So I was a part-time (big projects, twice a month maybe) sysadmin at a local office of a large actuary firm. About 70 computers all tied in over a leased line to the central offices. Anywho, back when the Melissa (I think) virus was making its rounds I gave the full-time guy a heads up on wha to expect, patches, etc. Of course, his head was firmly stuck up his 'exit-only' hole and neglected to do anything. So our systems slowly but surely (not so slowly now that I think about it) groud to a halt.
Long and short of it was that we had to manually clean every system, and in doing so found dozens of other infections, trojans, etc. I never did any of the client admin work, just helped with the long-distance networking. But the head of the office took me aside and asked me for a "no shit" assessment. I told em the full-time had dropped the ball. He offered me the job, I chuckled and politely declined as that office was NO fun and the pay sucked (hence the lowly full timer they wound up with).
I was planning on having a all-day LOTR showing on my 36" widescreen for a few friends. But with it now pushing probably 14 hours with mealtimes and whatnot...jeez. Any ideas?
Pretty soon summaries will be one word 'catch-phrases' which convey enough meaning for us to get the gist of the story. We can then 'think' to the computer let me learn more about this. And then we will.
For anyone who has seen the Snipes/Stalone movie 'Demoliton Man', you have my sincere apology.
But, more importantly, this dystopian future that Salon highlights is paralleled in the movie. There's only one restaurant, Taco Bell, no salt (cause its bad for you), etc.
I recommend everyone watch it but not tell anyone that you did out of shame. Kinda like Mothman Prophecies, except that movie really, really, really sucked.
As I am not an expert in filesystems, how would this be different than NTFS5? The CNET artcile gives the impression that "file system work was abandoned because of complexity, market forces and internal bickering."
I work during the holidays. Sysadmin for a small company who has to get a report finished by Jan 1st. Guess who gets to deal with irate number crunchers.
but the $$ is decent and its a relatively cush job.
This 'battle' between computer giants Sun and Microsoft is a classic example of why people do business. There is nothing inherently wrong with competing standard (PCS vs. GSM, Dollard vs. Euro, etc.), only when the competition erodes intellectual growth does it become bad. People are in business typically to do two things:
1)Provide a product, service, etc.
2)Do this in order to make a profit (or break-even in cases on non-profits and the like).
With Microsoft releasing things like C# and its.NET initiative as a way of unifying content, connectivity, and collaboration (3 C's!) and Sun feeling it has a viable alternative, competition is then fostered. From this, in theory at least, better opportunities and lower costs await the end-user/consumer.
Why the media seeks to villify either side or bring the avergage Joe fear of big brother is somewhat irresponsible. Anywho, if you guys want to poke my little case full of hole's I'd be delighted, seriosuly, let me see where I think I know more than I do. Peace.
Space, the final frontier, these are the voyages of the:
1. Idle Rich
2. Non-Idle Rich
3. Winners of Gameshow (read yutz)
4. People who somehow persuaded the former USSR to fly yahoo's from the EU into space.
5. Advertiser's logos (I can see it now, the Coca Cola Launch Countdown, the Prudential Spacewalk, and don't forget the Budweiser Space Frogs...)
I guess I'm just trying to say that space is the coolest thing out there. Back in the 'good old days' only the biggest and baddest people (USA and USSR) could send people up there. Now its trickeld down to gameshow winner. My question is: Is this a good thing?
When the world comes to this then its time to take a good look at ourselves. I am not saying that people who have wealth are bad. By no means so, in fact most wealthy people I know or have heard of are philanthropist of some form. But when people are starving not five (5) miles from where the house is then may, jusy maybe, some perspective is in order.
You have poverty, not because people are lazy (yes there are plenty of those), not because of jobs going overseas (yes there are plenty of those too, but because we as people allow it. Do you honestly belive that poverty cannot be eliminated? A recent study (read it in a newspaper, I think L.A. Times but unsure) shows a small $80 per year tax on all tax payers would go a long way to solving the United States poverty siuation.
One other thing, I know alot of you are starving college students like myself, who would love to have that house. The electronic doodads are cool but I wish they would've skipped on the aroma features and made a scholarship.
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Wow, just wow. Disturbing to say the least. Bad mojo 2nite.
So I was a part-time (big projects, twice a month maybe) sysadmin at a local office of a large actuary firm. About 70 computers all tied in over a leased line to the central offices. Anywho, back when the Melissa (I think) virus was making its rounds I gave the full-time guy a heads up on wha to expect, patches, etc. Of course, his head was firmly stuck up his 'exit-only' hole and neglected to do anything. So our systems slowly but surely (not so slowly now that I think about it) groud to a halt.
Long and short of it was that we had to manually clean every system, and in doing so found dozens of other infections, trojans, etc. I never did any of the client admin work, just helped with the long-distance networking. But the head of the office took me aside and asked me for a "no shit" assessment. I told em the full-time had dropped the ball. He offered me the job, I chuckled and politely declined as that office was NO fun and the pay sucked (hence the lowly full timer they wound up with).
Anyway...
If you always trap your Sim-ling in a pool w/o a ladder out, what does that make you?
If you're a god (or God) who allows people to play god/God on a computer, what does that say?
If you're a Sim-ling and you resent your Slashdotting overlord, do you have the right, nay responsibility, to destory his Quicken files?
I was planning on having a all-day LOTR showing on my 36" widescreen for a few friends. But with it now pushing probably 14 hours with mealtimes and whatnot...jeez. Any ideas?
Pretty soon summaries will be one word 'catch-phrases' which convey enough meaning for us to get the gist of the story. We can then 'think' to the computer let me learn more about this. And then we will.
the future. god bless it.
For anyone who has seen the Snipes/Stalone movie 'Demoliton Man', you have my sincere apology.
But, more importantly, this dystopian future that Salon highlights is paralleled in the movie. There's only one restaurant, Taco Bell, no salt (cause its bad for you), etc.
I recommend everyone watch it but not tell anyone that you did out of shame. Kinda like Mothman Prophecies, except that movie really, really, really sucked.
I went looking for more info on ARM, found it is used everywhere. Here's the address:
/ ar m_powered?OpenDocument
http://www.arm.com/sitearchitek/armwww.ns4/html
Hope someone finds it informative.
As I am not an expert in filesystems, how would this be different than NTFS5? The CNET artcile gives the impression that "file system work was abandoned because of complexity, market forces and internal bickering."
My question is, what changed?
I work during the holidays. Sysadmin for a small company who has to get a report finished by Jan 1st. Guess who gets to deal with irate number crunchers.
but the $$ is decent and its a relatively cush job.
This 'battle' between computer giants Sun and Microsoft is a classic example of why people do business. There is nothing inherently wrong with competing standard (PCS vs. GSM, Dollard vs. Euro, etc.), only when the competition erodes intellectual growth does it become bad. People are in business typically to do two things:
.NET initiative as a way of unifying content, connectivity, and collaboration (3 C's!) and Sun feeling it has a viable alternative, competition is then fostered. From this, in theory at least, better opportunities and lower costs await the end-user/consumer.
1)Provide a product, service, etc.
2)Do this in order to make a profit (or break-even in cases on non-profits and the like).
With Microsoft releasing things like C# and its
Why the media seeks to villify either side or bring the avergage Joe fear of big brother is somewhat irresponsible. Anywho, if you guys want to poke my little case full of hole's I'd be delighted, seriosuly, let me see where I think I know more than I do. Peace.
Space, the final frontier, these are the voyages of the:
1. Idle Rich
2. Non-Idle Rich
3. Winners of Gameshow (read yutz)
4. People who somehow persuaded the former USSR to fly yahoo's from the EU into space.
5. Advertiser's logos (I can see it now, the Coca Cola Launch Countdown, the Prudential Spacewalk, and don't forget the Budweiser Space Frogs...)
I guess I'm just trying to say that space is the coolest thing out there. Back in the 'good old days' only the biggest and baddest people (USA and USSR) could send people up there. Now its trickeld down to gameshow winner. My question is: Is this a good thing?
Thanks for reading,
Folks,
When the world comes to this then its time to take a good look at ourselves. I am not saying that people who have wealth are bad. By no means so, in fact most wealthy people I know or have heard of are philanthropist of some form. But when people are starving not five (5) miles from where the house is then may, jusy maybe, some perspective is in order.
You have poverty, not because people are lazy (yes there are plenty of those), not because of jobs going overseas (yes there are plenty of those too, but because we as people allow it. Do you honestly belive that poverty cannot be eliminated? A recent study (read it in a newspaper, I think L.A. Times but unsure) shows a small $80 per year tax on all tax payers would go a long way to solving the United States poverty siuation.
One other thing, I know alot of you are starving college students like myself, who would love to have that house. The electronic doodads are cool but I wish they would've skipped on the aroma features and made a scholarship.
My two cents.
1. The article acknowledges that this may go nowhere.
2. This is how most scientific 'advances' are made. Somebody notices something cool about the world around them and builds on it.
3. Seems like a reasonable idea (from a 2nd year physics major) but then again I'm no expert on super-conductors or magnetic fields.
4. Everyone agrees that a new propulsion form(s) is needed for space exploration to become a viable and regular occurrence.
5. This is my first post on slashdot so...just take it for what you will.