I absolutely agree with this recommendation. Interstellar Pig was a book that was read to my 4th grade class. I picked up House of Stairs on my own after that. They are both excellent for the pre-teen group.
I also highly recommend Madeleine L'Engle's A Swiftly Tilting Planet (and the rest of that series). The target for this book is young but it discusses something so adult as folding space. To this day I remember the analogy for folding space in the book.
I think that Foundation and Ender's Game are probably too much for a young adult even though they are fantastic books.
If you have such lazy users that they can't be bothered to remember the correct URL or server name then use aliases. Give the servers good host names that make sense to the IT department (such as fs01 for file server 1) and add aliases in DNS for applications residing on the server (such as salesdata1).
These articles blow more chunks than a Uwe Boll "movie." PLEASE stop posting them on Slashdot. This site is supposed to be "news for nerds" and "stuff that matters." This article is neither.
This slide show could easily be up for the Top 10 Worst web slide shows. You can't click through from beginning to end and see all the companies. Besides, these places aren't even that bad.
Most HR departments are full of people who have no idea how to recognize good people from a resume. They almost always look for letters in a resume that match up with letters in a job description. "Let's see, we need someone with Java experience and this resume says Java on it so this candidate must be good."
Therefore, I suggest, as many have suggested, that you choose the college that you think will be the most fun. For some people MIT is fun. For others its fun being on a campus with lots of beautiful women who think that kinda nerdy guy in their Study of Love Poems class is cute.
You best chance to get valuable programming experience will be to get internships and take on side projects. I would bet that all schools will give you the basic theory of programming well enough for you to jump right in and start programming your school's new "Hot or Not" web site.
This article was terrible. How in the heck did it make to the main page? It was poorly written, didn't address the supposed topic very well, never really reached a conclusion and sure didn't convince me that the premise that open source has no competition was false.
Using either the free VMWare Player or Server you can isolate and easily recover from any impact students may have on the system itself. In addition to locking down the host OS itself using the great suggestions made here I would advise simulating a Kiosk type of environment. VMWare is a great way to do that.
I am very familiar with the default policy for IE on Windows Server 2003. It is an interesting solution that doesn't scale. If instead of creating a default feature that is so annoying that most people disable it immediately I think the absence of IE alltogether would have been better. There are many different ways to download files from the Internet and local network that don't require maintaining a white list or using an application that is known to have a large number of vulnerabilities.
If I were using Mac as a web server then yes, I'd like my Mac to serve up whatever I needed to serve, to do directory listings and be capable of being managed. I'd like my Mac to be capable of doing only one other thing; installing software that I later determine is important to the function of that server.
If I were using a Mac at home as a PC then I'd want all the rest of the stuff that makes a PC usefull at home.
The existence of vulnerable code on a system is a risk. That risk can be mitigated with processes and procedures (like "don't run IE on the servers") but any risk mitigating procedure that relies on human discipline is bound to fail sooner rather than later.
There are also many cases of a malware using code in other applications to spread or gain escalated priveleges.
If I don't need IE or Media Player to serve web pages to customers I don't want them on my server. Mr. Nash already seems to have comprehended part of the solution. That is to disable or remove services that aren't needed. RRAS would be a great example of a service that comes installed by default in Windows that isn't needed by a large majority of the Windows servers in use today. Apparently I can only hope that Microsoft will continue applying their SD3 process to applications as well.
Ignorati this... If I have a server that doesn't have a browser installed then I'm not at risk to a wide variety and large number of vulnerabilities. There is no FUD in the fact that reducing exposure reduces risk. Mr. Nash stated as much when describing SD3. SD3 does sound like a nice security paradigm. It also sounds like Microsoft needs to commit a little bit more to seeing it through.
The real implication of not having IE installed by default is that it says to many people that IE isn't very important. It also gives some competitors an entry point to attack Microsoft. As stated elsewhere in this interview, Microsoft is focused on the competition. If IE isn't installed by default I imagine you would see a Google browser in less than 6 months.
It is a terrible fact that many software vendors will continue to take security risks in the name of user experience when that's not really the case.
Microsoft still seems to think that
I subscribe to the philosophy that added functionality equals added risk. A server OS that allows administrators to completely customize its functionality would also allow them to manage their risk.
Is Microsoft considering a server OS that allows administrators to completely remove unwanted components/applications?
I feel that I shouldn't have to patch a server for an IE vulnerability if nobody on that server should be using IE. That becomes even more true with WMP and Outlook Express.
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I absolutely agree with this recommendation. Interstellar Pig was a book that was read to my 4th grade class. I picked up House of Stairs on my own after that. They are both excellent for the pre-teen group.
I also highly recommend Madeleine L'Engle's A Swiftly Tilting Planet (and the rest of that series). The target for this book is young but it discusses something so adult as folding space. To this day I remember the analogy for folding space in the book.
I think that Foundation and Ender's Game are probably too much for a young adult even though they are fantastic books.
Its DNS. Use it.
If you have such lazy users that they can't be bothered to remember the correct URL or server name then use aliases. Give the servers good host names that make sense to the IT department (such as fs01 for file server 1) and add aliases in DNS for applications residing on the server (such as salesdata1).
These articles blow more chunks than a Uwe Boll "movie." PLEASE stop posting them on Slashdot. This site is supposed to be "news for nerds" and "stuff that matters." This article is neither.
This slide show could easily be up for the Top 10 Worst web slide shows. You can't click through from beginning to end and see all the companies. Besides, these places aren't even that bad.
This sort of "article" is just flame bait. It doesn't provide any new information nor does it push any sort of point with facts or clarity.
Most HR departments are full of people who have no idea how to recognize good people from a resume. They almost always look for letters in a resume that match up with letters in a job description. "Let's see, we need someone with Java experience and this resume says Java on it so this candidate must be good."
Therefore, I suggest, as many have suggested, that you choose the college that you think will be the most fun. For some people MIT is fun. For others its fun being on a campus with lots of beautiful women who think that kinda nerdy guy in their Study of Love Poems class is cute.
You best chance to get valuable programming experience will be to get internships and take on side projects. I would bet that all schools will give you the basic theory of programming well enough for you to jump right in and start programming your school's new "Hot or Not" web site.
This article was terrible. How in the heck did it make to the main page? It was poorly written, didn't address the supposed topic very well, never really reached a conclusion and sure didn't convince me that the premise that open source has no competition was false.
Using either the free VMWare Player or Server you can isolate and easily recover from any impact students may have on the system itself. In addition to locking down the host OS itself using the great suggestions made here I would advise simulating a Kiosk type of environment. VMWare is a great way to do that.
I am very familiar with the default policy for IE on Windows Server 2003. It is an interesting solution that doesn't scale. If instead of creating a default feature that is so annoying that most people disable it immediately I think the absence of IE alltogether would have been better. There are many different ways to download files from the Internet and local network that don't require maintaining a white list or using an application that is known to have a large number of vulnerabilities.
If I were using Mac as a web server then yes, I'd like my Mac to serve up whatever I needed to serve, to do directory listings and be capable of being managed. I'd like my Mac to be capable of doing only one other thing; installing software that I later determine is important to the function of that server.
If I were using a Mac at home as a PC then I'd want all the rest of the stuff that makes a PC usefull at home.
The existence of vulnerable code on a system is a risk. That risk can be mitigated with processes and procedures (like "don't run IE on the servers") but any risk mitigating procedure that relies on human discipline is bound to fail sooner rather than later.
There are also many cases of a malware using code in other applications to spread or gain escalated priveleges.
If I don't need IE or Media Player to serve web pages to customers I don't want them on my server. Mr. Nash already seems to have comprehended part of the solution. That is to disable or remove services that aren't needed. RRAS would be a great example of a service that comes installed by default in Windows that isn't needed by a large majority of the Windows servers in use today. Apparently I can only hope that Microsoft will continue applying their SD3 process to applications as well.
Ignorati this... If I have a server that doesn't have a browser installed then I'm not at risk to a wide variety and large number of vulnerabilities. There is no FUD in the fact that reducing exposure reduces risk. Mr. Nash stated as much when describing SD3. SD3 does sound like a nice security paradigm. It also sounds like Microsoft needs to commit a little bit more to seeing it through. The real implication of not having IE installed by default is that it says to many people that IE isn't very important. It also gives some competitors an entry point to attack Microsoft. As stated elsewhere in this interview, Microsoft is focused on the competition. If IE isn't installed by default I imagine you would see a Google browser in less than 6 months. It is a terrible fact that many software vendors will continue to take security risks in the name of user experience when that's not really the case. Microsoft still seems to think that
This is the type of questions I was going to ask.
I subscribe to the philosophy that added functionality equals added risk. A server OS that allows administrators to completely customize its functionality would also allow them to manage their risk.
Is Microsoft considering a server OS that allows administrators to completely remove unwanted components/applications?
I feel that I shouldn't have to patch a server for an IE vulnerability if nobody on that server should be using IE. That becomes even more true with WMP and Outlook Express.