Great analogy. I recall how after the OK City incident the citizens of Michigan danced in the streets, passed out candy and exclaimed "God is Great!" Yes, the two situations are exactly the same, and they should be dealt with consistently.
Not a chance that we're going to see routers doing this anytime soon, especially not the Big Ass (tm) Cisco or Juniper routers. It's simply too computationally expensive for them to do this (today, at least) and having this feature would put them at a competitive disadvantage in terms of the # of billions of packets they can push in 23 nanoseconds.
After all, it's marketing data that drives the industry - not the product's actual worth.
Any OS these days is going to be user friendly because they all have to be in order to remain viable. The Linux of 5 years ago is not the Linux of today, just like the NT of 5 years ago is not the 2K/XP of today.
As easy as it might be for anyone, my 91 year old grandmother included (God bless her), to figure out how to navigate in Win2K in a matter of minutes - there remains a big difference between being able to launch Word or Excel, and being able to, say, add a "DisableDHCPMediaSense" dword to your reigstry so that your NIC works without a physical connection (Bastards). Grandma can't do that. But you know what? Grandma don't care.
The same is true for every flavor/distro of Linux and Unix. The point of just about every OS today is to allow most people to do what they have to with ease, while at the same time allowing the really really smart guys to do what they want to with the UberSkilz they got that Grandma lacks.
Down with the elitist fraternity that is the Bar Association, and up with enormous 15 year old pacific islanders practicing law! Why should they alone have the right to give legal advice? Sure, a little over a hundred years ago the system of apprenticeship that fueled the largely unstructured legal profession was not particularly efficient. It was impossible to regulate or govern people practicing law because of geographic isolation, and general failures in communication.
Today, we have the internet. With the constancy and immediacy of communication that it provides, it offers the framework for a self-governing system where 15 year old should be as entitled to offer legal advice as the 83 year old lifelong attorney whose forebears were politicians from Massachusetts for the past 150 years.
The only thing they offer is experience, which as this article demonstrates, can quite easily be shared and had today by nearly anyone. The other thing the exclusive aristocracy is supposed to offer is ethical codification and regimentation - and everyone knows lawyers and politicians do a fabulous job of that.
Hey - You/. type folk have heard of OSDN, right? You know that OSDN facility in Acton? It happens to be in same building as one of Cisco's best TAC's. Anyone ever think of walking 22 feet, knocking on their door and saying "Hey - can one of you Cisco people give us a hand?"
Having lived in Utah for the past ten years, I've seen too many episodes of this sort for this story to surprise me. It is all too common for the various institutions of the state to conduct witch-hunts designed, ostensibly, to do little more than utterly ruin people in the name of morality.
My solution has been to never align myself with these sorts of institutions; somewhat difficult to do - but becoming increasingly less so. Remaining distanced from and independent of them saves you having to live in constant fear of ever becoming one of the bad-guys, and being ostracized. Sure, I'm not one of the boys, and I'm denied certain privileges, but it's still worthwhile for me - I recognize it as one of the prices I have to pay for choosing to live in Utah.
Is this normal? Should it apply to a University? A University in Utah other than BYU? No - it isn't and it shouldn't. But that doesn't change the fact that it still does - even at the UofU. Again, things are getting progressively better here, but we'll still have to wait about another generation before reason reigns over perceived moral superiority, and the ensuing compelling need to make the world a better place by crushing your fellow Utahn gone astray.
Having lived in Utah for the past ten years, I've seen too many episodes of this sort for this story to surprise me. It is all too common for the various institutions of the state to conduct witch-hunts designed, ostensibly, to do little more than utterly ruin people in the name of morality.My solution has been to never align myself with these sorts of institutions; somewhat difficult to do - but becoming increasingly less so. Remaining distanced from and independent of them saves you having to live in constant fear of ever becoming one of the bad-guys, and being ostracized. Sure, I'm not one of the boys, and I'm denied certain privileges, but it's still worthwhile for me - I recognize it as one of the prices I have to pay for choosing to live in Utah.Is this normal? Should it apply to a University? A University in Utah other than BYU? No - it isn't and it shouldn't. But that doesn't change the fact that it still does - even at the UofU. Again, things are getting progressively better here, but we'll still have to wait about another generation before reason reigns over perceived moral superiority, and the ensuing compelling need to make the world a better place by crushing your fellow Utahn gone astray.
It took me longer to decrypt this algorithm than it takes me to decrypt 3DES by hand. I'm afraid it would be prohibitively expensive, and today's CPU's would buckle under the load.
Why not just amend the current DNS RR schema with extensions to support Transport Port Numbers (P records?) as well as Network Addresses (A records) so that port-forwarding can work transparently through DNS? Oh, and redo that whole gethostbyname thing, too.
If it's obtrusive innovation you're going for, why not go all the way? (Disclaimer: The preceding question is not intended to represent itself as attaining the full potential extent of obtrusiveness.)
1) Set all other netware servers to a different IPX network. 2) Have everyone listen for the SAP induced "Router Configuration Error" cacophony of beeps. 3) Hope you find the thing before the speaker explodes.
The real difference between the Oracle's and the MySQL's of the world is investor confidence.
This is, of course, from the perspective of someone who has worked with quite a few start-ups looking for VC dollars. Whether the database was 20 MB or 1.5 TB, whether there were 50 transactions a day or 50 a second didn't matter. It was someone else's money they were spending trying to secure even more of yet another party's money. Why do affordable and adequate when you can do exorbitant and ostentatious? VC's see MySQL and say "huh?" - they see Oracle and say "These guys have their act together; let's give them a whole bunch of money so that they may sell monocles for myopic rabid monkeys."
Fortunately, for established companies, the dog and pony method of RDBMS selection isn't as universally applicable. Granted, they still have an obligation to impress investors, board members, etc., but they also usually have sufficient flexibility to make decisions based (somewhat) on needs and costs analyses.
I wonder if Activision still presents those patches (or were they iron ons?) to people who achieve high scores in their games. Had to take a picture of your television screen and send it to them, and they'd induct you into a club for video game over-achievers and mail you a handsome patch as a reward [allowing 4-6 weeks for delivery]. I'm sure I still have mine somewhere. Maybe I'll dig up my pitfall patch--if anyone deserves it, it's this guy.
1) How many dotcom MBA's are surprised by the fact that a vast majority of internet users are willing to pay ~$20.00 a month for Ad-Free browsing/email?
2) A what? A revenue model? What the heck is that? Stockholders? You mean we have to earn money and be profitable? I thought the.com appendage absolved of that nasty little obligation.
Three MIT students were killed yesterday, and one was severely injured when a robotic arm controlled by a monkey 600 miles away was compromised by a buffer-overflow exploit.
"Maybe we shouldn't have been running fingerd," stated Lars Bjorjensen, the student who survived the attack. Lars is in critical, but stable condition, and pledges to continue development on the project.
Lars added "I guess I should have known something was wrong the arm scrawled 'Free Kevin!' on the whiteboard. I mean, he's already free, isn't he?"
>> Perhaps Redhat should consider labelling them RedHat 6.2 and RedHat Experimental?
Caldera had an interesting idea here with their "Technology Preview." Unlike RedHat 7.0, however, with its 2,500 alleged bugs, Caldera's Preview offers an estimated 38% functionality, and no innovation. And Caldera charges $20.00 (redeemable) for it. Caldera may have been good enough to call it what it is, but at least RedHat offers updates more frequently than once every five years, and demonstrates at least an element of creativity.
P.S. - As a resident of Utah, I am granted license to say what I wish about Caldera with impunity.
I've been through the scarcity of good managers. In the four years that I've been with my company (an integrator in Utah), I've been through three managers. Each successive manager failed more miserably than the last. As fate, with its cruel ironic wit would have it, I am now the fourth manager.
Whereas the other managers had the desire, but not the ability (i.e. not a clue technically), I have neither the desire nor the ability (albeit my ineptitude stems from lack of tolerance and understanding of the business aspects of IT management.) At the same time, I am expected to be as productive as I was prior to my ascension to the executive throne.
I thought that by assuming a management position, I'd be able to serve as the voice of my subjugated brethren, that I'd be able to (here it comes) make a difference. I have been promised from the start the support I'd need to "make things happen," and to make my vision incarnate.
Life just doesn't work that way.
Is it my fault? That's not for me to say (I tend to have a distorted view of reality). But at the same time it suggests that perhaps it's not entirely the fault of management either, that perhaps it is a cultural phenomenon so pervasive that it would be unfair to call the situation "wrong." I'm tired of trying to find someone or something to blame. I'm tired of being asked "what can we do to fix it?"
The answer is not 20 hour work-weeks, with daily back rubs, foot massages, and 50% pay raises. That would be nice, for a while, but then the same malaise would ultimately resurface. The problem seems socially rooted, borne primarily of isolation, but now I'm going off on another tangent....
Companies have learned to hire IT persons whose dedication to the profession extends beyond the 9-5 job. No longer do companies look for well rounded, diversified employees, with things like "hobbies" and "families." Oh no. Now they seek persons whose hobbies also happen to be computer-related. This offers not only some of the sharpest minds within the industry, but also a level of dedication well beyond what your typical sane, well adjusted, socially acclimated, etc. employee would ever offer. Couple this with the outrageous salaries that many of us are being paid, and the rampancy of non-compete agreements, and you have, you have.... A violation of Civil Rights!
We are in fact a sub-culture, of sorts, and we are being victimized. The ACLU ought to be made aware of this injustice. I've too many times had to go into my boss and ask for a pay-cut in an attempt to "buy back" a portion or my life and liberty, only to have him surreptitiously give me another promotion and a raise to return the balance to his favor.
I feel trapped by the situation. I feel as if I've sold my soul. I want to go back to a simpler existence. One with an abacus. I made my bed, and I can't get the hell out of it.
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Great analogy. I recall how after the OK City incident the citizens of Michigan danced in the streets, passed out candy and exclaimed "God is Great!" Yes, the two situations are exactly the same, and they should be dealt with consistently.
Not a chance that we're going to see routers doing this anytime soon, especially not the Big Ass (tm) Cisco or Juniper routers. It's simply too computationally expensive for them to do this (today, at least) and having this feature would put them at a competitive disadvantage in terms of the # of billions of packets they can push in 23 nanoseconds.
After all, it's marketing data that drives the industry - not the product's actual worth.
Any OS these days is going to be user friendly because they all have to be in order to remain viable. The Linux of 5 years ago is not the Linux of today, just like the NT of 5 years ago is not the 2K/XP of today.
As easy as it might be for anyone, my 91 year old grandmother included (God bless her), to figure out how to navigate in Win2K in a matter of minutes - there remains a big difference between being able to launch Word or Excel, and being able to, say, add a "DisableDHCPMediaSense" dword to your reigstry so that your NIC works without a physical connection (Bastards). Grandma can't do that. But you know what? Grandma don't care.
The same is true for every flavor/distro of Linux and Unix. The point of just about every OS today is to allow most people to do what they have to with ease, while at the same time allowing the really really smart guys to do what they want to with the UberSkilz they got that Grandma lacks.
Down with the elitist fraternity that is the Bar Association, and up with enormous 15 year old pacific islanders practicing law! Why should they alone have the right to give legal advice? Sure, a little over a hundred years ago the system of apprenticeship that fueled the largely unstructured legal profession was not particularly efficient. It was impossible to regulate or govern people practicing law because of geographic isolation, and general failures in communication.
Today, we have the internet. With the constancy and immediacy of communication that it provides, it offers the framework for a self-governing system where 15 year old should be as entitled to offer legal advice as the 83 year old lifelong attorney whose forebears were politicians from Massachusetts for the past 150 years.
The only thing they offer is experience, which as this article demonstrates, can quite easily be shared and had today by nearly anyone. The other thing the exclusive aristocracy is supposed to offer is ethical codification and regimentation - and everyone knows lawyers and politicians do a fabulous job of that.
Hey - You /. type folk have heard of OSDN, right? You know that OSDN facility in Acton? It happens to be in same building as one of Cisco's best TAC's. Anyone ever think of walking 22 feet, knocking on their door and saying "Hey - can one of you Cisco people give us a hand?"
I forbid you to ever go offline again!
Having lived in Utah for the past ten years, I've seen too many episodes of this sort for this story to surprise me. It is all too common for the various institutions of the state to conduct witch-hunts designed, ostensibly, to do little more than utterly ruin people in the name of morality.
My solution has been to never align myself with these sorts of institutions; somewhat difficult to do - but becoming increasingly less so. Remaining distanced from and independent of them saves you having to live in constant fear of ever becoming one of the bad-guys, and being ostracized. Sure, I'm not one of the boys, and I'm denied certain privileges, but it's still worthwhile for me - I recognize it as one of the prices I have to pay for choosing to live in Utah.
Is this normal? Should it apply to a University? A University in Utah other than BYU? No - it isn't and it shouldn't. But that doesn't change the fact that it still does - even at the UofU. Again, things are getting progressively better here, but we'll still have to wait about another generation before reason reigns over perceived moral superiority, and the ensuing compelling need to make the world a better place by crushing your fellow Utahn gone astray.
Having lived in Utah for the past ten years, I've seen too many episodes of this sort for this story to surprise me. It is all too common for the various institutions of the state to conduct witch-hunts designed, ostensibly, to do little more than utterly ruin people in the name of morality. My solution has been to never align myself with these sorts of institutions; somewhat difficult to do - but becoming increasingly less so. Remaining distanced from and independent of them saves you having to live in constant fear of ever becoming one of the bad-guys, and being ostracized. Sure, I'm not one of the boys, and I'm denied certain privileges, but it's still worthwhile for me - I recognize it as one of the prices I have to pay for choosing to live in Utah. Is this normal? Should it apply to a University? A University in Utah other than BYU? No - it isn't and it shouldn't. But that doesn't change the fact that it still does - even at the UofU. Again, things are getting progressively better here, but we'll still have to wait about another generation before reason reigns over perceived moral superiority, and the ensuing compelling need to make the world a better place by crushing your fellow Utahn gone astray.
It took me longer to decrypt this algorithm than it takes me to decrypt 3DES by hand. I'm afraid it would be prohibitively expensive, and today's CPU's would buckle under the load.
I don't work for them, but a friend does
Why not just amend the current DNS RR schema with extensions to support Transport Port Numbers (P records?) as well as Network Addresses (A records) so that port-forwarding can work transparently through DNS? Oh, and redo that whole gethostbyname thing, too.
If it's obtrusive innovation you're going for, why not go all the way? (Disclaimer: The preceding question is not intended to represent itself as attaining the full potential extent of obtrusiveness.)
set sound bell for alerts = on
1) Set all other netware servers to a different IPX network.
2) Have everyone listen for the SAP induced "Router Configuration Error" cacophony of beeps.
3) Hope you find the thing before the speaker explodes.
Just a thought...
The real difference between the Oracle's and the MySQL's of the world is investor confidence.
This is, of course, from the perspective of someone who has worked with quite a few start-ups looking for VC dollars. Whether the database was 20 MB or 1.5 TB, whether there were 50 transactions a day or 50 a second didn't matter. It was someone else's money they were spending trying to secure even more of yet another party's money. Why do affordable and adequate when you can do exorbitant and ostentatious? VC's see MySQL and say "huh?" - they see Oracle and say "These guys have their act together; let's give them a whole bunch of money so that they may sell monocles for myopic rabid monkeys."
Fortunately, for established companies, the dog and pony method of RDBMS selection isn't as universally applicable. Granted, they still have an obligation to impress investors, board members, etc., but they also usually have sufficient flexibility to make decisions based (somewhat) on needs and costs analyses.
I've seen an almost even distribution of endorsements for CS and CIS, and even a few for Math for the really, really smart guys.
In response the the original piece, and some of the replies, however, I'm going to add English to the list of considerations.
Signed,
A soft-brained liberal arts tree-hugging hippie freak lacking both the mental capacity and discipline for calculus. No, really. I mean it.
I wonder if Activision still presents those patches (or were they iron ons?) to people who achieve high scores in their games. Had to take a picture of your television screen and send it to them, and they'd induct you into a club for video game over-achievers and mail you a handsome patch as a reward [allowing 4-6 weeks for delivery]. I'm sure I still have mine somewhere. Maybe I'll dig up my pitfall patch--if anyone deserves it, it's this guy.
Anyone remember these? Anyone?
1) How many dotcom MBA's are surprised by the fact that a vast majority of internet users are willing to pay ~$20.00 a month for Ad-Free browsing/email?
.com appendage absolved of that nasty little obligation.
2) A what? A revenue model? What the heck is that? Stockholders? You mean we have to earn money and be profitable? I thought the
Three MIT students were killed yesterday, and one was severely injured when a robotic arm controlled by a monkey 600 miles away was compromised by a buffer-overflow exploit.
"Maybe we shouldn't have been running fingerd," stated Lars Bjorjensen, the student who survived the attack. Lars is in critical, but stable condition, and pledges to continue development on the project.
Lars added "I guess I should have known something was wrong the arm scrawled 'Free Kevin!' on the whiteboard. I mean, he's already free, isn't he?"
I wanna zwackt myself 16 MByte from the primary storage, too.
Is there a Howto on zwackting?
>> Perhaps Redhat should consider labelling them RedHat 6.2 and RedHat Experimental?
Caldera had an interesting idea here with their "Technology Preview." Unlike RedHat 7.0, however, with its 2,500 alleged bugs, Caldera's Preview offers an estimated 38% functionality, and no innovation. And Caldera charges $20.00 (redeemable) for it. Caldera may have been good enough to call it what it is, but at least RedHat offers updates more frequently than once every five years, and demonstrates at least an element of creativity.
P.S. - As a resident of Utah, I am granted license to say what I wish about Caldera with impunity.
I've been through the scarcity of good managers. In the four years that I've been with my company (an integrator in Utah), I've been through three managers. Each successive manager failed more miserably than the last. As fate, with its cruel ironic wit would have it, I am now the fourth manager.
Whereas the other managers had the desire, but not the ability (i.e. not a clue technically), I have neither the desire nor the ability (albeit my ineptitude stems from lack of tolerance and understanding of the business aspects of IT management.) At the same time, I am expected to be as productive as I was prior to my ascension to the executive throne.
I thought that by assuming a management position, I'd be able to serve as the voice of my subjugated brethren, that I'd be able to (here it comes) make a difference. I have been promised from the start the support I'd need to "make things happen," and to make my vision incarnate.
Life just doesn't work that way.
Is it my fault? That's not for me to say (I tend to have a distorted view of reality). But at the same time it suggests that perhaps it's not entirely the fault of management either, that perhaps it is a cultural phenomenon so pervasive that it would be unfair to call the situation "wrong." I'm tired of trying to find someone or something to blame. I'm tired of being asked "what can we do to fix it?"
The answer is not 20 hour work-weeks, with daily back rubs, foot massages, and 50% pay raises. That would be nice, for a while, but then the same malaise would ultimately resurface. The problem seems socially rooted, borne primarily of isolation, but now I'm going off on another tangent....
Indentured Servitude. That's what it's become.
Companies have learned to hire IT persons whose dedication to the profession extends beyond the 9-5 job. No longer do companies look for well rounded, diversified employees, with things like "hobbies" and "families." Oh no. Now they seek persons whose hobbies also happen to be computer-related. This offers not only some of the sharpest minds within the industry, but also a level of dedication well beyond what your typical sane, well adjusted, socially acclimated, etc. employee would ever offer. Couple this with the outrageous salaries that many of us are being paid, and the rampancy of non-compete agreements, and you have, you have.... A violation of Civil Rights!
We are in fact a sub-culture, of sorts, and we are being victimized. The ACLU ought to be made aware of this injustice. I've too many times had to go into my boss and ask for a pay-cut in an attempt to "buy back" a portion or my life and liberty, only to have him surreptitiously give me another promotion and a raise to return the balance to his favor.
I feel trapped by the situation. I feel as if I've sold my soul. I want to go back to a simpler existence. One with an abacus. I made my bed, and I can't get the hell out of it.