I generally keep a fairly complete set of incremental backups on CD and ORB Disk, but restoring from backup, especially from tape or CD (SCSI ORB Drive is not a speed issue) is a massive time hit, even if you're only restoring your/home/ directory
It's the old "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" scenario.
Hey! I just admitted I was wrong! I must not have spent enough time reading/. The last few weeks.
Set a Cron Job that does a backup every hour or two. Have the file time stamped and rotate out the oldest backups in a way that you hard drive space allows.
Full backup every few days, and incrementals throughout the day. Bit of thrashing, but it will protect you from most problems.
Hiring harte-hanks is the corporate equivalent of saying "We don't give a F***"
During my time there, my MANAGER told me that if a company really cared they wouldn't have hired the firm.
They're somebody you hire when you want to say you have a call center, but don't care if anything is actually accomplished by it.
One of the accounts I worked for was the warranty number of a defective tape measure that was being sold by Sears. Our job was to essentially tell them that unless the rivets had come out of the little metal tab that was attached to the tape measure itself, it wasn't covered by the warranty.
The case fell apart during the first day of use? Too Bad.
The spring that recoils the tape broke when you opened the package? Too Bad.
The tape broke when you uncoiled it for the first time? Too Bad.
And don't get me started on how they distribute "Information." Fuzzy photocopies thumbtacked to the cubicle walls.
The training session consisted of a video on how to handle brokerage calls. Nothing to do with our jobs, but it was "phone etiquette" training.
They also placed a lot of outgoing telemarketing calls. While I was there I made sure to put myself on all of their "Do Not Call" and "Do Not Mail" lists.
We were also told not to put someone on the "Do Not Call" list until they asked to be removed for the second time in the conversation.
I made the mistake of getting my manager when a caller wanted to "speak to the manger." I got chewed out for 20 minutes after the call. Apparently, you're supposed to hand the call to whoever is in the next cubicle and they become your "manager" for the duration of the call. This is to save the real managers time. I was once "Fired" by the girl next to me for the way I'd handled the call. After the caller hung up she and I had a good laugh at my "unemployed" status.
I'm now VERY glad I got a PS2 today. Now that I know harte-hanks is handling the calls, I know Microsoft doesn't care about providing service to ANYONE who buys the product. "Ship it and forget it."
"Hey, we're not making much off the Quake II engine anymore now that we've shifted everything to Quake III. Should we mothball it, maybe even lose the source so no one could even compile it anymore, just like every other game company does with their code?"
"Hell No! That doesn't match my master plan!"
"Master plan?"
"You must be new here. I want all programmers to either learn from my masterful code, or bow before me acknowledging my skill."
"How you gonna do that?"
"Same way Linus did. GPL it! My code shall never die! I will forever be known as the father of thousands of computer games. My code shall outlive the very civilization in which we live. Through my GPLed code, I shall achieve immortality! Mwhahahahahaha."
"Yeah. OK. I'll put together a tarball and drop it on the FTP server."
To himself: "Besides, if I give my brother and sister coders enough samples of my work, sooner or later they'll design the tools necessary fro me to move off of Windows once and for all, and do all my coding under Linux. They'll have to, just so they can continue to hack and improve my own work. Soon, very soon I'll be able to launch Afterstep and compile to Win32 with the click of a button."
(Dramatic Pause)
"And then I'll never have to use Windows again! Mwhahahahahahahahahaha!"
Relatively speaking that is. A lot of the discussion going on seems to assume that the planes are still running all of their original systems. To quote the article: "...ribs, fuselage, wings -- is original equipment. It's the systems, from air-conditioning to weapons, that are new"
"A defensive-weapons officer, a navigator, or a bombardier from that era, [1960's] on the other hand, would very likely have no idea how to operate the equipment at his old station."
In other words, all those systems have been replaced, or at least upgraded.
You are the exact kind of person that Linux needs in the Desktop.
A non-Ubergeek who uses Linux for everything they'd otherwise do on a MAC or Windows machine.
Your statements are exactly what more people need to hear, and what the uneducated need to know.
Thank you for posting. No doubt Bill Gates will send the re-education squad to your home to beat you into submission for daring to say Linux is easy to use.
The Archos Jukebox is basically a USB hard drive that can play MP3 and WAV files you store on it. No copy protection, no data regulation. There's been a slashdot article on how to upgrade the 6 gig model to 20 gig (Although a 20 gig model is out now) it can record WAV files and I have a review of it on my web site www.matthewmiller.net.
My review doesn't mention this, but it runs under kernel 2.4.x just fine.:)
Hmmm, Two AC's. One offering real tips, the other just flaming.
I have nothing against him getting laid. My problem is he doesn't do his job, and when he does do it he screws everything up. The fact that our production servers got infected with the Nimda virus was just one example.
And just for the record, I DO go out, get drunk and get laid. I also rock climb, dance and hang out with friends.
Now, to the intelligent AC - Thanks for the tips.
I'm already working with the CTO and CIO to get the ports blocked. Sadly, the chucklehead is the one who would make the change in the firewall, so I have to figure out a way to get the change assigned to myself or the CTO.
The monitoring software is on the way. I've wanted it for ages, but the company owner didn't OK the purchase until we had a CTO. It's interesting that when I (25 year old tech) propose an idea it gets shot down, but when our CTO (Early 40's, an experienced tech, but studying for law exams) puts fourth the exact same idea it gets snapped up and hailed as revolutionary. If the CTO wasn't a damn smart guy who has a bunch of other good ideas I never thought of I'd be annoyed.
The CTO knows this guy is a nit-wit, and is forcing him to take the A+ exam. Once he fails....
Restricting his bandwidth is an excellent idea. I could cut him down to 1k and he'd never realize there was anything wrong (except for the plummeting performance that is) Knowing him, he'd reinstall Windows before he checked anything else, and that would take him out for a good three days.
Anyone know off hand if Morpheous or Limewire keep any logs of downloaded files?
After my initial post I read the most recent edition of the BOFH, and liked the changes the BOFH made to some text he got off the Internet...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/30/22378.ht ml
Sadly, starting an STD rumor with this group might give one of the females an "It's OK, he already has it, I won't infect him," moment
Where did I put that copy of "Evil Geniuses for Dummies?"
The thing you're overlooking is that the Nimda and Code Red viruses came out AFTER the bugs they exploited had been discovered and patched.
This hypothetical DataCenter would not be impacted because the patches would have been tested and applied long before the viruses hit.
As much as we like to joke about Microsoft being "Swiss Cheese," the truth is most bugs have patches available long before there are exploits. DataCanter would mean all of the relevant patches would be tested and applied long before the viruses hit.
The only reason my servers were hit by Nimda was because I trusted out Chucklehead Network Admin to understand the difference between downloading and installing a patch. I told him to patch it, but did he listen? Apparently not. I guess flirting with the head of the Insurance Department was more important than the bulletin from the Microsoft Security Mailing list. Never mind the fact that I had to show him how to import a contact list into Outlook, never mind the fact that Clippy is too complex for him to comprehend, just ignore the guy who BUILT our infrastructure when he tells you to apply a patch that will protect the servers from the SINGLE MOST COMMON WORM ON THE NET!
I gave him the @$@(*& URL and told him to install the patch. All he had to do was paste the URL into the server's web browser, click a file name and select "Run from present Location" then Click YES on anything else he saw! But did he DO it? NOOOOOOO. He SAID he did it, but that's not the same thing as DOING it!
But hey, he managed to screw the trailer girl he'd been hitting on, so I guess out server down time and the dozens of root.exe files I had to delete were worth it, huh?
And before the tolls start in I am NOT jealous that he got laid. I spent the last 24 hours in bed with my girlfriend, and get more action in a week than he does in a month. He's the one going after the company's chain smoking pot addicts when he's supposed to be working.
And don't get me started on the 300 megs of porn on his hard drive! We only have a single T1 for the whole company's in-house operations. Thank GOD we host our servers off site or our clients would never get in. He downloads the W2K service pack off the Internet each time he installs it instead of running the local copy I saved to the server.
And don't get me started on his MP3 collection. He must eat up 90% or our bandwidth. Uploading a 50k Perl script takes me 20 minutes because he's downloading porn and MP3s, but because he's screwing the comptroller' s daughter he never gets in trouble for it. Meanwhile _I_ get grilled for out poor network performance, and just because he DENIES having downloaded all that crap he's excused and I'm told "There must be another cause."
And now he's studying for an A++ exam, and his comment to me? "Why do I need to know all this IRQ S***, we use Windows 2000. That's not in computers anymore."
Being a curious and somewhat masochistic person, I decided to try TopText and see what happened.
I normally use Opera, but I fired up IE 5.5, updated to the latest stable patches (6.0 beta is out but I didn't bother with it) and installed TopText.
No yellow links, but my pages are randomly reloading, usually bringing up something further back in the browser history.
It even destroyed my efforts at Meta-Moderating!
I'm using Windows ME (Don't ask why, we have sales reps in the field using it and I had to become familiar. Don't install it. IF you must use Windows use Win 98 SE or W2K, perhaps XP when it comes out, but NOT Windows ME)
My company is running IIS 5. Perl is running on the system, and I'd like to create a script that will take any requests for default.ida and add the IP to the list of IP addresses the IIS server blocks.
While we're at it, can the net send command be used to inform the infected system of its "condition" without resorting to exploiting the Code Red II install of root.exe?
Anyone have any ideas for using Perl or ASP to do this?
To tell the truth, I date a lot. I just have to weed out the human version of SPAM. Of course, since that means anyone at your IQ is beneath me, I don't expect much more than a one-liner from you.
Not enjoying Dogma, but staying awake through the dialog. I don't want waste my time someone who just wants to see fights and things blow up. I want somoene who can THINK.
How would you manage the development of an Open Source rocket guidance system? How many people would you find who would test it? Part of the reason Linux has grown the way it has is because anyone can set up their own test system (Assuming sufficient technical skill). How does Joe Blow hacker set up a test environment for Rocket Guidance?????
I could be wrong here, but the documentation for the GPS I got for my Palm Pilot said that it was a receive only protocol, so I receive telemetry data but am not sending any. Given the range of Cell phones, wouldnt a GPS have to be much larger to send data back into orbit???
Slashdot Mirror
Good point.
/home/ directory
/. The last few weeks.
I generally keep a fairly complete set of incremental backups on CD and ORB Disk, but restoring from backup, especially from tape or CD (SCSI ORB Drive is not a speed issue) is a massive time hit, even if you're only restoring your
It's the old "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" scenario.
Hey! I just admitted I was wrong! I must not have spent enough time reading
Set a Cron Job that does a backup every hour or two. Have the file time stamped and rotate out the oldest backups in a way that you hard drive space allows.
Full backup every few days, and incrementals throughout the day. Bit of thrashing, but it will protect you from most problems.
Hiring harte-hanks is the corporate equivalent of saying "We don't give a F***"
During my time there, my MANAGER told me that if a company really cared they wouldn't have hired the firm.
They're somebody you hire when you want to say you have a call center, but don't care if anything is actually accomplished by it.
One of the accounts I worked for was the warranty number of a defective tape measure that was being sold by Sears. Our job was to essentially tell them that unless the rivets had come out of the little metal tab that was attached to the tape measure itself, it wasn't covered by the warranty.
The case fell apart during the first day of use? Too Bad.
The spring that recoils the tape broke when you opened the package? Too Bad.
The tape broke when you uncoiled it for the first time? Too Bad.
And don't get me started on how they distribute "Information." Fuzzy photocopies thumbtacked to the cubicle walls.
The training session consisted of a video on how to handle brokerage calls. Nothing to do with our jobs, but it was "phone etiquette" training.
They also placed a lot of outgoing telemarketing calls. While I was there I made sure to put myself on all of their "Do Not Call" and "Do Not Mail" lists.
We were also told not to put someone on the "Do Not Call" list until they asked to be removed for the second time in the conversation.
I made the mistake of getting my manager when a caller wanted to "speak to the manger." I got chewed out for 20 minutes after the call. Apparently, you're supposed to hand the call to whoever is in the next cubicle and they become your "manager" for the duration of the call. This is to save the real managers time. I was once "Fired" by the girl next to me for the way I'd handled the call. After the caller hung up she and I had a good laugh at my "unemployed" status.
I'm now VERY glad I got a PS2 today. Now that I know harte-hanks is handling the calls, I know Microsoft doesn't care about providing service to ANYONE who buys the product. "Ship it and forget it."
www.matthewmiller.net
From The Sun
"The boys got involved because producer GEORGE LUCAS's 13-year-old daughter Katie is a fan of the band and badgered her dad to give them a role."
Man, I wish MY dad would let me name movies and pick the cast!
This Summer, from Metro Home Video: Christina Ricci and Janeane Garofalo in "Hotter than Natalie with twice the hot grits"
www.matthewmiller.net
"Hey, we're not making much off the Quake II engine anymore now that we've shifted everything to Quake III. Should we mothball it, maybe even lose the source so no one could even compile it anymore, just like every other game company does with their code?"
"Hell No! That doesn't match my master plan!"
"Master plan?"
"You must be new here. I want all programmers to either learn from my masterful code, or bow before me acknowledging my skill."
"How you gonna do that?"
"Same way Linus did. GPL it! My code shall never die! I will forever be known as the father of thousands of computer games. My code shall outlive the very civilization in which we live. Through my GPLed code, I shall achieve immortality! Mwhahahahahaha."
"Yeah. OK. I'll put together a tarball and drop it on the FTP server."
To himself: "Besides, if I give my brother and sister coders enough samples of my work, sooner or later they'll design the tools necessary fro me to move off of Windows once and for all, and do all my coding under Linux. They'll have to, just so they can continue to hack and improve my own work. Soon, very soon I'll be able to launch Afterstep and compile to Win32 with the click of a button."
(Dramatic Pause)
"And then I'll never have to use Windows again! Mwhahahahahahahahahaha!"
Relatively speaking that is. A lot of the discussion going on seems to assume that the planes are still running all of their original systems. To quote the article: "...ribs, fuselage, wings -- is original equipment. It's the systems, from air-conditioning to weapons, that are new"
"A defensive-weapons officer, a navigator, or a bombardier from that era, [1960's] on the other hand, would very likely have no idea how to operate the equipment at his old station."
In other words, all those systems have been replaced, or at least upgraded.
"I wish there was a shallow grave option"
There is.
Just build four walls around her so she can't get to any food, hygiene or anything else.
Or, have her take a dip in the pool, then remove all the ladders so she can't get out.
:)
Soon, you'll have a nice urn for the mantle.
Congratulations Sir,
You are the exact kind of person that Linux needs in the Desktop.
A non-Ubergeek who uses Linux for everything they'd otherwise do on a MAC or Windows machine.
Your statements are exactly what more people need to hear, and what the uneducated need to know.
Thank you for posting. No doubt Bill Gates will send the re-education squad to your home to beat you into submission for daring to say Linux is easy to use.
The Archos Jukebox is basically a USB hard drive that can play MP3 and WAV files you store on it. No copy protection, no data regulation. There's been a slashdot article on how to upgrade the 6 gig model to 20 gig (Although a 20 gig model is out now) it can record WAV files and I have a review of it on my web site www.matthewmiller.net.
:)
My review doesn't mention this, but it runs under kernel 2.4.x just fine.
Sorry, but making someone, amle or female, fear for thier saftey is wrong.
Using a computer to do it doesn't make it funny.
She had a valid reason to think someone in the computer lab was threatening her.
Let's be blunt, the guy who pulled the joke was a small minded little prick who doesn't know the difference between a joke and causing harm.
Anyone else notice that their technical, billing and admin contacts are all one putz at an AOL address?
Something tells me they don't know very much about the technology they're trying to control....
Registrant:
SafeSurf (SAFESURF-DOM)
1304 Newbury Road Unit E
Newbury Park, CA 91320
US
Domain Name: SAFESURF.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Billing Contact:
Soular, Ray (RS588) superfixer@AOL.COM
Dazzle.net
16209 Victory Blvd. PMB 256
Van Nuys, CA 91406
(310) 572-6560 (FAX) (209) 821-7132
Record last updated on 21-Sep-2001.
Record expires on 17-May-2002.
Record created on 16-May-1995.
Database last updated on 27-Oct-2001 09:29:00 EDT.
Domain servers in listed order:
PRIMARY.CBPOL.NET 63.107.147.5
SECONDARY.CBPOL.NET 63.107.147.6
Well, I already knew that. It's just not working when I try it...
Looks like the Mirrors are still at 20.7
./ got to the main server before the mirrors could!
I can't even get the source to try and compile it myself.
Why is ftp.gnu.org asking for a username and password? What should I enter?
Windows Guru, Linux Newbie, seeking to become Linux Guru.
Where can I download the Win32 binaries of the new version???
Hmmm, Two AC's. One offering real tips, the other just flaming.
t ml
I have nothing against him getting laid. My problem is he doesn't do his job, and when he does do it he screws everything up. The fact that our production servers got infected with the Nimda virus was just one example.
And just for the record, I DO go out, get drunk and get laid. I also rock climb, dance and hang out with friends.
Now, to the intelligent AC - Thanks for the tips.
I'm already working with the CTO and CIO to get the ports blocked. Sadly, the chucklehead is the one who would make the change in the firewall, so I have to figure out a way to get the change assigned to myself or the CTO.
The monitoring software is on the way. I've wanted it for ages, but the company owner didn't OK the purchase until we had a CTO. It's interesting that when I (25 year old tech) propose an idea it gets shot down, but when our CTO (Early 40's, an experienced tech, but studying for law exams) puts fourth the exact same idea it gets snapped up and hailed as revolutionary. If the CTO wasn't a damn smart guy who has a bunch of other good ideas I never thought of I'd be annoyed.
The CTO knows this guy is a nit-wit, and is forcing him to take the A+ exam. Once he fails....
Restricting his bandwidth is an excellent idea. I could cut him down to 1k and he'd never realize there was anything wrong (except for the plummeting performance that is) Knowing him, he'd reinstall Windows before he checked anything else, and that would take him out for a good three days.
Anyone know off hand if Morpheous or Limewire keep any logs of downloaded files?
After my initial post I read the most recent edition of the BOFH, and liked the changes the BOFH made to some text he got off the Internet...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/30/22378.h
Sadly, starting an STD rumor with this group might give one of the females an "It's OK, he already has it, I won't infect him," moment
Where did I put that copy of "Evil Geniuses for Dummies?"
The thing you're overlooking is that the Nimda and Code Red viruses came out AFTER the bugs they exploited had been discovered and patched.
This hypothetical DataCenter would not be impacted because the patches would have been tested and applied long before the viruses hit.
As much as we like to joke about Microsoft being "Swiss Cheese," the truth is most bugs have patches available long before there are exploits. DataCanter would mean all of the relevant patches would be tested and applied long before the viruses hit.
The only reason my servers were hit by Nimda was because I trusted out Chucklehead Network Admin to understand the difference between downloading and installing a patch. I told him to patch it, but did he listen? Apparently not. I guess flirting with the head of the Insurance Department was more important than the bulletin from the Microsoft Security Mailing list. Never mind the fact that I had to show him how to import a contact list into Outlook, never mind the fact that Clippy is too complex for him to comprehend, just ignore the guy who BUILT our infrastructure when he tells you to apply a patch that will protect the servers from the SINGLE MOST COMMON WORM ON THE NET!
I gave him the @$@(*& URL and told him to install the patch. All he had to do was paste the URL into the server's web browser, click a file name and select "Run from present Location" then Click YES on anything else he saw! But did he DO it? NOOOOOOO. He SAID he did it, but that's not the same thing as DOING it!
But hey, he managed to screw the trailer girl he'd been hitting on, so I guess out server down time and the dozens of root.exe files I had to delete were worth it, huh?
And before the tolls start in I am NOT jealous that he got laid. I spent the last 24 hours in bed with my girlfriend, and get more action in a week than he does in a month. He's the one going after the company's chain smoking pot addicts when he's supposed to be working.
And don't get me started on the 300 megs of porn on his hard drive! We only have a single T1 for the whole company's in-house operations. Thank GOD we host our servers off site or our clients would never get in. He downloads the W2K service pack off the Internet each time he installs it instead of running the local copy I saved to the server.
And don't get me started on his MP3 collection. He must eat up 90% or our bandwidth. Uploading a 50k Perl script takes me 20 minutes because he's downloading porn and MP3s, but because he's screwing the comptroller' s daughter he never gets in trouble for it. Meanwhile _I_ get grilled for out poor network performance, and just because he DENIES having downloaded all that crap he's excused and I'm told "There must be another cause."
And now he's studying for an A++ exam, and his comment to me? "Why do I need to know all this IRQ S***, we use Windows 2000. That's not in computers anymore."
ARGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyone else remember the Windows 3.1 software that let you use a joystick as a mouse?
How is this different?
Being a curious and somewhat masochistic person, I decided to try TopText and see what happened.
I normally use Opera, but I fired up IE 5.5, updated to the latest stable patches (6.0 beta is out but I didn't bother with it) and installed TopText.
No yellow links, but my pages are randomly reloading, usually bringing up something further back in the browser history.
It even destroyed my efforts at Meta-Moderating!
I'm using Windows ME (Don't ask why, we have sales reps in the field using it and I had to become familiar. Don't install it. IF you must use Windows use Win 98 SE or W2K, perhaps XP when it comes out, but NOT Windows ME)
www.matthewmiller.net
My company is running IIS 5. Perl is running on the system, and I'd like to create a script that will take any requests for default.ida and add the IP to the list of IP addresses the IIS server blocks.
While we're at it, can the net send command be used to inform the infected system of its "condition" without resorting to exploiting the Code Red II install of root.exe?
Anyone have any ideas for using Perl or ASP to do this?
To tell the truth, I date a lot. I just have to weed out the human version of SPAM. Of course, since that means anyone at your IQ is beneath me, I don't expect much more than a one-liner from you.
Not enjoying Dogma, but staying awake through the dialog. I don't want waste my time someone who just wants to see fights and things blow up. I want somoene who can THINK.
Yes, I do. Don't all computer geeks who rock climb, write poetry and give two hour massages have women lined up?
The article is a big, steaming pile of marketing:
if people miss Clippy, they can turn him back on by clicking the 'help' tag on the Office XP task bar.
How, then, is the blasted thing being removed? It doesn't pop up as often. Great. Wow. Personally, I uninstall the component whenever I can.
On the bright side, Clippy helps me identify people I don't want to date?
I have a few tests. Test 1. Can they watch Dogma for the first time and listen to the dialog instead of complaining about how little action there is.
Test 2: Do they like the #$@& Paper Clip.
They're intelligence tests. Enjoying Dogma and detesting Clippy are prerequisites for intimate relations.
I never get First Post because I actually READ the articles and think about them before posting.
www.matthewmiller.net
How would you manage the development of an Open Source rocket guidance system? How many people would you find who would test it? Part of the reason Linux has grown the way it has is because anyone can set up their own test system (Assuming sufficient technical skill). How does Joe Blow hacker set up a test environment for Rocket Guidance?????
http://www.matthewmiller.net
I could be wrong here, but the documentation for the GPS I got for my Palm Pilot said that it was a receive only protocol, so I receive telemetry data but am not sending any. Given the range of Cell phones, wouldnt a GPS have to be much larger to send data back into orbit???
http://www.matthewmiller.net