Political power is simply laying there for you to grab, but very few people actually are willing to put in the work it takes to make the changes you want.
I just want to second this, and point out how easy it is. When my mom was on her term limits hobby horse she got my dad and three friends to go to the county party meeting with her (I'm not sure exactly what it was called, but it was about sending delegates to the state party gathering), and won the delegate election 6-2. I was kinda stunned by how easy it was for her to hijack the local party.
And they didn't work. Most of those herbal remedies didn't, and don't, do a thing - though quite a few are actively dangerous. In 1900 we had aspirin and opiates for pain relief, and iodine and carbolic acid for disinfection, and that was basically it for effective medicines.
And in 2007 the state of the art isn't much better, when I broke my arm I got vicodin and a sling. asprin = non-specific COX inhibitor, opiates = mu receptor agonist, vicodin (hydrocodone/APAP) = mu receptor agonist + COX3 CNS inhibitor. So, after 107 years I got less stomach ache in exchange for liver toxicity.
We've added bleach to the list of effective disinfectants, and you missed the alcohols, but these 4 are the only ones that haven't developed resistant strains, hardly a great leap forward.
I'll admit antibiotics are huge, but "herbal medicines haven't changed at all since 1850" is a load of bull.
There are many herbs that have been validated in double blinded studies, and that are available in standardized extracts. Forskolin and Theanine(from tea) are two that I've used and can vouch for their effectiveness. (I don't take theanine because I already have too much GABA, it and Lyrica both put me to sleep, but the theanine capsules didn't rape my wallet like the lyrica).
No you're the retard, I have a SAN with all the production data, dual channels, dual switches, bazillion raid arrays, whole nine yards. I still use software raid, for the system disk, nothing on there that needs backing up, all the config files are under version control (repo elsewhere). Its a waste of dual channel fibrechannel disks to store the system image on the SAN, so I use a pair of cheap SATA disks in the system. Raid 1 means I don't have to re-install if I lose a disk, if the fuzz shows up with a warrant for my logs I just hand them one of the mirror disks, cloning a server for a quick cutover is cake, none of which justifies "real money".
IBM may have standing to disagree, but our opteron servers are way faster than our UltraSparcs. Its not until you get to the E6900 that Sun has an advantage, and that only because ther are no 16 socket opteron servers. Also, the "Large" E4900 costs $550K, whereas the Iwill 8502 costs only $45K loaded.
Thats dumb, when I re-probe under RHEL3, I use the HP supplied probe-luns all the time to pick up changes to our EVA5K, you also need the vendor stuff if you want dual channel failover. This is the same in the Solaris world, its wierd running HP software on a Sun, but if you want the fancy SAN features its required.
I think you're confusing backwards compatibility with OS requirements. All of our Cadence software will run on RH 7.x (RHEL 2.1) boxes, but we have used RHEL3 for the past year, and everything works. Now we are moving to RHEL4, and once again things are working. Of course we use the latest version of the Cadence software, maybe you should upgrade from the stone age there first?
Been going on for year with teleco's
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Back in the 80's my mom used to record _all_ of her long distance calls and numbers on the calendar next to the phone (having only one phone, and little kids who didn't use it helped) and every few bills they'd try and screw us out of 50 cents to a dollar. After 2 years of calling up and screaming she started going into the main office and grumping in person, demanding the manager etc. After a couple of those and proof that we weren't home on days when calls were billed our bill mysteriously quit having problems and has been that way for the last 15 years.
I just spent 3 months trying to get verizon to admit that I didn't sign a 2 year contract, I had the freaking 1 yr contract in hand and faxed it to them 3(!) times. Every time I got a CO,AZ, UT customer service center they played all sorts of bullshit games to get me to hang up and go away, finaly got a CA callcenter and got it taken care of in a day. So... verizon in CA is ok, Mountian West, they suck.
Looks like you didn't learn many of the social skills that are necessary for life in America. I'm going to guess that you quit at 15 because you were fighting with your mom, and you could test out "past highschool" or 99 percent tile or what ever your local standardized test considered off the charts on all the maths and sciences. Since you didn't like grammar/spelling/english you didn't learn them, and your mom didn't push you.
Now you don't understand why people don't like you (its cause you're an arrogant asshole and you don't even know it) Trust me, been there done that, homeschooled until 11th grade when I quit, 99.9% tile, MCSE in 2 weeks, yadda yadda yadda.
Learn some basic social skills in colledge, you'll be less of a programming wizard, but much more of a person. My BSEE is a nice piece of paper, but its real value was forcing me to take intro psychology and business writing. Learning to write is a prerequisite for anything other than entry level jobs, and it may be why your director wants to let you go. You're too good technically to leave in your current position, but you can't hack anything else, so its time to get somebody who can either stagnate(i.e just barely smart enough to get the job done, and minimum raises), or well rounded enough to be promotable.
Mod parent up, my Dad did 6 months at UPS and this is exactly what he described. As a side note he felt it was all the unions fault, they had managed to jack up the pay rate and as a result management used those stop watches to try and get their moneys worth from the overpaid workers (not sure if this is still the case now, but it was in '73)
Here's a scan of one of HP's mail servers (kinda cheating since I already knew they used linux having been peripherally involved in setting up the agilent server)
Starting nmap V. 2.53 by fyodor@insecure.org ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
Host letter.hp.com (192.151.27.3) appears to be up... good.
Initiating SYN half-open stealth scan against letter.hp.com (192.151.27.3)
Adding TCP port 25 (state open).
The SYN scan took 2 seconds to scan 6 ports.
For OSScan assuming that port 25 is open and port 42153 is closed and neither are firewalled
Interesting ports on letter.hp.com (192.151.27.3):
Port State Service
20/tcp filtered ftp-data 21/tcp filtered ftp
22/tcp filtered ssh
23/tcp filtered telnet 24/tcp filtered priv-mail
25/tcp open smtp
Sequence numbers: DEC22EAD DE404791 DEB46026 DE3FF6CC DE2FE8C8 DE84AE79
Remote OS guesses: Linux 2.1.122 - 2.2.14, Linux kernel 2.2.13
Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 6 seconds
Looks like they trust their linux enough to let it play outside the firewall
Funny, even before the dot bust one of the perks I got working for a chip maker in colorado springs is "repo man protection".   Seems some of the fab workers had/have credit trouble so about the only thing security actually does besides endangering all donut species is chase tow trucks out of the parking lots.   Since some of the good ones can get in and out faster than security can respond, and w/o leaving license plate images on the security cameras (so trespassing charges can't be filed) there is a special locked parking area for those that really don't want to take chances.   Sounds like this practice may become more common
Fabs don't crank out chips in "48-72" hours, not even in days, Atmel's CS locations take anywhere from 6-18 _weeks_ to run a set of wafers through. I don't know about European fabs, but they can't be that much different.
Puff,I work for Atmel, but I don't speak for them.
Sounds like a great idea. Having older references
available makes "legacy" systems that much easier
to deal with. (I wouldn't consider oracle 8 a legacy system yet, we just upgraded from 7 about a month ago;)
If your software will compile out of the tar ball reliably on RH/Deb/Suse and their derivatives then there isn't a need for binaries(Apache and Python are good examples). But if you depend on the latest version of a library like GAIM does, then Binaries are a must
Netcraft lists 2,742,931 IIS servers as of last month, thats a heck of a lot more than the 12,000 your claiming. Lets say 10 servers are in each department that is managed by a PHB who watches the evening news(5:30pm in my neck of the woods) in which the MS "hole" was worthy of mention, and(on CBS) an impressivly ominous icon. If, say 80%, of these PHB's made an emegency afterhours call to the lead techie the immediate price tag of the event would be (2M/10)*techiecost. When I worked at HP changing a defective CDROM drive was billed at a little over $1000, which is about the severity of this. So by my calculation $200M is a reasonable estimate.
Well, its only one part of the social interaction of a company with the world, but company ethics can be easier to judge than anything else. Two big names that come to mind are Kingston and Hewlett Packard. I can't speak for Kingston, but having worked for HP in the past, I can say that most managers there actually try and follow the company's ethical policy. Most companies pay lip service to "doing the right thing" but the HP environment actually fosters doing it(not to say they are angels, but the company doesn't punish those who do the right thing, and sometimes does come down hard on those who don't)
your the one smoking crack, I used to work in an HP (now agilent) data center, the only pc's that aren't rackmount are the old P/Ppro servers. All the PII/PIII's are rack mounts, from the baby 2u's to the monster 15u quad Xeon's. There were 400 HP/UX boxes and 200 pc's with about 2 new unix boxes a month coming in and 10 pc's.
If you have an SSL web server(acually you don't need it, but you open yourself to attack if you use plain http)you can use a java ssh applet from MindBright I've been using this for about a year now and it has worked in most recent browsers. It makes life as an admin easy, now I don't have to hand out ssh clients for every OS under the sun, just an URL.
I just grabbed a domain, the registration is laid out nicely (can't comment on speed cause my net link is saturated DLing Redhat6.2;) my only gripe is that passwords are flying around in the clear.
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We've added bleach to the list of effective disinfectants, and you missed the alcohols, but these 4 are the only ones that haven't developed resistant strains, hardly a great leap forward.
I'll admit antibiotics are huge, but "herbal medicines haven't changed at all since 1850" is a load of bull.
There are many herbs that have been validated in double blinded studies, and that are available in standardized extracts. Forskolin and Theanine(from tea) are two that I've used and can vouch for their effectiveness. (I don't take theanine because I already have too much GABA, it and Lyrica both put me to sleep, but the theanine capsules didn't rape my wallet like the lyrica).
No you're the retard, I have a SAN with all the production data, dual channels, dual switches, bazillion raid arrays, whole nine yards. I still use software raid, for the system disk, nothing on there that needs backing up, all the config files are under version control (repo elsewhere). Its a waste of dual channel fibrechannel disks to store the system image on the SAN, so I use a pair of cheap SATA disks in the system. Raid 1 means I don't have to re-install if I lose a disk, if the fuzz shows up with a warrant for my logs I just hand them one of the mirror disks, cloning a server for a quick cutover is cake, none of which justifies "real money".
Thats one shitty DVD player, my pioneer DVD player has been showing picture CDs since I bought it in 2003.
IBM may have standing to disagree, but our opteron servers are way faster than our UltraSparcs. Its not until you get to the E6900 that Sun has an advantage, and that only because ther are no 16 socket opteron servers. Also, the "Large" E4900 costs $550K, whereas the Iwill 8502 costs only $45K loaded.
Thats dumb, when I re-probe under RHEL3, I use the HP supplied probe-luns all the time to pick up changes to our EVA5K, you also need the vendor stuff if you want dual channel failover. This is the same in the Solaris world, its wierd running HP software on a Sun, but if you want the fancy SAN features its required.
This is a pretty good review of most of the shake flashlights on the market
I think you're confusing backwards compatibility with OS requirements. All of our Cadence software will run on RH 7.x (RHEL 2.1) boxes, but we have used RHEL3 for the past year, and everything works. Now we are moving to RHEL4, and once again things are working. Of course we use the latest version of the Cadence software, maybe you should upgrade from the stone age there first?
Back in the 80's my mom used to record _all_ of her long distance calls and numbers on the calendar next to the phone (having only one phone, and little kids who didn't use it helped) and every few bills they'd try and screw us out of 50 cents to a dollar. After 2 years of calling up and screaming she started going into the main office and grumping in person, demanding the manager etc. After a couple of those and proof that we weren't home on days when calls were billed our bill mysteriously quit having problems and has been that way for the last 15 years.
I just spent 3 months trying to get verizon to admit that I didn't sign a 2 year contract, I had the freaking 1 yr contract in hand and faxed it to them 3(!) times. Every time I got a CO,AZ, UT customer service center they played all sorts of bullshit games to get me to hang up and go away, finaly got a CA callcenter and got it taken care of in a day. So... verizon in CA is ok, Mountian West, they suck.
Looks like you didn't learn many of the social skills that are necessary for life in America. I'm going to guess that you quit at 15 because you were fighting with your mom, and you could test out "past highschool" or 99 percent tile or what ever your local standardized test considered off the charts on all the maths and sciences. Since you didn't like grammar/spelling/english you didn't learn them, and your mom didn't push you.
Now you don't understand why people don't like you (its cause you're an arrogant asshole and you don't even know it) Trust me, been there done that, homeschooled until 11th grade when I quit, 99.9% tile, MCSE in 2 weeks, yadda yadda yadda.
Learn some basic social skills in colledge, you'll be less of a programming wizard, but much more of a person. My BSEE is a nice piece of paper, but its real value was forcing me to take intro psychology and business writing. Learning to write is a prerequisite for anything other than entry level jobs, and it may be why your director wants to let you go. You're too good technically to leave in your current position, but you can't hack anything else, so its time to get somebody who can either stagnate(i.e just barely smart enough to get the job done, and minimum raises), or well rounded enough to be promotable.
Mod parent up, my Dad did 6 months at UPS and this is exactly what he described. As a side note he felt it was all the unions fault, they had managed to jack up the pay rate and as a result management used those stop watches to try and get their moneys worth from the overpaid workers (not sure if this is still the case now, but it was in '73)
Saw the thread, headed out to the machine room with digital cam. Pics of the outside here Anyone have pics form the inside of a dead one?
Here's a scan of one of HP's mail servers (kinda cheating since I already knew they used linux having been peripherally involved in setting up the agilent server)
/root]#nmap -v -sS -O -p '20-25' smtp.hp.com
... good.
[root@dragon
Starting nmap V. 2.53 by fyodor@insecure.org ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
Host letter.hp.com (192.151.27.3) appears to be up
Initiating SYN half-open stealth scan against letter.hp.com (192.151.27.3)
Adding TCP port 25 (state open).
The SYN scan took 2 seconds to scan 6 ports.
For OSScan assuming that port 25 is open and port 42153 is closed and neither are firewalled
Interesting ports on letter.hp.com (192.151.27.3):
Port State Service
20/tcp filtered ftp-data
21/tcp filtered ftp
22/tcp filtered ssh
23/tcp filtered telnet
24/tcp filtered priv-mail
25/tcp open smtp
Sequence numbers: DEC22EAD DE404791 DEB46026 DE3FF6CC DE2FE8C8 DE84AE79
Remote OS guesses: Linux 2.1.122 - 2.2.14, Linux kernel 2.2.13
Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 6 seconds
Looks like they trust their linux enough to let it play outside the firewall
Funny, even before the dot bust one of the perks I got working for a chip maker in colorado springs is "repo man protection".   Seems some of the fab workers had/have credit trouble so about the only thing security actually does besides endangering all donut species is chase tow trucks out of the parking lots.   Since some of the good ones can get in and out faster than security can respond, and w/o leaving license plate images on the security cameras (so trespassing charges can't be filed) there is a special locked parking area for those that really don't want to take chances.   Sounds like this practice may become more common
Fabs don't crank out chips in "48-72" hours, not even in days, Atmel's CS locations take anywhere from 6-18 _weeks_ to run a set of wafers through. I don't know about European fabs, but they can't be that much different.
Puff,I work for Atmel, but I don't speak for them.
Sounds like a great idea. Having older references available makes "legacy" systems that much easier to deal with. (I wouldn't consider oracle 8 a legacy system yet, we just upgraded from 7 about a month ago ;)
If your software will compile out of the tar ball reliably on RH/Deb/Suse and their derivatives then there isn't a need for binaries(Apache and Python are good examples). But if you depend on the latest version of a library like GAIM does, then Binaries are a must
Netcraft lists 2,742,931 IIS servers as of last month, thats a heck of a lot more than the 12,000 your claiming. Lets say 10 servers are in each department that is managed by a PHB who watches the evening news(5:30pm in my neck of the woods) in which the MS "hole" was worthy of mention, and(on CBS) an impressivly ominous icon. If, say 80%, of these PHB's made an emegency afterhours call to the lead techie the immediate price tag of the event would be (2M/10)*techiecost. When I worked at HP changing a defective CDROM drive was billed at a little over $1000, which is about the severity of this. So by my calculation $200M is a reasonable estimate.
Well, its only one part of the social interaction of a company with the world, but company ethics can be easier to judge than anything else. Two big names that come to mind are Kingston and Hewlett Packard. I can't speak for Kingston, but having worked for HP in the past, I can say that most managers there actually try and follow the company's ethical policy. Most companies pay lip service to "doing the right thing" but the HP environment actually fosters doing it(not to say they are angels, but the company doesn't punish those who do the right thing, and sometimes does come down hard on those who don't)
Because its an obvious attempt by sun to divert everyones attention away from their attempted mugging of kingston.
your the one smoking crack, I used to work in an HP (now agilent) data center, the only pc's that aren't rackmount are the old P/Ppro servers. All the PII/PIII's are rack mounts, from the baby 2u's to the monster 15u quad Xeon's. There were 400 HP/UX boxes and 200 pc's with about 2 new unix boxes a month coming in and 10 pc's.
If you have an SSL web server(acually you don't need it, but you open yourself to attack if you use plain http)you can use a java ssh applet from MindBright I've been using this for about a year now and it has worked in most recent browsers. It makes life as an admin easy, now I don't have to hand out ssh clients for every OS under the sun, just an URL.
I just grabbed a domain, the registration is laid out nicely (can't comment on speed cause my net link is saturated DLing Redhat6.2 ;) my only gripe is that passwords are flying around in the clear.