>if someone near my house wants to go ahead and use my wireless > connection, as long as it's not crippling my connection speed, so be > it. Not a big loss for me. >...until your ISP boots you off, kills your account and gets you blacklisted on all other local providers because a machine on your subnet has been spewing spam at 700,000/hour for the last week...
The cannot claim that every line of GNU/Linux is theirs. In fact, they cannmot claim that the fragnents allegedly stolen by IBM are crucial to the system
This is demonstrably false, alas, for this is exactly what SCO *are* claiming. Last I heard they were claiming to own essentially all Unix ever, be it BSD-ish or SVR4-derived. Unless they've changed their minds again this week.
Not only is this terribly lame and not at all amusing any more (was it amusing at all? mebbe I'm just humour impaired.) but (unless i've been trolled) it's a very bad metaphor... I hope. Otherwise SCO will shortly be obliterated by IBM lawyers, who will take the company over and GPL their codebase but will then be hampered by the need to occupy a company with less than a quarter of the people needed to do it, and with a constant stream of attritional guerilla attacks from the Darl et al who've gone underground somehow, and by ordinary everyday Unix users who are glad to see the back of SCO, but loathe and detest the ignorant barbarians who are now in occupation of their space. And it's 1 - 2 - 3 what are we fighting 4? / Don't ask me I don't even know / The next stop is Ess - Cee Oh" (with apologies to Arlo Guthrie...)
> I personally believe that any discovery of life larger than bacteria > would lend large credence to evolutionary theory. While the majority > of people are now convinced of evolution, there still remain pockets > of faithful that follow creationist theory. >
Sadly, I think you're being over-optimistic. Anyone stupid or mentally ill enough to believe in creationism over evolution at this stage is not going to be convinced by anything short of god parting the clouds and announcing (in a deep, booming voice, natch) "Listen here, you Christians. I don't really exist you know, you've been deluding yourselves."
> A full description of Microsoft's end-of-support, end-of-life > policies, including dates for *all* it's OSes, can be found here. >...yeah, where it's been for the last two or three years. This NT4 lifecycle policy isn't news either (this story is following straight on from the old news about Sobig/E), we've been telling our clients to migrate off NT4 to either W2K, Linux, or indeed anything else at all since I started working here in Jan 2003, and probably before that as well.
And if I could be arsed to search the archives, it's probably a dupe story anyway. But I can't.
this was news yesterday. If you're learning about new viruses and worms by reading about them on Slashdot, then either (1) you don't need to know (you're not on Windows, or you're a home user with a locked down machine, or you update your a/v every few hours) , or (2) you're incompetent and should be fired!
For security news as it happens, subscribe to nanog-l, sec-focus "Incidents" list, incidents.org "Intrusions" list, and ISP-sec if you have too much time on your hands:)
Note that these give you different info from the likes of Bugtraq, Full disclosure, CERT et al. These will alert you when you need to, say, patch your Squid proxies against a new exploit.
Ballard roxx0rs. And the fact that that 25% of my pension's in green funds, including Ballard, and that to my surprise they've significantly outperformed all my 'investment' stocks, hardly influences my judgement at all;)
I'm sure this story will be full of "what's the point?!" comments. Just a single data point / anecdotal bit of evidence. I always had trouble getting to sleep (and, consequently, getting up in the morning) although I stuck to only two or three cups of instant, and nothing after midday/1pm. Just for the hell of it, I had a cup of tea for my morning kickstart a couple of weeks ago, and stayed off coffee the rest of the day. Result: solid refreshing sleep; 4) happiness! (better than profit! any day...)
If it's generic enough to be scratch your particular itch, you'll need to do a lot of work to implement the specifics of your case. If it's very highly specialised, you'll need to do a lot of work to adapt it to the specifics of your case.
Given the choice, would you rather work on adapting someone else's code for your situation - or would you rather write your own from scratch?
(it's a rhetorical question;)
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never been in management have you....
#1, asking the previous employer... ALL they can reveal legally is that they did in fact work there... NOTHING ELSE. so your "did they have trouble at their last job?" is impossible to find out legally. Yes there are some bosses that put their company at risk by passing along info on a bad egg...but they put their company at risk by saying anything... good or bad.
Wow, is that really the law in the US? Here in the UK and, I assumed, everywhere else, it's standard practice to be asked to provide references or referees who worked with you at previous employer $xyz as a (manager|colleague|whatever). Of course you give people you hope will give the most glowing reports of you, rather than that annoying pencilneck who hated you for using Apache rather than IIS;) The idea that you'd be in trouble for asking for references is bonkers. Suppose you've got a history of, say, skiving off pretending to be sick? If an employer isn't allowed to ask an interviewee about their past history, well no wonder you've got an unemployment problem!
I dunno what colour the sky is where you live, but believe it or not lots of people are ALREADY telecommuting, at least some of the time. I can't think of anywhere I've worked in the last ten years where SOME home working was the norm. Apart from a certain horrible US mega-corp, management tend to judge by results. 'Presenteeism', ie being in the office in body but absent in mind (for whatever reason) really doesn't work. Any decent employer should trust you to get the work done - if you do so, who cares where (or when) you did it?
Sure, it's called a quid pro quo. I'll turn up late, spend a few hours on Slashdot & keeping up with list traffic (luckily, my employer recognises that reading Bugtraq, incidents et al is an essential part of work...) - OTOH I'll pull 80 hour, 6 or 7 day weeks now and again without grumbling. Seems to work out OK - the work gets done, on deadline.
Anyway, the lad types who talk about football & sex all the time are rarely very good company anyway.
> A tiny 2 bedroom flat in London city center can cost £200k-£500k GBP > which would be $320k-$800k. >
So get a few friends together and rent a house. We paid £1100 pcm for a 4 bedroom place with std. mod cons, front & back garden, 7 mins walks from the tube. (Granted, this was a bit of a bargain, but they're still out there if you're prepared to look.) Get a geek house going and you might be able to club together for a leased line, too. And think of the savings in video rentals when the Matrix, LotR etc come out;)
And anyway, tech workers in central London still earn a fsck of a lot more than the average wage, even post-boom and with the City firing thousands. In fact this HELPS- without all those huge bonuses, the demand for very high-end gaffs has dropped off a lot, and theoretically at least that'll ripple down the accomodation food-chain. IYSWIM.
> Current soaring UK house prices are not an accident - they are a > deliberate government policy. > >The ratio of house prices to salaries in the UK is now at it's highest >since records began in 1900.
thanks to the Daily Moron^w Mail and Express, obsessing over house prices... the Private Eye piss-takes of their obsession is hardly funny any more, one of them had a shock horror front page lead yesterday about terrorism causing a world (!) house price crash. Like that would be a bad thing.
living IN London and commuting OUT means you always get a seat - in fact you often get a carriage for yourself. In a total of 9 months commuting first to Aylesbury, then to Maidstone from central London, ISTR the train was only late a couple of times - a very pleasant surprise, given the horror stories you hear.
That said, my journey started at Brixton - end of the Victoria (tube) line, so again I was guaranteed a seat, so I might be biased there, too.
My experience is that the political stuff varies from company to company. Current employer has an amazingly low level of background political radiation. We have several people who very rarely come in, including someone who works from the Czech republic... and anyway, most of us (geek types) do most of our in-office communication using mail/IRC/whatever anyway. What difference does it make whether someone's on the next floor or the next country, either way you won't see them very often. So long as they answer mail, it doesn't really matter.
I'm also in the UK, coincidentally about 90 mins from (central) London. Before I took this job I'd lived & worked in London for 8 years. I was/am amazed at the way everyone seems to accept spending hours a day sitting in car commuting. Give me trains any day - you can read, sleep, finish that last minute report...:)
Some of my group are often on the road visiting clients (mostly doing firewall installs but also presales and other consultancy); personally I'm looking forward to the time I get myself some proper accomodation, work pay for broadband and I can do my (pentesting) work from home at least some of the time. That said, I'd go bonkers if I never came into the office at all.
Like everyone else I got all got all pissed off with Caldera/SCO for their petty, vindictive & malicious behaviour. But now look at 'em... the management team will never work again in corporate America, the company will be bust quicker than you can say "busted flush", and the shareholders (if there's any justice) will be left with nothing. How hilarious!:))
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>if someone near my house wants to go ahead and use my wireless ...until your ISP boots you off, kills your account and gets you blacklisted on all other local providers because a machine on your subnet has been spewing spam at 700,000/hour for the last week...
> connection, as long as it's not crippling my connection speed, so be
> it. Not a big loss for me.
>
why does my star go "boom"?
The cannot claim that every line of GNU/Linux is theirs. In fact, they cannmot claim that the fragnents allegedly stolen by IBM are crucial to the system
This is demonstrably false, alas, for this is exactly what SCO *are* claiming. Last I heard they were claiming to own essentially all Unix ever, be it BSD-ish or SVR4-derived. Unless they've changed their minds again this week.
Not only is this terribly lame and not at all amusing any more (was it amusing at all? mebbe I'm just humour impaired.) but (unless i've been trolled) it's a very bad metaphor... I hope. Otherwise SCO will shortly be obliterated by IBM lawyers, who will take the company over and GPL their codebase but will then be hampered by the need to occupy a company with less than a quarter of the people needed to do it, and with a constant stream of attritional guerilla attacks from the Darl et al who've gone underground somehow, and by ordinary everyday Unix users who are glad to see the back of SCO, but loathe and detest the ignorant barbarians who are now in occupation of their space. And it's 1 - 2 - 3 what are we fighting 4? / Don't ask me I don't even know / The next stop is Ess - Cee Oh" (with apologies to Arlo Guthrie...)
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> I personally believe that any discovery of life larger than bacteria
> would lend large credence to evolutionary theory. While the majority
> of people are now convinced of evolution, there still remain pockets
> of faithful that follow creationist theory.
>
Sadly, I think you're being over-optimistic. Anyone stupid or mentally ill enough to believe in creationism over evolution at this stage is not going to be convinced by anything short of god parting the clouds and announcing (in a deep, booming voice, natch) "Listen here, you Christians. I don't really exist you know, you've been deluding yourselves."
> A full description of Microsoft's end-of-support, end-of-life ...yeah, where it's been for the last two or three years. This NT4 lifecycle policy isn't news either (this story is following straight on from the old news about Sobig/E), we've been telling our clients to migrate off NT4 to either W2K, Linux, or indeed anything else at all since I started working here in Jan 2003, and probably before that as well.
> policies, including dates for *all* it's OSes, can be found here.
>
And if I could be arsed to search the archives, it's probably a dupe story anyway. But I can't.
Next!
>These people are not going to sign a bad deal.
>
And yet they're spending money on Microsoft software, so it seems you must be mistaken.
this was news yesterday. If you're learning about new viruses and worms by reading about them on Slashdot, then either (1) you don't need to know (you're not on Windows, or you're a home user with a locked down machine, or you update your a/v every few hours) , or (2) you're incompetent and should be fired!
:)
For security news as it happens, subscribe to nanog-l, sec-focus "Incidents" list, incidents.org "Intrusions" list, and ISP-sec if you have too much time on your hands
Note that these give you different info from the likes of Bugtraq, Full disclosure, CERT et al. These will alert you when you need to, say, patch your Squid proxies against a new exploit.
>GNOME and many other "GNU-named" things aren't really GNU, so Stallman >has no claim to them.
>
I think you'll find Gnome is (c) the FSF... (checks) yup, here we go:
"Gnome is the GNU Network Object Model Environment. It intends to build a complete, easy-to-use desktop environment for the user and a powerful application framework for the software developer."
Ballard roxx0rs. And the fact that that 25% of my pension's in green funds, including Ballard, and that to my surprise they've significantly outperformed all my 'investment' stocks, hardly influences my judgement at all ;)
I do like the coffee taste, though, so I might experiment with some decaf later on...
I'm sure this story will be full of "what's the point?!" comments. Just a single data point / anecdotal bit of evidence. I always had trouble getting to sleep (and, consequently, getting up in the morning) although I stuck to only two or three cups of instant, and nothing after midday/1pm. Just for the hell of it, I had a cup of tea for my morning kickstart a couple of weeks ago, and stayed off coffee the rest of the day. Result: solid refreshing sleep;
4) happiness! (better than profit! any day...)
If it's generic enough to be scratch your particular itch, you'll need to do a lot of work to implement the specifics of your case. If it's very highly specialised, you'll need to do a lot of work to adapt it to the specifics of your case.
;)
Given the choice, would you rather work on adapting someone else's code for your situation - or would you rather write your own from scratch?
(it's a rhetorical question
Wow, is that really the law in the US? Here in the UK and, I assumed, everywhere else, it's standard practice to be asked to provide references or referees who worked with you at previous employer $xyz as a (manager|colleague|whatever). Of course you give people you hope will give the most glowing reports of you, rather than that annoying pencilneck who hated you for using Apache rather than IIS
nah, just skimming 'em on a newstand for my daily dose of misanthropy-induced despair, phear and loathing ;)
> It will never catch on though.
>
I dunno what colour the sky is where you live, but believe it or not lots of people are ALREADY telecommuting, at least some of the time. I can't think of anywhere I've worked in the last ten years where SOME home working was the norm. Apart from a certain horrible US mega-corp, management tend to judge by results. 'Presenteeism', ie being in the office in body but absent in mind (for whatever reason) really doesn't work. Any decent employer should trust you to get the work done - if you do so, who cares where (or when) you did it?
Sure, it's called a quid pro quo. I'll turn up late, spend a few hours on Slashdot & keeping up with list traffic (luckily, my employer recognises that reading Bugtraq, incidents et al is an essential part of work...) - OTOH I'll pull 80 hour, 6 or 7 day weeks now and again without grumbling. Seems to work out OK - the work gets done, on deadline.
Anyway, the lad types who talk about football & sex all the time are rarely very good company anyway.
> A tiny 2 bedroom flat in London city center can cost £200k-£500k GBP
;)
> which would be $320k-$800k.
>
So get a few friends together and rent a house. We paid £1100 pcm for a 4 bedroom place with std. mod cons, front & back garden, 7 mins walks from the tube. (Granted, this was a bit of a bargain, but they're still out there if you're prepared to look.) Get a geek house going and you might be able to club together for a leased line, too. And think of the savings in video rentals when the Matrix, LotR etc come out
And anyway, tech workers in central London still earn a fsck of a lot more than the average wage, even post-boom and with the City firing thousands. In fact this HELPS- without all those huge bonuses, the demand for very high-end gaffs has dropped off a lot, and theoretically at least that'll ripple down the accomodation food-chain. IYSWIM.
> Current soaring UK house prices are not an accident - they are a
> deliberate government policy.
>
>The ratio of house prices to salaries in the UK is now at it's highest
>since records began in 1900.
thanks to the Daily Moron^w Mail and Express, obsessing over house prices... the Private Eye piss-takes of their obsession is hardly funny any more, one of them had a shock horror front page lead yesterday about terrorism causing a world (!) house price crash. Like that would be a bad thing.
living IN London and commuting OUT means you always get a seat - in fact you often get a carriage for yourself. In a total of 9 months commuting first to Aylesbury, then to Maidstone from central London, ISTR the train was only late a couple of times - a very pleasant surprise, given the horror stories you hear.
That said, my journey started at Brixton - end of the Victoria (tube) line, so again I was guaranteed a seat, so I might be biased there, too.
My experience is that the political stuff varies from company to company. Current employer has an amazingly low level of background political radiation. We have several people who very rarely come in, including someone who works from the Czech republic... and anyway, most of us (geek types) do most of our in-office communication using mail/IRC/whatever anyway. What difference does it make whether someone's on the next floor or the next country, either way you won't see them very often. So long as they answer mail, it doesn't really matter.
I'm also in the UK, coincidentally about 90 mins from (central) London. Before I took this job I'd lived & worked in London for 8 years. I was/am amazed at the way everyone seems to accept spending hours a day sitting in car commuting. Give me trains any day - you can read, sleep, finish that last minute report... :)
Some of my group are often on the road visiting clients (mostly doing firewall installs but also presales and other consultancy); personally I'm looking forward to the time I get myself some proper accomodation, work pay for broadband and I can do my (pentesting) work from home at least some of the time. That said, I'd go bonkers if I never came into the office at all.
Our discussions became difficult since our views were different.
*choke* lor' lumme,.. I'd love to have been a fly on that wall!
ROFLM~F~AO!
:))
Like everyone else I got all got all pissed off with Caldera/SCO for their petty, vindictive & malicious behaviour. But now look at 'em... the management team will never work again in corporate America, the company will be bust quicker than you can say "busted flush", and the shareholders (if there's any justice) will be left with nothing. How hilarious!