So, you need to ask these questions to yourself and your co-workers:
If you have a stable working enviroment, why change? Is this move going to be cost effective? Is the distro I use going to be the proper one? Why am I really using this distro? If you say, because it is the one I use at home, then you need stop this project right in its tracks. How easy is it to manage this distro in my enviroment. Running "apt-get upgrade" on 500 servers is not do-able. Is there proper management software out there for my distro/platform of choice? Does my software I need even run on my distro/platform of choice? What about support for my software on my distro/platform of choice? Can I keep my system software in sync across all servers? Can I easily manage the distro install process? Can I trim down the install time? Can I make the install process automated?
These are just the basic questions you need ask. Don't get stuck on one distro. Be flexable and look around. Redhat or Gentoo or something might be better choices.
While in theory, you are correct, but in practice, this becomes financial suicide. You forgot to include the comedy second option: if eBay doesn't like Craig's decisions, they can pull out: potentially hurting the value of craigslist in future trading.
Well, since CL is not a publicly traded company it can't hurt them. I guess if they started losing money, eBay could loan/give them money if they wanted to. However, that point is moot since CL is a profitable company.
Sure 25 percent may be the minority, but there is nothing minor about it. When a company owns 25% of your company, you do half at least part of what they suggest you do.
No, you don't. The person/company with 51% or more of the stock/interest is the HNIC.
Craig owns 75%, so he has all the say. If eBay does not like this, they can request an election. Oh ya, they'll lose since Craig owns a 75% stake of the company.
Let's stop kidding ourselves on this subject. Yes, there are some legit uses for P2P networks, but let's just admit that 99% of the useage of P2P networks is Porn, MP3's and Warez.
You've got to be kidding me. The hardest work I've ever done in my life was done for $6/hour and the easiest was done for $45/hour. In pretty much any society on this blue marble, those that work the hardest are also those who get the least financial reward. And, those who have millions and who 'worked hard' for it may have done so, but not any harder than someone working in a pipe foundry for $10/hour. Those people can work as hard as possible at those jobs and never get any closer to the reward.
Yet, again, we have to explain to the socialists how the world really works. There is a thing called supply and demand. The reason an unskilled shitty job pays $6/hr is that there are a ton of people lined up to do it. The reason another job pays $45/hr is that there are not many people who can't do it. Do you think the person who pays $45/hr wants to pay $45/hr? Nope, they would rather pay you $6/hr, but they can't because there is a scarcity of labor for the $45/hr job. It has nothing to do with physical labor. Very few people can NOT do a physical intensive labor job and very few people have the skill set for the $45/hr job.
I work at a public university. One of the problems a public university has to deal with is the phenomenon of clueless users in dorms/offices/wireless connections, who may or may not become spam zombies.
Block port 25, period. There, you just fixed the problem.
Why any ISP of any kind that lets port 25 traffic go outboung is beyound me. There is no legit use for it and all outbound mail should be handled by the ISP's mail server. No one should be sending mail from client to mailserver. It should be Client -> ISP mailserver -> Other ISP mailserver -> Other Client.
(Case in point, the other day he appeared on BBC News saying "There is no middle ground between good and evil". WTF? Even 8 year olds have a more sophisticated weltanschaaung than that! Somebody send the man to a high school Ethics lesson. Even 12 year olds, when presented with a classic 'moral quandry' scenario, notice within about 5 minutes that there is almost nothing but middle ground.)
Are you crazy? I don't care much for Bush, but he is absolutely correct on this issue. There is no middle ground when it comes to Terrorism. What he is saying is: "You are are against Terrorism or you are a supporter of Terrorism. There is no middle ground".
For example, some guy down the street wants to kill you and your entire family. This is a bad thing. Now you know this, but you can't find him. You will need help in hunting him down or atleast have people call you when they see him. Now if people know where this guy is and they know he wants to kill you and your entire family and they never call you to tell you where he his is, then they are helping the guy who wants to hurt you. The "We don't want to get involved" arguement does not work. If they don't help you, there is a good chance you and your family will be killed.
Now, Bush could do better in delivering the message, but the arguement is true. You are either a Hunter of Terrorist's, or you are a Terrorist. If the USA falls, it will land on the ashes of Europe.
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I once dated someone who was fully against the exploration, or colonization, of Mars because she feared that we were given this planet and we've made a mess of it. She argued that we had no right to go to another planet that didn't belong to us and alter it in any substantial way. After a few somewhat lenghty discussions trying to pin down exactly what her issue was about, I discovered that the she felt that GOD had given us this planet and not Mars, hence we shouldn't mess up God's plans with Mars by stomping all over it with our oversized space boots.
Yes, but did you see her naked? That's all that matters.
Bernard Balan, branded as one of the world's worst hard line spammers, has retired to a quiet Muskoka retreat far removed from his bulk e-mail empire that, at its peak, had him sending 30 million unsolicited messages a day, raking in up to $140,000 U.S. a week.
Is this a joke? You can make that much money being a spammer?
No offense people, I but I'm seriously looking at switching careers! I make half that in a year!
I could work less than a single single year and retire. Amazing!
I am playing with the India Monster and they do have a lot of jobs for System Administrators in India. My question is, what part of India do the people not smell?
I know that sounds racist but I really like the Indians (The nicest, friendliest, hardworking people you'll ever meet), but concept of taking a shower everyday has not caught on with them.
Outsourcing is just another sign that America and the West in general needs to get its collective shit together. For too long we have ignored Education and Research. Outsourcing is just another fire under the ass of the West that it has to take these things seriously. We are going to loose some jobs no matter what. That is a fact, but if we stop bitching about jobs moving over seas and actually took seriously and invested in Education and Research, would not have to worry so much about it. As America's we have gotten lazy and we think we are entitled to high paying tech jobs. Well, break the news to you, we're not and 550 Million Indians under the age 25 are also saying the same thing. Forget election year protectionism speeches. Just make the average American worker more skilled and educated and less jobs will flow over seas.
That's what it is all about. You heard it here first.
He and I use "safety" rounds for home defense for several reasons. In my case, I use Hydra-Shok's. 1) These are bullets that have to work when there are suppose to work. They have lower failure rates due to being made at stricter tolerences. 2) They don't over-penetrate, all of the enegry is transfered into the target. This is very helpful since you get great stopping power and you don't have a bullet flying through your target on onto something else you did not want to hit. They do penetrate, since that is what bullets are suppose to do. 3) High end personal defense rounds also have lower flash so if you shoot them in the dark, you won't be blinded by the flash. Ammo you use at the gun range is not like this.
Using copper coated bullets at the range is standard practice now a days at all and is manditory in most. When you shoot lead bullets, part of that bullet is vaporized into the air. Since gun ranges can have a lot of people shooting, they tend to have a lot of lead in the air (Which is very bad). With copper bullets you don't have that problem as bad. You still get some nasty stuff in the air, but not enough to hurt you. Also, old gun ranges became a enviromental problem with all the lead in the backstops. Copper coated bullets has more or less has fixed this problem. One thing I am suprised at is he starts talking about head shots and that crap. Let's face it, you are shooting at a Bad Guy in your house in the middle of the night, you are going to be pissing your pants. Simply put, unless you have had a ton of training, you are not going to hit a guy in the head. Be real and train to shoot people in the chest area. If you miss by 4 or 5 inches (Which is not uncommon in real life stressful situations) you still going to hit the Bad Guy. Another thing, he says 230 grain load, that would be a.45 Cal (1911 most likely). In other words, a fairly powerful hand gun with big bullets, which is not the good choice for home defense. He should step down to a.40 Cal since still get great power, control, and good magazine capacity..45 tend to be too powerful for home defense and have a low magazine capacity (7 - 9 bullets is common). They are great in combat, but a poor choice in for home defense.
The anti-gun nuts? Yeah, all those psychos alarmed by the widespread, practically unregulated availability of fire-arms, they really scare me. They're nutty, just plain nutty. There oughta be a law.
You are wrong. The possession and ownership of firearms is highly regulated. What else are you forbidden from owning even if you commit a crime that has nothing to do with firearms or violence. Be convicted of felony white colar crime and you can not own or posses a firearm of any kind. When I bought my last firearm, I had to have a state and federal background check, give a thumb print and wait 10 days. I found buying my two ton car a lot easier and no one checked to see if I was convicted drunk driver either.
Okaaay. I presume you mean the proposed law to prevent men convicted of violent assault against their wifes from obtaining semi-automatics? Do you feel that law might inconvenience you in some way?
Okay, the guy has a violent assault on his record and in most states that means he is not allowed to own or posses firearms. My question is, why should I be punished for the action of a man who is not obeying the law anyways? If he beats his wife there is a good chance he is not going to obey the firearms law anyway. If the guy is convicted of beating his wife, the government should throw him in jail and not restrict my rights. If you drink and drive, should I have a breath tester installed in my car? No. You are the criminal, not me.
I think people overestimate the power of the internet. I heard Dick Morris say "the rise of Howard Dean is proof that God is on the side of Gearge Bush". That was on the Bill Oreilly show and Bill Just kind of nodded his head (because that's exactly how fair and balanced he is).
I saw that too and your not being honest. The reason he said that is because Dean is a real left-wing liberal who is taking over the Democratic party.
The point that Morris made is that most of the country are moderates and this is a post 9/11 world. The US military will be out of Iraq by the election, the economy is picking up and Bush has be very tough on terrorism. Combine the fact the Democrats are viewed as being soft on terrorism (Look at Clinton), the economy is picking up and their won't be any soldiers in Iraq next election spells doom for any left leaning wanna-be president. Like it or not, he is right. Dean will get butchered at the poll next November.
then I hope you vote for yourself. What interest does a rich man have in making other people richer? If you think that republicans want anyone but themselves to be wealthy you're smoking the best crack in the world.
Because wealth creates wealth. The rich man can't sell you a good or service if you can't afford it.
That last line does not make sense. Using your logic this is how the world works; The Republicans want everyone to be rich so they can get their votes. But they don't want them to get to rich because then they would have the power, but that does not matter since the rich are all Republicans anyways.
Either we've got a bunch of idiots for IT guys in the government, or they're bright guys who are battling the bureaucracy and losing. Personally, I think it's somewhere in the middle.
I think you nailed it on the head. I work at a large company that is very bureaucratic and it is absolutely soul crushing. No matter what you want to do or what needs to be done, there is always someone who will undermined you, attack you or make you jump through hoops. You can gain ground, but you will never win.
I completely understand why government agencies never have good computer systems or security. It is just not possible.
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So, you need to ask these questions to yourself and your co-workers:
If you have a stable working enviroment, why change?
Is this move going to be cost effective?
Is the distro I use going to be the proper one?
Why am I really using this distro? If you say, because it is the one I use at home, then you need stop this project right in its tracks.
How easy is it to manage this distro in my enviroment. Running "apt-get upgrade" on 500 servers is not do-able.
Is there proper management software out there for my distro/platform of choice?
Does my software I need even run on my distro/platform of choice?
What about support for my software on my distro/platform of choice?
Can I keep my system software in sync across all servers?
Can I easily manage the distro install process?
Can I trim down the install time?
Can I make the install process automated?
These are just the basic questions you need ask. Don't get stuck on one distro. Be flexable and look around. Redhat or Gentoo or something might be better choices.
You can still see the Simpsons episode where Homer and family goto New York to recover his car parked at the Twin Tower Plaza.
So, no, not every show has given in to "Political Correctness".
While in theory, you are correct, but in practice, this becomes financial suicide. You forgot to include the comedy second option: if eBay doesn't like Craig's decisions, they can pull out: potentially hurting the value of craigslist in future trading.
Well, since CL is not a publicly traded company it can't hurt them. I guess if they started losing money, eBay could loan/give them money if they wanted to. However, that point is moot since CL is a profitable company.
Sure 25 percent may be the minority, but there is nothing minor about it. When a company owns 25% of your company, you do half at least part of what they suggest you do.
No, you don't. The person/company with 51% or more of the stock/interest is the HNIC.
Craig owns 75%, so he has all the say. If eBay does not like this, they can request an election. Oh ya, they'll lose since Craig owns a 75% stake of the company.
Let's stop kidding ourselves on this subject. Yes, there are some legit uses for P2P networks, but let's just admit that 99% of the useage of P2P networks is Porn, MP3's and Warez.
What's lacking: Some features and subsystems not yet coded; limited range of apps; occasional stability issues.
Wow, just glad it's missing the little things that don't matter.
I hear you on this. This is how I get all of my big legit files now. ISO's, Game Demo's and all of the other bandwidth wasters.
You've got to be kidding me. The hardest work I've ever done in my life was done for $6/hour and the easiest was done for $45/hour. In pretty much any society on this blue marble, those that work the hardest are also those who get the least financial reward. And, those who have millions and who 'worked hard' for it may have done so, but not any harder than someone working in a pipe foundry for $10/hour. Those people can work as hard as possible at those jobs and never get any closer to the reward.
Yet, again, we have to explain to the socialists how the world really works.
There is a thing called supply and demand. The reason an unskilled shitty job pays $6/hr is that there are a ton of people lined up to do it. The reason another job pays $45/hr is that there are not many people who can't do it. Do you think the person who pays $45/hr wants to pay $45/hr? Nope, they would rather pay you $6/hr, but they can't because there is a scarcity of labor for the $45/hr job.
It has nothing to do with physical labor. Very few people can NOT do a physical intensive labor job and very few people have the skill set for the $45/hr job.
volunteers who are willing to 'talk chimp' in everyday life.
I do, but they are called "co-workers" where I do.
Hey, don't forget that AstroGlide will send you a free sample too!
This is a bad April 1st joke, that should be NetBSD since it runs on everything.
Block port 25, period. There, you just fixed the problem.
Why any ISP of any kind that lets port 25 traffic go outboung is beyound me. There is no legit use for it and all outbound mail should be handled by the ISP's mail server. No one should be sending mail from client to mailserver. It should be Client -> ISP mailserver -> Other ISP mailserver -> Other Client.
Are you crazy? I don't care much for Bush, but he is absolutely correct on this issue. There is no middle ground when it comes to Terrorism. What he is saying is: "You are are against Terrorism or you are a supporter of Terrorism. There is no middle ground".
For example, some guy down the street wants to kill you and your entire family. This is a bad thing. Now you know this, but you can't find him. You will need help in hunting him down or atleast have people call you when they see him. Now if people know where this guy is and they know he wants to kill you and your entire family and they never call you to tell you where he his is, then they are helping the guy who wants to hurt you. The "We don't want to get involved" arguement does not work. If they don't help you, there is a good chance you and your family will be killed.
Now, Bush could do better in delivering the message, but the arguement is true. You are either a Hunter of Terrorist's, or you are a Terrorist. If the USA falls, it will land on the ashes of Europe.
Yes, but did you see her naked? That's all that matters.
Is this a joke? You can make that much money being a spammer?
No offense people, I but I'm seriously looking at switching careers! I make half that in a year!
I could work less than a single single year and retire. Amazing!
I am playing with the India Monster and they do have a lot of jobs for System Administrators in India. My question is, what part of India do the people not smell?
I know that sounds racist but I really like the Indians (The nicest, friendliest, hardworking people you'll ever meet), but concept of taking a shower everyday has not caught on with them.
Outsourcing is just another sign that America and the West in general needs to get its collective shit together. For too long we have ignored Education and Research. Outsourcing is just another fire under the ass of the West that it has to take these things seriously.
We are going to loose some jobs no matter what. That is a fact, but if we stop bitching about jobs moving over seas and actually took seriously and invested in Education and Research, would not have to worry so much about it. As America's we have gotten lazy and we think we are entitled to high paying tech jobs. Well, break the news to you, we're not and 550 Million Indians under the age 25 are also saying the same thing.
Forget election year protectionism speeches. Just make the average American worker more skilled and educated and less jobs will flow over seas.
That's what it is all about. You heard it here first.
I'll add a bit too.
.45 Cal (1911 most likely). In other words, a fairly powerful hand gun with big bullets, which is not the good choice for home defense. He should step down to a .40 Cal since still get great power, control, and good magazine capacity. .45 tend to be too powerful for home defense and have a low magazine capacity (7 - 9 bullets is common). They are great in combat, but a poor choice in for home defense.
He and I use "safety" rounds for home defense for several reasons. In my case, I use Hydra-Shok's.
1) These are bullets that have to work when there are suppose to work. They have lower failure rates due to being made at stricter tolerences.
2) They don't over-penetrate, all of the enegry is transfered into the target. This is very helpful since you get great stopping power and you don't have a bullet flying through your target on onto something else you did not want to hit. They do penetrate, since that is what bullets are suppose to do.
3) High end personal defense rounds also have lower flash so if you shoot them in the dark, you won't be blinded by the flash. Ammo you use at the gun range is not like this.
Using copper coated bullets at the range is standard practice now a days at all and is manditory in most. When you shoot lead bullets, part of that bullet is vaporized into the air. Since gun ranges can have a lot of people shooting, they tend to have a lot of lead in the air (Which is very bad). With copper bullets you don't have that problem as bad. You still get some nasty stuff in the air, but not enough to hurt you. Also, old gun ranges became a enviromental problem with all the lead in the backstops. Copper coated bullets has more or less has fixed this problem.
One thing I am suprised at is he starts talking about head shots and that crap. Let's face it, you are shooting at a Bad Guy in your house in the middle of the night, you are going to be pissing your pants. Simply put, unless you have had a ton of training, you are not going to hit a guy in the head. Be real and train to shoot people in the chest area. If you miss by 4 or 5 inches (Which is not uncommon in real life stressful situations) you still going to hit the Bad Guy.
Another thing, he says 230 grain load, that would be a
The anti-gun nuts? Yeah, all those psychos alarmed by the widespread, practically unregulated availability of fire-arms, they really scare me. They're nutty, just plain nutty. There oughta be a law.
You are wrong. The possession and ownership of firearms is highly regulated. What else are you forbidden from owning even if you commit a crime that has nothing to do with firearms or violence. Be convicted of felony white colar crime and you can not own or posses a firearm of any kind.
When I bought my last firearm, I had to have a state and federal background check, give a thumb print and wait 10 days. I found buying my two ton car a lot easier and no one checked to see if I was convicted drunk driver either.
Okaaay. I presume you mean the proposed law to prevent men convicted of violent assault against their wifes from obtaining semi-automatics? Do you feel that law might inconvenience you in some way?
Okay, the guy has a violent assault on his record and in most states that means he is not allowed to own or posses firearms.
My question is, why should I be punished for the action of a man who is not obeying the law anyways? If he beats his wife there is a good chance he is not going to obey the firearms law anyway. If the guy is convicted of beating his wife, the government should throw him in jail and not restrict my rights.
If you drink and drive, should I have a breath tester installed in my car? No. You are the criminal, not me.
Laws only effect the law abiding.
Public opinon didn't stop the recent war in Iraq.
Your wrong, public opinon supported the war, atleast here in the US. A bunch of loud mouth whinners is not the American public opinon.
Makes me glad I was born with no musical talent, now I can't get fucked over by the music industry.
I saw that too and your not being honest. The reason he said that is because Dean is a real left-wing liberal who is taking over the Democratic party.
The point that Morris made is that most of the country are moderates and this is a post 9/11 world. The US military will be out of Iraq by the election, the economy is picking up and Bush has be very tough on terrorism. Combine the fact the Democrats are viewed as being soft on terrorism (Look at Clinton), the economy is picking up and their won't be any soldiers in Iraq next election spells doom for any left leaning wanna-be president. Like it or not, he is right. Dean will get butchered at the poll next November.
Because wealth creates wealth. The rich man can't sell you a good or service if you can't afford it.
That last line does not make sense. Using your logic this is how the world works; The Republicans want everyone to be rich so they can get their votes. But they don't want them to get to rich because then they would have the power, but that does not matter since the rich are all Republicans anyways.
I think you nailed it on the head. I work at a large company that is very bureaucratic and it is absolutely soul crushing. No matter what you want to do or what needs to be done, there is always someone who will undermined you, attack you or make you jump through hoops. You can gain ground, but you will never win.
I completely understand why government agencies never have good computer systems or security. It is just not possible.
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On a side note, I was really hoping this guy would have built this thing.