At my job, they recently signed us up for Sillport (an e-learning system), which also includes a subscription to books24x7.com. This is a coleciton of several thousand technical and business books, fully searchable and browsable online. I think a personal subscription runs about $400 a year, hopefully you can get your boss to expense it for you. Well worth it in my opinion.
I'd say that the main reason (other than travel) to use wifi in the coffee house is if you don't have broadband at home. However, most people don't aquire a wifi card until they get broadband, unless their laptop comes with one. The other reason for using it is, say you want to get away from the office in the afternoon, but still need to be available. But in that case, I'd rather have wifi in a bar.
Then have the clause specify for any projects that is part of a work assignment. This covers them even if you feel like hacking on a company project late at night.
The best way I've found to approach this is to state that you do some volunteer work for non-profit organizations, and that they need to have a waver from the company to protect them from being sued on any project that you've done for them. Most companies won't say no to that, after all it looks bad if they won't let you do charity work. Then, if any problems come up, assign your code copyrights to the FSF, which is registerd as a non-profit. Point, match, game.
That was going to be my suggestion. Just to clairify for the original poster, iSCSI works similar to network block device (NBD), in that it allows a machine running an iSCSI "target" daemon to serve up a chunk of it's storage as a virtual drive to a client running an iSCSI "initiator" driver. Once set up, the client's OS sees the block(s) of storage as if they were directly attached SCSI disks. The chunk of storage being served up by the target daemon can be a physical partition, a logical volume, or in some cases a regular file containing a disk image.
Now if you want this to go through your firewire port, just set up networking over firewire and you're all set. Note, however, that the iSCSI virutal drives are only available after the OS is booted, so it is difficult to get them to be used as as boot device (although I've done this with Linux clients, just do a network boot and load up the appropriate drivers on your initrd image) The other thing you can do is get an iSCSI HBA (host buss adapter), which is nothing more than a network card with a built in tcp/ip & iscsi stack running on a dedicated processor. Not sure if this is available for the powerbooks, though.
I've always run my own dns server on my home network, but lately I've noticed several dns servers refusing connection from my cable modem ip. Apparently they are a bunch of service providers that blacklist direct connections from dynamic ip address, probably in responce to ddos attacks. So, in order to have reliable dns I will need to configure my server to forward to my isp's dns server whenever it fails to make a direct connection itself.
However, if it is a store that you like to shop at frequently, you could find yourself un-invited the next time you want to go there. Even if they have no legal right to stop you, they have no legal obligation to let you back in the store either. Also, keep in mind that the main reason for the receipt checks isn't because they don't trust you, it is that they don't trust their own cashiers.
If you can reach any web site, you can tunnel other protocols over port 80. So you could set up a virtual host account in another country (i.e., linux vservers), then set up a tunnel from you box to that one (run ssh over port 80), and access the rest of the internet from it. Or telnet to your remote box and use slirp over that connection. A number of ways of accomplishing this. The main concern is that if the isp's have to pay for the logging themselves, they will pass the costs on to their customers, and charge per byte (no flat rate connections).
Then do what I did with the "family" computer at home. I installed cygwin-x, and changed the "e" icon to point to a script that kicks off a copy of mozilla running on the house server. And since I've got the IE skin loaded, no one was the wiser.
Well, the act specifies that records have to be accurate. And if corporate officers are relying on the data on the systems to be acurate, then the systems need to be secure. So anything that is part of "security best practices" is being implimented just to make sure. And yes, 90-day password expiration is generally accepted a best practice at a minimum. Also keep in mind that even if policies can be compromised, the fact that a policy is there can protect a company in the event of a lawsuit, whereas if there was no policy then the company could be more liable for not taking reasonable measures to protect their security. It's just like the fact that you perform system backups even though it is possible for the backup tape to break at the same time as a disk crash.
Then what about interpreted Basic or Pascal? Both of these can be run the same way. Keep in mind I'm refering to the language, not the implimentation. Of course, some will argue that Basic is a scripting language (or not a language at all), but I won't go there:-) Also, even though Pascal is usually compiled, it used to exist primarily as an interpreted language. I do agree that Perl is a scripting language, I just can't figure out why (since a perl script doesn't interact "control" another program), whereas a shell sciprt is a script because it is attached to and controls another program (the shell). Yet a Pascal or Basic program isn't a script even if it is run through an interpreter (although some dialects of Basic are scripts simply because of the primary purpose of the dialect, i.e. VB scripts atached to Excel macros).
Just curious, what do you mean by "run from a text file"? Are your refering to the ability to say "perl mycode.pl"? Is there any case where an interpeted low-level language isn't run in this fashion? For example, back in the day your could run from a DOS command promt "gwbasic mycode.bas". Or are your refering to the ability to put for example "#!/bin/perl" at the top of a script and run the script directly? Because the that is a function of the OS, not the language (i.e, if gwbasic was available for unix you could use the same syntax, assuming that you could convince the interpreter to ignore the first line if it begins with "#").
I have often wondered what makes a particular language a "scripting" language v.s. a "real" language. One thing scripting languages all have in common is that they are interpreted. However Basic is interpreted (even though some may dissagree that it is a "real" language), and there have been interpreted versions of Pascal and others. The best I can come up with is that a scripting language is an interpreted language that is normally attached to an application in order to allow the end user to automate functions within that app. So for example BASH programming is "scripting" since most of what you do is items that would normally be done at the command line. Same with Word/Excel macros. Also, TCL was designed to be attached to other programs (although the typical use is stand-alone). But I wouldn't put PERL in that catagory, anymore than GW-Basic or interpreted Pascal are scripting languages. So, what does a language need to be called a "real" language, other than being compiled?
Or better yet, swap them without your friend knowing, then ask him about about the sound quality a few weeks later. If he doesn't complain about the quality difference, then you only have a placebo difference.
Actually the reason people moved to "fat clients" is because you could create a local budget forcast report using Lotus 123 in about an hour, whereas to get the MIS guys to do the same it would take several months and a big charge to your budget. Also, the mainframe word processor kinda sucked.
Where I'm at (chicago area), I can go to any credit union's atm (at least all the ones that I've tried) and use my credit union card without a fee on either end.
In the building where I work, the lights go off automacilly at 6:00 pm (7:00 in the summer). If you're working late, they have a number to call where you can punch in your zone number and the lights will come on for that section for another 2 hours. The main problem is that at 6:00 everyone is trying the number at the same time, so it may take a half hour or more of redialing in order to get the lights back on.
You can also do X via vnc with colinux. Actually, I was thinking of putting together a knoppix/colinux disk that uses modified cygwin/x and/or vnc (cygwin would need to be modified so that it doesn't need registry entries)
There have been a few cases that source code is speach, i.e., in relation to publishing encryption code. If any of those cases held up, then it may also apply to patented algorithms. Therefore if you only publish source code then it would be up to the person compiling/running the code to check for patent infringements. Of course it would be nice if the system actually worked like this...
but WHICH variation would you move to? And which one would your friends move to? That's the problem, there are many such possible systems, that we could end up like life was like before, when you had to have a Compuserve account, Delfi, AOL, MCI-mail, etc., and none were compatible with each other.
If you wanted to move to something right now, configure your mail client to reject any email that isn't pgp / gpg signed. Have all your friends move to signed email. I'm not sure if gpg signs just the body or the headers also, but if the headers are included then the spammers would have to compute the signature for each message, thereby slowing them down a bit. And it makes it a bit easier to whitelist/blacklist by using pgp's ring-of-trust.
Actually, they are going after people who do both. At least the guy in the article was caught because they were browsing ip address of people who were sharing. However, this is a result of the way most p2p apps are set up -- they automatically share what you download.
I was thinking that if this happened to me, I'd print out a bunch of CERT reports pointing out ip-spoofing vulnerabilities, etc., and replacing my drive with a "clean" one, then see how they can argue against that. However someone in another slashdot article pointed out that to defend yourself you have to front their legal costs (one of those special laws they bought?), don't know how true it is though.
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At my job, they recently signed us up for Sillport (an e-learning system), which also includes a subscription to books24x7.com. This is a coleciton of several thousand technical and business books, fully searchable and browsable online. I think a personal subscription runs about $400 a year, hopefully you can get your boss to expense it for you. Well worth it in my opinion.
I'd say that the main reason (other than travel) to use wifi in the coffee house is if you don't have broadband at home. However, most people don't aquire a wifi card until they get broadband, unless their laptop comes with one.
The other reason for using it is, say you want to get away from the office in the afternoon, but still need to be available. But in that case, I'd rather have wifi in a bar.
Then have the clause specify for any projects that is part of a work assignment. This covers them even if you feel like hacking on a company project late at night.
The best way I've found to approach this is to state that you do some volunteer work for non-profit organizations, and that they need to have a waver from the company to protect them from being sued on any project that you've done for them. Most companies won't say no to that, after all it looks bad if they won't let you do charity work.
Then, if any problems come up, assign your code copyrights to the FSF, which is registerd as a non-profit. Point, match, game.
That was going to be my suggestion.
Just to clairify for the original poster, iSCSI works similar to network block device (NBD), in that it allows a machine running an iSCSI "target" daemon to serve up a chunk of it's storage as a virtual drive to a client running an iSCSI "initiator" driver. Once set up, the client's OS sees the block(s) of storage as if they were directly attached SCSI disks. The chunk of storage being served up by the target daemon can be a physical partition, a logical volume, or in some cases a regular file containing a disk image.
Now if you want this to go through your firewire port, just set up networking over firewire and you're all set. Note, however, that the iSCSI virutal drives are only available after the OS is booted, so it is difficult to get them to be used as as boot device (although I've done this with Linux clients, just do a network boot and load up the appropriate drivers on your initrd image) The other thing you can do is get an iSCSI HBA (host buss adapter), which is nothing more than a network card with a built in tcp/ip & iscsi stack running on a dedicated processor. Not sure if this is available for the powerbooks, though.
Not to mention people with laptops.
I've always run my own dns server on my home network, but lately I've noticed several dns servers refusing connection from my cable modem ip. Apparently they are a bunch of service providers that blacklist direct connections from dynamic ip address, probably in responce to ddos attacks. So, in order to have reliable dns I will need to configure my server to forward to my isp's dns server whenever it fails to make a direct connection itself.
However, if it is a store that you like to shop at frequently, you could find yourself un-invited the next time you want to go there. Even if they have no legal right to stop you, they have no legal obligation to let you back in the store either.
Also, keep in mind that the main reason for the receipt checks isn't because they don't trust you, it is that they don't trust their own cashiers.
If you can reach any web site, you can tunnel other protocols over port 80. So you could set up a virtual host account in another country (i.e., linux vservers), then set up a tunnel from you box to that one (run ssh over port 80), and access the rest of the internet from it.
Or telnet to your remote box and use slirp over that connection. A number of ways of accomplishing this.
The main concern is that if the isp's have to pay for the logging themselves, they will pass the costs on to their customers, and charge per byte (no flat rate connections).
Then do what I did with the "family" computer at home. I installed cygwin-x, and changed the "e" icon to point to a script that kicks off a copy of mozilla running on the house server. And since I've got the IE skin loaded, no one was the wiser.
Well, the act specifies that records have to be accurate. And if corporate officers are relying on the data on the systems to be acurate, then the systems need to be secure. So anything that is part of "security best practices" is being implimented just to make sure. And yes, 90-day password expiration is generally accepted a best practice at a minimum.
Also keep in mind that even if policies can be compromised, the fact that a policy is there can protect a company in the event of a lawsuit, whereas if there was no policy then the company could be more liable for not taking reasonable measures to protect their security.
It's just like the fact that you perform system backups even though it is possible for the backup tape to break at the same time as a disk crash.
Wow, I'm originally from Zion, still living in the area (Waukegan). Small world.
Actually, it's to protect the future owner of the structure.
Then what about interpreted Basic or Pascal? Both of these can be run the same way. Keep in mind I'm refering to the language, not the implimentation. :-)
Of course, some will argue that Basic is a scripting language (or not a language at all), but I won't go there
Also, even though Pascal is usually compiled, it used to exist primarily as an interpreted language.
I do agree that Perl is a scripting language, I just can't figure out why (since a perl script doesn't interact "control" another program), whereas a shell sciprt is a script because it is attached to and controls another program (the shell). Yet a Pascal or Basic program isn't a script even if it is run through an interpreter (although some dialects of Basic are scripts simply because of the primary purpose of the dialect, i.e. VB scripts atached to Excel macros).
Just curious, what do you mean by "run from a text file"? Are your refering to the ability to say "perl mycode.pl"? Is there any case where an interpeted low-level language isn't run in this fashion?
For example, back in the day your could run from a DOS command promt "gwbasic mycode.bas".
Or are your refering to the ability to put for example "#!/bin/perl" at the top of a script and run the script directly? Because the that is a function of the OS, not the language (i.e, if gwbasic was available for unix you could use the same syntax, assuming that you could convince the interpreter to ignore the first line if it begins with "#").
I have often wondered what makes a particular language a "scripting" language v.s. a "real" language. One thing scripting languages all have in common is that they are interpreted. However Basic is interpreted (even though some may dissagree that it is a "real" language), and there have been interpreted versions of Pascal and others.
The best I can come up with is that a scripting language is an interpreted language that is normally attached to an application in order to allow the end user to automate functions within that app. So for example BASH programming is "scripting" since most of what you do is items that would normally be done at the command line. Same with Word/Excel macros. Also, TCL was designed to be attached to other programs (although the typical use is stand-alone). But I wouldn't put PERL in that catagory, anymore than GW-Basic or interpreted Pascal are scripting languages.
So, what does a language need to be called a "real" language, other than being compiled?
Or better yet, swap them without your friend knowing, then ask him about about the sound quality a few weeks later. If he doesn't complain about the quality difference, then you only have a placebo difference.
Actually the reason people moved to "fat clients" is because you could create a local budget forcast report using Lotus 123 in about an hour, whereas to get the MIS guys to do the same it would take several months and a big charge to your budget.
Also, the mainframe word processor kinda sucked.
Where I'm at (chicago area), I can go to any credit union's atm (at least all the ones that I've tried) and use my credit union card without a fee on either end.
In the building where I work, the lights go off automacilly at 6:00 pm (7:00 in the summer). If you're working late, they have a number to call where you can punch in your zone number and the lights will come on for that section for another 2 hours.
The main problem is that at 6:00 everyone is trying the number at the same time, so it may take a half hour or more of redialing in order to get the lights back on.
You can also do X via vnc with colinux. Actually, I was thinking of putting together a knoppix/colinux disk that uses modified cygwin/x and/or vnc (cygwin would need to be modified so that it doesn't need registry entries)
There have been a few cases that source code is speach, i.e., in relation to publishing encryption code. If any of those cases held up, then it may also apply to patented algorithms. Therefore if you only publish source code then it would be up to the person compiling/running the code to check for patent infringements. Of course it would be nice if the system actually worked like this...
If you wanted to move to something right now, configure your mail client to reject any email that isn't pgp / gpg signed. Have all your friends move to signed email. I'm not sure if gpg signs just the body or the headers also, but if the headers are included then the spammers would have to compute the signature for each message, thereby slowing them down a bit. And it makes it a bit easier to whitelist/blacklist by using pgp's ring-of-trust.
Actually, they are going after people who do both. At least the guy in the article was caught because they were browsing ip address of people who were sharing. However, this is a result of the way most p2p apps are set up -- they automatically share what you download.
I was thinking that if this happened to me, I'd print out a bunch of CERT reports pointing out ip-spoofing vulnerabilities, etc., and replacing my drive with a "clean" one, then see how they can argue against that. However someone in another slashdot article pointed out that to defend yourself you have to front their legal costs (one of those special laws they bought?), don't know how true it is though.