That is the name of a several hour long video seminar. When I worked at one company my department boss had us all watch it, it's quite good and can definitely help.
Also remember that in many companies Bosses' don't last more than 6 to 12 months before a reorg comes along and he's moved onto someplace else anyway.
This reminds me of the movie 'The President's Analyst' only now we're talking IP addresses instead of phone numbers, and ICANN has superseded TPC (The Phone Company):-)
Wonder who'll play Coburn's part in the new movie?
For firing the QA staff and just hiring a few people to test the code. You can't test quality into a product, and if they HAD a QA program, this would never have happened.
Yeah this is great news. I wish I had known about this place a while ago. I'm always having to build custom mounts and stuff and no longer have access to a machine shop. The convience factor far out weights the price point on some things.
I don't blame him, I'm the same way with my email unless I know you really really well (and you personally told me what you were sending over, if it just has a note that says 'check this out' I assume a smart virus and nuke it). Word docs and programs sent in email contain viruses and trojans 99 percent of the time.
Any email I get that isn't in plain text format goes in the trash with no response. Of course I use Pine on a Linux box as well, so that helps avoid viruses even more. But as over 90 percent of all viruses in the world today are aimed at Windows and MS products, being leary of them isn't paranoid - They really are out to get you!:-)
Patents were supposed to Enhance Inovation, not Stifle it. The whole process needs to be reviewed and probably reworked, it just cannot seem to deal properly with modern technology.
Anyone who comes up with that will make more money exploiting it than NASA could ever afford to give them!!
I just wonder if it'll be some scientist who comes up with it first, or some College Dropout hacking in his garage in his spare time when not working at the Bicycle store down the street!
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I think you're a bit confused. He came up with the World Wide Web (WWW) he did not come up with the Internet or IP addresses or Domains or any of that stuff. All of that stuff existed and worked quite well before he came along and due to the work of other people (not him).
All he did was take an existing markup language, make a few mods, and came up with a really neat idea and tool. The Web is not The Internet. The web -relies- on the Internet.
(I'm not begrudging him his due either, though when the web first came along all of us 'net users were a bit ticked at the drops in our bandwidth until the backbones caught up).
That the security out of the Box is excellent and Patrick checks everything out before releasing it.
Yes Slackware is never the first out when a new kernal comes along, but how often does Slackware get hacked versus Redhat? Or other versions? Everytime I see a 'vulnerability' published, I go and check and find my Slackware box isn't running that version.
And it's not like people haven't tried to hack my server (it's been tried a lot over the years), but so far with Slackware I've never had a problem (fingers crossed!) I reccomend it to everyone worried about security, out of the box it's head and shoulders above everyone else IMHO.
The NYT's has a history of slanting and even making up its news. So why would anyone who's interested in facts and factual accounts want anything to do with looking up its articles?
Not to mention some of the truely bizzarre screeds coming out of some of its journalists.
As a consumer, I really don't care how hard it was for you to make a product. Saying that 'oh it's hard to do that' doesn't matter a damn to me. Besides, it's your job! So do a good one.
I mean that after you've inserted a real year field (ie more than one digit, say four), you can recycle the serial number portion of the VIN number. That's the part that is giving them the issue, because it combined with the year and other options is leading to repeats.
Then you could recycle the tags all you wanted to. I mean really now, how hard could this be? A date tag with a serial number would allow you to reroll the serial number every year if you wanted to (or hell, every day if you use 8 digits!).
This just sounds like such a non-issue due to the extreme short-sightedness of whatever idiots came up with this scheme.
Really, the amount of conspiracy theories and Ashcroft bashing here is really ridiculous. I suspect that the system probably is FUBAR'd, possibly beyond the chance of recovery. We've all seen before how government agencies let their computer systems slip into really bad shape if it has nothing to do with getting revenue.
Odds are it's some proprietary database format some senator's son came up with and sold them, and it really can't handle massive downloads. Or worse yet it has been wiped by accident and they're just playing CYA.
One thing I've noticed is that more and more people seem to want an answer NOW - even if it's not the correct answer, or even if the original question asked wasn't the correct one.
I can sympathize at times with this. Setting up or training some of the SPAM software out there is a real pain, because the documentation is written often like man pages (i.e. for those that don't need it). Which frustrates a lot of people who desperately want to filter their spam, but aren't sysadms or experienced programmers.
I think at this point what would be a far more valuable resource would be good clear step by steps on how to install and set up DSPAM or SA written so that your non-VCR programming parents could follow it.
After all, you might have the greatest SPAM tool in the world, but if the 'average joe' can't figure out how to use it, well then how great your tool is really doesn't matter.
I like how you edited my message from 2000+ to 20+, reducing my problem by several orders of magnitude.
I'd also like to point out that direct marketing pays for me to get their messages when using postal mail or the phone. But with SPAM, I'm the one paying the freight! This is why fax marketing was banned in the US.
SPAM is illegal in the state that I am in as well. But again, I don't have the resources to go after these people, or the time.
So quite trying to defend the indefensible. And my argument is not spacious. Spam does me harm by using my money and my resources.
So the 2000+ pieces of spam I get in my mailbox every week, that causes me to miss important messages occasionally because the filter gets them and they get lost in the noise, the several meg ads that tie up my connection for many minutes at a time as they download one after another, all of that is doing me no harm?
I never asked for spam, I never asked for my email to be used as a forged address (a recent development, so now I get complaints and counter spam too). Also I've never bought from a spammer.
These people ARE NOT direct marketers, they are CROOKS, using the bandwidth -I- pay for, to harrass me with things I do not want. And I have no real legal recourse to stopping them because I can afford to sue these hundreds of people. (If I could even find out who most of them were).
And again, please do not tell me they are not doing me any harm while I'm receiving spam complaint messages because some BUTTWIPE is forging my email address on their messages. It's no fun looking at having to change an email address that you've used for almost a decade, and all the associated grief that causes.
Somehow I just don't see you being allowed to take this onboard an airplane, or even allowed through security with it. Bad enough it gives of gasses, but it's full of a flamable liquid?
Can you say 'bomb'?
(Doesn't matter if it can be made to explode, we're talking about the same people who confiscate nail clippers)
From the cockpit of the plane you cannot see any of your own airplane. Chase planes provide you with an outside set of eyes that can look for problems and issues, like bent parts, missing parts, non moving parts, and leaking fluids.
Chase planes also supply you with a moral boost. Even though they can't get out and help you, it's still kind of nice to know that there is another human being who is close enough that you can see him when you're locked in a small metal box miles above the ground all by yourself. (I've flown chase before when a squadron member's jet developed problems on a routine training flight).
And last of all, the people in the Chase planes usually know as much about your plane as you do. And can provide advice when you really, really, need it. Especially as they're right there looking at the situation.
I would like to point out here that Mach speed changes as a function of Altitude. Mach 25 at ground level is not the same speed as Mach 25 at 100,000 feet. So it's not a good measure of how fast one has to go to escape gravitational pull.
I've been using Slackware since like 95, and the question other slackware users always asked me was, 'why would anyone use a lesser version of linux?'.
Considering my box has never been hacked (and it's been attacked many times by pro's - but that's another story), I have to say I can't complain, especially when I've seen my friend's redhat and other boxes completely hacked.
And it is fairly easy and straight forward to install securely. Many other distros are not secure out of the box and require you to make a lot of changes to get it secure. What good is that?
Plus Patrick seems to always take the time to get it right. Can't argue with that at all! Thanks Pat!
I've been using Slackware since it came out (was using SLS prior to that). I've always been happy with Patrick's releases, and I've noticed that the bugs and exploits other distro's have are never in Patrick's either!
I reccomend Slackware to anyone who wants to use Linux over all of the other distro's, nice and secure out of the box. Why use anything else?
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That is the name of a several hour long video seminar. When I worked at one company my department boss had us all watch it, it's quite good and can definitely help.
Also remember that in many companies Bosses' don't last more than 6 to 12 months before a reorg comes along and he's moved onto someplace else anyway.
Good Luck!
This reminds me of the movie 'The President's Analyst' only now we're talking IP addresses instead of phone numbers, and ICANN has superseded TPC (The Phone Company) :-)
Wonder who'll play Coburn's part in the new movie?
For firing the QA staff and just hiring a few people to test the code. You can't test quality into a product, and if they HAD a QA program, this would never have happened.
Yeah this is great news. I wish I had known about this place a while ago. I'm always having to build custom mounts and stuff and no longer have access to a machine shop. The convience factor far out weights the price point on some things.
I don't blame him, I'm the same way with my email unless I know you really really well (and you personally told me what you were sending over, if it just has a note that says 'check this out' I assume a smart virus and nuke it). Word docs and programs sent in email contain viruses and trojans 99 percent of the time.
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Any email I get that isn't in plain text format goes in the trash with no response. Of course I use Pine on a Linux box as well, so that helps avoid viruses even more. But as over 90 percent of all viruses in the world today are aimed at Windows and MS products, being leary of them isn't paranoid - They really are out to get you!
Patents were supposed to Enhance Inovation, not Stifle it. The whole process needs to be reviewed and probably reworked, it just cannot seem to deal properly with modern technology.
Anyone who comes up with that will make more money exploiting it than NASA could ever afford to give them!!
I just wonder if it'll be some scientist who comes up with it first, or some College Dropout hacking in his garage in his spare time when not working at the Bicycle store down the street!
I think you're a bit confused. He came up with the World Wide Web (WWW) he did not come up with the Internet or IP addresses or Domains or any of that stuff. All of that stuff existed and worked quite well before he came along and due to the work of other people (not him).
All he did was take an existing markup language, make a few mods, and came up with a really neat idea and tool. The Web is not The Internet. The web -relies- on the Internet.
(I'm not begrudging him his due either, though when the web first came along all of us 'net users were a bit ticked at the drops in our bandwidth until the backbones caught up).
I'd never use anything else.
Of course, by the time the release HL2, we'll probably be upto Slack 20...
(But seriously, if all the hot FPS games ran on Linux my windows box would be gone.)
That the security out of the Box is excellent and Patrick checks everything out before releasing it.
Yes Slackware is never the first out when a new kernal comes along, but how often does Slackware get hacked versus Redhat? Or other versions? Everytime I see a 'vulnerability' published, I go and check and find my Slackware box isn't running that version.
And it's not like people haven't tried to hack my server (it's been tried a lot over the years), but so far with Slackware I've never had a problem (fingers crossed!) I reccomend it to everyone worried about security, out of the box it's head and shoulders above everyone else IMHO.
The NYT's has a history of slanting and even making up its news. So why would anyone who's interested in facts and factual accounts want anything to do with looking up its articles?
Not to mention some of the truely bizzarre screeds coming out of some of its journalists.
As a consumer, I really don't care how hard it was for you to make a product. Saying that 'oh it's hard to do that' doesn't matter a damn to me. Besides, it's your job! So do a good one.
Or I'll buy someone else's product.
I mean that after you've inserted a real year field (ie more than one digit, say four), you can recycle the serial number portion of the VIN number. That's the part that is giving them the issue, because it combined with the year and other options is leading to repeats.
Then you could recycle the tags all you wanted to. I mean really now, how hard could this be? A date tag with a serial number would allow you to reroll the serial number every year if you wanted to (or hell, every day if you use 8 digits!).
This just sounds like such a non-issue due to the extreme short-sightedness of whatever idiots came up with this scheme.
That which can be explained by incompetance.
Really, the amount of conspiracy theories and Ashcroft bashing here is really ridiculous. I suspect that the system probably is FUBAR'd, possibly beyond the chance of recovery. We've all seen before how government agencies let their computer systems slip into really bad shape if it has nothing to do with getting revenue.
Odds are it's some proprietary database format some senator's son came up with and sold them, and it really can't handle massive downloads. Or worse yet it has been wiped by accident and they're just playing CYA.
One thing I've noticed is that more and more people seem to want an answer NOW - even if it's not the correct answer, or even if the original question asked wasn't the correct one.
I can sympathize at times with this. Setting up or training some of the SPAM software out there is a real pain, because the documentation is written often like man pages (i.e. for those that don't need it). Which frustrates a lot of people who desperately want to filter their spam, but aren't sysadms or experienced programmers.
I think at this point what would be a far more valuable resource would be good clear step by steps on how to install and set up DSPAM or SA written so that your non-VCR programming parents could follow it.
After all, you might have the greatest SPAM tool in the world, but if the 'average joe' can't figure out how to use it, well then how great your tool is really doesn't matter.
I like how you edited my message from 2000+ to 20+, reducing my problem by several orders of magnitude.
I'd also like to point out that direct marketing pays for me to get their messages when using postal mail or the phone. But with SPAM, I'm the one paying the freight! This is why fax marketing was banned in the US.
SPAM is illegal in the state that I am in as well. But again, I don't have the resources to go after these people, or the time.
So quite trying to defend the indefensible. And my argument is not spacious. Spam does me harm by using my money and my resources.
So the 2000+ pieces of spam I get in my mailbox every week, that causes me to miss important messages occasionally because the filter gets them and they get lost in the noise, the several meg ads that tie up my connection for many minutes at a time as they download one after another, all of that is doing me no harm?
I never asked for spam, I never asked for my email to be used as a forged address (a recent development, so now I get complaints and counter spam too). Also I've never bought from a spammer.
These people ARE NOT direct marketers, they are CROOKS, using the bandwidth -I- pay for, to harrass me with things I do not want. And I have no real legal recourse to stopping them because I can afford to sue these hundreds of people. (If I could even find out who most of them were).
And again, please do not tell me they are not doing me any harm while I'm receiving spam complaint messages because some BUTTWIPE is forging my email address on their messages. It's no fun looking at having to change an email address that you've used for almost a decade, and all the associated grief that causes.
Somehow I just don't see you being allowed to take this onboard an airplane, or even allowed through security with it. Bad enough it gives of gasses, but it's full of a flamable liquid?
Can you say 'bomb'?
(Doesn't matter if it can be made to explode, we're talking about the same people who confiscate nail clippers)
From the cockpit of the plane you cannot see any of your own airplane. Chase planes provide you with an outside set of eyes that can look for problems and issues, like bent parts, missing parts, non moving parts, and leaking fluids.
Chase planes also supply you with a moral boost. Even though they can't get out and help you, it's still kind of nice to know that there is another human being who is close enough that you can see him when you're locked in a small metal box miles above the ground all by yourself. (I've flown chase before when a squadron member's jet developed problems on a routine training flight).
And last of all, the people in the Chase planes usually know as much about your plane as you do. And can provide advice when you really, really, need it. Especially as they're right there looking at the situation.
Remember, these are the people who said Columbia was traveling at 25 times the speed of light when it disintegrated.
Again, Mach speed changes as a function of altitude! Mach is dependent on airpressure, the speed of sound changes with it.
And CNN does not seem to employ anyone who understands science in the least.
I would like to point out here that Mach speed changes as a function of Altitude. Mach 25 at ground level is not the same speed as Mach 25 at 100,000 feet. So it's not a good measure of how fast one has to go to escape gravitational pull.
Yeah, But you're a very funny Troll! :-D
I've been using Slackware since like 95, and the question other slackware users always asked me was, 'why would anyone use a lesser version of linux?'.
Considering my box has never been hacked (and it's been attacked many times by pro's - but that's another story), I have to say I can't complain, especially when I've seen my friend's redhat and other boxes completely hacked.
And it is fairly easy and straight forward to install securely. Many other distros are not secure out of the box and require you to make a lot of changes to get it secure. What good is that?
Plus Patrick seems to always take the time to get it right. Can't argue with that at all! Thanks Pat!
I've been using Slackware since it came out (was using SLS prior to that). I've always been happy with Patrick's releases, and I've noticed that the bugs and exploits other distro's have are never in Patrick's either!
I reccomend Slackware to anyone who wants to use Linux over all of the other distro's, nice and secure out of the box. Why use anything else?