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by omh 14y ago
I'm a (reluctant) Notes/Domino admin at a small company. We use it for email and a few small apps. My impressions of where it went "wrong": * It was built before a lot of de-facto standards for UIs came about. So it uses different buttons,
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by omh 14y ago
Well the SSL certificate isn't valid so that's not a good start! I think the certificate's valid, they're just not sending out a required intermediate certificate. Doesn't exactly inspire confidence though.
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by omh 14y ago
So I can install just the Google app and enter my Authy codes there, and vice versa?
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by omh 14y ago
There is a central blacklist of IMEIs for stolen phones. This seems to work pretty well (anecdotally, many stolen phones are sent out of the country) I don't think that the police do anything like this for actually tracing stolen phones tho
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by omh 14y ago
You'd need to be careful that the RAID system knew which USB stick was which, even if they were reconnected to different USB ports/controllers. The ZFS demo above does this, but you might need to be careful with other software RAID systems.
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by omh 14y ago
All of the email virus scanners I've used are aware of this sort of thing, and will have a maximum depth or maximum size for scanning within attachments. I don't think any of them try to "detect" them in any cleverer way.
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by omh 14y ago
I suspect that your basic system did at least improve things though. 'drowssap' was probably not as popular as 'password' would have been.
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by omh 14y ago
If you're using per-user salting (and you should be) then you have to do n hash calculations, not just one calculation and n comparisons. Might be feasible for a small number of users on an internal app, but unlikely to work on a big or
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by omh 14y ago
I'm a little young to know for sure, but did IBM make any significant software (other than the OS) before the purchase of Lotus? At the time when Excel was announced they were still running OS/2 as a joint venture with Microsoft. (Incidenta
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by omh 14y ago
The entire Office suite is a good product with few realistic competitors. For all the criticisms, it does exactly what many businesses need. And the de-facto requirement for good Office compatibility keeps businesses on Windows.
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by omh 14y ago
Ah yes, fair enough. Part of the problem here is Microsoft's limit of IE9+ not running on XP. This is either a sensible technical requirement or a deliberate push away from XP, depending on your perspective.
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by omh 14y ago
This is the government, so it's practically guaranteed that there's at least two layers of firewalls between any internal networks and the internet. If any of those layers was installed by an average IT consultancy then they'll have used NA
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by omh 14y ago
My understanding is that the old policy included support for IE8. This new update removes that. This is important because IE8 is, in practice, the latest version of IE for many corporate users. It's also fully supported by Microsoft. We're
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by omh 14y ago
Several of my users have business-critical websites that only work in Internet Explorer. I can set up shortcuts so that Firefox is used for some sites and IE for others, but that can get confusing. Also, both Firefox and Chrome are extremel
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by omh 14y ago
Imagine that you're in charge of a small/medium sized business , stuck on Windows XP and some old email system. You've just persuaded the managers that "The Cloud" isn't so bad, and they've migrated everything over to Google Apps. Now Googl
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by omh 14y ago
Some people who have these policies are just lazy and incompetent. But some of us work hard to ensure that we can support all the software our company needs, and this means limiting access to other software that might break things.
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What is the impact of the iPhone on the mobile market?(economist.com)
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by omh 14y ago
Usually (and hopefully) the exploit isn't public yet. But as soon as the patch is released the bad guys can figure out what the exploit is and start attacking unpatched machines. If the sysadmins know when the patches are coming out then th
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by omh 14y ago
As a corporate sysadmin, I should say that the Chrome method is much better than the Firefox one. We often have slightly out of date plugins, simply because it takes a while to get new versions tested and rolled out. When Firefox blocks the
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by omh 14y ago
So should we expect vendors to immediately fix all vulnerabilities and release the fixes immediately? That creates a near-constant stream of updates which is difficult for users & sysadmins to manage, and is why Microsoft and others hav
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by omh 14y ago
When Oracle were originally informed about it in April it wasn't a zero day. They could have rolled out a fix on their next scheduled update and it would have been patched for everyone before it became public.
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by omh 14y ago
Firefox has a separate feature which can completely disable plugins which are known to be malicious or vulnerable. The current list is at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/blocked/ They've definitely used this to block older Java v
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by omh 14y ago
Have you considered the cost of the tape loaders? Our loaders cost significantly more over their lifetime than the storage costs of the tapes themselves. The tradeoffs will be different depending on how many tapes you write and how often yo
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by omh 14y ago
There has always been some confusion & ambiguity about when/if individuals could purchase "OEM" licensed copies of Microsoft products. Many online shops are happy to sell you the OEM license as long as you purchase some hardware. I susp
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by omh 14y ago
Interestingly they penalise you for short-term storage: Amazon Glacier is designed for use cases where data is retained for months, years, or decades. Deleting data from Amazon Glacier is free if the archive being deleted has been stored f
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by omh 14y ago
The multiple-hour window could give you a lot of wiggle room here though. It's unlikely to take 3 hours to restore from a single tape, so even if you have to visit 2-3 tapes then you have plenty of time. I'm sure that there is a general tie
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by omh 14y ago
One trick I've heard of that would defeat a fake alarm (or a bad alarm, which is 90% of them) is to throw a brick through the window, cheese it, and see if anyone turns up 10 minutes later. If not you're good to go, regardless of whether o
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by omh 14y ago
Targeting iPhone is like supporting a cable company's set top box, so highly prized because it's straightforward; whereas targeting Android is like supporting a myriad of smart TVs. That's certainly true for supportability. It's easy to t
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by omh 14y ago
The interesting thing is that the BBC were happy to get iPlayer working on the iPhone originally. That didn't have any meaningful DRM, at least nothing that couldn't be done to a similar degree on Android. I suspect that this is because iPh
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by omh 14y ago
There was (perhaps still is?) a long-running battle as the BBC added extra protections around the iOS stream and users built various scripts to exploit this and download episodes. For example, I think that the BBC site uses the installed ce

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