I work for a Large US Bank, and our VPN is outsourced to AT&T, who subcontracts it to some (apparently) 5 man shop in Middle America somewhere. It sucks. It blows. I can't articulate how lame these people are. Problems? Sorry, we're a time zone away, so we're not here. Need something changed? Well, we'll TRY and get in remotely, but in case, can you have someone onsite reboot our box? Buy a bunch of Netscreen firewalls. Get a permanent IP connection. Set up IPSEC tunnels; click, enter preshared key, click, click, done. Profit. It just works.
Except that it's still funny. And you, Mr AC, are the one who threw the AOLisms into the discussion. _I_ on the other hand, made a witty 'sed' grammar joke.
We all know that OSX is a BSD derivative. We know it has a slick GUI. We know that you can open a bash prompt, and run Apache. Um, we've known this all for years. Despite its title as a book review, isn't this just another Apple-pimping slashvertisement?
For people at any sane shop. I have local Admin rights on my laptop, as I need to install s/w. As a result, I have disabled much of the IT spyware that your profile loads. The result? When AD blows up, or Novell NDS-AD bridge goes down, I can still get on locally. The fact that you speak so readily of needing to "go with the flow" and wistfully of the "Aeron chairs" and "foosball" table tell me that your experience was markedly different, perhaps due to our differing skillsets and attitudes. Sorry for your loss.
Just install it anyway. There's no way that they can tell you're using it, unless they're looking over your shoulder. Any admin who would say this, wouldn't know to transparently proxy HTTP traffic and inspect the logs, or have 'remote asset tracking' spy^H^Hoftware on your system worth a damn.
They came around with a tray full of syringes loaded with novacaine, to numb the area before they put the big blood-drawing needle in. PS. I am an American, so I use the word 'shot'
If this is the same NHS that wastes money on novacaine shots for people donating blood, who, after you donate, suggest that you go drink some caffeine, and if you have a non-life-threatening problem (ingrown toenail), you get bumped FOR YEARS waiting for surgery? I was there, I paid for it, I have the NHS card to prove it. And it sucks.
Pat is one of the heros of the Linux movement, like Donald Becker, or Andre Hedrick, people without whom running linux would be an impossible task. Pat, good luck, hang in there!
Test, and Production. Build a linux box, give yourself root, do all your play work there. When its time to make real changes, in 1 shot, ask the SA to do whatever you need (upgrade PHP to version foo, edit config file bar, etc). They're more likely to do it if you don't nickel and dime them every day for little stuff. Plus, you have the added bonus of not fscking up your main, real, this-is-your-paycheck website doing test work.
Whats the "killer app" for television? People call you a tinfoil hatter if you refer to the story of 1984, or Fahrenheit 454, where everything was on wallscreens, and the populace was reduced to essentially mindless consumers of pretty pictures. But then they go home and watch hours upon hours of TV. Here's a hint - go read a book, a dead-tree book, that ain't DRM'd. Walk you dog. Make love to your spouse. Paint. Hike. Sleep. Don't be a consumer of stimuli, chart your own course. For the $2000 you could spend on this, take a 2 week vacation on a tropical island. You'll remember that long after your TV dies, or the ??AA declares it illegal NOT to watch commercials.
Computers are complicated. Even the Borg don't have their autoupdate stuff working properly, and they have $$$ to spend on it. Computers are complicated. They are not your toaster oven, microwave, or VCR, which is likely to be still blinking 12:00. They are not your (modern) car, where you turn the key and it "just goes". They are more like your old car, where you had manual choke, points-based distributor, and vacuum-powered windshield wipers. Computers are complicated. Just because Jean-Luc Picard can tell the Enterprise computer to do something, doesn't mean that you can speak to your mouse and create transparent aluminum. Computers are complicated. Are you beginning to see a theme here?
People who stare at bright lights for 8+ hours per day without blinking frequently or changing their focus are more likely to have glaucoma. Do I get a +1, Insightful?
"warm" sound - let me guess, for the times when you MUST listen to a CD, you put green marker on the outside to reduce jitter? Are you a gentoo user too? This just just more Rice
What is this, Kuro5hin? If you create something, it is yours. If individuals, acting in the name of The Public, choose to steal that which you've created, thats another matter. But you don't keep what is your creation by permission, you retain it untill it is stolen.
SMTP headers can be forged. Windows machines can be 0wn3d. Any Tom, Dick, or Vladimir can set up a rogue SMTP server, claim to be Yahoo! mail, and start spewing email. You can't nail someone to the wall until you have a means to prove that they did what you claim.
Intel's PAE is, by all accounts, a performance-killing kludge. If you need more than 4G, go to a real processor, not some 'paging' scheme which brings us back to the old DOS EMM386 days, only with larger amounts of memory.
Those who will demand work of you know less than you do, and have less desire to keep current. Thus, by definition, you will always be smarter than your employer - a crucial fact which will keep you employed. Its nice to think that you could keep up, but you can't. But don't worry, it doesn't matter anyway.
Let the OS do the work. Add RAM. Have an Intel x86 box? Push it to 4G. Need more, go Opteron and push it to 8G. Trust in the filesystem buffering algorithms, and the speed of your system CPU(s), instead of the limp CPU and dinky cache on your RAID controller. And get a UPS. If your data set is large, dump the RAID5 and go RAID 0+1.
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I work for a Large US Bank, and our VPN is outsourced to AT&T, who subcontracts it to some (apparently) 5 man shop in Middle America somewhere. It sucks. It blows. I can't articulate how lame these people are. Problems? Sorry, we're a time zone away, so we're not here. Need something changed? Well, we'll TRY and get in remotely, but in case, can you have someone onsite reboot our box?
Buy a bunch of Netscreen firewalls. Get a permanent IP connection. Set up IPSEC tunnels; click, enter preshared key, click, click, done. Profit. It just works.
Except that it's still funny. And you, Mr AC, are the one who threw the AOLisms into the discussion. _I_ on the other hand, made a witty 'sed' grammar joke.
I read s/Phonographic/Pornographic, time to shut the computer off and go outside, I think.
We all know that OSX is a BSD derivative. We know it has a slick GUI. We know that you can open a bash prompt, and run Apache. Um, we've known this all for years. Despite its title as a book review, isn't this just another Apple-pimping slashvertisement?
For people at any sane shop. I have local Admin rights on my laptop, as I need to install s/w. As a result, I have disabled much of the IT spyware that your profile loads. The result? When AD blows up, or Novell NDS-AD bridge goes down, I can still get on locally. The fact that you speak so readily of needing to "go with the flow" and wistfully of the "Aeron chairs" and "foosball" table tell me that your experience was markedly different, perhaps due to our differing skillsets and attitudes. Sorry for your loss.
Just install it anyway. There's no way that they can tell you're using it, unless they're looking over your shoulder. Any admin who would say this, wouldn't know to transparently proxy HTTP traffic and inspect the logs, or have 'remote asset tracking' spy^H^Hoftware on your system worth a damn.
And stop using your faggot clown powers.
Edinburgh, Scotland, 1995.
They came around with a tray full of syringes loaded with novacaine, to numb the area before they put the big blood-drawing needle in.
PS. I am an American, so I use the word 'shot'
If this is the same NHS that wastes money on novacaine shots for people donating blood, who, after you donate, suggest that you go drink some caffeine, and if you have a non-life-threatening problem (ingrown toenail), you get bumped FOR YEARS waiting for surgery? I was there, I paid for it, I have the NHS card to prove it. And it sucks.
RTFP, and RTFOriginalP, he wasn't self medicating. How can you get prescription antibiotics w/o consulting a doctor? Estupido..
Pat is one of the heros of the Linux movement, like Donald Becker, or Andre Hedrick, people without whom running linux would be an impossible task. Pat, good luck, hang in there!
Insert obligatory "US is teh suck, Europe is the coolest" troll here. (Yeah, if you want to be first in taxation, Statism, and irrationality)
Rotate (if you must) and crop, before doing all the other stuff - why process the data that you're going to crop out?
Test, and Production. Build a linux box, give yourself root, do all your play work there. When its time to make real changes, in 1 shot, ask the SA to do whatever you need (upgrade PHP to version foo, edit config file bar, etc). They're more likely to do it if you don't nickel and dime them every day for little stuff. Plus, you have the added bonus of not fscking up your main, real, this-is-your-paycheck website doing test work.
Whats the "killer app" for television? People call you a tinfoil hatter if you refer to the story of 1984, or Fahrenheit 454, where everything was on wallscreens, and the populace was reduced to essentially mindless consumers of pretty pictures. But then they go home and watch hours upon hours of TV. Here's a hint - go read a book, a dead-tree book, that ain't DRM'd. Walk you dog. Make love to your spouse. Paint. Hike. Sleep. Don't be a consumer of stimuli, chart your own course. For the $2000 you could spend on this, take a 2 week vacation on a tropical island. You'll remember that long after your TV dies, or the ??AA declares it illegal NOT to watch commercials.
Computers are complicated. Even the Borg don't have their autoupdate stuff working properly, and they have $$$ to spend on it. Computers are complicated. They are not your toaster oven, microwave, or VCR, which is likely to be still blinking 12:00. They are not your (modern) car, where you turn the key and it "just goes". They are more like your old car, where you had manual choke, points-based distributor, and vacuum-powered windshield wipers. Computers are complicated. Just because Jean-Luc Picard can tell the Enterprise computer to do something, doesn't mean that you can speak to your mouse and create transparent aluminum. Computers are complicated. Are you beginning to see a theme here?
Since we have access to the Mainframe.
People who stare at bright lights for 8+ hours per day without blinking frequently or changing their focus are more likely to have glaucoma. Do I get a +1, Insightful?
"warm" sound - let me guess, for the times when you MUST listen to a CD, you put green marker on the outside to reduce jitter? Are you a gentoo user too? This just just more Rice
What is this, Kuro5hin? If you create something, it is yours. If individuals, acting in the name of The Public, choose to steal that which you've created, thats another matter. But you don't keep what is your creation by permission, you retain it untill it is stolen.
SMTP headers can be forged. Windows machines can be 0wn3d. Any Tom, Dick, or Vladimir can set up a rogue SMTP server, claim to be Yahoo! mail, and start spewing email.
You can't nail someone to the wall until you have a means to prove that they did what you claim.
Intel's PAE is, by all accounts, a performance-killing kludge. If you need more than 4G, go to a real processor, not some 'paging' scheme which brings us back to the old DOS EMM386 days, only with larger amounts of memory.
Those who will demand work of you know less than you do, and have less desire to keep current. Thus, by definition, you will always be smarter than your employer - a crucial fact which will keep you employed. Its nice to think that you could keep up, but you can't. But don't worry, it doesn't matter anyway.
Let the OS do the work. Add RAM. Have an Intel x86 box? Push it to 4G. Need more, go Opteron and push it to 8G. Trust in the filesystem buffering algorithms, and the speed of your system CPU(s), instead of the limp CPU and dinky cache on your RAID controller. And get a UPS. If your data set is large, dump the RAID5 and go RAID 0+1.