The problem is not xenophobia. It's unions. Unions exist slowly to cater to the lazy worker. The one who doesn't want to do more than he has to to get by.
If the AFL-CIO had it's way, I would be out of work. Why? Because I wouldn't be able to wear many hats. I wouldn't be able to do more than was explicitly set down in my job description.
If I needed a piece of patch cable, I couldn't make it myself. That would be up to the cable guy.
Unions MIGHT have been a good idea back in the day. Nowadays they exist purely to make money for the shop stewards and up. Look at UAL. The head of the mechanics union said he would rather see UAL go bankrupt than work with the company to help them through the financial problems.
I can't understand why ANY tech worker would be a member of a union. It runs contrary to the achievement mentality of the average geek. The attitude of bettering yourself personally and professionally.
I'm not a fan of the H1B program but did anyone ever stop to think that maybe salaries are FINALLY coming in line with market conditions? I personally think the quality of work that we've dealt with coming out of overseas tech markets has been less than stellar. Eventually the companies that continue to produce shitty product/service will realize that cost isn't everything and quality will take a front seat again. It's been going this way for years.
Microsoft actually tried something innovative with Bob and it failed miserably. People can't handle new paradigms (god I hate that word!) very well. Most people are lazy and once they learn one thing, you can't teach them otherwise. How many people do you honestly know that have problems when an icon gets moved around on the desktop?
Actually I would LOVE to have everything accessable in a database somehow. I've been wondering about something using the userfs stuff. Not really mounting a mysql database as a usermode filesystem but having information from the system available that way.
I've found myself many times wishing I could just type "select location,filename from datastore where contents like %resume%"
SQL comes much more naturally to me than the find command does. I would love an easier way to index the contents of everyfile on my system by an arbitrary number of metadata and then have that accessable via a simple sql statement.
I remember Scott Hacker did something similar with BeFS and his webserver at somepoint but he's long gone as is BeOS.
I saw one of the best demos I had ever seen on a Sony Wega at Best Buy (before I started boycotting them). It was a basketball game being broadcast live in hdtv. The way to describe it was that I could see the oil on the court. Not just a reflection but the actual detail. It was wonderful.
I still haven't bought an HDTV yet (I'm cheap. I'll wait for the early adopters to help drive the cost down) but I'll get one eventually. Probably before the end of this year.
It's kind of funny. I met a guy on the train from the airport yesterday who worked on the MX dev team. Really nice guy. We talked about the extension architecture that MX has which makes things like native php support available for it. Also talked about running under Wine, which he said he had played around with a bit.
All in all a tame conversation, mostly technically oriented. Wish I had known about this sooner, I might have brought it up.
My guess from what I've read previously is that they are going after the OEM market. Let the cable companies pay for branded set-top boxes and see what happens. Hell, TiVo is doing it now as well. Dish-branded tivo, sony branded tivo....
Don't sign any contracts that extended beyond that period.
At least here in the states, cell phone carriers will be required to institute true number portability on cellphones. They've been pushing it back for about 4 years now but the FCC told them it was do or die time.
This is from: clarkhoward.com:
"Cell phone portability stays alive - July 18, 2002 If you are one of our listeners who took the time to write to the FCC about the cell phone industry, Clark wants to congratulate you. A law passed in 1996 allowed you to take your cell phone number from company to company if you changed providers. It was called "true number portability" and the cell phone industry was terrified of it. So, they have tried everything they could to postpone the law going into effect. The FCC asked for you comments in this matter and your voice was heard. The FCC has issued a decision, saying the rule will stay in effect and you'll be able to keep your number. But reinstatement will not go into effect until Thanksgiving 2003. So, we will be able to take our number with us, but not for a while. And, when this goes into effect, many cell phone companies will go away because of mergers. As long as we have four major players, we will have a decent amount of competition."
I did some research on this many moons ago. I wanted to block ICMP and did so blindly for a while until I did some research as to which ICMP i wanted to block. I came up with this:
deny icmp any any
permit icmp any any ttl-exceeded
permit icmp any any parameter-problem
permit icmp any any host-unreachable
permit icmp any any port-unreachable
permit icmp any any packet-too-big
permit icmp any any host-unknown
I think I was able to get everything that's "harmless". That's only on the ingress by the way. All applied to Serial0/0
I'm glad you brought this up. I love how we are told that we have to tighten our wallets and pay more taxes when the state and federal governments are the ones who should be tightening the wallet. Do as I say, not as I do seems to be the sentiment.
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What exactly has netscape altered that messes with http? Nothing that I can think of. Sounds like an excuse to do shitty work. Probably how they explained it to the people who commisioned the webwork anyway.
That's right! Let's move those evil companies out of China.
That will leave the people better off! Jobs are bad for them. Maybe they'll just die and then we won't have to worry about it?
I don't like the idea of those countries with horrible human rights violations but until the people see the benifit of a freemarket where everyone has a chance at "making it", things will never change. If the people are unemployeed and hungry and destitute, the only recource is crime and corruption and turning to an even MORE corrupt government than what communism provides.
1) Since when do state government programs translate to cutting off the heat for "poor old people"?
2) Where does it say that they WON'T be using the courts? You might have missed the fact that they could possibly be planning on bringing issues TO the courts to decide the consitutionality of said laws.
3) Lemme guess? Drugs == bad! Guns == bad! Forget the fact that the 2nd ammendment provides for the personal ownership of firearms for all citizens, (already ruled on by the Supreme Court). Forget the fact that the two countries you mentioned have drug laws that create the crime associated with drugs. Treatment is cheaper than enforcement (ask Holland). Just because one is used in the commission of a crime for the other does not tie the two together in anything permanent. Forks and spoons could have easily been used in a drug related crime.
4) Yeah and while you're at it, ask Gray Davis why he chose the most expensive power company contact over more cost effective ones.
4) I would gather that they would not bow to federal pressure for higher age drinking laws just to get money for interstates.
Look, the only problem I see with this is the way many of the ideas are worded. That and the fact that the average stupid person will believe the other two parties bullshit about this concept.
I applaud the effort. They are doing exactly what the founding fathers had in mind. Exercising states rights. Any right NOT enumerated to the federal government is left up to the states to decide. This was a KEY principle. It's easier to move to another state than it is to change your citizenship. They are effecting change in the best way possible allthough I think a more concerted effort across all states would fare better.
Oh yeah, sorry about the stupid prat comment. I get so fed up with bullshit "think about the children, guns are bad, drugs are bad" rhetoric that I fly off the handle.
I'm surprised noone mentioned splitvt at all. I use this in combination with screen when I want to group logical windows on one screen(the program) screen.
I bet you think the longshoremen have a valid complaint then because the new technology the companies wanted to institute would cost people jobs but make the companies more efficiant?
It has nothing to do with laziness. It has to do with privacy and respect for another individual.
that alot of people are advocating using a port tunnel or somesuch to remedy the situation. Despite the fact that you shouldn't be wasting the bandwidth, you DO realise that Packeteer is a layer 7 appliance? That means that it actually checks the payload and not just the port. The only solution is to have encrypted tunneling but then again the packets will still have the same signature and they'll get blocked in the next software rev.
Actually a patch should still be made available if RRAS is vulnerable. According to this page here, security fixes for NT4 will be made available until January of next year.
This is good news considering we're only holding on to our NT4 server long enough to find a way to migrate to linux. I'll be moving our pptp server over to linux this weekend now that I've read about this. I actually read it earlier in the day and wasn't sure what to do until I could find out more information.
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The problem is not xenophobia. It's unions. Unions exist slowly to cater to the lazy worker. The one who doesn't want to do more than he has to to get by.
If the AFL-CIO had it's way, I would be out of work. Why? Because I wouldn't be able to wear many hats. I wouldn't be able to do more than was explicitly set down in my job description.
If I needed a piece of patch cable, I couldn't make it myself. That would be up to the cable guy.
Unions MIGHT have been a good idea back in the day. Nowadays they exist purely to make money for the shop stewards and up. Look at UAL. The head of the mechanics union said he would rather see UAL go bankrupt than work with the company to help them through the financial problems.
I can't understand why ANY tech worker would be a member of a union. It runs contrary to the achievement mentality of the average geek. The attitude of bettering yourself personally and professionally.
I'm not a fan of the H1B program but did anyone ever stop to think that maybe salaries are FINALLY coming in line with market conditions? I personally think the quality of work that we've dealt with coming out of overseas tech markets has been less than stellar. Eventually the companies that continue to produce shitty product/service will realize that cost isn't everything and quality will take a front seat again. It's been going this way for years.
I think you've just asked for the return of Bob.
Microsoft actually tried something innovative with Bob and it failed miserably. People can't handle new paradigms (god I hate that word!) very well. Most people are lazy and once they learn one thing, you can't teach them otherwise. How many people do you honestly know that have problems when an icon gets moved around on the desktop?
Actually I would LOVE to have everything accessable in a database somehow. I've been wondering about something using the userfs stuff. Not really mounting a mysql database as a usermode filesystem but having information from the system available that way.
I've found myself many times wishing I could just type "select location,filename from datastore where contents like %resume%"
SQL comes much more naturally to me than the find command does. I would love an easier way to index the contents of everyfile on my system by an arbitrary number of metadata and then have that accessable via a simple sql statement.
I remember Scott Hacker did something similar with BeFS and his webserver at somepoint but he's long gone as is BeOS.
Am I the only one that this makes sense to?
I saw one of the best demos I had ever seen on a Sony Wega at Best Buy (before I started boycotting them). It was a basketball game being broadcast live in hdtv. The way to describe it was that I could see the oil on the court. Not just a reflection but the actual detail. It was wonderful.
I still haven't bought an HDTV yet (I'm cheap. I'll wait for the early adopters to help drive the cost down) but I'll get one eventually. Probably before the end of this year.
And in other news, Microsoft has also given alot of money to Democrats. Don't make this a political issue when it isn't:
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http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.asp?ID=D0
It's kind of funny. I met a guy on the train from the airport yesterday who worked on the MX dev team. Really nice guy. We talked about the extension architecture that MX has which makes things like native php support available for it. Also talked about running under Wine, which he said he had played around with a bit.
All in all a tame conversation, mostly technically oriented. Wish I had known about this sooner, I might have brought it up.
Hehe. Did just that. It's downloading now.
I'll have some SRPMS available tonight hopefully for 7.3 in case no one is willing to wait.
Here's the result of my build of 1.2b:
Mozilla 1.2b + Xft + Gnome2 on RH7.3
I've got a checkout running right now on MOZILLA_1_2_1_RELEASE. I do have a question that I didn't see answered on the cvs page.
Do you guys have a pref on compression or any request regarding that?
The directory for src is empty:
l la 1.2.1/src
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozi
I really want to start this building whilst I'm at work but I can't find the source!
Anyone know which nightly this was built from? I can just download that one.
My guess from what I've read previously is that they are going after the OEM market. Let the cable companies pay for branded set-top boxes and see what happens. Hell, TiVo is doing it now as well. Dish-branded tivo, sony branded tivo....
Don't sign any contracts that extended beyond that period.
At least here in the states, cell phone carriers will be required to institute true number portability on cellphones. They've been pushing it back for about 4 years now but the FCC told them it was do or die time.
This is from: clarkhoward.com:
"Cell phone portability stays alive - July 18, 2002
If you are one of our listeners who took the time to write to the FCC about the cell phone industry, Clark wants to congratulate you. A law passed in 1996 allowed you to take your cell phone number from company to company if you changed providers. It was called "true number portability" and the cell phone industry was terrified of it. So, they have tried everything they could to postpone the law going into effect. The FCC asked for you comments in this matter and your voice was heard. The FCC has issued a decision, saying the rule will stay in effect and you'll be able to keep your number. But reinstatement will not go into effect until Thanksgiving 2003. So, we will be able to take our number with us, but not for a while. And, when this goes into effect, many cell phone companies will go away because of mergers. As long as we have four major players, we will have a decent amount of competition."
Here's the original link.
Well I didn't post the entire ACL but I can't believe I had that miffed up. That's a rookie mistake.
And yes there are actually two different firewalls from that point on depending on the which interface of the NM4E you go out on.
I did some research on this many moons ago. I wanted to block ICMP and did so blindly for a while until I did some research as to which ICMP i wanted to block. I came up with this:
deny icmp any any
permit icmp any any ttl-exceeded
permit icmp any any parameter-problem
permit icmp any any host-unreachable
permit icmp any any port-unreachable
permit icmp any any packet-too-big
permit icmp any any host-unknown
I think I was able to get everything that's "harmless". That's only on the ingress by the way. All applied to Serial0/0
You forgot the ultimate in stupidity. High taxes on tobacco to discourage use whislt subsidising tobacco farmers to grow tobacco!
My brain reels ever time I think about it.
I'm glad you brought this up. I love how we are told that we have to tighten our wallets and pay more taxes when the state and federal governments are the ones who should be tightening the wallet. Do as I say, not as I do seems to be the sentiment.
My boss closed his Suntrust account because servie at the branches was horrid.
What gets me about suntrust is this message.
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What exactly has netscape altered that messes with http? Nothing that I can think of. Sounds like an excuse to do shitty work. Probably how they explained it to the people who commisioned the webwork anyway.
A troll?
it's good to see that sarchasm isn't lost on the moderators.
That's right! Let's move those evil companies out of China.
That will leave the people better off! Jobs are bad for them. Maybe they'll just die and then we won't have to worry about it?
I don't like the idea of those countries with horrible human rights violations but until the people see the benifit of a freemarket where everyone has a chance at "making it", things will never change. If the people are unemployeed and hungry and destitute, the only recource is crime and corruption and turning to an even MORE corrupt government than what communism provides.
Are you a stupid prat or what?
1) Since when do state government programs translate to cutting off the heat for "poor old people"?
2) Where does it say that they WON'T be using the courts? You might have missed the fact that they could possibly be planning on bringing issues TO the courts to decide the consitutionality of said laws.
3) Lemme guess? Drugs == bad! Guns == bad! Forget the fact that the 2nd ammendment provides for the personal ownership of firearms for all citizens, (already ruled on by the Supreme Court). Forget the fact that the two countries you mentioned have drug laws that create the crime associated with drugs. Treatment is cheaper than enforcement (ask Holland). Just because one is used in the commission of a crime for the other does not tie the two together in anything permanent. Forks and spoons could have easily been used in a drug related crime.
4) Yeah and while you're at it, ask Gray Davis why he chose the most expensive power company contact over more cost effective ones.
4) I would gather that they would not bow to federal pressure for higher age drinking laws just to get money for interstates.
Look, the only problem I see with this is the way many of the ideas are worded. That and the fact that the average stupid person will believe the other two parties bullshit about this concept.
I applaud the effort. They are doing exactly what the founding fathers had in mind. Exercising states rights. Any right NOT enumerated to the federal government is left up to the states to decide. This was a KEY principle. It's easier to move to another state than it is to change your citizenship. They are effecting change in the best way possible allthough I think a more concerted effort across all states would fare better.
Oh yeah, sorry about the stupid prat comment. I get so fed up with bullshit "think about the children, guns are bad, drugs are bad" rhetoric that I fly off the handle.
I'm surprised noone mentioned splitvt at all. I use this in combination with screen when I want to group logical windows on one screen(the program) screen.
You can check it out here.
It only has three keybindings and includes a ^O for command mode that allows you to resize the windows.
The problem is that redhat doesn't OWN the kernel. The patch in question is specific to the linux kernel which redhat does NOT own.
It would then follow that they are publishing a vulnerability about Linus Torvalds' product.
I bet you think the longshoremen have a valid complaint then because the new technology the companies wanted to institute would cost people jobs but make the companies more efficiant?
It has nothing to do with laziness. It has to do with privacy and respect for another individual.
that alot of people are advocating using a port tunnel or somesuch to remedy the situation. Despite the fact that you shouldn't be wasting the bandwidth, you DO realise that Packeteer is a layer 7 appliance? That means that it actually checks the payload and not just the port. The only solution is to have encrypted tunneling but then again the packets will still have the same signature and they'll get blocked in the next software rev.
Actually a patch should still be made available if RRAS is vulnerable. According to this page here, security fixes for NT4 will be made available until January of next year.
This is good news considering we're only holding on to our NT4 server long enough to find a way to migrate to linux. I'll be moving our pptp server over to linux this weekend now that I've read about this. I actually read it earlier in the day and wasn't sure what to do until I could find out more information.