where you have to handle the typical asshole IT manager, who in turn has to handle his asshole manager and so on.
I'm an admin in a small company, above me is my boss, and above him the owner. They just don't give a shit until everything works fine. So no, I don't consider my job extremely stressful, my users are software developers, they seem more stressed to me than I am.
Not posting anonymously, 'caue I don't give a shit either.
What do you mean? Skydrive has a 2GB limit on filesize (just found this out the other day, when trying to store a 3 GB encrypted backup there).
On Dropbox the only limit is your available storage. (I have 10 GB:) )
Skydrive has no differential sync. Change 1 byte in a 2GB file, it uploads the whole thing again. Dropbox breaks down the files in (I think) 4 MB pieces, uploads only what changed.
I'm in no way affiliated with Dropbox, I just think it's more flexible. It's true that Skydrive offers more free storage space though.
I have actually installed it in the meantime to try out. It actually has the Windows 8 style start screen, but no real "Metro apps" installed. The new server manager runs on the desktop, but it has Metro-style controls. Horrible.
I think this is the root of the problem here, he chose the wrong filesystem to share between the three OSes.
Sadly there are not too many choices. FAT32 is the only one natively supported by all three, with its well known limitations. He might have been better with NTFS though, using NTFS-3G on Linux and OS X, but that has some performance hit.
There's really no perfect solution for this kind of problem.
Yes dumbass, we have Internet. It's dirt cheap and very fast. I pay less than 10 euros for an FTTB connection which goes up to 100 Mbps. At least we are good at something.
Well maybe, but the average user at some point will usually turn it on to get some p2p software working properly, it is easier than setting up the ports manually.
The average home user also doesn't read security blogs or their router's documentation for that matter:)
Not that hard, because the skype client will automatically open ports via upnp if it is possible, and that is the case for most home users. What is harder, find users which are running the skype client almost all the time.
This guy represents the average romanian "hacker" perfectly. Romanian readers might agree that the cocalar term might also be applicable.
Oh yes, and "shoarec" means mouse.:))
I talk about this: soon Apple's core business will be the iPhone, the iPad and iOS, with the Macs and OS X a secondary product, with less attention from Apple. There, I said it.
They don't get as much press as they used to, because they don't update the Mac lineup as often as they used to. And regarding the OS... two years after 10.6, what will 10.7 bring new? Fullscreen apps and an iPad-style homescreen or whatnot. Come on.
Of couse, as long as Macs sell well, but iPads and iPhones sell even better, Apple will focus more on the development of iOS and the devices it runs on.
I miss the Apple that made great hardware (although a little bit overpriced), and a nice OS to go with it. The iPhone/iPad/AppStore/iTunes/we-control-the-device-even-if-you-bought-it Apple that has put Macs and OS X to the background is not so nice and geeky anymore.
I agree, it's crap, and it's installed behind the scenes, IF you do a Next-Next-Next-Finish install. Just choose the Advanced/Custom/I-know-what-I'm-doing install option and you can deselect the toolbar. This is true for Skype and for most other toolbar-installing software.
Chipset issue and Apple issue too. No matter how crappy the baseband, it shouldn't be able to tell my phone to record audio and transmit it later.
BTW, this kind of attack should be impossible on 3G, but I guess GSM will still be around for many years.
Yeah, some mod could mod this funny, but it's actually sad but true... for some older ATMs at least. Nowadays I see quite a few running XP (you can see that on the back screen, if the ATM is in a place where you can see its back).
But a few years ago I've seen a crashed ATM and it had plain MS-DOS. Then I remembered that I've used once an ATM of that particular bank, and that it seemed to me that the fonts looked just like the BGI fonts (Borland Graphics Interface - those who used Borland Pascal/C++ during the '90s know what I'm talking about), so I'm pretty sure that ATM was running plain DOS with some graphical app coded in Borland Pascal or C++ on it.
As far as my mom is concerned, there is no difference between the versions of OS X-- and why new versions of Firefox won't run anymore will baffle her.
If different versions of OS X make no difference to your mom, I doubt newer or older versions of Firefox will.
Wanna run 10.4 for years to come? Fine, just stick with Firefox 3.6 or whatever will be the last Firefox supporting it.
(typing on an iBook G4 with Leopard, and being aware of the fact that it's the last version of OS X that it will run, but might do so for a few more years).
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Well, I just upgraded, and openssl version says: OpenSSL 1.0.1f 6 Jan 2014. So, is it vulnerable?
where you have to handle the typical asshole IT manager, who in turn has to handle his asshole manager and so on. I'm an admin in a small company, above me is my boss, and above him the owner. They just don't give a shit until everything works fine. So no, I don't consider my job extremely stressful, my users are software developers, they seem more stressed to me than I am. Not posting anonymously, 'caue I don't give a shit either.
What do you mean? Skydrive has a 2GB limit on filesize (just found this out the other day, when trying to store a 3 GB encrypted backup there). On Dropbox the only limit is your available storage. (I have 10 GB:) ) Skydrive has no differential sync. Change 1 byte in a 2GB file, it uploads the whole thing again. Dropbox breaks down the files in (I think) 4 MB pieces, uploads only what changed. I'm in no way affiliated with Dropbox, I just think it's more flexible. It's true that Skydrive offers more free storage space though.
I have actually installed it in the meantime to try out. It actually has the Windows 8 style start screen, but no real "Metro apps" installed. The new server manager runs on the desktop, but it has Metro-style controls. Horrible.
That's a screenshot from Windows server 2008 R2. Check the image caption: "The old Server Manager on Windows Server 2008 R2, for comparison purposes."
... it will need Metro-style management tools!
Yeah, QuickTime integrates much better with the system, especially on Windows.
I think this is the root of the problem here, he chose the wrong filesystem to share between the three OSes. Sadly there are not too many choices. FAT32 is the only one natively supported by all three, with its well known limitations. He might have been better with NTFS though, using NTFS-3G on Linux and OS X, but that has some performance hit. There's really no perfect solution for this kind of problem.
Yes dumbass, we have Internet. It's dirt cheap and very fast. I pay less than 10 euros for an FTTB connection which goes up to 100 Mbps. At least we are good at something.
Well maybe, but the average user at some point will usually turn it on to get some p2p software working properly, it is easier than setting up the ports manually. The average home user also doesn't read security blogs or their router's documentation for that matter :)
Not that hard, because the skype client will automatically open ports via upnp if it is possible, and that is the case for most home users. What is harder, find users which are running the skype client almost all the time.
Let's hope the same thing will not happen to them.
Oh yes, and "shoarec" means mouse.
PS. Yes, I live in Romania.
It's as if you knew beforehand that generic, non-specific Apple criticism would get an instant "+5 Insightful." Oh, wait, this is Slashdot.
Oh, and I don't care about modding, my karma is maxed out already. :) It's just my opinion.
I talk about this: soon Apple's core business will be the iPhone, the iPad and iOS, with the Macs and OS X a secondary product, with less attention from Apple. There, I said it.
They don't get as much press as they used to, because they don't update the Mac lineup as often as they used to. And regarding the OS... two years after 10.6, what will 10.7 bring new? Fullscreen apps and an iPad-style homescreen or whatnot. Come on. Of couse, as long as Macs sell well, but iPads and iPhones sell even better, Apple will focus more on the development of iOS and the devices it runs on.
I miss the Apple that made great hardware (although a little bit overpriced), and a nice OS to go with it. The iPhone/iPad/AppStore/iTunes/we-control-the-device-even-if-you-bought-it Apple that has put Macs and OS X to the background is not so nice and geeky anymore.
installing crap behind the scenes.
I agree, it's crap, and it's installed behind the scenes, IF you do a Next-Next-Next-Finish install. Just choose the Advanced/Custom/I-know-what-I'm-doing install option and you can deselect the toolbar. This is true for Skype and for most other toolbar-installing software.
I really don't understand this bias against Oracle.
Looks like Oracle is the new Microsoft.
I meant 3G (aka UMTS) mobile networks, not the iPhone 3G. It's not that easy to fake a 3G network, as it is a GMS one.
Chipset issue and Apple issue too. No matter how crappy the baseband, it shouldn't be able to tell my phone to record audio and transmit it later. BTW, this kind of attack should be impossible on 3G, but I guess GSM will still be around for many years.
Yeah, some mod could mod this funny, but it's actually sad but true... for some older ATMs at least. Nowadays I see quite a few running XP (you can see that on the back screen, if the ATM is in a place where you can see its back). But a few years ago I've seen a crashed ATM and it had plain MS-DOS. Then I remembered that I've used once an ATM of that particular bank, and that it seemed to me that the fonts looked just like the BGI fonts (Borland Graphics Interface - those who used Borland Pascal/C++ during the '90s know what I'm talking about), so I'm pretty sure that ATM was running plain DOS with some graphical app coded in Borland Pascal or C++ on it.
Yeah, cause it would make so much sense to make an antivirus for Windows 3.0... In 2010, that is.
As far as my mom is concerned, there is no difference between the versions of OS X-- and why new versions of Firefox won't run anymore will baffle her.
If different versions of OS X make no difference to your mom, I doubt newer or older versions of Firefox will.
Wanna run 10.4 for years to come? Fine, just stick with Firefox 3.6 or whatever will be the last Firefox supporting it.
(typing on an iBook G4 with Leopard, and being aware of the fact that it's the last version of OS X that it will run, but might do so for a few more years).
SDelete on Windows. I'm not aware of such a tool for other OSs.