ACL Staticide is the stuff you're looking for. It is just as good as isopropyl as a solvent but is also an antistat... computer shops use it to clean computers (we use #1010 where I work). If you have any left over, you can mop your floors/clean your carpets with it to make them static-free.
Actually, unless I am mistaken, Japan leads US at least 3-5 years in technology, and has done so for a while. For example, can you name the top gaming consoles on the market today ? Or any other electronics for that matter ? How many people in the US use SMS as a primary means of communication ?
Gaming consoles, maybe, but SMS is a terrible example. SMS has been avalible in the US for a while, it's just that almost nobody cares about it. It's the same thing with phones with cameras and such... they don't have them in the US because we want cell phones (primarily) for talking, and we don't want to pay a lot for a phone, like they do in Japan.
As for Japan being 3-5 years ahead in Tech, I think you're wrong; they may have certain niche markets where they are ahead but overall the US remains the leader in Computer/Networking technology, even if the Japanese have their supercomputer with NEC processors. It's even debateable that it is truely the largest, since I suspect that not *all* of the US classified supercomputers are on the list.
Here's my one example: Japan uses CDMA wireless networks, a US technology, to carry their snazzy cell phone services.
I was partially mistaken, the cover had the "Help! My Boss Made Me Install..." The article (and the cover picture) are online at Lj's site
To quote The Actual Article: An employee who is asked to perform an illegal act and refuses to do so is protected from retaliation in many states. An employee who reports illegal acts to more senior management or to an appropriate government agency is often protected by ``whistle-blower'' laws. A company can be ordered to pay substantial damages, including back pay, for retaliating against whistle-blowers.
And the author wasn't Eben Morgan, it was Lawrence Rosen in his IAAL column.
It sounds like your company wants to break not just the terms of service, but possibly copyright laws.
As a rule, your employer is barred from forcing you to break the law. If they fire you from refusing in good will to break the law, you can sue them for not only back wages but punitive damages. A great article on this subject by Eben Morgan in Linux Journal called "My Boss Made Me Install Warez" should help with the specific details, some of what I said is probably wrong.
Obviously, you should seek counsel or at least tell your employer you intend to. They may decide to back down.
Actually, according to the slide show, Y! does have a few Sun systems that the acquired... (mail and something else). However, they may have migrated by now.
For your builtin scripting language, may I suggest you *not* invent your own, especially for a small project. If it were me, I'd create a Perl module (probably a class of them) and use those for the scripting. That way your program has much greater power than it would with a custom language (think web-based 3D apps) plus it reduces learning curves. Think AutoCad/Lisp.
If you're going to enter the big, bad world of 3D, the only way you're going to get noticed is if you can offer something really special. And not having to retrain all your programmers in a new language is something special. Being able to give an artist a copy of "Learnig Perl" and having them go to town is a lot better than trying to give them some documentation written by a programmer at the last minute.
Unix Books ---------- *The Unix Programming Environment - Ker./Pike (Great book on the Tao of Unix) *The Design of the Unix Operating System - ? (Good book on design and internals) *The Design of the 4.4BSD Operating System - (The book the BSD folks rave about)
Hardware Books -------------- *Upgrading and Repairing PCs - Scott Mueler (While kinda Windows centric, the PC Hardware bible)
Fun --- *Mr. Bunny books - Some Guy III (Funny books make fun of Java and ActiveX) *Programming Linux Games - Jon Hall (Good intro to Linux gaming, another fav)
Security - My specialty -------- *Hackers Beware - a great book of stories from the trenches *Hacking Exposed series - Great, up-to-date references on many platforms. *Security Engeneering - The best book on comprehensive security design *Know Your Enemy - The Honeynet Project (Great book on real hacking) *Computer Security Basics (outdated, but still relivent. Not basic, though, by any measure) *Applied Cryptography - Bruce Schiener (_The_ book about crypto) *Secrets and Lies - Bruce Schiener (A management type book, but good)
Programming ----------- *{Beginning, Professional} Linux Programming - Stones & Neal Somebody, et. al. (A good Wrox book that covers Perl, PHP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, C, shell programming, etc.) *The O'Reilly Perl Library - Written by the guys that write and maintain Perl. Nothing short of spectacular. Everything from Perl regex to cgi to bioinformatics to databases is covered. *Applied Cryptography - Bruce Schiener (_The_ book about crypto) *ANSI Standard Lisp - Haven't read it yet, but it looked good. *The K&R book, ANSI and Classic - 'nuff said. *The O'Reilly SQL book and database-specific books - Cover all the DBA knowledge anybody needs
Non-Technical ------------- *Secrets and Lies - Bruce Schiener (A management type book, but good) *C for Dummies - Gookin (See section placement) *The Mr. Bunny Startup Game
Sysadmin -------- *The Complete FreeBSD - A great fBSD book *Linux: The Complete Reference - Another great sysadmin books *The purple Unix book with the animals on the cover - The Sysadmin bible, if I could only remember the name
If someone could fill in the name and author holes, you'll be all set.:-)
Re:Luke, use the source...
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RedHat needs a compile from source package format that most people can figure out. srpms may do it, but I have no clue how to use them.
rpm --rebuild name.src.rpm
That will build and install the RPM for you. If you want to customize the compiling options, do
rpm -i name.src.rpm
and manually edit/usr/src/{distro,rpm}/SPECS/name.spec to add the options you want. Then run
rpm -ba name.spec
and install the RPM in the RPMS directory.
RedHat has a HOWTO at RPM.org and I've written documentation for bluelinux.org which should be helpful.
"In assembling this list of exemplary technological disasters, we've omitted the most familiar--those whose names have entered into the language, like Bhopal, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Titanic and Challenger--in favor of some with fresher tales to tell and lessons to impart."
I work in a K-12 district in Michigan, and have some experience with all the problems that come with such work. I have a few tidbits to share. First of all, check out about getting eRate money to buy a bigger pipe. This is almost a must, expecially as you get to be bigger. Second, get support from your administration. If you can't get someone like a Superintendent or Asst. Superintendent (ours in an Ex-Programmer which makes life so much easier) to help you, you're virtually screwed. With their support, having an uninstall fest will be a lot easier.
Next, you're going to want to set up a firewall and IDS system to keep P2P off your network. We use redundant Cisco Pix units, but a dual-homed machine with Linux or xBSD will work fine if you don't have that kind of change lying around:-) Set up rules for the IDS to check for P2P, Porn, Games, etc. We are in the testing phases of doing just this. The security-focus IDS list can be has been a big help.
As for the virus problem, Norton Corperate has great educational pricing, and can be set up so the (l)users can't play with it. Requires NT, though, but educational pricing is still cheap (before MS's new school licencing rolls out) and I'm sure you probably have a box laying around:-)
Non-weapons research my foot. While I know that other countries actually do have other things on their mind than defense against people they've pissed off, that doesn't mean that they're still going to reasearch weapons.
While it's quite obvious to me that you're not trying to start a legitamate discussion about this, it is worth noting that Japan's constitution prohibits it from having a standing army (they do have a "Defense Force", kind of like the National Guard) and from sending any kind of force into any other nation.
Their constitution also says "...the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes."
So basically the Japenese are not really interested in weapons.
(You know, that unelected, unaccountable organization that lives in the Corporate back pockets) WIPO is a treaty. If one of the 177 countries is unhappy about being part of the WIPO treaty, they can leave. So the fact that a country is part of WIPO is indicitive of the will of the lawmaking body of the country. Furthermore, the treaty had to be ratified by each country, so it was elected. And to say that it lives in corporate back pockets indicates that you don't know much about WIPO. While it has capitalist goals, it is by no means controled by any company in any country.
I would love to have managers understand development issues I'd have to agree completely. The "Big Boss" of my department has an MS in Computer Science (or some related field) and while he is no code guru (that's my job:-) ) he has "been there". When we had our annual day-before-Christmas departmental lunch (on him) we were talking about my current project, setting up an IDS for the internal network. He was interested in a few of the details, and somehow MySQL got brought up. He says, "I remember when I was getting my MS, I had to take a SQL programming class,..." While he didn't give me any pointers about GRANT statements, nor did he pretend to, he knew what I was talking about. He actually has a clue why we do the things we do, and knows why we hate most of the staff. Most importantly, when we need something drilled into a user's head, a simple email will alert him, and he WILL take action.
So, in summary, a boss who has enough technical background to have a small clue about whats FUD and what isn't, and who has actually written some small amount of code, is a great thing.
There are already several books already out that cover these topics well:
Programming C#
Wrox has a C# line of books, and like most Wrox topisc, there are Beginning and Professional editions along with books on C# subtopics.
Linux kernel, line by line
The book is called "Linux Core Kernel Commentary" (Second Edition is out if you want 2.4 series) and it covers the core of the Kernel, line by line, much like Lyon's (sp?) book on SysV Unix.
Programming KDE
"KDE 2.0 Development" by David Sweet, Matthias Ettrich.
"KDE Application Development" by Uwe Thiem.
Programming Gnome
"Beginning GTK+/GNOME Programming" from Wrox. Wrox's "Beginning Linux Programming" also covers GTK programming along with several other languages of importance to a developer or administrator.
However, if you plan on outdoors security, an Axis camera is definitely not what you want.
Actually, you can buy outdoor enclosures and mounting systems like the ones from Pelco for the Axis cameras. If you don't want to do it yourself, there are many retailers who build complete packages of cameras, enclosures, and accessories.
" That is why I think the FHS is slightly more important. The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard is supposed to help prevent this, so hopefully the LSB compliments this cool document supported by freestandards.org."
The FHS is part of the LSB.
From the first sentence of Chapter 17: "An LSB conforming system must adhere to the FHS 2.2."
Part-time at 14, which I doubt you did, doesn't count. Hmmm... I'll disagree there. Part-time computer jobs probably do count, and according to Jobweb's Resume guide at http://www.jobweb.com/catapult/guenov/how_to.html: "Work Experience
Briefly give the employer an overview of work that has taught you skills."
First of all, I don't think MIT is known for keeping people a floor up in the same building in the dark for 8 YEARS on an OS. Why would they?
Second, there are no references to Harvey Dunkirk on G except for someone who died in the civil war.
Finally, a test message to hdunkirk@mit.edu, the email address given on the story page, doesn't exist. In the words of MIT:
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
hdunkirk@mit.edu
(reason: 550... User unknown)
----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to pacific-carrier-annex.mit.edu.:
>>> RCPT To:
... User unknown
550 5.1.1 hdunkirk@mit.edu... User unknown
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First of all, I think Lexan is quite the cool plastic, and is one of the most amazing plasics inventions. I don't know what I'd do without my Lexan water bottle (go buy one and see how hard it is to destroy... I gave up shoveling it against PC) and I know people who were protected everyday by Lexan windows.
The main reason I think he didn't use Lexan in his case was price. Check out the quotes at http://www.polymerplastics.com/transparents_lexan. shtml and you'll find it's more expensive and harder to get, and I imagine harder to cut.
Seperation of GOVNET and the military network
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I'm all in favor of the civilian government (even the all important USDA) and the military having separate networks. In the ideal world, this would
be fine. The civilian governmental agencies could use the same network without problems and without interference.
Needless to say, this is not an ideal world. Do you think Billy Bob the Forest Ranger and Gordon the Beef Inspector (to use USDA examples) are going to do his part to keep the same network secure that James the Spy or Steve the Strategic Planner use? As the./ readership knows, you average pubic worker/ 9-5er doesn't know enough and hasn't been trained enough to do his/her part in network security (i.e. not writing password on sticky note posted on monitor with phrase "Network Password Don't forget!!!")
Moreover, the separation of civilian powers and military powers is an important American ideal. If some civilian agency (the GSA maybe?) is investigating the military, you usually don't want them seeing or interfering with your communications. That can't happen when your network admin takes military orders, and will knowingly break the law under orders. A civilian government employee, on the other hand, can legally refuse to break the law without retribution by the employer.
So, all in all, its probably a good idea to keep the networks separate.
Um.. no we didn't. If you were to closely examine the old article (i.e. "read it") you would see We have many optimizations still to add, and only have a fraction of our "real" hardware on Banjo so don't worry about speed, instead look for things that don't work right (or at all!)
I think that makes it pretty clear that they didn't want stress-testing then.
You are right though, you should be -1, Redundant, so shut up and go back into your troll cave.
Slashdot Mirror
ACL Staticide is the stuff you're looking for. It is just as good as isopropyl as a solvent but is also an antistat... computer shops use it to clean computers (we use #1010 where I work). If you have any left over, you can mop your floors/clean your carpets with it to make them static-free.
And it's even cheap!
Red Hat only offers support on their Enterprise servers (EP, AS, etc.) which you have to subscribe to.
Just think of the possibilities! With a webcam, there could be a direct link to ratemypoo.com.
Or, amiregularornot.com!
Actually, unless I am mistaken, Japan leads US at least 3-5 years in technology, and has done so for a while. For example, can you name the top gaming consoles on the market today ? Or any other electronics for that matter ? How many people in the US use SMS as a primary means of communication ?
Gaming consoles, maybe, but SMS is a terrible example. SMS has been avalible in the US for a while, it's just that almost nobody cares about it. It's the same thing with phones with cameras and such... they don't have them in the US because we want cell phones (primarily) for talking, and we don't want to pay a lot for a phone, like they do in Japan.
As for Japan being 3-5 years ahead in Tech, I think you're wrong; they may have certain niche markets where they are ahead but overall the US remains the leader in Computer/Networking technology, even if the Japanese have their supercomputer with NEC processors. It's even debateable that it is truely the largest, since I suspect that not *all* of the US classified supercomputers are on the list.
Here's my one example: Japan uses CDMA wireless networks, a US technology, to carry their snazzy cell phone services.
I was partially mistaken, the cover had the "Help! My Boss Made Me Install..." The article (and the cover picture) are online at Lj's site
To quote The Actual Article:
An employee who is asked to perform an illegal act and refuses to do so is protected from retaliation in many states. An employee who reports illegal acts to more senior management or to an appropriate government agency is often protected by ``whistle-blower'' laws. A company can be ordered to pay substantial damages, including back pay, for retaliating against whistle-blowers.
And the author wasn't Eben Morgan, it was Lawrence Rosen in his IAAL column.
IANAL!
It sounds like your company wants to break not just the terms of service, but possibly copyright laws.
As a rule, your employer is barred from forcing you to break the law. If they fire you from refusing in good will to break the law, you can sue them for not only back wages but punitive damages. A great article on this subject by Eben Morgan in Linux Journal called "My Boss Made Me Install Warez" should help with the specific details, some of what I said is probably wrong.
Obviously, you should seek counsel or at least tell your employer you intend to. They may decide to back down.
Once again, I am not a lawyer.
None of the OSes (only Windows versions) it works with are certified for TOP SECRET data
Yeah, and Trusted Solaris, and Trusted Irix, and a bunch of other OSs you've probably never head of. Look at this if you don't believe me.
Actually, according to the slide show, Y! does have a few Sun systems that the acquired... (mail and something else). However, they may have migrated by now.
For your builtin scripting language, may I suggest you *not* invent your own, especially for a small project. If it were me, I'd create a Perl module (probably a class of them) and use those for the scripting. That way your program has much greater power than it would with a custom language (think web-based 3D apps) plus it reduces learning curves. Think AutoCad/Lisp.
If you're going to enter the big, bad world of 3D, the only way you're going to get noticed is if you can offer something really special. And not having to retrain all your programmers in a new language is something special. Being able to give an artist a copy of "Learnig Perl" and having them go to town is a lot better than trying to give them some documentation written by a programmer at the last minute.
This is from memory, so it's a little rough.
:-)
Unix Books
----------
*The Unix Programming Environment - Ker./Pike (Great book on the Tao of Unix)
*The Design of the Unix Operating System - ? (Good book on design and internals)
*The Design of the 4.4BSD Operating System - (The book the BSD folks rave about)
Hardware Books
--------------
*Upgrading and Repairing PCs - Scott Mueler (While kinda Windows centric, the PC Hardware bible)
Fun
---
*Mr. Bunny books - Some Guy III (Funny books make fun of Java and ActiveX)
*Programming Linux Games - Jon Hall (Good intro to Linux gaming, another fav)
Security - My specialty
--------
*Hackers Beware - a great book of stories from the trenches
*Hacking Exposed series - Great, up-to-date references on many platforms.
*Security Engeneering - The best book on comprehensive security design
*Know Your Enemy - The Honeynet Project (Great book on real hacking)
*Computer Security Basics (outdated, but still relivent. Not basic, though, by any measure)
*Applied Cryptography - Bruce Schiener (_The_ book about crypto)
*Secrets and Lies - Bruce Schiener (A management type book, but good)
Programming
-----------
*{Beginning, Professional} Linux Programming - Stones & Neal Somebody, et. al. (A good Wrox book that covers Perl, PHP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, C, shell programming, etc.)
*The O'Reilly Perl Library - Written by the guys that write and maintain Perl. Nothing short of spectacular. Everything from Perl regex to cgi to bioinformatics to databases is covered.
*Applied Cryptography - Bruce Schiener (_The_ book about crypto)
*ANSI Standard Lisp - Haven't read it yet, but it looked good.
*The K&R book, ANSI and Classic - 'nuff said.
*The O'Reilly SQL book and database-specific books - Cover all the DBA knowledge anybody needs
Non-Technical
-------------
*Secrets and Lies - Bruce Schiener (A management type book, but good)
*C for Dummies - Gookin (See section placement)
*The Mr. Bunny Startup Game
Sysadmin
--------
*The Complete FreeBSD - A great fBSD book
*Linux: The Complete Reference - Another great sysadmin books
*The purple Unix book with the animals on the cover - The Sysadmin bible, if I could only remember the name
If someone could fill in the name and author holes, you'll be all set.
RedHat has a HOWTO at RPM.org and I've written documentation for bluelinux.org which should be helpful.
"In assembling this list of exemplary technological disasters, we've omitted the most familiar--those whose names have entered into the language, like Bhopal, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Titanic and Challenger--in favor of some with fresher tales to tell and lessons to impart."
Next, you're going to want to set up a firewall and IDS system to keep P2P off your network. We use redundant Cisco Pix units, but a dual-homed machine with Linux or xBSD will work fine if you don't have that kind of change lying around :-) Set up rules for the IDS to check for P2P, Porn, Games, etc. We are in the testing phases of doing just this. The security-focus IDS list can be has been a big help.
As for the virus problem, Norton Corperate has great educational pricing, and can be set up so the (l)users can't play with it. Requires NT, though, but educational pricing is still cheap (before MS's new school licencing rolls out) and I'm sure you probably have a box laying around :-)
While it's quite obvious to me that you're not trying to start a legitamate discussion about this, it is worth noting that Japan's constitution prohibits it from having a standing army (they do have a "Defense Force", kind of like the National Guard) and from sending any kind of force into any other nation.
Their constitution also says "...the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes."
So basically the Japenese are not really interested in weapons.
(You know, that unelected, unaccountable organization that lives in the Corporate back pockets)
WIPO is a treaty. If one of the 177 countries is unhappy about being part of the WIPO treaty, they can leave. So the fact that a country is part of WIPO is indicitive of the will of the lawmaking body of the country. Furthermore, the treaty had to be ratified by each country, so it was elected. And to say that it lives in corporate back pockets indicates that you don't know much about WIPO. While it has capitalist goals, it is by no means controled by any company in any country.
I'd have to agree completely. The "Big Boss" of my department has an MS in Computer Science (or some related field) and while he is no code guru (that's my job
So, in summary, a boss who has enough technical background to have a small clue about whats FUD and what isn't, and who has actually written some small amount of code, is a great thing.
Programming C#
Wrox has a C# line of books, and like most Wrox topisc, there are Beginning and Professional editions along with books on C# subtopics.
Linux kernel, line by line
The book is called "Linux Core Kernel Commentary" (Second Edition is out if you want 2.4 series) and it covers the core of the Kernel, line by line, much like Lyon's (sp?) book on SysV Unix.
Programming KDE
"KDE 2.0 Development" by David Sweet, Matthias Ettrich.
"KDE Application Development" by Uwe Thiem.
Programming Gnome
"Beginning GTK+/GNOME Programming" from Wrox. Wrox's "Beginning Linux Programming" also covers GTK programming along with several other languages of importance to a developer or administrator.
Actually, you can buy outdoor enclosures and mounting systems like the ones from Pelco for the Axis cameras. If you don't want to do it yourself, there are many retailers who build complete packages of cameras, enclosures, and accessories.
Also, ThinkGeek sells the Axis 2100 and the Axis 2120. And to make it even cooler, the cameras run Linux.
" That is why I think the FHS is slightly more important. The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard is supposed to help prevent this, so hopefully the LSB compliments this cool document supported by freestandards.org."
The FHS is part of the LSB.
From the first sentence of Chapter 17: "An LSB conforming system must adhere to the FHS 2.2."
Part-time at 14, which I doubt you did, doesn't count.:
Hmmm... I'll disagree there. Part-time computer jobs probably do count, and according to Jobweb's Resume guide at http://www.jobweb.com/catapult/guenov/how_to.html
"Work Experience
Briefly give the employer an overview of work that has taught you skills."
I would also have to agree with that.
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First of all, I don't think MIT is known for keeping people a floor up in the same building in the dark for 8 YEARS on an OS. Why would they?
Second, there are no references to Harvey Dunkirk on G except for someone who died in the civil war.
Finally, a test message to hdunkirk@mit.edu, the email address given on the story page, doesn't exist. In the words of MIT:
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
hdunkirk@mit.edu
(reason: 550
----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to pacific-carrier-annex.mit.edu.:
>>> RCPT To:
... User unknown
550 5.1.1 hdunkirk@mit.edu... User unknown
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So, I think we have a hoax on our hands.
The main reason I think he didn't use Lexan in his case was price. Check out the quotes at http://www.polymerplastics.com/transparents_lexan
I'm all in favor of the civilian government (even the all important USDA) and the military having separate networks. In the ideal world, this would
./ readership knows, you average pubic worker/ 9-5er doesn't know enough and hasn't been trained enough to do his/her part in network security (i.e. not writing password on sticky note posted on monitor with phrase "Network Password Don't forget!!!")
be fine. The civilian governmental agencies could use the same network without problems and without interference.
Needless to say, this is not an ideal world. Do you think Billy Bob the Forest Ranger and Gordon the Beef Inspector (to use USDA examples) are going to do his part to keep the same network secure that James the Spy or Steve the Strategic Planner use? As the
Moreover, the separation of civilian powers and military powers is an important American ideal. If some civilian agency (the GSA maybe?) is investigating the military, you usually don't want them seeing or interfering with your communications. That can't happen when your network admin takes military orders, and will knowingly break the law under orders. A civilian government employee, on the other hand, can legally refuse to break the law without retribution by the employer.
So, all in all, its probably a good idea to keep the networks separate.
But you're a coward, right?
I think that makes it pretty clear that they didn't want stress-testing then.
You are right though, you should be -1, Redundant, so shut up and go back into your troll cave.