The artiste's catch 22. You need money for the industrial tools however you have to have reels to show employeers you use industrial tools.
Im all for alias trying to watermark but the mark is SO BLATENT I switched to another package (Blender) as it was distinctly annoying to model with the watermark in 4.5. It was like trying to drive with a very dirty windshield, It hindered the the 3d input with the 2d watermark stuck on top when trying to do shape placement with just basic shading turned on.
At 2k USD a pop for Maya 5 complet version Im having to try Sketchup3d --> Blender3d which if it works for me is the cheapest solution.
Since Columbus day was on 10/12/03 in the USA I have to mention that while China's effort is indeed history book worthy the world is on the cusp of something even greater.
The privitazation of space travel will definately get a boost to the world's economy as private entrepenurs exploit new technology and we finally get the Columbus factor in our lifetime.
1) reliable proven technology (reusable ships) 2) People with the spirt of adventure (companies that don't outsource everything) 3) Politicos investing in lucrative deals (Isabella==Carly Fina?)
Indeed Liwei San opened up a door for his country, but whoever earns the X-Prize opens the door for the next century and the rest of humanity.
If you've read thus far you may think my opinion is to sue the outsourcing companies on some convoluted basis.
Actually what I'm proposing is much more radical and has yet to be developed in the IT industry -- the industry backbone to stand behind our products.
The ability for consumers to legally put behind bars incompetent CIO's & their coders & wrong-doers architects is the one thing that will keep the IT jobs in-country, whereever that country may be.
International criminal extradition is hard enough international civil-torte is near impossible, tell that to your customers.
Until the IT industry changes its model from pushing constant full-charge product upgrades, completely without warranty, to actually standing behind the product and code all the way to the slammer, the jobs will leave for cheaper pastures.
Not just American companies need to be able to be confident in products.
A first step is government or Insurance industry going for legislation that a software company can't sell software, with licensing terms that only empowers the owner with no recourse for the consumer or government on behalf of consumers.
Why does this go the assisting solve the flight problem? When governments mandate such thing you have to have local representation in that locale to be attuned and ready to lobby and that requires expertise and staff.
Secondly if Insurance & Gov does legislation correctly the IT industry will be pushed through the funnel to consolidate its best ideas and practices into fairly stock commodities.
Ever buy a car without locks? ever wonder why that happened? Just try to buy one without one. Now try buying a new car without airbags, seatbelts, a radio, etc.
It will take at least a decade of concerted industry effort to get all the consumer friendly & safety features discovered 2 decades ago worked out and into standard template/components -- Project Management and coders will be needed. If we are smart we move the entire industry forward in a sliding window fashion.
Much more if the components don't work per spec we should be willing to be put in jail for our failure to engineer for the foreseeable -- yes I said it; crap engineered, written and tested code==jail time for somebody.
Nothing less is expected when I have my architectural blueprints for my house outsourced. If my house collapses or my business inventory is ruined by rain pouring in the roof, I want to sue. Actually my insurance provider is better at it; I want them to sue. IT architects should expect no different treatment.
I know most the counter arguments, non-standard hardware, new technology, multiplicy of competing technoly, etc makes IT hard.
I counter that with the fact that all household 60 watt lightbulbs in the US have a standard interface, all modern consumer vehicles have a starter not a crank, How many banks go into aquistion mode each day to get the consumer base of that area --> yes I said it; how many software houses do there have to be?
IT needs stronger IEEE and ACM chapter involvement. We need to actually blackball the shoddy, wherever they are and raise and collectively protect the best workers, wherever they are, to keep ourselves and society from canabalizing our own progress.
Lastly Speculators and evil-Frontiersmen are driving the IT industry into the ground. Speculators have inflated public opinion that IT is easy and sexy, we all know it's not. It's not because IT hasn't been driven to make it easy nor should it ever be sexy, IT is a consumable product not a super-model.
Evil-Frontiers men (evil-CIOs and evil-Sales) take money upfront them, lead companies into the IT wilderness and leave them to starve -- that's just wrong, it degrades public confidence and harms the whole profession. These have always been around. Even the construction industry has its share of monorails and highways built through swamps and jungles.
We must elimiate these personality types from our ranks.
Ahem, apparently the company already has an idea of where these ought to go.
"Stealth Computer Corporation is an ISO9001 Canadian owned and operated company with its headquarters
in Woodbridge Ontario. Stealth continually develops innovative products designed to meet the exact needs
of their clients. For over a decade Stealth products have been used in industrial, commercial, scientific,
Government and military applications. Stealth enjoys an impressive customer list of Fortune 500's,
Governments and Military's worldwide."
Coming soon, to a law enforcment vehicle near you, the onboard highpower neato small computer which will make the time pass quickly as Officers of the Peace run your license plates, determine your horoscope sign and find out who was your Den Mother in cubscouts.
Really nice tech; if mixed with GPS and GIS and a few other things you could have realtime tracking of where all the squad cars are located.
This is again another problem with open source projects. Lack coordination amoungst projects. How many sub-systems does it take to do the same unit of work?
We have syslog, syslog-ng, a proposal for msyslog, this new version from the university system.
All this does is prove to the M$ marketing machines that opensource has no teeth, let alone coordinated ability to ensure redundant work does not happen.
So where's the compare/contrast to all that came before that convinces people any one of the proposed solutoin is the superior to the previous and its time to move up the IT evolutionary chain.
If we used the same efforts used in open source to supply gas stations there would exist 100+ recipies for grades of fuel and a creeky still & cracking tower would have to be setup next to the gas pump. Until someone took upon the entrepreneurial challenge it wouldn't come out of the spout for consumers. -- until then it would remain something you would have to assemble yourself.
Yet another example of cowboy IT development shooting its own industry in the foot.
This is NOT news to anyone that has been following CSRC NIST SP-800 publications that have been trickling out of Gaithersburg MD for some time. They are even reaching out to small business
Establishing a decent list of the telco demarks and physical inventory and assesment of vital devices was the 1st thing and probably done to a good tolerance. This is the next step. Get all the traffic reports going to a central NOC.
NIST have been writing fairly decent and comprehensive publications that deal with Firewall, email, WAP and assesment of security position. And surprisingly the Public it seems has been regularly asked to comment based what is occuring everyday in business IT.
Currently with the release of the ASSET evaluation tool Fed agencies and departments no longer have the rug to sweep year's of poor planning and practice under.
I'd fully expect that in a few years, use of this Federal NOC and its services of cross site and network attack detection ability could be put into a FIPS standard of some sort. Those that deal with GOV will have to deal with GOVs rules.
If I was a federal law enforcement agency it would be an easy sell.
Sharing GOV net traffic information parallels the concept of sharing "most wanted" lists, prison rolls, evidence research, cold leads and what not.
I just wish the US Gov would also do the same for spammers for theft of services!
Its not a surprise that nearly 100% of all Federal buildings and critical facilites have a small number of meatspace entry points which are screened and watched, why should we expect different for Internet, Extranet and Intranet spaces.
I foresee the American Internet much like American Banks in the 1930's. We are past the "glory" bandits like Bonny and Clyde stage and are just getting weary of the wanna be criminals.
It was about that time the FBI was established to chase after cross juristiction criminals. The Bureau with many other institutions like Insurance companies insisted Banks put in physical measures, guards, bars, silent and audible alarms, robbery training for staff, proof of executing government regulations, etc.
I predict in 8 years Insurance industry will up your premiums for not having a syslog server, Not having a written and practiced fair use policy with employees, not having firewalls between vital resources and untrusted segments of your business. Heaven help come audit time!
My friends computers are rock, metal, plastic and air -- not majik. Get over it.
Reading any of the NIST program documents and having any experience with business consolidation helps in what to forecast next.
My bet is the US Gov to institute internal national EDI networks based on XML exchanges to negotiate terms of service and usage of resources. Quasi-Privatized EDI would preclude any undesireables and non-participant networks.
fbi OK. I recently took the the first exam at Denver, Byron G Roger Federal Building.
I'm not not able to talk specifics on the testing but here are my impressions of attempting civil service.
I wanted to offer my C.S degree, 12+ years IT experience; eight of them with a very large and stodgy employer. It was a decision I made long before 911. It was during the DCMA and other scandals that were happening in the USA long before then. The app was finally processed this year.
I knew then, as all know now, the US Gov doesn't hire the best and brightest, in the quantity required.
Special Agents from those I talked to are expected to be all purpose types -- think clone troopers but with one or two add-ons in the odd times they are needed.
BTW talk to recuiters at fairs, approaching agents in the wild is not well taken in my experience.
Clone troopers is not derogatory but a compliment as they are all about execution of a successful mission, at any moment regardless of environmental and mental conditions.
Special Agents are badged & armed which means they can seize property and take custody of people within the workings of the law.
Every Agent undergoes the same testing process -- A civil servant, Interview and Physical. DUH!
The details are told up front to recruits in your "package". You should discuss the career choice with significant others and family.
Your assignment could range widely depending on Bureau needs and its not likely the place where your living now. You will likely be moved out of the area your currently in (read NYC, LA) until you reach enough seniority to request an assignment (read ready to retire.)
Special Agent is indeed a premo assignment as it starts GS10 + _possible_ relocation bonus if your assigned to an expensive area like NYC. GS 10 is 53,743 to $58,335 USD [fbijobs.com]. Not bad if your in the midwest where IT work doesn't top out at the high dollar. Its much better than most other.gov wages. There are perks such retiring with a pension not worthless.com stock.
You could possibly get fast tracked for promo if you got skills and background to boot.
X-Military and Law should do better due to veteran preference benefits.
I'm rather fit at 5'11 ~170 and was a bit apprehensive of the milage required your required to run for the physical tests.
Indeed entry testing involves endurance running -- as in pretend your running down a "perp" -- at speed -- over sometimes great distance and without the aid of a Starbucks. I was briefed its 7 or 11 min/Mile possibly depending on gender and competition for slots. In 1980 say it could have been less strict.
Your expected to encounter situations necessitating the use deadly force. You must accept that your job is hazardous and you may be killed or maimed while executing your job or because of your job. Its also expected to be a 12 hour day on the job --- possibly on foot.
My views on the first round testing 1) The test is cake for anyone that easily passed Engineering Calc 100 2) Its not all about Engineering Calc but also character, morals and healthy self respect and respect for others (read this civil values) 3) Certain sins could be permitted if its an open secret or something can't/won't cause you to be blackmailed or otherwise manipulated for evil
In talking with a few person's who's opinion I trust anyone with computer skills in the FBI will get to see 1) k1ddi3 pr0n to categorize for evidence 2) a lot of wire fraud case reports 3) a lot of packing tape, boxes and baggies after siezing boxen & portable media as evidence. 4) The inside of the cruiser driving from case to case. 5) Their Veteran partner when not doing 1-4.
Passing round 1 gets you a possible scheduled (read calendar time) slot into round 2 which if passed gets you to bootcamp.
During boot camp you have a 40K salary for 16 weeks for the pain at the famous USMC/FBI spa and playground. _No_ relocation expenses for the family; Im truely sorry if you have one and are at boot camp.
Once out of boot camp your assigned to a Regional Bureau Office and to a Veteran for a probationary period on the order of 3 years. If you leave within your probationary years of your own accord (read not killed or maimed OTJ) you pay back Uncle Sam for all the money we spent on you.
Your expected to compile and file accurate and timely reports. Any those who have to compile more than twice -- go to the exit please --NOW! Love of accuracy and case load is required here.
I was in with ~45 persons in for my round. The prompter quoted 1:20 candidates process through Round 1 testing. A vague rememberence of 1:40 make it past Round 2 and boot camp.
I still haven't got my results. Either I've suffered bureaucratic tape again or I washed out. Either way it was the best thing to do at the time.
P.S. Im NOT the guy that didn't know there was a pond in the lobby:>
I'd suggest you take a long hard look at www.NIST.gov. Secifically the CSRC department. They have developed an extensive self audit checklist and perform standards development for Gov, IE Bulletins, FIPS and S-800 docs Doing this will get you past 80-90% of the obvious things a 3rd party auditor would come up with. This saves money as you took care of the low hanging fruit and they will have to reaaly dig up something to earn their fees. Read S-800-26
Security Self-Assesment Guide for Information Technology Systems
The actual department of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Time is CSRC I would point you to the Computer Security Expert Assit Team and their guidlines Their audit and risk checklists are quite extensive.
Send me $50 and I will get you into a great opportunity selling viagra by e-mail while your waiting at the airport.
Seriously --- given 10 min of code any decent spammer can whip out a program that will SPAN X accounts Y per minute. If they are stuck at the airport while trying to visit their gorgeous beach front property we are much the worse.
Sounds to me is a whole bunch of unstoppable SPAM waiting to happen. Even more theft of service.....
I have just done this myself with an NLX format case.
There are many challenges in tweaking out low profile cases.
First is card length (typically the X dimension from monitor connector to end of PCB) my NLX case needed a card under 7.5 inches to fit the case without bumping into the CDROM enclosure. Often this value is very hard to get from the manufacturer info. Except for Voodoo5 which seems to be long enough to generate a special section in the FAQ for the card. The Y dimension is fairly standard. If anything card manufacturers tend to go so short. IE the new midget mini-pci standards.
The second challenge is Z dimension.
Many high end cards have fans and heatsinks. I had to place mine on the lowest PCI slot to give it clearence and breathing space.
|------------ SCSI
|
|------------
| [-------] VOODOO3 + heatsink
| less than.5 inches of clearence
|
|
=====Mother Board============
3rd is heat.
My Box is running just under the specs of thermal tolerance. I've beefed up the CPU cooling solution and done everything but remove the disk to keep the box cool. I guess as cash registers these things weren't made to get worked up to such an extent (*Grin*)
My setup for reference:
NLX Asus MES-N + 500Mhz Celeron + elanvital b5n case
20 GB drive
Slim DVD-ROM
256MB RAM
Voodoo3 3000 PCI (6.5" long)
Golden Orb Heatsink
SCSI Card
SuSE 6.4 w/ Win98 booting off a Jaz disk
Great LAN party machine -- Just need to have a friend spare their 2nd monitor when I come over
If I say -- had confidential dealings with M$ and wanted to say sue them for possible breach of similiar language. Can their precident be leveraged for their obvious apparent lack of security (less then even a simple ID password registration script required for their support pages) in favor of us little guys? If they treat their confidential stuff in a shoddy way there is no guarentee they have treated mine better -- If anything any one want to see if it can leverage their contract's enforcement clauses? Regards,
Slashdot Mirror
Wierdly the link to www.timhiggins.com now refers to tomshardware.
TimHiggins was a good site for quite some time for reviews and info on wireless and embedded firewall solutions
Anyone sell an active noise cancelling solution that would work off a PSU power supply?
/dev/entropy into a pink/white filter to the sound device?
You'd think with all that power my AMD has, 1% could be used to track and cancel by white noise the offending sounds?
I figure there is more to this than there seems?
Like disturbing my brain with whitenoise.
Has someone figured out how to dump
aka almost like here
The artiste's catch 22. You need money for the industrial tools however you have to have reels to show employeers you use industrial tools.
Im all for alias trying to watermark but the mark is SO BLATENT I switched to another package (Blender) as it was distinctly annoying to model with the watermark in 4.5. It was like trying to drive with a very dirty windshield, It hindered the the 3d input with the 2d watermark stuck on top when trying to do shape placement with just basic shading turned on.
At 2k USD a pop for Maya 5 complet version Im having to try Sketchup3d --> Blender3d which if it works for me is the cheapest solution.
Since Columbus day was on 10/12/03 in the USA I have to mention that while China's effort is indeed history book worthy the world is on the cusp of something even greater.
The privitazation of space travel will definately get a boost to the world's economy as private entrepenurs exploit new technology and we finally get the Columbus factor in our lifetime.
1) reliable proven technology (reusable ships)
2) People with the spirt of adventure (companies that don't outsource everything)
3) Politicos investing in lucrative deals (Isabella==Carly Fina?)
Indeed Liwei San opened up a door for his country, but whoever earns the X-Prize opens the door for the next century and the rest of humanity.
My bet's on Spaceship One & Rutan
If you've read thus far you may think my opinion is to sue the outsourcing companies on some convoluted basis.
Actually what I'm proposing is much more radical and has yet to be developed in the IT industry -- the industry backbone to stand behind our products.
The ability for consumers to legally put behind bars incompetent CIO's & their coders & wrong-doers architects is the one thing that will keep the IT jobs in-country, whereever that country may be.
International criminal extradition is hard enough international civil-torte is near impossible, tell that to your customers.
Until the IT industry changes its model from pushing constant full-charge product upgrades, completely without warranty, to actually standing behind the product and code all the way to the slammer, the jobs will leave for cheaper pastures.
Not just American companies need to be able to be confident in products.
A first step is government or Insurance industry going for legislation that a software company can't sell software, with licensing terms that only empowers the owner with no recourse for the consumer or government on behalf of consumers.
Why does this go the assisting solve the flight problem? When governments mandate such thing you have to have local representation in that locale to be attuned and ready to lobby and that requires expertise and staff.
Secondly if Insurance & Gov does legislation correctly the IT industry will be pushed through the funnel to consolidate its best ideas and practices into fairly stock commodities.
Ever buy a car without locks? ever wonder why that happened? Just try to buy one without one. Now try buying a new car without airbags, seatbelts, a radio, etc.
It will take at least a decade of concerted industry effort to get all the consumer friendly & safety features discovered 2 decades ago worked out and into standard template/components --
Project Management and coders will be needed. If we are smart we move the entire industry forward in a sliding window fashion.
Much more if the components don't work per spec we should be willing to be put in jail for our failure to engineer for the foreseeable -- yes I said it; crap engineered, written and tested code==jail time for somebody.
Nothing less is expected when I have my architectural blueprints for my house outsourced. If my house collapses or my business inventory is ruined by rain pouring in the roof, I want to sue. Actually my insurance provider is better at it; I want them to sue. IT architects should expect no different treatment.
I know most the counter arguments, non-standard hardware, new technology, multiplicy of competing technoly, etc makes IT hard.
I counter that with the fact that all household 60 watt lightbulbs in the US have a standard interface, all modern consumer vehicles have a starter not a crank, How many banks go into aquistion mode each day to get the consumer base of that area --> yes I said it; how many software houses do there have to be?
IT needs stronger IEEE and ACM chapter involvement. We need to actually blackball the shoddy, wherever they are and raise and collectively protect the best workers, wherever they are, to keep ourselves and society from canabalizing our own progress.
Lastly Speculators and evil-Frontiersmen are driving the IT industry into the ground. Speculators have inflated public opinion that IT is easy and sexy, we all know it's not. It's not because IT hasn't been driven to make it easy nor should it ever be sexy, IT is a consumable product not a super-model.
Evil-Frontiers men (evil-CIOs and evil-Sales) take money upfront them, lead companies into the IT wilderness and leave them to starve -- that's just wrong, it degrades public confidence and harms the whole profession. These have always been around. Even the construction industry has its share of monorails and highways built through swamps and jungles.
We must elimiate these personality types from our ranks.
My rant ends here
Really nice tech; if mixed with GPS and GIS and a few other things you could have realtime tracking of where all the squad cars are located.
This is again another problem with open source projects. Lack coordination amoungst projects. How many sub-systems does it take to do the same unit of work?
We have syslog, syslog-ng, a proposal for msyslog, this new version from the university system.
All this does is prove to the M$ marketing machines that opensource has no teeth, let alone coordinated ability to ensure redundant work does not happen.
So where's the compare/contrast to all that came before that convinces people any one of the proposed solutoin is the superior to the previous and its time to move up the IT evolutionary chain.
If we used the same efforts used in open source to supply gas stations there would exist 100+ recipies for grades of fuel and a creeky still & cracking tower would have to be setup next to the gas pump. Until someone took upon the entrepreneurial challenge it wouldn't come out of the spout for consumers. -- until then it would remain something you would have to assemble yourself.
Yet another example of cowboy IT development shooting its own industry in the foot.
This is NOT news to anyone that has been following CSRC NIST SP-800 publications that have been trickling out of Gaithersburg MD for some time. They are even reaching out to small business
Establishing a decent list of the telco demarks and physical inventory and assesment of vital devices was the 1st thing and probably done to a good tolerance. This is the next step. Get all the traffic reports going to a central NOC.
NIST have been writing fairly decent and comprehensive publications that deal with Firewall, email, WAP and assesment of security position. And surprisingly the Public it seems has been regularly asked to comment based what is occuring everyday in business IT.
Currently with the release of the ASSET evaluation tool Fed agencies and departments no longer have the rug to sweep year's of poor planning and practice under.
I'd fully expect that in a few years, use of this Federal NOC and its services of cross site and network attack detection ability could be put into a FIPS standard of some sort. Those that deal with GOV will have to deal with GOVs rules.
If I was a federal law enforcement agency it would be an easy sell.
Sharing GOV net traffic information parallels the concept of sharing "most wanted" lists, prison rolls, evidence research, cold leads and what not.
I just wish the US Gov would also do the same for spammers for theft of services!
Its not a surprise that nearly 100% of all Federal buildings and critical facilites have a small number of meatspace entry points which are screened and watched, why should we expect different for Internet, Extranet and Intranet spaces.
I foresee the American Internet much like American Banks in the 1930's. We are past the "glory" bandits like Bonny and Clyde stage and are just getting weary of the wanna be criminals.
It was about that time the FBI was established to chase after cross juristiction criminals. The Bureau with many other institutions like Insurance companies insisted Banks put in physical measures, guards, bars, silent and audible alarms, robbery training for staff, proof of executing government regulations, etc.
I predict in 8 years Insurance industry will up your premiums for not having a syslog server, Not having a written and practiced fair use policy with employees, not having firewalls between vital resources and untrusted segments of your business. Heaven help come audit time!
My friends computers are rock, metal, plastic and air -- not majik. Get over it.
Reading any of the NIST program documents and having any experience with business consolidation helps in what to forecast next.
My bet is the US Gov to institute internal national EDI networks based on XML exchanges to negotiate terms of service and usage of resources. Quasi-Privatized EDI would preclude any undesireables and non-participant networks.
My 2c
fbi OK. I recently took the the first exam at Denver, Byron G Roger Federal Building.
.gov wages. There are perks such retiring with a pension not worthless .com stock.
:>
I'm not not able to talk specifics on the testing but here are my impressions of attempting civil service.
I wanted to offer my C.S degree, 12+ years IT experience; eight of them with a very large and stodgy employer. It was a decision I made long before 911. It was during the DCMA and other scandals that were happening in the USA long before then. The app was finally processed this year.
I knew then, as all know now, the US Gov doesn't hire the best and brightest, in the quantity required.
Special Agents from those I talked to are expected to be all purpose types -- think clone troopers but with one or two add-ons in the odd times they are needed.
BTW talk to recuiters at fairs, approaching agents in the wild is not well taken in my experience.
Clone troopers is not derogatory but a compliment as they are all about execution of a successful mission, at any moment regardless of environmental and mental conditions.
Special Agents are badged & armed which means they can seize property and take custody of people within the workings of the law.
Every Agent undergoes the same testing process -- A civil servant, Interview and Physical. DUH!
The details are told up front to recruits in your "package". You should discuss the career choice with significant others and family.
Your assignment could range widely depending on Bureau needs and its not likely the place where your living now. You will likely be moved out of the area your currently in (read NYC, LA) until you reach enough seniority to request an assignment (read ready to retire.)
Special Agent is indeed a premo assignment as it starts GS10 + _possible_ relocation bonus if your assigned to an expensive area like NYC. GS 10 is 53,743 to $58,335 USD [fbijobs.com]. Not bad if your in the midwest where IT work doesn't top out at the high dollar. Its much better than most other
You could possibly get fast tracked for promo if you got skills and background to boot.
X-Military and Law should do better due to veteran preference benefits.
I'm rather fit at 5'11 ~170 and was a bit apprehensive of the milage required your required to run for the physical tests.
Indeed entry testing involves endurance running -- as in pretend your running down a "perp" -- at speed -- over sometimes great distance and without the aid of a Starbucks. I was briefed its 7 or 11 min/Mile possibly depending on gender and competition for slots. In 1980 say it could have been less strict.
Your expected to encounter situations necessitating the use deadly force. You must accept that your job is hazardous and you may be killed or maimed while executing your job or because of your job. Its also expected to be a 12 hour day on the job --- possibly on foot.
My views on the first round testing
1) The test is cake for anyone that easily passed Engineering Calc 100
2) Its not all about Engineering Calc but also character, morals and healthy self respect and respect for others (read this civil values)
3) Certain sins could be permitted if its an open secret or something can't/won't cause you to be blackmailed or otherwise manipulated for evil
In talking with a few person's who's opinion I trust anyone with computer skills in the FBI will get to see 1) k1ddi3 pr0n to categorize for evidence 2) a lot of wire fraud case reports 3) a lot of packing tape, boxes and baggies after siezing boxen & portable media as evidence. 4) The inside of the cruiser driving from case to case. 5) Their Veteran partner when not doing 1-4.
Passing round 1 gets you a possible scheduled (read calendar time) slot into round 2 which if passed gets you to bootcamp.
During boot camp you have a 40K salary for 16 weeks for the pain at the famous USMC/FBI spa and playground. _No_ relocation expenses for the family; Im truely sorry if you have one and are at boot camp.
Once out of boot camp your assigned to a Regional Bureau Office and to a Veteran for a probationary period on the order of 3 years. If you leave within your probationary years of your own accord (read not killed or maimed OTJ) you pay back Uncle Sam for all the money we spent on you.
Your expected to compile and file accurate and timely reports. Any those who have to compile more than twice -- go to the exit please --NOW!
Love of accuracy and case load is required here.
I was in with ~45 persons in for my round. The prompter quoted 1:20 candidates process through Round 1 testing. A vague rememberence of 1:40 make it past Round 2 and boot camp.
I still haven't got my results. Either I've suffered bureaucratic tape again or I washed out. Either way it was the best thing to do at the time.
P.S. Im NOT the guy that didn't know there was a pond in the lobby
Secifically the CSRC department. They have developed an extensive self audit checklist and perform standards development for Gov, IE
Bulletins, FIPS and S-800 docs
Doing this will get you past 80-90% of the obvious things a 3rd party auditor would come up with. This saves money as you took care of the low hanging fruit and they will have to reaaly dig up something to earn their fees. Read S-800-26
The actual department of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Time is CSRC I would point you to the Computer Security Expert Assit Team and their guidlines
Their audit and risk checklists are quite extensive.
Send me $50 and I will get you into a great opportunity selling viagra by e-mail while your waiting at the airport.
Seriously --- given 10 min of code any decent spammer can whip out a program that will SPAN X accounts Y per minute. If they are stuck at the airport while trying to visit their gorgeous beach front property we are much the worse.
Sounds to me is a whole bunch of unstoppable SPAM waiting to happen. Even more theft of service.....
Regards,
Turtleshadow
Try submitting your application to IBM ExtreamBlue
There are many challenges in tweaking out low profile cases.
First is card length (typically the X dimension from monitor connector to end of PCB) my NLX case needed a card under 7.5 inches to fit the case without bumping into the CDROM enclosure. Often this value is very hard to get from the manufacturer info. Except for Voodoo5 which seems to be long enough to generate a special section in the FAQ for the card. The Y dimension is fairly standard. If anything card manufacturers tend to go so short. IE the new midget mini-pci standards.
The second challenge is Z dimension.
Many high end cards have fans and heatsinks. I had to place mine on the lowest PCI slot to give it clearence and breathing space.
|------------ SCSI
|
|------------
| [-------] VOODOO3 + heatsink
| less than .5 inches of clearence
|
|
=====Mother Board============
3rd is heat.
My Box is running just under the specs of thermal tolerance. I've beefed up the CPU cooling solution and done everything but remove the disk to keep the box cool. I guess as cash registers these things weren't made to get worked up to such an extent (*Grin*)
My setup for reference :
NLX Asus MES-N + 500Mhz Celeron + elanvital b5n case
20 GB drive
Slim DVD-ROM
256MB RAM
Voodoo3 3000 PCI (6.5" long)
Golden Orb Heatsink
SCSI Card
SuSE 6.4 w/ Win98 booting off a Jaz disk
Great LAN party machine -- Just need to have a friend spare their 2nd monitor when I come over
Good Luck
If I say -- had confidential dealings with M$ and wanted to say sue them for possible breach of similiar language. Can their precident be leveraged for their obvious apparent lack of security (less then even a simple ID password registration script required for their support pages) in favor of us little guys? If they treat their confidential stuff in a shoddy way there is no guarentee they have treated mine better -- If anything any one want to see if it can leverage their contract's enforcement clauses? Regards,