The status quo is fine with me - I know they either:
1) Have no good reason (We Flipped A Coin), which they might admit So, try, try again.
2) Have an obvious, uncontrollable reason (You Don't Have n Years Experience), which they will probably admit Then bitch about it to your friends and move on. Feel better in that someone with n years experience may suck at the job and they may be stuck with that guy instead. Experience is really subjective - when they treat it objectively they lose out as much as you do. A good idea would be to better convince the next people that you learned/know a lot from your limited previous experience. Try to have them drill you on some things an experienced person would know; if I were looking for a job right now I would _request_ that.
2) Have an obvious, controllable reason (You Don't Have AIX Experience), which they will probably admit Then apply for a job that doesn't have it as a requirement. Also look it up on the net and familiarize yourself with it without actual job experience. Don't claim that you have experience, but that you are familiar/interested and willing to learn.
3) Have an outside, uncontrollable reason (We Lost The Funding), which they will probably admit Try, try again.
4) Equivocate or Delay Assume one of the previous three and move on. Really, if someone can't/won't be straight with you, what advice can they really offer? Make sure you don't have BO or (which happened to me as interviewer) _steal something off their desk_ or show up high.
I had the pleasure of having all four responses about a year ago, then I got a job and got promoted within a year. In fact, I got #2 from the company I currently work for, for applying to the position I have now.
Also keep in mind that employers often will inflate experience needed in the post to provide legal cover (with 5yr, they can hire a 3yr they like but can refuse a 4yr they don't). It's hard not to take the 'you might be a n00b' personally but you shouldn't.
If you don't want to work there, who cares about that? Just get your computer stuff in order before you resign - assume they'll cut you off. If your job was anything like mine was, the silence is a comfort.
Take it as a complement. Whether they think you're disgruntled or not - they certainly think you're capable. Just go home (you should be able to), and watch some shitty daytime TV.
I'm currently at month 4 of unemployment - It's been close a few times but don't quite have the magical five years experience that gets my foot in the door.
> Keep 2 months salary socked away and your resume updated. Really. It is amazing how fast a good job can go downhill or disappear.
I second that - the F. you money. It helps a lot if they beat you to the punch (in my case) and it becomes "i'm F.ed" money.
If a Washington state judge issues a restraining order, it fizzles as soon as the employee crosses the border. It would need to be a federal case if it were to encompass both states (which I'd still put my money on the employee for that one), or in California.
California's law only matters. Microsoft is asking to enforce a Washington contract in California/China - if he works in California, then Microsoft would have to sue in California to enforce the contract. Because of the aforementioned law, the contract is illegal and can not be enforced by the court.
But the bottom line, non-compete agreements should be illegal everywhere. If you sign an employment contract, cross it out and inital it. If they won't accept the amended offer, walk away.
just stating the obvious. I was quite grey hat in high school; one time i was being set up with porn in my network drive - right click, go to properties (Novell, btw), hey, look, i'm not the file owner! You might want to talk to this guy!
I may have tested some security myself, but just for curiosity. I certainly never gave any n00bs the password (actually, a password unlocking application) - that's how to get caught. Same goes with bragging.
Actually did a little consulting work later in life when a teacher showed me the new iBooks they were getting. Two minutes later: here's the root password hash. Lock down OpenFirmware, thanks.
It's almost always pride/confidence that ends up in big hacks, whether 'I set Novell to allow execute, but not copy' or 'I used two numbers in the password - it's _unbreakable_', or the worst: '[vendor] told me it's [bulletproof/_foolproof_/hax0rproof]'
The news.com article takes it out of context - the finding is that the existence of an encryption program is relevant. Not damning, not exonerating, just relevant - and personally I'm of the belief that encryption software is a relevant issue when digital kiddie porn is the subject. This does nothing to tie encryption with conviction - as shown by the opinion that encryption was not very substantive to the case against him.
This is not a precedent, for many, many reasons./MN resident
Some people do, some people don't. Some people pretend to, but don't; some people pretend not to, but do.
I was watching a movie where the protagonist needs a bunch of data and gets 'access denied'. I loudly declared that was a huge reason to get on the good side of your sysadmin.
July 29th, 2005 - www.sysadminday.com.
None of my users observed it last year - if you want a quantification.
(Internet downloads) But they aren't 'goods'. Goods by definition are tangible. Downloads are not tangible.
Gasoline is tangible. Gasoline is stored energy. You are buying stored energy whenever you buy gasoline.
You pay sales taxes on the other stuff for your car because they are goods. Tires are definitely tangible.
What they want is for the same tax to apply to something you bought over the internet and had shipped on a CD as something you bought on the internet and got shipped to you over the internet itself.
Zero?
It's not as crazy as it first sounds.
Sorry, it sounds stupid, not crazy. Legalizing shooting feral cats (won't SOMEBODY think of the birds?); now _that's_ crazy.
But this isn't mathematics, where all you need to make a discovery is a blackboard.
50 years ago, maybe - have you been to a math department lately?
Also, mathematics and pharma research are collaborating: 'biomathematics'. It's the new hotness where I work.
The universities just can't afford it.
We're talking about patents: The university discovers and develops the drug (does the testing trials, the biological research), and then licenses the patent to a pharma company.
C'mon OpenLDAP is not that hard. We went from flatfile distribution to LDAP in about two months with only me working on it. There are migrations scripts and hints all over the place. Linux and Mac OS X both draw from it, so far. 197 machines so far. It (LDAP) is extensible and easy to program for, and I'm integrating a whole bunch of other things into it (like, kickstart files, last install dates?)
If you're going to use a directory service, you should know what you're doing, and not be afraid of a little customization. If your directory-serving daemon dies or corrupts something, the easiest tool GUI in the world won't help. So many people have different setups and requirements, you couln't have an out-of-the-box anything on linux. You can have NFS/CIFS/AFS, LDAP/Kerberos+LDAP/NIS/FLAT setups - how could you turn those into a common out-of-the-box solution?
Microsoft uses both Kerberos and OpenLDAP for directory stuff - they just mask it with easy-to-use tools. If you know the schema a little bit, you can use something like LDAP Browser in linux.
I'm setting up a new RHEL 4 server with OpenLDAP+Kerberos. From what is looks, Kerberos is easier to administer then OpenLDAP (made a framework in a few minutes) - I'm pretty hopeful.
Since RHEL supports NFSv4, we should be moving to that soon (Fedora desktops) - not going to hold my breath for Mac OS X to catch up, though.
When I was a senior, a tech company 'volunteered' to install a fingerprinting system for checking out books - the idea is that you have the librarian scan every book, you swipe your fingerprint in the reader, and you're off. It replaced good ol' barcode on the back of our (photo) student IDs (which we were supposed to carry always).
I happened to be in the library during the time that the system was launched, the suits there and all. I walked by, wanting to check a book out and they asked me whether I wanted to test drive this awesome new fingerprinting technology, and I said no to their face (the look was priceless). I graduated soon after and didn't look back, but I found out that all the fingerprints, in BMP form, were stored on an unpatched, networked windows PC in the library. (Oh, the fun I could have had; I could have delivered the fingerprints to the principal Veronica-Mars-style [flippantly] and gotten away with it too)
I don't have a problem with submitting my fingerprint as part of the moral character application to the bar, but for checking out a frigging research book at school?
Anyway, I also heard that they got rid of that later, because kids didn't want to use it. I'm all for phasing out shitty security-dangerous technology de facto.
Better yet, WAAS points or their equivalent. It takes seconds to get a GPS lock where I live because of the close, close airport (it took hours before WAAS support).
No it doesn't. If you can have the same web browser on both platforms, would logically that encourage or discourage someone to explore the other platform?
If Microsoft Office was out for linux, many of the people that can justify not moving to linux can no longer justify it. The less Windows-only applications being used, the less Windows-only environments.
The software: http://www.digitalnetworksna.com/suppor t/rio/produ ct.asp?prodID=113
Yes, you can use it for other files - you have to use rio taxi (included on the device's webserver). I'm not sure if you can use it that way with USB, but they're promising it or something like it (USB mass storage standard) for the next firmware release.
The battery life is good - I can have the Karma on during the entire work day (8h+) - and I use OGG and the equalizer pretty heavily (MP3s and no equalizer -> more battery life).
The hard drive inside is a standard laptop ATA - I connected it to a computer and imaged it for backup - should the drive ever fail (hasn't happened yet after 6 months and maybe 5 drops).
How about ex post facto applying for this case. If the ruling body had made the law that they want to try Jon under _after_ DeCSS was written, it stands to reason that the law should not be able to apply to him.
Well, IANAL, (definitely IANANL), but IWLOF (I Watch Law and Order Frequently).
Also have a bit of opposite information -- an automatic raise (that was documented) that I *should've* had months ago seems to be 'lost in the system', so when 'pay increases are actually at reasonable levels', i respectfully do not concur.
I also disagree that our jobs are 'as stable as ever' -- it sounds like someone is interviewing the people kept employed because they were the only ones who knew the system.
Of course, I'm kidding about regretting resigning today -- I regret not resigning earlier.
Don't forget the Fridley store, either -- from Minneapolis, follow Central Ave. and continue on Hwy 65, turn onto E. Moore Lk. Dr, it's in the shopping center. I'm usually there once a week (it's right between my work and home), walking around like a zombie, thinking about some electronics project.
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The status quo is fine with me - I know they either:
1) Have no good reason (We Flipped A Coin), which they might admit
So, try, try again.
2) Have an obvious, uncontrollable reason (You Don't Have n Years Experience), which they will probably admit
Then bitch about it to your friends and move on. Feel better in that someone with n years experience may suck at the job and they may be stuck with that guy instead. Experience is really subjective - when they treat it objectively they lose out as much as you do. A good idea would be to better convince the next people that you learned/know a lot from your limited previous experience. Try to have them drill you on some things an experienced person would know; if I were looking for a job right now I would _request_ that.
2) Have an obvious, controllable reason (You Don't Have AIX Experience), which they will probably admit
Then apply for a job that doesn't have it as a requirement. Also look it up on the net and familiarize yourself with it without actual job experience. Don't claim that you have experience, but that you are familiar/interested and willing to learn.
3) Have an outside, uncontrollable reason (We Lost The Funding), which they will probably admit
Try, try again.
4) Equivocate or Delay
Assume one of the previous three and move on. Really, if someone can't/won't be straight with you, what advice can they really offer? Make sure you don't have BO or (which happened to me as interviewer) _steal something off their desk_ or show up high.
I had the pleasure of having all four responses about a year ago, then I got a job and got promoted within a year. In fact, I got #2 from the company I currently work for, for applying to the position I have now.
Also keep in mind that employers often will inflate experience needed in the post to provide legal cover (with 5yr, they can hire a 3yr they like but can refuse a 4yr they don't). It's hard not to take the 'you might be a n00b' personally but you shouldn't.
-Dave
I'm sure Jimmy Hoffa is alive and well...
I've watched enough lawyer-based TV shows to know that unless he hires James Spader or Woods he's pretty much screwed.
Should the FSF buy it? How many pennies are we talking about here?
If you don't want to work there, who cares about that? Just get your computer stuff in order before you resign - assume they'll cut you off. If your job was anything like mine was, the silence is a comfort.
Take it as a complement. Whether they think you're disgruntled or not - they certainly think you're capable. Just go home (you should be able to), and watch some shitty daytime TV.
I'm currently at month 4 of unemployment - It's been close a few times but don't quite have the magical five years experience that gets my foot in the door.
> Keep 2 months salary socked away and your resume updated. Really. It is amazing how fast a good job can go downhill or disappear.
I second that - the F. you money. It helps a lot if they beat you to the punch (in my case) and it becomes "i'm F.ed" money.
If a Washington state judge issues a restraining order, it fizzles as soon as the employee crosses the border. It would need to be a federal case if it were to encompass both states (which I'd still put my money on the employee for that one), or in California.
California's law only matters. Microsoft is asking to enforce a Washington contract in California/China - if he works in California, then Microsoft would have to sue in California to enforce the contract. Because of the aforementioned law, the contract is illegal and can not be enforced by the court.
But the bottom line, non-compete agreements should be illegal everywhere. If you sign an employment contract, cross it out and inital it. If they won't accept the amended offer, walk away.
just stating the obvious. I was quite grey hat in high school; one time i was being set up with porn in my network drive - right click, go to properties (Novell, btw), hey, look, i'm not the file owner! You might want to talk to this guy!
I may have tested some security myself, but just for curiosity. I certainly never gave any n00bs the password (actually, a password unlocking application) - that's how to get caught. Same goes with bragging.
Actually did a little consulting work later in life when a teacher showed me the new iBooks they were getting. Two minutes later: here's the root password hash. Lock down OpenFirmware, thanks.
It's almost always pride/confidence that ends up in big hacks, whether 'I set Novell to allow execute, but not copy' or 'I used two numbers in the password - it's _unbreakable_', or the worst: '[vendor] told me it's [bulletproof/_foolproof_/hax0rproof]'
(copied from my post to a list)c ourt=mn&vol=apppub/0505/opa040381-0503&invol=1
/MN resident
//knows what the hell he's talking about
First, read the opinion before the paranoia/speculation:
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?
The news.com article takes it out of context - the finding is that the
existence of an encryption program is relevant. Not damning, not
exonerating, just relevant - and personally I'm of the belief that encryption
software is a relevant issue when digital kiddie porn is the subject. This
does nothing to tie encryption with conviction - as shown by the opinion that
encryption was not very substantive to the case against him.
This is not a precedent, for many, many reasons.
Clearly not enough.
What, you wanted me to actually quantify it?
Some people do, some people don't. Some people pretend to, but don't; some people pretend not to, but do.
I was watching a movie where the protagonist needs a bunch of data and gets 'access denied'. I loudly declared that was a huge reason to get on the good side of your sysadmin.
July 29th, 2005 - www.sysadminday.com.
None of my users observed it last year - if you want a quantification.
Big difference (not saying that either of them are right):
P2P downloaders don't make any money off of their downloads (usually).
CherryOS makes money off of their violation.
It wouldn't be like stealing music over P2P, it would be like stealing music over P2P, burning it to CDs and selling them with markup.
http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/metcalfe.pdf
_NOT_ Southwest Missouri State U - UMN Digital Technology Center (400 feet away?).
Metcalfe's Law is at SMSU, not the refutation (we want the credit for the slashdot, thanks)
I'm thanking my lucky stars he didn't host the paper on his math account...
Plenty of dice, AC:
(Internet downloads) But they aren't 'goods'. Goods by definition are tangible. Downloads are not tangible.
Gasoline is tangible. Gasoline is stored energy. You are buying stored energy whenever you buy gasoline.
You pay sales taxes on the other stuff for your car because they are goods. Tires are definitely tangible.
What they want is for the same tax to apply to something you bought over the internet and had shipped on a CD as something you bought on the internet and got shipped to you over the internet itself.
Zero?
It's not as crazy as it first sounds.
Sorry, it sounds stupid, not crazy. Legalizing shooting feral cats (won't SOMEBODY think of the birds?); now _that's_ crazy.
It's _also_ stupid because it's obvious double taxation:
1) You pay a company for broadband, and you pay the gov't taxes for that
2) You pay the gov't for the only use of broadband
'Creative' taxes are dumb. This coming from a state (MN) where the governor is all about 'creative' taxing.
But this isn't mathematics, where all you need to make a discovery is a blackboard.
50 years ago, maybe - have you been to a math department lately?
Also, mathematics and pharma research are collaborating: 'biomathematics'. It's the new hotness where I work.
The universities just can't afford it.
We're talking about patents: The university discovers and develops the drug (does the testing trials, the biological research), and then licenses the patent to a pharma company.
C'mon OpenLDAP is not that hard. We went from flatfile distribution to LDAP in about two months with only me working on it. There are migrations scripts and hints all over the place. Linux and Mac OS X both draw from it, so far. 197 machines so far. It (LDAP) is extensible and easy to program for, and I'm integrating a whole bunch of other things into it (like, kickstart files, last install dates?)
If you're going to use a directory service, you should know what you're doing, and not be afraid of a little customization. If your directory-serving daemon dies or corrupts something, the easiest tool GUI in the world won't help. So many people have different setups and requirements, you couln't have an out-of-the-box anything on linux. You can have NFS/CIFS/AFS, LDAP/Kerberos+LDAP/NIS/FLAT setups - how could you turn those into a common out-of-the-box solution?
Microsoft uses both Kerberos and OpenLDAP for directory stuff - they just mask it with easy-to-use tools. If you know the schema a little bit, you can use something like LDAP Browser in linux.
I'm setting up a new RHEL 4 server with OpenLDAP+Kerberos. From what is looks, Kerberos is easier to administer then OpenLDAP (made a framework in a few minutes) - I'm pretty hopeful.
Since RHEL supports NFSv4, we should be moving to that soon (Fedora desktops) - not going to hold my breath for Mac OS X to catch up, though.
...graduated from HS in 2000.
When I was a senior, a tech company 'volunteered' to install a fingerprinting system for checking out books - the idea is that you have the librarian scan every book, you swipe your fingerprint in the reader, and you're off. It replaced good ol' barcode on the back of our (photo) student IDs (which we were supposed to carry always).
I happened to be in the library during the time that the system was launched, the suits there and all. I walked by, wanting to check a book out and they asked me whether I wanted to test drive this awesome new fingerprinting technology, and I said no to their face (the look was priceless). I graduated soon after and didn't look back, but I found out that all the fingerprints, in BMP form, were stored on an unpatched, networked windows PC in the library. (Oh, the fun I could have had; I could have delivered the fingerprints to the principal Veronica-Mars-style [flippantly] and gotten away with it too)
I don't have a problem with submitting my fingerprint as part of the moral character application to the bar, but for checking out a frigging research book at school?
Anyway, I also heard that they got rid of that later, because kids didn't want to use it. I'm all for phasing out shitty security-dangerous technology de facto.
Better yet, WAAS points or their equivalent. It takes seconds to get a GPS lock where I live because of the close, close airport (it took hours before WAAS support).
No it doesn't. If you can have the same web browser on both platforms, would logically that encourage or discourage someone to explore the other platform?
If Microsoft Office was out for linux, many of the people that can justify not moving to linux can no longer justify it. The less Windows-only applications being used, the less Windows-only environments.
Basically the same thing with the University of Minnesota - I wonder where they get their data from...
The software:r t/rio/produ ct.asp?prodID=113
http://www.digitalnetworksna.com/suppo
Yes, you can use it for other files - you have to use rio taxi (included on the device's webserver). I'm not sure if you can use it that way with USB, but they're promising it or something like it (USB mass storage standard) for the next firmware release.
The battery life is good - I can have the Karma on during the entire work day (8h+) - and I use OGG and the equalizer pretty heavily (MP3s and no equalizer -> more battery life).
The hard drive inside is a standard laptop ATA - I connected it to a computer and imaged it for backup - should the drive ever fail (hasn't happened yet after 6 months and maybe 5 drops).
Yeah, story writer, but _I_ live next to a Minatour and a Phoenix. I live in Knossos and have a summer home in Heliopolis.
I guess in reality I 'live next' to two Tan Olds Cutlass Cieras, right close to the bar in the movie Fargo. Guess which city I live in!
How about ex post facto applying for this case. If the ruling body had made the law that they want to try Jon under _after_ DeCSS was written, it stands to reason that the law should not be able to apply to him.
Well, IANAL, (definitely IANANL), but IWLOF (I Watch Law and Order Frequently).
I just gave my two weeks notice today! (Honest)
Also have a bit of opposite information -- an automatic raise (that was documented) that I *should've* had months ago seems to be 'lost in the system', so when 'pay increases are actually at reasonable levels', i respectfully do not concur.
I also disagree that our jobs are 'as stable as ever' -- it sounds like someone is interviewing the people kept employed because they were the only ones who knew the system.
Of course, I'm kidding about regretting resigning today -- I regret not resigning earlier.
Don't forget the Fridley store, either -- from Minneapolis, follow Central Ave. and continue on Hwy 65, turn onto E. Moore Lk. Dr, it's in the shopping center. I'm usually there once a week (it's right between my work and home), walking around like a zombie, thinking about some electronics project.
Yeah, that was where I had to fight Lavos a couple of years ago. Tough bastard -- too bad killing it created an alternate dimension...