Heh, most of the NSA guys I've met are actually windows freaks.
I don't consider this bug a humongous issue for the vast population. Really, in order to exploit the bug you need single character change (no additional or fewer) in order to jimmy the key schedule.
And you need to leave multiple copies laying around for people to snatch up.
The "solution" they propose is no solution anyway!! We're got to go protect a database of IV's for EVERY document created, AND wrap all the protocols, provide authentication AND authorization.
Imagine, if Microsoft said you had to be online AND log into their servers to access YOUR document. Yeah.. right.
Sure, it's a bug. Cycle your passwords, and you're fine.
Theology may well be shaken to its very foundations.
How so? What does it prove that we can "create" life? If anything, it's more proof that some religions are right. The great immitator at work again, man wanting to replace God.
The T42 runs Linux beautifully too.. only issue I had was the wireless (fixed with the intel driver) and hard drive corruption under Fedora (fixed with a kernel parameter)
It's a bug. Adjusting the contrast yields a white ghost of a bug, with the tail illuminated slightly, probably from the top of the abdomen. It's probably catching most of the light from the sun which is above and forward from the camera.
The streak is probably due to the CCD algorithm which is additive over the frame as an average of the light during the duration of the frame capture. You can also see a slightly lighter trail of around 20 pixels above and below the dark trail of the wings.
I was posing a general solution applicable to most operating system environments.. On a linux box I would not only get the system state, but would also dump a full disk image to tape, and possibly a memory image as well. You can sometimes glean a good bit of info looking at trashed memory pages and file locks on the disk image.
Pan
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That's totally true.. in fact have every maching on your network NTP'ing. I've worked on a few compromised servers. Of course the first step is to NOT GET COMPROMISED. Use tripwire, honeypots, and protect yourself.
One thing people forget about is getting the STATE of the server before you off-line it. I'd suggest getting packet dumps, network routes and connections.
REMEMBER: 1. Load up a live CD with some KNOWN GOOD utilities, set the path to $CD_PATH:$PATH so it searches off the cd first or specify the full path of the utility on cd. 2. Capture processes & threads, routes, sockets, and adapter info, and perhaps a packet dump if things are active into a text file and store somewhere safe.
AIX isn't so bad once you get used to it. I've always had good luck with JFS and the multi-cpu performance.
Probably the biggest weirdness is the memory management system and threading. AIX has a very fine grain MM system and it's easy to blow something up when memory is getting low. ALWAYS have extra ram with AIX.
My other biggest problem was the standard unix tools which came with AIX.. were SO OLD. This has mostly been rectified with the GNU toolset, and the 4.0 AIX series. The C compiler was very good, but I think nowhere as nice as the Digital compiler. I still LOVE that compiler
That's precisely what is dragging computer science from a Profession to a Job. It's happening across the board in many professions, in the name of competition.
I'm not opposed to competition - but what is the cost to our society? What kind of productivity can be achieved with longer hours in the long term?
I think employee turnover in the workplace is driving the cost of the work higher, and the quality is lower. The cost in terms of healthcare and family stability are getting higher. We are constantly chastising those that are qualified but unwilling to sacrifice as "loosers."
Raising our health costs and burning out our workforces 20 years prematurely will lead to Socialism - exactly the opposite of the intended goal of a more competitive, capitalist workforce.
This is just my speculation.
Pan
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Thanks for the suggestion.. I just spent an hour reading interviews. The arguments for and against are spectacular. Just some of the things I read..
The startling fact is that Wal-Mart gets 60-70% profit margin off of Asian imports, and ONLY 15-20% on domestic produced goods.
Wal-Mart buyers have intimiate knowledge of every producers products and cost of production. Manufacturers are forced to outsource to China or be replaced by import goods.
Wal-Mart demands price decreases every year, and offers to buy larger quantities in lue.
Wal-Mart imports approximately 10% of the total American imports (by cost) from China. That's 15 billion dollars. Sales Revenue (last 12 months) is at 280 billion.
What America is doing every year is sending 150 billion dollars to China. We're not selling much to China either.. so eventually we will go bankrupt because we can grow our own income as fast as we're mailing it across the ocean.
A healthy fair trade would be to grow both of our economies.
My own worry.. I think we're starting to feel the pressure as our Dollar plunges even lower. There's a good article on Market Watch
I can back this up. From my experience, when a patent violation occured the usual result was simply a notice of possible violation, reciprocated by a change.
If someone was blatently violating a patent then I suspect the laywer people would get into action.
"For every good programmer, there are four hundred useless ones"....
The number isn't quite that high. In my 8 years experience it's somewhere around 10% that is able to master software development and engineering.
One of the major issues I noted was that we expect new people to come in and "just do it." Perfectly. Very often, they don't have a clue on real engineering.
The experience either comes from loads of years of study, or from mentors. If you're not mentoring the new guys then you're looking for trouble.
If you want good people, they're easy to find. You just have to be willing to impart some wisdom and make their work worthwhile.
I took a hiring course from an ex-Southwest airlines HR boss. They've been hugely successful. She said it best.. what matters MOST in the long term success of a new hire is fulfilling their need to succeed, and having the aptitude necessary to get the job done.
Lastly, If you want a good logical thinker, then you need to ADVERTISE for one. Don't say "Position: Perl Programmer, Required experience: x, y, and z"
NO!! You will get 400 smart a**s who read x,y, and z in a book and wrote some Perl last month. The guys you want will pass it on because it doesn't look like much fun.
Your job description should be: Looking for skills in Logic and Analysis to fill the role of Software Developer. Successful candidates will display aptitude in high level logic and provide real working software solutions with analysis on design tradeoffs.
I guarantee you that the guy who says, "Yeah, that's me" is going to at least TRY to BE that description. It instantly filters the "skillz" guys and, chances are, one of the people that contact you will fit.
The available experience in the field hasn't changed, but it has been diluted. You've got to target the guys you want with key language that says "we've not just a body shop here."
That's complete corporate bologna. You don't OWN anything until you BUY THEM at the strike, and maybe RESELL then for a gain.
The trick is the strike price. Most companies hire when their stock is flying high and investors love them.
I have made out very good on some options, and came out with 0 on most.
That said, I believe that you need to look at the potential of the business, the management, and the current p/e of the company before you take options over cash.
"Also, many stores will intentionally carry different models of similar items so that they don't overlap inventory with competitors and have to honor low price guarantees."
Heh, Packard Bell used to actually renumber the model numbers for each and every retailer for this express purpose. I co-developed the PC service systems for computer city and compusa and it isn't that uncommon for this to happen on the low end computer systems.
Don't fool yourself.. We established a nation with our own blood and guts.. and We expect to run it ourselves. Most people are for worldwide co-operation, just not for bend-over and accept our morals/people/taxes etc.
Furthur, the "Southern Democrat" is quickly becoming extinct. The social-champion tactic of the Democratic party originates from FDR and by-and-large has been a Good Thing. Before then, the Dems were simply known as the "States Rights" party where the Southern Democrat originated from.
"Just because you dont get the votes you expect doesn't mean much of anything."
Actually it does mean something.. it means that the party is alienating some voters.. and the further you move away from the People, the less votes you get.
Yes, there are simularities, but not the naturalist ideas of God creating within the Earth. Six days and a night cap, he was done with that. The rest could simply be called, System Administration.
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What, were you born under a bridge or something?
Pan
Heh, most of the NSA guys I've met are actually windows freaks.
I don't consider this bug a humongous issue for the vast population. Really, in order to exploit the bug you need single character change (no additional or fewer) in order to jimmy the key schedule.
And you need to leave multiple copies laying around for people to snatch up.
The "solution" they propose is no solution anyway!! We're got to go protect a database of IV's for EVERY document created, AND wrap all the protocols, provide authentication AND authorization.
Imagine, if Microsoft said you had to be online AND log into their servers to access YOUR document. Yeah.. right.
Sure, it's a bug. Cycle your passwords, and you're fine.
Pan
That's good news! I am not patently against lisp.. but it is very wordy for system developers IMHO.
Good Luck!
Pan
Heh.. if the include files have .h suffixes.. then every program should start like this:
include( "Bitc.h" )
Pan
((At least (to me).))
(pan)
Theology may well be shaken to its very foundations.
How so? What does it prove that we can "create" life? If anything, it's more proof that some religions are right. The great immitator at work again, man wanting to replace God.
Pan
The T42 runs Linux beautifully too.. only issue I had was the wireless (fixed with the intel driver) and hard drive corruption under Fedora (fixed with a kernel parameter)
Pan
Moores law may not apply to molecular or quantum computing. Same as the tube, transistor/chip revolutions.
Pan
It's a bug. Adjusting the contrast yields a white ghost of a bug, with the tail illuminated slightly, probably from the top of the abdomen. It's probably catching most of the light from the sun which is above and forward from the camera.
The streak is probably due to the CCD algorithm which is additive over the frame as an average of the light during the duration of the frame capture. You can also see a slightly lighter trail of around 20 pixels above and below the dark trail of the wings.
Pan
Hey, we don't need no stinkin' modules!!
I was posing a general solution applicable to most operating system environments.. On a linux box I would not only get the system state, but would also dump a full disk image to tape, and possibly a memory image as well. You can sometimes glean a good bit of info looking at trashed memory pages and file locks on the disk image.
Pan
That's totally true.. in fact have every maching on your network NTP'ing. I've worked on a few compromised servers. Of course the first step is to NOT GET COMPROMISED. Use tripwire, honeypots, and protect yourself.
One thing people forget about is getting the STATE of the server before you off-line it. I'd suggest getting packet dumps, network routes and connections.
REMEMBER:
1. Load up a live CD with some KNOWN GOOD utilities, set the path to $CD_PATH:$PATH so it searches off the cd first or specify the full path of the utility on cd.
2. Capture processes & threads, routes, sockets, and adapter info, and perhaps a packet dump if things are active into a text file and store somewhere safe.
YMMV
Panaflex
AIX isn't so bad once you get used to it. I've always had good luck with JFS and the multi-cpu performance.
Probably the biggest weirdness is the memory management system and threading. AIX has a very fine grain MM system and it's easy to blow something up when memory is getting low. ALWAYS have extra ram with AIX.
My other biggest problem was the standard unix tools which came with AIX.. were SO OLD. This has mostly been rectified with the GNU toolset, and the 4.0 AIX series. The C compiler was very good, but I think nowhere as nice as the Digital compiler. I still LOVE that compiler
Pan
That's precisely what is dragging computer science from a Profession to a Job. It's happening across the board in many professions, in the name of competition.
I'm not opposed to competition - but what is the cost to our society? What kind of productivity can be achieved with longer hours in the long term?
I think employee turnover in the workplace is driving the cost of the work higher, and the quality is lower. The cost in terms of healthcare and family stability are getting higher. We are constantly chastising those that are qualified but unwilling to sacrifice as "loosers."
Raising our health costs and burning out our workforces 20 years prematurely will lead to Socialism - exactly the opposite of the intended goal of a more competitive, capitalist workforce.
This is just my speculation.
Pan
Thanks for the suggestion.. I just spent an hour reading interviews. The arguments for and against are spectacular. Just some of the things I read..
The startling fact is that Wal-Mart gets 60-70% profit margin off of Asian imports, and ONLY 15-20% on domestic produced goods.
Wal-Mart buyers have intimiate knowledge of every producers products and cost of production. Manufacturers are forced to outsource to China or be replaced by import goods.
Wal-Mart demands price decreases every year, and offers to buy larger quantities in lue.
Wal-Mart imports approximately 10% of the total American imports (by cost) from China. That's 15 billion dollars. Sales Revenue (last 12 months) is at 280 billion.
What America is doing every year is sending 150 billion dollars to China. We're not selling much to China either.. so eventually we will go bankrupt because we can grow our own income as fast as we're mailing it across the ocean.
A healthy fair trade would be to grow both of our economies.
My own worry.. I think we're starting to feel the pressure as our Dollar plunges even lower. There's a good article on Market Watch
Wouldn't of happened to be slightly over cooked possum bones near by?
Just checkin
Pan
I can back this up. From my experience, when a patent violation occured the usual result was simply a notice of possible violation, reciprocated by a change.
If someone was blatently violating a patent then I suspect the laywer people would get into action.
Pan
"For every good programmer, there are four hundred useless ones"....
The number isn't quite that high. In my 8 years experience it's somewhere around 10% that is able to master software development and engineering.
One of the major issues I noted was that we expect new people to come in and "just do it." Perfectly. Very often, they don't have a clue on real engineering.
The experience either comes from loads of years of study, or from mentors. If you're not mentoring the new guys then you're looking for trouble.
If you want good people, they're easy to find. You just have to be willing to impart some wisdom and make their work worthwhile.
I took a hiring course from an ex-Southwest airlines HR boss. They've been hugely successful. She said it best.. what matters MOST in the long term success of a new hire is fulfilling their need to succeed, and having the aptitude necessary to get the job done.
Lastly, If you want a good logical thinker, then you need to ADVERTISE for one. Don't say "Position: Perl Programmer, Required experience: x, y, and z"
NO!! You will get 400 smart a**s who read x,y, and z in a book and wrote some Perl last month. The guys you want will pass it on because it doesn't look like much fun.
Your job description should be:
Looking for skills in Logic and Analysis to fill the role of Software Developer. Successful candidates will display aptitude in high level logic and provide real working software solutions with analysis on design tradeoffs.
I guarantee you that the guy who says, "Yeah, that's me" is going to at least TRY to BE that description. It instantly filters the "skillz" guys and, chances are, one of the people that contact you will fit.
The available experience in the field hasn't changed, but it has been diluted. You've got to target the guys you want with key language that says "we've not just a body shop here."
Pan
"They are shared ownership"
That's complete corporate bologna. You don't OWN anything until you BUY THEM at the strike, and maybe RESELL then for a gain.
The trick is the strike price. Most companies hire when their stock is flying high and investors love them.
I have made out very good on some options, and came out with 0 on most.
That said, I believe that you need to look at the potential of the business, the management, and the current p/e of the company before you take options over cash.
Pan
"Also, many stores will intentionally carry different models of similar items so that they don't overlap inventory with competitors and have to honor low price guarantees."
Heh, Packard Bell used to actually renumber the model numbers for each and every retailer for this express purpose. I co-developed the PC service systems for computer city and compusa and it isn't that uncommon for this to happen on the low end computer systems.
Pan
"single minded nationalistic bent"
Don't fool yourself.. We established a nation with our own blood and guts.. and We expect to run it ourselves. Most people are for worldwide co-operation, just not for bend-over and accept our morals/people/taxes etc.
Furthur, the "Southern Democrat" is quickly becoming extinct. The social-champion tactic of the Democratic party originates from FDR and by-and-large has been a Good Thing. Before then, the Dems were simply known as the "States Rights" party where the Southern Democrat originated from.
"Just because you dont get the votes you expect doesn't mean much of anything."
Actually it does mean something.. it means that the party is alienating some voters.. and the further you move away from the People, the less votes you get.
Pan
Thank you, kind sir
Well, it would be NICE if they had some (#*$*&#$* release notes to go along with their release so we would get a CLUE as to what they changed!
Still not updated.. grrr
Probably more like a Dalik (however that's spelled)
"You will be destroyed!!"
Pan
So what DID God create after Noah and the flood?
tap..... tap...... tap......
Yes, there are simularities, but not the naturalist ideas of God creating within the Earth. Six days and a night cap, he was done with that. The rest could simply be called, System Administration.
Pan
The facts are that both Britian and NATO gladely accepted WMD delivery vehicles born out of the the ex-NAZI rocket programs.
Pan