I think a review of the meaning of "attack surface" is due here. The idea here is to keep the bad guys out. If you can't physically secure your infrastructure (including some level of trust in your employees) you are guaranteed trouble. For that reason most networks are guaranteed trouble, but that aside a proper firewall does reduce the attack surface on the WAN by limiting traffic to what you want exiting and entering your network. Does a security guard also make a bank less secure because it increases the "robbery" surface?

Here at home we can't get any better here without shelling out 10k for a fiber run and 400/month or more for the link after, so we are stuck with crapy AT&T 3Mbps dsl. Netflix actually works fine surprisingly. Initial start on a video will be a bit blocky but it clears up quickly. Quality on other video sources varies wildly, so the service provider's technology clearly makes a big difference. Youtube is decent but has a long buffer time, videos from Aol's news or Fox news will hardly even play and take 10 minutes or more to buffer a 1 minute clip.

Yeah, like googling "electrical interference" and "fire code".

Well with http/2 using ssl by default why not just deliver all video over an encrypted channel. If it all looks the same it makes traffic shaping much harder (especially if you use your own dns).

Chrome updates are quite easy to control by using their ADM templates and deploying their enterprise msi via your favorite method. Just think of the smaller version increments as hotfixes. Microsoft pushes them all the time. At least with chrome it is more obvious what they are changing and what it might break by looking at the release notes versus digging through a million kb articles because the microsoft patch say "fixes a problem with internet explorer on some systems" or similar useless crap.

Clearly you have never tried to add a trusted root certificate for your internal domain to firefox. As someone who has, let me tell you firefox is not enterprise ready. Chrome at least uses the windows certificate store and has started adding group policy templates. That said, this is just a powergrab at trying to increase market share by forcing xp users to chrome.

While I concur about the general pricepoint, there are cheaper alternatives that are still perfectly good:
Ubiquiti: https://store.ubnt.com/unifi.html (all under $500)

Only problem is where you shop. Not to plug newegg, there are many other cheap(er) venders you can probably find this at too, but just to prove a point:

$43 shipped: http://www.neweggbusiness.com/product/product.aspx?item=9b-33-993-021
$66 shipped: http://www.neweggbusiness.com/product/product.aspx?item=9b-33-978-030
$80 shipped: http://www.neweggbusiness.com/product/product.aspx?item=9b-33-993-022


I imagine if you are buying for a large institution you have a vendor that offers volume discounts as well, so they should in theory be paying even less than this.

Isn't this what zigbee and 802.15.4 was designed for?

If those are the complete results that was a pretty short and piss poor competition. If "We got the browser and OS" is social engineering then my apache logs are 1337 hax0rz. This article must be a click farm because it sure doesn't have any actual content. The real news here is "slashdot editors drunk at work, approve spam"

Yes, I've used both DD-WRT and OpenWRT and agree the TL-WR1043ND is a great little device especially for the price. I've bought, configured an used quite a few. Occasionally you get a dud, but you will know pretty quickly and just RMA it to newegg or amazon.

On the DD-WRT vs OpenWRT front, OpenWRT is definitely the more up-to-date option, but my biggest problem, with it is lack of QoS and bandwidth control out of the box. Sure, there are plenty of scripts and such available for this, but I'd like to get up and on the internet and not be writing scripts and messing around with a 'project'. I plan to reevaluate tomato next time for this very reason.

Not really so. We ran a comparison before our last server purchase for a larger client and AMD won the performance per dollar ratio for virtualization with the dl 385 g7. I'm also about to make a large desktop refresh purchase for a cost conscious company and the amd offerings from various suppliers offer more bang for the buck. They are mostly using standard office applications, and in a couple cases light adobe work (photoshop, Indesign etc) and for the price even on the more heavily utilized computers we can add a dedicated graphics card and more ram for the same price or less than buying an intel based box. Given that the ram is more expandable on many of the amd chipsets and the raw cpu power just isn't that important any more for the 90% use case it makes sense to have a homogenous environment, so intel is likely out of the picture completely.

In a car anaology, if you are a racecar driver you need a racecar, but as a car manufacturer don't rest on your laurels and think you can charge more just because you have a really fast ferrari. Most people are happy with a slower but reliable toyota with the power window and cruise control at a fraction of the cost.

The new design hurts my eyes. Seriously. It is difficult to read and cluttered while there is a ton of white space and ads on the site. Give us an option to spread the information across the screen since we have widescreen displays! I hate having to scroll that much!

Oh, and instead of trying to give the site a facelift how about fixing the fact that the headline for Message 27171508 keeps showing up under the right column but when I delete all or delete it it comes right back and whenever I try to view it by clicking the headline it just says "Message 27171508 not found". I filed a ticket about this as have many others:

https://sourceforge.net/p/slashcode/bugs/4474/
https://sourceforge.net/p/slashcode/bugs/4545/
https://sourceforge.net/p/slashcode/bugs/4469/
https://sourceforge.net/p/slashcode/bugs/4454/
https://sourceforge.net/p/slashcode/bugs/4438/


FIX IT!!!!

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