it kinda the way apple is, its the "state of affairs" of things. apple is knife focused on iOS devices. and mac is yea we do that to.
32GB ram laptops are not uncommon, even 64GB can be had... and now lenovo is pushing out a 128GB ram laptop apple? 16GB....

there is alot of people that need power, and apple is not paying attention to them. so they are moving to windows in most cases a few to linux
but most are going to windows 10, not becuase the love windows.. but because they can get better hardware.

first, like the questions everyone keeps asking is how are you getting hacked? more data would be helpful... baring that...
somethings I would recomend.....

-if you want to change your router any of the decent reviewed routers are ok. or you can roll a bunch of options like ddwrt, etc. I just use a
commercial one.

- make sure your computers firewall is ON and that it logs all connections. (and that its blocking inbound)
- if windows, makes sure the logging and auditing are on.
-use the latest version of what ever your OS is...
-look at whats actually installed, and what your actualling installing. doing install anything thats not 100% trusted. no 'warez', or priated
software, no pirated mp3, movies anything. if its not 100% trusted it needs to go... this is an important step....
-if you suspect a hack, full reinstall of everything is in order period full stop....
-do an opsec review of all your accounts, cleanup on the privacy and security settings and change all your passwords. and update security questions etc. every account should have unique random password, use something like lastpass or 1password.
-make sure your using the latest browser versions chrome is pretty good here and add flash, and ad blockers. and add httpseveryhwere
-dont click on untrusted links, or run anything untrusted like facebook games etc.
-if your using mac or windows use malwarebytes and a good security endpoint product.. sophos is free and decent.
-setup an opendns account and use it block all the bad sites in it.
-make sure all your software is always up to date
-dont run as admin, run as standard user and if windows us UAC to full. use 2nd accout for admin.

this should help your out alot.

-Nex6
 

at allot of conferences you see alot of macs, even among OSS devs. many run Linux/BSD in a VM. even some of the kernel devs work in this work flow. I know a few OSS Devs and most have Macs, and Run in VMs.

and anyone who thinks, impress is anywhere close to keynote or powerpoint in dreaming is like 10 years behind and thats being nice. I tryed to
do a impress deck once with video, audio transitions and i spent days on it and it never worked. but i was able to do it in powerpoint in a few hours.

THATS why he used a mac.... its very simple he wants to get shit done... and I am really sure i has Linux VMs he spends most of his time in....

First make sure the windows firewall is enabled, and the inbound is set to block. you can also use device manager to disable the wireless devices if you want. but
that wont stop malware from doing an outbound connection.

but here the short list:
1 use ciscos opendns and configure the web security rules.
2 decent AV/security software
3 malwarebytes
4 chrome
5 block flash and ads, use WOT plugin
6 UAC set to full do not run as admin

-Nex6

sure, I am sure most of the tech industry is gaming the system, but for mid level talent, or above its very hard to find people. and when you start to drill down into
some specific skillsets its gets even harder. much of the tech industry trys to find the best people. and, many of these companys are multinational so for example
if you run data centers Germany they need to be staffed by germans that handle german data. once you start forcing arcane rules you start to run into all sorts of
issues for no reason.

better, is to address the root issues instead of blanket banning, as a protectist, isolationist which never works....

I think its more than that. its already hard to find talent. many tech shops are pretty diverse places now. limiting, tech companys it bitting your nose off to spit your face.

I work in the tech industry like many here on this board. I think opposing the order was the right thing. opposing it, is more than just about so called "cheap labor"
for the tech industry. for one it sets president, of what an executive order can or should do. this is not a dictatorship, we have laws and processess and they are not
being followed.

is it possible, that the H1B program is being abused? well yea, no shit sherlock. lets dig into that and find out where and why. blanket banning like was done,
was done without thought, logic or reasons. hell the places with the most exported terrorist where not on the lists which also line up nicely as places trump
does business odd hunh? so trump gets to make sure all the places he does business with are not listed, but everyone else just has to take it? not how it works
and the tech companys and states are fighting back.

welcome to the legal system...

-Nex6

i would, lock everything down. starting with wpa2 with a really long random string, I would even change the wireless network SSID to a random string.
(part of the crypto use the ssid in the hash)

I would add, mac address auth, change all my DHCP settings. and even hide my network.

just to start, off the top of my head....

-Nex6

best of luck..... i was a good run.....

you can not just take, random geeks. even ones that "quote" play at mock combat. and test them, and compare that to a medieval warrior Knight. Form almost, all of these warriors it was a full time job, meaning they where in shape for it. otherwise, they would have died in combat....

i was on one monitor for a long time, once I went to two. its a huge difference. sure, some folks probley dont need them but most do. when doing code compares, or having a test environment up in the 2nd window. it matters.....

this list is showing some of the differances between the beta and the upcomming RC. and targeting things testers have asked for.

sheesh....

-Nex6