Wonder if Mandrake will pull another microsoft on this one? Tried installing drivers for a dlink nic on 9.2 and got a message that the binary only drivers would "pollute" the operating system or some such. Refused to install them at all - there was no do it anyways option. Anyone else suffer someone elses self righteousness like this lately?
Particurly nasty virus going around a few years ago. I was a net admin in a/very/ big company. I was NOT allowed to bring my systems to a secure level - I had to wait for corp to review each and every patch for interoperability in what was a fairly complex environment. Keep in mind how seriously curtailed I was from doing my job.
Nimda hit. I had three primary facilities (one of which was big enough that other similiar facilities had two dedicated IT people) that I took care of myself. My nearest help was 150 miles away and she was an old timer who fell into her job, and was by no means qualified of her own accord. Realisticly my nearest help was over 500 miles away. In other words, I was alone. I had to hit every computer, plus servers in each facility - each about 20 miles from the other.
The result of this virus was that until systems could be patched, they had to be shut down. This resulted in many facilities effecticely or outright having to shut down for a minimum of two days, with limited productivity for a few days after that. This easily cost tens of thousands for the smaller facilities for a single day to millions for some of the giant multi-thousand employee facilities. This does not sit well with management. Also keep in mind that when employees get sent home in most manufacturing facilities they don't get paid.
We almost had the entire network cleansed of the virus when a facility manager in another state allowed a single computer to get back on the network despite being told not to do so by IT. Within minutes computers powered on anywhere in the entire 6 continent network started to be reinfected - were talking a network big enough to run out of SID's for workstations and users. Management made the decision to send us back around to clean and patch everything all over again. Evidently not everything had been patched correctly by some admins. I was almost done. I had to start over.
His facility was shut down by an VP that personly made sure that security understood that "no one but IT enters" really did mean "no one but IT enters". I don't know but I guess that the offending personel were fired on the spot. I understand the entire offending facility wasn't allowed back online until everything else on the network was patched. Large facility, several thousand employees and it was closed for a week.
At the point of starting over I had been working for over 24 straight hours with no break. I went home just long enough to take a shower and eat. I was back at work within 2 hours. All told I worked somewhere around 40 straight hours with long days following this. I had supervisors letting me know that their rules prohibited anyone from working more than 12 hours for safety reasons. I asked if they/really/ wanted me comply, they didn't press the point.
All told to say that this single virus cost the company in the realm of $100 million is quite reasonable. Now the question is, if the admins in the field had been allowed to apply security patches as they came out, and practice other good security measures that we wanted, what would it have cost? Most of the policies prohibiting admins from implementing security, antivirus and patching practices were changed after Nimda, but it took a $100 million dollar "I told you so" to make it happen.
Incompetence of outsourcing, this is story of the nightmare of outsourcing. Watching your multibillion dollar company brought to it's knees for two straight days, with only limited productivity for a work week, because your admins were hamstrung by beauracry. How much of the damage was the virus, how much was the manager that didn't listen to IT, and how much was the contract house that REFUSED to let the admins do their job? That's a question for suits, not me. I'm afraid I cant name the company for a very real fear of a lawsuit that I can't afford, but if your in IT, you've heard of them.
On the other hand what was wrong with/Packard Hell/ computers? Oh, Did you actually expect them to be usable?
I had to fix them, that's what. After one particurly bad experience I vowed that I would never work on one again in my life.
Back in 95 I used to sell computers. Half of our product line was packard bell. I set up all the new store display computers out of the box. On average/half/ of all packard bell computers had a problem straight out of the box (bad mouse port, whatever). Management told us to "steer" customers away from the bad display models. Something I already did - I went 6 months without selling a single packard bell.
We got large numbers of returns on the ones that did sell. We were supposed to first act surprised, and second get the return off the sales floor before anybody saw it. I could go on, but I would might never stop.
In this regard, I find myself in fair agreement with you. I'm up here in Minnesota, so we don't suffer the same level you have, but I've spent time in Georgia and South Carolina (2002) and know what your talking about. We do have some blue laws though too, car dealerships and liqour stores can't be open on Sunday for example. Hopefully some of the church state issues before the supremes get sung the right way.
Only one was mine, the Fiero - quick battery disconnect saved everything but the wiring. Of the 2 escorts that caught fire, one was my fathers (it actually blew the hood back across the windshield while driving down the freeway) and the other belonged to my roommates girlfriend. Something I learned long ago, the law of averages doesn't apply to me and very rarely works in my favor.
Please, whatever you do, don't judge the US by it's current head flunky in charge. Bear in mind the US fell into the world power role. Before WWII we had an absolutely abysmmal military and a public that sincerly believed in isolationalism. Even then most of the public was opposed to getting involved with world affairs like WWII until Pearl Harbor was bombed. If the Soviets had pulled back from the Eastern block countries like they said would after they drove Germans out, the US would have gladly receded back into it's prewar status of isolationalism.
FDR was not particulary religious, and it was on his watch that the US became a world power. Most presidents since WWII have not been overtly religious, Reagan included. Eisenhaeur added "one nation under God" back around 1950 or so in order to distinguish us from the godless commies, and that's probably the last overtly religious act by a president since then.
W is really the first overtly religious president in quite a while. He would of course like nothing more than for the US to become a secular religious state, and has said things to that effect (I recall something about Aethiests not really being Americans).
Where is the Ford Escort? I have personly been in 2 that had the engine catch fire, and have known of two others that caught fire. Meanwhile, the Edsel, quite possibly the ugliest car Ford ever made was a fairly decent car for it's time. As for Pontiac Fiero, I owned one once and had it catch fire while it was parked and being washed in a stall. I had to rewire the/entire/ car. On the other hand it had the best handling of any car I have ever driven.
No question they were fairly secular. From what I understand Iraq has traditionaly been perhaps the most most restrained middle eastern state when it comes to religion. Unfortunately the Imam's appear to launching a power grab and want to shape Iraq into a religious based society.
I still believe that the amount of religion allowed to permeate their government will be directly inverse to the their chances of becoming a technology center, as they once were in ages past. Funny thing is, from what I understand about Islam, it embraces knowledge and learning. Question is can embrace knowledge and learning when it is capable of delivering a message that doesn't adhere to certain fundamentalists view of Islam? It is truely going to be a great test of the maturity of the Islam religion. Unfortunately such tests can be bloody, witness the use of the first printing press to print the bible - a direct response to just such a situation that once confronted Christianity.
For years strict encryption rules were an issue for Iraq. Has the US now stopped it's encryption restrictions for Iraq or do you simply get your crypto from elsewhere?
Fair enough. A few from my Father (who has dealt with resumes, contractint, and hr stuff for many years).
Tell me about a difficult problem that you were able to take advantage of. - A problem often present opportunity, it's just a matter of prospective.
Tell me about a difficult customer service scenario that you you were unable to positively resolve. - Failure is a great teacher, and sometimes the answer is not to make the customer happy.
If I bring you on board for this position, what would you do next? - He has hired people that he wouldn't have otherwise hired for different positions this way.
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A cologne-laced envelope isn't a good idea. I myself am allergic to many perfumes, as are most members on both sides of my family. I also have known a number of other people who are allergic to perfume outside of my family. The last thing you want is for your resume to cause an allergic reaction in the resume reader. Also bear in mind that a cologne you may personly like may not be one that the reviewer will like.
Deal, no more generic bullshit answers. Now when to the bullshit questions and requirements stop? I've seen job requirements that required experience in products less than a week old (W2K3 Server), and bullshit questions like "what is your greatest weakness". Cut it all out, sounds great to me.
This is easy to do. All you have to do is convince the NFL that football should no longer be a game of yards and inches. Get them to convert and everyone else will fall right into line. Prepare for a very messy conversion though. Our cars all come with KPH stamped on the speedomoters, and we see metric in many other places, even if it's not what we intuitevly know.
Funny thing is, metric is taught here in the US, and from what I understand most school kids test better on it than the old English measurements. See, we know metric well enough, we just don't use it for a lot of things. The result is that while everyone is well capable of knowing the result without being able to visualize it. In other words we know a meter = 100 cm's, but don't ask us to explain how tall someone is in metric.
The real fun though comes in things like our cars. This is where you get to experience cars built with both SAE/and/ metric sizes for bolts and fittings. All that being said, it would be a good idea for the US to convert to metric though.
Learn your values from megacorps, they know better than you! They never diverge from the moral high road, and are utterly devoid of corruption. Racketeering, denial of civil rights, litigation, employee shafting, price fixing are all available. Which value do we get to see megacorps teach our children next?
As I stated, MS is evil, that isn't the question. The issue is the hypocrisy of saying that they are evil for charing too much and then likewise complaining when they give their product away for free.
Which is it, MS is evil because they charge too much in third world countries or MS is evil because they gave away software to third world countries? Can somebody please explain this to me? MS has done plenty of things to rank as evil in my book, but this is ludicrous.
I had a server room at an old factory that I admin'd at. The room had a partly failed Liebert line conditioner that powered the circa 1970 HP 3000. It made a tone loud enough to prevent going into the room more than a few seconds without hearing protection.
The unit was so old that the Liebert rep had never even seen one before, much less find it in his manual. The electrician couldn't order the part to fix it himself (he knew what was wrong with it) because the whole system was due to be replaced in 18 months and they didn't want to sink money into it.
As a result I got hold of the maintenece head and asked him if I could borrow his decibal meter. He asked me what for, and followed me into the server room.
This was a plant that had hearing protection in different areas, beyond the typical hearing plugs due to OSHA and worker safety concerns (they had to undergo anual hearing tests to monitor for damage). I ended up with a several hundred dollar pair of 40db rated earmuffs - that I was to wear over normal ear plugs, the very next day.
For how long though, I can't imagine that standing. Especially since BSA isn't exactly known for enforcing licenses for free software. BSA would love to sink their teeth in this. People using GPL'd software go the very root of their existance.
Unfortunately they have a nasty habit of getting law enforcement to do their audits when their demand for proof of compliance is turned down. Knew someone who suffered such a raid once, cops treated it like a major drug bust (only found minor piddly stuff like a zipmagic by the way). Business was shut down, and heads rolled. Fact is they should never be able to get law enforcement into what should be a purely civil matter, but they do anyways.
How long until the BSA starts conducting raids on businesses without SCO "liceneses"? By the BSA's standards, unlicensed software will get you audited, and they like to bring in their pet cops to do these raids. Novell lawsuit is probably good though as it will help force closure on the great IP landgrab on the century.
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"Warning: loading will taint
the kernel: no license."
Wonder if Mandrake will pull another microsoft on this one? Tried installing drivers for a dlink nic on 9.2 and got a message that the binary only drivers would "pollute" the operating system or some such. Refused to install them at all - there was no do it anyways option. Anyone else suffer someone elses self righteousness like this lately?
Particurly nasty virus going around a few years ago. I was a net admin in a /very/ big company. I was NOT allowed to bring my systems to a secure level - I had to wait for corp to review each and every patch for interoperability in what was a fairly complex environment. Keep in mind how seriously curtailed I was from doing my job.
/really/ wanted me comply, they didn't press the point.
Nimda hit. I had three primary facilities (one of which was big enough that other similiar facilities had two dedicated IT people) that I took care of myself. My nearest help was 150 miles away and she was an old timer who fell into her job, and was by no means qualified of her own accord. Realisticly my nearest help was over 500 miles away. In other words, I was alone. I had to hit every computer, plus servers in each facility - each about 20 miles from the other.
The result of this virus was that until systems could be patched, they had to be shut down. This resulted in many facilities effecticely or outright having to shut down for a minimum of two days, with limited productivity for a few days after that. This easily cost tens of thousands for the smaller facilities for a single day to millions for some of the giant multi-thousand employee facilities. This does not sit well with management. Also keep in mind that when employees get sent home in most manufacturing facilities they don't get paid.
We almost had the entire network cleansed of the virus when a facility manager in another state allowed a single computer to get back on the network despite being told not to do so by IT. Within minutes computers powered on anywhere in the entire 6 continent network started to be reinfected - were talking a network big enough to run out of SID's for workstations and users. Management made the decision to send us back around to clean and patch everything all over again. Evidently not everything had been patched correctly by some admins. I was almost done. I had to start over.
His facility was shut down by an VP that personly made sure that security understood that "no one but IT enters" really did mean "no one but IT enters". I don't know but I guess that the offending personel were fired on the spot. I understand the entire offending facility wasn't allowed back online until everything else on the network was patched. Large facility, several thousand employees and it was closed for a week.
At the point of starting over I had been working for over 24 straight hours with no break. I went home just long enough to take a shower and eat. I was back at work within 2 hours. All told I worked somewhere around 40 straight hours with long days following this. I had supervisors letting me know that their rules prohibited anyone from working more than 12 hours for safety reasons. I asked if they
All told to say that this single virus cost the company in the realm of $100 million is quite reasonable. Now the question is, if the admins in the field had been allowed to apply security patches as they came out, and practice other good security measures that we wanted, what would it have cost? Most of the policies prohibiting admins from implementing security, antivirus and patching practices were changed after Nimda, but it took a $100 million dollar "I told you so" to make it happen.
Incompetence of outsourcing, this is story of the nightmare of outsourcing. Watching your multibillion dollar company brought to it's knees for two straight days, with only limited productivity for a work week, because your admins were hamstrung by beauracry. How much of the damage was the virus, how much was the manager that didn't listen to IT, and how much was the contract house that REFUSED to let the admins do their job? That's a question for suits, not me. I'm afraid I cant name the company for a very real fear of a lawsuit that I can't afford, but if your in IT, you've heard of them.
Why is vender lock in for Apple ok when it's considered bad for anyone else?
Back in 95 I used to sell computers. Half of our product line was packard bell. I set up all the new store display computers out of the box. On average
We got large numbers of returns on the ones that did sell. We were supposed to first act surprised, and second get the return off the sales floor before anybody saw it. I could go on, but I would might never stop.
In this regard, I find myself in fair agreement with you. I'm up here in Minnesota, so we don't suffer the same level you have, but I've spent time in Georgia and South Carolina (2002) and know what your talking about. We do have some blue laws though too, car dealerships and liqour stores can't be open on Sunday for example. Hopefully some of the church state issues before the supremes get sung the right way.
Yes, and I once saw them give excellent ratings to /Packard Bell/ computers. I haven't considered them to have a clue or be trustworthy since.
Only one was mine, the Fiero - quick battery disconnect saved everything but the wiring. Of the 2 escorts that caught fire, one was my fathers (it actually blew the hood back across the windshield while driving down the freeway) and the other belonged to my roommates girlfriend. Something I learned long ago, the law of averages doesn't apply to me and very rarely works in my favor.
Please, whatever you do, don't judge the US by it's current head flunky in charge. Bear in mind the US fell into the world power role. Before WWII we had an absolutely abysmmal military and a public that sincerly believed in isolationalism. Even then most of the public was opposed to getting involved with world affairs like WWII until Pearl Harbor was bombed. If the Soviets had pulled back from the Eastern block countries like they said would after they drove Germans out, the US would have gladly receded back into it's prewar status of isolationalism.
FDR was not particulary religious, and it was on his watch that the US became a world power. Most presidents since WWII have not been overtly religious, Reagan included. Eisenhaeur added "one nation under God" back around 1950 or so in order to distinguish us from the godless commies, and that's probably the last overtly religious act by a president since then.
W is really the first overtly religious president in quite a while. He would of course like nothing more than for the US to become a secular religious state, and has said things to that effect (I recall something about Aethiests not really being Americans).
Where is the Ford Escort? I have personly been in 2 that had the engine catch fire, and have known of two others that caught fire. Meanwhile, the Edsel, quite possibly the ugliest car Ford ever made was a fairly decent car for it's time. As for Pontiac Fiero, I owned one once and had it catch fire while it was parked and being washed in a stall. I had to rewire the /entire/ car. On the other hand it had the best handling of any car I have ever driven.
No question they were fairly secular. From what I understand Iraq has traditionaly been perhaps the most most restrained middle eastern state when it comes to religion. Unfortunately the Imam's appear to launching a power grab and want to shape Iraq into a religious based society.
I still believe that the amount of religion allowed to permeate their government will be directly inverse to the their chances of becoming a technology center, as they once were in ages past. Funny thing is, from what I understand about Islam, it embraces knowledge and learning. Question is can embrace knowledge and learning when it is capable of delivering a message that doesn't adhere to certain fundamentalists view of Islam? It is truely going to be a great test of the maturity of the Islam religion. Unfortunately such tests can be bloody, witness the use of the first printing press to print the bible - a direct response to just such a situation that once confronted Christianity.
Excellent question, I think the answer will be directly proportional to the amount of religion instituted in the new government.
For years strict encryption rules were an issue for Iraq. Has the US now stopped it's encryption restrictions for Iraq or do you simply get your crypto from elsewhere?
The problem with context is that it often obfuscates context. Something I have certainly had happen to what I've written from time to time.
Fair enough. A few from my Father (who has dealt with resumes, contractint, and hr stuff for many years).
Tell me about a difficult problem that you were able to take advantage of. - A problem often present opportunity, it's just a matter of prospective.
Tell me about a difficult customer service scenario that you you were unable to positively resolve. - Failure is a great teacher, and sometimes the answer is not to make the customer happy.
If I bring you on board for this position, what would you do next? - He has hired people that he wouldn't have otherwise hired for different positions this way.
A cologne-laced envelope isn't a good idea. I myself am allergic to many perfumes, as are most members on both sides of my family. I also have known a number of other people who are allergic to perfume outside of my family. The last thing you want is for your resume to cause an allergic reaction in the resume reader. Also bear in mind that a cologne you may personly like may not be one that the reviewer will like.
Deal, no more generic bullshit answers. Now when to the bullshit questions and requirements stop? I've seen job requirements that required experience in products less than a week old (W2K3 Server), and bullshit questions like "what is your greatest weakness". Cut it all out, sounds great to me.
This is easy to do. All you have to do is convince the NFL that football should no longer be a game of yards and inches. Get them to convert and everyone else will fall right into line. Prepare for a very messy conversion though. Our cars all come with KPH stamped on the speedomoters, and we see metric in many other places, even if it's not what we intuitevly know.
/and/ metric sizes for bolts and fittings. All that being said, it would be a good idea for the US to convert to metric though.
Funny thing is, metric is taught here in the US, and from what I understand most school kids test better on it than the old English measurements. See, we know metric well enough, we just don't use it for a lot of things. The result is that while everyone is well capable of knowing the result without being able to visualize it. In other words we know a meter = 100 cm's, but don't ask us to explain how tall someone is in metric.
The real fun though comes in things like our cars. This is where you get to experience cars built with both SAE
Learn your values from megacorps, they know better than you! They never diverge from the moral high road, and are utterly devoid of corruption. Racketeering, denial of civil rights, litigation, employee shafting, price fixing are all available. Which value do we get to see megacorps teach our children next?
As I stated, MS is evil, that isn't the question. The issue is the hypocrisy of saying that they are evil for charing too much and then likewise complaining when they give their product away for free.
Which is it, MS is evil because they charge too much in third world countries or MS is evil because they gave away software to third world countries? Can somebody please explain this to me? MS has done plenty of things to rank as evil in my book, but this is ludicrous.
I had a server room at an old factory that I admin'd at. The room had a partly failed Liebert line conditioner that powered the circa 1970 HP 3000. It made a tone loud enough to prevent going into the room more than a few seconds without hearing protection.
The unit was so old that the Liebert rep had never even seen one before, much less find it in his manual. The electrician couldn't order the part to fix it himself (he knew what was wrong with it) because the whole system was due to be replaced in 18 months and they didn't want to sink money into it.
As a result I got hold of the maintenece head and asked him if I could borrow his decibal meter. He asked me what for, and followed me into the server room.
This was a plant that had hearing protection in different areas, beyond the typical hearing plugs due to OSHA and worker safety concerns (they had to undergo anual hearing tests to monitor for damage). I ended up with a several hundred dollar pair of 40db rated earmuffs - that I was to wear over normal ear plugs, the very next day.
For how long though, I can't imagine that standing. Especially since BSA isn't exactly known for enforcing licenses for free software. BSA would love to sink their teeth in this. People using GPL'd software go the very root of their existance.
Unfortunately they have a nasty habit of getting law enforcement to do their audits when their demand for proof of compliance is turned down. Knew someone who suffered such a raid once, cops treated it like a major drug bust (only found minor piddly stuff like a zipmagic by the way). Business was shut down, and heads rolled. Fact is they should never be able to get law enforcement into what should be a purely civil matter, but they do anyways.
How long until the BSA starts conducting raids on businesses without SCO "liceneses"? By the BSA's standards, unlicensed software will get you audited, and they like to bring in their pet cops to do these raids. Novell lawsuit is probably good though as it will help force closure on the great IP landgrab on the century.