Same thing industrial workers at the beginning of the 20th century did. Organize, form Unions and fight back.
Oh come off it.
All unions do these days is ensure that Joe Sixpack makes $26/hr stamping metal. That's it. Work conditions for the industrial worker at the start of the 20th century are a lot different than they are for the tech worker today.
If you don't like where you are, leave. That will send a far stronger message and, if you are worth your salt, you will have zero trouble finding another job. If you're some shitass ASP programmer who can't figure out anything on your own, yeah you'll starve, which is probably the reason you want your sacred union in the first place.
Oh and yes, I have a young family and know how tough it is to leave your job for the unknown. And yes I'm in rural Ontario, far far far away from either Silicon Valley or what's known as Silicon Valley North. If you are working (60+ hours | terrible conditions | unhappily), you gotta do it. Unions won't solve your unhappiness. Grow your own balls instead of hiding behind someone else's.
Check out ExpertCity, a neat site that lets you talk in real time with an expert, and it installs client-server software which allows him to literally show you how to do something by taking control of your mouse (which requires your permission and can be disabled at any time of course). I believe the software this service is based on is at BuddyHelp.com.
I use VNC for the exact same thing. Only I'm the expert.:-) It sure beats trying to explain how to do something over the phone. Just log in and fix it.
I disagree 100%. Knowledge of an installation's infrastructure should never comprimise the security of the setup. If it does, then you're relying (to a certain extent) on security through obscurity.
As I keep telling people around here, Security through obscurity is a valid security model WHEN ADDED TO OTHER SECURITY MEASURES!
What's wrong about adding a little obscurity to your design? It makes it More secure than before. Not much, admittedly, but every layer counts and if your traffic logger is picking up a guy scanning around trying to get past your thin obscurity layer, it can set off alarms earlier than without.
I AM NOT saying that security through obscurity is a valid measure when used alone, but when used in conjunction with other security methods, it enhances overall security.
Do you post a sign on your house saying "My locks are Master model ES014, 6-pin with 1/8" slot width?" No, you don't put anything. Hence another layer of security (obscurity) on top of the physical lock. Similarly if you did have such a sign and a would-be thief knew about a trick for that exact model lock, you've just made his day easier. Why tell the world that you're using BSD/Linux/NT version x with software a, b and c? You're just eliminating options that they would-be attacker would otherwise have to try!
Security should be provided by a well thought out layered approach: network layering (multiple firewalls, screening routers, IDS, etc...), host-based security (tcp wrappers, service minimalization & replacement, tripwire, etc..), and application security (ie. authentication, verification, etc...)
Yes, and then don't go about advertising the exact methods you've used to lock yourself down. Keep 'em guessing long enough to trip something and alert you, and make sure the security model is thick enough to keep him at bay.
That bug is STILL around? I used to crash Telegard BBSes back in the day by trying to upload a file called COM1 or PRN or any number of reserved words!
If you're using MySQL, you're not really quite learning SQL, at least not properly.
Nor are you if you are using Oracle to learn.:-)
I use Postgres. I'm not claiming to learn SQL through it. I don't think any RDBMS actually uses 100% SQL '92. It's kinda like ANSI C. Yeah they'll take the statements, though grudgingly so.:-)
One thing I didn't like about Postgres, was that there was no concept of users and passwords in it. Am I going to let X users share my machine in an environment where everyone can see everyone else's tables? I think not.
What are you smoking?
Postgres has all the regular GRANT options any RDBMS has, in addition to its Host Based Authentication in pg_hba.conf which allows you to trust, deny, ident, use kerberos or a regular password for any database it's in charge of!
Ummm... Isn't dolby a noise reduction method which requires a specific Dolby encoding method? It isn't just a filter, IIRC -- it is some fancy-schmancy encoding scheme that allows encoded music to be played without the decode, but allows playback through Dolby-licensed processing to be better.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with using veroboard for a prototype, or even for a finished design! Keep your decoupling caps very close (on top or under if you can) and keep the DAC and amp far away from the DSP and processor and you'll be fine.
As someone who's built lots of low-noise (0.1mV sensitivity) and/or medium speed (40MHz) equipment on protoboard first, I know what I'm talking about. You can always throw copper shield up around the sensitive components and keep the power supplies clean with carefully selected bypass caps and even lowish resistances. Or get fancy and use ferrite.
If it is true veroboard (with tracks, as opposed to the board-only stuff I like), you can just rip off the copper you don't need and down goes all your sensitivity issues. True you haven't got a ground plane but if you can keep everything encased in grounded metal sheild you're flying high.
After reading the su manpage (again!) it does make sense. My apologies for the dumb post.
However, This is the actual output on my slack 3.4 box:
# su -c "/usr/bin/id" nobody
uid=65534(nobody) gid=100(users) groups=100(users)
And on my slack7 box:
# su -c "/usr/bin/id" nobody
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),1(bin),2(daemon),3(sys),4(adm),6(di sk),10(wheel),11(floppy)
So it appears that the older versions of su worked a little different. And again, after comparing the two man pages, they are indeed different. *grumble*
# su --version
su (GNU sh-utils) 1.16
... allows the su -c "command" username, and
# su --version
GNU bash, version 2.03.0(1)-release (i386-slackware-linux-gnu)
Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
... doesn't. Seems like it is part of bash now, even though it is running as/bin/su. Curious. Thank you for the reply though, at least now I know why I'm an idiot.:-)
Slackware 7 does something even weirder. As root, do this on a slack version (anything but 7):
# su -c "/usr/bin/id" nobody
You should get an id string for nobody. On slack7, you get root's. No man page explains why, only that the -c should work as shown. And it does on other systems.
I'm not sure if I have the Dungeoneer's and Wilderness Survival Guides though. They sound familliar but they've been put away for a long time now.:-)
My dad was the same way. He never saw use in all this fantasy playing. I'm not really sure if there was use in it, but it did do wonders for my creative writing and visualization skills!
I think the hardest part of being a DM was creating original scenarios that actually were challenging and about as realistic as you could do in a fantasy world. I didn't worry too much about weight restrictions and the like (I just used common sense) but often enough the players would get seriously injured or died because the players didn't really follow my original thinking.
It's tough work bringing together a half dozen people and trying to create a world big and detailled enough to keep them occupied for a weekend.:-) They'd left on more than one occassion complaining of nightmares a few days later. Demonic puppets (the wooden dummy kind) haunt me to this day.:-)
Fiend Folio, Dieties and Demigods (the blueish cover wth I believe Odin on it), Manual of the Planes... Not sure about the Dungeoneer's and Wilderness Survival Guides though. They sound familliar but they've been put away for a long time now.:-)
Demon on the DM's Manual? Must be very first release of the 1st edition.
I have, in mint condition, the reprint of all of the 1st series of manuals. These are not the shitty 2nd edition ruleset, with rewritten rules for THAC0 and the like, but a reprint of the 1st edition.
What's all there... Player's Handbook, DM's guide (the one with the warlock in the green robe), Monster Manuals I, II and III, Unearthed Arcana and three or four others which were a little more specialized (one of them was for orient-centric adventures and characters, can't remember the name of this one). I believe there was also a Diety manual. God I miss AD&D.
My friend's brother was a fanatic about it and, being 8 years older than the rest of us, got us hooked. Of course, all my friends hated being DM, so I did it. If I look around hard enough, I'm sure I'll find maps of my cities, forests, character and NPC sheets, plot outlines... And my dice. I gotta find my dice.:-)
Shit, I didn't copy and paste the other end of the message.:-)
I work as an digital editor for a local photographer and we see the digital problem all the time from customers who bring in disks with really funky images, we're usually more than happy to show em the red haze on the top combined with the blue outline on the bottom after zooming in quite a bit.
Could you throw this up on a page somewhere? I've taken hundreds of digital pictures with cameras that certainly are not considered professional (Kodak DC30 I believe, it's been a while, and an Epson whose model escapes me entirely at this time) and have never hit this problem, even with "fast" scenes. I've never used a tripod with these cameras, which would only make the problem more apparent.
... with a digital you're not really taking one picture.... you're taking three pics. one in red, one in green, and one in blue.
I don't think you know what you're talking about. There is only one exposure, not three. The CCD has red, green and blue-sensitive pixels and all are exposed at the same time -- at least with any digital camera I've seen.
Now the computer does take these as three seperate "images" this much is true. But they're all exposed in one opening and closing of the shutter.
What do you people do on these machines to need that much power? the only things i can think of are servers (which i can understand) or Quake 3 or something. But I don't run servers on my desktop machine and don't play Quake.
Now why on Earth do most servers require huge processors? The only servers I've routinely run across are file servers. And what they need is fast I/O, not fast processor.
Hell I've got one serving up files for a 50-computer (not huge, but not small) network:
P90
64M RAM
DPT Century 2-channel host adapter
8M ECC Cache RAM (standard)
i960 host processor doing RAID 0+1
2 SCSI UW2 10k RPM drives
3Com 905B 100bT ethernet
When we run out of room next we'll be going RAID5 on the SCSI subsystem. RAID 0+1 right now will keep the network full and provide an up-to-the-second "backup" so if one drives goes down in flaming death we can rip it out and replace it without taking the server down.
The second channel is for the slow shit - CD burner, tape backup, etc. - that way they don't slow down the main filestore when they are using the bus.
Now application servers, database servers... these systems I can see requiring heavy processor and memory systems but what percentage of servers are actually doing anything but file/print sharing?
I wouldn't call it poor quality of stories per se, but definately poor quality of writers / editors, as some have already pointed out.
The second I see "u" or "r" or anything to that effect I cringe. If I can, I ignore the person. If they are too lazy to type out a three letter word (I still manage to type entire words correctly with one hand while the other is holding my five-month-old daughter), I figure they're too lazy to hold up a decent conversation.
There aren't many things that bother me, but the whole "u", "r", "bye4now", "cya" and other such idiotic typing speed enhancements are a surefire way to start off on the wrong foot with me.
Anal? I don't think so. Is it anal to want drivers to drive correctly? Or to expect a meal cooked properly? Or how about wanting news journalists to use the language they're writing in properly? It's just plain common courtesy to me.
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Um, this is DSL not a regular baud modem. So you are dealing with business office pc's, since many businesses use DSL for their service. Um, the PC market is huge. Um, your statistics are way off. So lemme get this straight. You're gonna install a DSL modem and DSL connection for (let's say 10%) of the PCs in your office? Why? I am currently writing this in an office. We have one SDSL box (A Megabit Modem 300s) hooked up to a firewall which provides 'net to the entire office through the existing ethernet infrastructure. I don't believe the original poster's statistics are off at all.
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You should optimize the cache controller not the compiler. Instead of keeping all accessed pages you should start keeping pages where access has started.
Sounds like the "Read-ahead" feature which has been in disk cacheing software since the onset of it all. Amazing how things tend to come full-circle.:-)
How does this get a score of 0, and Signal 11 babbles away and gets a least a 1.
Yeah it's flamebait (thank you moderators) but this twitt doesn't seem to realize the difference between a registered user posting and an anonymous coward posting. Hell I don't think he even realizes his own posts are at 1, hopefully moderated down into the sub-zero land as I write.
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Same thing industrial workers at the beginning of the 20th century did. Organize, form Unions and fight back.
Oh come off it.
All unions do these days is ensure that Joe Sixpack makes $26/hr stamping metal. That's it. Work conditions for the industrial worker at the start of the 20th century are a lot different than they are for the tech worker today.
If you don't like where you are, leave. That will send a far stronger message and, if you are worth your salt, you will have zero trouble finding another job. If you're some shitass ASP programmer who can't figure out anything on your own, yeah you'll starve, which is probably the reason you want your sacred union in the first place.
Oh and yes, I have a young family and know how tough it is to leave your job for the unknown. And yes I'm in rural Ontario, far far far away from either Silicon Valley or what's known as Silicon Valley North. If you are working (60+ hours | terrible conditions | unhappily), you gotta do it. Unions won't solve your unhappiness. Grow your own balls instead of hiding behind someone else's.
How does stirring sauce make it hotter?
I'm thinking maybe you don't cook too much.Well if you stirred really really fast...
I use VNC for the exact same thing. Only I'm the expert. :-) It sure beats trying to explain how to do something over the phone. Just log in and fix it.
I disagree 100%. Knowledge of an installation's infrastructure should never comprimise the security of the setup. If it does, then you're relying (to a certain extent) on security through obscurity.
As I keep telling people around here, Security through obscurity is a valid security model WHEN ADDED TO OTHER SECURITY MEASURES!
What's wrong about adding a little obscurity to your design? It makes it More secure than before. Not much, admittedly, but every layer counts and if your traffic logger is picking up a guy scanning around trying to get past your thin obscurity layer, it can set off alarms earlier than without.
I AM NOT saying that security through obscurity is a valid measure when used alone, but when used in conjunction with other security methods, it enhances overall security.
Do you post a sign on your house saying "My locks are Master model ES014, 6-pin with 1/8" slot width?" No, you don't put anything. Hence another layer of security (obscurity) on top of the physical lock. Similarly if you did have such a sign and a would-be thief knew about a trick for that exact model lock, you've just made his day easier. Why tell the world that you're using BSD/Linux/NT version x with software a, b and c? You're just eliminating options that they would-be attacker would otherwise have to try!
Security should be provided by a well thought out layered approach: network layering (multiple firewalls, screening routers, IDS, etc...), host-based security (tcp wrappers, service minimalization & replacement, tripwire, etc..), and application security (ie. authentication, verification, etc...)
Yes, and then don't go about advertising the exact methods you've used to lock yourself down. Keep 'em guessing long enough to trip something and alert you, and make sure the security model is thick enough to keep him at bay.
I've got three-phase in my house, don't you?
OH MY LORD
That bug is STILL around? I used to crash Telegard BBSes back in the day by trying to upload a file called COM1 or PRN or any number of reserved words!
Absolutely unreal!
Nor are you if you are using Oracle to learn. :-)
I use Postgres. I'm not claiming to learn SQL through it. I don't think any RDBMS actually uses 100% SQL '92. It's kinda like ANSI C. Yeah they'll take the statements, though grudgingly so. :-)
What are you smoking?
Postgres has all the regular GRANT options any RDBMS has, in addition to its Host Based Authentication in pg_hba.conf which allows you to trust, deny, ident, use kerberos or a regular password for any database it's in charge of!
Ummm... Isn't dolby a noise reduction method which requires a specific Dolby encoding method? It isn't just a filter, IIRC -- it is some fancy-schmancy encoding scheme that allows encoded music to be played without the decode, but allows playback through Dolby-licensed processing to be better.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with using veroboard for a prototype, or even for a finished design! Keep your decoupling caps very close (on top or under if you can) and keep the DAC and amp far away from the DSP and processor and you'll be fine.
As someone who's built lots of low-noise (0.1mV sensitivity) and/or medium speed (40MHz) equipment on protoboard first, I know what I'm talking about. You can always throw copper shield up around the sensitive components and keep the power supplies clean with carefully selected bypass caps and even lowish resistances. Or get fancy and use ferrite.
If it is true veroboard (with tracks, as opposed to the board-only stuff I like), you can just rip off the copper you don't need and down goes all your sensitivity issues. True you haven't got a ground plane but if you can keep everything encased in grounded metal sheild you're flying high.
After reading the su manpage (again!) it does make sense. My apologies for the dumb post.
However, This is the actual output on my slack 3.4 box:
# su -c "/usr/bin/id" nobodyuid=65534(nobody) gid=100(users) groups=100(users)
And on my slack7 box:
# su -c "/usr/bin/id" nobodyuid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),1(bin),2(daemon),3(sys),4(adm),6(d
So it appears that the older versions of su worked a little different. And again, after comparing the two man pages, they are indeed different. *grumble*
# su --versionsu (GNU sh-utils) 1.16
... allows the su -c "command" username, and
# su --versionGNU bash, version 2.03.0(1)-release (i386-slackware-linux-gnu)
Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
... doesn't. Seems like it is part of bash now, even though it is running as /bin/su. Curious. Thank you for the reply though, at least now I know why I'm an idiot. :-)
Slackware 7 does something even weirder. As root, do this on a slack version (anything but 7):
# su -c "/usr/bin/id" nobodyYou should get an id string for nobody. On slack7, you get root's. No man page explains why, only that the -c should work as shown. And it does on other systems.
For some reason, you must use the shell:
# su - nobody -c "/usr/bin/id"Can anyone explain this??
I'm not sure if I have the Dungeoneer's and Wilderness Survival Guides though. They sound familliar but they've been put away for a long time now. :-)
My dad was the same way. He never saw use in all this fantasy playing. I'm not really sure if there was use in it, but it did do wonders for my creative writing and visualization skills!
I think the hardest part of being a DM was creating original scenarios that actually were challenging and about as realistic as you could do in a fantasy world. I didn't worry too much about weight restrictions and the like (I just used common sense) but often enough the players would get seriously injured or died because the players didn't really follow my original thinking.
It's tough work bringing together a half dozen people and trying to create a world big and detailled enough to keep them occupied for a weekend. :-) They'd left on more than one occassion complaining of nightmares a few days later. Demonic puppets (the wooden dummy kind) haunt me to this day. :-)
Fiend Folio, Dieties and Demigods (the blueish cover wth I believe Odin on it), Manual of the Planes... Not sure about the Dungeoneer's and Wilderness Survival Guides though. They sound familliar but they've been put away for a long time now. :-)
Demon on the DM's Manual? Must be very first release of the 1st edition.
I have, in mint condition, the reprint of all of the 1st series of manuals. These are not the shitty 2nd edition ruleset, with rewritten rules for THAC0 and the like, but a reprint of the 1st edition.
What's all there... Player's Handbook, DM's guide (the one with the warlock in the green robe), Monster Manuals I, II and III, Unearthed Arcana and three or four others which were a little more specialized (one of them was for orient-centric adventures and characters, can't remember the name of this one). I believe there was also a Diety manual. God I miss AD&D.
My friend's brother was a fanatic about it and, being 8 years older than the rest of us, got us hooked. Of course, all my friends hated being DM, so I did it. If I look around hard enough, I'm sure I'll find maps of my cities, forests, character and NPC sheets, plot outlines... And my dice. I gotta find my dice. :-)
Shit, I didn't copy and paste the other end of the message. :-)
I work as an digital editor for a local photographer and we see the digital problem all the time from customers who bring in disks with really funky images, we're usually more than happy to show em the red haze on the top combined with the blue outline on the bottom after zooming in quite a bit.
Could you throw this up on a page somewhere? I've taken hundreds of digital pictures with cameras that certainly are not considered professional (Kodak DC30 I believe, it's been a while, and an Epson whose model escapes me entirely at this time) and have never hit this problem, even with "fast" scenes. I've never used a tripod with these cameras, which would only make the problem more apparent.
I don't think you know what you're talking about. There is only one exposure, not three. The CCD has red, green and blue-sensitive pixels and all are exposed at the same time -- at least with any digital camera I've seen.
Now the computer does take these as three seperate "images" this much is true. But they're all exposed in one opening and closing of the shutter.
Excuse me?
The only credit-card sized CDs I have found hold 20 or 40MB, not 200. I would, however, be interersted in 200mb varieties. Got a link?
Now why on Earth do most servers require huge processors? The only servers I've routinely run across are file servers. And what they need is fast I/O, not fast processor.
Hell I've got one serving up files for a 50-computer (not huge, but not small) network:
When we run out of room next we'll be going RAID5 on the SCSI subsystem. RAID 0+1 right now will keep the network full and provide an up-to-the-second "backup" so if one drives goes down in flaming death we can rip it out and replace it without taking the server down.
The second channel is for the slow shit - CD burner, tape backup, etc. - that way they don't slow down the main filestore when they are using the bus.
Now application servers, database servers... these systems I can see requiring heavy processor and memory systems but what percentage of servers are actually doing anything but file/print sharing?
Granted I'm not part of the goth culture but all of my friends who are are invariably jet-black haired, not green.
I wouldn't call it poor quality of stories per se, but definately poor quality of writers / editors, as some have already pointed out.
The second I see "u" or "r" or anything to that effect I cringe. If I can, I ignore the person. If they are too lazy to type out a three letter word (I still manage to type entire words correctly with one hand while the other is holding my five-month-old daughter), I figure they're too lazy to hold up a decent conversation.
There aren't many things that bother me, but the whole "u", "r", "bye4now", "cya" and other such idiotic typing speed enhancements are a surefire way to start off on the wrong foot with me.
Anal? I don't think so. Is it anal to want drivers to drive correctly? Or to expect a meal cooked properly? Or how about wanting news journalists to use the language they're writing in properly? It's just plain common courtesy to me.
Um, this is DSL not a regular baud modem. So you are dealing with business office pc's, since many businesses use DSL for their service. Um, the PC market is huge. Um, your statistics are way off. So lemme get this straight. You're gonna install a DSL modem and DSL connection for (let's say 10%) of the PCs in your office? Why? I am currently writing this in an office. We have one SDSL box (A Megabit Modem 300s) hooked up to a firewall which provides 'net to the entire office through the existing ethernet infrastructure. I don't believe the original poster's statistics are off at all.
Sounds like the "Read-ahead" feature which has been in disk cacheing software since the onset of it all. Amazing how things tend to come full-circle. :-)
Works with standard English IE5 install. cute easter egg. At least it's not a flight sim. :-)
Yeah it's flamebait (thank you moderators) but this twitt doesn't seem to realize the difference between a registered user posting and an anonymous coward posting. Hell I don't think he even realizes his own posts are at 1, hopefully moderated down into the sub-zero land as I write.
Or he may be a microtroll and I've bitten.