Especially mixed with a little vodka!

We got DDOS'd a while ago in our data centre. It turns out an ex employee we let go (performance related) paid (yes, actually paid) some people in German (we're in Australia) to fire off a DDOS against our servers from where ever their bots were.. Our upstream net provider blocked it for us. Yes: 1000's of IPs - because they used ICMP flooding - so they blocked ICMP traffic to us, upstream. Something we couldn't do ourselves but the ISP could do for us.

So it's not such a stupid suggestion at all. Of course, had they all launched port 80 TCP connections against us, yes, we would have been in serious trouble but I suppose we could have asked them to block non-Australian traffic for the day or until it stopped - overseas traffic is really not a big deal for us.

And for the record, the guy who kicked the whole thing off, we didn't bother to press charges, even though he bragged about it on Facebook (without first unfriending me, the idiot) because, thanks to the ISP, his efforts largely failed and we got some revenge when he tried to use us as a reference (and we were his only employers, so far).

A very good move. Our company had a blanket "no Linksys" rule - because everything they made was utter junk. We initially started out buying a fair amount of their smart switches, because the price was so compelling. However they failed so frequently, we actually had to issue an edict that no more Linksys products were allowed to be purchased.

Well, you can but the provisioning time for the new instance is ridiculous.

It's a built in tick box in the first screen settings of the default browser. It's hardly a secret.

2 scenes actually (and a deleted 3rd). Not much of a role, though.

Oh, that was good. Very good.

Very true. Turns out while iTunes has the largest number of apps (thought Google Play is almost caught up now), no one downloads the vast, vast majority of them: http://www.androidanalyse.com/most-ipad-apps-have-never-been-downloaded/

I agree with the AC who said this is already too much. I work in IT and I don't think what you've said here is hard - but the guy sitting next to me, who also works in IT is frikkin terrified of a command line and if *anything* requires one, he won't/can't do it. It doesn't matter that it's easy and one command - you've already lost him at "open terminal".

That said, most users of PCs buy one pre-made, either from a manufacturer or PC shop. Gamers, however, like to upgrade their own kit. It's been my personal and anecdotal experience that most gamers known very little about operating systems and PCs in general and just like to play games. People (like myself and I suspect you, as well) who derive enjoyment from the computer itself, rather than the games it's playing, are a different breed. Most if not all of the people I know who are "gamers" can barely install the new video card themselves, let alone the drivers, if there's not a wizard doing the install work for them. This is why their computers are gummed up with so much crap - they let automated processes do everything for them.

I know to some I am selling people short but I'm just talking about personal experience.

Maybe if Linux had more driver install wizards for users and less HOWTOs more people would game on it - but the reality is, it's an uphill battle. Gaming on Windows is "good enough" - it's hard to dislodge an incumbent when the majority of end users are actually pretty happy with it and don't really feel any desire to change.

So that's like, what... 30 bucks or there abouts?

So what is this?
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/system-center/endpoint-protection-2012.aspx - System Center Endpoint Protection

That's MSE with centrally managed enterprise control (formally known as ForeFront) and it's in use by a large number of organisations of substantial size (primarily because you "get it" along with other Microsoft products in your MS enterprise agreement).

Yeah Intel might lose a lot of sales of chips (but not a staggeringly large amount - Windows still accounts for 92% of the DESKTOP market (the oft floated 7x% that Windows has dropped to includes smartphones), so we're only talking about a small number of PCs collectively. Sure it won't be good for Intel but it's not devastating.

You know who should be worried? ARM. Why? Ask Motorola and Samsung how much Apple is paying for the patents of theirs they are using? Coz from what I read, it's $0 because Apple "hasn't settled on a price with them yet". That's like me walking into a shop and stealing a bunch of things because I haven't settled on a price yet. Apple has no intention of paying Motorola -ever- for the FRAND patented items they're using. They will almost certainly do the same thing to ARM.

Nope.