I change my advertising methods. If you bought a full page in the New York Times for advertisement and didn't see an increase in business that coincided with the amount you spent (assume that a rival company with deep pockets purchased about 100,000 subscriptions to the Times to inflate the ad placement cost), you would change your ad placement strategy. This is no different. If you want to sue someone, you need to sue the end-clicker that is causing the inflated ad cost or find another marketing plan.
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IT's Musical Habits
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I now understand why my iPod has such a diverse set of music. It's because my employer has me performing too many roles.
Usher, Nelly and hip hop are there to support my work on Windows Domains and Exchange.
Hendrix and Clapton support my work on security.
Techno (Darude,etc.) supports my linux admin work.
Megadeth, Metallica, Creed, and Tool support my software development efforts.
I am not sure where Johnny Cash fits in with all of this.
Oddly enough, I actually do tend to listen to the corresponding types of music when performing the various tasks associated with my job.
Maybe if I put some classical music on there, I can be promoted to high level management and start to run the place.
Since SCO's business model is now strictly litigation, shouldn't Darl and Co. just hire lawyers and fire all technically proficient people that still attempt to work for this bloodsucking cesspool of increativity. That would cut down on the legal costs and make for a more efficient business. That might help them when Apple throws in its resources against a *BSD suit.
If I were blindly blocking things based on my own opinions, that would be a problem. I instead incorporated a system where users forward alleged spam mail to a special account that I monitor. If several users decide that this is spam, it usually is. I don't block everything with "penis" in it, but you better believe that "Biggee your penis is in 10 days" doesn't get through. In addition, I compare similar spam messages while paying attention to the domains they come from. Combining this information with WhoIs information and the Clueless Mailers page (http://www.cluelessmailers.org/), I can get a good feel for which domains are sending spam only.
I also give any user the option of having no filter on their mail. I haven't had anyone take me up on that option.
I administer a Spam filter for a state University in Tennessee. Since I began filtering, I have trapped about 42% of all email bound for faculty and staff. Some spam still gets through, but the impact on our pop and imap servers has been greatly reduced.
I agree completely with this statement: Information Technology (IT) is for businessy type people, computer science (CS)use Unix and various clones of it.
In addition to this distinction, I must also say that many people that try to get degrees in CS or even IT are doing it for the wrong reasons. Usually they enroll in the curriculum with no concept of the necessary skills of Mathematics or Logic. They think that they can get a degree and will make lots of money as soon as they leave college.
This has lead to weakening of course requirements in colleges everywhere. Colleges want students, so they let them get their degrees without demand enough of them, as long as the tuition gets paid. Generally where I went to college, about 5% of an original freshmen CS group would graduate in that discipline with a functional knowledge. The others would copy/cheat/steal to get the grade. When I took a class in assembly language, that is when I found the true differences. There were 4 in my class that *liked* programming in ASM. I am just glad to know that as soon as these idiots hit the real world, they found out they would have to get off their lazy asses to keep their jobs.
Where I work, everyone is pretty friendly and afterhours socializing is really common. We always do lunch together. We have friendly games of paintball on the weekends to help relieve stress from the work week. Sometimes we go to a nearby larger city/town for a night out since we work at a rural Tennessee college that is more wired than most other campuses in the state. I think that our social environment is one of the main reasons that we can look at the top 50 wired colleges list every year and say, "Even though they have never heard of us, we did *that* two years ago."
I agree completely and have built one of these myself. Find some old computer parts (I had an old FIC motherboard with a Cyrix 150 with memory, a DVD drive that I wasn't using, and a harddrive). I bought a cheap video card with a TV-out that could be set to default to the TV-out (this is totally OS independent and will even display BIOS and startup to the TV). I put in an old SB 16 and loaded the OS of choice (happened to be Win 95, will be replaced with BEOS). I even made a case for this and put standard stereo component outputs on the back using some nifty parts from Radio Shack and a soldering iron. The cool part is that it looks like a stereo component, has the ability to play mp3's from a hard drive, can play mp3's from CD's or even DVD's, and uses my TV as the user interface display. I can still add a cheap LAN card to interface with my in-house 100 Mbps LAN. Because I had the parts just lying around from previous incarnations of my present computer, total cost was around $50.
We shouldn't fault institutions such as Yale for shutting down their napster servers. Perhaps they were looking for a valid reason to close them other than bandwidth consumption, which should be reason enough. At my university, we experienced the same effect as a denial of service attack with our website because of student misuse of this tool. Since Napster has a handy download queue, many students would load about 30 songs into the queue before going to class. They would return to their dormatory room computer hours later to hear their freshly pirated music. This is not so bad when only a few people do this, but when several hundred do it at once, bandwidth is quickly consumed. Consequently, we blocked student access from the Napster servers located outside of our campus. Of course students have found ways around this, but people around the world can at least connect to our website now. Beyond the topic of bandwidth, many higher education institutions simply do not have large enough budgets to merit a legal battle with someone over the copyright issues. If the useful software that Napster created had not been misused, we would not be having this discussion now.
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I change my advertising methods. If you bought a full page in the New York Times for advertisement and didn't see an increase in business that coincided with the amount you spent (assume that a rival company with deep pockets purchased about 100,000 subscriptions to the Times to inflate the ad placement cost), you would change your ad placement strategy. This is no different. If you want to sue someone, you need to sue the end-clicker that is causing the inflated ad cost or find another marketing plan.
.sigs cause cancer!
I now understand why my iPod has such a diverse set of music. It's because my employer has me performing too many roles.
Usher, Nelly and hip hop are there to support my work on Windows Domains and Exchange.
Hendrix and Clapton support my work on security.
Techno (Darude,etc.) supports my linux admin work.
Megadeth, Metallica, Creed, and Tool support my software development efforts.
I am not sure where Johnny Cash fits in with all of this.
Oddly enough, I actually do tend to listen to the corresponding types of music when performing the various tasks associated with my job.
Maybe if I put some classical music on there, I can be promoted to high level management and start to run the place.
Since SCO's business model is now strictly litigation, shouldn't Darl and Co. just hire lawyers and fire all technically proficient people that still attempt to work for this bloodsucking cesspool of increativity. That would cut down on the legal costs and make for a more efficient business. That might help them when Apple throws in its resources against a *BSD suit.
If I were blindly blocking things based on my own opinions, that would be a problem. I instead incorporated a system where users forward alleged spam mail to a special account that I monitor. If several users decide that this is spam, it usually is. I don't block everything with "penis" in it, but you better believe that "Biggee your penis is in 10 days" doesn't get through. In addition, I compare similar spam messages while paying attention to the domains they come from. Combining this information with WhoIs information and the Clueless Mailers page (http://www.cluelessmailers.org/), I can get a good feel for which domains are sending spam only.
I also give any user the option of having no filter on their mail. I haven't had anyone take me up on that option.
550 Spammer Go Away!
I administer a Spam filter for a state University in Tennessee. Since I began filtering, I have trapped about 42% of all email bound for faculty and staff. Some spam still gets through, but the impact on our pop and imap servers has been greatly reduced.
550 Spammer Go Away!
I agree completely with this statement:
Information Technology (IT) is for businessy type people, computer science (CS)use Unix and various clones of it.
In addition to this distinction, I must also say that many people that try to get degrees in CS or even IT are doing it for the wrong reasons. Usually they enroll in the curriculum with no concept of the necessary skills of Mathematics or Logic. They think that they can get a degree and will make lots of money as soon as they leave college.
This has lead to weakening of course requirements in colleges everywhere. Colleges want students, so they let them get their degrees without demand enough of them, as long as the tuition gets paid. Generally where I went to college, about 5% of an original freshmen CS group would graduate in that discipline with a functional knowledge. The others would copy/cheat/steal to get the grade. When I took a class in assembly language, that is when I found the true differences. There were 4 in my class that *liked* programming in ASM. I am just glad to know that as soon as these idiots hit the real world, they found out they would have to get off their lazy asses to keep their jobs.
Where I work, everyone is pretty friendly and afterhours socializing is really common. We always do lunch together. We have friendly games of paintball on the weekends to help relieve stress from the work week. Sometimes we go to a nearby larger city/town for a night out since we work at a rural Tennessee college that is more wired than most other campuses in the state. I think that our social environment is one of the main reasons that we can look at the top 50 wired colleges list every year and say, "Even though they have never heard of us, we did *that* two years ago."
I agree completely and have built one of these myself. Find some old computer parts (I had an old FIC motherboard with a Cyrix 150 with memory, a DVD drive that I wasn't using, and a harddrive). I bought a cheap video card with a TV-out that could be set to default to the TV-out (this is totally OS independent and will even display BIOS and startup to the TV). I put in an old SB 16 and loaded the OS of choice (happened to be Win 95, will be replaced with BEOS). I even made a case for this and put standard stereo component outputs on the back using some nifty parts from Radio Shack and a soldering iron. The cool part is that it looks like a stereo component, has the ability to play mp3's from a hard drive, can play mp3's from CD's or even DVD's, and uses my TV as the user interface display. I can still add a cheap LAN card to interface with my in-house 100 Mbps LAN. Because I had the parts just lying around from previous incarnations of my present computer, total cost was around $50.
We shouldn't fault institutions such as Yale for shutting down their napster servers. Perhaps they were looking for a valid reason to close them other than bandwidth consumption, which should be reason enough. At my university, we experienced the same effect as a denial of service attack with our website because of student misuse of this tool. Since Napster has a handy download queue, many students would load about 30 songs into the queue before going to class. They would return to their dormatory room computer hours later to hear their freshly pirated music. This is not so bad when only a few people do this, but when several hundred do it at once, bandwidth is quickly consumed. Consequently, we blocked student access from the Napster servers located outside of our campus. Of course students have found ways around this, but people around the world can at least connect to our website now.
Beyond the topic of bandwidth, many higher education institutions simply do not have large enough budgets to merit a legal battle with someone over the copyright issues.
If the useful software that Napster created had not been misused, we would not be having this discussion now.