I had ISDN in 1998 (in Edmonds to connect to my servers in the Westin Building) but is that still a thing except for 23B1D DS1 circuits for office phones? Maybe some uses in broadcast radio RPU setups, but really? Are you using a 2B1D 128Kb/s line?
I just hope that you five developers are using terminal SSH to "develop" with. Otherwise your live is hell.
Organlegging is the name of a fictional crime in the Known Space universe created by Larry Niven. It is the illicit trade of black market human organs for transplant. The term organlegging is a portmanteau combining the words "organ" and "bootlegging", literally the piracy and smuggling of organs.
The comms program was TELEX.EXE. Now cloned for *nix in minicom. I loved that software. My shell for DOS was Norton Commander (NC.EXE) and still use it to this day when I'm on my DOS box programming old Motorola radios and burning EPROMS.
We've been hit with a crypto at work. Some "engineer" thought it would be a good idea to open the company computer and pull a SATA line out for his portable eSATA box. He ran a program that he got off a torrent and bang, crypto took off on all his drives.
The problem was that he, being an aerospace engineer, had R/W access to almost all the mapped drives on his box (think mounts for you *nix types.) So it hit the main file servers and ran for about four hours before we got notice of it. Yeah we got recovered from backups but it still killed us for about a day. The cost of 100 odd (yes they are mostly odd) aerospace engineers sitting at their computers without access to the fileserver is a lot of money. More than the crypto ransom demand in the final reckoning.
It looks like the site is run by Davis Lewin who is linked to the Henry Jackson Society A.K.A., 'Scoop' Jackson (D), a Washington State Congressman and Senator from 1941-1983.
From the wiki:
"A Cold War liberal and anti-Communist Democrat, Jackson supported higher military spending and a hard line against the Soviet Union, while also supporting social welfare programs, civil rights, and labor unions.[1] His political beliefs were characterized by support of civil rights, human rights, and safeguarding the environment, but with an equally strong commitment to oppose totalitarianism in general, and communism in particular.[2] The political philosophies and positions of Scoop Jackson have been cited as an influence on a number of key figures associated with neoconservatism, including Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle, both of whom previously served as aides to the Senator.[3] The Henry Jackson Society is named in his honor."
He was also known as the Senator from Boeing.
Growing up I remember that Scoop and Maggie were the Senators-for-life in Washington State.
That's why I'm making about $20k less than I could, if I went to Seattle or the East side. I live in Tulalip and commute to Everett, about 15 minutes, with a stop for coffee. I worked the dotcom boom and bust in downtown Seattle, it was hard enough back then to commute from Edmonds. I just couldn't do it anymore even with the Sounder train that sometimes runs.
Having those extra 3 hours in my life, each day, make the reduced rate worth it.
After $dayjob got bought by a multinational we did a "refresh" of our fully HP shop (aerospace) to Dell. CFO let us give away the "old" HP desktops and laptops to employees. Many happy campers with i5/16GB/480GB SSD machines now that will last them, and be very usable, for many years. Of course IT kept the i7 and Xeon boxes.
We had a full HP shop using the enterprise gear. Great stuff, easy to work on and the only desktop that broke got tossed out of a second story window, so that was an HR issue.
The HP enterprise laptops held up well for the hell some of our engineers gave them as they hopped the globe.
Yeah, I have a few of the tier 2 guys send me ani-gifs in Sametime (part of the IBM Domino Notes package.) I'm sorry that you are stuck in ITIL hell, so am I. I have Messaging for a 100+ year old French company running 70 odd Domino servers. Oh, did I mention we also have to track out tickets and projects in kanban? I'm almost willing to learn Windows servers to get out of this! But the pay, bennies & commute are worth not having to drive into Seattle or Bellevue.
I hear you Ratzo. My old '98 Volvo V70 wagon with ham radio plates is damn invisible to cops. Bought it for $1700 with a few minor dents and have put about 50K miles on it now. One of the most comfortable cars I've ever owned even at 200k+ miles, just getting broken in for a Volvo. Much nicer to drive than my old '89 Ranger with 430K miles on it.
Don't get me wrong, I love driving a new car but I let the company pay for the rental when I travel. But buy a new car? No, much better things to do with that much cash.
It sure does take place on Windows Professional 64 bit if not connected to a domain controller that is pushing out the right settings. Due to a refresh at dayjob I have a pile of HP desktops and laptops that once dis-joined from the domain will happily GWX if left to their own devices. Even with a fresh Windows 7 Pro install they will do that. So for the hand-me-down computers that we're giving to employees I need to install GWX control panel in the clonezilla image that I'm using.
As a lifelong Democrat I object to the donation line... except for the part about Jay Inslee. I supported McKenna in that one but that was a wonk vs jock vote for me. Never did like Jay even when he was over in the 4th district. The guy is just a jerk.
McKenna would have been like Gary Locke, decent and fair for the most part.
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I had ISDN in 1998 (in Edmonds to connect to my servers in the Westin Building) but is that still a thing except for 23B1D DS1 circuits for office phones? Maybe some uses in broadcast radio RPU setups, but really? Are you using a 2B1D 128Kb/s line?
I just hope that you five developers are using terminal SSH to "develop" with. Otherwise your live is hell.
You're talking about Organlegging.
Correct you are sir. I must have confused it with the early form of teletype email using the PSTN and the 910 area code.
The comms program was TELEX.EXE. Now cloned for *nix in minicom. I loved that software. My shell for DOS was Norton Commander (NC.EXE) and still use it to this day when I'm on my DOS box programming old Motorola radios and burning EPROMS.
We've been hit with a crypto at work. Some "engineer" thought it would be a good idea to open the company computer and pull a SATA line out for his portable eSATA box. He ran a program that he got off a torrent and bang, crypto took off on all his drives.
The problem was that he, being an aerospace engineer, had R/W access to almost all the mapped drives on his box (think mounts for you *nix types.) So it hit the main file servers and ran for about four hours before we got notice of it. Yeah we got recovered from backups but it still killed us for about a day. The cost of 100 odd (yes they are mostly odd) aerospace engineers sitting at their computers without access to the fileserver is a lot of money. More than the crypto ransom demand in the final reckoning.
Cross off another country to move to if Trump wins.
And waterproofing.
http://www.reuters.com/article...
And seem to have crept into our neo-liberal bunch as well.
It looks like the site is run by Davis Lewin who is linked to the Henry Jackson Society A.K.A., 'Scoop' Jackson (D), a Washington State Congressman and Senator from 1941-1983.
From the wiki:
He was also known as the Senator from Boeing.
Growing up I remember that Scoop and Maggie were the Senators-for-life in Washington State.
And don't let the kids listen to any of that boogie-woogie music! Gives them bad ideas.
That's why I'm making about $20k less than I could, if I went to Seattle or the East side. I live in Tulalip and commute to Everett, about 15 minutes, with a stop for coffee. I worked the dotcom boom and bust in downtown Seattle, it was hard enough back then to commute from Edmonds. I just couldn't do it anymore even with the Sounder train that sometimes runs.
Having those extra 3 hours in my life, each day, make the reduced rate worth it.
After $dayjob got bought by a multinational we did a "refresh" of our fully HP shop (aerospace) to Dell. CFO let us give away the "old" HP desktops and laptops to employees. Many happy campers with i5/16GB/480GB SSD machines now that will last them, and be very usable, for many years. Of course IT kept the i7 and Xeon boxes.
We had a full HP shop using the enterprise gear. Great stuff, easy to work on and the only desktop that broke got tossed out of a second story window, so that was an HR issue.
The HP enterprise laptops held up well for the hell some of our engineers gave them as they hopped the globe.
Submit a ticket to Dell to have that added to KACE.
Yeah, I have a few of the tier 2 guys send me ani-gifs in Sametime (part of the IBM Domino Notes package.) I'm sorry that you are stuck in ITIL hell, so am I. I have Messaging for a 100+ year old French company running 70 odd Domino servers. Oh, did I mention we also have to track out tickets and projects in kanban? I'm almost willing to learn Windows servers to get out of this! But the pay, bennies & commute are worth not having to drive into Seattle or Bellevue.
Sootman: Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
Oh hell no! That leads to the evil path of emojies and animated gifs. Oh hell no!
I'd say about 5 years actively causing trouble, and the rest of the time just knowing that someone like that existed in the world.
Amen brother! He's been a thorn in my side for over a decade.
I hear you Ratzo. My old '98 Volvo V70 wagon with ham radio plates is damn invisible to cops. Bought it for $1700 with a few minor dents and have put about 50K miles on it now. One of the most comfortable cars I've ever owned even at 200k+ miles, just getting broken in for a Volvo. Much nicer to drive than my old '89 Ranger with 430K miles on it.
Don't get me wrong, I love driving a new car but I let the company pay for the rental when I travel. But buy a new car? No, much better things to do with that much cash.
Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. Larry, Tom and Randal signed it.
There was ice cream too.
...life giving gas.
So says A Mighty Wind. I suspect an agenda.
It sure does take place on Windows Professional 64 bit if not connected to a domain controller that is pushing out the right settings. Due to a refresh at dayjob I have a pile of HP desktops and laptops that once dis-joined from the domain will happily GWX if left to their own devices. Even with a fresh Windows 7 Pro install they will do that. So for the hand-me-down computers that we're giving to employees I need to install GWX control panel in the clonezilla image that I'm using.
Damn overclockers!
As a lifelong Democrat I object to the donation line... except for the part about Jay Inslee. I supported McKenna in that one but that was a wonk vs jock vote for me. Never did like Jay even when he was over in the 4th district. The guy is just a jerk.
McKenna would have been like Gary Locke, decent and fair for the most part.
Were you looking on BangGood.com? Love that name.