a time where "retarded" people were treated like crap in mental institutions (still happens, but not like back then),
Now they are just kicked out onto the street to increase the ranks of the homeless people begging on streetcorners and rummaging through the dumpster behind McDonalds. Are you sure that's an improvement over a warm bed and 3 squares a day in an institution? (I'll admit that it's cheaper.)
I'm one *nix guy in a datacenter that supports many many many unix machines as well as firewalls, SAN's, network monitoring, mail servers, fileservers, NAS, (etc. you get the picture) across vastly different environments.
And absolutely none of it requires any custom software, Perl/Bash scripts, or "glue" at all to make it do the job that the client needs to have done?
I just don't have the time or inclination to fix busted software at the source code level.
I'm amazed. Astounded.
I don't disbelieve you, but I have never seen an operation that worked like that, ever.
When I found out that the passwords were taped to the machines, I changed my mind.
It's not quite as obvious as you think. The password was 50trexler, and 50 Trexler forms part of the school's address. I believe that the school's name and address were on the back of the computers.
Which doesn't make 50trexler a great password, but it's not quite as blindingly obvious as a yellow sticker saying "The password is...", as most people seem to believe.
Can you go to a restaurant and eat the steak dinner and then, after you've finished eating you say that the dinner was not to your liking and you want your money back?
Can you hire a painter to paint your house purple and then, when the job is completed, say that even though you asked for purple you now thing it would look better in green so the painter should re-do the job in green?
In other words, buyer beware. If you don't want to buy a movie as a pig-in-a-poke, then either do your research first (the movie industry spawns lots of side-information from advertising to reviews) or don't buy it at all.
Rick: How can you close me up? On what grounds? Captain Renault: I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here! [a croupier hands Renault a pile of money] Croupier: Your winnings, sir. Captain Renault: [sotto voce] Oh, thank you very much. [aloud] Captain Renault: Everybody out at once!
admin passwords were TAPED TO THE BOTTOM of the laptops
It's not quite as egregious as that sounds at first glance, though it's close.
Apparently the password was 50trexler, and 50 Trexler is part of the school's address. I take it that the school name and address were on the bottom of the laptop.
If IBM can prove that SCO acted in bad faith with respect to the title then there is a sizable chance that the whole suit gets thrown out.
I wonder what the chances are that someone gets thrown into jail? I'd imagine that a judge would take a fairly dim view of someone lying about material facts in a sworn affidavit and so on.
Another option is rigid styrofoam insulation. You put it on the outside of the house under the siding. It comes in 2-foot x 8 foot sheets in thicknesses from one to two inches. If your house needs new siding anyway, that's the time to install the rigid styrofoam insulation.
With regard to blow-in insulation, you can sometimes get away with very little patching by using wide crown moldings. They look very sharp in the right kind of house.
Never been around cows? Bessie knows when it's time for her to be milked. And she'll let you know about it in no uncertain terms. Besides, I thought farmers got up with the sun, not the alarm clock.
They do. And now they will have to readjust their schedules for off-farm activities (little things like sending their kids to school) that used to coordinate nicely with thinks like Bessie's milking time.
I would give that more impact that it "could adversely affect livestock". I grew up on a farm and I never saw a horse, cow, pig, chicken, or any thing else that could tell time. I am not sure how they expect this to affect livestock.
Here is one simple example off of the top of my head: A part-time farmer gets off work in town at 5pm, drives home by 5:45pm, changes his clothes and milks his cows at 6pm. Time "falls back" by one hour. He's not off work yet at 5pm but the cows want to be milked. Cows get very unhappy in that situation.
that system will be fully paid for in savings after ~14 years. after that, it's all money in the bank.
You forgot to include maintenance costs and the wear-and-tear on the unit. What's the average lifetime of a geothermal cooling system? If it's less than 14 years....
At one time fire departments were optional. People did refuse fire protection, and the fire department ignored your burning house
It still is, in some places.
A couple of weeks ago the entire "staff" at a volunteer fire department on an Indian reserve near here quit due to a lack of support from the chief and council on the reserve. Apparently, they couldn't even buy gas for the truck due to "no budget". So everyone, including the fire chief, quit. I haven't heard anything more about that lately so I guess nothing has changed and there is no fire protection available on that reserve at the moment.
20 years ago I lived in a town which had a fair-sized trailer park that was located "just out of town". As it wasn't in the town limits and as the trailer park didn't pay the town for fire protection, any fire in that area was just your tough luck, the town fire truck wasn't going to roll. A few trailers burned down, too. But still no fire protection was provided to trailer park residents. I don't know if that situation has changed in the past 20 years, but I wouldn't be surprised to discover that they still have no fire protection there.
http://www.real.com/ apparently has MP3 license for their Linux player. I remember reading a notice from them about that when RealPlayer 10 was first released.
Here on the UK trains, ticket inspectors have badges proclaiming their job title to be "revenue protection officers".
Which is a completely honest description of their job and, actually, a less "friendly" description than ticket inspector which is more neutral in tone.
I think many very small businesses (think the local Chinese restaurant on the corner) have a "vision" that consists mostly of "Nothing will ever change, and we'll be here forever".
Why not just sit beside them for a couple of days and see just what they do?
Having "the boss" sitting beside you while you work isn't going to change your behaviour? Especially if you're a slacker?
Talk to people with whom they interact at work, get their opinions on this person.
That may very well be what brought the rest of this scene on. However, when J. Random Employee's opinion isn't enough to let another employee go (think Union) then what do you do as a next step?
Doesn't that defeat the purpose of having more than one lane?
"We have a six-lane motorway here, and everyone damn well better be driving in the far right lane except to pass."
How many "I'm passing you and he's passing me and you're passing him" cycles would it take to get someone actually using the right-most lane on during rush hour?
What a waste of time and technology. This thing detects intruders, fires and water leaks. So put in a burglar alarm, a smoke detector and a water leak detector and you're done. At a fraction of the cost (I suspect) and you don't have to wait until the next robot patrol circuit before ringing the bells.
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What do you back up 500GB hard drives onto?
Another one, in an old P-233 at the other end of the house.
a time where "retarded" people were treated like crap in mental institutions (still happens, but not like back then),
Now they are just kicked out onto the street to increase the ranks of the homeless people begging on streetcorners and rummaging through the dumpster behind McDonalds. Are you sure that's an improvement over a warm bed and 3 squares a day in an institution? (I'll admit that it's cheaper.)
I'm one *nix guy in a datacenter that supports many many many unix machines as well as firewalls, SAN's, network monitoring, mail servers, fileservers, NAS, (etc. you get the picture) across vastly different environments.
And absolutely none of it requires any custom software, Perl/Bash scripts, or "glue" at all to make it do the job that the client needs to have done?
I just don't have the time or inclination to fix busted software at the source code level.
I'm amazed. Astounded.
I don't disbelieve you, but I have never seen an operation that worked like that, ever.
I guess I lead a sheltered life.
I did. You stated that all of your client's software had to be supported by Red Hat, not by J. Random Vendor.
Perhaps you, as the software vendor to your client, could offer support for the software that you install, instead of relying on third parties.
No, that's not intended to be a facetious comment. Give it some real consideration.
vandyke vshelld is part of the standard distro and is an unmodified binary supplied by Redhat?
No?
You may want to re-think your argument against sftp logging....
When I found out that the passwords were taped to the machines, I changed my mind.
It's not quite as obvious as you think. The password was 50trexler, and 50 Trexler forms part of the school's address. I believe that the school's name and address were on the back of the computers.
Which doesn't make 50trexler a great password, but it's not quite as blindingly obvious as a yellow sticker saying "The password is...", as most people seem to believe.
I suppose the counter-arguments here could be:
Can you go to a restaurant and eat the steak dinner and then, after you've finished eating you say that the dinner was not to your liking and you want your money back?
Can you hire a painter to paint your house purple and then, when the job is completed, say that even though you asked for purple you now thing it would look better in green so the painter should re-do the job in green?
In other words, buyer beware. If you don't want to buy a movie as a pig-in-a-poke, then either do your research first (the movie industry spawns lots of side-information from advertising to reviews) or don't buy it at all.
Rick: How can you close me up? On what grounds?
Captain Renault: I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!
[a croupier hands Renault a pile of money]
Croupier: Your winnings, sir.
Captain Renault: [sotto voce] Oh, thank you very much.
[aloud]
Captain Renault: Everybody out at once!
admin passwords were TAPED TO THE BOTTOM of the laptops
It's not quite as egregious as that sounds at first glance, though it's close.
Apparently the password was 50trexler, and 50 Trexler is part of the school's address. I take it that the school name and address were on the bottom of the laptop.
Keep in mind that they can't falsify information on the trademark application,
Sure they can. I can knock you on the head and steal your wallet too, if I choose to do so.
so there has to be some kind of legal relationship between Linux Australia Inc and Linus.
Of course, there is that pesky business of getting caught afterward...
If IBM can prove that SCO acted in bad faith with respect to the title then there is a sizable chance that the whole suit gets thrown out.
I wonder what the chances are that someone gets thrown into jail? I'd imagine that a judge would take a fairly dim view of someone lying about material facts in a sworn affidavit and so on.
Please refresh my memory of all the high-profile, impactful, overt Linux attacks.
Ramen. Though its impact was minimal it's famous simply because it's the only automated Linux/Apache exploit that actually worked.
At least, that I'm aware of.
Another option is rigid styrofoam insulation. You put it on the outside of the house under the siding. It comes in 2-foot x 8 foot sheets in thicknesses from one to two inches. If your house needs new siding anyway, that's the time to install the rigid styrofoam insulation.
With regard to blow-in insulation, you can sometimes get away with very little patching by using wide crown moldings. They look very sharp in the right kind of house.
This is dumn. Since when can bessie tell time?
Never been around cows? Bessie knows when it's time for her to be milked. And she'll let you know about it in no uncertain terms.
Besides, I thought farmers got up with the sun, not the alarm clock.
They do. And now they will have to readjust their schedules for off-farm activities (little things like sending their kids to school) that used to coordinate nicely with thinks like Bessie's milking time.
Why would the timetable between London and Berlin change? I doubt it would. The guy on the connecting flight from USA is gonna be screwed.
I would give that more impact that it "could adversely affect livestock". I grew up on a farm and I never saw a horse, cow, pig, chicken, or any thing else that could tell time. I am not sure how they expect this to affect livestock.
Here is one simple example off of the top of my head: A part-time farmer gets off work in town at 5pm, drives home by 5:45pm, changes his clothes and milks his cows at 6pm. Time "falls back" by one hour. He's not off work yet at 5pm but the cows want to be milked. Cows get very unhappy in that situation.
that system will be fully paid for in savings after ~14 years. after that, it's all money in the bank.
You forgot to include maintenance costs and the wear-and-tear on the unit. What's the average lifetime of a geothermal cooling system? If it's less than 14 years....
At one time fire departments were optional. People did refuse fire protection, and the fire department ignored your burning house
It still is, in some places.
A couple of weeks ago the entire "staff" at a volunteer fire department on an Indian reserve near here quit due to a lack of support from the chief and council on the reserve. Apparently, they couldn't even buy gas for the truck due to "no budget". So everyone, including the fire chief, quit. I haven't heard anything more about that lately so I guess nothing has changed and there is no fire protection available on that reserve at the moment.
20 years ago I lived in a town which had a fair-sized trailer park that was located "just out of town". As it wasn't in the town limits and as the trailer park didn't pay the town for fire protection, any fire in that area was just your tough luck, the town fire truck wasn't going to roll. A few trailers burned down, too. But still no fire protection was provided to trailer park residents. I don't know if that situation has changed in the past 20 years, but I wouldn't be surprised to discover that they still have no fire protection there.
http://www.real.com/ apparently has MP3 license for their Linux player. I remember reading a notice from them about that when RealPlayer 10 was first released.
Here on the UK trains, ticket inspectors have badges proclaiming their job title to be "revenue protection officers".
Which is a completely honest description of their job and, actually, a less "friendly" description than ticket inspector which is more neutral in tone.
We have a vision, (all businesses must)
All businesses?
I think many very small businesses (think the local Chinese restaurant on the corner) have a "vision" that consists mostly of "Nothing will ever change, and we'll be here forever".
Which is completely legitimate, in my view.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2005/07/11/1126 938-cp.html
Why not just sit beside them for a couple of days and see just what they do?
Having "the boss" sitting beside you while you work isn't going to change your behaviour? Especially if you're a slacker?
Talk to people with whom they interact at work, get their opinions on this person.
That may very well be what brought the rest of this scene on. However, when J. Random Employee's opinion isn't enough to let another employee go (think Union) then what do you do as a next step?
Doesn't that defeat the purpose of having more than one lane?
"We have a six-lane motorway here, and everyone damn well better be driving in the far right lane except to pass."
How many "I'm passing you and he's passing me and you're passing him" cycles would it take to get someone actually using the right-most lane on during rush hour?
Seems silly to me.
What a waste of time and technology. This thing detects intruders, fires and water leaks. So put in a burglar alarm, a smoke detector and a water leak detector and you're done. At a fraction of the cost (I suspect) and you don't have to wait until the next robot patrol circuit before ringing the bells.
Sheesh.