Active threats sometimes have more influence than passive ones. Even in Checkmate situations where the end is guaronteed, one can conceed early and forego the end result of being blown to tiny bits.
Yes... the youngsters may not have heard about the corrolary to that philosophy, however.
Kids, look up Mutually Assured Destruction. Nobody makes a move, and we actually cool down a bit, (hence the term "cold war") because everyone knows that if the balloon goes up, they all do.
One year when I took the SAT I accidentally bubbled in my name incorrectly by filling in a "D" instead of a "C". I didn't realize this until I got my results back.
Yikes. I wonder if that inattention to detail was reflected in your overall score, as well?:)
I understand what you're saying, though. I registered with one airline (American) who labelled me thereafter as "Sir" until I requested they fix it, and another (Delta) that ran my first and middle names together (and have yet to answer my requests to fix it), so now when I get junk mail with those variations I know who's been selling my info.
[rant] This reminds me of my ISP - they only support Windows. If there's a cable fault, then to prove it I have to take my Linux firewall down, power off, shove my Windows 98 caddy into the machine, reboot, and go through fscking winipcfg with them until I can convince the idiot behind the helpdesk that it's their fscking problem [/rant]
If you can get DSL at your location, you should be able to go with a provider that supports Linux. I know Speakeasy is one provider for DSL in the US that claims to be "Linux friendly," and there are probably several others both in the US and elsewhere.
Don't just rant; vote with your feet.
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You don't have to move to PHP 5, if an earlier version does the job the way you want it to.
Just like for any other piece of software: if you don't see something new worth any potential upgrade fee or hassle in converting your stuff, don't do it.
The scariest images, seen repeatedly, are how easy it is for Glock 17s and plastic explosives to make it through the machines. Makes you wonder why terrorists don't just buy plastic guns.
My only complaint so far is that, after rebooting and logging in for the first time, it took several minutes before it got to the "loading user preferences" pop-up. Much longer than usual for a service pack or patch.
The fact that it doesn't seem to apply until you log in is also important - make sure you log into each machine, afterwards, so that you know it's installed.
Also, don't forget to also apply the (additional) media player 9 series patch. It's actually separate from the main SP4. Luckily, you don't have to reboot afterwards.
Of course, I just ran the end-user version. It's quite possible that my complaints only apply to this version of the SP.
After than, some less than ethical FBISD employee decided to attempt to reset my dyndns.org account password. A while later, I get hits from them to my linux box trying to login to my FTP and protected HTTP pages from them. This is the thanks I get for telling them that they're vulnerable.
As a student, I couldn't really do anything other than publicize what they did on my website and send a few nastygrams back.
If they're attacking your systems, it's got nothing to do with school. They're breaking laws.
Keep a log of the idiots trying to break in, start publishing the IPs (resolving to adminsbox.fortbendisd.etc), and also send your administration a cease-and-desist letter warning them that you will sue them for attempted illegal trespass of your computer systems.
Start approaching your local school board reps. Ask them why they're letting their admins engage in criminal activity.
If they don't respond immediately, send the information to the local newspaper, ask the local TV station if they want to hear about how the admins are criminals trying to destroy your computer system. Show them the paperwork. Show them how the board does nothing.
The idea is to get as much publicity as possible centered on these idiots, so they can't get away with it. People should know not only who did it, but all the people who let it happen. People should be fired/kicked out of office over this.
Of course, you'll want to search and make sure I didn't send you to a trojaned fake site first, but that's the right place.
It would be hilarious to find that it wasn't your machine that was infected, but that your provider was running its DNS services on MS-Windows boxes, and some fool with admin privileges on one installed the spyware by mistake.
In the meantime, do you still see bad DNS redirects with your provider, or did they magically clear up soon after you Asked Slashdot?
... like you covered all the bases you needed to cover. I'd start contacting some of the tech magazines (Wired, etc.) and provide them with everything you've got.
No, he forgot to run a spyware detector like Ad-Aware on his box first. Of course, that negates the rest of what you want him to do.
Drawing any negative publicity to this is likely the only way to get it looked into.
It generates unduly negative publicity for a company stuck with a customer who didn't properly troubleshoot his own systems before blaming theirs.
Now I have to go back and change ALL the passwords I've used in the past week. Shit.
Reading the responses, instead of just having a knee-jerk reaction to the original message, could have saved you some grief.
The guy is an idiot, with spyware installed on his computer. Go ahead and change your passwords, but then install and run Ad-aware, or something similar, on any MS-Windows box you have.
Step 10 should be: realize about 30 seconds before Charter calls and threatens to sue you for posting unproven accusations, that you were a victim of C2Media's spyware. Step 11... loss!!!
Poor Heeltoe. I'm sure he thought he'd be seen as a whistleblower, etc., but now everyone will remember him as a classic example of someone who calls tech support and blames the problem on the ISP, when it's bad software on his box.
Or at very least saying, "Hi!" to speed. (Trixie?)
And for the hardcore enthusiasts (pun intended), there's "Ohhhhhhhh, Speeeeeeeeeeeed!"
Can you imagine the commercial for his laptop, with that music?
(he opens the case) Trixie: "oohh." Speed: "aah?" (he flicks the power) Trixie: "ooh!" (zero to splash screen in 2 seconds) Speed: "uh-huh!" (he leans back and lets her grab his pointing device)...
At the end of the commercial, fast fade to black, and a voiceover mentions that it's also got a nice standby mode: "He's fallen fast asleep!"
"...most of them will spend their lives working as strippers or grocery store clerks or, even worse, journalists. They will die alone, unloved and unknown in a run-down apartment with 47 cats, to the end clinging to the pathetic hope that they can write the Great American Novel if only someone will pay attention to them."
I must admit that it sounds tempting. What are the disadvantages?
Changing the litter boxes, for one... but if you move to a neighborhood with lots of kids with sandboxes, for some reason it's not as big of a deal, if they're outdoor cats.
SCO is asserting that IBM is violating export controls, but how that has anything to do with SCO is anyone's guess, unless of course SCO is claiming unfair competition in the giving-tech-to-hostile-countries-market.
Seriously, only the U.S. government can really have much of a case against them for that, if in fact they are in violation.
This is like one of my first graders, back when I tutored, coming up to me and complaining that some other kid was hogging the smelly markers (he had 1), oh and also, know what know what know what know what? He threw a rock at the doggy they saw on the way home yesterday, too!
In other words, a finger-pointing smear campaign, because the original complaint is meritless. At least little kids are guileless enough to blush and admit it, when you call them on it.
Sorry, even if SCO does 'win' the lawsuit, they will still lose. Nobody is going to go back to their crap once they've moved to a free *nix.
You're missing the point. I agree that SCO's time is over. However, if they were to win this case, it would slow the change that will inevitably occur anyway, of people moving to new models of IP ownership and rights, etc. This is because existing rights to sublicensing agreements for a lot of companies would have to be re-examined, as well what happens to GPLed code in projects where it's alleged that some other code in the project is not GPL, etc.
In a way, this is the opposite of Schumpeter's Creative Destruction. [...] In this case, we have an increasingly irrelevant loser of a company that's trying to set off an IP Doomsday Device to wipe out that part of the IT world that is new and ascending (Linux in the enterprise).
It's really just confirmation. Think of it as the death throes of a company based on an old business model, etc. Sure, if SCO won, or even if the battle is prolonged, it could set back changes that are happening with new models of IP ownership, etc. But in the long run, this is all part of the trend. Regardless of the outcome, IP lawyers and the programming community are already dealing with a changing system, and more challenges by/against other large players are certainly to be expected.
But how do we know you didn't tamper with your EDR to make it appear you are innocent? How do we know that your EDR doesn't cut out at 55mph, while the other driver's brand of EDR routinely overreports? Maybe you were going 55mph (and drifting into the wrong lane) because you were asleep. And perhaps the other driver wouldn't have speeded at all if he had known he had an EDR.
If we are going to have EDRs (and they may be a good idea), they should be standardized, mandated, and tamper-proof. This ad-hoc stuff is no good.
Have the manufacturer certify the EDR as being unmodified after testing it, when they pull it from the wreckage?
then it's they who should be working overtime. That's all. Management made a lousy decision because they knew they could lean on you to do what they wanted.
Guess what happens if you follow thorugh and do it this time?
The client comes back and demands it again. Or another client does. Or your employer starts offering expedited service, etc.
If you've really been working at a steady job for a whiel, you've accrued some unemployment compensation. Yes, the job market sucks. On the other hand, you do get your life back however this situation ends.
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"I see colors! Cyans, Yellows, Magentas! All over my hands, my face! Maybe I'm full of chocolate inside? But where are the munchkins?"
Yes... the youngsters may not have heard about the corrolary to that philosophy, however.
Kids, look up Mutually Assured Destruction. Nobody makes a move, and we actually cool down a bit, (hence the term "cold war") because everyone knows that if the balloon goes up, they all do.
No. The AC actually pasted that without attribution.
It's been around for quite some time.
See here for many more references.
Yikes. I wonder if that inattention to detail was reflected in your overall score, as well?
I understand what you're saying, though. I registered with one airline (American) who labelled me thereafter as "Sir" until I requested they fix it, and another (Delta) that ran my first and middle names together (and have yet to answer my requests to fix it), so now when I get junk mail with those variations I know who's been selling my info.
If you can get DSL at your location, you should be able to go with a provider that supports Linux. I know Speakeasy is one provider for DSL in the US that claims to be "Linux friendly," and there are probably several others both in the US and elsewhere.
Don't just rant; vote with your feet.
You don't have to move to PHP 5, if an earlier version does the job the way you want it to.
Just like for any other piece of software: if you don't see something new worth any potential upgrade fee or hassle in converting your stuff, don't do it.
A true slashdotter would never bother to learn the story, but would be happy to opine about it afterwards in the discussion board tie-in.
Most of the advertising should therefore be done on the board.
The scariest images, seen repeatedly, are how easy it is for Glock 17s and plastic explosives to make it through the machines. Makes you wonder why terrorists don't just buy plastic guns.
Condensation becomes a real issue if you try that.
FIX: Multi-Border DVD with More Than 4 GB of Data Not Readable Past First Border
Maybe now I can properly backup my dual-layer DVDs?
My only complaint so far is that, after rebooting and logging in for the first time, it took several minutes before it got to the "loading user preferences" pop-up. Much longer than usual for a service pack or patch.
The fact that it doesn't seem to apply until you log in is also important - make sure you log into each machine, afterwards, so that you know it's installed.
Also, don't forget to also apply the (additional) media player 9 series patch. It's actually separate from the main SP4. Luckily, you don't have to reboot afterwards.
Of course, I just ran the end-user version. It's quite possible that my complaints only apply to this version of the SP.
If they're attacking your systems, it's got nothing to do with school. They're breaking laws.
Keep a log of the idiots trying to break in, start publishing the IPs (resolving to adminsbox.fortbendisd.etc), and also send your administration a cease-and-desist letter warning them that you will sue them for attempted illegal trespass of your computer systems.
Start approaching your local school board reps. Ask them why they're letting their admins engage in criminal activity.
If they don't respond immediately, send the information to the local newspaper, ask the local TV station if they want to hear about how the admins are criminals trying to destroy your computer system. Show them the paperwork. Show them how the board does nothing.
The idea is to get as much publicity as possible centered on these idiots, so they can't get away with it. People should know not only who did it, but all the people who let it happen. People should be fired/kicked out of office over this.
You can find the standard (free) edition here.
Of course, you'll want to search and make sure I didn't send you to a trojaned fake site first, but that's the right place.
It would be hilarious to find that it wasn't your machine that was infected, but that your provider was running its DNS services on MS-Windows boxes, and some fool with admin privileges on one installed the spyware by mistake.
In the meantime, do you still see bad DNS redirects with your provider, or did they magically clear up soon after you Asked Slashdot?
Have you run Ad-aware or any other spyware detector on your MS-Windows box(es), yet?
No, he forgot to run a spyware detector like Ad-Aware on his box first. Of course, that negates the rest of what you want him to do.
It generates unduly negative publicity for a company stuck with a customer who didn't properly troubleshoot his own systems before blaming theirs.
Reading the responses, instead of just having a knee-jerk reaction to the original message, could have saved you some grief.
The guy is an idiot, with spyware installed on his computer.
Go ahead and change your passwords, but then install and run Ad-aware, or something similar, on any MS-Windows box you have.
Step 10 should be: realize about 30 seconds before Charter calls and threatens to sue you for posting unproven accusations, that you were a victim of C2Media's spyware.
Step 11... loss!!!
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Poor Heeltoe. I'm sure he thought he'd be seen as a whistleblower, etc., but now everyone will remember him as a classic example of someone who calls tech support and blames the problem on the ISP, when it's bad software on his box.
And for the hardcore enthusiasts (pun intended), there's "Ohhhhhhhh, Speeeeeeeeeeeed!"
Can you imagine the commercial for his laptop, with that music?
(he opens the case)
Trixie: "oohh."
Speed: "aah?" (he flicks the power)
Trixie: "ooh!" (zero to splash screen in 2 seconds)
Speed: "uh-huh!" (he leans back and lets her grab his pointing device)...
At the end of the commercial, fast fade to black, and a voiceover mentions that it's also got a nice standby mode:
"He's fallen fast asleep!"
Changing the litter boxes, for one... but if you move to a neighborhood with lots of kids with sandboxes, for some reason it's not as big of a deal, if they're outdoor cats.
SCO is asserting that IBM is violating export controls, but how that has anything to do with SCO is anyone's guess, unless of course SCO is claiming unfair competition in the giving-tech-to-hostile-countries-market.
Seriously, only the U.S. government can really have much of a case against them for that, if in fact they are in violation.
This is like one of my first graders, back when I tutored, coming up to me and complaining that some other kid was hogging the smelly markers (he had 1), oh and also, know what know what know what know what? He threw a rock at the doggy they saw on the way home yesterday, too!
In other words, a finger-pointing smear campaign, because the original complaint is meritless.
At least little kids are guileless enough to blush and admit it, when you call them on it.
You're missing the point. I agree that SCO's time is over. However, if they were to win this case, it would slow the change that will inevitably occur anyway, of people moving to new models of IP ownership and rights, etc. This is because existing rights to sublicensing agreements for a lot of companies would have to be re-examined, as well what happens to GPLed code in projects where it's alleged that some other code in the project is not GPL, etc.
To paraphrase an Information Society song: Where would we be, without IBM?
It's really just confirmation. Think of it as the death throes of a company based on an old business model, etc. Sure, if SCO won, or even if the battle is prolonged, it could set back changes that are happening with new models of IP ownership, etc. But in the long run, this is all part of the trend. Regardless of the outcome, IP lawyers and the programming community are already dealing with a changing system, and more challenges by/against other large players are certainly to be expected.
Have the manufacturer certify the EDR as being unmodified after testing it, when they pull it from the wreckage?
then it's they who should be working overtime.
That's all.
Management made a lousy decision because they knew they could lean on you to do what they wanted.
Guess what happens if you follow thorugh and do it this time?
The client comes back and demands it again. Or another client does. Or your employer starts offering expedited service, etc.
If you've really been working at a steady job for a whiel, you've accrued some unemployment compensation. Yes, the job market sucks. On the other hand, you do get your life back however this situation ends.