" no, you're not allowed to treat anyone different because of their beliefs."
If their beliefs directly affect me I think that I should be allowed to treat them exactly how I like, fairs fair.
I'm not just picking on Christians (thought they currently affect me more than any other religious group) but anyone who trys to convert others to the weird idea that 'humans' are something 'special'.
Bush is about to ban stem-cell research via the UN. Now I'm not the greatest chemist but when you get down to that level were defiantly not much more than a chemical reaction, and anyone who thinks otherwise needs either a quick lesson in chemistry or a trip to the doctor to get some anti-psychotics. and I'm I'm not allowed to say that anyone who thinks Jesus is the son of god seriously needs their head looking at, because of the Holocaust.
What you need to use is something like regdump, I've started to use it to convert windows settings into Linux settings transparently, but you can use it to make sure nothing modified the registry.
If only Microsoft open sourced their registry code so that everyone could compile a fresh, untouched version.
Fresh from the sourceforge.net project BeeHive...
regdump-0.0.1
This is very, very alpha. But hey, it's a start right?
GENERAL NOTES:
The code provided shows a general implementation which can read Microsoft
Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 hive files. (Note: Win2K has a very
different appearance internally (data) but the hive files are same in
their structure.) I decided to make the output marginally useful so the
contents of the hive file are dumped to stdout in REGEDIT4 format so you
can do something like:./regdump NTUSER.DAT > backup_profile.reg
If its impossible to clean then it should be impossible to install. If the bios have an option to prevent over-writing the boot sector, Windows(and linux) should have an option to prevent anything running on ring 0 or with enough privilege to insert itself into you OS.
I think the best option would be buy a 1gb USB key with your pc, then after activating windows dd your HDD onto the 1gb key.
When it comes to reinstalling just dd the key back over the partition, and set the system date to the the date when you installed windows. Unless Windows uses the ether to store it's activation codes you should be fine. Just run an app that advances time as a few hundred times normal for a day or so that windows doesn't cry about the system time being out.
All warez originate from Kommunist China via a secret underground network. Don't be fooled by that copy of WindowsXP on the shelf, studies have shown that upto20% of all labelled warez DvDs and CDs contain hidden kIddIe pron, they are the only kiddies associated with the Warez network.
"I guess you could say it thusly: if you are concerned enough about your private UTP being sniffed to make you pull fiber instead, you have bigger problems than your choice of data cabling."
Not if you hold confidential or critical data, such as details of a merger between two companies, there are a lot of instances where UTP doesn't allow you to detect intrusion well enough. Nothing can stop anyone stealing anything, but you want to know about it when they do.
Who do you think put the 'must run on IE' stickers on the web sites in the first place. for sure as hell it wasn't uses.
Haiving said that a good webdav should have a reference book not the basic and sometimes bad reference provided by w3csools, so I should imagine that w3csools is more collage / junior centric than professional centric. so my whole argument moot.
Doesn't require scripting Brilliant, now I can turn off javascript so that I don't get popups or anything else. Is not backward compatible About time we ditched HTML and moved over to a standardised XHTML,(and no more font or br tags)
Web Forms 2.0: Requires scripting Idiots. Is backward compatible Idiots.
XForms was a little lacking last time I looked, but, I shall be recommending people avoid Web Forms.
Now, if only people would stop using DTD and move over to XSD, KDE supported SVG and...
About ten years or so ago I used to work for Honeywell, producing fibre optic cabling for military installations. They had enough doubts about using screened cabling buried under concrete that they were using fibre optics with real-time OTDR for intrusion detection.
If they can pickup signals from Huygens than I'm sure UTP is child's play.
AS for having to enter a building, that's usually no problem. UTP is not secure either way.
It puts out enough, basically your running a big fucking aerial all around the building. I would expect that you can tap-in from being the other side of a wall, without any physical contact, just like TV detector vans still know your watching the TV, even though you have the sound turned down, because they locking to the 50hz signal that you TV tube produces. Ok, a TV give off a lot more EMF, but don't a long run underestimate UTP, it's only reasonably good at keeping signals out, and isn't screened anywhere near enough to stop it emitting EMF.
No, I'm trying to argue that you are an idiot who thinks you need to splice cable to break into a LAN. Cat 5 is only a little more secure than good WiFi, but it is not secure, it can be broken almost undetectably without causing any anything you would noting on you network, just like WiFi.
Cat 5 is not secure, don't even try to kid yourself into thinking it is. why do you think people still use intrusion detection with fibre, when it's even harder to sniff traffic on fibre than it is with Cat 5.
He says, "What is not made clear, by Myers, and perhaps was not clear, is whether Dase had any method for the tables he made up, or whether, as hinted in his simple 'number-seeing' experiments, he somehow 'saw' these great primes, as apparently the twins did.
and goes into a little more detail later on in the book.
Well, it just goes to show. Management often don't, but always get paid.
I should imagine that there was a 'what's this IT' stuff attitude in the company and instead of taking a more 'scientific' approach to the situation they went for a , 'but we can pay someone in-house and do the work for less' but didn't realise the infrastructure you need in place to manage in house maintenance.
Most companies never promote, when someone leaves they just create a slightly different job and employee someone new. The ones that do promote promote you for being good at your job, when you stop being good at your job they stop promoting you. In the end there are only people who can't do their job.
I would suggest if you want 'promotion' get a 'better' job at a different company, otherwise save some money and buy a house, and sit it out.
Well, the company I worked for was so large that they had there own IT maintenance company.
at most we needed 2 people got the office to get the required skills base, so as a standalone company I'd say you need 1 person = 30 employees, or 1:15-1:40 3 people for 50+ employees, or 1:16 after that you can start to drop the ratios down quite quickly because you've got enough people for a reasonable problem.
'AM. Came into work, our email client was not working. ',....' Later arises the email server ran out of disk space.' isn't that the first thing you check? Put quotas on all servers, and have them email you an alert when they start to run out of space or something sits at 100% CPU etc... also make sure all email accounts have a fixed quota, and try to make the quotas total no more than 150% of the disk space on the server.
This would have turned you Monday into an occasional job of fitting a new disk or emailing everyone holding lots of email telling them to clean it out or face the rm -rf *.
pm, browsed/.
"Someone complains they've not received the laptop... From a user perspective around 0 to 400 hours have been spent 'building' this computer.", so what did you do with the rest of the morning apart from a 10min phone call.
PM. Someone has a problem with ODBC drivers in an application they're using. Turns out the drivers client application drivers were out of date for the server application.
Lock down the clients, no problem.
Wednesday./.
Thursday. 'Someone's computer reset overnight ', all computers should be turned off at night and screen locked when the user is away from them. It is a fire and security hazard to leave a pc on overnight.
'They remember their password but not their username(!)', How?, don't you assign someone a user name when they get the job and keep records. Also try looking on one of the access logs of a server they used to get the users name. Failing that you'll find it recorded in the windows system log, of the pc, logging as admin and take a look.
PM. 'User complains of persistent popups on IE on various websites' I recommend locking down the workstations, Patching shouldn't be critical, you do run a firewall, web proxy and filter all email don't you?
Friday.
'Network folders seem slow (30+ secs to browse a folder with few files).', Wins or network configuration problem, make sure all you subnets are ok, there are lots of free tools to do this, and it only takes an hour or so. failing that it could be a worm spewing all kinds of crap. The system should have been configured correctly in the first place, locked down and firewalled off. PM: Trouble receiving attachments in email. takes several hours to partically resolve.
Why do I expect that you get a lot of 'email' and 'network' related problems where you work?
Revised week....
Monday, recieved an email from the mail server, bills inbox is full, sent him a reminder to tidy it up or I'd archive anything more than 3 months old.
Total time for the day 5 mins.
Tuesday, one ten minute phone call. Explained that the laptop was 'non-standard' so we were taking more time to check the configuration was good so that they didn't have any problems with it later on.
Total time for the day 10 mins, Wednesday. nothing Total time for the day 0 mins, Thursday, Looked up someones user name for them. Time 10 mins. PM. Nothing. Friday. AM. can't say, but should take too long, shouldn't have happened in the first-place. PM. again can't say because.
So, in a week you probably would have had to do at most a days work, if the system had been locked down and configured properly. Do the same with the rest of the sysadmins &co and 80% would be out of a job.
(a little better than the 70% I claimed to be able to save you)
I said that dizziness is when your sense of balance gets confused, and nothing about the sense of balance in it self.
'dizziness is because of a sense of balance, or the confusion off.'
or more to be more verbose.
'dizziness is because of a sense of balance or [at least] the confusion off [the sense of balance].
I intended to type the word balance instead of dizziness here.. 'Apart from that there are a number of 'sub-senses' that are the result of your brain processing sensory information such as dizziness'
But I still don't see how you could have thought I intended to say balance was anything but a sense, I only mentioned it once when called it a sense.
well, I should bother replying to someone who is so uncertain about what they say that they have to reply post AC.
What do those 15 people do that requires 1 person to look after them.
Get your ex boss to drop me an email and I'll cut the administration and support down by say 70%, just by getting the desktops locked down.
Last place I worked for had 40 employees in the office, we had someone visit for no more than one day a week, about one security issue a week (lost password, new password etc...) and in the two years + I worked there we had a network upgrade that took two people half a week, and about a weeks work fixing a broken SDLC card.
So, for 40*5 = 200 days of employee we had 2 days of sysadmin, for a 1:100 ration.
nausea isn't a sense it's the result of your senses being 'confused'.
dizziness is because of a sense of balance, or the confusion off.
There's a 'special' sense, where you know the location of you limbs without looking, this becomes apparent when someone has lost a limb, but they can still sense it which allows them to use prosthetics. Taking too much vitamin B12 can kill this sense off, so you end up not know where you legs are without looking for them.
Apart from that there are a number of 'sub-senses' that are the result of your brain processing sensory information such as dizziness, which often lead to chemicals like serotonin, adrenaline and dopamine etc.. being released in you body giving you a 'feeling' of 'love' or nausea, fear or excitement etc...
The idea isn't to 'pocket' the difference but spend in a way that 'duel use' products are purchased by the company, tax free.
I personally sped a reasonable amount of money for things that I will only ever use or mainly use for work, like my car, the petrol I put in it, work cloths (those ties in the cupboard aren't an extension of my suicidal tendencies) etc... I still have to pay 100% of the taxes on this.
'fat cats' who do drain off company, and get substantial 'fringe benefits' would never even think of paying tax on those kind of things. So, who's the keeper of the Inn, the companies, the fat cats, or us poor people.
A CEO that said "Hey look, massive profits in my watch! Bonus!" and walk off with the difference.
Isn't that what they do anyway?
If I set up a company and work as a sole trader, I can deduct, heating costs, part of my rent, travel expenses, company car, any cloths I may need for my job etc... I can then pay my self via dividends &co. so that I pay less tax than I otherwise would.
With the VAT and Income tax coming off of the 10-20% of my purchases that are deductible I save about 50%.
Anyone earning in the UK earning more than £50,000 a year can probably save themselves £5,000 by setting up a company.
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Yeh, good drugs man, hit me with the facts again baby.
" no, you're not allowed to treat anyone different because of their beliefs."
If their beliefs directly affect me I think that I should be allowed to treat them exactly how I like, fairs fair.
I'm not just picking on Christians (thought they currently affect me more than any other religious group) but anyone who trys to convert others to the weird idea that 'humans' are something 'special'.
have you never seen a Debit card? it's just like a credit card without the 'credit' bit, maybe they never made it in the US?
So, are you an Idiot or a Troll?
Bush is about to ban stem-cell research via the UN. Now I'm not the greatest chemist but when you get down to that level were defiantly not much more than a chemical reaction, and anyone who thinks otherwise needs either a quick lesson in chemistry or a trip to the doctor to get some anti-psychotics. and I'm I'm not allowed to say that anyone who thinks Jesus is the son of god seriously needs their head looking at, because of the Holocaust.
What you need to use is something like regdump, I've started to use it to convert windows settings into Linux settings transparently, but you can use it to make sure nothing modified the registry.
./regdump NTUSER.DAT > backup_profile.reg
If only Microsoft open sourced their registry code so that everyone could compile a fresh, untouched version.
Fresh from the sourceforge.net project BeeHive...
regdump-0.0.1
This is very, very alpha. But hey, it's a start right?
GENERAL NOTES:
The code provided shows a general implementation which can read Microsoft
Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 hive files. (Note: Win2K has a very
different appearance internally (data) but the hive files are same in
their structure.) I decided to make the output marginally useful so the
contents of the hive file are dumped to stdout in REGEDIT4 format so you
can do something like:
If its impossible to clean then it should be impossible to install. If the bios have an option to prevent over-writing the boot sector, Windows(and linux) should have an option to prevent anything running on ring 0 or with enough privilege to insert itself into you OS.
I think the best option would be buy a 1gb USB key with your pc, then after activating windows dd your HDD onto the 1gb key.
When it comes to reinstalling just dd the key back over the partition, and set the system date to the the date when you installed windows. Unless Windows uses the ether to store it's activation codes you should be fine. Just run an app that advances time as a few hundred times normal for a day or so that windows doesn't cry about the system time being out.
Well, if their printing on my forehead then yes.
RFID isn't far of tagging everyone who walks into your shop. I'm also anti-creditcard, but I suppose if you die in debit then you've made money.
All warez originate from Kommunist China via a secret underground network. Don't be fooled by that copy of WindowsXP on the shelf, studies have shown that upto20% of all labelled warez DvDs and CDs contain hidden kIddIe pron, they are the only kiddies associated with the Warez network.
Yours,
Danie Glick--man. MPAA.
"I guess you could say it thusly: if you are concerned enough about your private UTP being sniffed to make you pull fiber instead, you have bigger problems than your choice of data cabling."
Not if you hold confidential or critical data, such as details of a merger between two companies, there are a lot of instances where UTP doesn't allow you to detect intrusion well enough. Nothing can stop anyone stealing anything, but you want to know about it when they do.
Who do you think put the 'must run on IE' stickers on the web sites in the first place. for sure as hell it wasn't uses.
Haiving said that a good webdav should have a reference book not the basic and sometimes bad reference provided by w3csools, so I should imagine that w3csools is more collage / junior centric than professional centric. so my whole argument moot.
XForms:
...
Doesn't require scripting
Brilliant, now I can turn off javascript so that I don't get popups or anything else.
Is not backward compatible
About time we ditched HTML and moved over to a standardised XHTML,(and no more font or br tags)
Web Forms 2.0:
Requires scripting
Idiots.
Is backward compatible
Idiots.
XForms was a little lacking last time I looked, but, I shall be recommending people avoid Web Forms.
Now, if only people would stop using DTD and move over to XSD, KDE supported SVG and
About ten years or so ago I used to work for Honeywell, producing fibre optic cabling for military installations.
They had enough doubts about using screened cabling buried under concrete that they were using fibre optics with real-time OTDR for intrusion detection.
If they can pickup signals from Huygens than I'm sure UTP is child's play.
AS for having to enter a building, that's usually no problem. UTP is not secure either way.
It puts out enough, basically your running a big fucking aerial all around the building. I would expect that you can tap-in from being the other side of a wall, without any physical contact, just like TV detector vans still know your watching the TV, even though you have the sound turned down, because they locking to the 50hz signal that you TV tube produces. Ok, a TV give off a lot more EMF, but don't a long run underestimate UTP, it's only reasonably good at keeping signals out, and isn't screened anywhere near enough to stop it emitting EMF.
No, I'm trying to argue that you are an idiot who thinks you need to splice cable to break into a LAN. Cat 5 is only a little more secure than good WiFi, but it is not secure, it can be broken almost undetectably without causing any anything you would noting on you network, just like WiFi.
Well, ignorance is bliss.
'and spliced into my network cable'
You don't need to splice the network cable, how the fuck do you think radio works? EMF.
When you actually have a clue, then start posting jokes.
Cat 5 is not secure, don't even try to kid yourself into thinking it is.
why do you think people still use intrusion detection with fibre, when it's even harder to sniff traffic on fibre than it is with Cat 5.
I have a book by Oliver Sacks called 'The man who mistook his wife for a hat' in the book he has a story called 'the twins', both of who are savants who dish out 20 figure primes, amongst other things.
He says, "What is not made clear, by Myers, and perhaps was not clear, is whether Dase had any method for the tables he made up, or whether, as hinted in his simple 'number-seeing' experiments, he somehow 'saw' these great primes, as apparently the twins did.
and goes into a little more detail later on in the book.
"Monday: Email client runs out of disk space. Obviously you should have a job checking for this on such a server."
You should setup quotas so that it can 'never' happen.
"Change the fucking username to something new!!! The admins can't find him and move his shit over to a new account?"
That's probably why they couldn't find the username in the first place.
"or at least install one of the fifty million popup blockers available for free."
Why would you want to do that on a office workstation, those kind of sites should be firewalled off.
Well, it just goes to show. Management often don't, but always get paid.
I should imagine that there was a 'what's this IT' stuff attitude in the company and instead of taking a more 'scientific' approach to the situation they went for a , 'but we can pay someone in-house and do the work for less' but didn't realise the infrastructure you need in place to manage in house maintenance.
Most companies never promote, when someone leaves they just create a slightly different job and employee someone new. The ones that do promote promote you for being good at your job, when you stop being good at your job they stop promoting you. In the end there are only people who can't do their job.
I would suggest if you want 'promotion' get a 'better' job at a different company, otherwise save some money and buy a house, and sit it out.
Well, the company I worked for was so large that they had there own IT maintenance company.
/.
... From a user perspective around 0 to 400 hours have been spent 'building' this computer.", so what did you do with the rest of the morning apart from a 10min phone call.
/.
at most we needed 2 people got the office to get the required skills base, so as a standalone company I'd say you need
1 person = 30 employees, or 1:15-1:40
3 people for 50+ employees, or 1:16
after that you can start to drop the ratios down quite quickly because you've got enough people for a reasonable problem.
'AM. Came into work, our email client was not working. ',....' Later arises the email server ran out of disk space.' isn't that the first thing you check?
Put quotas on all servers, and have them email you an alert when they start to run out of space or something sits at 100% CPU etc... also make sure all email accounts have a fixed quota, and try to make the quotas total no more than 150% of the disk space on the server.
This would have turned you Monday into an occasional job of fitting a new disk or emailing everyone holding lots of email telling them to clean it out or face the rm -rf *.
pm, browsed
"Someone complains they've not received the laptop
PM. Someone has a problem with ODBC drivers in an application they're using. Turns out the drivers client application drivers were out of date for the server application.
Lock down the clients, no problem.
Wednesday.
Thursday.
'Someone's computer reset overnight ', all computers should be turned off at night and screen locked when the user is away from them.
It is a fire and security hazard to leave a pc on overnight.
'They remember their password but not their username(!)',
How?, don't you assign someone a user name when they get the job and keep records. Also try looking on one of the access logs of a server they used to get the users name. Failing that you'll find it recorded in the windows system log, of the pc, logging as admin and take a look.
PM.
'User complains of persistent popups on IE on various websites'
I recommend locking down the workstations,
Patching shouldn't be critical, you do run a firewall, web proxy and filter all email don't you?
Friday.
'Network folders seem slow (30+ secs to browse a folder with few files).', Wins or network configuration problem, make sure all you subnets are ok, there are lots of free tools to do this, and it only takes an hour or so.
failing that it could be a worm spewing all kinds of crap. The system should have been configured correctly in the first place, locked down and firewalled off.
PM: Trouble receiving attachments in email. takes several hours to partically resolve.
Why do I expect that you get a lot of 'email' and 'network' related problems where you work?
Revised week....
Monday, recieved an email from the mail server, bills inbox is full, sent him a reminder to tidy it up or I'd archive anything more than 3 months old.
Total time for the day 5 mins.
Tuesday, one ten minute phone call. Explained that the laptop was 'non-standard' so we were taking more time to check the configuration was good so that they didn't have any problems with it later on.
Total time for the day 10 mins,
Wednesday.
nothing
Total time for the day 0 mins,
Thursday,
Looked up someones user name for them.
Time 10 mins.
PM.
Nothing.
Friday.
AM. can't say, but should take too long, shouldn't have happened in the first-place.
PM. again can't say because.
So, in a week you probably would have had to do at most a days work, if the system had been locked down and configured properly. Do the same with the rest of the sysadmins &co and 80% would be out of a job.
(a little better than the 70% I claimed to be able to save you)
I said that dizziness is when your sense of balance gets confused, and nothing about the sense of balance in it self.
'dizziness is because of a sense of balance, or the confusion off.'
or more to be more verbose.
'dizziness is because of a sense of balance or [at least] the confusion off [the sense of balance].
I intended to type the word balance instead of dizziness here..
'Apart from that there are a number of 'sub-senses' that are the result of your brain processing sensory information such as dizziness'
But I still don't see how you could have thought I intended to say balance was anything but a sense, I only mentioned it once when called it a sense.
well, I should bother replying to someone who is so uncertain about what they say that they have to reply post AC.
What do those 15 people do that requires 1 person to look after them.
Get your ex boss to drop me an email and I'll cut the administration and support down by say 70%, just by getting the desktops locked down.
Last place I worked for had 40 employees in the office, we had someone visit for no more than one day a week, about one security issue a week (lost password, new password etc...) and in the two years + I worked there we had a network upgrade that took two people half a week, and about a weeks work fixing a broken SDLC card.
So, for 40*5 = 200 days of employee we had 2 days of sysadmin, for a 1:100 ration.
nausea isn't a sense it's the result of your senses being 'confused'.
dizziness is because of a sense of balance, or the confusion off.
There's a 'special' sense, where you know the location of you limbs without looking, this becomes apparent when someone has lost a limb, but they can still sense it which allows them to use prosthetics. Taking too much vitamin B12 can kill this sense off, so you end up not know where you legs are without looking for them.
Apart from that there are a number of 'sub-senses' that are the result of your brain processing sensory information such as dizziness, which often lead to chemicals like serotonin, adrenaline and dopamine etc.. being released in you body giving you a 'feeling' of 'love' or nausea, fear or excitement etc...
That's the current system, as it is today.
The idea isn't to 'pocket' the difference but spend in a way that 'duel use' products are purchased by the company, tax free.
I personally sped a reasonable amount of money for things that I will only ever use or mainly use for work, like my car, the petrol I put in it, work cloths (those ties in the cupboard aren't an extension of my suicidal tendencies) etc... I still have to pay 100% of the taxes on this.
'fat cats' who do drain off company, and get substantial 'fringe benefits' would never even think of paying tax on those kind of things. So, who's the keeper of the Inn, the companies, the fat cats, or us poor people.
A CEO that said "Hey look, massive profits in my watch! Bonus!" and walk off with the difference.
Isn't that what they do anyway?
If I set up a company and work as a sole trader, I can deduct, heating costs, part of my rent, travel expenses, company car, any cloths I may need for my job etc... I can then pay my self via dividends &co. so that I pay less tax than I otherwise would.
With the VAT and Income tax coming off of the 10-20% of my purchases that are deductible I save about 50%.
Anyone earning in the UK earning more than £50,000 a year can probably save themselves £5,000 by setting up a company.
I can also keep myself in a lower tax band.
companies would invest more in people, unless you plan on taxing IP as well as goods and profit.
What country so you live in '90%' tax for people.