future.
Maybe not if you only buy one or two a year, but if you buy one hundred a year, then yes! I have lost about a dozen after 2-3 years of use. That works out to about 5%, which is not too bad.
BTW they were mostly IBM's. Maxtor has been better. I won't even buy Western Digital anymore after a friend had three die in three months.
Also, just for the record I bought a 30Gb 7200 rpm Maxtor today - 3 year warranty.
This has always been the way of the world.
Praising science over religion was illegal.
Saying the King was wrong was illegal.
Arguing that information wants to be free is illegal.
Knowledge is power, and government - democratic or otherwise - is about control. No government wants its citizens to know everything, so some things are always going to be illegal, classified, top secret, etc, etc.
Luckily, information does want to be free, so it will be.
I was actually hoping AOL would throw some money at the Linux gaming community that has already been established.
Marge: I'll just have a cup of coffee.
Bartender: Beer, it is.
Marge: No, I said "coffee".
Bartender: "Beer"?
Marge: [slowly] Coff-ee.
Bartender: Be-er?
Marge: C -- O --
Bartender: B -- E --
Good advice - both the sleep and accountant. My (outside) accountant is a great guy who also really knows his stuff and has saved me plenty more than he has cost.
I would also recommend regular exercise and a healthy diet. If you have a tight schedule you will benefit from the energy return you gain from staying fit. Exercise will make it even more important that you get enough rest.
I am working 40+ hours per week, going back to school three nights a week for an MBA and running a little S-Corp on the side. However, I am getting tons more done than I did in undergrad just because I am allocating my time better.
I agree - it just kills me that M$ would offer a certification that leaves people so unprepared for the job tasks they could be expected to perform.
Microsoft Certified System Engineer .
So you are saying a hiring manager should not expect their newly hired MCSE to be able to walk into a server room, look at a pile of boxes of newly ordered equipment and set it up? How does Microsoft expect it's certified engineers to manage a network if someone else has to design and build the damn thing? What about the occasional hardware problem? Does the MCSE who is supposedly earning $87K/year on average have to pick up a phone and have a hardware tech come over and swap out the components? Are system engineers supposed to point and click their way through the whole job?
Unfortunately, that has not been my experience. I have had many, many users ask such questions only to have their eyes glaze over at the explanation and then say, "Oh, ok." and walk away. Or, if I have been particularly careful to translate the explanation from the correct terms into userspeak they listen to the explanation and then promptly do the same thing that caused the error the first time.
I need some coffee...
I see your point about emailing instructions to users, but it comes down to resources. Some office locations are supported by remote admins who can't be on-site to do things and some stuff will have to be up to the user. Granted, you can script most things, but not all admins have that level of knowledge.
BTW I had the same thought about the Linux guru.
$400 for the test. Boot camp training ranges from #3,000-$4,000 from what I have seen. I got a package deal of CISSP boot camp and a Applied Hacking boot camp so they were $3,250 each. A friend at the CISSP boot camp said ISC2 does their own training course for $3,000.
;)
Cisco's CSO said CISSP is worth $10,000 more per year (I don't think he meant that in a good way). Of course I'm sure he has a higher opinion of Cisco's own security certifications
One guy I went to boot camp with applied for the same job he had not gotten before the test, but he got the job after the test. (He wore the lapel pin to the interview). That should be some indication of what the cert is worth.
Just because the CISSP includes Law and Investigation, it does not mean infosec becomes a wing of the Legal department nor does infosec become a police force
True - what it really means is to be a CISSP you have to have three (soon 4) years verifiable experience in one or more of those fields. To pass the test, you have to know "enough" about each of them. Then you can go practice in your area of specialty, but you should only accept jobs for which you are qualified. For example, someone soming from a physical security background should not apply for a job as a PIX admin just because he passed the CISSP.
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Applications & Systems Development
Business Continuity Planning
Cryptography
Law, Investigation & Ethics
Operations Security
Physical Security
Security Architecture & Models
Security Management Practices
Telecommunications, Network & Internet Security
You need to hire someone who knows something about security, perhaps on a contract basis. If your crew can't secure your Windows box they won't be able to secure the Linux one either.
;).
It is hard to guess how the box is compromosed without knowing more, but you might run nessus against the box on a test LAN before reconnecting it to the Internet. Enable auditing and use IDS. An IDS would be useful for determining what sort of exploits have been tried against the box and correlating IDS logs with security logs to determine how the box is compromised next time
If you do run Linux, run the bastille script to harden the box. Run tripwire so you can track which files change in the future. Are you running sql queries? No user input should be permitted to directly access a SQL database.
This list goes on and this is the wrong forum. Good luck.
I used to be part of a Battlezone clan called DVX and the members of this and other clans got together in Tennessee for annual LAN parties. My friend drove there from Florida.
I don't have that many friends I would drive 900 miles to see.
Thanks for saying these things so I did not have to. I have just a couple of things to add ...
...
3) If you are on salary then you are out of luck and need to accept that 'overtime' doesn't exist. If you aren't and are payed hourly than you need to be payed for your overtime. If you aren't, then quit.
And if your work requires overtime, shouldn't you be bringing that to the attention of whomever authorizes it? If it ain't authorized, don't work it.
5) Most resonable companies will do this if you are expected to work from home alot. Again if they won't pay for it then quit.
Using VPN from home should not only mean that you are using a company-paid connection, but a company-owned asset. Of course, this also means you can't install your own software on it
Yeah, I have to buy a TI-83 for stats. Oh well, I guess it will actually be better than my 10 year old casio programmable, but I sure loved that thing.
Control codes are the main reason that WordPerfect is so much better than Word. They are simple to read (like html tags) and they demarcate exactly where your formatting occurs - something that Word cannot do. Ever try resizing text in columns in Word?
what the hell is a git?
Is that like tool?
Guess I should have read the next line, eh? :/
Cut his balls off.
And make a clone with them?
urge to kill, rising!
Wow. I feel spoiled. I haven't seen an FBI warning for so long because the only movies I watch are on DVD using ogle. Come to think of it, I don't really miss those warnings ...