like I asked you too. But cheap parody is easier than thinking, or bothering to read a book by one of the best mathematicians in the world.
Do you even know what Godel's incompleteness theory is? Do you know what is meant by the phrase 'formal system'?
Have you ever read any neuroscience? (Simple, yeah... right).
Learn something before you flame kid.
About technical issues. In a casual conversation you can get a pretty decent sense of someone's technical abilities and inclinations (the latter being to often ignored by employers - and its probably one of the most important things). But no, I wouldn't hire anyone who couldn't give me a reasonable explanation of the OSI model.
There are some long-lived networking books. "Interconnections" by Radia Perlman, and "TCP/IP Illustrated" come immediately to mind.
In fact most of Addison Wesley's line is long-lived stuff.
Add "In the beginning there was the Command Line" by Stephenson for a less technical read. Also, most libraries I've been in have some of the 'for Dummies' line.
I've have found occasionally that using Progra~1 can create an error on bootup in win2k that goes like (I don't have it in front of me right now but its something liket this)"file found called programs, could cause conflicts, would you like to rename".
Jon Katz's supporters to stand up and be heard.
I'm all stocked up, and I'm selling napalm at discount prices. $19.95 a pint, and I don't care what side you are on.;-)
Seriously, it would be nice if people who thought Jon's article was stupid could say something more insightfull about the topic to show him up, rather than going all Johnny Storm.
Has it occured to anyone that far from restricting the export of strong encryption, that maybe we should be fostering it? I agree with DOD that encryption is a weapon. I'm just thinking the Chinese people might use it more dangerously against their own government than their government could use it against us. After all, we get most of our usefull intel from satellite imagery.
Let's send the Chinese tools so their government can't track them, and see what happens.
Percussive mantainence is dangerous on machines that keep the bios on a hard drive partition. Which is sort of like leaving the parachute in the aircraft hangar. Or, as the old Marine Corps cadence goes : "Running through the jungle with my M16 - I'm a dumb mother****er, I forgot my magazine." =)
You can already do all the stuff.NET claims to be able to do (presumably when it stops being vaporware) with Java and an application server (tomcat, webSphere, Enhydra, whatever). And Java is a mature technology.
Not to mention, have you ever tried to code to a M$ api? is Byzantine.
If open-source got a bit more behind Java M$ would have a serious battle on thier hands.
I agree, and the easiest way to improve tech support is to require a user license. People can drive stick, but can't even tell you what operating system they are running despite the fact the "Windows 2000" appears about 15 times on boot up, one of the them being in like 32 pt text.
While I was writing this a user called me, and I had to walk over to his desk because he insisted that he had a check-box checked. Of course, he didn't.
this sort of thing makes me actually enjoy tricky server problems.
Except if your computer is broken then you can't research support companies on the net.
-I always tell my users that they need to email me if their email is broken.;-)
Legato software sells that solution. It's called standby server. I set it up on my network. The netware version is really cool, because they have a product called many-to-one which allows you to use one standby server for multiple productions servers (provided you have the RAID space to mirror them).
And the guy who brought up clustering probably thought he was smart.;-)
You forgot:
The Council on Foreign relations.
The Blinderbergers.
The Rockefellers.
The A.:A.:
The British Royal Family
The 'Greys'
Elvis
Hakim Bey
Mordicai the Foul
Fang the Unwashed
ELF/LDD
P2 (ok, you mentioned Vatican, I know)
The Golden Dawn
E. Howard Hunt (If he shot JFK, you think he won't shoot you?);-)
China has only recently developed (well, stolen from us) the rocketry necessary to hit the west coast. Currently, they still can't hit the rest of the US. This is not exactly the same situation as it was with the Soviet Union (and sort of is with Russia). So the scenario is horrendous, but it looks more like Kissingers dream of a 'limited' nuclear war than it does the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction.:) This is why the Pentagon wants a missle defense system - it couldn't stop a few thousand Russian ICBMs but it might stop a few Chinese missles.
It only syncs to outlook. What's the point of running Linux if you just sync to outlook. Reminds me of the user friendly when Pitr writes VBS extensions for Linux so it will be vulnerable to viruses.
Like most admins, I didn't need wired news to know to read the fine print. But upgrading everyone (Even brand new win2k ships with 5.00.something) to a new browser was not practical.
But the good news is you can just disable active scripting, which I did by pushing it out on login. I also killed some of the active X controls. So occasionally someone won't be able to use a site that has heavy M$ buy-in by their developers. I just upgrade them if they can show me they need it for work.
Having these emotional discussions is fun, but real geeks find solutions. Get it?
The pro-choice lobby should put up a parody web site with the judges labelled as murderers (they after all are allowing people to encourage the murder of medical profesionals) along with thier home and work addresses. The best part is the judges can't do anything about it without reversing their ruling. See how they like it.
I have actually bought products I have seen in on-line adds. Products I would never have even heard of otherwise. When I notice TV or radio advertisement it is usually to make a mental note to never buy that product (because I'm so damned irritated by it). While I am a minority demographic (well-educated, 30, white professional), it is a highly sought-after demographic for advertisers. I think on-line advertising can be far more effective than is widely believed.
NOTE TO Advertisers - Remember how you have been trying to target the right audience for the past 50 years? Well now you can, on-line, for cheap. DUH!
Despite the disclaimer that there is no nostalgia for TV networks controlling everything (which would be premature) the implicit basis of all this is that we should all be exposed to the same media.
The news I like to read (like slashdot, Scientific American, 21C, etc)has always been, and will always be, suppressed in this 'common sources' as being beyond the attention span of 'common americans'.
The idea that 'me media' won't expose people to anything outside thier balliwic, but say CBS will is absurd. To the contrary, I find stuff on line that suprises me regularly, and in the 30 yrs I've been on this planet, a major network has not suprised me EVEN ONCE.
Anyone who thinks deeply enough about the implications of what I just said will probably want to have every university that gave this guy a passing grade, let alone hired him, stripped of their accreditations.
Spam is not merely a disturbing inconvience, it is theft. They steal the bandwidth and resources you pay for. Junk mail does not. Telemarketers pay for the phone call. Spammers use your bill. Thus they are stealing. This doesn't have squat to do with free speech or anything else. It's theft, and that should be illegal ( and will be as soon as gov types figure out what is going on).
So get over it.
As for vigtilatism, when someone keeps stealing your stuff, and the law doesn't do anything, what other choice do you have?
The suggestion specifically exempts OpenSource if you read the article carefully. Furthermore, one of the ways to get out of paying fines he suggests is to have to open up your code. Fines only apply to proprietary closed-source software that has been declared stable by the manufacturer.
Most of the time, when one reads carefully, more to worry about is discovered. But it is not the case with these suggestions.
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like I asked you too. But cheap parody is easier than thinking, or bothering to read a book by one of the best mathematicians in the world.
Do you even know what Godel's incompleteness theory is? Do you know what is meant by the phrase 'formal system'?
Have you ever read any neuroscience? (Simple, yeah... right).
Learn something before you flame kid.
About technical issues. In a casual conversation you can get a pretty decent sense of someone's technical abilities and inclinations (the latter being to often ignored by employers - and its probably one of the most important things). But no, I wouldn't hire anyone who couldn't give me a reasonable explanation of the OSI model.
There are some long-lived networking books. "Interconnections" by Radia Perlman, and "TCP/IP Illustrated" come immediately to mind. In fact most of Addison Wesley's line is long-lived stuff. Add "In the beginning there was the Command Line" by Stephenson for a less technical read. Also, most libraries I've been in have some of the 'for Dummies' line.
I've have found occasionally that using Progra~1 can create an error on bootup in win2k that goes like (I don't have it in front of me right now but its something liket this)"file found called programs, could cause conflicts, would you like to rename".
Jon Katz's supporters to stand up and be heard. ;-)
I'm all stocked up, and I'm selling napalm at discount prices. $19.95 a pint, and I don't care what side you are on.
Seriously, it would be nice if people who thought Jon's article was stupid could say something more insightfull about the topic to show him up, rather than going all Johnny Storm.
Has it occured to anyone that far from restricting the export of strong encryption, that maybe we should be fostering it? I agree with DOD that encryption is a weapon. I'm just thinking the Chinese people might use it more dangerously against their own government than their government could use it against us. After all, we get most of our usefull intel from satellite imagery. Let's send the Chinese tools so their government can't track them, and see what happens.
Percussive mantainence is dangerous on machines that keep the bios on a hard drive partition. Which is sort of like leaving the parachute in the aircraft hangar. Or, as the old Marine Corps cadence goes : "Running through the jungle with my M16 - I'm a dumb mother****er, I forgot my magazine." =)
I'm a sysadmin. Duh. But let me tell you, Skippy, I bite those machines back HARD.
That Java 2 Enterprise edition with a little Apache and Tomcat action won't do. Ok, maybe add some XML code.
You can already do all the stuff .NET claims to be able to do (presumably when it stops being vaporware) with Java and an application server (tomcat, webSphere, Enhydra, whatever). And Java is a mature technology.
Not to mention, have you ever tried to code to a M$ api? is Byzantine.
If open-source got a bit more behind Java M$ would have a serious battle on thier hands.
I agree, and the easiest way to improve tech support is to require a user license. People can drive stick, but can't even tell you what operating system they are running despite the fact the "Windows 2000" appears about 15 times on boot up, one of the them being in like 32 pt text.
While I was writing this a user called me, and I had to walk over to his desk because he insisted that he had a check-box checked. Of course, he didn't.
this sort of thing makes me actually enjoy tricky server problems.
Except if your computer is broken then you can't research support companies on the net. -I always tell my users that they need to email me if their email is broken. ;-)
Legato software sells that solution. It's called standby server. I set it up on my network. The netware version is really cool, because they have a product called many-to-one which allows you to use one standby server for multiple productions servers (provided you have the RAID space to mirror them). ;-)
And the guy who brought up clustering probably thought he was smart.
Actually, I'd like to run it on one of my Netware 5.1 servers.
These numbers are arbitrary. This is a smaller version of the same kind of superstition that gives rise to believing in Nostradamus and other hooey.
You forgot: The Council on Foreign relations. The Blinderbergers. The Rockefellers. The A.:A.: The British Royal Family The 'Greys' Elvis Hakim Bey Mordicai the Foul Fang the Unwashed ELF/LDD P2 (ok, you mentioned Vatican, I know) The Golden Dawn E. Howard Hunt (If he shot JFK, you think he won't shoot you?) ;-)
China has only recently developed (well, stolen from us) the rocketry necessary to hit the west coast. Currently, they still can't hit the rest of the US. This is not exactly the same situation as it was with the Soviet Union (and sort of is with Russia). So the scenario is horrendous, but it looks more like Kissingers dream of a 'limited' nuclear war than it does the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction. :) This is why the Pentagon wants a missle defense system - it couldn't stop a few thousand Russian ICBMs but it might stop a few Chinese missles.
It only syncs to outlook. What's the point of running Linux if you just sync to outlook. Reminds me of the user friendly when Pitr writes VBS extensions for Linux so it will be vulnerable to viruses.
Like most admins, I didn't need wired news to know to read the fine print. But upgrading everyone (Even brand new win2k ships with 5.00.something) to a new browser was not practical. But the good news is you can just disable active scripting, which I did by pushing it out on login. I also killed some of the active X controls. So occasionally someone won't be able to use a site that has heavy M$ buy-in by their developers. I just upgrade them if they can show me they need it for work. Having these emotional discussions is fun, but real geeks find solutions. Get it?
The pro-choice lobby should put up a parody web site with the judges labelled as murderers (they after all are allowing people to encourage the murder of medical profesionals) along with thier home and work addresses. The best part is the judges can't do anything about it without reversing their ruling. See how they like it.
I have actually bought products I have seen in on-line adds. Products I would never have even heard of otherwise. When I notice TV or radio advertisement it is usually to make a mental note to never buy that product (because I'm so damned irritated by it). While I am a minority demographic (well-educated, 30, white professional), it is a highly sought-after demographic for advertisers. I think on-line advertising can be far more effective than is widely believed. NOTE TO Advertisers - Remember how you have been trying to target the right audience for the past 50 years? Well now you can, on-line, for cheap. DUH!
Despite the disclaimer that there is no nostalgia for TV networks controlling everything (which would be premature) the implicit basis of all this is that we should all be exposed to the same media. The news I like to read (like slashdot, Scientific American, 21C, etc)has always been, and will always be, suppressed in this 'common sources' as being beyond the attention span of 'common americans'. The idea that 'me media' won't expose people to anything outside thier balliwic, but say CBS will is absurd. To the contrary, I find stuff on line that suprises me regularly, and in the 30 yrs I've been on this planet, a major network has not suprised me EVEN ONCE. Anyone who thinks deeply enough about the implications of what I just said will probably want to have every university that gave this guy a passing grade, let alone hired him, stripped of their accreditations.
This is why marketing people should not be allowed to use computers (though I can think of more than a few other atrocities).
Spam is not merely a disturbing inconvience, it is theft. They steal the bandwidth and resources you pay for. Junk mail does not. Telemarketers pay for the phone call. Spammers use your bill. Thus they are stealing. This doesn't have squat to do with free speech or anything else. It's theft, and that should be illegal ( and will be as soon as gov types figure out what is going on). So get over it. As for vigtilatism, when someone keeps stealing your stuff, and the law doesn't do anything, what other choice do you have?
The suggestion specifically exempts OpenSource if you read the article carefully. Furthermore, one of the ways to get out of paying fines he suggests is to have to open up your code. Fines only apply to proprietary closed-source software that has been declared stable by the manufacturer. Most of the time, when one reads carefully, more to worry about is discovered. But it is not the case with these suggestions.