But having said that, where does one draw the line ? I'm sure that many/.ers have created things at their workplace where they were the only person competent to run them, often because no-one else can be bothered to RT(perfectly)F(good)M that they insisted be created or they don't know that google exists.
When is one of us going to be fired and arrested for refusing to explain to her previous colleagues how to do a join on a pair of database tables ?
On a side note, at one point at my company there had been so many dismissals where people only found they were dismissed after inquiring why their email no longer worked, that every email server outage led to widespread fear that we'd all been let go.
I've just downloaded it - thank you. Looks like it has some interesting ideas in it.
It's good to see how other people think - I like following the links to "alternative" programming languages (like backflip) for the same reason, though they are interesting, I'm not sure that they boost my productivity.
As other posters have pointed out - it highlights how the whole OS is just not designed from a CLI perspective. MS just think about this in a different way.
For example, powershell passes objects between processes in a pipeline - I have a hard time visualising how it would, say, tail a growing file into a pipeline.
Another example; the powershell manual warns that paths in the registry are not unique and so you can't treat registry entries like other "items" Which is one of the things I wanted to be able to do (wait, wait, don't tell me - I'll spend some more time to RTFM)
Clearly I have a lot to learn - not least to be able to type at 1000WPM.
Most of the issues I have with windows stem from lukewarm support of a text command line.
I don't want to have to run cygwin just to get a reasonable CLI. Even having done that, it's just too hard to manipulate the registry etc. through text commands. I'm sure with a little thought, MS could come up with an industry leading text based interface that I could ssh into with a reasonable way to switch between different users (with different admin privileges) on the server.
Surely it would not be hard to compel everyone who wants to make these calls to register their caller ID and a classification of their business with a national register that publishes the database on the internet for free (perhaps as a part of the process of purchasing the do-not-call-list).
that way...
1) Telcos could offer value added call-block-by-category services to residential customers.
2) Telephone equipment manufacturers could sell list-aware telephone equipment (linux based of course)
3) Asterisk could do something devilish with blacklisted calls.
4) Any telephone user can choose which calls to take and which to deny, they can even accept calls from sites that have been censured for calling abuses if they so wish.
5) Anyone not playing ball would be subject to existing penalties as if they had called someone on the D-N-C list.
6) spam callers get free publicity from Uncle Sam - should boost their business.
7) It puts the onus on the end user to ensure that they don't block an important call that they might like to hear.
Better still - put something in the caller ID message that categorizes incoming calls, but I'm not sure that the standards exist to support that.
Sadly, I'm sure it would not be long before every felon or sex offender were forced to register, so this may be the solution that ate pittsburgh.
I though it was only a few days ago that/. reported that gallium is in short supply. Now we're blowing our precious reserves on frivolous video decoding.
This has nothing to do with the quality of one OS over another. The whole paying field is tilted toward commercial systems by, among other things...
People aspiring to be locked-in... Including CEOs that want "gold reseller status" and Engineers get XX Certified and turn into little self-serving XX salespeople.
The amount of crap that is spoken about support contracts for commercial products. Supported, my ass - hours on the phone talking to someone who knows less than you do, it's more like psycology; "you know the answer - I just have to bring it out of you"...
Fearmongering over Intellectual property and licensing
FUDspreading over the supportability of one platform over another.
Insisting on a crappy GUI over a workable text UI at any cost. Heaven forbid the end user see text, much better he see a picture of a bleeding aardvark and a shoelace and try and figure out what that means...
OK - so I can blow a few Karma points in a rant every now and again, but really - it's not even Windows' fault - it is a competent OS in many ways as testified by how widely it really is deployed with no-one usually noticing.
It's the pseudo-professionality garbage-sphere that surrounds it that gets my goat.
So I went to visit my local high school in Georgia and I spent a little time talking with some teachers. While I was there they were setting up a presentation on a projector from a PC, it wasn't using powerpoint, rather some vastly inferior-looking custom software. Anyhow, I digress...
I was struck by how much it appeared to lock the teacher into the detail of the curriculum. It seemed to me that the main point of the presentation method was to confine what the teacher could say to the class.
My impression was that the technology was being used to micromanage teachers more than to enrich the learning experience for the students.
Unfortunately I doubt most people vote based on anything so scientific as biography and 1st term priorities. I bet they more likely vote for Mr Powell or not based on their gut feel about whether they like him as a candidate or not.
By the way - I think he would make a great candidate for Veep.
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate being given permission to hack the device and having a door left open. But really - if it is not cheaper then what value does netgear place on their own firmware ?
You read my mind. I was going to use the example of not clearing snow from the sidewalk outside your house in case anyone slipped on the bare ice and sued (I edited it out - I was already rambling too much).
I do take your point about these incidents being rare.
But I think there's a difference between
A) a 1 in a 10,000 chance that you might be sued for thousands if someone slips (it may even be covered by your household insurance). and
B) a 1 in a million chance that you might be permanently financially ruined because you did something stupid with a gun.
People believe in 1 in a million chances - they even buy lottery tickets, and as the lottery company will tell you, there's a winner every day.
If what you hear is bad, then there's a problem delivering packets to you. There may be little you can do about this.
If your speech is getting broken up on the way to the far end, then you may be able to re-prioritise packets out of your router, but the broadband company is unlikely to honor any QoS markings you put on them.
Finally, you might try deliberately rate limiting your reception of the bit torrent (if it is TCP - idunno, are torrents TCP ?). Any good PC operating system should be able to do this;)
That should persuade the far end to slow down through back pressure on the TCP windowing system.
I really don't understand why people who have any livelihood to care about carry guns when you consider the huge liability.
In the last few months I have heard of two accidental gun discharges inside supermarkets, either the guns were fumbled or dropped. In one case, some children were hit.
When you consider how fond the USA is of suing people, I would have thought that carrying a handgun into a public place was too risky for ordinary citizens. After all, if you slip and shoot me by accident, should I survive, I will likely sue and sue big. Should I die, my family will sue.
The base that would hate him for it will vote for him anyway and there are a significant number of people that worry about him being too liberal and this will tilt their decision favorably.
This is the second issue in which Obama has, I feel, taken the low road. ie. electioneered instead of lead. The other one being Gay marriage. To hear the politcos speak you would think that making Gayness legal would open the floodgates - everyone would want to be gay and married.
I'd vote for him anyway - but I had hoped a leader would emerge and that he would be the one.
He has a duty not just to do the public will but to explain (seel even) to the public why they should support him and, well, lead dammit.
What does it say about the intellectual rigor of the process of arming the public to defend themselves and "take back government for the people" when
1) you can have a gun but not a bulletproof vest
2) actually overthrowing the government - specifically shooting a public official is hardly welcomed. It generally leads to ol' sparky.
If the intellectual basis of owning a gun is that you could shoot the president if you disagreed with him, then that is an implicit threat to the president's life, which I believe is a serious federal offense.
The NRA groupies mostly want handguns and combat weapons as a toy collection and penis extension rather than any rational argument that I can see.
If all guns had to be painted pink I don't think that they would have such a following.
The intention of SCOTUS is to interpret the constitution and they seem to have done a reasonable job of that in this case.
The intent of the constitution is to allow the people to overthrow the government - which may have been possible when the government ruled over a few million people, but it's laughable now. Ghandian passive resistance would be far more effective today. This ammendment has lost its purpose and should be repealed.
Where arms are prohibited they are generally harder to come by, for criminals too. So it is far less likely that a robber would have a gun even if he wanted one.
Smooth bore shotguns could be useful in the country, but they are hard to hide and wield in small areas so only of limited use for crime. There are fewer people that would want one and those people can be more closely licenced (if done well, it need not be intrusive). Even hunting rifles are not really criminal tools and it seems to me that we pay more attention to ensuring that the owner has a hunting permit than having a gun permit.
The only point I can think of in favor of allowing widespread handgun ownership is that a criminal may be more physically powerful that the victim and arming the victim levels the playing field.
But is that last reason really good enough when:
1) the US has a competent police force, court system and prison system that shoudl not pass the buck to the victim.
2) There are so many unintentional shooting victims - Children in particular, people caught in the crossfire.
I have plenty of experience but I've just started gathering Cisco certs so that I can have some job portablility.
I will say that I am learning things as I go - it's not a complete waste of time, but I do object in principal to paying Cisco to tell me that I can do the job I've been doing all this time, and to have to regurgitate the mantra that Cisco is the only reasonable approach to offering DHCP, VOIP, caching etc. Much of the learning material is a thinly veiled sales pitch.
Anyhow - actually being able to do things comes a poor second to having paper qualifications in US business today. I know of several excellent colleagues that I have out-earned because I had better paper qualifications than they did, and of several idiots with PhDs that out-earned me. I'm not talking about the hiring stage - I'm talking about long-term employees that simply were on a fast or slow track career depending on the paper they hung on their wall.
Collude with a friend to email back and forth encrypted copies of your photos. Arrange for them to be perpetually stored in transit on somebody-else's mail server awaiting delivery.
Better still - uucp them over some convoluted circular path back to yourself.
Or rig up an ultra-high-speed moonbounce communications system...
Just keep them all in motion and they won't get lost.
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for hiding passwords - what a cheap shot.
/.ers have created things at their workplace where they were the only person competent to run them, often because no-one else can be bothered to RT(perfectly)F(good)M that they insisted be created or they don't know that google exists.
But having said that, where does one draw the line ? I'm sure that many
When is one of us going to be fired and arrested for refusing to explain to her previous colleagues how to do a join on a pair of database tables ?
On a side note, at one point at my company there had been so many dismissals where people only found they were dismissed after inquiring why their email no longer worked, that every email server outage led to widespread fear that we'd all been let go.
I've just downloaded it - thank you. Looks like it has some interesting ideas in it.
It's good to see how other people think - I like following the links to "alternative" programming languages (like backflip) for the same reason, though they are interesting, I'm not sure that they boost my productivity.
As other posters have pointed out - it highlights how the whole OS is just not designed from a CLI perspective. MS just think about this in a different way.
For example, powershell passes objects between processes in a pipeline - I have a hard time visualising how it would, say, tail a growing file into a pipeline.
Another example; the powershell manual warns that paths in the registry are not unique and so you can't treat registry entries like other "items" Which is one of the things I wanted to be able to do (wait, wait, don't tell me - I'll spend some more time to RTFM)
Clearly I have a lot to learn - not least to be able to type at 1000WPM.
Most of the issues I have with windows stem from lukewarm support of a text command line.
/s not \s for \.'s sake.
I don't want to have to run cygwin just to get a reasonable CLI. Even having done that, it's just too hard to manipulate the registry etc. through text commands. I'm sure with a little thought, MS could come up with an industry leading text based interface that I could ssh into with a reasonable way to switch between different users (with different admin privileges) on the server.
And make them
How much can you save outsourcing a call center operator - $30k per year ?
How about saving some real money and outsourcing the board of directors.
Surely it would not be hard to compel everyone who wants to make these calls to register their caller ID and a classification of their business with a national register that publishes the database on the internet for free (perhaps as a part of the process of purchasing the do-not-call-list).
that way...
1) Telcos could offer value added call-block-by-category services to residential customers.
2) Telephone equipment manufacturers could sell list-aware telephone equipment (linux based of course)
3) Asterisk could do something devilish with blacklisted calls.
4) Any telephone user can choose which calls to take and which to deny, they can even accept calls from sites that have been censured for calling abuses if they so wish.
5) Anyone not playing ball would be subject to existing penalties as if they had called someone on the D-N-C list.
6) spam callers get free publicity from Uncle Sam - should boost their business.
7) It puts the onus on the end user to ensure that they don't block an important call that they might like to hear.
Better still - put something in the caller ID message that categorizes incoming calls, but I'm not sure that the standards exist to support that.
Sadly, I'm sure it would not be long before every felon or sex offender were forced to register, so this may be the solution that ate pittsburgh.
I though it was only a few days ago that /. reported that gallium is in short supply. Now we're blowing our precious reserves on frivolous video decoding.
Have some respect for Mother Earth...
This has nothing to do with the quality of one OS over another. The whole paying field is tilted toward commercial systems by, among other things...
People aspiring to be locked-in... Including CEOs that want "gold reseller status" and Engineers get XX Certified and turn into little self-serving XX salespeople.
The amount of crap that is spoken about support contracts for commercial products. Supported, my ass - hours on the phone talking to someone who knows less than you do, it's more like psycology; "you know the answer - I just have to bring it out of you"...
Fearmongering over Intellectual property and licensing
FUDspreading over the supportability of one platform over another.
Insisting on a crappy GUI over a workable text UI at any cost. Heaven forbid the end user see text, much better he see a picture of a bleeding aardvark and a shoelace and try and figure out what that means...
OK - so I can blow a few Karma points in a rant every now and again, but really - it's not even Windows' fault - it is a competent OS in many ways as testified by how widely it really is deployed with no-one usually noticing.
It's the pseudo-professionality garbage-sphere that surrounds it that gets my goat.
Boy it's hard to rise above this argument....
When you say...
"...but it does represent law makers meddling in an area they are not experts."
I don't think that's true, it involves lawmakers pandering to their electoral bases - something they are highly evolved to do.
This wedge issue was only created to cause these types of arguments, and to demonstrate the power of lawmakers.
These guys are not acting in good faith and they should be voted down for such.
Learn a language (and how to play some music) for the passion of learning, for the love of humanity and for your own pleasure.
You can't be doing everything for your resume, do something for your soul.
I'd suggest some language that's on the verge of dieing out, from some far away foreign culture that's as different from yours as possible.
So I went to visit my local high school in Georgia and I spent a little time talking with some teachers. While I was there they were setting up a presentation on a projector from a PC, it wasn't using powerpoint, rather some vastly inferior-looking custom software. Anyhow, I digress...
I was struck by how much it appeared to lock the teacher into the detail of the curriculum. It seemed to me that the main point of the presentation method was to confine what the teacher could say to the class.
My impression was that the technology was being used to micromanage teachers more than to enrich the learning experience for the students.
I think / hope that the following rule will let snort detect it too. It seems to work in my network (I'm sure it could be improved)...
alert tcp $HOME_NET any -> $EXTERNAL_NET 80 (msg:"Incoming AVG"; flow:established,to_server; content:"User-Agent\: Mozilla/4.0"; content:!"Accept-Encoding"; nocase; classtype:web-application-activity; sid:1000003; rev:1;)
The state of Texas may be re-assured that its geeks are PIs, but I think many ordinary customers would be more inclined to hire a non-PI.
Seems to me that being a non-PI-repair-guy would be a selling point as having a PI license emphasizes that the geek is there to snoop, not to fix.
Speaking as someone who does not have a PI license, thanks Tx.
english huh !
show me the money - with a pound sign
Unfortunately I doubt most people vote based on anything so scientific as biography and 1st term priorities. I bet they more likely vote for Mr Powell or not based on their gut feel about whether they like him as a candidate or not.
By the way - I think he would make a great candidate for Veep.
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate being given permission to hack the device and having a door left open. But really - if it is not cheaper then what value does netgear place on their own firmware ?
you might try increasing the jitter buffer size in the VOIP solution (if it is configurable at all)
You read my mind. I was going to use the example of not clearing snow from the sidewalk outside your house in case anyone slipped on the bare ice and sued (I edited it out - I was already rambling too much).
I do take your point about these incidents being rare.
But I think there's a difference between
A) a 1 in a 10,000 chance that you might be sued for thousands if someone slips (it may even be covered by your household insurance). and
B) a 1 in a million chance that you might be permanently financially ruined because you did something stupid with a gun.
People believe in 1 in a million chances - they even buy lottery tickets, and as the lottery company will tell you, there's a winner every day.
If what you hear is bad, then there's a problem delivering packets to you. There may be little you can do about this.
;)
If your speech is getting broken up on the way to the far end, then you may be able to re-prioritise packets out of your router, but the broadband company is unlikely to honor any QoS markings you put on them.
Finally, you might try deliberately rate limiting your reception of the bit torrent (if it is TCP - idunno, are torrents TCP ?). Any good PC operating system should be able to do this
That should persuade the far end to slow down through back pressure on the TCP windowing system.
I really don't understand why people who have any livelihood to care about carry guns when you consider the huge liability.
In the last few months I have heard of two accidental gun discharges inside supermarkets, either the guns were fumbled or dropped. In one case, some children were hit.
When you consider how fond the USA is of suing people, I would have thought that carrying a handgun into a public place was too risky for ordinary citizens. After all, if you slip and shoot me by accident, should I survive, I will likely sue and sue big. Should I die, my family will sue.
Absolutely...
The base that would hate him for it will vote for him anyway and there are a significant number of people that worry about him being too liberal and this will tilt their decision favorably.
This is the second issue in which Obama has, I feel, taken the low road. ie. electioneered instead of lead. The other one being Gay marriage. To hear the politcos speak you would think that making Gayness legal would open the floodgates - everyone would want to be gay and married.
I'd vote for him anyway - but I had hoped a leader would emerge and that he would be the one.
He has a duty not just to do the public will but to explain (seel even) to the public why they should support him and, well, lead dammit.
What does it say about the intellectual rigor of the process of arming the public to defend themselves and "take back government for the people" when
1) you can have a gun but not a bulletproof vest
2) actually overthrowing the government - specifically shooting a public official is hardly welcomed. It generally leads to ol' sparky.
If the intellectual basis of owning a gun is that you could shoot the president if you disagreed with him, then that is an implicit threat to the president's life, which I believe is a serious federal offense.
The NRA groupies mostly want handguns and combat weapons as a toy collection and penis extension rather than any rational argument that I can see.
If all guns had to be painted pink I don't think that they would have such a following.
The intention of SCOTUS is to interpret the constitution and they seem to have done a reasonable job of that in this case.
The intent of the constitution is to allow the people to overthrow the government - which may have been possible when the government ruled over a few million people, but it's laughable now. Ghandian passive resistance would be far more effective today. This ammendment has lost its purpose and should be repealed.
Where arms are prohibited they are generally harder to come by, for criminals too. So it is far less likely that a robber would have a gun even if he wanted one.
Smooth bore shotguns could be useful in the country, but they are hard to hide and wield in small areas so only of limited use for crime. There are fewer people that would want one and those people can be more closely licenced (if done well, it need not be intrusive). Even hunting rifles are not really criminal tools and it seems to me that we pay more attention to ensuring that the owner has a hunting permit than having a gun permit.
The only point I can think of in favor of allowing widespread handgun ownership is that a criminal may be more physically powerful that the victim and arming the victim levels the playing field.
But is that last reason really good enough when:
1) the US has a competent police force, court system and prison system that shoudl not pass the buck to the victim.
2) There are so many unintentional shooting victims - Children in particular, people caught in the crossfire.
I call BS on that.
I have plenty of experience but I've just started gathering Cisco certs so that I can have some job portablility.
I will say that I am learning things as I go - it's not a complete waste of time, but I do object in principal to paying Cisco to tell me that I can do the job I've been doing all this time, and to have to regurgitate the mantra that Cisco is the only reasonable approach to offering DHCP, VOIP, caching etc. Much of the learning material is a thinly veiled sales pitch.
Anyhow - actually being able to do things comes a poor second to having paper qualifications in US business today. I know of several excellent colleagues that I have out-earned because I had better paper qualifications than they did, and of several idiots with PhDs that out-earned me. I'm not talking about the hiring stage - I'm talking about long-term employees that simply were on a fast or slow track career depending on the paper they hung on their wall.
OK I'll stop ranting now...
MBH = micro black hole... Since when did M mean micro ?
I thought by now we would have been able to print greek letters on a web page.
Collude with a friend to email back and forth encrypted copies of your photos. Arrange for them to be perpetually stored in transit on somebody-else's mail server awaiting delivery.
Better still - uucp them over some convoluted circular path back to yourself.
Or rig up an ultra-high-speed moonbounce communications system...
Just keep them all in motion and they won't get lost.