in a business environment if you have the same base hardware (with at least 1gig of ram) vista will be much more performant, they've fixed/optimized so many little things in the kernal that the overal effect is quite dramatic. On a home users workstation you'll see gains in other area's that I'm not concerned with but in our case where our average user has 6 to 20 foreground apps running it just kicks butt..
if all your doing is wordprocessing then windows 2000\(linux flavor of the day) was all you'll ever need!
this sentence
"the appointing of a group in AD to administer the local settings of the computer while they still don't have to have special rights in the AD"
shows that you know nothing about ad.
all of you are talking out of your collective asses the ones that got good grades were the smallest agencies! The tactics used to check security within all of the departments is quite intensive and always from the inside with access to almost anything they want! In larger departments that are spread all over the country its very difficult to get an "A".
my.0000000000001 cents worth
yes I knew it was a vuln in both os's, I'm just tired of the clueless people that think osx is bullet proof.. Its just the tip of the iceberg as far as osx is concerned
ok I was off by a couple of years I had nt 3.5 in 1994 with a modem and a ppp based account (I've been hacking computers since 1979)! And yes your sarcasm was very well understood, I just did not bite!! btw bo's stand for buffer overflow.. The cisco ios was mentioned because at that point I felt pretty comfortable with the security of the cisco ios's yet it was shown to be vulnerable to a bo attack. My point was that I was not attacking linux.
I've been on the internet 14+ years with nt+ until recently I didn't even have a firewall no av or anti spyware, I've never been hacked.. I don't get it, even with nt4 not having runas I still was able to perform all tasks just fine with a limited account.. My issues with the nt+ code base are mostly issues with bo's and that's a limitation all os's will encounter. My confidence was severily shaken with the cisco ios issue, basically at that point the games over any application/os feature that listens for inbound connections is a ticking time bomb the code paths are mind boggling... oh well shields up!
platform costs does matter we had sunfires that failed and there maintenance cost were more then our current w2k3 servers with maintenance included. Our current w2k3 servers have been in production for 8 months zero downtime even with the patch cycles. Sure the sunfires could do this but they very costly to maintain!
but your opening statement was about why you don't use current software, nothing in there mentions if the machine blows up old software will work better!
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the OIG does a security audit on most gov agencys and gives them an a-f grade, the dhs received an F!
even at different kernal levels probably 80% of the code is the same!
in a business environment if you have the same base hardware (with at least 1gig of ram) vista will be much more performant, they've fixed/optimized so many little things in the kernal that the overal effect is quite dramatic. On a home users workstation you'll see gains in other area's that I'm not concerned with but in our case where our average user has 6 to 20 foreground apps running it just kicks butt.. if all your doing is wordprocessing then windows 2000\(linux flavor of the day) was all you'll ever need!
so you propose that a linux kernal thats monoculture as a replacement for another monoculture, hmm does not make sense to me!
this sentence "the appointing of a group in AD to administer the local settings of the computer while they still don't have to have special rights in the AD" shows that you know nothing about ad.
all of you are talking out of your collective asses the ones that got good grades were the smallest agencies! The tactics used to check security within all of the departments is quite intensive and always from the inside with access to almost anything they want! In larger departments that are spread all over the country its very difficult to get an "A". my .0000000000001 cents worth
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-011A.ht ml
yes I knew it was a vuln in both os's, I'm just tired of the clueless people that think osx is bullet proof.. Its just the tip of the iceberg as far as osx is concerned
you must have missed the certs from friday osx has its own set of problems, yet since nobody actually uses them it wasn't frontpage news
t ml
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-011A.h
good luck with the mac's
ok I was off by a couple of years I had nt 3.5 in 1994 with a modem and a ppp based account (I've been hacking computers since 1979)! And yes your sarcasm was very well understood, I just did not bite!! btw bo's stand for buffer overflow.. The cisco ios was mentioned because at that point I felt pretty comfortable with the security of the cisco ios's yet it was shown to be vulnerable to a bo attack. My point was that I was not attacking linux.
cool, wasn't saying a thing about linux! Not sure why you brought it up!
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I've been on the internet 14+ years with nt+ until recently I didn't even have a firewall no av or anti spyware, I've never been hacked.. I don't get it, even with nt4 not having runas I still was able to perform all tasks just fine with a limited account.. My issues with the nt+ code base are mostly issues with bo's and that's a limitation all os's will encounter. My confidence was severily shaken with the cisco ios issue, basically at that point the games over any application/os feature that listens for inbound connections is a ticking time bomb the code paths are mind boggling... oh well shields up!
platform costs does matter we had sunfires that failed and there maintenance cost were more then our current w2k3 servers with maintenance included. Our current w2k3 servers have been in production for 8 months zero downtime even with the patch cycles. Sure the sunfires could do this but they very costly to maintain!
when you upgrade to 4.0 it forces you to use sql2000! there is no nsf option anymore!
but your opening statement was about why you don't use current software, nothing in there mentions if the machine blows up old software will work better!
why fudge any missing data, you do use transactions don't you? Somehow I'm not believing your story one bit it seems contrived!
normal cd players can't play wma!
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/downloads/trial-softw are.mspx
read the darn thing there is no time limit at all