Agreed. Companies that produce (probably unenforcable) contracts like this never read them before countersigning them.
I make it standard practice to alter contracts I don't like.. never been queried once, apart from one company that said they'd fire me on the spot if I tried (but I left them first...)
I know they're not legal here.. it's called 'restraint of trade' - basically a company can't force you onto welfare just because their lawyers are bastards.
I had such a clause in the contract I was made to sign ('sign this or be sacked', basically) but I pointed out them that it wasn't legal and many people left that company to go elsewhere, as I did, without them attempting to enforce it.
FFXI has hyperinflation at the moment due to gillsellers, plus there are key items which are *only* available from them via IGE, not in-game, since the mobs that drop them are camped 24/7 by gill sellers.
Use a USB floppy - XP SP2 actually is able to use these at install (I keep one around for the same reason - I have no floppy drives in my machines any more).
Cruise Control isn't as good as one linked into your versioning system though... in fact I'd recommend against it because of its lack of integration.
It fires automatically every minute or two whether there have been any source changes at all - even if another cruise control is still running - and commences a checkout of the entire repository.
I've seen it bury Quad processor machines doing this. Had a few support problems until I realized what it was doing (one person had 10 CC's running simultaneously and was wondering why he had run out of CPU and Swap and checkins kept timing out).
If it was modified to update only changes into a staging area it'd scale a lot better... OTOH I prefer push systems, as the source control system knows far better what has changed and can optimise the updates of the staging area itself.
It doesn't look like much has happened.. they're still talking about 'preliminary support for media player' which is what that had this time last year.
It looks like they're having trouble getting it to run fast enough to be usable - the one I tried was unusably slow on an amd64... it isn't going to replace wmv any time soon on their current performance.
It *does* look beautiful though. Very few artefacts.
I know.mususeum died (did it ever launch??), and.info is just shithole (I have all.info domains blacklisted because they're a 100% reliable spam sign).
"Windows is a 32-bit extension to a 16-bit graphical shell for an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition."
It's good PR to say "We don't negotiate with terrorists".
Of couse we do. At the same time Thatcher then Major were saying that they were in high level negotiations with both the loyalists and republicans (Tony Blair was a latecomer to the negotiations.. didn't stop him getting most of the credit though).
We've learned the hard way that when people are talking they (usually) aren't killing you at the same time. Britain had its own 'war on terror' once - we went into NI and turned the IRA which was at the time a small militia into a powerful terrorist group, by doing house to house searches, locking people up without trial and generally pissing off the local population. Nobody could ever make *that* mistake again.. err...
OTOH blowing up the area where most of the media are based is good publicity it seems. There was nowhere near as much when my own city centre was demolished by the IRA (which ironically turned out to be a good thing... we got a new city centre, largely paid for by the insurance companies, and the place is a not nicer now).
The chances of being blown up aren't appreciably higher than they were last week.. but the press is making people just a bit paranoid.
The chances of me being killed by a bomb tomorrow are far less than winning the lottery or being struck by lightning (I've played the lottery, seen lighning and even seen a semtex explosion from a distance, but I'm not rich, burned or dead).
OTOH the media are making it out to be much more of an event than it needs to be, which makes people paranoid. Sure we need to catch those responsible but when we start shutting down cities and airports the terrorists are winning (especially airports.. they have discarded bags all the time and they don't shut down the whole f..king airport every time, like they did today).
We never behaved like this during the height of the IRA campaign. When they blew up the hotel the entire cabinet were staying in it was big news for a few days and life went on. Back then we understood that giving terrorists publicity is playing right into their tactics.
OTOH Blair built a wall around parliament because he's scared. Idiot.
It's a good phrase... The IRA *did* normally give warnings (in fact they gave far more warnings than actual bombs - part of their FUD tactics).
I've been within a quarter of a mile of an IRA bomb.. only about 3 people were hurt because the police did a great job of clearing the area quickly (add to that we're used to clearing out during bomb threats.. still are, as you can see when they emptied Birmingham last night during peak partying hours (the police are a bit jumpy right now..)).
However they were still *terrorists*. They viewed civilian casualties as collateral damage. Sure, they gave warnings but they didn't really give a fuck about who was hurt, only the bad PR it would give.
Basically, if *one* station has no scanner or is unmanned then the system is completely useless.
Since TFL probably doesn't have the cash to install and man these things 24/7 anyway I submit the whole idea is useless. Or rather, slightly useful for about 2 days until the first one breaks.
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Agreed. Companies that produce (probably unenforcable) contracts like this never read them before countersigning them.
I make it standard practice to alter contracts I don't like.. never been queried once, apart from one company that said they'd fire me on the spot if I tried (but I left them first...)
These contracts generally prohibit ex-employees from working in related fields for a specific period of time.
I was prohibited from working in IT or anything related to IT *at all* for 5 years, or for anyone that had even been a supplier to the company.
So I couldn't even work at the local McDonalds because we often had burgers shipped in. Hell, I couldn't even get a paper round!
It was as illegal as hell. They refused to let me delete it from the contract though. I ignored it.
I know they're not legal here.. it's called 'restraint of trade' - basically a company can't force you onto welfare just because their lawyers are bastards.
I had such a clause in the contract I was made to sign ('sign this or be sacked', basically) but I pointed out them that it wasn't legal and many people left that company to go elsewhere, as I did, without them attempting to enforce it.
I assume you're being ironic...
FFXI has hyperinflation at the moment due to gillsellers, plus there are key items which are *only* available from them via IGE, not in-game, since the mobs that drop them are camped 24/7 by gill sellers.
Use a USB floppy - XP SP2 actually is able to use these at install (I keep one around for the same reason - I have no floppy drives in my machines any more).
I get dictionary attacks against ssh regularly. Guessing a valid account isn't that hard on larger systems.
I'd agree with you about vnc and X.
Never allow those past a firewall.
Cruise Control isn't as good as one linked into your versioning system though... in fact I'd recommend against it because of its lack of integration.
It fires automatically every minute or two whether there have been any source changes at all - even if another cruise control is still running - and commences a checkout of the entire repository.
I've seen it bury Quad processor machines doing this. Had a few support problems until I realized what it was doing (one person had 10 CC's running simultaneously and was wondering why he had run out of CPU and Swap and checkins kept timing out).
If it was modified to update only changes into a staging area it'd scale a lot better... OTOH I prefer push systems, as the source control system knows far better what has changed and can optimise the updates of the staging area itself.
Jack The Ripper.
.NET powered by PHP?
.NET just make an aspx and control things that way... if you're not there's half a dozen ways via PHP (perl+XMLRPC springs to mind).
If you're using
Mixing them just seems to be a headache, since making MS code integrate with non-MS code is always harder than just sticking to one or the other.
It doesn't look like much has happened.. they're still talking about 'preliminary support for media player' which is what that had this time last year.
It looks like they're having trouble getting it to run fast enough to be usable - the one I tried was unusably slow on an amd64... it isn't going to replace wmv any time soon on their current performance.
It *does* look beautiful though. Very few artefacts.
I know .mususeum died (did it ever launch??), and .info is just shithole (I have all .info domains blacklisted because they're a 100% reliable spam sign).
.name? .pro? Never even heard of them...
But
Old joke. And you misquoted it...
"Windows is a 32-bit extension to a 16-bit graphical shell for an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition."
And I for one welcome our new feline masters...
You missspelled 'avian'.
He wouldn't survive going on a warpath.
We're waiting for him to try to cash in on this and if/when he does the combined press and public will give him roasting he won't forget.
A significant minority blame him for this, because of his toadying to bush over iraq. That's a lot of votes.
You have to be unlucky to be killed by a lighning strike.. mostly you just get burned a lot, which is why I didn't say that :)
The problem is there really is nothing we can do to stop a determined terrorist.
Yes, you can poison the milk supply. Or the water supply (even easier actualy).
You can put a bomb on train, bus, taxi, or even hire-car. Or you can throw the bomb in some alley somewhere with lots of other discarded trash.
Or you can go suicide.. blow yourself up in a crowd, fill an hairspray can with cynanide and take a few dozen people out..
There is no way to get a country secure against all these things without short of putting us under military dictatorship.
It's good PR to say "We don't negotiate with terrorists".
Of couse we do. At the same time Thatcher then Major were saying that they were in high level negotiations with both the loyalists and republicans (Tony Blair was a latecomer to the negotiations.. didn't stop him getting most of the credit though).
We've learned the hard way that when people are talking they (usually) aren't killing you at the same time. Britain had its own 'war on terror' once - we went into NI and turned the IRA which was at the time a small militia into a powerful terrorist group, by doing house to house searches, locking people up without trial and generally pissing off the local population. Nobody could ever make *that* mistake again.. err...
*Fuck* dude. Get help. Seriously.
Maybe not London, but it's just one city.
Other parts of the UK have seen worse.
OTOH blowing up the area where most of the media are based is good publicity it seems. There was nowhere near as much when my own city centre was demolished by the IRA (which ironically turned out to be a good thing... we got a new city centre, largely paid for by the insurance companies, and the place is a not nicer now).
People are falling for the hype though.
The chances of being blown up aren't appreciably higher than they were last week.. but the press is making people just a bit paranoid.
The chances of me being killed by a bomb tomorrow are far less than winning the lottery or being struck by lightning (I've played the lottery, seen lighning and even seen a semtex explosion from a distance, but I'm not rich, burned or dead).
OTOH the media are making it out to be much more of an event than it needs to be, which makes people paranoid. Sure we need to catch those responsible but when we start shutting down cities and airports the terrorists are winning (especially airports.. they have discarded bags all the time and they don't shut down the whole f..king airport every time, like they did today).
We never behaved like this during the height of the IRA campaign. When they blew up the hotel the entire cabinet were staying in it was big news for a few days and life went on. Back then we understood that giving terrorists publicity is playing right into their tactics.
OTOH Blair built a wall around parliament because he's scared. Idiot.
It's a good phrase... The IRA *did* normally give warnings (in fact they gave far more warnings than actual bombs - part of their FUD tactics).
I've been within a quarter of a mile of an IRA bomb.. only about 3 people were hurt because the police did a great job of clearing the area quickly (add to that we're used to clearing out during bomb threats.. still are, as you can see when they emptied Birmingham last night during peak partying hours (the police are a bit jumpy right now..)).
However they were still *terrorists*. They viewed civilian casualties as collateral damage. Sure, they gave warnings but they didn't really give a fuck about who was hurt, only the bad PR it would give.
Basically, if *one* station has no scanner or is unmanned then the system is completely useless.
Since TFL probably doesn't have the cash to install and man these things 24/7 anyway I submit the whole idea is useless. Or rather, slightly useful for about 2 days until the first one breaks.
BBC stuff is currently dual format realplayer and WMV.
Realplayer is scumware but there's a de-fanged version available from Here
What could be cooler than that 5x3x3 foot box taking pride of place in the living room, I thought
It wouldn't be cool at all... it'd be frikkin' *hot*!! Those suckers generated enough heat to make the P4 look like a refrigerator...