Don't waste your time on the phone and don't allow your anger to get the better of you. Do something quick and constructive as outlined in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
Did anyone else find the discussion about how gov't contract work really fascinating? That sucessful gov't contractors spread their contracts over multiple congressional districts as a defensive maneuver against budget cuts is a bit... creepy.
I realize that this is The Way Things Work, but is it right? or is it merely the propogation of a sucessful strategy?
Myself, I'm not sure that the way to legitmize Linux in gov't is to politic it in - 'bidness' aside. Getting in front of the policital movers and shakers and presenting facts is one thing. Using that time to pork barrel your own certification company strikes me as distinctly another, regardless of whether or not this is the way things are done.
It sounds drastic, but if you want to get rid of every telemarkter that will every try to reach you... get a cell phone and cancel your primary line.
Sure you might still use the copper for dial-up or DSL... in that case, unplug your phone and turn off your modem ringer.
I did this after purchasing my home and it was a welcome relief. I know the tricks with telemarketers, I know the magic words, "put me on your company's do not call list" but I was still getting the calls.
With the cell as my primary number it does not happen. Granted, this might depend on my carrier (EdgeWireless, basically a front for AT&T), however from what I understand most cell providers are very skeptical about selling their number list to telemarketers for fear of the enormous consumer backlash (interestingly enough, it would be for the same root reason we all get so pissed about spam: ergo, we pay to receive spam just like we'd pay, per minute, to receive telemarketing calls on a cell phone).
I hope this helps you out. Yes, I am well aware how annoying it is to change one's primary phone number.
I am not sure if linux users are particularly smarter as a group.:-) More willing to spend time to figure out, fix, update and work with their computer system, OH YES!
I am a windows sysadmin by profession (its paying the bills today folks, save the zealous remarks) and we have very good uptime numbers here, but it's a full time job even for a small shop.
Basically, I think you're right on. Saying "well, linux is just inherantly a stabler system" is akin to saying, "you know, most of those old mechanics who build hot rods in their spare time have cars that run much better than the average driver." Yeah... what did we expect?
As this gives the close minded folks who lean towards "religion" as a reason to stop cloning research just one less pilliar to stand upon (ergo: you don't need "dead babies" to study stem cells anymore)
With respect to the aging claim made, is two years enough time to detect a reasonal shorting of the chromatic telomerase?
So, the opposition guy's gripe is that forcing open all the source will retroactivly screw a lot of researches in that it will disclose works based off of closed software. Why not an ammendment process to clear this up?
Having attended a public university (go bruins), I find the idea of universities profiting from publicly funded research offensive. From my personal experience, I know there were enough politicians within the UC system. Let's nip this thing now rather than encourage more professional politicians to be drawn to our centers of higher learning by the profit motive.
Matrix net carries some interesting statistics regarding TLD availability here.
Reading through the page will give you an idea of the bandwidth matrix has at their disposal. The fact that most TLD servers are still 100+ msec ping on average would indicate, IMO, that those servers are under load.
So a couple years ago Jon Postel (RIP) can rediredct all authoritative root server queries to his lab PC and the internet is no worse for the ware, but ICANN, with substantially more resources, redundant locations and dozens of authoritative root server, cannot guarantee that some subset of them will always been online?
Huh?
What did I miss? We all have to meet requirements, whether your a 5 nines shop (god help you) or not with respect to uptime and service availability. Why should ICANN be any different?
The cash cow point is a good one. I well remember 17" CRTs that were $800 and up. However, I also remeber the defacto standard size for a monitor going from 13" to 15" to finally 17" for you typical office PeeCee with the price dropping accordingly.
I'm not sure what would be the 'standard' sized CRT today. Any new CRT that I purchase for my business is 19" (desktop space permitting), but I don't expect that I set the standard.:-)
I think most users see the 19" CRS and the 17" LCDs as being analgous. However, you can get a good 19" CRT for $600 while with a decent 17" LCD, the price is still in the clouds.
It would be good to see more and more of the hardware manufacturers on the side of the consumer rathern than bending over to the content creators.
How long it will be before the content creators and their lobbying efforts begin an attempt at forcing hardware manufacturers to build "copy protedction" mechanisms in their readers?
Will we see a similar situation to the DVD players that did not conform to the DVD spec (you know, the ones that would play any region DVDs and did not force you to watch the goddamn FBI warning for the 256,000th time)? Remember how quickly most national resellers stopped carring those brands? How hard it was to find one once the Word was Out?
To whom? the highest bidder? Sure, anybody with savvy has been doing just what the author suggests, but we all know that the home users was DoubleClick's target market. What of their data?
That's kind of what I'm getting at. I have this lingering fear we'll see a game with great one-liners, polished controll, clean install, looks like Quake2.
I tend to agree with the parent poster. Any fan of Blizzard games realizes that Blizzard is known for their long development cycle but that they tend to nail it almost every time with great game delivery (read: they do not ship a beta).
That's nice if you're assuming that the users on your target boxen have local admin rights (which, mine do not).
Giving users local admin rights to boxes is like handing them the matches and pointing to the TNT shed.
Granted, some of the patches for IE on Win2k do not require local admin rights to install, but most still want reg.modify access and to replace a system DLL or two. NOTE: the same thing that lots and lots of viruses like to do.
I can just see a bunch of headphone'd CS freaks on their laptops screaming at the top of their lungs, "OH YEAH, YOU WANT SOME?! FUCKING DIE! SUCK THE SNOT END OF MY FUCKSTICK YOU PUKE!!"
Corp to Corp - You are responsible for everything. All the money goes to you. Can give you better leverage in contract dispute.
Indie Contractor -- Most of the money goes to you. Depening on whether or not you work through a contract managment company, you may or may not have to handle insurance and taxes by yourself (note: this can be a big time suck).
W2 Employee - Not all the cash, but big brother takes care of a great deal of annoying crap (health insurance, taxes, office supplies, travel expenses, you name it and you can probably weasle a way to get your employer to pay for it).
2 good ideas! The login scripting does fall down occassionally (as with respect to what the earlier respondant had to say - I have been in that boat as well).
I have been pining to get VNC (or just about any remote desktop app) on the clients for some time. My one concern here is that I don't know much about VNC's security implications. I think I'll do some reading...
Cheers,
-- RLJ
Offtopic - I find it interesting that the flames are by anon cowards and do not contain supporting materials. Hmmmm...:-)
This is a step in the right direction, but I still have to install the thing on every single g-damn peecee in my enterprise.
For those of us with less than a few hundred MS clients (read: fewer clients that would make usefull something as heinous as SMS push upgrades) the issues are still very clear:
1). It takes too much time to keep up on MS software patches.
AND
2). Once you know what you need you still have to go box to box to box to patch (in *most* cases).
Granted the 'uber-patch' will help, but it still means I need a couple more inters to walk from machine to machine and interrupt users.
IMO, patch managment tools should be MS's #2 priority (right behind 'getting it right the first time').
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The page you want to read is Junkbusters Telemarketing Headlines.
A quick how-to to reduce the amount of telemarketing calls you receive. Yes, I have followed these steps. Yes, over time (say, 90 days) they work.
Cheers,
-- RLJ
Cheers,
- RLJ
I realize that this is The Way Things Work, but is it right? or is it merely the propogation of a sucessful strategy?
Myself, I'm not sure that the way to legitmize Linux in gov't is to politic it in - 'bidness' aside. Getting in front of the policital movers and shakers and presenting facts is one thing. Using that time to pork barrel your own certification company strikes me as distinctly another, regardless of whether or not this is the way things are done.
Cheers,
-- RLJ
It sounds drastic, but if you want to get rid of every telemarkter that will every try to reach you ... get a cell phone and cancel your primary line.
Sure you might still use the copper for dial-up or DSL ... in that case, unplug your phone and turn off your modem ringer.
I did this after purchasing my home and it was a welcome relief. I know the tricks with telemarketers, I know the magic words, "put me on your company's do not call list" but I was still getting the calls.
With the cell as my primary number it does not happen. Granted, this might depend on my carrier (EdgeWireless, basically a front for AT&T), however from what I understand most cell providers are very skeptical about selling their number list to telemarketers for fear of the enormous consumer backlash (interestingly enough, it would be for the same root reason we all get so pissed about spam: ergo, we pay to receive spam just like we'd pay, per minute, to receive telemarketing calls on a cell phone).
I hope this helps you out. Yes, I am well aware how annoying it is to change one's primary phone number.
Cheers,
-- RLJ
I am a windows sysadmin by profession (its paying the bills today folks, save the zealous remarks) and we have very good uptime numbers here, but it's a full time job even for a small shop.
Basically, I think you're right on. Saying "well, linux is just inherantly a stabler system" is akin to saying, "you know, most of those old mechanics who build hot rods in their spare time have cars that run much better than the average driver." Yeah ... what did we expect?
Cheers,
-- RLJ
With respect to the aging claim made, is two years enough time to detect a reasonal shorting of the chromatic telomerase?
Cheers,
-- RLJ
-- RLJ
Having attended a public university (go bruins), I find the idea of universities profiting from publicly funded research offensive. From my personal experience, I know there were enough politicians within the UC system. Let's nip this thing now rather than encourage more professional politicians to be drawn to our centers of higher learning by the profit motive.
Cheers,
-- RLJ
Kidding ... sorry. :-)
-- RLJ
Reading through the page will give you an idea of the bandwidth matrix has at their disposal. The fact that most TLD servers are still 100+ msec ping on average would indicate, IMO, that those servers are under load.
Cheers,
-- RLJ
Huh?
What did I miss? We all have to meet requirements, whether your a 5 nines shop (god help you) or not with respect to uptime and service availability. Why should ICANN be any different?
Cheers,
-- RLJ
I'm not sure what would be the 'standard' sized CRT today. Any new CRT that I purchase for my business is 19" (desktop space permitting), but I don't expect that I set the standard. :-)
I think most users see the 19" CRS and the 17" LCDs as being analgous. However, you can get a good 19" CRT for $600 while with a decent 17" LCD, the price is still in the clouds.
Cheers,
-- RLJ
Cheers,
-- RLJ
How long it will be before the content creators and their lobbying efforts begin an attempt at forcing hardware manufacturers to build "copy protedction" mechanisms in their readers?
Will we see a similar situation to the DVD players that did not conform to the DVD spec (you know, the ones that would play any region DVDs and did not force you to watch the goddamn FBI warning for the 256,000th time)? Remember how quickly most national resellers stopped carring those brands? How hard it was to find one once the Word was Out?
Cheers,
- RLJ
Cheers,
-- RLJ
I swear I will do my damndest to incoporate this line into everyday conversation tomorrow. I just want to see the jaws drop.
Thanks for the laugh, troll,
-- RLJ
Yeah, I hope I'm wrong too...
-- RLJ
Cheers,
-- RLJ
Cheers,
RLJ
Giving users local admin rights to boxes is like handing them the matches and pointing to the TNT shed.
Granted, some of the patches for IE on Win2k do not require local admin rights to install, but most still want reg.modify access and to replace a system DLL or two. NOTE: the same thing that lots and lots of viruses like to do.
Cheers,
-- RLJ
I can just see a bunch of headphone'd CS freaks on their laptops screaming at the top of their lungs, "OH YEAH, YOU WANT SOME?! FUCKING DIE! SUCK THE SNOT END OF MY FUCKSTICK YOU PUKE!!"
while the beverage cart rolls by ...
Cheers,
- RLJ
Corp to Corp - You are responsible for everything. All the money goes to you. Can give you better leverage in contract dispute.
Indie Contractor -- Most of the money goes to you. Depening on whether or not you work through a contract managment company, you may or may not have to handle insurance and taxes by yourself (note: this can be a big time suck).
W2 Employee - Not all the cash, but big brother takes care of a great deal of annoying crap (health insurance, taxes, office supplies, travel expenses, you name it and you can probably weasle a way to get your employer to pay for it).
Best of luck.
-- RLJ
I have been pining to get VNC (or just about any remote desktop app) on the clients for some time. My one concern here is that I don't know much about VNC's security implications. I think I'll do some reading...
Cheers,
-- RLJ
Offtopic - I find it interesting that the flames are by anon cowards and do not contain supporting materials. Hmmmm ... :-)
For those of us with less than a few hundred MS clients (read: fewer clients that would make usefull something as heinous as SMS push upgrades) the issues are still very clear:
1). It takes too much time to keep up on MS software patches.
AND
2). Once you know what you need you still have to go box to box to box to patch (in *most* cases).
Granted the 'uber-patch' will help, but it still means I need a couple more inters to walk from machine to machine and interrupt users. IMO, patch managment tools should be MS's #2 priority (right behind 'getting it right the first time').
Cheers,
-- RLJ
I do pity the open developer community if linux really takes off on the user side of this game.
Cheers,
-- RLJ