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And that's for the simple reason that only a few cards offer accelerated framebuffers. Try to configure the kernel. You'll see the list is quite strong. The vast majority of video cards need to use VESA compatibility modes. Those are SLOW.
Anyone got a card that is accelerated in framebuffer mode?
You don't have the skill required for corporate climbing - hunger for power. You are content. I think they might be envying you.
Anyhow, tell them that your new position will introduce new to your new job requirements that you do not work well with. As a geek, these requirements are not something you will be able to learn without compromising who you are.
Furthermore, ask them why they would want a promotion from a position they are content in. Demand clear answers. Maybe they will persuade you. Maybe you can point out how you are different from them. Maybe you can even suggest to have one of your minors leapfrog? Or they introduce someone from a different department, and you do the technical part, leaving him/her with the administrativia? There are multiple possibilities.
Of course, you could also go with something a bit more aggressive. What you choose, depends on the type of message you want to give them.. "Fuck off. I don't want your bullshit position".. or "Thanks, but no thanks". I would say that being a bit soft would also imply that you are not really management material. That's the message you want to give, right?
If you are a control-freak, Slackware is definitely the way to go. The administration tools are kept to a minimum. If you want to make things fancy, you need to set that up yourself. The result is that you slowly move towards gurudom.
However, if you are making money, slackware packages are fairly primitive. To the best of my knowledge, they don't support dependencies. You don't have a neat dselect type app. But you have the direct power. And that is the price of power - efficiency. I used to compile all my stuff on slackware. However, I must admit that I love apt-get and dselect. It has cut my workload severely.
That being said, I still use slackware on my production server. But my workstation is a debian woody.
Mozilla can actually block images from certain sites from loading, if the user configures it to. (Left click on the ad, and tell the browser to ignore images from that site). I wonder if using the pr0n industry tricks is the response to such a great feature in a browser.
IE lets you select what privileges each site gets. That is also a good approach. If a site relies on popups for ads, you can turn off javascripting for that site.
Anyhow, if I indulge in the skin side, I turn of Javascript. Mebbe I'll just do that alltogether.
I don't think YOU get it. Would you want the manufacturer to assess the product, or hired outside help/expertise? Who would benefit from deception? And should we not be allowed to choose who we trust?
I try not to trust a single source, btw. If I find dissent among the experts, I'll look closer at it. But I want the option of looking at multiple sources. Though this may not be catastrophic, Microsoft is still trying to restrict information and move it onto their own servers that THEY control. If Microsoft was a government agency withdrawing previously public information, do you think the watchdog organizations would leave them alone? No? I didn't think so..
Sometimes, you come across conflicting information. If you know who's clued in and who's a moron, you know what to read first, and what to lean on (at your own risk). Microsoft is taking that away from us. How can we trust them when they are making our job harder?
You did not kill my point, only dragged in irrelevant sidepoints. You reduce the risk by spreading the data over multiple platforms. Granted, this requires a resourceful IT department. If you do, though, you will not lose it all when the kiddies attack.
Just not as big as it would have been if someone made it illegal to post. Whenever security-related information is hindered, the blackhats gain ground. It's that simple.
Microsoft knows best? The change made sense for the customers, said Steven Lipner, manager of
Microsoft's Security Response Center, during an interview last week. "If we post an advisory with an
error in it, we would have to go out and get the information changed where ever else it may be
mirrored."
So - now we're not gonna be able to inspect the change logs? What the hell, Microsoft! Those of us who take security seriously, really NEED to know this stuff. When. What. Who. How. Was it successfully remedied? What remedies were proposed? This is all essential information when you assess who to trust. Maybe that's why they won't let us know.
Yes! We really, really do need this. First, we need a homogenic environment, to make sure all computers can be taken down once one is down. Then, we need to make the users as unaware of the problems as possible, and thus let the skript kiddies rule the world. It will be SOOO nice when we're all 0wned. I can't wait. My ports are tickling in anticipation.
So - how do we tell our bosses that Microsoft is digging its own grave?
Since I'm on an honesty trip - are we sure it's wise to standardize on ANYTHING? If it's all standardized, the hackers usually get full access right away. However, if some work stations are macs, and some are win32 machines, with a couple of Linux-es in for good measure.. How many different OS-es will the kiddies need to master?
It's sort of like cloning. Sounds like a good idea, 'till a disease arises.
Maybe we can start suing them? Their software is not really malfunctioning, as much as their information policy. Could that be a way to attack them in court?
I hope prior art is the keyword. If anyone can show prior art of the technologies Fraunhofer holds patent over, we might be able to save 50 cents on various mp3 players.
I mean - this is all mathematics. Surely, someone must have done this before Fraunhofer?
I haven't seen the specs, but isn't the mp3 technology mathematically similar to the JPEG technology?
If we can get DC machines to talk to each other, and have a few file servers, we might see some pretty good performance for the bucks. The DC has high performance floating point arithmetic and such, right?
Now if that guy would just release the source, we could get cracking..
Netscape 6 is currently in its initial release. They are getting more users than ever, and more feedback. They are getting automated crash reports. They are getting reviews.
All this is useful feedback for the development team to know where to put their resources. I mean - win95 underwent improvements after its initial release. OSR 2 was IMHO a pretty stable release, and still fairly efficient. This was right before they integrated the browser. Then, it took them a while to get that right.
Look at the big picture. We have a very promising product, finally implementing standards across platforms. We have access to the source code. If we don't like the memory footprint, we should work on that, not bitch about. Rejoice!
(BTW - I really wish it would be faster on my p166 w/64 megs of RAM.. )
As far as I can tell, a lot of the problems with Windows stem from high-level bugs. I rarely see the kernel itself crash. More typically, a third-party device driver is what's locking me up. Or used to. I haven't run Windows on a regular basis in more than a year.
Anyhow, I would expect that Microsoft has their basic algorithms down. Their bugs would be quite a bit more subtle at this stage. Reading Linux source code would not help them too much, unless they have cut'n'paste developers in key positions.
The head of the WHO is the former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland. You guessed it, a social democrat.
Anyhow - if they want to certify content, why not just create a "certified logo", trademark it, and send their lawyer minions after whoever uses it without authorization?
I am very wary of this kind of straight-out regulation. Some of alternative medicine may be a hoax, but other practices have proven useful (like acupuncture). With.health, it might be a blow to alternative medicine as a whole, not just the snake oil peddlers.
John. C. Reilly reporting from Alpha:
President Bush, who marginally won the 2000 Presidential bid, destroyed the world today. The national missile defence was due to be activated in three weeks. Russia decided to pre-eminently strike, and the massive American retaliatory strike lit the atmosphere on fire. All forests are gone along with most animals. The seven of us up here at Alpha are now counting our options.
Though some firewalls are penetrable, I think some are not. Setting up a good firewall will provide additional security, and might cover your butt in a tight spot (portscan). Keeping the skript kiddies at bay is a good start:)
(of course, nothing replaces a well patched system, but a firewall complements it:) )
I think Bush appears to be especially rampant on this. He talks about inclusiveness. Did you see his convention? There were almost more black people on the stage than in the audience. Gore's blunders have been largely insubstantial (unless you still think he was at fault in the Buddhist temple). Bush has mislead about his role in Texan politics. He strongly opposed the legislature when they gave Texans rights in their dealings with HMOs. Now he's trying to take credit for what he opposed. Get real! And the media is giving Gore crap for claiming his mother sung him a lullaby or kids book (i forget which) written in the 70s. It's clearly possible to take the both sides approach to far!
Gore has his flaws too. However, I feel that has been fairly well represented in the media. Saying that Bush is less than intelligent is the least of his flaws!
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And that's for the simple reason that only a few cards offer accelerated framebuffers. Try to configure the kernel. You'll see the list is quite strong. The vast majority of video cards need to use VESA compatibility modes. Those are SLOW. Anyone got a card that is accelerated in framebuffer mode?
You don't have the skill required for corporate climbing - hunger for power. You are content. I think they might be envying you. Anyhow, tell them that your new position will introduce new to your new job requirements that you do not work well with. As a geek, these requirements are not something you will be able to learn without compromising who you are. Furthermore, ask them why they would want a promotion from a position they are content in. Demand clear answers. Maybe they will persuade you. Maybe you can point out how you are different from them. Maybe you can even suggest to have one of your minors leapfrog? Or they introduce someone from a different department, and you do the technical part, leaving him/her with the administrativia? There are multiple possibilities. Of course, you could also go with something a bit more aggressive. What you choose, depends on the type of message you want to give them.. "Fuck off. I don't want your bullshit position".. or "Thanks, but no thanks". I would say that being a bit soft would also imply that you are not really management material. That's the message you want to give, right?
I wholeheartedly agree! Understanding how and why is definitely part of attaining gurudom.
:)
However, if all that person needs is a workstation, debian would probably be better
If you are a control-freak, Slackware is definitely the way to go. The administration tools are kept to a minimum. If you want to make things fancy, you need to set that up yourself. The result is that you slowly move towards gurudom.
However, if you are making money, slackware packages are fairly primitive. To the best of my knowledge, they don't support dependencies. You don't have a neat dselect type app. But you have the direct power. And that is the price of power - efficiency. I used to compile all my stuff on slackware. However, I must admit that I love apt-get and dselect. It has cut my workload severely.
That being said, I still use slackware on my production server. But my workstation is a debian woody.
Mozilla can actually block images from certain sites from loading, if the user configures it to. (Left click on the ad, and tell the browser to ignore images from that site). I wonder if using the pr0n industry tricks is the response to such a great feature in a browser.
IE lets you select what privileges each site gets. That is also a good approach. If a site relies on popups for ads, you can turn off javascripting for that site.
Anyhow, if I indulge in the skin side, I turn of Javascript. Mebbe I'll just do that alltogether.
I don't think YOU get it. Would you want the manufacturer to assess the product, or hired outside help/expertise? Who would benefit from deception? And should we not be allowed to choose who we trust?
I try not to trust a single source, btw. If I find dissent among the experts, I'll look closer at it. But I want the option of looking at multiple sources. Though this may not be catastrophic, Microsoft is still trying to restrict information and move it onto their own servers that THEY control. If Microsoft was a government agency withdrawing previously public information, do you think the watchdog organizations would leave them alone? No? I didn't think so..
Sometimes, you come across conflicting information. If you know who's clued in and who's a moron, you know what to read first, and what to lean on (at your own risk). Microsoft is taking that away from us. How can we trust them when they are making our job harder?
You did not kill my point, only dragged in irrelevant sidepoints. You reduce the risk by spreading the data over multiple platforms. Granted, this requires a resourceful IT department. If you do, though, you will not lose it all when the kiddies attack.
Just not as big as it would have been if someone made it illegal to post. Whenever security-related information is hindered, the blackhats gain ground. It's that simple.
From the article:
So - now we're not gonna be able to inspect the change logs? What the hell, Microsoft! Those of us who take security seriously, really NEED to know this stuff. When. What. Who. How. Was it successfully remedied? What remedies were proposed? This is all essential information when you assess who to trust. Maybe that's why they won't let us know.
Yes! We really, really do need this. First, we need a homogenic environment, to make sure all computers can be taken down once one is down. Then, we need to make the users as unaware of the problems as possible, and thus let the skript kiddies rule the world. It will be SOOO nice when we're all 0wned. I can't wait. My ports are tickling in anticipation.
So - how do we tell our bosses that Microsoft is digging its own grave?
Since I'm on an honesty trip - are we sure it's wise to standardize on ANYTHING? If it's all standardized, the hackers usually get full access right away. However, if some work stations are macs, and some are win32 machines, with a couple of Linux-es in for good measure.. How many different OS-es will the kiddies need to master?
It's sort of like cloning. Sounds like a good idea, 'till a disease arises.
Maybe we can start suing them? Their software is not really malfunctioning, as much as their information policy. Could that be a way to attack them in court?
I hope prior art is the keyword. If anyone can show prior art of the technologies Fraunhofer holds patent over, we might be able to save 50 cents on various mp3 players.
I mean - this is all mathematics. Surely, someone must have done this before Fraunhofer?
I haven't seen the specs, but isn't the mp3 technology mathematically similar to the JPEG technology?
If I was to generate something like this - and this is an excellent idea - I would do the following:
Set up an irc server. Just a plain-vanilla irc server.
Then, I would create a program that will join a specific channel on that server. The user would NOT be able to see what goes on in that channel.
When the user searches, it pops up in the channel as "request titney spears". All other clients search their internal share lists.
If one or more clients finds that file, they will send a private message to the requesting client with a specially formated response.
The requesting client will then display a list of the responses as they arrive.
You might also want to include a simple irc client, and let the users talk on different channels.
File transfers can be done via DCC, or a separate system, like an ftp server/client on a customized port.
So, all you need is Glade, some libs and a bit of elbow grease. Who's with me?
Mozilla supports 255 alpha layers in PNGs. Once the web designers find that out, we'll see a major leap when they design for Mozilla.
Maybe IE should catch up on that one too?
If we can get DC machines to talk to each other, and have a few file servers, we might see some pretty good performance for the bucks. The DC has high performance floating point arithmetic and such, right?
Now if that guy would just release the source, we could get cracking..
Netscape 6 is currently in its initial release. They are getting more users than ever, and more feedback. They are getting automated crash reports. They are getting reviews.
All this is useful feedback for the development team to know where to put their resources. I mean - win95 underwent improvements after its initial release. OSR 2 was IMHO a pretty stable release, and still fairly efficient. This was right before they integrated the browser. Then, it took them a while to get that right.
Look at the big picture. We have a very promising product, finally implementing standards across platforms. We have access to the source code. If we don't like the memory footprint, we should work on that, not bitch about. Rejoice!
(BTW - I really wish it would be faster on my p166 w/64 megs of RAM.. )
As far as I can tell, a lot of the problems with Windows stem from high-level bugs. I rarely see the kernel itself crash. More typically, a third-party device driver is what's locking me up. Or used to. I haven't run Windows on a regular basis in more than a year.
Anyhow, I would expect that Microsoft has their basic algorithms down. Their bugs would be quite a bit more subtle at this stage. Reading Linux source code would not help them too much, unless they have cut'n'paste developers in key positions.
The head of the WHO is the former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland. You guessed it, a social democrat.
.health, it might be a blow to alternative medicine as a whole, not just the snake oil peddlers.
Anyhow - if they want to certify content, why not just create a "certified logo", trademark it, and send their lawyer minions after whoever uses it without authorization?
I am very wary of this kind of straight-out regulation. Some of alternative medicine may be a hoax, but other practices have proven useful (like acupuncture). With
In a related story, Debian has moved M18-3 into the stable distribution. Apt'ers - on your marks, set, go!
I just wanted to say HORRAH that a large political body is capable of listening to reason. You heard that, US?
tbanks. i think yelling drained energy from my grammar processing unit.
Hello.. MUTUALLY ASSURE DESTRUCTION. Heard about it? It's cynical, but it's worked for fourty some years.
If the US builds that missile defence, you'll have the other nations going "it's now or never.. think we can make it?"
This is what you got us.. Thanks!
Though some firewalls are penetrable, I think some are not. Setting up a good firewall will provide additional security, and might cover your butt in a tight spot (portscan). Keeping the skript kiddies at bay is a good start :)
:) )
(of course, nothing replaces a well patched system, but a firewall complements it
I think Bush appears to be especially rampant on this. He talks about inclusiveness. Did you see his convention? There were almost more black people on the stage than in the audience. Gore's blunders have been largely insubstantial (unless you still think he was at fault in the Buddhist temple). Bush has mislead about his role in Texan politics. He strongly opposed the legislature when they gave Texans rights in their dealings with HMOs. Now he's trying to take credit for what he opposed. Get real! And the media is giving Gore crap for claiming his mother sung him a lullaby or kids book (i forget which) written in the 70s. It's clearly possible to take the both sides approach to far!
Gore has his flaws too. However, I feel that has been fairly well represented in the media. Saying that Bush is less than intelligent is the least of his flaws!