I'm sorry, but this is wrong. And a trap a lot of IT managers fall in to. Don't negate pragmatism with cynicism. Thinking that no barriers will hinder an attack then sitting on your hands because of it keeps the dollars out of your budget.
Security isn't "tricky" or a "grey area". Security is awareness. Understanding how and where the machines on your network communicate is usually all that's required. If you take the time to study the traffic flows every day, monitor your choke points, and respect the computing requirements of your users (who, by the way, are the business), you have a very good chance of thwarting a targeted attack or spotting a previously successful one (remember that anyone who gets in to your network has to get back out).
The best security tools are free. What costs are bodies. Salary plus benefits for a decent analyst can top $150k/yr. Good security engineers or consultants can be twice that or more. I don't know if those costs are figured into TFA percentage. Then there's the cost of compliance - which is a real cost. Audits and compliance take bodies from other projects and initiatives, alter business timelines, and add complexity to the infrastructure. Anyone who's been through a PCI audit can attest to the expense. Audit costs leave very little for machines and software.
Want money for security? Show your managers where the weak spots are. Where is your machine and software inventory? What are your critical systems? How is your patch management system working? Are your IDS's tuned to your inventory and patch level? What about the change management system? Do you know what changes have been made on your network? Do you have an accounting of all the ACL's in your firewalls and routers? Do you know how traffic flows in your network? Can you demonstrate it? The business parlance for these things today is "process". Do you have a Security Process? Want money? Demonstrate your Process.... Regards, t-e
Check out nugs.net, livedownloads.com, digitalpanic.org, etree.org. There are many others. They've all been around for a long, long time.
Best bet? Start with nugs or etree. You're almost assured of finding an artist/genre you like. You can link to many other legit download sites from either.
Example: in my headphones right now - Machine >Barstools and Dreamers, Widespread Panic, 4.25.07, 1st set. Originally downloaded from digitalpanic as 24bit/96khz audience recording. I liked it, so I went to the Panic site and bought the show from the band for $10 in CD format (16b/44k), compressed with FLAC. *And* its a soundboard copy, mixed by the bands engineer! NO DRM. No restrictions.
You're nothing more than a cop and king of the straw man arguments, aren't you? Public political discourse is about confrontation. It always has been. The kid is outraged and who can blame him? Outrage is encouraged these days. Its been discussed too many times in this forum. Hell, I'm outraged at the state of thing. He got to ask Kerry the same questions I would have asked: "why didn't you organize to impeach Bush?"; "why did you conceded an election you appeared to win?". And the implied questions about election rigging and the war. I'm sure next time he'll have better considered how to make a point. He's young after all. He will learn.
I can't believe the number of idiots at the rally who applauded his removal. I can't believe the number of idiots who wouldn't help him gain some composure. Especially someone from the senator's staff. The senator stated he was willing to answer his questions, but no, we always have to have a show of force as a crowd pleaser.
But I really can't believe the number of freaks on this site. "He deserved it". "He's only after his fifteen minutes". Hell, one moron even went so far as to suggest he was on drugs. And the Procedure Monkeys and Decorum Puritans who want to split hairs about where to stand or who the microphone belongs to or who's in charge. All of you know as well as I that any appearance by anyone in authority is a staged affair. It needs to be interrupted. And pointed questions need to be asked. Because there's really no other place to ask them, is there?
Just to make everyone happy, throwing the kid out on his ass probably would have sufficed. The "adult" thing to do would have been the senator himself stepping over and asking the kid to take a breath, then letting him have his say. --te
All the "..and if..." replies really miss the point here. Its not that he's stating the obvious, he's saying the glory days of IT security as an aftermarket industry are over. The focus of IT security is shifting from point products that deal only with the threat du jour, to integrated infrastructure. Security as a service, if you will.
Look at Cisco. More and more of the monitoring and mitigation systems we run are turning up as part of the switch in next generation gear.
Businesses want simple, cost effective systems that are built in to the infrastructure, don't get in the way of the money-making, and keep the bank and federal auditors happy.
Besides, the best security tools are free. And most of IT security is just plain common sense. You don't have to have been at it as long as I have to know that. The technology we use only works one way, so threats aren't that hard to figure out. The rule is to be aware of what runs on your network and keep an eye on what comes and goes. If in the years to come that's all built in, cool.
My personal longest on an SSN was 108 days submerged on a spec-op. The only reason we ported was because we ran completely out of food - including having eaten the emergency rations from the escape trunks. Our CO was a maniac.
That same op, the fresh-water still broke down on day 63, meaning 32 of those submerged days was without a shower, and the last 10 without any "personal hygiene".
I rode Permit class boats out of San Diego at the height of the Reagan years. We spent an average of 300 days a year at sea. I remember once we went out for a weekly op and picked up a contact on the way to Santa Catalina. 41 days later we stopped in Subic for food and to call home.
Oh get off. Holding a doctorate in the Arts means one can organize and defend a thesis. It does not make one "extremely intelligent". You'd agree if you'd read Newt's thesis on Belgian education policy in the Congo.
Now I'll agree with you that its impossible to know what he actually said *during* his speech, but his quotes from a separate interview are awfully telling. Gingrich is a weasel, a carpetbagger, and a political opportunist - nothing short of another Huey Long-style Bob Roberts. He had nothing to say in the '90's and he has nothing to say now. But whatever he says, you can be sure its poison.
So don't throw out that "take a deep breath" crap when it comes to Newt and his Ph.D. The man never wanted anything but power and that's all he wants now.
"Political parties in Presidential primary states should host events that invite candidates from both parties to discuss issues, said Gingrich, who criticized the sharpness of today's politics"
*Gingrich* criticizes the sharpness of today's politics?? Is this the same Gingrich who concocted the Contract On America?
"Gingrich said voters unhappy with the war, the response to Hurricane Katrina and pork barrel spending were the main drive behind the GOP's rejection at the polls. But he argued Republicans would have retained the Senate and just narrowly lost the House if President Bush had announced the departure of embattled Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld before, instead of after, the election."
Yeah, that would have made it all better.
People like Gingrich really do take us all for suckers. I guess the money and the fame is more important.
I downloaded a copy of XP Pro SP1 from somewhere (can't remember the site) nearly four years ago. The license.txt file that came with the.iso has over 100 keys in it. I picked one. Lately I've let WGA install and do its thing and never had a problem.
These days I have the same XP load running under VMWare on my Fedora box. If WGA ever shuts it down, I'll just delete the image and go on with life. I wish it was that easy for everyone....
The subject line here is the best advice you will ever get. One additional: *stay* out of debt. Rule of thumb for the just starting out: If you can't pay for it in cash out of your budget, you don't need it.
Couple of common sense things:
- Avoid credit cards - especially gas cards. Get one from your bank to establish your credit and put it away. Save it for emergencies, but if you have to pay one penny in interest on the card, ever, pay it off and cut it up.
- I wish I could have lived in my parents basement while at school. If you really want to save money, figure out monthly expenses (rent, utilities, insurance) and put that in the bank. If you find yourself without food money, you can't afford to live on your own.
- Ask you father how much insurance on your car costs. See if you can save that monthly.
- Ask your father how much owning a house *really* costs in terms of mortgage interest, upkeep, and monthly expenses. See if you can save that.
- Learn to cook. Eating out will will not only kill you but drain your resources quickly.
- Learn to budget. Try Quicken, GNUCash, etc...Know how much money you have down to the penny every day.
Last things:
- As soon as you hit the street with your diploma you're going to have to pay that loan back. If you can't afford rent and food, how can you afford loan payments?
- Investing is nothing more than legalized gambling. Study. For years. Then invest your own money.
- Gambling with my money will get your ass kicked.
"When you talk to someone from the former East Block, you'll probably get very different responses when it comes to issues like this."
That's right on the money.
I've recently spent alot of time in Ukraine. The average person is remarkably asute, politically. Infinitely moreso than in this country. They question everything and take nothing for granted. And then there's the "black Volga in the middle of the night" stories. Everybody has one. Some are hair-raising. Wait until we get to that stage.
Whats more, they accept as normal a level of graft and corruption in government that we are only beginning to realize with our current administration. Part of it is culture, but another part is the resignation to accept it so long as the goverment functions, basic services are available, private business is encouraged, the currency is stable, and the economy continues to grow. And so long as whoever has "The Seat" doesn't let the US horn in.
And part of their employment shouldn't be travelling performance? What planet are you from?
You seem to think that having talent and making an effort entitles one in the to a guaranted paycheck. Give up the notion of "starving artist"? Everyone has to pay their dues. Everyone has to put in their time and buy their materials. Not everyone makes it. That's life. It doesn't matter what a person chooses to do. You're not defending anyones "rights". You're making the phoney argument that every downloaded song is dinner lost. I'm sorry, but it just doesn't work that way, and I think you know it. The issue is DRM and DRM is greed.
Face it: common technology has surpassed your idea of making money. I know how much recording equipment costs because I used to buy it and tote it around. I made some damn good concert recordings but those days are gone. If you'd bothered to check the links I posted you'd see that there's more than just five bands that give their music away. There's thousands. None of them are asking for handouts. They've taken advantage of technology. They're doing the very thing you think you're making a case for: they've taken control of the distribution of their product. They've figured out that there's scores of people with recording equipment and blank CD's and high speed connections and networks of friends who will come to the show and pass along the result. Free advertising, promotions, distributions. What more could an artist want?
Do I support the the artist? Sure, if in my opinion said support is worth it. How does downloading help? If I like the product, I'll pass it along and help get the artist another customer. Welcome to 21st century music. There's a lot of it out there and its a buyers market.
What do you mean a band shouldn't have to perform? What's the purpose of professional musicianship if not to entertain in public?
As far as music goes, the idea that something one creates is then open to all is universal. Thats exactly the purpose of art. What you seem to be defending is the greed of a set of middle men whos time has come and gone. No one dictated to the bands I mentioned that they give away their work. They chose to. And it made them quite successful. None of those bands decided to allow taping when they started selling out arenas, either. Taping and free distribution is how they built their fan base as they worked their way up from smokey bars and weddings over a period of long years. And in the interim they decided as a business who would control the distribution of their work.
So where's the disrespect? There are many in this forum who've stated they believe sharing music boosts music sales. I'm one of them. I think the bands I mentioned bear that out. Its fine that you believe that an artist should be paid, but its up to the artist to figure out how. They can do it honestly and play well for the money, or they can use the government to force their agents into my wallet. Guess which artists' music I buy?
"So what you're saying, essentially, is that if a musician wants to make money he needs to perform it while you have the "right" to record, copy and redistribute at will? if that's the case they won't make much from concerts either as their live recordings will be spread world wide before he can even get to his second gig!"
You're a little behind the times. For many, many successfully bands, that's exactly the business model they employ. Bands like Phish, Widespread Panic, Dave Mattews Band, Blues Traveller, Galactic, etc., all allow fans to record and distribute their music. These bands make good money from live performances and schwag sales. Hell, Panic is one of the top touring acts in the world and has never made a video, never had commercial airplay. They also sell quite a few of their studio releases with no advertising. Ah, the power of fan distribution.
I think you'll be suprised at the number of bands that allow taping. Check out BTAT (http://btat.wagnerone.com/) or Archive (www.archive.org)
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I'm sorry, but this is wrong. And a trap a lot of IT managers fall in to. Don't negate pragmatism with cynicism. Thinking that no barriers will hinder an attack then sitting on your hands because of it keeps the dollars out of your budget.
Security isn't "tricky" or a "grey area". Security is awareness. Understanding how and where the machines on your network communicate is usually all that's required. If you take the time to study the traffic flows every day, monitor your choke points, and respect the computing requirements of your users (who, by the way, are the business), you have a very good chance of thwarting a targeted attack or spotting a previously successful one (remember that anyone who gets in to your network has to get back out).
The best security tools are free. What costs are bodies. Salary plus benefits for a decent analyst can top $150k/yr. Good security engineers or consultants can be twice that or more. I don't know if those costs are figured into TFA percentage. Then there's the cost of compliance - which is a real cost. Audits and compliance take bodies from other projects and initiatives, alter business timelines, and add complexity to the infrastructure. Anyone who's been through a PCI audit can attest to the expense. Audit costs leave very little for machines and software.
Want money for security? Show your managers where the weak spots are. Where is your machine and software inventory? What are your critical systems? How is your patch management system working? Are your IDS's tuned to your inventory and patch level? What about the change management system? Do you know what changes have been made on your network? Do you have an accounting of all the ACL's in your firewalls and routers? Do you know how traffic flows in your network? Can you demonstrate it? The business parlance for these things today is "process". Do you have a Security Process? Want money? Demonstrate your Process....
Regards,
t-e
I have! I do it all the time!
Check out nugs.net, livedownloads.com, digitalpanic.org, etree.org. There are many others. They've all been around for a long, long time.
Best bet? Start with nugs or etree. You're almost assured of finding an artist/genre you like. You can link to many other legit download sites from either.
Example: in my headphones right now - Machine >Barstools and Dreamers, Widespread Panic, 4.25.07, 1st set. Originally downloaded from digitalpanic as 24bit/96khz audience recording. I liked it, so I went to the Panic site and bought the show from the band for $10 in CD format (16b/44k), compressed with FLAC. *And* its a soundboard copy, mixed by the bands engineer! NO DRM. No restrictions.
You're nothing more than a cop and king of the straw man arguments, aren't you? Public political discourse is about confrontation. It always has been. The kid is outraged and who can blame him? Outrage is encouraged these days. Its been discussed too many times in this forum. Hell, I'm outraged at the state of thing. He got to ask Kerry the same questions I would have asked: "why didn't you organize to impeach Bush?"; "why did you conceded an election you appeared to win?". And the implied questions about election rigging and the war. I'm sure next time he'll have better considered how to make a point. He's young after all. He will learn.
I can't believe the number of idiots at the rally who applauded his removal. I can't believe the number of idiots who wouldn't help him gain some composure. Especially someone from the senator's staff. The senator stated he was willing to answer his questions, but no, we always have to have a show of force as a crowd pleaser.
But I really can't believe the number of freaks on this site. "He deserved it". "He's only after his fifteen minutes". Hell, one moron even went so far as to suggest he was on drugs. And the Procedure Monkeys and Decorum Puritans who want to split hairs about where to stand or who the microphone belongs to or who's in charge. All of you know as well as I that any appearance by anyone in authority is a staged affair. It needs to be interrupted. And pointed questions need to be asked. Because there's really no other place to ask them, is there?
Just to make everyone happy, throwing the kid out on his ass probably would have sufficed. The "adult" thing to do would have been the senator himself stepping over and asking the kid to take a breath, then letting him have his say.
--te
All the "..and if..." replies really miss the point here. Its not that he's stating the obvious, he's saying the glory days of IT security as an aftermarket industry are over. The focus of IT security is shifting from point products that deal only with the threat du jour, to integrated infrastructure. Security as a service, if you will.
Look at Cisco. More and more of the monitoring and mitigation systems we run are turning up as part of the switch in next generation gear.
Businesses want simple, cost effective systems that are built in to the infrastructure, don't get in the way of the money-making, and keep the bank and federal auditors happy.
Besides, the best security tools are free. And most of IT security is just plain common sense. You don't have to have been at it as long as I have to know that. The technology we use only works one way, so threats aren't that hard to figure out. The rule is to be aware of what runs on your network and keep an eye on what comes and goes. If in the years to come that's all built in, cool.
My personal longest on an SSN was 108 days submerged on a spec-op. The only reason we ported was because we ran completely out of food - including having eaten the emergency rations from the escape trunks. Our CO was a maniac.
That same op, the fresh-water still broke down on day 63, meaning 32 of those submerged days was without a shower, and the last 10 without any "personal hygiene".
I rode Permit class boats out of San Diego at the height of the Reagan years. We spent an average of 300 days a year at sea. I remember once we went out for a weekly op and picked up a contact on the way to Santa Catalina. 41 days later we stopped in Subic for food and to call home.
Ah the good ol' days.
RM1/ss
Galactic 4.12.05 and 11.2.05 --the last Mississippi Nights shows. Both absolutely will FUNK your ass off!
Widespread Panic 7.31.06 (Fox Theater St. Louis!!) and 4.28.02 (the last great Oak Mountain show)
moe. 3.5.05 --Crab Eyes. Ooooo...
Aquarium Rescue Unit 9.17.02 --Jimmy Herring and Count Mbutu!!
KVHW 6.19.99 (Cazadero firemans benefit with Maceo Parker) --you haven't heard the guitar played until you hear Steve Kimmock
Gov't Mule 10.21.04--post-Allman Bros. Warren Haynes at his best. There are DVD-A copies of this show floating around. Find one!
Les Claypool's set from Bonnaroo 2002 --Buckethead! Oh my...
Oh get off. Holding a doctorate in the Arts means one can organize and defend a thesis. It does not make one "extremely intelligent". You'd agree if you'd read Newt's thesis on Belgian education policy in the Congo.
Now I'll agree with you that its impossible to know what he actually said *during* his speech, but his quotes from a separate interview are awfully telling. Gingrich is a weasel, a carpetbagger, and a political opportunist - nothing short of another Huey Long-style Bob Roberts. He had nothing to say in the '90's and he has nothing to say now. But whatever he says, you can be sure its poison.
So don't throw out that "take a deep breath" crap when it comes to Newt and his Ph.D. The man never wanted anything but power and that's all he wants now.
"Political parties in Presidential primary states should host events that invite candidates from both parties to discuss issues, said Gingrich, who criticized the sharpness of today's politics"
*Gingrich* criticizes the sharpness of today's politics?? Is this the same Gingrich who concocted the Contract On America?
"Gingrich said voters unhappy with the war, the response to Hurricane Katrina and pork barrel spending were the main drive behind the GOP's rejection at the polls. But he argued Republicans would have retained the Senate and just narrowly lost the House if President Bush had announced the departure of embattled Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld before, instead of after, the election."
Yeah, that would have made it all better.
People like Gingrich really do take us all for suckers. I guess the money and the fame is more important.
Or maybe I am. I couldn't care less.
.iso has over 100 keys in it. I picked one. Lately I've let WGA install and do its thing and never had a problem.
I downloaded a copy of XP Pro SP1 from somewhere (can't remember the site) nearly four years ago. The license.txt file that came with the
These days I have the same XP load running under VMWare on my Fedora box. If WGA ever shuts it down, I'll just delete the image and go on with life. I wish it was that easy for everyone....
When I was growing up in Arkansas, the state motto was "Thank God for Alabama"....
The subject line here is the best advice you will ever get. One additional: *stay* out of debt.
Rule of thumb for the just starting out: If you can't pay for it in cash out of your budget, you don't need it.
Couple of common sense things:
- Avoid credit cards - especially gas cards. Get one from your bank to establish your credit and put it away. Save it for emergencies, but if you have to pay one penny in interest on the card, ever, pay it off and cut it up.
- I wish I could have lived in my parents basement while at school. If you really want to save money, figure out monthly expenses (rent, utilities, insurance) and put that in the bank. If you find yourself without food money, you can't afford to live on your own.
- Ask you father how much insurance on your car costs. See if you can save that monthly.
- Ask your father how much owning a house *really* costs in terms of mortgage interest, upkeep, and monthly expenses. See if you can save that.
- Learn to cook. Eating out will will not only kill you but drain your resources quickly.
- Learn to budget. Try Quicken, GNUCash, etc...Know how much money you have down to the penny every day.
Last things:
- As soon as you hit the street with your diploma you're going to have to pay that loan back. If you can't afford rent and food, how can you afford loan payments?
- Investing is nothing more than legalized gambling. Study. For years. Then invest your own money.
- Gambling with my money will get your ass kicked.
Study hard and good luck.
"When you talk to someone from the former East Block, you'll probably get very different responses when it comes to issues like this."
That's right on the money.
I've recently spent alot of time in Ukraine. The average person is remarkably asute, politically. Infinitely moreso than in this country. They question everything and take nothing for granted. And then there's the "black Volga in the middle of the night" stories. Everybody has one. Some are hair-raising. Wait until we get to that stage.
Whats more, they accept as normal a level of graft and corruption in government that we are only beginning to realize with our current administration. Part of it is culture, but another part is the resignation to accept it so long as the goverment functions, basic services are available, private business is encouraged, the currency is stable, and the economy continues to grow. And so long as whoever has "The Seat" doesn't let the US horn in.
And part of their employment shouldn't be travelling performance? What planet are you from?
You seem to think that having talent and making an effort entitles one in the to a guaranted paycheck. Give up the notion of "starving artist"? Everyone has to pay their dues. Everyone has to put in their time and buy their materials. Not everyone makes it. That's life. It doesn't matter what a person chooses to do. You're not defending anyones "rights". You're making the phoney argument that every downloaded song is dinner lost. I'm sorry, but it just doesn't work that way, and I think you know it. The issue is DRM and DRM is greed.
Face it: common technology has surpassed your idea of making money. I know how much recording equipment costs because I used to buy it and tote it around. I made some damn good concert recordings but those days are gone. If you'd bothered to check the links I posted you'd see that there's more than just five bands that give their music away. There's thousands. None of them are asking for handouts. They've taken advantage of technology. They're doing the very thing you think you're making a case for: they've taken control of the distribution of their product. They've figured out that there's scores of people with recording equipment and blank CD's and high speed connections and networks of friends who will come to the show and pass along the result. Free advertising, promotions, distributions. What more could an artist want?
Do I support the the artist? Sure, if in my opinion said support is worth it. How does downloading help? If I like the product, I'll pass it along and help get the artist another customer. Welcome to 21st century music. There's a lot of it out there and its a buyers market.
What do you mean a band shouldn't have to perform? What's the purpose of professional musicianship if not to entertain in public?
As far as music goes, the idea that something one creates is then open to all is universal. Thats exactly the purpose of art. What you seem to be defending is the greed of a set of middle men whos time has come and gone. No one dictated to the bands I mentioned that they give away their work. They chose to. And it made them quite successful. None of those bands decided to allow taping when they started selling out arenas, either. Taping and free distribution is how they built their fan base as they worked their way up from smokey bars and weddings over a period of long years. And in the interim they decided as a business who would control the distribution of their work.
So where's the disrespect? There are many in this forum who've stated they believe sharing music boosts music sales. I'm one of them. I think the bands I mentioned bear that out. Its fine that you believe that an artist should be paid, but its up to the artist to figure out how. They can do it honestly and play well for the money, or they can use the government to force their agents into my wallet. Guess which artists' music I buy?
"So what you're saying, essentially, is that if a musician wants to make money he needs to perform it while you have the "right" to record, copy and redistribute at will? if that's the case they won't make much from concerts either as their live recordings will be spread world wide before he can even get to his second gig!"
You're a little behind the times. For many, many successfully bands, that's exactly the business model they employ. Bands like Phish, Widespread Panic, Dave Mattews Band, Blues Traveller, Galactic, etc., all allow fans to record and distribute their music. These bands make good money from live performances and schwag sales. Hell, Panic is one of the top touring acts in the world and has never made a video, never had commercial airplay. They also sell quite a few of their studio releases with no advertising. Ah, the power of fan distribution.
I think you'll be suprised at the number of bands that allow taping. Check out BTAT (http://btat.wagnerone.com/) or Archive (www.archive.org)