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Microsoft Security Makes "Worst Jobs" List
Stony Stevenson asks, rhetorically, "What do whale-feces researchers, hazmat divers, and employees of Microsoft's Security Response Center have in common? They all made Popular Science magazine's 2007 list of the absolute worst jobs in science." Quoting: "The MSRC ranked near the middle as the sixth-worst job in this year's list.. 'We did rate the Microsoft security researcher as less-bad than the people who prepare the carcasses for dissection in biology laboratories,' Moyer said. Moyer didn't have to think long when asked whether he'd rather have the number 10-ranked whale research job. 'Whale feces or working at Microsoft? I would probably be the whale feces researcher,' he said. 'Salt air and whale flatulence; what could go wrong?'" Here's the Popular Mechanics list all on one page.
For giggles, here's the list:
while [ 1 ]; do echo -n -e "\xe2\x95\xb$((($RANDOM&1)+1))"; done
Are two different publications.
Hmm, where did it say $120,000 for 21 days work? What I read said $6,000.
Even $120,000 might not be worth it. I can't imagine how difficult it would be to use a bedpan in a bed sloped 6 degrees toward my head, let alone while being observed by NASA engineers.
It also has an option to replace TaskManager, which is very handy...
man fuser
man lsof
hth
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While it is true that there is no real way to "X-ray the pipes" here are the tools the Microsoft Technet guys use and I've found can be very good at hunting down the bugs.http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals /default.mspx
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
Seconded. Also FileMon or its replacement Process Monitor will tell you what's accessing your hard drive.
Nice to see Microsoft still support the BSOD screensaver although they don't let you have the password recovery utilities any more.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
I really like Unlocker. A little freeware explorer extension that shows you what processes have locked a file, and lets you choose what to do about it.
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