The privacy needs of a business and the privacy needs of a private individual are polar opposites.
Individuals usually want to remain hidden to the general public but not to their circle of friends. A business usually wants maximum exposure to attract customers. That is the whole idea of advertising.
Ditto on the "unstable" part. We have a Rails webserver that usually runs on a server. Once in a while we need to demo this offsite or use it somewhere at a venue where the internet is flaky or expensive. Easy. Use a Linux VM, host on Windows. Youo click on the VM, it starts and it runs and browser goes to the VM instead of online.
With Oracle Virtual Box it was a disaster. Spontaneous reboots, slow, not responsive network. VMWare solved the problem instantly.
That said, I heard that Virtual Box runs better when you use it to host windows on linux istead of the other way around.
I use Parallels on a Mac. It works fine and is much much easier to use than Virtualbox.
Just make sure you have a lot of memory, especially if you want to host Windows 7 or 8. 8 Gb is minimum, on my Hackintosch I have 32 Gb. ALso, more virtual processors is better, so try a i7 with hyperthreading instead of a i5. Remember, you need the resources to run 2 operating systems at the same time. Linux, if run in Terminal mode, is much more lightweight than Windows.
Seagate Momentus XT are hybrid drives in both laptop and desktop form factors. For cases where you can only have one drive, in a notebook, you have no choice.
I have a 750 Gb Momentus XT in my laptop and the performance increase is noticable. And the drive only costs 30$ more then the non-bybrid one. Definitely worth the money.
Ditto one of this kids one mucked up my Macbook so bad I think he must have opened it with a chainsaw. Other than that they are very reliable machines.
I am amazed about the amount of crap a lot of people are talking. Stratfor is a news agency with a specialist focus on geopolitics and security. The Sun is a news agency that specializes on the private lives of celebrities. Any other tabloid crap paper same
Stratfor "gathers intelligence" on things like the economic allot of Fukushima and the politics of the EU or Russia. The Sub "gathers intelligence" on the sex lives of whatever little starlet wants to be in the public today
There is a role to be played by summarizing the news and writing opinion pieces about it. Yes, most of the info is out there, but frankly, it is too much fuss to go and find out all the details. IT like installing a Linux distribution instead of gathering all the packages by hand.
At lead what Stratfor writes about is actually important. It does matter in the long run to my life if the EU dies off because of the Greek Crisis. It does NOT matter anything to me if Angelina Jolie fucked her neighbors cat yesterday.
Stratfor blowing themselves up as a "global intelligence" org is a bit of marketing bluff, I would agree with that, but they do provide a useful service and their commentary is actually rather intelligent. They also tend to be very politically incorrect and have no qualms about stepping on toes. Maybe their output is not useful if you are an actual professional intelligence agent in the CIA, but for a average joe like me who has a more than passing interest in the working of the world they are useful and worth the money.
The fact that Assange and the stupid hacker whack jobs from Anonymous think that they are doing the world a favor by committing "justice" is really a little stupid. Justice is not served by a nameless faceless kangaroo court run by a bunch of pimply teenagers in their mothers basements, which is what anonymous is. Justice is served by public discussions in a court within the rule of law. THAT is main breakthrough of the West, not democracy. RUle of law. And anonymous does not know anything about that. Rule of law has structures,processes and is conducted in the open, by courts and the free press. Stratfor is part of a free press. By destroying their archives Anonymous is not exactly fostering that.
Stratfor has some negative opinion pieces about Assange (claiming that his work has little meaning in the wider world and that he is a self-serving jerk because HE refuses to release secret info about his OWN organization) and that anonymous is a stupid faceless mob rule setup. That is why they got whacked. And they DO have a right to their opinion, whether anonymous likes it or not.
I have a hotshot hacker working for me right now who thinks he knows everything, but he is just a stupid little hacker who thinks his dick grows every time he uses vi. Don't be like that.
You are already on the right path: You recognized in yourself that you need to grow professionally and that you need to get away from the little dark screen and see how it fits into the world.
Three points: * See the first for the trees * Have the balls to say "I don't know" * Education, education, education
Here is the most important thing to remember: A hacker sees his own little thing that he hacks on. An engineer see how that thing fits into the world and people who uses it. See the forest that your little tree grows in.
All companies and industries have standards, habits and a culture that it uses and the people are almost always NOT used to or interested in the little details that fascinate a hacker.The people out there will not change their entire culture to fit your hacking needs. The job of any technology and the engineers that build it is to facilitate the and simplify the lives of other people.
Professionality means that you take responsibility for your work. That includes taking responsibility for the interface to the users.
Read this: The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers (http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/programming/9780132542913)
Number two: You cannot know everything. Accept it.
There is nothing wrong with expanding your horizons and going past your field, but when you are in a terrain where you are uncomfortable make sure your peers know it and make sure you have a mentor and listen to him. Or delegate to an expert. People will have a much higher esteem for you professionally if you have the balls to say "I don't know" instead of lying. It can be hard sometimes, but it beats being known as an arrogant little know-it-all.
Point number three: Education, education, education. Always assume you know nothing. Read up about your industry outside of the computer part. Computers are just a tool to make the gears turn. You will be a much better engineer if you know what the gears look like.
Good luck. You already took the first step and you will make it.
Here is a very fine example of an supernova in another galaxy that is visible from earth, but modulating this to carry information would be somewhat challenging.
No, the Voyager probes transmit at 23 Watts, which is basically nothing. The entire power system on the craft can generate about 250 Watts, which is used for all the systems. The fact that Nasa can track an object transmitting half the power of a lightbulb 11 billion km away to very fine precision is absolutely the most amazing thing they ever did in the space program IMHO.
How many times do you use a command line (or even see one) on any of these in normal use...?...about the same as in Windows... i.e. never...
On my Mac i Use the command line every day, most of the time. I sometimes write word documents with a bash script (actually, using Word on a mac with data from a database is a Great way of publishing things, because someone who knows Word can do the final processing and layout).
I use the command line on the Mac to do image processing and a lot of other things too. BUT I refuse to use Linux as a desktop GUI because they cannot even get a font to render priorly and because some things MUSt be done is a GUI and there are no good programs for that in Linux. If you can use a command line AND a Gui to do your work you will find a lot of productivity increase. And for that, MacOS/X is pretty much the only game in town.
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Right, so during your stunt in the bathroom, was the laptop on her back?
Plumbers are the ones with the lead pipes, so be careful what you say, punk!
The privacy needs of a business and the privacy needs of a private individual are polar opposites.
Individuals usually want to remain hidden to the general public but not to their circle of friends.
A business usually wants maximum exposure to attract customers. That is the whole idea of advertising.
Ditto on the "unstable" part. We have a Rails webserver that usually runs on a server. Once in a while we need to demo this offsite or use it somewhere at a venue where the internet is flaky or expensive. Easy. Use a Linux VM, host on Windows. Youo click on the VM, it starts and it runs and browser goes to the VM instead of online.
With Oracle Virtual Box it was a disaster. Spontaneous reboots, slow, not responsive network. VMWare solved the problem instantly.
That said, I heard that Virtual Box runs better when you use it to host windows on linux istead of the other way around.
I use Parallels on a Mac. It works fine and is much much easier to use than Virtualbox.
Just make sure you have a lot of memory, especially if you want to host Windows 7 or 8. 8 Gb is minimum, on my Hackintosch I have 32 Gb. ALso, more virtual processors is better, so try a i7 with hyperthreading instead of a i5. Remember, you need the resources to run 2 operating systems at the same time. Linux, if run in Terminal mode, is much more lightweight than Windows.
The rest of us jerk off to pictures of girls instead of conspiracy theories. Try it one day!
If you think some brand name beige Linux box is going to replace a nonstop system do yourself a favour and come out of mom's basement.
Nonstop actually means what they say.
No. Stops.
Period.
KDE's office suite reached the point where Excel and Word were in 1995! Great!
Seagate Momentus XT are hybrid drives in both laptop and desktop form factors. For cases where you can only have one drive, in a notebook, you have no choice.
I have a 750 Gb Momentus XT in my laptop and the performance increase is noticable. And the drive only costs 30$ more then the non-bybrid one. Definitely worth the money.
Ditto one of this kids one mucked up my Macbook so bad I think he must have opened it with a chainsaw.
Other than that they are very reliable machines.
Nuff said
Well, having actually once seen RMS in action in the living flesh, I can assure you that 'nutcase' is not far off the mark
Sounds like a great job. Where can I apply? How much do they pay?
Scary. Best counterexample I can think of!
I am amazed about the amount of crap a lot of people are talking. Stratfor is a news agency with a specialist focus on geopolitics and security.
The Sun is a news agency that specializes on the private lives of celebrities. Any other tabloid crap paper same
Stratfor "gathers intelligence" on things like the economic allot of Fukushima and the politics of the EU or Russia.
The Sub "gathers intelligence" on the sex lives of whatever little starlet wants to be in the public today
There is a role to be played by summarizing the news and writing opinion pieces about it. Yes, most of the info is out there, but frankly, it is too much fuss to go and find out all the details. IT like installing a Linux distribution instead of gathering all the packages by hand.
At lead what Stratfor writes about is actually important. It does matter in the long run to my life if the EU dies off because of the Greek Crisis. It does NOT matter anything to me if Angelina Jolie fucked her neighbors cat yesterday.
Stratfor blowing themselves up as a "global intelligence" org is a bit of marketing bluff, I would agree with that, but they do provide a useful service and their commentary is actually rather intelligent. They also tend to be very politically incorrect and have no qualms about stepping on toes. Maybe their output is not useful if you are an actual professional intelligence agent in the CIA, but for a average joe like me who has a more than passing interest in the working of the world they are useful and worth the money.
The fact that Assange and the stupid hacker whack jobs from Anonymous think that they are doing the world a favor by committing "justice" is really a little stupid. Justice is not served by a nameless faceless kangaroo court run by a bunch of pimply teenagers in their mothers basements, which is what anonymous is. Justice is served by public discussions in a court within the rule of law. THAT is main breakthrough of the West, not democracy. RUle of law. And anonymous does not know anything about that. Rule of law has structures,processes and is conducted in the open, by courts and the free press. Stratfor is part of a free press. By destroying their archives Anonymous is not exactly fostering that.
Stratfor has some negative opinion pieces about Assange (claiming that his work has little meaning in the wider world and that he is a self-serving jerk because HE refuses to release secret info about his OWN organization) and that anonymous is a stupid faceless mob rule setup. That is why they got whacked. And they DO have a right to their opinion, whether anonymous likes it or not.
Liquid He antimatter droplets would do just fine.
a) NaCL does not decompose to HF Gas when exposed to moisture, and HydroFluoric Acid is VERY corrosive
b) NaCl is not radioactive
Ain't the same hazard level here.
I cannot say it better than Rands himself: "In Software Engineering, the Process is the Product"
Read Rands in Repose.
Maybe I should have said "his dick grows whenever he uses a command line and a green screen instead of a GUI"
Here is the rule to remember for hackers: Form vs Function is not a zero sum game.
Also read The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers
> The biggest problem most techs face is their own arrogance.
Bingo. Don't look down on your peers. You are not better than them just because you like vi.
I have a hotshot hacker working for me right now who thinks he knows everything, but he is just a stupid little hacker who thinks his dick grows every time he uses vi. Don't be like that.
You are already on the right path: You recognized in yourself that you need to grow professionally and that you need to get away from the little dark screen and see how it fits into the world.
Three points:
* See the first for the trees
* Have the balls to say "I don't know"
* Education, education, education
Here is the most important thing to remember: A hacker sees his own little thing that he hacks on. An engineer see how that thing fits into the world and people who uses it. See the forest that your little tree grows in.
All companies and industries have standards, habits and a culture that it uses and the people are almost always NOT used to or interested in the little details that fascinate a hacker.The people out there will not change their entire culture to fit your hacking needs. The job of any technology and the engineers that build it is to facilitate the and simplify the lives of other people.
Professionality means that you take responsibility for your work. That includes taking responsibility for the interface to the users.
Read this:
The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers (http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/programming/9780132542913)
Number two: You cannot know everything. Accept it.
There is nothing wrong with expanding your horizons and going past your field, but when you are in a terrain where you are uncomfortable make sure your peers know it and make sure you have a mentor and listen to him. Or delegate to an expert. People will have a much higher esteem for you professionally if you have the balls to say "I don't know" instead of lying. It can be hard sometimes, but it beats being known as an arrogant little know-it-all.
Point number three: Education, education, education. Always assume you know nothing. Read up about your industry outside of the computer part. Computers are just a tool to make the gears turn. You will be a much better engineer if you know what the gears look like.
Good luck. You already took the first step and you will make it.
Here is a very fine example of an supernova in another galaxy that is visible from earth, but modulating this to carry information would be somewhat challenging.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/SN1994D.jpg/600px-SN1994D.jpg
That is one beautiful pic though.
No, the Voyager probes transmit at 23 Watts, which is basically nothing. The entire power system on the craft can generate about 250 Watts, which is used for all the systems. The fact that Nasa can track an object transmitting half the power of a lightbulb 11 billion km away to very fine precision is absolutely the most amazing thing they ever did in the space program IMHO.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/question431.htm
Sorry to be hard mate but ... "I think the future will boost this to 90%".
You think? Based on what evidence? You fantasy and desire to meet exotic aliens do not count.
Science is about using evidence to make predictions.
How many times do you use a command line (or even see one) on any of these in normal use ...? ...about the same as in Windows ... i.e. never ...
On my Mac i Use the command line every day, most of the time. I sometimes write word documents with a bash script (actually, using Word on a mac with data from a database is a Great way of publishing things, because someone who knows Word can do the final processing and layout).
I use the command line on the Mac to do image processing and a lot of other things too. BUT I refuse to use Linux as a desktop GUI because they cannot even get a font to render priorly and because some things MUSt be done is a GUI and there are no good programs for that in Linux. If you can use a command line AND a Gui to do your work you will find a lot of productivity increase. And for that, MacOS/X is pretty much the only game in town.