Hey, if someone seeks advice on which gun to shoot themselves with, "don't do that it's painful and self-destructive," is pretty solid advice. Certainly better than discussing the relative merits of various firearms.
I know perfectly well why OP wants a splashy, flashy book. I just think it's a terrible, terrible idea. And the moment you try to use the book OP described, I think it likely that you will too.
Or just don't try to build an interactive ebook in the first place. Link the question to the answer key in the back (hypertext is good) but don't fill in or pop up answers. Let a book be a book.
This is the major mistake folks make with powerpoint presentations. Animations and fancy crap that get in the way of digesting the material on the slide.
The open source community has some raging a-holes who make it their mission to drive out anyone who publicly contradicts them. I've observed both men and women in this role in approximate proportion to their overall presence in the community. I've observed both men and women as the targets of this behavior, myself included.
And I've noticed a similar tolerance in other volunteer activities. The folks who put in the lion's share of the work get away with being mean to the smaller contributors.
It's not a gender thing. It's a raging a-hole thing.
That's a different argument than the one you offered before. The telescopes should probably pay for the infrastructure that directly and more or less exclusively supports them. If they don't already.
The well leveled dirt road that leads up to them, for example. Very pricey.
Less than it's worth!? Except to astronomers, that patch of land is worthless. Cold. Hard to breath the thin air. Can't grow anything. Zero natural resources. Even the natives didn't go there except on a dare; they just looked at it and told tall tales from scores of miles away on the beach.
Which platform-only games do you want to play? It's a console. It's not about the uberhertz or septapixels, it's about the games. Which games do you want to play?
Well, yes, the drive remains unlocked in sleep mode but locks if you hibernate. Someone with hardware that doesn't suck cloud easily resume from sleep, let the bios unlock the drive and then switch the hardware over to the PC of choice and copy off the decrypted data.
This is not a strike against the encrypting drives, it's a question of user training: the drive is locked in these situations and unlocked in those. If you want it locked, do this not that.
India does have good coders, but you won't get them by having a cost-concious third party hire for you. You'll get the 90% of Indian coders who are bad at the job but have a degree from an unaccredited university.
we want to manage these backups centrally from a console
You don't want to do that, you only think you do. That needlessly creates a security problem by intentionally installing a remote control vector. What you want is a central notification system so that if a machine expected to back up does not, you find out about it and can send on the IT staff.
What i.r.id10t alludes to is also correct: figuring out how you can restore a machine to operation is step one. That determines what form the backups can be stored in which, in turn, determines what backup tools you can use. Linux machines can be restored by booting from a live CD, writing individual files back to disk and then running "grub install." Can Windows do that, or will you need to grab a full disk image of the C: drive every time you do a backup?
I think that engineers are not generally inventors while computer programmers generally are. And I think that shows in the quality of so-called innovative patents from today's engineers.
I think that bridges and skyscrapers are designed by architects, not engineers.
I think that engineers tend to be really smart folks. My brother is a mining engineer and in his case I know it for certain. But it's not his job to imagine innovative ways of doing things; it's his job to calculate the correct way to do a thing.
The last time I was asked to work an algorithm on a whiteboard during an interview, I straight up said: I'm not comfortable tackling this in a 45 minute interview.
I did not get the job, but I went on to get a better job where I was given hard problems and expected to actually think them before solving them, without any need for a frenetic rush.
I agree that software developers shouldn't be called engineers, but for the opposite reason. Developers are more than engineers, they're artists and intuitives. Calling them engineers cheapens the remarkability of the work software developers do. Treats development as if it was nothing more than the rote application of math to science.
You guys are aware that self encrypting drives have been readily available for a decade now, right? The bios detects that the drive requires a password and asks for it at book. The password unlocks an internal key used to encrypt the drive. Unless the adversary manages to capture laptop while it's on or in standby, no password = no data.
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Hey, if someone seeks advice on which gun to shoot themselves with, "don't do that it's painful and self-destructive," is pretty solid advice. Certainly better than discussing the relative merits of various firearms.
Oh get over yourself. If you don't want to invite the comments folks choose to offer, pay a professional instead of posting on slashdot.
I know perfectly well why OP wants a splashy, flashy book. I just think it's a terrible, terrible idea. And the moment you try to use the book OP described, I think it likely that you will too.
Or just don't try to build an interactive ebook in the first place. Link the question to the answer key in the back (hypertext is good) but don't fill in or pop up answers. Let a book be a book.
This is the major mistake folks make with powerpoint presentations. Animations and fancy crap that get in the way of digesting the material on the slide.
That's a blast from the past. A better forgotten one. As soon build your ebook with nroff macros so you can present it as a man page.
The open source community has some raging a-holes who make it their mission to drive out anyone who publicly contradicts them. I've observed both men and women in this role in approximate proportion to their overall presence in the community. I've observed both men and women as the targets of this behavior, myself included.
And I've noticed a similar tolerance in other volunteer activities. The folks who put in the lion's share of the work get away with being mean to the smaller contributors.
It's not a gender thing. It's a raging a-hole thing.
And midichlorians...
That was the exact moment when episode 1 jumped the shark.
Solar panels don't like sand storms.
That's a different argument than the one you offered before. The telescopes should probably pay for the infrastructure that directly and more or less exclusively supports them. If they don't already.
The well leveled dirt road that leads up to them, for example. Very pricey.
Less than it's worth!? Except to astronomers, that patch of land is worthless. Cold. Hard to breath the thin air. Can't grow anything. Zero natural resources. Even the natives didn't go there except on a dare; they just looked at it and told tall tales from scores of miles away on the beach.
Which platform-only games do you want to play? It's a console. It's not about the uberhertz or septapixels, it's about the games. Which games do you want to play?
Put another way, the article complains that your car isn't secure when the key is in the ignition and the car is idling in the garage. True. So what?
Well, yes, the drive remains unlocked in sleep mode but locks if you hibernate. Someone with hardware that doesn't suck cloud easily resume from sleep, let the bios unlock the drive and then switch the hardware over to the PC of choice and copy off the decrypted data.
This is not a strike against the encrypting drives, it's a question of user training: the drive is locked in these situations and unlocked in those. If you want it locked, do this not that.
India does have good coders, but you won't get them by having a cost-concious third party hire for you. You'll get the 90% of Indian coders who are bad at the job but have a degree from an unaccredited university.
we want to manage these backups centrally from a console
You don't want to do that, you only think you do. That needlessly creates a security problem by intentionally installing a remote control vector. What you want is a central notification system so that if a machine expected to back up does not, you find out about it and can send on the IT staff.
What i.r.id10t alludes to is also correct: figuring out how you can restore a machine to operation is step one. That determines what form the backups can be stored in which, in turn, determines what backup tools you can use. Linux machines can be restored by booting from a live CD, writing individual files back to disk and then running "grub install." Can Windows do that, or will you need to grab a full disk image of the C: drive every time you do a backup?
In context. Offshoring of IT. Good way to crash your company.
Yet another company whose stock we can short. Because we all know how well offshoring works.
I think that engineers are not generally inventors while computer programmers generally are. And I think that shows in the quality of so-called innovative patents from today's engineers.
I think that bridges and skyscrapers are designed by architects, not engineers.
I think that engineers tend to be really smart folks. My brother is a mining engineer and in his case I know it for certain. But it's not his job to imagine innovative ways of doing things; it's his job to calculate the correct way to do a thing.
The last time I was asked to work an algorithm on a whiteboard during an interview, I straight up said: I'm not comfortable tackling this in a 45 minute interview.
I did not get the job, but I went on to get a better job where I was given hard problems and expected to actually think them before solving them, without any need for a frenetic rush.
says the tech industry has "cheapened" the title
I agree that software developers shouldn't be called engineers, but for the opposite reason. Developers are more than engineers, they're artists and intuitives. Calling them engineers cheapens the remarkability of the work software developers do. Treats development as if it was nothing more than the rote application of math to science.
Yes. Yes, I did.
My knowledge of systemd is mediocre and the documentation is SO BAD it's not getting better with any speed.
There are FIPS-140 drives whose encryption has been demonstrated to not suck.
As for the ones which do suck... invariable a USB drive or thumb drive. Not an internal laptop hard drive. Read carefully.
You guys are aware that self encrypting drives have been readily available for a decade now, right? The bios detects that the drive requires a password and asks for it at book. The password unlocks an internal key used to encrypt the drive. Unless the adversary manages to capture laptop while it's on or in standby, no password = no data.