Is your own employees. Promise them a finders fee of $1000-$5000 if they refer a new employee that will last for at least 6 months.
They will try to pick good ones from their social engineering circles, both to be sure to get the money, and keep their job, but probably also because they don't want to see their friends kicked out after 3 months because they can't manage the job.
Here in Denmark, all recruiting companies I have used (as a potential employee) has been very professional. One of them was recruting for a job I had also applied for directly, which I figured out from the job description. Yet he was very positive, and offered to present me for some customers who did not have any open position at the time, but who were always looking for qualified people.
This also says something about his relationship with the customers, and that some companies can see the benefit of hiring good people today, rather than not being able to find them tomorrow.
Oh yeah, forgot to mention I am in Denmark, Europe.
Let us assume it is a 66MHz machine. Let us also assume your machine today is a slow 2GHz model. Then 2000/66 = 30. So your machine is 30x faster.
24 hours / 30 = 0.8 hours. $100 / 0.8 hours = $125/hours. This is probably OK for some unemployed geek, and is way over my hourly salary working as an employee.
I have contributed bug fixes and ideas to quite a few OSS projects over the years, so I most likely have the copyright to some of the code SCO distributes.
Maybe I should just write them, demanding $1 for each copy of my intellectual property they have sold:)
I tried to put up what looked like an open proxy on port 8080, which simulated the right error codes in in case people connected to port 25 out in town.
Within a week I was getting 100.000 spam mails a day. Within 2 weeks I was over 1 million spam mails a day.
So just pretend to have an open mail server, and you can get all the spam you want, and harvest all the addresses you care about.
In Europe, if you make claims about your products, you better be ready to prove them, or the product could be taken off the market if you do not remove the falso information.
IMHO, what SCO did was that they removed their referecnes to anti-Linux because they would not risc a fast judgement by german law, but rather would have it all take forever in the US, where crap like patents etc are without any contact to the real world. It is less than 20 years ago someone in the US was awarded the patent on the wheel.
Lokking at the password line, you will notice that the password is stored as a standard crypt password.
I can't remember how many years ago it became standard to use MD5 sums instead, which are way harder to crack. The only reason to use crypt passwords today is because you had to carry hundreds of users forward, and was not willing to re-issue a new password.
I have now put john the ripper at the job to crack the password, so I can see if the password looks likely to be true.
The XBox needs no soldering to run all sorts of software. I run Xbox Media Player from harddrive of a purely softmodded xbox.
There is the 007 savegame hack, and when you are there you can use the Font hack to allow the machine to boot evox from harddisk, and phoenix loader to load any ROM from harddisk as well.
I have yet to see any set-top box that can do what XBMP can do on the xbox.
They are collecting private sensitive infrastructure information like internal IP address, machine name and MAC address, and transmitting it over an open network.
This is most likely illegal in most parts of the world.
Not, if they just sent a message to the local admin it would be ok.
This is all an evil plot by Microsoft. They want more e-mail addresses in the hands of spammers, so they can sell their new upcoming anti-spam software.
There are plenty of girls and women in Europe, who are not kept locked away in the bedroom and kitchen. No matter what you do, there are always some, no matter if it is skydiving, diving, or computer parties (ok, computer parties might have the lowest amount of women).
First: I am an active skydiver with around 450 jumps, so I have a little experience.
My highest jump is from around 7000 meters, oxygene in airplane, but no on the way down. Here my terminal velocity was around 230-240 km/h as far as I remember. Nomally it is around 180-185 km/h at 10000 ft. So the 360 km/h is probably his vertical speed.
You need some vertical speed to accelerate up to where you can get enough lift over your wings.
If you open a parachute with much over 220-250 km/h, it will probably blow and you will get injured. A normal parachute deployment is normally less than 4G. That is, you are slowed from 50 m/s to say 5 m/s in 1+ second. That is not bad.
Disclaimer: Some parachutes opens WAY FASTER than others. I have a nice slow opening one.
If their salary demands are $4k/year, then the company will have som overhead for EXPENSIVE internet connection, rent, hardware (which costs the same as in the west) etc.
In Denmark, the overhead for an employee is normally considered to be 80-100% of the salary. And there is no health insurance to pay. My guess is, that it will be the same in India.
So they will cost like $8k a year + company profits, so say $10-12k/year. But they will work 10-12 hours/day.
Outsourcing is only really worth it for large projects, where overhead is smaller.
There are many reasons to outsource. Some of them are:
- You don't have to find and employ qualified people yourself. - Usually you get a fixed price on most tasks. - You don't have to pay idle workers - You get better documentation (because without you can't outsource successfully)
As I see it, the only chance you will have as a telcommuter is if you can find an agency that will sell a software development group to US companies, with a project manager and all - that manges to actually make sure people work. Knowing the culture etc will help make such a group successfull in smaller projects where outsourcing overhead is too large, or where lots of changes will have to be made over the development cycle.
BTW: Here in Denmark, you can get young freelance programmers for $30/hour - They might not be good, but they are cheaper than offshore, and can work well if in an experienced group that knows which tasks to delegate.
Disclaimer: I am not american, and not living in the US, but I have been teaching local employees in Asia + Africa, whom were ment to work as developers on outsourced jobs. I am no longer a software developer, but I am higher up the food chain.
What is wrong with STANDARD 5-pin DIN connectors (DIN = Deutsche Industrie Norm). It was the most widely available connector for audio when they started their link system.
You can make adaptors yourself, there is not much of a secret how sound is transmitted through it.
Why can't you play the music on other players ? Or on Windows and Linux ? AAC is a standard format, and you can even buy a Nero plugin to create AAC songs on Windows.
There is, ot will soon be AAC -> WAV converters so you can make CDs for the car.
Anything that supports quicktime can decode and play AAC. There is also freeware available.
For broadcasting, I can't help. But that is not fair use.
With recent music being so compressed in the dynamics already, it is not much loss to buy it as AAC. Some of todays CDs are of a quality that can easily compare to MP3, 128-bit crap.
And the USA is now asking Denmark to send large amounts of troops down to Iraq to command all the troops there post-war.
Is this another plot to force us to implement the same crazy restrictions ? Will the other NATO countries help Denmark if USA really forces us ?
Here in Denmark, NAT is normal. It is how most ADSL providers ship the included router. But some providers only allows one computer on the cheaper connections. This is regulated by a contract, and not by law.
Why don't americans use contracts to regulate business between 2 or more parties ?
Technology like radio and TV are designed to be stealthy devices that receives communications anonymously, and thus conceals the destination of the comunications.
The same goes for radio scanners, GPS receivers etc.
MacOS X is more than just unix: It is the plain old MacOS API with a few twists, this is called Carbon. The closest you come to this on Linux is coding for Wine.
Then there is the OS X API, Cocoa. This is basicly NextStep API, where coding reallly ought to be in Objective-C or Objective-C++.
Problem is, that most of the bugs contributed to Unix is not a problem in unix, but a problem with some user installed software, like Sendmail etc.
On Windows we don't attribute errors in Exchange, WordPerfect etc to the OS.
Now if we only count unix errors as those in the kernel and libc, and even Dan Bernsteins software,we get quite a bit fewer.
People can't see the difference between software from the huge company "Open Source", and the company's operating system, while it is easier for them to tell there is a difference between Windows, and an add-on product that costs hundreds of dollars.
A real company has procedures for change management. That is, a programmer documents what changes he is implementing, and another programmer does code review and releases the changes.
At least this is how it should work if you work inside a company where your code might destroy production data if buggy.
Much of the internet crap is not tested, or rather it is tested by people who has never seen a line of code. People donøt understand that better development quality will save more on less debugging time.
Povl - Former programmer. Now inhouse security consultant.
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Is your own employees. Promise them a finders fee of $1000-$5000 if they refer a new employee that will last for at least 6 months.
They will try to pick good ones from their social engineering circles, both to be sure to get the money, and keep their job, but probably also because they don't want to see their friends kicked out after 3 months because they can't manage the job.
Here in Denmark, all recruiting companies I have used (as a potential employee) has been very professional. One of them was recruting for a job I had also applied for directly, which I figured out from the job description. Yet he was very positive, and offered to present me for some customers who did not have any open position at the time, but who were always looking for qualified people.
This also says something about his relationship with the customers, and that some companies can see the benefit of hiring good people today, rather than not being able to find them tomorrow.
Oh yeah, forgot to mention I am in Denmark, Europe.
Wrong.
You just need to have enough mass you can eject in some direction. That is called propulsion. Just collect enough light, and you will be doing well.
$100 for 24 hours on a 486.
Let us assume it is a 66MHz machine. Let us also assume your machine today is a slow 2GHz model. Then 2000/66 = 30. So your machine is 30x faster.
24 hours / 30 = 0.8 hours. $100 / 0.8 hours = $125/hours. This is probably OK for some unemployed geek, and is way over my hourly salary working as an employee.
I have contributed bug fixes and ideas to quite a few OSS projects over the years, so I most likely have the copyright to some of the code SCO distributes.
:)
Maybe I should just write them, demanding $1 for each copy of my intellectual property they have sold
I tried to put up what looked like an open proxy on port 8080, which simulated the right error codes in in case people connected to port 25 out in town.
Within a week I was getting 100.000 spam mails a day. Within 2 weeks I was over 1 million spam mails a day.
So just pretend to have an open mail server, and you can get all the spam you want, and harvest all the addresses you care about.
Unfortunately, I have discovered that the FAQ is wrong.
As I am lazy, I often pick a key near the edge of the keyboard, and I have found that ctrl, caps lock, alt, and shift are not any key at all.
The FAQ should be updated to reflect that some keys just are not any key.
I smell money, lots of money.
And of course the death of Excel if the current owner don't like MS.
In Europe, if you make claims about your products, you better be ready to prove them, or the product could be taken off the market if you do not remove the falso information.
IMHO, what SCO did was that they removed their referecnes to anti-Linux because they would not risc a fast judgement by german law, but rather would have it all take forever in the US, where crap like patents etc are without any contact to the real world. It is less than 20 years ago someone in the US was awarded the patent on the wheel.
Lokking at the password line, you will notice that the password is stored as a standard crypt password.
I can't remember how many years ago it became standard to use MD5 sums instead, which are way harder to crack. The only reason to use crypt passwords today is because you had to carry hundreds of users forward, and was not willing to re-issue a new password.
I have now put john the ripper at the job to crack the password, so I can see if the password looks likely to be true.
The XBox needs no soldering to run all sorts of software. I run Xbox Media Player from harddrive of a purely softmodded xbox.
There is the 007 savegame hack, and when you are there you can use the Font hack to allow the machine to boot evox from harddisk, and phoenix loader to load any ROM from harddisk as well.
I have yet to see any set-top box that can do what XBMP can do on the xbox.
They are collecting private sensitive infrastructure information like internal IP address, machine name and MAC address, and transmitting it over an open network.
This is most likely illegal in most parts of the world.
Not, if they just sent a message to the local admin it would be ok.
This is all an evil plot by Microsoft. They want more e-mail addresses in the hands of spammers, so they can sell their new upcoming anti-spam software.
How can he be surprised about the girls ?
:)
There are plenty of girls and women in Europe, who are not kept locked away in the bedroom and kitchen. No matter what you do, there are always some, no matter if it is skydiving, diving, or computer parties (ok, computer parties might have the lowest amount of women).
Teach american women to be more independent
First: I am an active skydiver with around 450 jumps, so I have a little experience.
My highest jump is from around 7000 meters, oxygene in airplane, but no on the way down. Here my terminal velocity was around 230-240 km/h as far as I remember. Nomally it is around 180-185 km/h at 10000 ft. So the 360 km/h is probably his vertical speed.
You need some vertical speed to accelerate up to where you can get enough lift over your wings.
If you open a parachute with much over 220-250 km/h, it will probably blow and you will get injured. A normal parachute deployment is normally less than 4G. That is, you are slowed from 50 m/s to say 5 m/s in 1+ second. That is not bad.
Disclaimer: Some parachutes opens WAY FASTER than others. I have a nice slow opening one.
If their salary demands are $4k/year, then the company will have som overhead for EXPENSIVE internet connection, rent, hardware (which costs the same as in the west) etc.
In Denmark, the overhead for an employee is normally considered to be 80-100% of the salary. And there is no health insurance to pay. My guess is, that it will be the same in India.
So they will cost like $8k a year + company profits, so say $10-12k/year. But they will work 10-12 hours/day.
Outsourcing is only really worth it for large projects, where overhead is smaller.
There are many reasons to outsource. Some of them are:
- You don't have to find and employ qualified people yourself.
- Usually you get a fixed price on most tasks.
- You don't have to pay idle workers
- You get better documentation (because without you can't outsource successfully)
As I see it, the only chance you will have as a telcommuter is if you can find an agency that will sell a software development group to US companies, with a project manager and all - that manges to actually make sure people work. Knowing the culture etc will help make such a group successfull in smaller projects where outsourcing overhead is too large, or where lots of changes will have to be made over the development cycle.
BTW: Here in Denmark, you can get young freelance programmers for $30/hour - They might not be good, but they are cheaper than offshore, and can work well if in an experienced group that knows which tasks to delegate.
Disclaimer: I am not american, and not living in the US, but I have been teaching local employees in Asia + Africa, whom were ment to work as developers on outsourced jobs. I am no longer a software developer, but I am higher up the food chain.
What is wrong with STANDARD 5-pin DIN connectors (DIN = Deutsche Industrie Norm). It was the most widely available connector for audio when they started their link system.
You can make adaptors yourself, there is not much of a secret how sound is transmitted through it.
Why can't you play the music on other players ? Or on Windows and Linux ? AAC is a standard format, and you can even buy a Nero plugin to create AAC songs on Windows.
There is, ot will soon be AAC -> WAV converters so you can make CDs for the car.
Anything that supports quicktime can decode and play AAC. There is also freeware available.
For broadcasting, I can't help. But that is not fair use.
With recent music being so compressed in the dynamics already, it is not much loss to buy it as AAC. Some of todays CDs are of a quality that can easily compare to MP3, 128-bit crap.
And the USA is now asking Denmark to send large amounts of troops down to Iraq to command all the troops there post-war.
Is this another plot to force us to implement the same crazy restrictions ? Will the other NATO countries help Denmark if USA really forces us ?
Here in Denmark, NAT is normal. It is how most ADSL providers ship the included router. But some providers only allows one computer on the cheaper connections. This is regulated by a contract, and not by law.
Why don't americans use contracts to regulate business between 2 or more parties ?
Technology like radio and TV are designed to be stealthy devices that receives communications anonymously, and thus conceals the destination of the comunications.
The same goes for radio scanners, GPS receivers etc.
Will all one-way comms be banned ?
MacOS X is more than just unix:
It is the plain old MacOS API with a few twists, this is called Carbon. The closest you come to this on Linux is coding for Wine.
Then there is the OS X API, Cocoa. This is basicly NextStep API, where coding reallly ought to be in Objective-C or Objective-C++.
And finally you can code for X-Windows / Unix.
And there is a long way from Carbon to Linux.
Problem is, that most of the bugs contributed to Unix is not a problem in unix, but a problem with some user installed software, like Sendmail etc.
On Windows we don't attribute errors in Exchange, WordPerfect etc to the OS.
Now if we only count unix errors as those in the kernel and libc, and even Dan Bernsteins software,we get quite a bit fewer.
People can't see the difference between software from the huge company "Open Source", and the company's operating system, while it is easier for them to tell there is a difference between Windows, and an add-on product that costs hundreds of dollars.
My Honeypot at home has consumed 40.000 mails the last 8 hours, all for aol.com.
And I just had my honeypot for 2 weeks, and never announced it.
A real company has procedures for change management. That is, a programmer documents what changes he is implementing, and another programmer does code review and releases the changes.
At least this is how it should work if you work inside a company where your code might destroy production data if buggy.
Much of the internet crap is not tested, or rather it is tested by people who has never seen a line of code. People donøt understand that better development quality will save more on less debugging time.
Povl - Former programmer. Now inhouse security consultant.