Yo folks, haven't you heard of the Boston Tea Party? Colonists protested unjust taxation on Tea imports by breaking into a tea shipment and throwing it into the ocean. Perhaps it's time to repeat this bit of history...
Yes, I'm probably over simplifying it here, but isn't that the way it should be? I mean, heck, I love doing tech work for the sake of tech work, but I don't expect to make any money from it. The real money in IT, IMHO, should be made in the pursuit of using IT as a leverage to make a business stronger and more efficient.
despite appearing mature and clueful, way off mark.
No, despite trying to sound like the wiser one, you are way off the mark. If this was just a patch that unplugged a logjam it would have been applied a very long time ago. No, it took time because there were tradeoffs. Yes, those tradeoffs may not be entirely tangible or even noticeable by the end user, however there *are* tradeoffs.
For more proof, I'll direct you to the large number of clueful responses to my original question.
Kudos to the Perl community. They are building something truly great here. However, I won't give them a dime until they put more effort into being a bit nicer to people who need help. Personally, I've found them to be extremely helpful and a great resource. I've also seen them be downright nasty and arrogant towards people they perceive to be less than "elite". I know there's been some effort to do that in the past, however it seems to have died out from a public image point of view.
should declare some degree of success. One of their aims was always to raise awareness of security issues. They should congratulate themselves for prompting a thick headed company like Microsoft to dramatically shift their focus. Congratulations people, your hard work has not gone to waste.
Note: I acknowledge that it was only an e-mail that was sent. The true proof will be in the proverbial pudding.
Lets see here, 12 transistors? That comes out to 479,001,600 possible combinations. Now you throw 4 of these things into the same environment and you get 11,496,038,400 possible combinations of interaction (all things being equal, as if that were possible). Hmmm, somewhere in there there's gotta be a monkey banging on a typewriter. Wonder what kind of Shakespeare you could get...
What does it matter if he testifies against his company? The US can't do a darn thing to them since they aren't in this country. Look at the DeBeers monopoly. Diamonds aren't rare at all, but DeBeers made some strategic agreements with countries to keep most of the supply locked up. Now the DeBeers executives will be arrested if they ever enter this country. That judgement hasn't done a darn thing. DeBeers still operates and so will ElmComsoft(SP?). I think it's just the justice department's way of saying, "Yeah, it's a stupid law, but we'd look stupid if we just let you go, so we're going to ask you to do something stupid so we can save face."
Theft alarms aren't for the car owners, they're for the insurance companies.
Why would anyone in their right mind want a car alarm? If the car gets stolen, big deal, the insurance company pays you for what it's worth (or if you have good insurance, they'll pay you for replacement value). Just don't leave anything you wouldn't want to lose in the car.
If anything you'd want an alarm on an older car since the insurance company won't give you enough to buy a new junker. Then again, who's going mess with an older car...
Dude, I hate to break this to you, but you're worrying about nothing. You don't need to log in/e-mail/whatever to NSI to transfer your domains away. Simply choose your registrar and request a domain transfer from them. All the rest is done for you. End of story. You never have to touch NSI at any time during the process...
Please, join in the fun. Go to www.mersenne.org to join. You've got an approximately 1 in 100,000 chance of winning the next EFF prize for finding a 10,000,000 digit prime number. That's way better than playing the lottery folks!
I started out as a developer and found that it didn't really yank my chain like I thought it would. For some reason that I cannot explain I get a euphoric feeling building a box, setting up a new server, hearing a RAID array spin up, marveling at my handiwork with a crimper tool, designing or re-desiging a network, figuring out how to eek just a little more performance out of this our that, watching something compile properly or digging into why it isn't, amazing the boss by pulling together the impossible in half the time, and much more. You just gotta love the technology. The greatest compliment someone can give a sysadmin is to question just what the heck they do because, "everything around here just works".
One of my great joys is in shutting the lights off in the server room and just watching all of the blinkenlights. I know there's a lot of activity going on behind those lights and I take pride in the fact that I'm the person who designed and put it all together.
As a sysadmin, your job is to essentially make the network and servers act like the telephone system. It just works. In fact, you're surprised when it doesn't work. That's the way computers should work and that's the goal you should always shoot for. Always use established standards, know your technology and slowly put together a network of peers to rely on when the going gets tough.
To become a sysadmin you have to love the big picture and be good at putting apples and oranges together based on the established standard (if there is one). You also have to have a sense of humor, be able to get along with people and you have to care what they think about you. Developer types like to act like they don't care what anyone thinks of them. Sysadmins have to be just the opposite. You absolutely cannot sell the boss on some new technology or expect to explain a new concept to some thick headed user if you are a jerk. If you find yourself constantly frustrated at "all of these losers around you" then you are a jerk/asshole, get over it.
Since I was 5 years old, sitting next to my father at the punch card machines at Purdue university I've loved the technology. Every chance I got, I took the opportunity to play with cool toys and pick the brains of people who were giants in my eyes. My first real admin job was a college summer job about seven years ago for an ISP. That's where I was hooked on the sysadmin bug. Once I graduated from college I was on the very cusp of the.com boom and took a job as a developer. I tended to gravitate to sysadmin type stuff. I changed jobs a few times getting closer and closer to the bare metal so to speak. You won't get into the Alpha Geek (sysadmin) position right away and you *WILL* make mistakes. I'm not afraid to admit that I've made more than a few of my own.
As for schooling, IMHO CS/MIS/CE degrees tend to make the worst sysadmins. I personally have a mathematics degree. I started out in electrical engineering, went to physics (where I found out that physics profs simply do not know how to teach) and finally ended up in Math. My interests are extremely broad. I am an instrument rated pilot as well as SCUBA certified. I also play the Trumpet, enjoy cooking and am busy raising my 3 year old son (although I'm single so if you are a geek female and cute...). As for certifications, good admins should get certifications, but certifications don't make good admins. I'm usually a bit turned off by people with a lot of alphabet soup after their name. What makes you a good sysadmin is being in the trenches day after day, not a wall of certificates.
As for the downside, the only real downside is dealing with people who don't understand their own ignorance. Don't get cynical though, they're everywhere. Just learn to deal with them.
Of course it's low on the budgetary radar scope. They're not paying for Linux and they already have the Unix expertise in house. Since Linux runs on darn near anything, they probably already have the hardware there too.
The solution is very very simple. When you sign up for QWest DSL, tell 'em you want to use a different ISP. You don't *have* to use MSN. Already have MSN? Call QWest and ask 'em to change your ISP. It's just that simple. All QWest provides is a high speed route to the ISP of your choice.
pound for pound (or liter for liter), Hydrogen gas just doesn't pack as much punch, specatcular disasters caught on tape notwithstanding, as gasoline.
Huh? Absolutely not true! Hydrogen has the highest energy density of any fuel. Perhaps you haven't noticed that Hydrogen/Oxygen is what has propelled every Space Shuttle into space.
Think about it. What is Hydrogen? It's a single proton. That's it. It's about as energy dense as you can possibly get. Combine that with two oxygen molecules and you release a heck of a lot of energy. Gasoline doesn't even come close...
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Yo folks, haven't you heard of the Boston Tea Party? Colonists protested unjust taxation on Tea imports by breaking into a tea shipment and throwing it into the ocean. Perhaps it's time to repeat this bit of history...
Yes, I'm probably over simplifying it here, but isn't that the way it should be? I mean, heck, I love doing tech work for the sake of tech work, but I don't expect to make any money from it. The real money in IT, IMHO, should be made in the pursuit of using IT as a leverage to make a business stronger and more efficient.
Oh come on sydb you coward give me a kiss :-)
Absolutely read them. Your own words seemed to drown those out later on in the comment. It was necessary to... clarify.
despite appearing mature and clueful, way off mark.
No, despite trying to sound like the wiser one, you are way off the mark. If this was just a patch that unplugged a logjam it would have been applied a very long time ago. No, it took time because there were tradeoffs. Yes, those tradeoffs may not be entirely tangible or even noticeable by the end user, however there *are* tradeoffs.
For more proof, I'll direct you to the large number of clueful responses to my original question.
You don't get anything for free. What is the tradeoff that occurs when you integrate this patch?
Hmmm, if I had to hazard a guess, I'd say this is another Dean Kamen thing... Way to go man!
Kudos to the Perl community. They are building something truly great here. However, I won't give them a dime until they put more effort into being a bit nicer to people who need help. Personally, I've found them to be extremely helpful and a great resource. I've also seen them be downright nasty and arrogant towards people they perceive to be less than "elite". I know there's been some effort to do that in the past, however it seems to have died out from a public image point of view.
http://www.9thtee.com/tivonet.htm
should declare some degree of success. One of their aims was always to raise awareness of security issues. They should congratulate themselves for prompting a thick headed company like Microsoft to dramatically shift their focus. Congratulations people, your hard work has not gone to waste.
Note: I acknowledge that it was only an e-mail that was sent. The true proof will be in the proverbial pudding.
Lets see here, 12 transistors? That comes out to 479,001,600 possible combinations. Now you throw 4 of these things into the same environment and you get 11,496,038,400 possible combinations of interaction (all things being equal, as if that were possible). Hmmm, somewhere in there there's gotta be a monkey banging on a typewriter. Wonder what kind of Shakespeare you could get...
What does it matter if he testifies against his company? The US can't do a darn thing to them since they aren't in this country. Look at the DeBeers monopoly. Diamonds aren't rare at all, but DeBeers made some strategic agreements with countries to keep most of the supply locked up. Now the DeBeers executives will be arrested if they ever enter this country. That judgement hasn't done a darn thing. DeBeers still operates and so will ElmComsoft(SP?). I think it's just the justice department's way of saying, "Yeah, it's a stupid law, but we'd look stupid if we just let you go, so we're going to ask you to do something stupid so we can save face."
Umm duh? For the pedantically inclined, please alter my original comment by replacing "emulator" with the phrase "something that acts like 'em"...
Perhaps you forgot about WINE? If you can't beat 'em, build an emulator!
This was also reported on FuckedCompany a few days ago. An interesting discussion went along with it.
Theft alarms aren't for the car owners, they're for the insurance companies.
Why would anyone in their right mind want a car alarm? If the car gets stolen, big deal, the insurance company pays you for what it's worth (or if you have good insurance, they'll pay you for replacement value). Just don't leave anything you wouldn't want to lose in the car.
If anything you'd want an alarm on an older car since the insurance company won't give you enough to buy a new junker. Then again, who's going mess with an older car...
Will these things be able to protect us from ourselves?
So ah Mosfet, how much work have you done with the FHS group? Or do you just prefer to rant...
Dude, I hate to break this to you, but you're worrying about nothing. You don't need to log in/e-mail/whatever to NSI to transfer your domains away. Simply choose your registrar and request a domain transfer from them. All the rest is done for you. End of story. You never have to touch NSI at any time during the process...
Please, join in the fun. Go to www.mersenne.org to join. You've got an approximately 1 in 100,000 chance of winning the next EFF prize for finding a 10,000,000 digit prime number. That's way better than playing the lottery folks!
One of my great joys is in shutting the lights off in the server room and just watching all of the blinkenlights. I know there's a lot of activity going on behind those lights and I take pride in the fact that I'm the person who designed and put it all together.
As a sysadmin, your job is to essentially make the network and servers act like the telephone system. It just works. In fact, you're surprised when it doesn't work. That's the way computers should work and that's the goal you should always shoot for. Always use established standards, know your technology and slowly put together a network of peers to rely on when the going gets tough.
To become a sysadmin you have to love the big picture and be good at putting apples and oranges together based on the established standard (if there is one). You also have to have a sense of humor, be able to get along with people and you have to care what they think about you. Developer types like to act like they don't care what anyone thinks of them. Sysadmins have to be just the opposite. You absolutely cannot sell the boss on some new technology or expect to explain a new concept to some thick headed user if you are a jerk. If you find yourself constantly frustrated at "all of these losers around you" then you are a jerk/asshole, get over it.
Since I was 5 years old, sitting next to my father at the punch card machines at Purdue university I've loved the technology. Every chance I got, I took the opportunity to play with cool toys and pick the brains of people who were giants in my eyes. My first real admin job was a college summer job about seven years ago for an ISP. That's where I was hooked on the sysadmin bug. Once I graduated from college I was on the very cusp of the
As for schooling, IMHO CS/MIS/CE degrees tend to make the worst sysadmins. I personally have a mathematics degree. I started out in electrical engineering, went to physics (where I found out that physics profs simply do not know how to teach) and finally ended up in Math. My interests are extremely broad. I am an instrument rated pilot as well as SCUBA certified. I also play the Trumpet, enjoy cooking and am busy raising my 3 year old son (although I'm single so if you are a geek female and cute...). As for certifications, good admins should get certifications, but certifications don't make good admins. I'm usually a bit turned off by people with a lot of alphabet soup after their name. What makes you a good sysadmin is being in the trenches day after day, not a wall of certificates.
As for the downside, the only real downside is dealing with people who don't understand their own ignorance. Don't get cynical though, they're everywhere. Just learn to deal with them.
Of course it's low on the budgetary radar scope. They're not paying for Linux and they already have the Unix expertise in house. Since Linux runs on darn near anything, they probably already have the hardware there too.
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The solution is very very simple. When you sign up for QWest DSL, tell 'em you want to use a different ISP. You don't *have* to use MSN. Already have MSN? Call QWest and ask 'em to change your ISP. It's just that simple. All QWest provides is a high speed route to the ISP of your choice.
pound for pound (or liter for liter), Hydrogen gas just doesn't pack as much punch, specatcular disasters caught on tape notwithstanding, as gasoline.
Huh? Absolutely not true! Hydrogen has the highest energy density of any fuel. Perhaps you haven't noticed that Hydrogen/Oxygen is what has propelled every Space Shuttle into space.
Think about it. What is Hydrogen? It's a single proton. That's it. It's about as energy dense as you can possibly get. Combine that with two oxygen molecules and you release a heck of a lot of energy. Gasoline doesn't even come close...