Like another user stated use pfsense. We had this problem at work. We are a library and just got 100/100 fiber service. Couldnt afford to buy some $10,000 router and our $1000 router couldnt handle the speeds.
Downloaded pfsense and put it on an old server and get full 100/100 speed. Its open source , has snort and everything. ITs free to use and they have a pay for support option as well.
The problem is companies liek grumman the government let slip away. Also we didnt lose the people from the apollo mission. Every tax season i work with somebody who was on the team at grumman who created the lunar lander.
The problem is that nasa rather go with the company who pays them off the most (namely lockhead amrtin) instead of the companies that have the better designs.
Watch the special on the lunar lander to see what I am talking about.
Well on my network we just got all new z600 workstations with xp.As soon as our windows 7 licenses come in we will be putting windows 7 on the machines. N oreason not to with xp mode if we need xp we just run the program virtually in xp mode.
The problem today is the quality of teachers. When I was in High school the teachers made science fun .
Physics teacher would do things like explode a pickle via electricity to show resistors, we would have music playing during tests , and things like that . My earth science teacher got us learning by doing things like jeopardy to learn for the regents.
Now teachers just read from a book and expect you to learn everything.
IF the teachers were better more people would love science.
When i have kids (hopefully about a year or two) i will make sure that they learn science even if its from me (i am a science nut, it helps that i live a half hour away from brookhaven national labs) .
We use spiceworks and its inventory rocks along with its network map. Even shows the bandwidth and stuff of your switches and routers and how much toner and stuff is left in the printers. Its free (ad supported) but you can pay for an ad free version.
I am confused. The discovery channel showed a huge experiment done my scientists showing that liquid metal circulating due to the earths rotation would cause a magnetic field. They did this by taking sodium and spinning it in a sphere and it produced a magnetic field.
How is this not proof ?
I would think microsoft makes a ton by selling there OS to Companies like dell to put on their machines.
Also Microsoft is going towards a hugely component based os. ALl they have to do is stop making say the media player and leave that to other companies. Microsoft has better options that will make windows better and make them money without having to go Open source or free.
Microsoft is going towards. Making a very base OS with nothing but the ability to run programs and having to pay seperately for the parts that you want. THis will get the EU off their backs and the possibility to make more money.
Come on why does anyone take this article seriously? He tested an os that is in beta. Microsoft specifically stated that the beta was not performance tested and that wont be done till later around the rc stage.
Come on this article should not be taken seriously at all. I thought people on slashdot would be more tech savy and know that you cant do any sort of performance testing on a beta especially when microsoft themselves stated they havent done any performance fixing on the beta.
How do you not know that your webcam is on. Both of the ones i have (one intergrated into my laptop and a usb 2 external one) both have lights that come on when they get accessed.
In order to fit all the hd channels cable companies have been compressing the crap out of the hd channels, sometimes lowering the resolution and killing bandwidth to the channels.
Heck on cablevision some of the hd channels or so starved for bandwidth they are blocky most of the time.
YEah right come to long island where our power company LIPA is government run. ITs worse then private and our bills shot up as soon as the government took over.
First off, We use hp switches at work and we have procurve 4000 switches that have been running for a while with no problems. we also bought newer(at the time) 4100 switches and they havent had any problems either.
also this switch had to go through 3 years of testing. thats why it may seem obsolete now.
You can get some good cash by bringing the laptops to a metal recycling place. most take computer equipment now because they have all sorts of valuable metals inside like copper.
I work in a library and i find it much better then the corporate world. NO rush to do projects. Everybody is friendly . More freedom to do things like check out linux. Its just a huge change from the corporate world.
Give you the chance to actually enjoy IT.
This is the exact reason why I love the degree that I took. It was an IT degree that was based in business. All the same business courses that business admins take with IT courses thrown it with it. I came out knowing how business is runa nd how IT relates to the business.
I think more colleges should do this so that more graduates know how business works.
I also think this is due to A lot of people in the IT field bbecause it pays alot. I feel most people dont like doing it jobs. I love my it job and I am always trying to improve the network without huge expenditures and without overburdening the people who use the systems.
If IT departments had more people who loved there job and loved doing IT we wouldnt have these problems.
All my family who has gotten vista has not had a single complaint about it. MY fatehr just got a new laptop with vista on it and likes it very much. In january I tranistioned their desktop to vista and havent heard one complaint since.
I think its really the fanboys of each os complaining. You will disagree with me but even at work I havent heard one complaint about vista. Go ahead flame me if you want but i am going by my experience.
Why is this news. This is the second company that I have worked for that bypasssed windows 2000 used winnt 4.0 untill xp came out. So why would vista be anything different?
If verizon doesnt have to abide by this also then this is really screwed up. It sounds like they are trying to make verizon a monopoly by screwing over the cable companies.
I have a laptop that has about the same specs as a new mac book pro. What if they released a pc version only if it has the same specs as one of their computers.
Even with vista i will not buy a computer that is $800 more just because it has osx. Heck on the cheaper computer I can tripple boot with xp,vista,ubuntu. So all that extra just for an operating system is not worth it for me.
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Like another user stated use pfsense. We had this problem at work. We are a library and just got 100/100 fiber service. Couldnt afford to buy some $10,000 router and our $1000 router couldnt handle the speeds. Downloaded pfsense and put it on an old server and get full 100/100 speed. Its open source , has snort and everything. ITs free to use and they have a pay for support option as well.
Nasa has to stop with the giving the projects to the people who pay them the most money.
The problem is companies liek grumman the government let slip away. Also we didnt lose the people from the apollo mission. Every tax season i work with somebody who was on the team at grumman who created the lunar lander. The problem is that nasa rather go with the company who pays them off the most (namely lockhead amrtin) instead of the companies that have the better designs. Watch the special on the lunar lander to see what I am talking about.
Well on my network we just got all new z600 workstations with xp .As soon as our windows 7 licenses come in we will be putting windows 7 on the machines. N oreason not to with xp mode if we need xp we just run the program virtually in xp mode.
The problem today is the quality of teachers. When I was in High school the teachers made science fun . Physics teacher would do things like explode a pickle via electricity to show resistors, we would have music playing during tests , and things like that . My earth science teacher got us learning by doing things like jeopardy to learn for the regents. Now teachers just read from a book and expect you to learn everything. IF the teachers were better more people would love science. When i have kids (hopefully about a year or two) i will make sure that they learn science even if its from me (i am a science nut, it helps that i live a half hour away from brookhaven national labs) .
We use spiceworks and its inventory rocks along with its network map. Even shows the bandwidth and stuff of your switches and routers and how much toner and stuff is left in the printers. Its free (ad supported) but you can pay for an ad free version.
Your saying apple is more innovative then microsoft? Come on apple copies everything. Just look at all the cool research microsoft does.
I am confused. The discovery channel showed a huge experiment done my scientists showing that liquid metal circulating due to the earths rotation would cause a magnetic field. They did this by taking sodium and spinning it in a sphere and it produced a magnetic field. How is this not proof ?
I would think microsoft makes a ton by selling there OS to Companies like dell to put on their machines. Also Microsoft is going towards a hugely component based os. ALl they have to do is stop making say the media player and leave that to other companies. Microsoft has better options that will make windows better and make them money without having to go Open source or free. Microsoft is going towards. Making a very base OS with nothing but the ability to run programs and having to pay seperately for the parts that you want. THis will get the EU off their backs and the possibility to make more money.
Come on why does anyone take this article seriously? He tested an os that is in beta. Microsoft specifically stated that the beta was not performance tested and that wont be done till later around the rc stage. Come on this article should not be taken seriously at all. I thought people on slashdot would be more tech savy and know that you cant do any sort of performance testing on a beta especially when microsoft themselves stated they havent done any performance fixing on the beta.
How do you not know that your webcam is on. Both of the ones i have (one intergrated into my laptop and a usb 2 external one) both have lights that come on when they get accessed.
In order to fit all the hd channels cable companies have been compressing the crap out of the hd channels, sometimes lowering the resolution and killing bandwidth to the channels. Heck on cablevision some of the hd channels or so starved for bandwidth they are blocky most of the time.
YEah right come to long island where our power company LIPA is government run. ITs worse then private and our bills shot up as soon as the government took over.
First off, We use hp switches at work and we have procurve 4000 switches that have been running for a while with no problems. we also bought newer(at the time) 4100 switches and they havent had any problems either. also this switch had to go through 3 years of testing. thats why it may seem obsolete now.
The zyxel x-550 has hardware qos that will do the job.
You can get some good cash by bringing the laptops to a metal recycling place. most take computer equipment now because they have all sorts of valuable metals inside like copper.
I work in a library and i find it much better then the corporate world. NO rush to do projects. Everybody is friendly . More freedom to do things like check out linux. Its just a huge change from the corporate world. Give you the chance to actually enjoy IT.
This is the exact reason why I love the degree that I took. It was an IT degree that was based in business. All the same business courses that business admins take with IT courses thrown it with it. I came out knowing how business is runa nd how IT relates to the business.
I think more colleges should do this so that more graduates know how business works.
I also think this is due to A lot of people in the IT field bbecause it pays alot. I feel most people dont like doing it jobs. I love my it job and I am always trying to improve the network without huge expenditures and without overburdening the people who use the systems.
If IT departments had more people who loved there job and loved doing IT we wouldnt have these problems.
Come on most linux distro's include more already installled programs then windows does so how is it that vista has blaot but linux doesn't?
I thought the cell has 8. except that in the ps3 the 8th one is hidden because its sued by the ps3's OS.
All my family who has gotten vista has not had a single complaint about it. MY fatehr just got a new laptop with vista on it and likes it very much. In january I tranistioned their desktop to vista and havent heard one complaint since. I think its really the fanboys of each os complaining. You will disagree with me but even at work I havent heard one complaint about vista. Go ahead flame me if you want but i am going by my experience.
Why is this news. This is the second company that I have worked for that bypasssed windows 2000 used winnt 4.0 untill xp came out. So why would vista be anything different?
If verizon doesnt have to abide by this also then this is really screwed up. It sounds like they are trying to make verizon a monopoly by screwing over the cable companies.
I thought the bbc said its only for windows because linux didnt have the required DRM. Did that change?
I have a laptop that has about the same specs as a new mac book pro. What if they released a pc version only if it has the same specs as one of their computers. Even with vista i will not buy a computer that is $800 more just because it has osx. Heck on the cheaper computer I can tripple boot with xp,vista,ubuntu. So all that extra just for an operating system is not worth it for me.