If it takes 9 months to get approval for a freaking ram upgrade then IT deserves to be treated like 3rd class citizens.
Even if it's company policy? Even if IT have absolutely no authority in that ridiculous situation?
I work for a small company but we serve a number of large organisations. I often hear stories from the IT staff at these large companies about the hoops they have to jump through to get stuff done in the company. These are company policies and procedures - decided on by management - to try to retain some semblance of control over the IT Infrastructure. There's justification for this: change control, security, costs, compliance with *blah*, less "duhh we stacked 6 hard drives on top of each other in this server... and they worked for a while.... now none of them work... and they had data on them that hadn't been backed up!" stuff.
To say the IT guys are obviously incompentent is seriously missing the big picture. You sound like the kind of person that makes Fall Guys out of people.
I tried so hard my dear to show that you're my every dream. Yet you're afraid each thing I do is just some evil scheme A memory from your lonesome past keeps us so far apart Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold cold heart
Another love before my time made your heart sad and blue And so my heart is paying now for things I didn't do In anger unkind words are said that make the teardrops start Why can't I free your doubtful mind,and melt your cold cold heart
You'll never know how much it hurts to see you sat and cry You know you need and want my love yet you're afraid to try Why do you run and hide from lies,to try it just ain't smart Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold cold heart
There was a time when I believed that you belonged to me But now I know your heart is shackled to a memory The more I learn to care for you,the more we drift apart Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold cold heart
Except instead of fighting, there's a lot of walking around and talking about sailors.
ROFL... too true... I played Shenmue and Shenmue II with a friend of mine for *hours*. A lot of hanging out at the docks, waiting for sailors and dudes with black leather jackets...
Also the protagonist has no arse: "Excuse me! I'm looking for my arse!" "Why don't you go talk to somebody else?" "OK, thanks..."
The government censors child pornography. You can't view it, you can't dispplay it, you can't trade it. What else would you call this besides censorship?
Child pornography (as a product) requires commiting heinous crimes to produce it.
Even if you were just a "consumer" of it and didn't produce it yourself, you'd still be supporting those who are commiting sexual crimes against children.
It's a very different situation than, say, banning a violent/sexually explicit game.
The thing that makes this so utterly pointless is that it's going to be tucked away inside a PC case where nobody will see it.
This is for the type of dude who has a transparent case and internal lighting. I'm sure the dude would work out a way to make the HD window clearly visible from the outside.
Have you seen the Half Life 2 case mod for example? Some of these dudes are pretty serious:)
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(off-mic:) Isn't Perl a fable, these days?
LOL. No. Perl is still the duct tape that's sticking all this crap together!
I wouldn't tend to use Perl for a large project though unless that project was for stats/billing/reporting etc. and even then Java seems like a safer/ more long-term bet.
Perl is like shell scripting on roids. Fills this space very well I think. It's actually the only language I feel 100% comfortable with, which makes me worry slightly about my mental health;)
If you're going to use PHP, please do yourself a huge favour and install mod_security.
Snarf mod_security from here and snarf the awesome rulesets available from gotroot.com
It's a DEAD EASY installation and is quite educational. You'll notice in the logs it generates that people/scripts are scanning your sites all freaking day for phpmyadmin, phpbb2 vulnerabilities etc. Awesome software.
mod_security should come OOTB with all Linux distros that use Apache, configured with a decent set of rules such as those from gotroot.com.
I sincerely wish the developers of PHP put more of a focus on security. It's a hard job: people are writing insecure PHP applications (heck, they're doing it in other languages as well such as Perl). I don't have a really intelligent suggestion here because I don't do a lot of PHP (I'm a systems guy rather than a developer) but it would be great if it wasn't so easy for PHP programmers to inadvertantly open up massive holes. It's probably not all laziness that causes most PHP applications to be insecure: sometimes programmers simply make mistakes. Anything the language can do (within reason) to help avoid these mistakes is a Good Thing. In the meantime, mod_security baby!
Created on 12/05/2005 21:40:04 Updated on 12/05/2005 22:42:02 Expires on 12/05/2006 16:40:04
Doesn't this ring alarm bells in anyone's head? I found this one because I received a phishing email and checked the (fairly pathetically disguised but would trick a layperson) link.
I think in the long run KDE will become the de-facto standard primarily because of the tight integration among its applications and excitement in its developer and user base about KDE 4.
That logic does not follow dude. I do hope KDE4 is awesome though and it's users enjoy it. I hope the next Gnome release is awesome too.
take a look at how many more posts there are in KDE-Look than in Gnome-Look.
My God man! The sub-project-forum-number-of-posts indicator! That's some solid data!
The main benefit of sudo is when you have many admins working on a machine. If you're not in such an environment, you really don't need sudo.
You can utilise sudo for automated tasks as well dude. Just recently I had to modify an internal web application to use rsync over ssh to deploy files to a privileged location on a remote server. It also had to execute privileged operations (restarting a daemon) on the remote server. Sudo helped me achieve this in a relatively easy, clean and secure way.
BackupPC can be configured to use an ssh, rync and sudo combination to help tighten the security of backup operations. Speaking of BackupPC, check it out, I'm pretty damn happy with it.
Many have since LOST a ton of food by eating nothing but McDonald's food.
Oh I'd believe that. I'd lose all the food in my stomach if I ate a McDonald's "meal".
Chicken McNuggets, 9 Pieces. 27g fat. That's about your daily allowance of fat. I hope you're not eating anything else that day (e.g. fries with your meal) or that you're doing a decent amount of exercise: http://www.dietfacts.com/html/items/1650.htm
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Multi bird keyboard macro is a dificult task takes some skill, but he is Using WINE
As Homer showed us, you only really need *one* wooden bird.
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His calm presentation of the facts might result in a rational discussion.
It's worse than that: it has the potential to result in the prevention of irrational, emotive, YRO-stylee rants.
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You ought to watch "OutFoxed" sometime dude.
http://www.outfoxed.org/
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Oh, and I have to say that Entourage is aces.
Not if you have to support the fucker. It's a piece of shit.
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If it takes 9 months to get approval for a freaking ram upgrade then IT deserves to be treated like 3rd class citizens.
Even if it's company policy? Even if IT have absolutely no authority in that ridiculous situation?
I work for a small company but we serve a number of large organisations. I often hear stories from the IT staff at these large companies about the hoops they have to jump through to get stuff done in the company. These are company policies and procedures - decided on by management - to try to retain some semblance of control over the IT Infrastructure. There's justification for this: change control, security, costs, compliance with *blah*, less "duhh we stacked 6 hard drives on top of each other in this server... and they worked for a while.... now none of them work... and they had data on them that hadn't been backed up!" stuff.
To say the IT guys are obviously incompentent is seriously missing the big picture. You sound like the kind of person that makes Fall Guys out of people.
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Stor
Cold, Cold Heart by Hank Williams
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Lyrics taken from: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/h/hank-williams/64082.
I tried so hard my dear to show that you're my every dream.
Yet you're afraid each thing I do is just some evil scheme
A memory from your lonesome past keeps us so far apart
Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold cold heart
Another love before my time made your heart sad and blue
And so my heart is paying now for things I didn't do
In anger unkind words are said that make the teardrops start
Why can't I free your doubtful mind,and melt your cold cold heart
You'll never know how much it hurts to see you sat and cry
You know you need and want my love yet you're afraid to try
Why do you run and hide from lies,to try it just ain't smart
Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold cold heart
There was a time when I believed that you belonged to me
But now I know your heart is shackled to a memory
The more I learn to care for you,the more we drift apart
Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold cold heart
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Stor
Except instead of fighting, there's a lot of walking around and talking about sailors.
ROFL... too true... I played Shenmue and Shenmue II with a friend of mine for *hours*. A lot of hanging out at the docks, waiting for sailors and dudes with black leather jackets...
Also the protagonist has no arse:
"Excuse me! I'm looking for my arse!"
"Why don't you go talk to somebody else?"
"OK, thanks..."
But we enjoyed it.
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Stor
The government censors child pornography. You can't view it, you can't dispplay it, you can't trade it. What else would you call this besides censorship?
Child pornography (as a product) requires commiting heinous crimes to produce it.
Even if you were just a "consumer" of it and didn't produce it yourself, you'd still be supporting those who are commiting sexual crimes against children.
It's a very different situation than, say, banning a violent/sexually explicit game.
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Damn straight! Blamphlets are lame!
Now if you'll excuse me I must work on my new bloster. It's for a podfilm I'm creating. Thanks.
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Ariel Sharon is dying
Good news, everyone!
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In a jar beside the bed!
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The thing that makes this so utterly pointless is that it's going to be tucked away inside a PC case where nobody will see it.
:)
This is for the type of dude who has a transparent case and internal lighting. I'm sure the dude would work out a way to make the HD window clearly visible from the outside.
Have you seen the Half Life 2 case mod for example? Some of these dudes are pretty serious
Cheers
Stor
(off-mic:) Isn't Perl a fable, these days?
;)
LOL. No. Perl is still the duct tape that's sticking all this crap together!
I wouldn't tend to use Perl for a large project though unless that project was for stats/billing/reporting etc. and even then Java seems like a safer/ more long-term bet.
Perl is like shell scripting on roids. Fills this space very well I think. It's actually the only language I feel 100% comfortable with, which makes me worry slightly about my mental health
Cheers
Stor
If you're going to use PHP, please do yourself a huge favour and install mod_security.
Snarf mod_security from here and snarf the awesome rulesets available from gotroot.com
It's a DEAD EASY installation and is quite educational. You'll notice in the logs it generates that people/scripts are scanning your sites all freaking day for phpmyadmin, phpbb2 vulnerabilities etc. Awesome software.
mod_security should come OOTB with all Linux distros that use Apache, configured with a decent set of rules such as those from gotroot.com.
I sincerely wish the developers of PHP put more of a focus on security. It's a hard job: people are writing insecure PHP applications (heck, they're doing it in other languages as well such as Perl). I don't have a really intelligent suggestion here because I don't do a lot of PHP (I'm a systems guy rather than a developer) but it would be great if it wasn't so easy for PHP programmers to inadvertantly open up massive holes. It's probably not all laziness that causes most PHP applications to be insecure: sometimes programmers simply make mistakes. Anything the language can do (within reason) to help avoid these mistakes is a Good Thing. In the meantime, mod_security baby!
Cheers
Stor
I don't discount what you're saying above but you do have people like this guy:
[andymcd@localhost ~]$ whois protectonline-paypal.com
DOMAIN
Domain Name : protectonline-paypal.com (PPC178-BMN-DOM)
Registrar : BookMyName
Whois Server : whois.bookmyname.com
Referral URL : https://www.bookmyname.com/
Registrant / Admin Contact :
PERSON
Bill SCHMIDT (SCHMID12-BMN-PE)
1123 Mason St Apt C
54476 Schofield
UNITED STATES
phone : +3 44546677
fax :
e-mail : aptbill6662@yahoo.com
Billing Contact :
PERSON
Bill SCHMIDT (SCHMID12-BMN-PE)
1123 Mason St Apt C
54476 Schofield
UNITED STATES
phone : +3 44546677
fax :
e-mail : aptbill6662@yahoo.com
Technical Contact :
PERSON
Bill SCHMIDT (SCHMID12-BMN-PE)
1123 Mason St Apt C
54476 Schofield
UNITED STATES
phone : +3 44546677
fax :
e-mail : aptbill6662@yahoo.com
Domain servers :
ns1.miss-nska.net (NMNN2-BMN-HST)
ns2.miss-nska.net (NMNN3-BMN-HST)
Created on 12/05/2005 21:40:04
Updated on 12/05/2005 22:42:02
Expires on 12/05/2006 16:40:04
Doesn't this ring alarm bells in anyone's head? I found this one because I received a phishing email and checked the (fairly pathetically disguised but would trick a layperson) link.
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1. People fear that which they do not understand.
2. Nuclear Physics is hard* (apologies to Barbie(R))
3. People fear Nuclear Physics
Maybe we need a nuclear physics version of this.
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Hang on, Christians haven't outlawed birth control yet, have they?
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...turn in your geek card.
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Naw, real men do it with a pencil. Or on their fingers...
Q: How did the mathematician solve his constipation problem?
A: He worked it out with a pencil
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A gig of Ram (or more) ought to help a lot, as would a nice fast SATA hard drive.
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I think in the long run KDE will become the de-facto standard primarily because of the tight integration among its applications and excitement in its developer and user base about KDE 4.
That logic does not follow dude. I do hope KDE4 is awesome though and it's users enjoy it. I hope the next Gnome release is awesome too.
take a look at how many more posts there are in KDE-Look than in Gnome-Look.
My God man! The sub-project-forum-number-of-posts indicator! That's some solid data!
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strings is still handy tho - to find out what a binary from a rootkit does, without running it.
Absolutely. You can also use it to find out whether a binary has plaintext passwords embedded within it. Handy little tool.
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The main benefit of sudo is when you have many admins working on a machine. If you're not in such an environment, you really don't need sudo.
You can utilise sudo for automated tasks as well dude. Just recently I had to modify an internal web application to use rsync over ssh to deploy files to a privileged location on a remote server. It also had to execute privileged operations (restarting a daemon) on the remote server. Sudo helped me achieve this in a relatively easy, clean and secure way.
BackupPC can be configured to use an ssh, rync and sudo combination to help tighten the security of backup operations. Speaking of BackupPC, check it out, I'm pretty damn happy with it.
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Stor
I'm not really current on Windows networking, but shouldn't a test server be on its own domain? ...or a separate, isolated switch...
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Many have since LOST a ton of food by eating nothing but McDonald's food.
Oh I'd believe that. I'd lose all the food in my stomach if I ate a McDonald's "meal".
Chicken McNuggets, 9 Pieces. 27g fat. That's about your daily allowance of fat. I hope you're not eating anything else that day (e.g. fries with your meal) or that you're doing a decent amount of exercise:
http://www.dietfacts.com/html/items/1650.htm
Medium fries, 22g fat
http://www.dietfacts.com/html/items/17220.htm
Big Mac, 33g fat:
http://www.dietfacts.com/html/items/17210.htm
Enjoy, fatty.
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