I don't think that it would be a problem if you ensured that you took bookmarks from people who didn't exclusively use that search engine.
This search engine formulation requires that other search engines exist and are used by others. If it ever gets popular it will find that increasing it's popularity will increase it's resistance to getting more popular, an interesting exercise in game theory...
sort of products is that they don't fit anyone with unusually shaped hands (long/short, wide/thin).
Very true, and if you've been typing on computers since the age of nine [ZX81 doesn't count - It didn't have a real keyboard!!), the likelyhood that you have rather long fingers is pretty high!:^))
A personally moulded one however will cost hundreds if not thousands of [insert your currency here] to produce... Still I wouldn't be surprised if they get some queries - some people take their fragging very seriously indeed.
I work for a company that develops software and tools for Internet sites. You may be interested to hear that the proportion of our ".com" customers as opposed to "old economy" customers has reduced substantially recently.
The general consensus in the company is that while many companies will fail, those who turn out to become the leaders in their fields will flourish. It's survival of the fittest out there and you must be very discerning before joining any company.
Any self-respecting, qualified tech person should consider at least two offers before changing jobs, placing each in their own perspective. It can be difficult to try to juggle three offers and move the interview and selection process along so that you can consider offers simultaneously, but only then can you really make a considered and well judged decision on where your pay cheque should come from.
Just my 2c
Aside: How many active users read Slashdot? I see user ids are in their hundreds of thousands now...
Actually... while I like to keep track of appearances in the media of our lovely little favorite operating system and it's accompanying software suite, I have to say, that Linux appearing in the media is now not the big thing it used to be.
Linux has grown up. It's no longer the little rebel operating system that it was. I see instances of Linux on TV a lot of the time - sure, it's a good thing, but not the event that it was. I'm happy to click the link and see what I missed.
It really makes me feel old to see people with/. userids in excess of a hundred thousand talk about the "good old days"...
I do think that the Slashcode could really use a re-vamp, compartmentalising many of "factions" into their own areas to save the rest of us from these silly shouting matches. "Browsing at 2" no longer seems to work...
Obviously you're user number shows that you don't yet realise that the first posts to a posting on/. get automatically moderated down, because of the stupid number of "FIRSTPOSTS!" that we get...
My Laptop had a BIOS hard disk password set, it won't boot up from that hard disk if the password is set. I don't know whether this is a sophistiacated system or not.
I also use NT, so you can't to the operating system login without a valid password.
One or both of these methods can be circumnavigated by connecting the hard disk to a secondary hard disk controller and booting via an Operating system on the primary controller. As long as the operating system on the primary controller can access the partition on the secondary controller then you're in no problem, the drive will appear data and all once you view/mount it.
Our rule is:
If you hold confidential information then store it centrally on a server, it's unlikely that a thief is going to be able to walk out with your Raid array (even if it's OK for them to forget one of the drives:-)) Then again, maybe you haven't got the security in your Datacentre quite up to speed - perhaps (perish the thought!) you don't have a Datacentre....
I advise, if you hold data locally on mobile equipment, and it is confidential or sensitive in any way that you employ some kind of key reliant encryption... then you only have to guard the processes that guard the keys.... Whether your encryption is on a file basis or on a sophisticated encrypted file system it doesn't matter, just protect your data the only way you really know how!!!
You'll never get fully secure, armed with enough data, and having full access to a hard drive for an indefinite period of time - enough time, that is, to brute force the easy password that your CIO will set, "emily" for instance.
Also, generally this information can be gained quite easily:
Call to your CIO: "Hi CIO [got his name from his username], This is Paul Smith from the [local law enforcement department], we've seem to have come across a laptop that could be the one you reported stolen, it was left on a train!!"
CIO: "Wow!!! That's great, you know I was really worried!!!!"
Caller: "We just need to verify that it is indeed your Laptop, I've turned the thing on and it's asking me for a password, could you tell me what I should type?"
CIO: "If it's my laptop then you should type EMILY"
Caller: "Thanks" *click*
IT Managers should be more concerned with Unlicensed Commercial Software on their network than people finding and installing Linux.
I'm a Sys Admin, I know of several boxes on our network running Linux (dual-boot or not), some of which are very useful boxes that we installed ourselves, some are ones that non-IT staff installed.
I work for a software company, however, and some of the software we produce works on Solaris, so people playing around with Linux isn't a big thing. We're not 100% Micros~01 here... At my last company, however, I had to set up a Linux box "behind the scenes" without letting my manager know. When I left they and they discovered the box they pulled out the network cable, and threw the machine out. (It was an old P75 - ideal for Linux:-))
Hmm... I like Slackware (I'm still a die-hard veteran since version 2.3 in August '95), but I'm finding that it's being sidelined.
Hardware Vendors and Commercial Software Vendors are really only supporting distributions such as RedHat. SuSe appears to be the second most popular distribution at the moment and there is more support for it than there is for Slackware. Getting some stuff to work on Slackware is like fitting a square peg into a round hole...
Being in the UK also makes me feel that SuSe would be better suited for me.
I don't object to paying for Linux distributions, I paid £20-25 per version of Slackware since 2.3, but now that home use Internet bandwidth is becoming available where it is actually possible to download ISO images in a reasonable amount of time, we're finding that some distributions are pulling the plug on online downloads. Even if they provide value-added commercial software.
I can't find accurate information, but does anyone know whether the tree at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/7.0/ is the full version?
Hmmm... the Eval version only runs from the CD, so you can't actually "install" it.
The "Personal" and "Professional" versions appear to cost $40 & $70.
Is this to say that SuSe isn't free? I always thought they were free. (as in beer or not)
If someone buys a copy can they supply me with the CDs or are the "SuSe parts" considered non-free?
I'm not evangelising here, I'm not about to boycott SuSe, but I would like some clairifcation as to where they stand.
New users to computers get to learn how to use the simple parts of a Graphical User Interface (GUI). They will eventually discover the maze of settings that the graphical interface provides and some, depending on their adventurousness will learn the odd CLI (Command Line Interface) command. While the GUI is easier to use, nearly all operating systems provide some sort of CLI. The exception that comes to mind is MacOS.
Aside: Nevertheless it is the Operating System that is easier to get to grips with and not the Hardware.
The vast majority of users who didn't get any exposure to computers prior to the evolution of the GUI usually have no reason to go any further and discover the hidden CLI, or the arcane command line interface with it's many commands, each with it's own array of parameters. Hell, why should they learn it? That's what software is all about.
While at school in the '80s and the first few GUI enabled computers were bought for the computer room - I knew it was the end of an era and nearing my final years I knew that there would be a whole generation of people who would never type anything other than documents. I came across one user once who was trying to change his keyboard settings. He assumed that these would be settings somewhere within MSOffice, since that was the only application suite he used that seemed to require a keyboard.
It's a whole new world out there, the GUI is here to stay and the career of the IT Knowledge worker is secured. hurrah!!
Thankfully the Linux/BSD/GNU/UNIX effort stands to cultivate hackers who still want to get to the inards of systems and those who will eventually learn the power of the Command Line or shell, which in turn should populate the world with a whole set of knowledgeable IT employees. La creme de la creme, so to speak.
I know some IT staff who never really used a CLI to any great effect. I expect most of them will be confined to Level 1 and Level 2 support until finding some kind of position in middle management to see out their years.
Cisco also come to mind. You can configure a Cisco router with Ciscos ConfigMaker product giving a practical GUI interface so that any idiot could configure the router. You need to have some knowledge of Cisco's IOS CLI, however, to even start to troubleshoot problems that will be encountered. Enter the CLI aware Level 3 Guru.
What is scary is what if Linux were to completely graduate out of the CLI and move to the GUI. Redhat is already distributing GUI-by-default versions of it's distribution. Is Linux going to be engulfed by a whole load of non-CLI aware users? Is this already happenning? It seems so.
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As the Anonymous Coward pointed out - Take care the last link could cause you some embarrassment in the office. *pron*. Someone Moderate that Coward!
Actually every print server (NT) I've set up was NTFS on the system drive. Is there a reason why I shouldn't do this.
I guess if 200 users are going to connect to the print server which has 10 printers on it then there will be a fair bit of disk activity - I thought NTFS would be better.
For crash recovery I have an NTFSDOS boot disk which pretty much allows me to make simple changes to files etc...
Please - enlighten me as to why the print server should be FAT16.
BugTraq keeps these statistics on 22 different operating systems, from the mainstream Windows NT to various exotic flavors of Unix. Given that Microsoft's product is the runaway market leader, it is not surprising that it leads in vulnerabilities: In 1999, the year it took over the server market in earnest, Windows NT totaled 99 new vulnerabilities on the BugTraq list. (So far in 2000, the count stands at 37.) This looks like an alarmingly high number in comparison with Solaris' 34 or NetBSD's 10, but it is scarcely more than the 84 racked up by Red Hat and the other Linuxes (their 2000 count stands at 30). And the NT number is inflated by BugTraq's inclusion of IE vulnerabilities, since it considers IE part of the operating system. [Please note: Upon further research, I realized that my original numbers were a bit off. The numbers above are new and revised. Fred Moody, 8/4/00.]
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I don't think that it would be a problem if you ensured that you took bookmarks from people who didn't exclusively use that search engine.
This search engine formulation requires that other search engines exist and are used by others. If it ever gets popular it will find that increasing it's popularity will increase it's resistance to getting more popular, an interesting exercise in game theory...
Help with adopting children
EHHH!!! [checkdate=1stApr2001=Negative]
Why in hell would an employee want such a benefit? Do techies have trouble doing this or something?
Seems to me that this might have been one of those on-line surveys that are easily broken.
sort of products is that they don't fit anyone with unusually shaped hands (long/short, wide/thin).
:^))
Very true, and if you've been typing on computers since the age of nine [ZX81 doesn't count - It didn't have a real keyboard!!), the likelyhood that you have rather long fingers is pretty high!
A personally moulded one however will cost hundreds if not thousands of [insert your currency here] to produce... Still I wouldn't be surprised if they get some queries - some people take their fragging very seriously indeed.
I have enough trouble having to position a mouse on the other side of the keyboard everytime some right-handed person comes and sits down at my PC.
I doubt they will do a left handed version of the Claw, (that will fit the Right hand, mouse in Left)...
flawed as in making money?
not true... our customer base is at a record high even if the stock price isn't...
I work for a company that develops software and tools for Internet sites. You may be interested to hear that the proportion of our ".com" customers as opposed to "old economy" customers has reduced substantially recently.
The general consensus in the company is that while many companies will fail, those who turn out to become the leaders in their fields will flourish. It's survival of the fittest out there and you must be very discerning before joining any company.
Any self-respecting, qualified tech person should consider at least two offers before changing jobs, placing each in their own perspective. It can be difficult to try to juggle three offers and move the interview and selection process along so that you can consider offers simultaneously, but only then can you really make a considered and well judged decision on where your pay cheque should come from.
Just my 2c
Aside: How many active users read Slashdot? I see user ids are in their hundreds of thousands now...
Actually... while I like to keep track of appearances in the media of our lovely little favorite operating system and it's accompanying software suite, I have to say, that Linux appearing in the media is now not the big thing it used to be.
/. userids in excess of a hundred thousand talk about the "good old days"...
Linux has grown up. It's no longer the little rebel operating system that it was. I see instances of Linux on TV a lot of the time - sure, it's a good thing, but not the event that it was. I'm happy to click the link and see what I missed.
It really makes me feel old to see people with
I do think that the Slashcode could really use a re-vamp, compartmentalising many of "factions" into their own areas to save the rest of us from these silly shouting matches. "Browsing at 2" no longer seems to work...
*sigh*
Obviously you're user number shows that you don't yet realise that the first posts to a posting on /. get automatically moderated down, because of the stupid number of "FIRSTPOSTS!" that we get...
My Laptop had a BIOS hard disk password set, it won't boot up from that hard disk if the password is set. I don't know whether this is a sophistiacated system or not.
:-)) Then again, maybe you haven't got the security in your Datacentre quite up to speed - perhaps (perish the thought!) you don't have a Datacentre....
I also use NT, so you can't to the operating system login without a valid password.
One or both of these methods can be circumnavigated by connecting the hard disk to a secondary hard disk controller and booting via an Operating system on the primary controller. As long as the operating system on the primary controller can access the partition on the secondary controller then you're in no problem, the drive will appear data and all once you view/mount it.
Our rule is:
If you hold confidential information then store it centrally on a server, it's unlikely that a thief is going to be able to walk out with your Raid array (even if it's OK for them to forget one of the drives
I advise, if you hold data locally on mobile equipment, and it is confidential or sensitive in any way that you employ some kind of key reliant encryption... then you only have to guard the processes that guard the keys.... Whether your encryption is on a file basis or on a sophisticated encrypted file system it doesn't matter, just protect your data the only way you really know how!!!
You'll never get fully secure, armed with enough data, and having full access to a hard drive for an indefinite period of time - enough time, that is, to brute force the easy password that your CIO will set, "emily" for instance.
Also, generally this information can be gained quite easily:
Call to your CIO: "Hi CIO [got his name from his username], This is Paul Smith from the [local law enforcement department], we've seem to have come across a laptop that could be the one you reported stolen, it was left on a train!!"
CIO: "Wow!!! That's great, you know I was really worried!!!!"
Caller: "We just need to verify that it is indeed your Laptop, I've turned the thing on and it's asking me for a password, could you tell me what I should type?"
CIO: "If it's my laptop then you should type EMILY"
Caller: "Thanks" *click*
Silly boy!!!
IT Managers should be more concerned with Unlicensed Commercial Software on their network than people finding and installing Linux.
:-))
I'm a Sys Admin, I know of several boxes on our network running Linux (dual-boot or not), some of which are very useful boxes that we installed ourselves, some are ones that non-IT staff installed.
I work for a software company, however, and some of the software we produce works on Solaris, so people playing around with Linux isn't a big thing. We're not 100% Micros~01 here... At my last company, however, I had to set up a Linux box "behind the scenes" without letting my manager know. When I left they and they discovered the box they pulled out the network cable, and threw the machine out. (It was an old P75 - ideal for Linux
Hmm... I like Slackware (I'm still a die-hard veteran since version 2.3 in August '95), but I'm finding that it's being sidelined.
Hardware Vendors and Commercial Software Vendors are really only supporting distributions such as RedHat. SuSe appears to be the second most popular distribution at the moment and there is more support for it than there is for Slackware. Getting some stuff to work on Slackware is like fitting a square peg into a round hole...
Being in the UK also makes me feel that SuSe would be better suited for me.
I don't object to paying for Linux distributions, I paid £20-25 per version of Slackware since 2.3, but now that home use Internet bandwidth is becoming available where it is actually possible to download ISO images in a reasonable amount of time, we're finding that some distributions are pulling the plug on online downloads. Even if they provide value-added commercial software.
I can't find accurate information, but does anyone know whether the tree at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/7.0/ is the full version?
Hmmm... the Eval version only runs from the CD, so you can't actually "install" it.
The "Personal" and "Professional" versions appear to cost $40 & $70.
Is this to say that SuSe isn't free? I always thought they were free. (as in beer or not)
If someone buys a copy can they supply me with the CDs or are the "SuSe parts" considered non-free?
I'm not evangelising here, I'm not about to boycott SuSe, but I would like some clairifcation as to where they stand.
If we just follow the logical pronounciation:
It's called a router, because it provides the route for packets from A to B. I can't think of what the row-te from A to B is supposed to be!
:-)
Actually he didn't mispronounce "routers" as "root-ers" as this article suggests. He just used the UK English pronounciation.
I think you'll find that he already had the hardware. Old throwaways from previous upgrades I suppose.
I can't imagine how this qualifies as front-page News For Nerds
The fact that you are reading and posting a comment to this story almost makes your statement a self-referencing paradox.
It's a discussion!! It's an intelligent discussion!! what more do you want?
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New users to computers get to learn how to use the simple parts of a Graphical User Interface (GUI). They will eventually discover the maze of settings that the graphical interface provides and some, depending on their adventurousness will learn the odd CLI (Command Line Interface) command. While the GUI is easier to use, nearly all operating systems provide some sort of CLI. The exception that comes to mind is MacOS.
Aside: Nevertheless it is the Operating System that is easier to get to grips with and not the Hardware.
The vast majority of users who didn't get any exposure to computers prior to the evolution of the GUI usually have no reason to go any further and discover the hidden CLI, or the arcane command line interface with it's many commands, each with it's own array of parameters. Hell, why should they learn it? That's what software is all about.
While at school in the '80s and the first few GUI enabled computers were bought for the computer room - I knew it was the end of an era and nearing my final years I knew that there would be a whole generation of people who would never type anything other than documents. I came across one user once who was trying to change his keyboard settings. He assumed that these would be settings somewhere within MSOffice, since that was the only application suite he used that seemed to require a keyboard.
It's a whole new world out there, the GUI is here to stay and the career of the IT Knowledge worker is secured. hurrah!!
Thankfully the Linux/BSD/GNU/UNIX effort stands to cultivate hackers who still want to get to the inards of systems and those who will eventually learn the power of the Command Line or shell, which in turn should populate the world with a whole set of knowledgeable IT employees. La creme de la creme, so to speak.
I know some IT staff who never really used a CLI to any great effect. I expect most of them will be confined to Level 1 and Level 2 support until finding some kind of position in middle management to see out their years.
Cisco also come to mind. You can configure a Cisco router with Ciscos ConfigMaker product giving a practical GUI interface so that any idiot could configure the router. You need to have some knowledge of Cisco's IOS CLI, however, to even start to troubleshoot problems that will be encountered. Enter the CLI aware Level 3 Guru.
What is scary is what if Linux were to completely graduate out of the CLI and move to the GUI. Redhat is already distributing GUI-by-default versions of it's distribution. Is Linux going to be engulfed by a whole load of non-CLI aware users? Is this already happenning? It seems so.
As the Anonymous Coward pointed out - Take care the last link could cause you some embarrassment in the office. *pron*. Someone Moderate that Coward!
Using a threaded drill, it shouldn't be too difficult to modify your existing ATX case to put in the extra screws.
:-)
Getting a PSU however will probably be difficult as they are often all kinds of different sizes.
You don't need to worry about the screws if you work in a zero-G environment however
Transmeta still have a Code Morphing Trump Card up their sleeves that they could play?
Don't they?
Actually every print server (NT) I've set up was NTFS on the system drive. Is there a reason why I shouldn't do this.
I guess if 200 users are going to connect to the print server which has 10 printers on it then there will be a fair bit of disk activity - I thought NTFS would be better.
For crash recovery I have an NTFSDOS boot disk which pretty much allows me to make simple changes to files etc...
Please - enlighten me as to why the print server should be FAT16.
Thanks
oops... accidentaly hit submit instead of preview.
:-)
Oh well more scope for moderation
The article now becomes pretty lame - Still stating that Linux Sucks because it has less bugs than NT is not a good argument.
Here is the paragraph with the bug numbers:
BugTraq keeps these statistics on 22 different operating systems, from the mainstream Windows NT to various exotic flavors of Unix. Given that Microsoft's product is the runaway market leader, it is not surprising that it leads in vulnerabilities: In 1999, the year it took over the server market in earnest, Windows NT totaled 99 new vulnerabilities on the BugTraq list. (So far in 2000, the count stands at 37.) This looks like an alarmingly high number in comparison with Solaris' 34 or NetBSD's 10, but it is scarcely more than the 84 racked up by Red Hat and the other Linuxes (their 2000 count stands at 30). And the NT number is inflated by BugTraq's inclusion of IE vulnerabilities, since it considers IE part of the operating system. [Please note: Upon further research, I realized that my original numbers were a bit off. The numbers above are new and revised. Fred Moody, 8/4/00.]
I don't see security as being an operating system issue. It's really more of a human issue.
Most of the exploitable holes could be avoided by careful planning, firewalling etc...
Choice of operating system is but a small factor in assesing the secureness of a system.