Anyone running Windows Server as their internal DNS server is probably forwarding DNS requests to an external name server. The workstation DNS settings are most likely controlled with DHCP, and if the admin has half a brain (I know, that's a big assumption), the users don't have rights to change the network settings.
Most internet security applications are usually proxy servers, or something like a Websense box. Those filter all traffic regardless of where the name resolution takes place. In fact, Websense can be configured to block DNS requests to non-approved / external servers (as can any firewall, etc).
Do your network admins a favor and use your work computer for work. Don't try to get around their access controls. Most of the time they'd love to give you free access to the internet, but the reality is that they are responsible for keeping Windows boxes secure. That isn't an easy job. What you might perceive as network admin Nazi behaviors is really just them protecting you from yourself... or your co-workers from themselves, etc.
Which of the following looks better on a resume? "Saved the organization millions of dollars in electricity costs per year." or "Went to work." Anyone, in any industry, is going to make their accomplishments look good. As often as the public beats up on public sector employees for waste, I'm not in the least bit surprised that a public sector employee jumped at the chance to say, "Look what I did to save the taxpayers money!"
For a lot of people Office is FREE. With the licensing program we have in place at work, each employee is allowed a copy of Office for their home computer. Not only that, Microsoft doesn't force us to monitor license compliance on copies sent home with users.
Exactly. I bought the PS3 version of MW2 because after a decade plus of playing online games with hackers, I'm finally over it. There hasn't been a single anti-cheat method introduced that hasn't been cracked. The only way to get a clean game online is to have a server with dedicated admins who kick the cheaters.
Although for all of that, I'm sure it's only a matter of time before someone hacks the PS3 boot loader and figures out how to have hacks on the console.
Exactly. I bought the game for the multiplayer aspect. I just played through the single player to get acquainted with the controls and the game play dynamics. I think it was worth the $60 I spent. The graphics are spectacular and the game engine is stable and easy to play with. I'm constantly amazed by the lighting effects. The first video games I played were on the Atari 2600. It's crazy how much better games have gotten in my life time.
After years of playing FPS games online on PCs (since the original Quake if you count LAN play), I finally gave up on playing against hackers. They just ruin the game. Even though getting adjusted to the PS3 controller after years of mouse and keyboard input took about a couple of weeks, it has been worth it. The game play is smooth and the graphics are great.
The only real downside is the match making. It seems that it is hosting the game on other people's hardware? Like other posters have mentioned, finding a match is a PITA. Occasionally the match will crash right in the middle of the game. I've only seen a host migration work twice, most of the time it fails. Other times the game will try to start a match, then it fails to find a host and bombs out. Often times once a match is over, enough of the players leave that there aren't enough left to play the next match. At that point odds are the lobby is going to close and you're going to have to go through the whole process again.
One of the reasons that I bought a PS3 is because the online play is free. From where I sit, I'm getting what I paid for. If I had an Xbox and was dealing with the same issues, I'd be right pissed.
That's a good point about the licensing. On one hand America is hemorraging jobs overseas. On the other, you have people here on/. whining about Americans wanting to make money on their inventions. It seems to me like either we protect our intellectual property, or we slip further and further behind.
My experience with lawyers has been that they expect a big fat retainer up front, and then they want to be paid more if they go beyond the scope of the initial retainer. Lawyers don't work on open ended commitments akin to keeping a website up and running in perpetuity. If we weren't talking about a lawyer here, I would say that I don't believe the gall of that woman. But since she is a lawyer, I expect her to be hypocritical and two-faced.
Lawyers nickel and dime clients to death. They charge for photocopies. They charge for drive time to and from court. They expense every single little thing that they can. For a lawyer to tell a webmaster that he is in the wrong for expecting some compensation for time spent after hours working on a website is ridiculous. Lawyers won't even talk to most people about legal matters unless they are getting paid to do it.
Windows Server takes a more security centric approach to things. After getting raked over the coals for installing everything and leaving the server wide open to attack, they went the opposite way. Now the server just installs with a bare minimum to get it running.
The short version is that the police and the media are contributing the hysteria of online child predators and blowing things WAY out of proportion. In the huge majority of the cases where minors are involved in sexual conversations online, they are engaged in them with other minors.
The law enforcement agencies are also liable. It just takes more to go after them. Unfortunately they only seem to be held accountable after a long history of gross misconduct and after trampling on civil liberties for an extended period of time.
An example from Los Angeles is what happened in MacAurther park. Despite obvious use of force problems on part of the LAPD, none of the officers involved were charged.
I'm of the opinion that more often than not, the police rely too much on violence and coercion to do their jobs. Most often they seem to use excess force to disperse crowds and large gatherings. Given what I've seen and experienced with law enforcement, I just make it a point of avoiding them.
I haven't had any frame rate problems (jitters, etc). The only lag I've noticed has been network related. Compared to my desktop, the PS3 has top notch graphics. Given that developers are saying that they haven't maxed out the potential of the system yet, I think it's fair to say that the graphics subsystem is pretty top notch. Of course this is all subjective and we're arguing over semantics at this point, so what's the point?
The job of the police is to maintain order. If someone is being disorderly the odds are pretty good that they are going to end up getting arrested. Whether or not that arrest is lawful or not will be sorted out in the courts. Quite often the events that surround the arrest (resisting, striking an officer, etc) are the charges that end up getting filed by the DA.
The sad fact of the matter is that when the cops show up, we have two choices. Either we can leave the situation, or we can submit to whatever they tell us to do.
More or less the same is not the same. I have no stake in which system is the better system so your accusation of fanboyism is way off base. I spend less than ten hours a week playing video games between the PS3 and the computer.
The problem is the 360. Games look ridiculously good on the PS3. If you compare the new COD on the 360 and the PS3 there is a noticeable difference in graphics quality.
I finally made the switch to the console with COD/MW2. I have a PS3 hooked up to a 37inch Samsung LCD. My desktop PC is a simple Core2Duo (2.6ghz) with an old GeForce 6800 256MB. I couldn't stomach the cost of upgrading the hardware on the desktop and having to deal with hackers. In all honesty, it's the hackers that really drove me away. It was probably 2/3rds hackers, 1/3rd knowing that I'd get flawless framerate and top notch graphics on the console. I've been playing LAN/online FPS games since Quake and I've never hacked. I hate people who use aimbots and wallhacks and all that other crap. The only other thing that was keeping me on the console for FPS games was the superiority of the keyboard/mouse interface. Yet with a little bit of Google fu, I figured out that the Chinese solved that problem. (http://www.xcm.cc/xfps_rateup_adapter_for_ps_3.htm)
That makes a lot of sense. It fills that niche for data that is too big or otherwise burdensome to share via email, but that you don't want to put on a site like Flickr, YouTube or the like.
I started my post with a question asking about what it was that Unite offered. Apparently despite your best attempts not to, you went ahead and read what I wrote none the less. I'm not sure what is the bigger fail... my failure to read the article, or your failure to follow your own precepts.
Or does Unite provide a way to find the content that other people have put up? I don't understand what market Opera is trying to target here. Anyone with the where-with-all to setup their own web server and the associated DNS host records and the like has probably already done so. The OP bashes on Facebook, but Facebook (and Myspace and whatever the other sites are) offers the person an ability to tell someone else, "Look me up on Facebook. My name is..." Does Unite offer the equivalent capability?
It seems to me that the large majority of what people want to share online isn't their own content, but content that they come across. Facebook is the perfect example. It seems to be filled with links to YouTube, links to other webpages, and blogs and whatever else any particular person finds interesting and wants to share with their friends. Very rarely do the large majority of people want to share content that is uniquely theirs. The one big exception that I can think of is music. Myspace seems to have the lion's share of that market. And on the subject of music, who wants to eat the bandwidth costs of serving up music from their own computer when a site like Myspace, or YouTube or listentomymusicyo.com will do it for you, for free?
It is being politicized because the tools to control "global warming" are really the foundation for global economic control. Climate change is the boogyman that people can point to and demand action. Who in their right mind wants to come down on the side of "destroying the planet"? That's worse than being a terrorist pedophile for heaven's sake!
Although even with WSUS, the server only gets the patches on patch Tuesday along with everyone else. You don't get patches any earlier just because you are running WSUS. Where I work we only have about twenty servers so we let the servers download their patches with Automatic Updates and prompt for install. That way we're sure that the servers get all the patches that they need. The 100+ workstations are managed with WSUS.
You mean maybe I should be worried when "security rigger" becomes a job description and they've got humans wired into the thousands of cameras that are spread all over places like... Chicago?
It seems like they're at the point where they can recognize thought patterns. They intend to map those patterns to a UI. Just the other day I found myself sitting in front of a PC and browsing the web (imagine that). I've been using a Mac a lot lately. I wanted to scroll the page down and I found myself reaching for the touch pad to do that nifty two finger drag motion.
Some where between wanting to scroll the page down and the actual muscle action of reaching for the non-existent track pad was a series of neuro-chemical impulses. It seems like the researchers are identifying those. It would be kind of cool to be able to move a pointer around the screen and do basic web browsing actions (forward, backward, click, scroll, etc) without ever having to reach for the mouse. It seems like I first read about people using alpha waves to control mouse pointers over a decade ago at this point. It's about time they're getting to the point of doing something that might be useful.
Now once they get to the point of bringing up search results based on our thoughts, that is when I will start worrying.
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Anyone running Windows Server as their internal DNS server is probably forwarding DNS requests to an external name server. The workstation DNS settings are most likely controlled with DHCP, and if the admin has half a brain (I know, that's a big assumption), the users don't have rights to change the network settings.
Most internet security applications are usually proxy servers, or something like a Websense box. Those filter all traffic regardless of where the name resolution takes place. In fact, Websense can be configured to block DNS requests to non-approved / external servers (as can any firewall, etc).
Do your network admins a favor and use your work computer for work. Don't try to get around their access controls. Most of the time they'd love to give you free access to the internet, but the reality is that they are responsible for keeping Windows boxes secure. That isn't an easy job. What you might perceive as network admin Nazi behaviors is really just them protecting you from yourself... or your co-workers from themselves, etc.
Which of the following looks better on a resume? "Saved the organization millions of dollars in electricity costs per year." or "Went to work." Anyone, in any industry, is going to make their accomplishments look good. As often as the public beats up on public sector employees for waste, I'm not in the least bit surprised that a public sector employee jumped at the chance to say, "Look what I did to save the taxpayers money!"
For a lot of people Office is FREE. With the licensing program we have in place at work, each employee is allowed a copy of Office for their home computer. Not only that, Microsoft doesn't force us to monitor license compliance on copies sent home with users.
Exactly. I bought the PS3 version of MW2 because after a decade plus of playing online games with hackers, I'm finally over it. There hasn't been a single anti-cheat method introduced that hasn't been cracked. The only way to get a clean game online is to have a server with dedicated admins who kick the cheaters.
Although for all of that, I'm sure it's only a matter of time before someone hacks the PS3 boot loader and figures out how to have hacks on the console.
Exactly. I bought the game for the multiplayer aspect. I just played through the single player to get acquainted with the controls and the game play dynamics. I think it was worth the $60 I spent. The graphics are spectacular and the game engine is stable and easy to play with. I'm constantly amazed by the lighting effects. The first video games I played were on the Atari 2600. It's crazy how much better games have gotten in my life time.
After years of playing FPS games online on PCs (since the original Quake if you count LAN play), I finally gave up on playing against hackers. They just ruin the game. Even though getting adjusted to the PS3 controller after years of mouse and keyboard input took about a couple of weeks, it has been worth it. The game play is smooth and the graphics are great.
The only real downside is the match making. It seems that it is hosting the game on other people's hardware? Like other posters have mentioned, finding a match is a PITA. Occasionally the match will crash right in the middle of the game. I've only seen a host migration work twice, most of the time it fails. Other times the game will try to start a match, then it fails to find a host and bombs out. Often times once a match is over, enough of the players leave that there aren't enough left to play the next match. At that point odds are the lobby is going to close and you're going to have to go through the whole process again.
One of the reasons that I bought a PS3 is because the online play is free. From where I sit, I'm getting what I paid for. If I had an Xbox and was dealing with the same issues, I'd be right pissed.
That's a good point about the licensing. On one hand America is hemorraging jobs overseas. On the other, you have people here on /. whining about Americans wanting to make money on their inventions. It seems to me like either we protect our intellectual property, or we slip further and further behind.
YOU CAN'T HAVE IT....
Until after the patent expires.
My experience with lawyers has been that they expect a big fat retainer up front, and then they want to be paid more if they go beyond the scope of the initial retainer. Lawyers don't work on open ended commitments akin to keeping a website up and running in perpetuity. If we weren't talking about a lawyer here, I would say that I don't believe the gall of that woman. But since she is a lawyer, I expect her to be hypocritical and two-faced.
Lawyers nickel and dime clients to death. They charge for photocopies. They charge for drive time to and from court. They expense every single little thing that they can. For a lawyer to tell a webmaster that he is in the wrong for expecting some compensation for time spent after hours working on a website is ridiculous. Lawyers won't even talk to most people about legal matters unless they are getting paid to do it.
Windows Server takes a more security centric approach to things. After getting raked over the coals for installing everything and leaving the server wide open to attack, they went the opposite way. Now the server just installs with a bare minimum to get it running.
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2009/12/sexual-predators-200912
The short version is that the police and the media are contributing the hysteria of online child predators and blowing things WAY out of proportion. In the huge majority of the cases where minors are involved in sexual conversations online, they are engaged in them with other minors.
The law enforcement agencies are also liable. It just takes more to go after them. Unfortunately they only seem to be held accountable after a long history of gross misconduct and after trampling on civil liberties for an extended period of time.
An example from Los Angeles is what happened in MacAurther park. Despite obvious use of force problems on part of the LAPD, none of the officers involved were charged.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-melee31-2009oct31,0,5092137.story
I'm of the opinion that more often than not, the police rely too much on violence and coercion to do their jobs. Most often they seem to use excess force to disperse crowds and large gatherings. Given what I've seen and experienced with law enforcement, I just make it a point of avoiding them.
I haven't had any frame rate problems (jitters, etc). The only lag I've noticed has been network related. Compared to my desktop, the PS3 has top notch graphics. Given that developers are saying that they haven't maxed out the potential of the system yet, I think it's fair to say that the graphics subsystem is pretty top notch. Of course this is all subjective and we're arguing over semantics at this point, so what's the point?
The job of the police is to maintain order. If someone is being disorderly the odds are pretty good that they are going to end up getting arrested. Whether or not that arrest is lawful or not will be sorted out in the courts. Quite often the events that surround the arrest (resisting, striking an officer, etc) are the charges that end up getting filed by the DA.
The sad fact of the matter is that when the cops show up, we have two choices. Either we can leave the situation, or we can submit to whatever they tell us to do.
More or less the same is not the same. I have no stake in which system is the better system so your accusation of fanboyism is way off base. I spend less than ten hours a week playing video games between the PS3 and the computer.
The problem is the 360. Games look ridiculously good on the PS3. If you compare the new COD on the 360 and the PS3 there is a noticeable difference in graphics quality.
I finally made the switch to the console with COD/MW2. I have a PS3 hooked up to a 37inch Samsung LCD. My desktop PC is a simple Core2Duo (2.6ghz) with an old GeForce 6800 256MB. I couldn't stomach the cost of upgrading the hardware on the desktop and having to deal with hackers. In all honesty, it's the hackers that really drove me away. It was probably 2/3rds hackers, 1/3rd knowing that I'd get flawless framerate and top notch graphics on the console. I've been playing LAN/online FPS games since Quake and I've never hacked. I hate people who use aimbots and wallhacks and all that other crap. The only other thing that was keeping me on the console for FPS games was the superiority of the keyboard/mouse interface. Yet with a little bit of Google fu, I figured out that the Chinese solved that problem. (http://www.xcm.cc/xfps_rateup_adapter_for_ps_3.htm)
How does it get around the persistence issue? Most home users have dynamic IP addresses.
That makes a lot of sense. It fills that niche for data that is too big or otherwise burdensome to share via email, but that you don't want to put on a site like Flickr, YouTube or the like.
I started my post with a question asking about what it was that Unite offered. Apparently despite your best attempts not to, you went ahead and read what I wrote none the less. I'm not sure what is the bigger fail... my failure to read the article, or your failure to follow your own precepts.
Or does Unite provide a way to find the content that other people have put up? I don't understand what market Opera is trying to target here. Anyone with the where-with-all to setup their own web server and the associated DNS host records and the like has probably already done so. The OP bashes on Facebook, but Facebook (and Myspace and whatever the other sites are) offers the person an ability to tell someone else, "Look me up on Facebook. My name is..." Does Unite offer the equivalent capability?
It seems to me that the large majority of what people want to share online isn't their own content, but content that they come across. Facebook is the perfect example. It seems to be filled with links to YouTube, links to other webpages, and blogs and whatever else any particular person finds interesting and wants to share with their friends. Very rarely do the large majority of people want to share content that is uniquely theirs. The one big exception that I can think of is music. Myspace seems to have the lion's share of that market. And on the subject of music, who wants to eat the bandwidth costs of serving up music from their own computer when a site like Myspace, or YouTube or listentomymusicyo.com will do it for you, for free?
It is being politicized because the tools to control "global warming" are really the foundation for global economic control. Climate change is the boogyman that people can point to and demand action. Who in their right mind wants to come down on the side of "destroying the planet"? That's worse than being a terrorist pedophile for heaven's sake!
Although even with WSUS, the server only gets the patches on patch Tuesday along with everyone else. You don't get patches any earlier just because you are running WSUS. Where I work we only have about twenty servers so we let the servers download their patches with Automatic Updates and prompt for install. That way we're sure that the servers get all the patches that they need. The 100+ workstations are managed with WSUS.
You mean maybe I should be worried when "security rigger" becomes a job description and they've got humans wired into the thousands of cameras that are spread all over places like... Chicago?
It seems like they're at the point where they can recognize thought patterns. They intend to map those patterns to a UI. Just the other day I found myself sitting in front of a PC and browsing the web (imagine that). I've been using a Mac a lot lately. I wanted to scroll the page down and I found myself reaching for the touch pad to do that nifty two finger drag motion.
Some where between wanting to scroll the page down and the actual muscle action of reaching for the non-existent track pad was a series of neuro-chemical impulses. It seems like the researchers are identifying those. It would be kind of cool to be able to move a pointer around the screen and do basic web browsing actions (forward, backward, click, scroll, etc) without ever having to reach for the mouse. It seems like I first read about people using alpha waves to control mouse pointers over a decade ago at this point. It's about time they're getting to the point of doing something that might be useful.
Now once they get to the point of bringing up search results based on our thoughts, that is when I will start worrying.