What they (as in Rogers) is doing is setting bittorrent to least priority. Anything else will get higher priority. I guess theoretically if you were the only person behind the throttler you wouldn't see any difference. dslreports forum has a pretty good diary of how people have seen it roll out across Ontario.
That's funny since Rogers is doing that now. They introduced it in the Ottawa area a while back. Some days I get 100K but mostly it is are 10-40k. During Xmas it was as low as 1-3k.
I would get Bell (they aren't traffic shaping and have no immediate plans) but DSL isn't in my area and I live in Western Ottawa proper.
it is even worse than that in Windows as of Win2K. Users are not only taught that files are called documents (then wtf is the boot.ini?) they are no longer directories, they are now called folders.
When I migrated a Major over from 95 to 2000 he was pissed that he lost his stats in Freecell. Solved that issue quick. We mandated no games to be installed in the Desktop Images. Pretty difficult to argue against that. Mind you the uniforms were ok. The civies were threatening grievances.
Leading Edge Rocket Racing" was launched by entrepreneurs and former F-16 pilots Don "Dagger" Grantham and Robert "Bobaloo" Rickard who see this as the "next great flying experience."
What is the difference between a jet fighter and the fighter pilot inside it?
The jet stops whining when it's turned off./Thanks I'll be here all week! Enjoy the Prime Rib!
Saw it once when I was in College. We installed Doom on a couple of machines in the computer lab but there was a noticable lag unless you shrunk the screen to the smallest size. Mind you they were 386 with maybe a meg of Video Ram (possibly 512K)
The petabox is one rack, the EMC "box" is 9 racks. More drives always gives you better performance No, the petabox is 10 racks to get a peta. You only (only?) get 100 terabytes in a rack. See the second bullet in the Overview.
Sysprep is still better. You can do everything needed plus Sysprep resets all the hardware settings so that you can use the image on varying hardware platforms (different NICs, sound cards Video Cards, chipsets). Look up the OEMPNPDriverPath entry. You can pretty much get it to the point that someone just puts in the workstation Name and that's it, everything else has been automated. You can even automate the naming to a certain degree.
I'm a little hazy on the legalities of this as well. The way it's always been explained to me is that you need a licnece of Ghost to create an image. Also, if you're running the full-on Windows client, you will of course need a license for that. However, I've always been told that when restoring an image to a PC, it is legally permitted to use the DOS version of Ghost without a licence for that PC. Now whether or not that's true, I'm not sure. I've never bothered to read the licence documentation, instead trusting the word of my higher ups.
Nope you need to have a Ghost license for every single workstation that will have a Ghost image applied to it. I was involved in an update for a site of approx 17000 users and they mentioned that they would have to buy new licenses for all the machines if they decided to Ghost. They started investigating RIP from MS which comes free.
Sysprep is your friend you can get the machine to do practically everything including join to a domain (use an account that only has permissions to join a domain so that you don't divulge a key account) as well as creating generic images. I had an image that would work on over 8 different desktops and about 6 laptops.
My wife took cognitive psych last semester and they mentioned someone who had essentially lost their short term memory so he didn't learn anything new. Well not quite that because they did an experiment where he shook the hand of the doctor but the doctor had put a thumbtack in his hand. The next day he wouldn't shake the doctors hand. The reason he gave was that he had heard from someone that there was somebody going around doing what had occured the day before. So it seems that things that stay in their head long enough skip over short term and get into long term.
Sorry I meant SUS which is Microsoft's implementation of the Window's Update service where admins can download and bless what patches their workstations will get. Definitely handy if set up and diligently administered.
Looking at how many companies I have seen(including previous security companies that preach one thing but don't necessarily practice it) don't lock down their desktops who knows what could be done. It is (mostly) theoretical anyways assuming that specific things come together.
Forgot 2 more important pieces of advice: 4. Randomize the local admin password 5. Add specific security group to the local Administrators that all workstation support admin accounts belong to.
I agree with what you are saying but the only thing that could become an issue is depending on how the laptop is configured (i.e ICS is enabled), theoretically someone could use the wireless access that they have now acquired to get access to the rest of the network. I have seen with so many companies how the three top rules are ignored: 1. No admin access with a user account. If the person is required in their job to need that level of access, create them an account that they can run the necessary app with. 2. Utilize proxies to get access to the internet, no direct connection through the firewall. Reduces specific applications from getting out (oh and log everything) 3. Patch your machines dammit. Hell using MS's SAS will make your job easier. Once you have tested to make sure it doesn't break anything then approve the patch for your users.
Disclaimer: I used to work for Entrust but decided to get back into IT Consulting (I found supporting the same PKI day in and day out does get a bit dull after a while) but I thought I should give them a little plug
What will drive this will be developing and promoting a decent public PKI system. "Stop by the Customer Service Counter with enough ID and someone (with a bit of training) will certify you for a "Trusted Customer Card & Code" today!" It already exists, well in Canada anyways. The Government of Canada's epass system (http://www.entrust.com/government/goc.htm) uses Entrust's Self Authentication Server and TruePass to create a secure web site where the user gets a certificate to do specific tasks online that they would normally need to call or visit an office. Mind you they can't use it for anything else than the GoC's website as nothing gets dropped to the user's computer but really that wouldn't be hard to do and have the user store it in their CAPI store so CAPI aware applications (i.e Outlook) could use it or even export to a PKCS#12 file that they could import into Thunderbird.
Roll out a free plugin for the top 5 email clients and the lead will be impressive. It's techie, it's "smart", it'll be like recycling without having to deal with material objects.
I was trying to push for some kind of plug-in for Thunderbird for at least Windows when I was there but alas not enough customer demand.:( However most modern PKI will export the user's cert to a PKCS#12 or PKCS#7 file which could be imported into a third-party app or directly into the CAPI store for MS Windows. The Plug-ins just make it easier. As well for Entrust with EMS 8 and WebMail Center (which are both based off of linux using TomCat as an interface) the recipient doesn't necessarily need to have a cert.
Essentially what happens is the sender emails but since he doesn't have the user's cert it gets forwarded (encrypted for the EMS server) to the EMS Server. The EMS server will then send an email to the final recipient requesting to harvest their cert by replying to the email sent with a signed copy. Once the EMS server gets back the signed email, it will use the attached public certs to encrypt for the final recipient. With WebMail center what occurs is that in the email the EMS server sent, there would be a URL which the recipient would go to using SSL. At that URL, a mailbox will have been created that the recipient would be able to use to read their email as well as respond.
It was nifty to use and interesting to work there but I decided I wanted to do other things in my life besides PKI.
I know French probably better than some French people know English but yet they get paid better. As I said language is not imperative for the job in question.
Would you like a GP working on your Brain just because he can speak Spanish even though the medical staff in the OR speak English and there is a Brain Surgeon who can do a better job but doesn't speak Spanish?
I'd much rather see someone lose because the other person is better at the job than see someone lose because they were born in the wrong spot or have the wrong skin color.
Problem in Canada is that there are situations (cough) Public Service (cough) where they will pick someone who has less experience/knowledge/compentency for a job just because they speak French even if the job would not require it. I have been skipped over and I know people who were on the other side who were forced to do this. It occurs especially in the IT field.
I do agree though that immigration is key for North America to ensure that the population remains balanced but dictating an unnecessary qualification becoming an asset that is taken to weigh more than proper credentials for a job should not occur.
Last time I checked you weren't supposed to rest your wrist. Matter of fact you were supposed to lock your wrist and do mouse movements further up the arm.
They are both better at reducing injuries in not so hazardous situations, but both are more likely to kill you in serious situations.
It is true for the people in your car probably having less injuries when yours has the largest Mass but the question remains of what is the impact when an SUV hits another SUV? Are you still as safe as hitting a car?
And a hell of a lot of time to convert it from DivX/Xvid to MPeg2.
Unless you are fortunate to have a DVD player that will read MPeg4 which I do and trust me it was worth buying as 11 hours on a DVD that takes 20-30 minutes to burn rather than the amount of time converting. (Insert Plug for Oppo here) Cost me $200Cdn but I love it. Plus upsampling to 720P and 1080i is nice as well. (did I mention that it is Firmware upgradeable as well?)
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What they (as in Rogers) is doing is setting bittorrent to least priority. Anything else will get higher priority. I guess theoretically if you were the only person behind the throttler you wouldn't see any difference. dslreports forum has a pretty good diary of how people have seen it roll out across Ontario.
That's funny since Rogers is doing that now. They introduced it in the Ottawa area a while back. Some days I get 100K but mostly it is are 10-40k. During Xmas it was as low as 1-3k.
I would get Bell (they aren't traffic shaping and have no immediate plans) but DSL isn't in my area and I live in Western Ottawa proper.
No need to be snarky. I figured it was older than that but it was around the release of Windows 2000 when someone "corrected" me on it.
it is even worse than that in Windows as of Win2K. Users are not only taught that files are called documents (then wtf is the boot.ini?) they are no longer directories, they are now called folders.
When I migrated a Major over from 95 to 2000 he was pissed that he lost his stats in Freecell. Solved that issue quick. We mandated no games to be installed in the Desktop Images.
Pretty difficult to argue against that. Mind you the uniforms were ok. The civies were threatening grievances.
Leading Edge Rocket Racing" was launched by entrepreneurs and former F-16 pilots Don "Dagger" Grantham and Robert "Bobaloo" Rickard who see this as the "next great flying experience."
/Thanks I'll be here all week! Enjoy the Prime Rib!
What is the difference between a jet fighter and the fighter pilot inside it?
The jet stops whining when it's turned off.
Saw it once when I was in College. We installed Doom on a couple of machines in the computer lab but there was a noticable lag unless you shrunk the screen to the smallest size. Mind you they were 386 with maybe a meg of Video Ram (possibly 512K)
Ah good times, good times.
The petabox is one rack, the EMC "box" is 9 racks. More drives always gives you better performance
No, the petabox is 10 racks to get a peta. You only (only?) get 100 terabytes in a rack. See the second bullet in the Overview.
your mind's storage density is greater than paper
Yeah but the transfer from reality to memory is inconsistent from one person to another. Need some ECC on it.
Sysprep is still better. You can do everything needed plus Sysprep resets all the hardware settings so that you can use the image on varying hardware platforms (different NICs, sound cards Video Cards, chipsets). Look up the OEMPNPDriverPath entry.
You can pretty much get it to the point that someone just puts in the workstation Name and that's it, everything else has been automated. You can even automate the naming to a certain degree.
I'm a little hazy on the legalities of this as well. The way it's always been explained to me is that you need a licnece of Ghost to create an image. Also, if you're running the full-on Windows client, you will of course need a license for that. However, I've always been told that when restoring an image to a PC, it is legally permitted to use the DOS version of Ghost without a licence for that PC. Now whether or not that's true, I'm not sure. I've never bothered to read the licence documentation, instead trusting the word of my higher ups.
Nope you need to have a Ghost license for every single workstation that will have a Ghost image applied to it. I was involved in an update for a site of approx 17000 users and they mentioned that they would have to buy new licenses for all the machines if they decided to Ghost. They started investigating RIP from MS which comes free.
Sysprep is your friend you can get the machine to do practically everything including join to a domain (use an account that only has permissions to join a domain so that you don't divulge a key account) as well as creating generic images. I had an image that would work on over 8 different desktops and about 6 laptops.
My wife took cognitive psych last semester and they mentioned someone who had essentially lost their short term memory so he didn't learn anything new. Well not quite that because they did an experiment where he shook the hand of the doctor but the doctor had put a thumbtack in his hand. The next day he wouldn't shake the doctors hand. The reason he gave was that he had heard from someone that there was somebody going around doing what had occured the day before. So it seems that things that stay in their head long enough skip over short term and get into long term.
Sorry I meant SUS which is Microsoft's implementation of the Window's Update service where admins can download and bless what patches their workstations will get. Definitely handy if set up and diligently administered.
Looking at how many companies I have seen(including previous security companies that preach one thing but don't necessarily practice it) don't lock down their desktops who knows what could be done. It is (mostly) theoretical anyways assuming that specific things come together.
Forgot 2 more important pieces of advice:
4. Randomize the local admin password
5. Add specific security group to the local Administrators that all workstation support admin accounts belong to.
I agree with what you are saying but the only thing that could become an issue is depending on how the laptop is configured (i.e ICS is enabled), theoretically someone could use the wireless access that they have now acquired to get access to the rest of the network. I have seen with so many companies how the three top rules are ignored:
1. No admin access with a user account. If the person is required in their job to need that level of access, create them an account that they can run the necessary app with.
2. Utilize proxies to get access to the internet, no direct connection through the firewall. Reduces specific applications from getting out (oh and log everything)
3. Patch your machines dammit. Hell using MS's SAS will make your job easier. Once you have tested to make sure it doesn't break anything then approve the patch for your users.
Disclaimer: I used to work for Entrust but decided to get back into IT Consulting (I found supporting the same PKI day in and day out does get a bit dull after a while) but I thought I should give them a little plug
:( However most modern PKI will export the user's cert to a PKCS#12 or PKCS#7 file which could be imported into a third-party app or directly into the CAPI store for MS Windows. The Plug-ins just make it easier. As well for Entrust with EMS 8 and WebMail Center (which are both based off of linux using TomCat as an interface) the recipient doesn't necessarily need to have a cert.
What will drive this will be developing and promoting a decent public PKI system. "Stop by the Customer Service Counter with enough ID and someone (with a bit of training) will certify you for a "Trusted Customer Card & Code" today!"
It already exists, well in Canada anyways.
The Government of Canada's epass system (http://www.entrust.com/government/goc.htm) uses Entrust's Self Authentication Server and TruePass to create a secure web site where the user gets a certificate to do specific tasks online that they would normally need to call or visit an office. Mind you they can't use it for anything else than the GoC's website as nothing gets dropped to the user's computer but really that wouldn't be hard to do and have the user store it in their CAPI store so CAPI aware applications (i.e Outlook) could use it or even export to a PKCS#12 file that they could import into Thunderbird.
Roll out a free plugin for the top 5 email clients and the lead will be impressive. It's techie, it's "smart", it'll be like recycling without having to deal with material objects.
I was trying to push for some kind of plug-in for Thunderbird for at least Windows when I was there but alas not enough customer demand.
Essentially what happens is the sender emails but since he doesn't have the user's cert it gets forwarded (encrypted for the EMS server) to the EMS Server. The EMS server will then send an email to the final recipient requesting to harvest their cert by replying to the email sent with a signed copy. Once the EMS server gets back the signed email, it will use the attached public certs to encrypt for the final recipient. With WebMail center what occurs is that in the email the EMS server sent, there would be a URL which the recipient would go to using SSL. At that URL, a mailbox will have been created that the recipient would be able to use to read their email as well as respond.
It was nifty to use and interesting to work there but I decided I wanted to do other things in my life besides PKI.
I know French probably better than some French people know English but yet they get paid better. As I said language is not imperative for the job in question.
Would you like a GP working on your Brain just because he can speak Spanish even though the medical staff in the OR speak English and there is a Brain Surgeon who can do a better job but doesn't speak Spanish?
I'd much rather see someone lose because the other person is better at the job than see someone lose because they were born in the wrong spot or have the wrong skin color.
Problem in Canada is that there are situations (cough) Public Service (cough) where they will pick someone who has less experience/knowledge/compentency for a job just because they speak French even if the job would not require it. I have been skipped over and I know people who were on the other side who were forced to do this. It occurs especially in the IT field.
I do agree though that immigration is key for North America to ensure that the population remains balanced but dictating an unnecessary qualification becoming an asset that is taken to weigh more than proper credentials for a job should not occur.
IANAL but that may fit into trademark infringement due to confusion by the consumer but it would probably be a difficult case to win.
Last time I checked you weren't supposed to rest your wrist. Matter of fact you were supposed to lock your wrist and do mouse movements further up the arm.
They are both better at reducing injuries in not so hazardous situations, but both are more likely to kill you in serious situations.
It is true for the people in your car probably having less injuries when yours has the largest Mass but the question remains of what is the impact when an SUV hits another SUV? Are you still as safe as hitting a car?
True my point was that you would think that the military would have consistent standards throughout in what is the defacto browser, desktop OS etc.
The thing I find interesting is that their MPs are a separate organization from their normal military.
Oh and good on them for the switch.
I vaguely remember him saying something about Windows 2000 putting the nail in the coffin for Linux way back in 99.
I believe it was also posted on Slashdot then as well but I am too lazy to look.
And a hell of a lot of time to convert it from DivX/Xvid to MPeg2.
Unless you are fortunate to have a DVD player that will read MPeg4 which I do and trust me it was worth buying as 11 hours on a DVD that takes 20-30 minutes to burn rather than the amount of time converting. (Insert Plug for Oppo here) Cost me $200Cdn but I love it. Plus upsampling to 720P and 1080i is nice as well. (did I mention that it is Firmware upgradeable as well?)
Same with Dogs. My wife had taken in a stray at one point and couldn't get it to sit by saying "Sit" so she said it in French; the dog sat.