On 26 Aug 2010, at 07:38, Dave Smith wrote:
My company is proposing installing an NTLM-based filtering proxy and shutting
down all other internet access. This of course is not too friendly to Linux
users. What does your company do to deal with malware?
Remove all Microsoft operating
Google did that, too.
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Jonathan Duncan
jonat...@bluesunhosting.com wrote:
On 26 Aug 2010, at 07:38, Dave Smith wrote:
My company is proposing installing an NTLM-based filtering proxy and
shutting down all other internet access. This of course is not too
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:14:01 -0600
William Attwood wattw...@gmail.com wrote:
Google did that, too.
Aye, and I did it nigh on eleven years ago, long before Google did.
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Jonathan Duncan
jonat...@bluesunhosting.com wrote:
On 26 Aug 2010, at 07:38, Dave
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Charles Curley
charlescur...@charlescurley.com wrote:
My company is proposing installing an NTLM-based filtering proxy
and shutting down all other internet access. This of course is not too
friendly to Linux users. What does your company do to deal with
On 26 Aug 2010, at 09:57, Christer Edwards wrote:
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Charles Curley
charlescur...@charlescurley.com wrote:
My company is proposing installing an NTLM-based filtering proxy
and shutting down all other internet access. This of course is not too
friendly to Linux
On 08/26/2010 08:14 AM, William Attwood wrote:
Google did that, too.
Thanks for the info. Do you know if lots of other companies have also
done this?
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On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Dave Smith d...@thesmithfam.org wrote:
My company is proposing installing an NTLM-based filtering proxy and shutting
down all other internet access. This of course is not too friendly to Linux
users. What does your company do to deal with malware?
Instead of
On 08/26/2010 10:00 AM, Lonnie Olson wrote:
Proxies are really annoying to everyone. Transparent proxies, inline
filtering, etc are much better.
Agreed. They cannot filter SSL traffic, right? One advantage (if you can
call it that) of an explicit proxy is that it can do SSL filtering
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Dave Smith d...@thesmithfam.org wrote:
Agreed. They cannot filter SSL traffic, right? One advantage (if you can
call it that) of an explicit proxy is that it can do SSL filtering (albeit
in a broken, obnoxious way).
True, but many of the stock appliances
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 10:00 -0600, Dave Smith wrote:
Thanks for the info. Do you know if lots of other companies have also
done this?
Completely eliminated Windows? Not many.
Obviously it's possible to a small company off from Windows. For as long
as I've worked at GL we've had only one
On 26 Aug 2010, at 11:04, Stuart Jansen wrote:
Novell made a big announcement about getting rid of Windows, but I don't think
it actually happened.
Yeah, I remember when they did that. I was there and I was already running
Linux so they asked me to help other people switch. There was a
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:21:13AM -0600, Bryan Thomas wrote:
out of curiosity, why do you say that they all suck? what would make
them better?
As others have said, dealing with batteries is a pain, and they fail
frequently. I've also been frustrated to find that when a battery
fails,
Having had several UPS' fail on me over the years, I can agree with that
statement at it's core. The problem with it however, is if not UPS (battery
tech), then what? Unfortunately, there aren't many viable options available
out there today (short of having a diesel generating on standby next to
On 08/26/2010 01:11 PM, Tyler Harmor wrote:
Having had several UPS' fail on me over the years, I can agree with that
statement at it's core. The problem with it however, is if not UPS (battery
tech), then what? Unfortunately, there aren't many viable options available
out there today (short
Yes, sorry. I was being more sarcastic then anything with that last
comment.
ty|er.
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Corey Edwards ten...@zmonkey.org wrote:
On 08/26/2010 01:11 PM, Tyler Harmor wrote:
Having had several UPS' fail on me over the years, I can agree with that
statement at
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 01:11:22PM -0600, Tyler Harmor wrote:
Having had several UPS' fail on me over the years, I can agree with that
statement at it's core. The problem with it however, is if not UPS (battery
tech), then what? Unfortunately, there aren't many viable options available
out
On 08/26/2010 11:04 AM, Stuart Jansen wrote:
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 10:00 -0600, Dave Smith wrote:
Thanks for the info. Do you know if lots of other companies have also
done this?
Completely eliminated Windows? Not many.
No, I was talking about implementing filtered,
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:48:18 -0600
Andrew McNabb amcn...@mcnabbs.org wrote:
As others have said, dealing with batteries is a pain, and they fail
frequently. I've also been frustrated to find that when a battery
fails, sometimes this causes the UPS to shut down power to the
connected
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:03:14 -0600
Aaron Toponce aaron.topo...@gmail.com wrote:
If the new
employee is adamant about Windows, Pete will install Windows for them,
but if they get wormed, it's uninstalled and GNU/Linux is now their
new operating system.
I worm my horses twice a year.
--
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Stuart Jansen sjan...@buscaluz.orgwrote:
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 10:00 -0600, Dave Smith wrote:
Thanks for the info. Do you know if lots of other companies have also
done this?
Completely eliminated Windows? Not many.
Obviously it's possible to a small
I already used Ernie Ball guitar strings. Now I have one more reason to :)
-John
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Joel Finlinson j...@finlinson.net wrote:
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Stuart Jansen sjan...@buscaluz.orgwrote:
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 10:00 -0600, Dave Smith wrote:
Thanks
On 08/26/2010 01:24 PM, Corey Edwards wrote:
A generator won't solve your problem without a UPS. It takes up to a
couple minutes for the generator to kick on and switch over. During that
time you need a UPS to carry the load. There's really just no way around
it. Preventative maintenance is
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