the ability to disregard "hidden" shares that are suffixed with $. Gave my unscrupulous co-workers many hours of paranoia wondering why
files that are supposed to be in their super-secret warez/p0rn/mp3 shares keep surfacing in a public directory.
If ever there was a glowing example of "Security through obscurity is no security at all", that's it.
And please, it's spelled "pr0n". We have standards here. --
Don't forget ruthless efficiency. "The body cannot live without the mind, the high memory manager, the system tray, IE, WMP, ruthless efficiency and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope." Oh, damn!
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well...that's one way of telling you something went wrong....
Here's how I hear this question: "I am not being
treated fairly. Management is not paying me for
my time. Does anyone have an example of how other companies treat their employees fairly?"
If your girlfriend was shitty to you, would you ask "My girlfriend doesn't treat me the way I'd like to be treated. Do other people have girlfriends who are nice to them?" Or would you
say to her "Hey, shape up or we're breaking up?"
Who cares what other people do? It's YOUR situation.
Don't waste your time talking on Slashdot.
Any employer who isn't going to pay you fairly sure isn't going to give Shit One about what a bunch of/.ers say about things.
I have to assume from the passive voice ("It has
been brought up to management") that you, personally, have not discussed with your boss, and you're repeating what you've heard in conversations you've had with others in hushed tones, crouched behind your cubicle walls.
Talk to your boss directly and say
"I count these hours as being working hours for reasons X, Y and Z, and I expect to be paid for them." If they're not amenable to that, then leave. Go to someone who does want to pay you fairly.
And to those who have posted "form a union!", I would suggest that if people like AC would stand up to the PHBs & their companies (or better yet, communicate with management before any of this comes down), we wouldn't NEED unions.
Your employer is not your parent. You are not
required to work there. It's a relationship. If you're not holding up your end of the relationship, you get fired. So, too, should your company get fired if they're not holding up their end of things. --
I'm just curious what can be found in a paper tomb that cannot be cobbled together from various up-to-date and *free*
sources from the web.
"Death Of Books Imminent: Film At 11"
Personally, I mark up my books all the time. You know, with ink. Like when I made a big red circle & arrow pointing to the part in Unix In A Nutshell that reminds me that for join to work, the input files have to be sorted.
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I believe these were the guys that I saw at Comdex that had a zillion PC-on-a-card doodads. The KVM signals ran to the desk via CAT5 cabling. You just have to have a keyboard, monitor and mouse on the desktop, split apart at with an adapter.
Very cool to be able to have a rack full of PCs that you can switch from one user to another just by movin' a cable. --
Right. The shooters at columbine have no responsibility for their actions, they were conditioned to shoot all their classmates and then commit
suicide. Their parents are not to blame either, because no amount of "parenting" could prevent the automatic brainwashing that happens when
you play Doom.
Hey, if the families wanna pin the actions of Klebold & Harris on the game companies, then it only makes sense that the people in the game companies can pin their actions on someone else, too.
Eventually, we'll all be liable to someone else for something.
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Yeah, but if you work in an orginization of BAD LIARS like I do, when you talk to them in person their body langauge can tell you wether
they're telling the truth.:)
Sure, sometimes you need face time. Part of the problem is not knowing which medium to use. Roughly, the rules I use are:
Intranet site: Information that could be widely useful, but probably not by everyone.
Email: Simple questions that aren't time critical.
Phone: Simple questions that are time critical, or the person is far away.
Face-to-face: Anything involving idea or knowledge creation, or anything involving personal/personnel issues.
Overhead paging: Only reserved for someone being on fire.
This last one is a pet peeve of mine. I'm so annoyed at how my employers for the past 10+ years have no idea how intrusive overhead paging is, and how 90% of the time it's not as time-sensitive as that sort of immediacy requires. --
The pisser is that email is such a useful business tool, but many people are scared off from it because of the volume of email that they receive.
The asynchronous method of communicating is almost always best in business. I find that 95% of my questions for someone are not time-critical, and can be handled at the other person's convenience (say, in a day or two), and allow me to keep working without having to interrupt my task to go find the person.
Yet I hear so many people say "Oh, I get 30 messages a day!" I say "Yeah, but those are 30 communications you were going to get anyway, but now you can handle them when YOU want, without the other person having to track you down."
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I guess I don't understand why there's such squawking over the need for games under Linux. I have a Linux box at home for my network server needs, and I have a Windows box for my gaming.
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because the MPAA is going after the ISP service, not the individual.
They're not "going after the ISP". I'm sure that somewhere in the Excite@Home terms of service (I couldn't find it online) there's something that says "You can't do anything illegal with the service, including but not limited to, trading copyrighted material."
How's that any different than forwarding spam that comes from AOL, or points to AOL websites, to abuse@aol.com?
It's really just tattling for personal benefit. --
I should point out that Judas Priest are from Birmingham.
My mistake. I was thinking of the Judas Priest album Sheffield Steel, but of course the album is actually
British Steel.
Sheffield Steel is a Joe Cocker album.
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By encouraging people to anonymously rate complete strangers they have never seen before
and will (likely) never see again, they are giving people
a sort of bizarre power over these people.
It's hardly a "bizarre power". It's neither bizarre, nor a power.
How is it any different than walking down the street and commenting to a friend "Hey, she's a hottie?"
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If ever there was a glowing example of "Security through obscurity is no security at all", that's it.
And please, it's spelled "pr0n". We have standards here.
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(My apologies for using "efficiency" in a Microsoft post.)
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It's nature's way of telling you in a song.
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Who, besides whiny losers, thinks it's appropriate to make a "public ordeal" about his girlfriend?
(As an aside, in my Girlfriend case, I have Matthew Sweet's pop masterpiece.)
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If your girlfriend was shitty to you, would you ask "My girlfriend doesn't treat me the way I'd like to be treated. Do other people have girlfriends who are nice to them?" Or would you say to her "Hey, shape up or we're breaking up?"
Who cares what other people do? It's YOUR situation. Don't waste your time talking on Slashdot. Any employer who isn't going to pay you fairly sure isn't going to give Shit One about what a bunch of /.ers say about things.
I have to assume from the passive voice ("It has been brought up to management") that you, personally, have not discussed with your boss, and you're repeating what you've heard in conversations you've had with others in hushed tones, crouched behind your cubicle walls.
Talk to your boss directly and say "I count these hours as being working hours for reasons X, Y and Z, and I expect to be paid for them." If they're not amenable to that, then leave. Go to someone who does want to pay you fairly.
And to those who have posted "form a union!", I would suggest that if people like AC would stand up to the PHBs & their companies (or better yet, communicate with management before any of this comes down), we wouldn't NEED unions.
Your employer is not your parent. You are not required to work there. It's a relationship. If you're not holding up your end of the relationship, you get fired. So, too, should your company get fired if they're not holding up their end of things.
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They do that now. It's called "speeding ticket quotas".
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"Hey, whaddya doin' down there on the carpet? Didja lose a contact lens?"
"No, the data warehouse. DON'T WALK OV--"
[crunch]
"Oops"
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"Death Of Books Imminent: Film At 11"
Personally, I mark up my books all the time. You know, with ink. Like when I made a big red circle & arrow pointing to the part in Unix In A Nutshell that reminds me that for join to work, the input files have to be sorted.
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You must not have lived in my apartment with my roommates back when I was in college, did you?
And you forgot about the smell of bongwater.
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More entertaining, to be sure.
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Very cool to be able to have a rack full of PCs that you can switch from one user to another just by movin' a cable.
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Hey, if the families wanna pin the actions of Klebold & Harris on the game companies, then it only makes sense that the people in the game companies can pin their actions on someone else, too.
Eventually, we'll all be liable to someone else for something.
--
Sure, sometimes you need face time. Part of the problem is not knowing which medium to use. Roughly, the rules I use are:
- Intranet site: Information that could be widely useful, but probably not by everyone.
- Email: Simple questions that aren't time critical.
- Phone: Simple questions that are time critical, or the person is far away.
- Face-to-face: Anything involving idea or knowledge creation, or anything involving personal/personnel issues.
- Overhead paging: Only reserved for someone being on fire.
This last one is a pet peeve of mine. I'm so annoyed at how my employers for the past 10+ years have no idea how intrusive overhead paging is, and how 90% of the time it's not as time-sensitive as that sort of immediacy requires.--
The asynchronous method of communicating is almost always best in business. I find that 95% of my questions for someone are not time-critical, and can be handled at the other person's convenience (say, in a day or two), and allow me to keep working without having to interrupt my task to go find the person.
Yet I hear so many people say "Oh, I get 30 messages a day!" I say "Yeah, but those are 30 communications you were going to get anyway, but now you can handle them when YOU want, without the other person having to track you down."
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What's wrong with using the right OS for the job?
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"Probable"? What other dead universes are you using for a benchmark? And who is giving odds on these probabilities?
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They're not "going after the ISP". I'm sure that somewhere in the Excite@Home terms of service (I couldn't find it online) there's something that says "You can't do anything illegal with the service, including but not limited to, trading copyrighted material."
How's that any different than forwarding spam that comes from AOL, or points to AOL websites, to abuse@aol.com?
It's really just tattling for personal benefit.
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My mistake. I was thinking of the Judas Priest album Sheffield Steel, but of course the album is actually British Steel . Sheffield Steel is a Joe Cocker album.
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Full Monty doesn't impress me. Def Leppard and Judas Priest, though: That impresses me.
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What is a corporation but a group of people?
If it sticks in your craw so much, form a corporation and spend the money to protect your precious word.
No, really.
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I don't know about you, but I haven't had a "small variety" of programming tasks since the mid-80s.
Programming Ruby has been on my book want list for a while, but based on this review I can tell I'm going to have to move it up in priority.
I especially look forward to commentary from those /.ers who have used it.
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I think it's about time we, as a community, give this one up. It's tilting at windmills.
I still use "hack" and "hacker" in my normal speech, and sometimes have to explain, but I think it's time to turn off our --pedantic flags.
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I must have been under a rock, 'cause I've never heard of Tux.
How much faster than Apache can you want? I mean, unless you're serving porn off a 486, Apache's gotta be fast enough, no?
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Dig the whois on coronersweb.org:
Get it? "Ghaepetto"? Those wacky Hollywood folk.--
It's hardly a "bizarre power". It's neither bizarre, nor a power.
How is it any different than walking down the street and commenting to a friend "Hey, she's a hottie?"
As to power, please explain how this power manifests itself.
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